Coming of age, friendships based on sports, competition, finding true friendships, loyalty, college sporting

Very slow burn story, coming of age, long lost love coming back to find their love, story of messy crushes and ex's

Similar threads of food, owner falls for employee, kitchen service, and food porn. Stubmling points for the relationship is the same

New worker introduced to a restaurant because of a special skill.
Similar theme of owner falls in love with employee.
Food porn

Food porn with recipes. Relationships are made over food/ cooking. Restaurant scenes with food. Bigger mystery with characters

Sport themed with strong bonds between the main protagonists. Also strong competition between a strong team and an underdog.

From the same producer: Oxin Films. Just as hammy, bad acting, emotions all over the place, and some really horrid ad-libbing. However: it's another trainwreck that's just an addictive piece of madness.
O, and Chukchuk is in it too.

Similar in terms of learning to work as a team with different, clashing personalities; coming of age story (albeit Dive is College)

While not really the best out of the Thai's, there are similar treads of coming of age, leadership, swimming, and friendship.
The differences come where the Thai story is, of course, a BL

Similar themes of the effect of COVID on meeting, BL of course, and meeting soulmate/ coming of age.

Similar themes of coming of age and meeting a soulmate but via technology due to the pandemic and lockdown.

Similar themes of meeting virtually in the pandemic and getting to know the other person via screens at first.