Can We Get Married? (2012)

Both dramas have a married couple who goes through a divorce. They both also have a couple trying to get married.

Both shows are interested in different kinds of romantic pairings and why they work or don't work.

Can Get Married has a couple going through a contentious divorce and custody battle; an older couple falling in love; and two couples in their 20s who form somewhat of a love square, with the central couple facing challenges (mostly parental disapproval stemming from class differences) to their desire to get married.

My Merry Marriage is also interested in why and how some romantic pairings work and others don't. The central love square features two plutocrats/chaebols and two white collar/working class people, and in the first sixth of the show (I'm writing this as episode 23 airs) we see one chaebol x white collar couple break up to form two couplings where their socioeconomic backgrounds align—but we know these are not the endgame couples of the show. So like in Can We Get Married the question being posed is how will these people (Gonghee and Dansoo, Mingi and Jina) be able to overcome the social obstacles to their romances and be together?

Marriage, marriage, marriage. You get the point. Both drama deal with marriage and creating a new family, getting in-laws and growing up from a dating couple to a married one and how marriage in general changes the dynamics of a relationship. Though Glorious Day is more family focused and Can We get Married? leans more on the romance,the feeling the both give is pretty similar.

They have the same screenwriter, which explains why I loved the secondary characters so much. The plots are also centered around complicated family dynamics.

Both dramas are about a couple with opposition to their marriage and side couples with similar situations. Both have a focus on familial relationships and the importance of money in marriage.