r/KDRAMA Challenge 2024

Challenge #1 A drama that shares a filming location with The Heirs

https://koreandramaland.com/listings/nongoldam-gil-street/

Started: 

Challenge #2.d A drama chosen by the wheel of chance: Tropes - A drama featuring first snow

Started: 20th June 2024. Finished: 25th June 2024.

Snow in end of ep5 and start of ep6!

Challenge #3.e A drama chosen by the wheel of chance: Common Scenes - A scene showing an office being raided by prosecutors with blue boxes

Started: 9th May. Finished: 21st May.
prosecutor boxes in ep 14

Challenge #4.f A drama chosen by the wheel of chance: PPL - Health Supplement (Tonics, Vitamins, Ginseng)

Bacchusd-D Supplement (Ep. 2)

Started 24th March. Finished 30th March.

Challenge #5.f A drama chosen by the wheel of chance: Korean Culture Highlight - Scene featuring a shaman either fortune-telling or performing a shamanistic ritual

Challenge #32A single episode drama

or

Challenge #6.b A drama chosen by the wheel of chance: Number of People in Drama Poster - 1

Watched 29th Feb. 

Challenge #7 A drama that started airing in your birth month

Release Date: 9th Feb 2024.

Started: 25th Feb. Finished: 10th March.

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

(Korean Title: 이재, 곧 죽습니다 )

Started: 18th Jan 2024. Finished: 19th Jan 2024.

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

(Korean Title: 이재, 곧 죽습니다 )

Started: 19th Jan 2024. Finished: 20th Jan 2024.

Challenge #9 A drama with a character who is an artist

ML is an artist

Started: 20th Jan 2024. Finished: 9th Feb 2024.

Challenge #10 A drama in which a game is played

Started: 26th March 2024. Finished 28th May 2024.

ML plays "cops" in the first couple of eps. Even has a uniform and a pretend person in trouble.

Challenge #11 A drama where a character wears a sports team uniform or jersey and/or watches a sports game

Started: 10th Feb 2024. Finished 15th Feb 2024.

Challenge #12 A drama that revolves around a group of friends and features their friendship as a key part of the drama

Started: 22nd May 2024. Finished: 2nd June 2024.

Challenge #13A drama with an OST by a K-pop group member

Started: 6th April 2024. Finished 31st May 2024.

Challenge #14 A drama featuring an actor or actress who debuted before 2000

Lee Dong Wook debuted in 1999

Started: 2nd Jan 2024. Finished 27th Jan 2024.

Challenge #15 A drama with childhood flashback scenes

Started: 

Challenge #16 A drama with a character that is a part of the LGBTQ+ community

Started: 2nd June 2024. Finished: 20th June 2024.

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

English title: Lovestruck in the City

Korean Title:  Love Between City Men and Women

Started:  

Challenge #18 A drama in which characters celebrate a special day

Banchan? Wedding in ep 15

Started: 4th Jan 2024. Finished: 17th Jan 2024.

Challenge #19 A drama in which characters take a trip

Started: 18th April 2024. Finished 2nd May 2024.

Challenge #20 A drama chosen at random from your plan to watch list

Random number generator: 6 

Be Melodramatic was number 6

Started: 27th June 2024.

Challenge #22 A drama with a character who is a chaebol

Started: 20th Jan 2024. Finished; 28th Jan 2024.

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

Rewatched!

Started: 15th Feb 2024. Finished: 7th March 2024.

Challenge #24 A drama with a meal scene featuring 3 or more banchan (side dishes) on the table
banchan in ep1 and ep3

Started: 30th Jan 2024. Finished: 24th Feb 2024.

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

Started: 3rd June 2024. Finished: 27th June 2024.

Challenge #26 A drama found by searching existing recommendations

Started: 7th June 2024.

Challenge #27 - Drama with character over 40 (Kim Sang Joong) 

Challenge #29 A drama from the sageuk genre

Started 13th March 2024. Finished 21st March.

Challenge #28 A drama with a multigenerational main cast

Started: 5th June 2024. Finished: 16th June 2024.

Challenge #30 A drama with an episode which received more than 10% overall viewership ratings from Nielsen

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Between_Dog_and_Wolf#Ratings

August 15, 200718.0% (3rd)19.4% (2nd)

Prosecutor raid with boxes in ep 11 or 12 I think?

Started: 7th March 2024. Finished: 7th April 2024.

Challenge #31A drama that has been reviewed in one of our past Spotlight On posts

Started:

https://www.reddit.com/r/KDRAMA/comments/1ckfelx/comment/l2ocj0m/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

Challenge #32A single episode drama

Watched 14th April 2024.

Challenge #33 A mid-long form drama

Started: 30th Jan 2024.

Challenge #34 A drama with less than 500 watchers on MDL

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2l-llbL2lk

Challenge #35 A drama that is at least 10 years old

Challenge #36 A drama featuring a Truck of Doom™

Started: 29th Feb.  Finished 14th May.