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K-Drama Bingo Score

Using the Modern K-Drama set

Running commentary

• (Dis)possession

  (2 pt)

  Notes

  Ghosts, spirits inhabiting bodies, or body- or identity-swapping
  

  S01E01

  I'm giving this conditional acceptance. There is no full-on body swapping, but there is deep emotion mirroring, and…well, that's close enough.
• Childhood friends forgotten

  (2 pt)

  Notes

  Characters knew, or at least encountered, each other in childhood, but somehow forgot

  S01E08

  Four — count 'em — four childhood friends who managed to barely retain remembrance of one another.
• Vehicular tragedy

  (2 pt)

  Notes

  Someone is/was hit by a car, truck, bus, or motorcycle

  S01E04

  A local taxi driver previously hit Lee Young-Hun and almost killed him. This is used currently to blackmail him into hitting yet another person with his taxi.
• Bullying

  (1 pt)

  Notes

  Be Best, Korea

  S01E01

  Bullies and the little girls who save you from them
• Cramped quarters

  (1 pt)

  Notes

  Sleeping in a repurposed closet, or on a balcony, or in insane tiny student housing
  

  S01E01

  Da-Hyun, jobless in Ep1, cannot afford to even live in her 10m2 apartment, and must move back home
• Korean Standoff

  (1 pt)

  Notes

  Two principal characters have a serious, sometimes emotionally confrontational, conversation while standing at least 1m apart
  

  S01E01 S01E04

  The first encounter between Gye-Hoon and Da-Hyun is a standoff in a crowd, with her dressed in a Mrs. Claus costume. Another, much longer-distance standoff happens in the street between two of the secondary characters.
• Memorial service

  (1 pt)

  Notes

  Funerals and memorial services

  S01E16

  Visiting Gye-Young's memorial cubby
• Middle-of-the-Road Soliliquy

  (1 pt)

  Notes

  Verbal musings on deep existential questions and/or tragicomic situations while in the middle of the street

  S01E08

  Evil stalker mutters insanely to himself
• Pinky swear

  (2 pt)

  Notes

  Two characters doing a pinky swear

  Touching thumbs at the end is not a thing in America (based on my terrible polling), so that gets an easy bonus point for any wannabe K-drama.

  Bonus point for: Touching thumbs at the end

  S01E16

  Da-Hyun and Gye-Young swear to each other while in captivity
• The Playground

  (1 pt)

  Notes

  Any scene taking place in a neighborhood playground

  S01E08

  Quiet contemplation on the playground. In a later episode, a gathering of all the forgotton childhood friends
• Wrist grab

  (1 pt)

  Notes

  Dramatically grabbing someone by the wrist as they walk away

  S01E08

  Gye-Hoon grabs Dae-Hyun at the door

Unmatched Bingo Spaces

• Cartoony FX

  Animal or cartoon visual and sound effects to reinforce behavior or mood

• Chicken & Beer

  치맥, anyone?

• Crushing Debt

  Characters are motivated by their debt (or a family member's), including the threat of foreclosure
  

• Finger hearts

  Any use of finger hearts by a character

• Piggyback

  Someone gives someone else a piggyback ride

• Rumble tummy

  Audible stomach rumbling to indicate hunger

• Shamans & Talismans

  Yellow paper talismans, written in calligraphic red ink; visits to a shaman for fortune-telling or body transfers
  

• Son Hyeung Min

  Mentions of Son Hyeung Min, or staying up to watch Tottenham Hotspur play

• Thumbs up

  Two thumbs up for "Good job!"

• 강한나 (Kang Han-Na)

  The presence of Kang Han-Na makes everything at least 1 point better
  

• 내 친구 ("My friend…")

  A character tells a story about "My friend" that is actually about themselves

• 한국어학교 (Language lessons)

  Specifically linguistic wordplay, discussions about spelling, pronunciation, or Chinese root words