I love you @missvictrix but I’m disappointed you didn’t mention the “Encounter” PPLs with park bo gum when you brought up drinks. That one was one of the least subtle PPL I have ever seen. It’s almost like they get A+ for being so bad. So bad it’s good. Yes i did rewind.

The phone-on-phone charging was also in Master of the House, on the JYP episode. It might be a cool feature, but I'm not sharing my charge with anyone!

Although it isn't new, I remember a lot of those strange jelly supplements. I don't think they were the typical ginseng. I seem to remember it in an office scene of Her Private life. It is such obvious product placement that it is amusing.

With the almond milk I only roll my eyes if they take a drink and that is breakfast.
In One Spring Night it is actually refreshing to see her really slather it on her face. Usually the actress puts a drop on her palms and pats it on the very sides of her face...and done. Also, often wearing a full face of makeup.

I always want the coffee.

Am I the only one who gets confused with the water ppl thingy? Like they say the product is water but it is not. Is that a culture thing?

Also those ginseng in packs that are often seen in weekend dramas deserves an honorable mention but I honestly don't know what it does to your body.

Obviously all Samsung phones should come with Lee Ahn so everyone has someone to share their phone charge with 💚

As a photographer I have to give a shout out to the Canon ppl in Her Private Life. Legit my thought when I saw her use a 5D in the first episode was "I'm surprised she isn't using Canons new mirrorless cameras." & then bam, a couple of episodes later she got one Lmao. Smooth setup.

Also I have to give a shout out to the king; Subways. When it randomly popped up in like episode 6 or 7 in One Spring Night I laughed out loud, because I really thought I finally escaped it.

oh come on @missvictrix, an assassin can be lactose intolerant too you know~ lol
Another one that keeps on appearing is that red ginseng tube. Like, I feel every kdrama household has that in their fridge
I usually don't mind much, laugh at it and make a sarcastic comment during it oh-so-not-subtle close up scene

I embarrassed myself when I was in Korea a few months back. We were at gs25 when I saw maxim and to my horror, I actually squee, pointed at rows of maxim coffee and telling my friends, look, it is maxim guys!! the part-timer was having a hard time keeping his face straight~ their top master latte is not bad though

The amount of time I saw handheld vacuum being used in kdrama made me convinced that's how people clean in Seoul. It's only after sometime I know about PPL (I can be so slow sometime :))

SKY Castle’s coffee maker PPL looks like a must have coffee maker in the kitchen and I don’t drink coffee 🙃

The skin care PPL reminded me of this web drama I watched. He was flirting with her, pinching her cheeks then she suddenly popped up a face mask bag blatantly promoting how awesome it was! In the middle of flirting alright! 😂😂 PPL at its finest. I’ll try to see if I can find that web drama...

Maybe it was just me but I felt like the PPL in Abyss was super duper obvious. It’s much subtler in other dramas. Maybe it’s because them zoom in on the products too much???

The only Kdramas that I've finished/am currently watching are "Pretty Noona..." and "One Spring Night"
The PPL for both dramas are hardly even there-- or maybe I'm just blind??? LOL-- the only ones I remember from "Pretty Noona..." was the soju & beer everyone drank (and there was A LOT... Everyone, except for Joon Hee, drank like a sailor in this drama), the Italian restaurant that the OTP always ate at, the 1 time they chose to eat at Subway, and the coffee franchise place that they use as the background as Jin Ah's job place.
As for "One Spring Night", the only explicit PPL that I remember is the one time they decided to have Quiznos for lunch (or was it dinner???) LOL Again, call me blind or call me numb from all the PPL that I don't even notice it anymore XD

Currently watching One Spring Night. I could see me and my friends have a meal at bbq Olive Chicken diner then hangout at Ediya for a cup of brew. It looks like a cozy place. This show is too realistic even the PPLs don’t look out of place to me. LOL

I've seen these chips that looks like dinosaur nails claws and I would really really really like one of those. It was in HPL.

And their instant coffee. I want.

I remember that there was a few PPL with weird looking coffee maker for pods, it looked like to glass globes, latest sighting in "My Fellow Citizen".

Doesn't matter how poor you are in dramaland...you will have the latest samsung phone and take amazing shots with it lol!

LMAO, I did not know that was "Almond milk", I thought it was orange juice. It makes it even funnier knowing they were all refreshing themselves with what is essentially nut water(gag).

Urgh was there anything else going on in her private life other than PPL? I already struggle with PMY as an actress as I find her too fake, too dolled up and just overall too much (have seen her in many dramas) but this PPL business just seals it for me. Not going to watch the drama ( already tried skimming through a few eps but nah I need to give up)

Me and my brother get annoyed with the Maxim ones. Whenever someone has a cup of Maxim instant coffee the cup is barely half full and sometimes only 1/4 full. Maybe it's my American idea of huge cups of coffee but why can't an instant packet fill up a full cup!?

PPL makes me laugh though. They are usually so obvious and so badly done. I'm surprised the actors don't turn to the camera and say 'Drink Ades Almond Milk' because most of the time they are to that cringe level.

I'm just glad Subway hasn't shown its ugly face lately (atleast in the dramas I've been watching). The level of cringe with the Subway PPL and the sheer AMOUNT actually caused me to stop going to Subway. Which I'm pretty sure was the opposite of what they were going for.

Or a Ryan Gold edition to expand your choices.

Lottes´ barley iced tea would be an even more korean choice for a serial killer. it would even feel slightly nazi.

Maxim Gold is also used in Shopping King Louie

Olive Chicken in Korea is very good. When we went on vacation there there's an Ahjumma restaurant that really had this delicious Olive chicken that we always went to near the guesthouse that we stayed in. it was really good and you can't find it in any country only in Korea.

I think the best PPL is always the Dyson hoover...there is always something to hoover in dramaland.

And the weirdest one (IMHO) was in DOTS: our doctor Song explaining the steps to use some new samsung atm banking feature... 3 minutes of my life spent wondering why they added this to a drama.

PPL in drama works...at least for me. When I went to Korea the first drink I bought was one of the popular drama drinks. Thought it was water...in reality it was sugar with some drops of water in it. ahahahah

Honestly if I don't see the Subway, Dyson vacuum, or instant coffee and ginseng packets, I start to wonder if the drama is properly funded!

Lol anyone not gonna mention to the good ol days of The Time I Loved You and Dramabeans' love for making fun of its excessive PPLs? XD