Name That Drama: Prosecutors, accidents, one-night stands
by javabeans
Lots and lots of unidentified dramas in this edition! In fact, I got so many drama requests this time around that I kept some of them out of this round, to keep things manageable. They’ll be in a future post, so if yours didn’t get featured this time, stay tuned.
Have at ’em, folks!
- NC asks:
Hi, I’ve been trying to find the name of this Korean drama I’ve seen a long time ago. It was my first Korean drama and by chance I saw it during one of my sleepless nights. The main guy is some sort of reporter I guess. The main girl is quiet and she sculpts these clay wings. The guy must have done something bad to the girl because her mom? and friends don’t like or approve of him. But she likes him and he was in denial about his feelings (of course). Towards the end he was going to see her but on his way there something fell on him and he didn’t make it. Aaannd that’s it. I don’t know what happens after that because it was aired at an ungodly hour and I didn’t know know what days it aired on.
- Pamela asks:
I hope this is enough info… Maybe 10 years ago my mom was watching a drama that I want to watch now. All I can remember is there was a little boy who had a bad home life and he tries really hard to farm cabbage (or some vegetable). He collected night water to fertilize the fields. Then I think the harvest was all bitter and he couldn’t sell it so he was crying and set the fields on fire. That’s all I can remember! But it was very heart wrenching! If this is enough for you to recognize the drama that would be amazing!
Poor kid. On one hand I feel bad for him… but maybe he has some anger management issues. Just sayin’.
- Danielle wants to find one for her grandma:
My grandmother went to Korea last year or maybe it was the year before, 2011-12, and she saw a drama that was playing there then. She doesn’t remember the name, but she really wants to know what the drama was because 1) she wants to watch it with subtitles, and 2) she didn’t get to finish it and wants to find out what happens.
According to my grandma, there was a man whose wife had an affair with his brother in law. He saw it and went to fight with his brother in law and he fell and injured his brain. Then the man’s mind became like a child. She’s pretty sure that the man was not faking his injury. She also said that they all lived in the same house and they may have been rich.
Any help would be appreciated thanks!
What is it with rich people and brain injuries, dramaland? This is a real question.
- Here’s a question from Jim:
Sorry to be so vague, but:
It’s a workplace drama, probably rom/com, involving detectives and prosecutors, the slightly older uptight male superior learns that his former colleague X is transferred to the region. He knows how drunk she can get. An episode or so later she does get drunk and in a car ride deplores, in a maudlin rant, the death of Admiral Lee (이순신). If only he had been issued a bulletproof vest, wah boo hoo.
The tone of the show was roughly like “She’s on Duty” or “Call of the Country.”
What was the show, and who played X? I want to watch it again!
- Sharie’s drama:
I’m trying to remember what this one drama I watched with my family a long time ago, aired maybe around 2005-ish? It’s about a girl who somehow gets into an accident. There’s a man who finds her and helps and loves her, and after her accident the man who helps her makes her face exactly like his previous love. But near the end, the man gets AIDS and… I think he dies?
Yup, it’s a K-drama all right.
- Ine’s clues seem familiar, but I can’t quite find a drama to match:
Need your (& your readers’) help to identify the drama that help me sit through 3 months of maternity leave alone back in 2005.
The snippets that I remembered:
- A guy and a girl met when they’re on a trip (Singapore?), the girl is looking for her long distance boyfriend or something.
- They end up having a one-night stand and both return to Korea not keeping in contact.
- The girl got pregnant and her mom/unni took care of the baby. Then after some time they meet again… from here on it’s kinda hazy for me. I remember the guy fell for her but she just skipped town and they lost contact again.
- The girl went on to become an accessories designer, and that’s how the guy finally found her again.
Can you please help? I need to watch it again.
Thanks a lot 🙂
Hm, my first thought was that this sounded like Only You mixed in with bits of Delightful Girl Chun-hyang. Han Chae-young mash-up!
- cyn asks:
I caught little snippets of a K-drama that seem to be in the late 90s and weekend drama(?). I really want to know the ending.
What I remember about the drama:
- 2 sisters loved one guy.
- The younger sister went in place of the older sister on a matchmaking date, then fell for the guy because he was rich(?).
- The guy likes the older sister who is a designer.
- The younger sister seem to have been sponsored by a rich family (the guy’s family). Later the rich family kicked her out for lying.
