Encounter (2018)

Both of these dramas are about rich women who own large companies. Each of these women is very likable since they treat their friends and employees with absolute care, kindness, and openness. Besides business, there is also the romantic aspects of their lives, with both falling in love with a younger man. Overall, I highly recommend both of these series if you love a strong FL.

There is no similarity in Plot whatsoever. But Both the dramas give overall the same vibe, Dinner Mate has additional comical side to it.

Cha Soo Hyun's character in encounter is similar to Hae-Ryung's story in Happy Home. They both play unhappy, aloof but dignified daughter in laws with disapproving mother in laws. Both were married into rich family and get divorced by their husbands to let them free. Both ex-husbands love them still and want them back in their life. Even the divorce contract also is similar. Both are lucky to have a new man in their life who love them immensely.

Both have themes with an older woman and a younger man, where the younger man helps the woman loosen up and experience true caring. Both are quite cute relationships with honesty and caring. Both the young men MLs are happy go lucky and slightly immature in some aspects, but emotionally mature. Both FLs are "uptight" in various ways, and in positions of slight power (CEO for Encounter, and a manager of a salon for Last Cinderella) at least compared to the ML

Slow paced and about leaving the past behind and looking for happiness. The FL is a damaged character which lives in the auto-pilot while dragged by family and political issues.

Deep love and insecurity. How to bond and solve heart issues. Being loved can have a healing effect, can raise your self esteem.

A repressed woman is in a marriage with overbearing in-laws meets a man who unwinds her and allows her to be herself.

-Same feel and emotions
-ML is nice towards the FL
-Situation surrounding them makes it hard to be a couple (status/people)
-Main couple romance build up is slow and innocent, beautifully done
-Love triangle(s)
-Cinematography and Music fits well with the ambience and coloration

Older Successful Woman and a Younger less successful man...In Encounter, they met on a holiday abroad coincidentally and in Oshi no Oujisama, met on the street coincidentally...In both dramas, they became Boss-Subordinate at work

Older woman younger man falls in love. The best Noona-Dongseng love story out there. Both dramas have disapproving mothers. Both dramas have the "slow burn" effect. In both dramas, the man is enthusiastic about love while the woman holds back.

age-gap with an older woman being in a position of power.
however, the love story is so pure.
I am thankful to both these dramas as they have livened up my boring life.
levels of excitement I have gotten from them is enough to sustain me for another year.
believe me, both are worth watching but require an open mind though. older woman/younger man is still an uncomfortable concept for many but if you can get past it, you will find two awesome shows

Mature woman, younger man, puppy love, pure love, coincident, life struggle, society pressure, persistence, confuse, frustration,

- older women/younger men
- female have higher rank than male in their career
- 2ML still love the female even after breaking up
- both female has already married/in talk to married the 2ML
- Both have office romance
- Both have male that love to jog/run
DIFFERENCE
- swnk male have a well off family and encounter have a male lead come from a poor family
- Encounter female is the boss
- Female lead is famous and rich in encounter and SWNK female lead isn't to well off