2024 Kdrama Challenge Round #2

#1. Shares a filming location with The Heirs - Incheon International Airport, Yeouido Hangang Park [한강 공원 여의도 지구]

#2. Wheel of Tropes: A character has a hair cut or cuts his or her hair during the drama (FL has cancer)

#3. Wheel of Chance: A scene showing an office being raided by prosecutors with blue boxes. (Raiding Jangga Co. Ep 16)

#4. Wheel of Chance: PPL: Restaurant (Subway Ep 14)

#5  Wheel of Chance: Scene featuring a shaman either fortune-telling or performing a shamanistic ritual.

#6 A drama chosen by the wheel of chance: Number of People in Drama Poster - 2

#7. A drama that started airing in your birth month (April 9 - May 29, 2022) 

#8. A drama with a title that includes a character's name

 #9. A drama with a character who is an artist (Do Ha Yoon is an illustrator/artist)

#10. A drama in which a game is played - Squid (오징어) (Ep 1), "The Mugunghwa flower has blossomed" or Red Light, Green Light (Ep 1), Dalgona challenge (Ep 3), Juldarigi, or Tug of War (Ep 4), Ddakji (Ep 1, 9), Gganbu/marbles (Ep 6)

#11. A drama where a character wears a sports team uniform or jersey and/or watches a sports game - (FL & ML watch soccer together)

#12. A drama that revolves around a group of friends and features their friendship as a key part of the drama  (The "Lavender Club" of mom friends and the 3 main/2nd leads' friendship)

#13. A drama with an OST by a K-pop group member  "Pop Star" by Choi Young Jae (from Got7), "Starlight by Romin of E'LAST

#14. A drama featuring an actor or actress who debuted before 2000 - Jo Sung Ha  (1997 film “Insh’allah”)

#15. A drama with childhood flashback scenes (Hwi, Yeon, Seon Ho, Hee Jae (Ep. 1 / 2 / 4 / 6 / 7 / 8)

#16 A drama with a character that is a part of the LGBTQ+ community (ML is gay)

#17. A drama title that is not a direct translation of the Korean title (금혼령: 조선혼인금지령  "Marriage Ban: Joseon Marriage Ban")

#18. A drama in which characters celebrate a special day - (Christmas (Ep. 1), Birthday (Ep. 5), Graduation (Ep 9), Wedding (Ep 16)

#19. A drama in which characters take a trip (Surfing Club takes a field trip to the ocean to surf)

#20. A drama chosen at random from your plan to watch list  (I used https://wheelofnames.com/ and added all of my “plan to watch” titles into the wheel.)

#21. A drama set in a rural/non-urban location (ML runs a brewery in Baekgol-ri, Chungcheong Province)

#22. A drama with a character who is a chaebol (ML is a chaebol)

#23. A drama with a character who works for the government (FL is a detective)

#24. A drama with a meal scene featuring 3 or more banchan (side dishes) on the table (Ep. 1 / 4 / 8)

#25. A drama where a character wears a long wool coat (many episodes)

#26. A drama found by searching existing recommendations https://www.reddit.com/r/kdramarecommends/comments/1gq6110/steamier_kdramas/

#27. A drama with a main character that is over 40 (Park Dong Hoon (45) = Lee Sun Kyun (43)

#28. A drama with a multigenerational main cast (Jung Gum Ja, Mi Soo, Ye Jin and Seo Jin)

#29. A drama from the sageuk genre

#30. A drama with an episode which received more than 10% overall viewership ratings from Nielsen (14.60% 12-Jun-22)

#31.  A drama that has been reviewed in one of our past Spotlight On posts -  Spotlight on Revenge July 2024

#32. A single episode drama

#33. A mid-long form drama (22 hours)

#34. A drama with less than 500 watchers on MDL (471 watchers as of 8/14/2024)

#35. A drama that is at least 10 years old (2007)

#36. A drama featuring a Truck of Doom™ (Episode 2 - major plot point!)