- Their mom (Korea’s favorite mom actress?) became rich from loaning money to people. She started out very poor. She seems to have abandoned the family.
- The younger daughter reunited with her rich mother and started to work at her mother’s company.
- One of her mother’s clients asked her to teach their rebellious son the loaning business.
- The younger daughter and the rebellious boy didn’t like each other in the beginning.
- The older sister married the guy in secret.
- Alicia has two:
I’ve been searching for two dramas for a very long time, but haven’t had any luck in finding them. Both of the dramas I watched in the early 2000s with my mom. She rented/borrowed them from a local Korean store and they didn’t have English subs, but I’ll do my best to describe them.
The first drama I have a bit more detail. To start off, I do recall the tapes my mom borrowed to be labeled “Man in Dilemma,” but whenever I tried searching for that, I got zero results. It started out as two college lovers that broke up because the girl was moving to the U.S. to either get started on her career, or further her education… or both. The man ends up marrying another woman and has kids with her. Years later, the girl from college comes back to Korea and the guy ends up meeting with her and has an affair. The wife finds out by walking in on them. I don’t remember much about the next events, I believe she runs out and gets caught in the rain and the wife’s younger manager comes to the rescue. The wife and her manager both work at a publishing company for children’s books, by the way. Through everything the wife and the manager end up falling in love, but he is also either married or engaged or something because the girl who is with the manager ends up tormenting the wife. Eventually my mom told me that the manager guy couldn’t leave the girl he was with for the wife for whatever reason. I remember that last episode had an ending scene with a typical airplane shot and “one year later” written on the screen. Then you see either the manager or the wife receiving a letter from the other person.
I also feel that at some point the young manager and the wife end up running away together, but it was so long ago that I can’t remember the details.
Speaking of not being able to remember details, the next drama I can only remember the very gist of what it was about. It’s about a girl who is new to the music industry. I just recall her being a solo artist with a seemingly innocent image. There is also a rock band that’s promoting around the same time I suppose. Over the course of the drama the girl and the singer from the band end up falling for each other. I can’t exactly pinpoint what the lovebirds’ struggle was in this drama, but I do remember the guy in the band being chased down and beat up a lot. Perhaps the management company did not want them together? I don’t know.
Any help would be appreciated! Thanks in advance 🙂
- K. doesn’t have much to go on, but it would be hilarious if somebody knew it based on the clues. Er, clue.
I’ve got a request on behalf of a friend for the name of a drama she saw at the food court of a Korean supermarket. Her exact words: “All I saw was a fat girl and a guy that gets hit by a car.” I hope the DB community can work their magic with so little info. She also mentioned that the drama didn’t look recent and it was most definitely televised on SBS. Please help!
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1 kopytko
March 16, 2013 at 1:09 PM
No. 6 seems like Wonderful Life with Eugene, Kim Jae Won and Lee Ji Hoon. It's from 2005.
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Asmaa
March 16, 2013 at 7:08 PM
rlly?I thought it was fated to love you, a taiwanese drama....
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Starlinh
March 16, 2013 at 7:50 PM
Yes, 6 is Wonderful Life :)
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LeeLee
March 16, 2013 at 8:28 PM
In Fated to Love You the baby was never born. She miscarried and the man knew she was pregnant pretty early in the drama.
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ilikemangos
March 16, 2013 at 8:11 PM
Yes! Wonderful life.
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maymay
March 16, 2013 at 8:17 PM
Definitely sounds like Wonderful life to me, the year matches too
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febe
March 16, 2013 at 9:40 PM
The first part is Wonderful Life. The second part about the girl skipping town and becoming an accessories designer sounds like Delightful Girl Chun Hyang.
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shepo
March 17, 2013 at 6:42 AM
yeah,,i think she mixes Wonderful Life with ChoonHyang,,cus they aired around the same time
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hawaiianseoul
March 16, 2013 at 9:46 PM
Definitely wonderful life. I remember Kim jae won donning the Spider-Man outfit. Haha I love that drama!
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Tishi
March 16, 2013 at 10:01 PM
At first I also thought Wonderful Life, but I think Eugene ended up being an office employee for the second lead's company? I don't think she became an accessories designer. I distinctly remember that she also wanted to work as a diplomat. I can't remember if she did get that dream though.
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YBisTOP
March 16, 2013 at 10:59 PM
No, it isn't Wonderful Life.
