r/KDRAMA Challenge 2024

2.a Tropes - Passing by an old person collecting cartons/newspapers
>> Ep3.  When the main characters go an visit the housing project they meet an elder with a cardboard cart

2.b Tropes - A character has a hair cut or cuts his or her hair during the drama
>> Ep1. The FL cuts her hair in order to try and change the outcome of her dream

2.c Tropes - A drama where a character holds over/ shares an umbrella with another person
>> Ep5. The ML holds an umbrella over her when the sprinklers go off

2.d Tropes - A drama featuring first snow
>> Features as a concept (recognizing at first snow/love at first sight) and actually falls at the end of ep5 when the ML is at the playground

2.e Tropes - A character crying while eating
>> Ep12. A flashback shows the FL arriving at the beach and crying while she eats noodles at the bar

2.f Tropes - A character getting a driver after drinking
>> Ep1. After the FL has soju at the beach she orders a driver 

3.a Common Scenes - A drama with an underwater scene
>> Ep6. The ML jumps into the river and is seen floating. Also the FL meets the ML under water in a surreal experience. Last, the ML is seen being saved from the water.

3.b Common Scenes - A character riding the subway or at the subway station
>> Ep1. The ML goed to pick up a package on a subway playform, but the competitors are also there so he rides the subway as well in order to save the subject who brought the package.

3.d Common Scenes - A scene with lighthouse(s)
>> Ep9. FL suprises ML while he is reading a book near a lighthouse when she decides to  give in and end their no-contact period and visits him

3.f Common Scenes - A character singing at the noraebang
>> Ep14. The SML and SFL have a cute moment in the noraebang where first she sings and then lets him know she wants to try dating

4.b PPL - Restaurant

4.c PPL - Jewelry

4.f PPL - Health Supplement (Tonics, Vitamins, Ginseng)

5.a Korean Culture Highlight - Scene showing Jeju's haenyeo
>> Haenyo are featured prominently in this drama because the mothers of both the ML and the FL were/are haenyo and this plays a big role in their lives and the drama's story

5.b Korean Culture Highlight - Scene showing a jesa table

5.f Korean Culture Highlight - Scene featuring a shaman either fortune-telling or performing a shamanistic ritual
>> Ep6. An exorcism ritual  is performed by Im Mok Won

6.b Number of People in Drama Poster - 1

7. A drama that started airing in your birth month >> September
>> Started airing on 27 September 2023

9. A drama with a character who is an artist
>> ML is a goldsmith/works with precious metals

11. A drama where a character wears a sports team uniform or jersey and/or watches a sports game
>> The ML plays ice hockey and is shown multiple times throughout the drama wearing his team colours and playing the game

13. A drama with an OST by a K-pop group member
>> OST Part. 7: Stray Kids - 끝나지 않을 이야기 (The Story That Will Never End)

14. A drama featuring an actor or actress who debuted before 2000
>> Jun Ji Hyun debuted in a drama in 1998 (and film in 1999)

15. A drama with childhood flashback scenes
>> Throughout the drama there are flashbacks with the ML as a kid revealing what happened in the past

16. A drama with a character that is a part of the LGBTQ+ community
>> Both the MLs as this is a BL drama

17. A drama title that is not a direct translation of the Korean title
>> The literal translation of 반의 반 is: 'half of half' 

18. A drama in which characters celebrate a special day
>> Ep10. FL celebrates MLs birthday with him (first time for him!)

19. A drama in which characters take a trip
>> Both the MLs take a surf trip twice: once with the surfclub (ep.1 and ep.2) and once just the two of them (ep.6)

21. A drama set in a rural/non-urban location
>> The drama is set in Miryeong forest

22. A drama with a character who is a chaebol
>> ML is a heir within the 'King Group'

23. A drama with a character who works for the government
>> Yoo Jin Gook is a police detective

24. A drama with a meal scene featuring 3 or more banchan (side dishes) on the table
>> Ep3. For Mr. Pyeon’s last supper in his old house the table is completely filled with all kinds of (side)dishes

25. A drama where a character wears a long wool coat
>> Lots of nice coats (including long wool ones) in this drama! :)

26. A drama found by searching existing recommendations
>> This drama is frequently recommended on r/kdramareccomends and fits a lot of different types of requests at that. I didn't think I would like it when it was first proposed to me by Netflix and even after trying Ep1 but based on the reccomendations I went back and watched it and ended up enjoying it a lot! :)

27. A drama with a main character that is over 40
>> FL has been managing the hotel for the past 1000 years and as such has been 'living' all that time. Therefore she can be considered to be over 40 (albeit in a supernatural way)

28. A drama with a multigenerational main cast

29. A drama from the sageuk genre
>> The drama is set at the start of the Goryeo Dynasty during King Taejo's rule

30. A drama with an episode which received more than 10% overall viewership ratings from Nielsen
>> This drama had good ratings with all but the first two epiodes receiving more than 10% viewership ratings
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_Partner#:~:text=Average%20TV%20viewership%20ratings

33. A mid-long form drama
>> Drama consists of 50 episodes

34. A drama with less than 500 watchers on MDL

35. A drama that is at least 10 years old
>> Drama aired in 2007, making it 16 years old

36. A drama featuring a Truck of Doom™
>> Ep3. At the end of the episode a (white!) Truck of Doom™ appears and drives into the restaurant