KDrama Challenge 2024

Challenge # 1: Drama that shares a filming location with The Heirs.
Ilsan Lake Park

Challenge #2: Wheel of Chance Tropes - First Snow (episode 7).

Challenge #3: Wheel of Chance Common Scenes -- A character riding the subway. (Several times, first in Episode 1)

Challenge #4: Wheel of Chance PPL coffee -- Hot Brew Vanilla Latte (episode 13)

Challenge #5 Wheel of Chance Korean Cultural Highlight: Jeju's haenyeo

Challenge #7: A drama that started airing in your birth month (September)

Challenge #8: A Drama with a title that includes a character's name.

Challenge # 9: Drama featuring character who is an artist -- Choi Seung Hyo, architect.

Challenge #10: A drama in which a game is played.   There is at least one particularly cut-throat game of Go Stop amongst the roommates.

Challenge #11: Drama where a character wears a sports uniform:  ssireum uniform.

Challenge #12: Drama that revolves around a group of friends and features their friendship. The friend group of Lee Dong Shik is central to the mystery of what happened to his sister.

Challenge #13: Drama with an OST by a K-pop group member -- "The Door" by Seungyoon and Mino.

Challenge #14: A drama featuring an actor/actress who debuted before 2000 -- Lee Na Young (1999).

Challenge #15: A drama with childhood flashback scenes.

Challenge #16: A drama with a character who is part of the LGBTQ+ community -- Character Yoon Ho falls in love with his best friend.

Challenge #17: A drama title that is not a direct translation of the Korean title. 

비밀의 숲  -- Secret Forest

Challenge #18: Drama in which characters celebrate a special day.  (Engagement, Episode 16)

Challenge #19: Drama in which characters take a trip. (Main character travels to the town of Angok as part of a trip she is taking to recenter herself after losing her mother and breaking up with her boyfriend.)

Challenge #20: A drama chosen at random.

Challenge #21: Drama set in a rural/non-urban location.

Challenge # 22: A drama with a character who is a chaebol -- Bok Gyu Hyun.

Challenge #23: A drama with a character who works for the government.

Challenge #24: Drama with a meal scene featuring three or more banchan. (Episode 16)

Challenge #25: A drama where a character wears a long wool coat

Challenge # 27: A drama with a main character who is over 40 -- the main friend group is all of retirement age

Challenge #28: Drama with a multigenerational main cast

Gong Chan, his aunt, and his grandfather all live in the same house.

Challenge #29: Drama from a Sageuk genre.

Challenge # 30: Drama with an episode with 10% + viewership from Neilsen - 11% for episode 12.

Challenge 31: Drama that's been reviewed in a Spotlight On post.

Challenge #32: Single-episode drama.

Challenge #33: Mid-long form drama.

Challenge #34: Drama with fewer than 500 viewers on MDL.  8/17/24 - 295 viewers.

Challenge # 35: Drama that is at least 10 years old - Aired July 23, 2011 - Sep 11, 2011.

Challenge #36: Drama featuring a Truck of Doom. And a really sad one at that!  (Episodes 5& 6)