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Dee
March 17, 2013 at 9:15 AM
Yes, 'Wonderful life' most definitely, maybe mixed with something else towards the end (as it usually happens)
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Rani
March 17, 2013 at 9:56 PM
Agree. I knew ,with the description , that it was a Eugene-starred drama.
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nikki
March 17, 2013 at 10:14 PM
To me, it really screamed Wonderful Life but then I got confused once I read that accessories designer part. She must have confused the heroine's profession with some other drama. But everything else in her description totally sounds like Wonderful Life.
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oscyani
March 17, 2013 at 11:52 PM
hahahas.. i think the Singapore clue is such a gaveaway... definitely wonderful life! not sure about the accessories part though.. haven't watch that drama for ages!
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fleur
March 19, 2013 at 1:54 AM
yeahh thats right! cause I just finished re-watch it in some of local tv channel :)
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KDR
March 19, 2013 at 7:48 PM
Definitely!
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2 Mari
March 16, 2013 at 1:11 PM
I'm 95% sure that n.6 is "원더풀 라이프 - Wonderful Life" with Eugene and and Kim Jae Won, the hateful stylist from Full House as second lead and the uber cute Jung Da Bin as their daughter.
hope it helps.
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3 parny
March 16, 2013 at 1:14 PM
No. 6 sounds like "wonderful life" staring kim jae won & Eugene.
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4 bashful
March 16, 2013 at 1:15 PM
In reply to @NC, I think you are referring to a Japanese drama called "Pure". The name of the Japanese lead actress is Emi Wakui. She has learning disability with artistic talent in sculpting. I can't remember the lead actor'name, but you remember it correctly that his character there is a reporter. love the J-drama and theme song! The ending theme song was sung by Mr. Children.
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kay
March 16, 2013 at 1:16 PM
that was fast. thanks!!
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bashful
March 16, 2013 at 1:17 PM
Minor clarification: Emi Wakui's character in the drama is one with a learning disability with artistic talent in sculpting.
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Steph
March 16, 2013 at 4:42 PM
I was just gonna say that number 1 sounds like a Jdrama I just watched.
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tweetie
March 17, 2013 at 10:26 AM
you beat me to it. One of my all time fav's, and my favorite Mr Children song of all time!!
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5 kay
March 16, 2013 at 1:16 PM
OMG drama #1, i remember seeing bits and parts of it on tv when i was a child. but there was no subtitles. i thought the girl was mute? and i thought it was a japanese drama. but i think about it every now and then. i would love to know what drama it was as well. i hope someone figures it out. thanks everyone!
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vanessa
March 18, 2013 at 6:12 PM
heaven's coin...
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6 honda-san
March 16, 2013 at 1:17 PM
N° 6 : Wonderful life?
N°8.2 : Over the rainbow?
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myweithisway
March 16, 2013 at 1:34 PM
I was thinking Over the Rainbow for #8.2 too except the guys weren't a rock band. Still sounds like a fairly close match.
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Sunshine
March 17, 2013 at 9:08 AM
i thought they were back up dancers?!? but it been a while so i dont remember
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7 kungfupigeon
March 16, 2013 at 1:18 PM
I really want to know what number 9 is
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bibapr57
March 16, 2013 at 3:20 PM
you're not the only one!!! Im really curious... LOL
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donnapie
March 17, 2013 at 1:50 AM
If only the sender didn't say that it seemed like an old drama i would have said that it's Incarnation of Money.
Hwang Jung Eum's character as a child (Seo Shin Ae) was really fat and Kang Ji Hwan as a child (played by Park Ji Bin) was hit by a car and he was rescued by the young HJE and her mother.
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Lilian
March 17, 2013 at 6:18 AM
Haha..I thought of that too!
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Lilie
March 17, 2013 at 7:36 AM
I am pretty sure it is Incarnation of Money. Like you said it happened when he was a child. I think that's why she thought it was an old drama as the clothes, cars and general décor would have looked old.
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Lyza
March 21, 2013 at 6:05 AM
Can you hear my heart...
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8 jhua
March 16, 2013 at 1:29 PM
For drama #6.
My one and only guess is 'Wonderful Life',starring Eugene and Kim Jae Won.
But I'm not sure about the designer part..
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9 Auntiemame
March 16, 2013 at 2:04 PM
I wonder if #9 is the movie, "Two-Hundred Pound Beauty".
