Name That Drama: Good girls, bad guys, and a bait-and-switch

by HeadsNo2

 
As always, feel free to email us your questions and requests for future Name That Drama installments.
 

1. When I think of chaebol blind dates, I think of every drama ever, so good luck with this one, guys!
   

   Hi there!

   I would appreciate any help with finding this drama, since it keeps bothering me.

   There is a boy, probably some kind of a chaebol or at least someone really rich, and his mother sends him to a blind date. He goes, but the girl (who is from an influential family) sends her friend instead. I have a vague idea that the friend was not all that pretty.

   They go to a gallery and then to a restaurant. That substitute-blind-date girl causes some kind of embarrassing scene, and he kind of saves her. I believe the friend-girl falls for him because of this.

   Later on, the boy finds out that he has been tricked. The real-blind-date girl meets him later (when she finds out who he is) and tells him she can get as many blind dates with him as she wants (because of her family).

   I really hope I am not confusing two different dramas together right now. Sorry!

    

2. Why is it always the hot ones?
   

   There’s this drama that has been bothering me for a few years because I can’t figure out what it is. There’s basically next to nothing I know or remember about it, because I only saw part of one episode when I snuck out of bed to see what drama my grandpa was watching past my bedtime.

   All I remember about it was that there was this one guy, a movie star or singer or something (I think he was a singer), who acted like an angel in front of reporters and his fans, but was a total jerk to his servants/butler. I remember he suddenly craved ddukbokki at a super posh restaurant, and by the time his butler ran out of the restaurant to find a bunshik food stall to get it for him, he didn’t want it anymore and threw his glass of water at the butler. Yeah, he was a real charmer (the singer/star, I mean). And he was hot, too.

   Anyway, I know that I watched it in 2013 (it could have been a rerun, though), and I’m assuming it was on one of the big networks, because my grandpa was watching it. And I could almost swear the butler was from one of the Answer Me series. I can also vaguely remember some woman, who looked somewhat older than Jerkface, running around everywhere. Maybe she was the (typical, hardworking) female lead?

    

3. Maybe this one might be the most difficult yet? We’ll find out
   

   So I saw this video on YouTube with a scene from a drama where a guy has the girl in shackles in a dark and empty warehouse. The guy eventually shoots her. I also believe that she was wearing a light pink dress.

   Please help me!

    

4. Wait, so is he a good or bad guy? A good/bad guy?
   

   I was hoping for help with figuring out what the first drama I ever watched was. I was in China doing a foreign exchange year. I never got the name because I watched it with my Chinese mom and aunt, and it was subbed in Chinese. Neither of them spoke English, and my Chinese is pretty terrible, so the explained plot points I remember were: he is a good guy, she is a good girl, he is a bad guy, she loves him, and he loves her.

   Things I’m sure about: It was a sageuk, and it was long. I saw it on DVD in 2007-2008, but it didn’t look super old. The good guy was in constable clothing at one point (wide brim hat with big black beads and red/blue hatband). The good girl was a maid(?), she wore white and green and had her braid vertical on her head with a red or green ribbon. The good girl could read and had to hide it. She might have stolen a book or maybe she was just hiding it. There were herbs. There might have been royalty involved, but I don’t remember any in the episodes I saw. Help? I’d love to rewatch it with English subtitles and actually understand what was going on.

    

5. Concubines are the worst
   

   I need some help remembering the name of a drama. It’s either a Chinese or Korean historical drama that was released sometime in the last six years.

   I only remember one scene. The main protagonist is a servant/maid in the palace. One day, a concubine (or the queen?) requests that our protagonist deliver a message to someone. The concubine has actually already asked several servants to deliver the message without reading the message. However, they all read it anyway and learn that it says something along the lines of: “Kill the person who delivers this message.” The purpose of this is to find a servant who can be loyal to the concubine.

   I think the protagonist reads the message but realizes this is all a test and still delivers it, thus winning the concubine’s favor.

   That’s all I remember. Thanks!

    

Thanks for playing, everyone — till next time!

 
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