Name That Drama: A daughter-in-law contest and a witch doctor

82 June 9, 2015June 8, 2015

Name That Drama: A daughter-in-law contest and a witch doctor

by javabeans

It’s Name That Drama again! As always, feel free to email us your questions and requests for future Name That Drama installments.

Competing for daughter-in-law rights:

I saw this drama in 2010s. I just remember one scene but cannot remember the drama’s name. The main actor’s father puts on a competition for his future daughter-in-law. The heroine also participates and the competition had rounds like a physical test, cooking, etc. The father supports one girl and the hero and the secretory supports our heroine. Please help me in finding out the drama. Thank you.

Threesome and a gloomy day:

So I once watched a drama (or movie, because the scene I remember was bleak ‘n gloomy) and I wanted to watch it again but I forgot the title.

There were three people — two men, one woman in their 20s, I think. The woman and one of the men were lovers. One day that man disappeared. The woman thought he was dead. The other man was actually evil and jealous of his friend.

The other detail I remember are: a book, library, old picture of the three of them, old abandoned railway station. I watched it not long ago but I don’t know whether it is an old or new drama. I tend to watch 2-3 new dramas and some old dramas or movies as filler in a week. Thanks in advance.
A whistling mute:

Hi! I have the vaguest plot description sorry >.< I watched a commercial for this a few years back, definitely Asian but not sure if Korean/Chinese. I think it was a movie instead of a drama series. A guy was on the pavement and he blew a whistle to catch the female's attention with the implication that he's a mute ... Yeah that's all I have. 😡 Thanks in advance all you awesome beanies! (:
Step-family crazies:

I only watched the latter half of the drama so I don’t know the whole details but the main girl’s dad remarried(?) and the stepmum has a daughter (around the same age as the main girl I think). The two step-siblings like the same guy but of course the guy likes the main girl. The stepmum/daughter enlisted the help of some witch doctor to put some spell(?) on the main guy so he will like for the stepsister. After that the main girl got engaged to her ex-boyfriend who is a jerk. The stepmum also got the witch doctor to curse the dad to be disabled (can’t speak or walk). The witch doctor and the stepmum also have an affair (although unknown to the mum he also has his eye on the stepdaughter).

I think at the end someone got shot, but I don’t remember who. I remember the ex-boyfriend turning into a good guy though, but got shot by someone. Hope someone can help!
Cancer mom and a bully:

Hi, I watched this special drama on KBS World recently but the title onscreen was so tiny I can’t read it, and I regret that I stopped watching after a part. Could you help me find it?

The scene that I watched has a middle school girl coming home to her mother preparing to go out. The mother is wearing a beanie, so she probably has cancer or something. The mother asks her to come to the public bath because the therapy jeopardizes their quality time, but the girl refuses with all kinds of excuses. The girl finally snaps angrily and the mother leaves without her. Turns out she refused because of her bleeding foot. The girl’s shoes are too small already so when another girl bullied her at school by stomping on her foot, she cried in pain and her thumb starts to bleed. That’s it. Hope you could help me.
Raining and stranded:

When I was in the Philippines, I remembered seeing a few scenes from a Korean drama and now I really want to see it again. But, for the life of me, I cannot figure what it is. I don’t watch a lot of Korean dramas, so I am just clueless on where to begin. I only remember two scenes. The first, where the main girl’s car dies in the middle of the road and it’s raining really hard. The main guy (?) goes out looking for her and finds her car, but she’s not around. Then he sees her in the car with another guy and he gets mad at her and walks off with his bike limping. In the second scene, the main guy is building some kind of birdhouse or something.

Sorry! I know it’s a long shot, but those are the only scenes I remember. I can’t remember anything else! Please help! Thank you so much!