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sartorius
March 16, 2013 at 2:13 PM
maybe Romance Town???
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Junjunpyo
March 16, 2013 at 2:26 PM
Romance Town wasn't about Music and it was the male lead who used to be fat.
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Junjunpyo
March 16, 2013 at 2:28 PM
Never mind the part about music I was thinking about N°8.2
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sartorius
March 16, 2013 at 4:44 PM
Ahh I read fat guy...
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ocean
March 16, 2013 at 4:44 PM
I thought that too!
Though it's not a drama but a movie...
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10 Julia
March 16, 2013 at 2:47 PM
I am absolutely convinced I have seen #4 but still shaking my brain to come up with which of the 160 Dramas that I've watched this one was.
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11 gretac
March 16, 2013 at 2:53 PM
#9 Incarnation of Money!
It doesn't match the "didn't look recent" part, but maybe the fact it's a flashback in the drama makes it look older.
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danna
March 16, 2013 at 3:40 PM
Yeah I think so too
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DayDreamer
March 16, 2013 at 4:13 PM
Even I thought the same. Plus, without it being a flashback, the drama itself has a more older look because of its setting in the 1900s.
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12 queencircles
March 16, 2013 at 3:01 PM
Haha I was feeling really smart and excited that I knew #6. Seems like a bunch of other people know Wonderful life.
My least favorite drama I've ever watched all the way through. Gah I hated it.
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KimYoonmi
March 16, 2013 at 4:37 PM
There are worse, believe me.
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DayDreamer
March 16, 2013 at 4:52 PM
I tried Wonderful Life for some several episodes before finally quitting sometime before the halfway point because it was so bad...it made me hate Kim Jae Won...until I watched Can You Hear My Heart and fell in love with him, lol.
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KDR
March 19, 2013 at 7:50 PM
I couldn't stand it either! I never finished it!
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13 angel
March 16, 2013 at 3:15 PM
NUMBER 6:
first half sounds like Wonderful Life.
second half sounds like Delightful Girl Chun Hyang.
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14 ocarina
March 16, 2013 at 3:22 PM
no 3"daniel" :i think its "a love to kill"
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15 redclaw
March 16, 2013 at 3:44 PM
No 3 sounds like An Angels Choice
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AndromnedaAnima
March 16, 2013 at 9:30 PM
You are right. #3 is An Angel's Choice (천사의 선택).
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16 holli
March 16, 2013 at 3:45 PM
#3 reminds me of My Love By My Side. It came out in 2011. But some of the description doesn't match up. I remember near the end of the drama, the evil second male lead has an accident and becomes childlike due to brain damage....
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17 danna
March 16, 2013 at 3:46 PM
Alicia's (8) second drama sounds a bit like Shut Up Flower Boy Band (the lead guy getting beaten up all the time and the oppositin to their romance plus there's the rock band)....only thing is Su Ah was not a singer...i'm curious to know which drama this is since not a lot kdramas have rock bands
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Leona
March 16, 2013 at 4:18 PM
Alicia’s (8) second drama looks like Rock Rock Rock only the secondary girl isn't quite the songstress but she is his future wife. No Min Woo rocked that drama(4 episodes only)
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danna
March 16, 2013 at 5:47 PM
can't be Rock Rock Rock wither...neither of No Min Woo's love interests were singers, and there was only opposition to his first love
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18 boms
March 16, 2013 at 4:00 PM
Number 8- 위기의 남자 or Man in Crisis?
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boms
March 16, 2013 at 4:02 PM
Oh and the second one sounds like Over the Rainbow..
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alicia
March 16, 2013 at 5:19 PM
Ahhh, I believe you are right! I just googled Man in Crisis and the cast all fits according to my memory. The manager guy had long hair with some blonde in it and all the girls had short hair. Thank you so much! Sadly, doesn't seem there is much on the internet about it so I can only go about the character pictures.
Hopefully someone can track the other drama as well! :)
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alicia
March 16, 2013 at 5:23 PM
and secretary wang from TWTWB was in Man in Crisis. What are the odds!
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19 DayDreamer
March 16, 2013 at 4:19 PM
Drama #1 sounds interesting. From what other Beanies are saying, it's a jdorama called Pure. Sounds rather interesting so I tried to look up subs but couldn't find any. Does anyone know where I can watch it?
