2024 Kdrama Challenge Round 2
I've already achieved "chaebol" status in the 2024 Kdrama Challenge so I decided to attempt the whole challenge a 2nd time.
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1. No Gain, No Love
Korean Drama - 2024, 12 episodes
#1. Shares a filming location with The Heirs - Incheon International Airport, Gyeonggi Future Education — Paju Branch [경기미래교육 파주캠퍼스]
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2. Scent of a Woman
Korean Drama - 2011, 16 episodes
#2. Wheel of Tropes: A character has a hair cut or cuts his or her hair during the drama (FL has cancer)
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3. Alchemy of Souls
Korean Drama - 2022, 20 episodes
#5 Wheel of Chance: Scene featuring a shaman either fortune-telling or performing a shamanistic ritual.
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4. The Eighth Sense
Korean Drama - 2023, 10 episodes
#6 Wheel of Chance: Number of People in Drama Poster - 2
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5. The Good Bad Mother
Korean Drama - 2023, 14 episodes
#7. A drama that started airing in your birth month - April (April 26, 2023)
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6. Queen Woo
Korean Drama - 2024, 8 episodes
#8. A drama with a title that includes a character's name
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7. Love Affairs in the Afternoon
Korean Drama - 2019, 16 episodes
#9. A drama with a character who is an artist (Do Ha Yoon is an illustrator/artist)
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8. Squid Game
Korean Drama - 2021, 9 episodes
#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)
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9. Because This Is My First Life
Korean Drama - 2017, 16 episodes
#11. A drama where a character wears a sports team uniform or jersey and/or watches a sports game - (FL & ML watch soccer together)
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10. Love Next Door
Korean Drama - 2024, 16 episodes
#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)
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11. Save Me
Korean Drama - 2017, 16 episodes
#14. A drama featuring an actor or actress who debuted before 2000 - Jo Sung Ha (1997 film “Insh’allah”)
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12. Suspicious Partner
Korean Drama - 2017, 40 episodes
#15. A drama with childhood flashback scenes (ML Ep. 3, 4, 5, 8, 10, 21)
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13. Love in the Big City
Korean Drama - 2024, 8 episodes
#16 A drama with a character that is a part of the LGBTQ+ community (ML is gay)
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14. Bloodhounds
Korean Drama - 2023, 8 episodes
#17. Not a direct translation (사냥개들 The hunting dogs)
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15. What Comes after Love
Korean Drama - 2024, 6 episodes
#19 Characters take a trip (Choi Hong goes to Japan, Aoki Jungo travels to Korea)
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16. My Liberation Notes
Korean Drama - 2022, 16 episodes
#21. A drama set in a rural/non-urban location
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17. Dreaming of a Freaking Fairytale
Korean Drama - 2024, 10 episodes
#22. A drama with a character who is a chaebol (ML is a chaebol)
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18. The Third Charm
Korean Drama - 2018, 16 episodes
#23. A drama with a character who works for the government (ML is a police officer)
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19. My Mister
Korean Drama - 2018, 16 episodes
#27 (Park Dong Hoon (45) = Lee Sun Kyun (43)
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20. Joseon Attorney: A Morality
Korean Drama - 2023, 16 episodes
#29. A drama from the sageuk genre
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21. Drama Special Season 8: You Are Closer Than I Think
Korean Special - 2017, 1 episode
#32. A single episode drama
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22. Our Blues
Korean Drama - 2022, 20 episodes
#33. A mid-long form drama (20+)
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23. Drama Special Season 11: While You're Away
Korean Special - 2020, 1 episode
#34. A drama with less than 500 watchers on MDL (471 watchers as of 8/14/2024)
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24. Coffee Prince
Korean Drama - 2007, 17 episodes
#35. A drama that is at least 10 years old (2007)
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25. Are You Human Too?
Korean Drama - 2018, 36 episodes
#36. A drama featuring a Truck of Doom™ (major plot point!)