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xine
March 16, 2013 at 4:47 PM
Hi there - not sure about where to view but there are4 recaps here: http://www.asianaddictsanonymous.com/pure-episode-1/
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DayDreamer
March 16, 2013 at 4:54 PM
I appreciate that, I really do, but I prefer watching with subtitles. Thanks anyways. :)
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Steph
March 16, 2013 at 4:50 PM
I watched recently at AZNV.tv
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DayDreamer
March 16, 2013 at 5:00 PM
Thank you so so so much! :D
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james94131
March 16, 2013 at 10:02 PM
Pure is so old that you won't be able to find a site to stream it with subs. You can download the episodes with soft subs at http://doramax264.com/17264/pure-j-drama-1996/
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20 Steph
March 16, 2013 at 4:48 PM
6 definitely sounds like Only You and Delightful Girl. Perhaps the person has the two plots mixed togther? As for the second one in number 8, I also think it could be Over the Rainbow.
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all4movies
March 17, 2013 at 1:51 AM
It couldn't be Only You because it took place in Italy. My votes goes to Wonderful Life which took place in Singapore.
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21 yumii
March 16, 2013 at 5:26 PM
I have no answers but I love this game.
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Arhazivory
March 16, 2013 at 6:23 PM
lol....me too. I love it too but I've never been able to guess any.
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22 alicia
March 16, 2013 at 5:44 PM
adding to #8 (which belongs to me): I just tried to ask my mom if she remember anything the second one and she said it was called Galche? She said it was the guy's band name. She also said the dude in the band got drunk a lot. Don't know if that will help anyone.
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myweithisway
March 16, 2013 at 6:39 PM
Huh, sounds like it's not Over the Rainbow then because I don't think there was a lot of drinking going on.
Can you be more specific about the year?
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Maw
March 17, 2013 at 11:35 AM
If it's an old drama, maybe that's exactly the name of the drama. There's an old drama from KBS entitled Galchae (갈채). It aired in 1995. From the photos and videos I've seen, they seem to be about a band and music.
http://movie.daum.net/tv/detail/main.do?tvProgramId=53503
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alicia
March 17, 2013 at 7:25 PM
not much to go off on google, but that does look like it's the one based off that picture. Thank you so much! I didn't realize it was so old.
Very sad that it doesn't seem like i'll be able to re-watch these online, but thanks to everyone for the help! You guys are awesome! :D
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23 JiHee
March 16, 2013 at 5:47 PM
nr.9 - Incarnation of money
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24 anais
March 16, 2013 at 5:48 PM
Number 7 sounds like To Be With You (당신 옆이 좋아).
Korean only sources
• http://www.kbs.co.kr/end_program/drama/you/index.html
• http://movie.daum.net/tv/detail/main.do?tvProgramId=49622
English sources
• http://www.allkoreans.net/korean-dramas/to-be-with-you-%28korean-drama-2002%29/
• http://www.koreanwiz.org/at/drama-beside.html
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVdhW5gEAYI
• http://asianwiki.com/To_Be_With_You
• http://wiki.d-addicts.com/To_Be_With_You
I loved this one. It was one of my first. And I just realized Jae Hee was in it under his real name!
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anais
March 16, 2013 at 6:07 PM
I'm now totally convinced it is To Be With You. If you can read Korean, go to the Daum and look at the Character Info.
Kim Hye Sook plays the girls' bio-mom. Makes her wealth with real estate and loan sharking.
Yi Hyo Choon plays the adoptive mom.
Han Moon Hee (Ha Hee Ra) is the elder sister who becomes a designer. Han Jae Hee (Jung Hye Young) is the younger sister who's sponsored by the family of the guy whom she likes but who likes her older sister.
God, I totally loved this one!
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LeeLee
March 16, 2013 at 8:24 PM
I think you're right. As soon as I started reading the description, I thought it had to be that drama. The crazy thing is that it re-aired where I live in the last year and that's how I caught it.
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anais
March 16, 2013 at 10:53 PM
Ooh!! I'm so envious. It's impossible to find online anywhere!
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25 dooleelee
March 16, 2013 at 5:53 PM
I think number 7 is A Problem at My Younger Brother's House / 흥부네 박터졌네
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26 lixin64
March 16, 2013 at 6:01 PM
4. Are you talking about Call of the Country/My Country Calls?
http://wiki.d-addicts.com/Call_of_the_Country
If so, the person who played x is Horan :)
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jimnida
March 16, 2013 at 6:20 PM
It's not Call of the Country, even though I remember the show as being like it in tone. I watched CotC again last week, and just now downloaded the subs from withs2.com and searched them for likely phrases.
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KDR
March 19, 2013 at 7:54 PM
I was about to guess CotC! =/
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27 trixicopper
March 16, 2013 at 6:46 PM
#4 sounds like Get Karl, Oh Soo Jung. It's not a work place drama, but it does have the scene where she gets really drunk and goes on and on about Admiral LSS.
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jimnida
March 16, 2013 at 7:22 PM
빙고 ! That's it. Thanks a million.
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Julia
March 16, 2013 at 9:25 PM
Bingo! You win.
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lovedramas
March 16, 2013 at 9:52 PM
You guys are amazing! All I remember is that OJH was a golf player who wanted revenge on his ex-gf.
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Katie
March 17, 2013 at 7:54 AM
I am obsessed with this drama! Speed watching it now haha. marathon!!
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28 tantrumg
March 16, 2013 at 7:05 PM
My guess for no. 6 is "Wonderful Life" as well!! The kid was really cute in the show. Though the designer part remains hazy...
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29 Oki
March 16, 2013 at 7:25 PM
Only know the first, reconfirming earlier posts by others that it is a jdkrama PURE for sure. I saw the whole series because I remember liking Emi Wakui after her Tokyo Cinderella Story stint and Pure was the next series she followed up with. Wasn't as good as Tokyo Cinderella Story though and the WTF ending totally pissed me off! Make lead gets killed at the end for no apparent reason! This was also about the time where lots of jdoramas started to piss me off with the killing of male leads for no apparent reason at the eleventh hour, like literally in the last 5 minutes of the show. I don't remember the name of the dramas but I remember a scene where KimuTaku was supposed to finally go meet the girl who was waiting for him in a beautiful green forest (she was happily sleeping on a hammock ) and on the way he just dropped dead, the end. And another one where Sorimachi Takashi was walking home with a birthday cake for the girl and then he got hit on the head and he bleed out in the middle of the streets while the girl waited exvitedly at home, the end. It was like WTF!!!! I eventually started moving on to Korean rom-coms and never looked back (well ok, occasionally looked back)! LOL ^__^
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yumii
March 16, 2013 at 7:49 PM
I hope you don't mind that I find your rage hilarious! But I with you. You invest 10-11 hours of your life learning to care about characters then the fickle finger of fate/or sadism of series writers play heartless god and destroy them for no reason.
It's just funny to see someone else get upset!!
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momosan
March 16, 2013 at 8:11 PM
Sadly, I CAN name one of those jdoramas! The KimuTaku one where he drops dead in the forest is (obviously) A Sleeping Forest. Yup.
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trixicopper
March 17, 2013 at 10:10 AM
LOL! I remember watching that one years ago ! The ending was really a wtf moment. There was some warning that it was coming though,because KimuTakus character did have a headache in like the second to last episode. :)
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Dav
March 18, 2013 at 6:45 AM
Yes, I love how headache = death, pretty much no matter what. If you're fortunate enough to get hit by a car instead of getting a headache, your odds of pulling through are a bazillion times better.
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AnneAkemi
March 17, 2013 at 2:09 AM
Just thought I'd respond as I had the same reaction when I saw those dramas a long time ago. Especially the last one with Sorimachi Takashi's "Cheap Love." I was devastated at the end. For Nemureru Mori - my friend and I were kinda dense and optimistic (we thought he was just sleeping at the end - but we were young and naive... LOL).
However, I think Kdrama melos in the 90's gave me the same or maybe even more disappointed reaction - except it was always the heroine that died. But I think the worse type of drama is when everyone dies (like in Emperor of the Sea, Ja Myung Go or Gyebaek). That's investing 30-50 hours hours with no happy outcome for anyone.
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tweetie
March 17, 2013 at 10:34 AM
Ha! Yeah we were so traumatised my Jdorama in the 1990s, in the end, we never got too emotionally invested cause we were like 'he gonna die anyway' we were really surprised when the hero (and towards the 2000s) the heroines didn't die!! I was also well upset with the death in Pure, so senseless. But it was a great series.
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30 cv
March 16, 2013 at 8:08 PM
Wowser!!! You guys are good. LOL I have no idea at all. Might check them out... but reading the storyline.. kinda suky. :p Think I'll past.
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Thunderlyn
March 16, 2013 at 8:24 PM
I think I understand.....they all sound so..makjangy? But then, if I had to describe the plot of my favorite drama to someone...it would probably sound about the same, except with a "but sometimes it was really funny!" tacked on the end.
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31 Un
March 16, 2013 at 8:34 PM
#9 is Incarnation of money....it is airing
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32 liz
March 16, 2013 at 8:37 PM
Guys help me please.
It is a old drama...
I remember had a blind date between a very polite girl and a playboy guy.. I just remember it was funny how the girl was too polite with the guy and he was cringing all the time at her. But in the end he did start to go out of her...
then they show us another girl and her fiancee, he asked her to marry her but the girl is not sure...
Ah! Also had a very sexual scene at the gymn... the guy went to the gymn and a girl started to ''teach'' him how to work out and it was hilarious the sexual tension LOL
I didn't finish it so I don't remember anything more...
Do someone know what drama is this one?
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j.ungle
March 16, 2013 at 8:46 PM
I think this is Soulmate !
http://wiki.d-addicts.com/Soulmate
http://asianwiki.com/Soul_Mate
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liz
March 19, 2013 at 5:00 PM
Thanks CJung and eveyone! It was soulmate and I already finished it, really liked it thanks!
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phxajumma
March 16, 2013 at 9:06 PM
Definitely Soulmate!!! Just re-watched it last week because I was in a KDrama slump. It is one of my favorites. It is written up a lot here at Dramabeans. The soundtrack is awesome!
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danna
March 16, 2013 at 9:10 PM
Yup, soulmate!
Javabeans once did a review on this show: http://www.dramabeans.com/2007/03/mbc-comedy-drama-soulmate/
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Julia
March 16, 2013 at 9:33 PM
Soulmate really confused me.
I am use to dramas where I get to fall in love with the lead couple. But this was kind of what were the wrong relationships before you meet your soulmate.
Had trouble connecting emotionally to the characters when the story keeps hinting ... no, no, wait, the real soulmate is still to come.
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Sunshine
March 17, 2013 at 9:15 AM
lol i think soulmate was like a sitcom??? idk but i enjoyed it :D
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anais
March 16, 2013 at 10:58 PM
I loved Soulmate! It's one of my faves! So unusual for a K-drama. Really a special one.
And that song!!! Come On Through...
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joykim
March 18, 2013 at 7:50 AM
Sexual scene at gym gaveaway its Soulmate. I'd remember Soulmate where the lead guy hears her thoughts as in Mel Gibson's What Women Want. Luv Soulmate and its fantastic OST especially C'mon Through by Lasse Lindh.
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33 Alicia
March 16, 2013 at 9:01 PM
The one about the guy in the rock band and the girl singer was probably a drama from 1999-2003
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34 Akiness
March 16, 2013 at 9:15 PM
I'm pretty sure I'm way off, but number 3 makes me think of White Lies. Worth a shot.
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avonmarissa
March 17, 2013 at 8:06 AM
I thought about that too. Are you talking about the one with Shin Eun-Kyung?
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35 Botty
March 16, 2013 at 9:37 PM
no 6 definitely is "Wonderful Life" eugene does try to sell her own jewelry on the streets in the show, i think i remember that! and she is getting in trouble for it too
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36 lovedramas
March 16, 2013 at 9:39 PM
No. 6 is definitely not Only You since they meet in Italy and she's a cook. I agree with someone who said that it sounds like a mesh up of Wonderful Life and DGCH. It's not DGCH but not all the details fit Wonderful Life either cause wouldn't cancer of the kid be a big give away? Maybe there is another drama other there where all these details fit?
Going back to rack my brain.
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37 Cookie
March 16, 2013 at 10:55 PM
I'm going to take a stab in the dark here on #9 and say that it's "Incarnation of Money" and the scene she saw involved Park Jibin. (Someone before me pointed out the same thing).
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38 Kelly
March 17, 2013 at 1:31 AM
Any of you guys willing to identify a Canto drama for me?
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joykim
March 18, 2013 at 7:52 AM
Yes i'll try.
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alwayshungryvicky
March 20, 2013 at 5:25 PM
If it's a TVB ..maybe I can help.
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39 ck1Oz
March 17, 2013 at 2:22 AM
Did we get any answer for no 2 and no 5?
I am now curious.
Plus you guys remember a lot of old dramas. I was a bit shocked I recognized a couple of them. Does that mean I am officially watching too many dramas?
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40 divyrus
March 17, 2013 at 3:25 AM
Wow you people make me feel so young!!
I am just 3 year old in kdramaland and I dread the day after years when I have to bash through my brains to recognize a drama !!!!
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41 Yuna
March 17, 2013 at 3:46 AM
When I read fat woman + man + car accident + SBS I only could think of "Incarnation of Money". It's a new drama though.
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42 Dwarf
March 17, 2013 at 6:36 AM
Wow I'm super impressed with you guys. I have one here which I hope someone can help with. I'm sorry there arent alot of clues cos I only watched part of an episode in a hotel in vietnam when I was on holiday. It was prob in 2008-2009 period. The show was showing a family scene with a mother in law and maybe 2 daughters in law. I rem it was hilarious though I couldn't understand a word of what they were saying. I think it was prob on KBSW cos there was Eng sub. The scene was something quite unconventional in that the daughter in law was actually scolding the mother in law in a real funny way. That's all I could rem. If there's any kind soul who could help it would really be a strike off my bucket list cos I've been trying to find this show but with what little clues I rem, there's no hope for me to find it alone.
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shepo
March 17, 2013 at 7:01 AM
well,,seems like it's usual setting of KBSW weekend drama,,maybe you could check weekend drama list from wiki addicts, from Three Brothers backward..
(in the bottom of an article they have this Previous Drama and Next Drama feature-http://wiki.d-addicts.com/Three_Brothers)
sorry if i can't really help you..
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Elizabeth Bennet
March 18, 2013 at 7:10 AM
This one sounds like "Be Strong Geum Sun".
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43 myra
March 17, 2013 at 7:18 AM
talking about prosecutors and one-night stands, i wonder why there's nothing about park shi-hoo case here...is it a taboo matter or you just want to wait until this finishes?
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okitokki
March 17, 2013 at 10:13 AM
probably because its not related to the post at all?
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myra
March 17, 2013 at 1:32 PM
I mean here on the blog, not on this post...
because it's really big and messy and it's like a real drama and i thought there's no way the ladies here would let this go away without at least mentioning the facts...
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44 Katie
March 17, 2013 at 7:26 AM
Get Karl, Oh Soo Jung is amazing! I just started watching it and I'm addicted! Finally my drama drought is gone! YAY thanks!
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45 amber
March 17, 2013 at 9:26 AM
Danielle's drama is "That woman is scary".it's now airing in my country. Hope I did help you right.
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46 gilmei
March 17, 2013 at 9:27 AM
hi! could you help me too? I can't remember the name of a sageuk where the woman lead dress as a boy, but she doesn't hide the fact she is a woman, and she is a detective. She is in a team with a friend who sometimes seems more a father than a friend, and there is a whole political plot with false money. they chase after a guy whose name we never learn and who is fighting (well, actually, it looks more like a dance than a fight) with a katana and the girl fights with two dagger. In the end, the guy is supposed to be dead but in fact he is alive and we saw them (the girl and the guy) dancing/fighting in the dark for several minutes. it is a very beautiful scene. Hope someone can find the name!!
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rakleader
March 17, 2013 at 9:41 AM
This one sounds like Duelist, the movie with Ha Ji Won and Kang Dong Won.
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gilmei
March 17, 2013 at 10:13 AM
that's it! thanks a lot!!
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trixicopper
March 17, 2013 at 10:18 AM
@46
Sounds like Damo. It's a really good one, and it's only 14 episodes! :)
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Shapi
April 10, 2013 at 11:43 PM
It is Damo, Duelist is a movie also starring oHa Ji Won as the police woman.
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47 amber
March 17, 2013 at 9:27 AM
Danielle, your drama is called "That woman is scary".Hope I was right.
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48 tweetie
March 17, 2013 at 10:18 AM
For NC the first drama is a Japanese drama called Pure (ビュア). Its a story about a sculpture artists with learning difficulties who falls in love with a cynical and emotionally scarred reporter. I loved that show so much and the ending was so sad. A great show though!
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49 AcrobaticUrchin
March 17, 2013 at 10:40 AM
#7 sounds like Glass Slipper... I think?
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50 AcrobaticUrchin
March 17, 2013 at 10:43 AM
Wait... I'm an idiot. Ignore that. I really don't think it is.
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