Name That Drama: Makjang edition
by DB Staff
Ready for another round of drama-sleuthing? Help out your fellow Beanies or use this form to send in your own questions and requests for future Name That Drama installments.
- The wrong sister
Please help! I watched a movie in 2018. I don’t really know when it was made but I forgot the name and I wanna finish that movie. It was about a small girl whose mother died. She had to go live with her dad and stepmom. They had debts and the stepmom gave the stepdaughter up to the people they owe money to but she gets saved and later adopted by a rich woman who didn’t have a child of her own. The rich woman later had an accident and had to go overseas for treatment. The little girl went back to her family. About 20 years later, the rich woman returned and doctors recommended she see her adopted daughter. The stepmother, instead of sending the real girl, sent her own daughter to pretend as if she was the adopted one.
- The other stepsister
I’m desperately searching for help to find an old drama. It’s about two step sisters. The younger one lives with a mother who is a famous actress, but the mother doesn’t seem to really love her daugther. The older sister lives with a rich father. The father remarried the actress. The younger sister is often jealous of her stepsister who managed to get close to her actress mother. Also, the older sister has a rich childhood friend. There was a scene I remember where they both ride a bike in the forest, fell, and rolled and rolled. Please, could you help me find this drama? It’s not Cinderella’s Sister. That, I’m sure of.
- The surprise sibling
I remember watching this drama series back in 2008-2009. I’m pretty sure it’s Korean, but if I’m mistaken it could be Chinese or Taiwanese drama as well. A husband and a father to one kid was with a single mother. One day, when his wife was snooping around his office, she found a box of necklace and she thought he was going to give it to her as a gift. The next day, when the woman he was cheating with (the single mother), came to deliver coffee to his house, the wife was the one who opened the door. The wife saw the necklace and got confused. Another scene I remember was that they all ended up in the same hospital. I don’t know how, but this man’s biological kid heard his dad in the hallway and saw him with the single mother’s kid who was calling him “dad.”
- The reluctant sibling
It is a pretty old family drama, all I remember is that there was an adopted son who had run away from home (during the beginning episodes). And when he came home he was always taunted by his grandma and uncle for “not being their blood.” His mother and brother loved him though… and he had a different last name from his family which upset him a lot. In one of the episodes where he ran away, his brother went to get him and it was like an outdoor scene where he cried and told his brother that “When we were little and people would talk about us not being biological brothers you would let go of my hand.” Something like that. Please help me remember the name of this drama. Oh and yes, his adoptive mom loved him a lot too. Please help! Thank you.
- The twin sisters
They are twin girls and they got split apart. One is rich and the other girl is poor and the poor youngest sister got pregnant by Park Seo-joon in the drama and then the poor twin had to act like the rich twin.
Thanks for playing, everyone — till next time!
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1 Nana
April 30, 2020 at 8:06 PM
1. Thorn birds?
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2 liar song #PuppyNotPuppyLeeJaeWookIsBack
April 30, 2020 at 8:31 PM
No. 5 is I Summon You, Gold!
This Name That Drama is testing my makjang drama knowledge
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mary
April 30, 2020 at 9:08 PM
LOL I feel ashamed as a fellow makjang fan that I can't even guess one of them.
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liar song #PuppyNotPuppyLeeJaeWookIsBack
April 30, 2020 at 9:32 PM
This post is really testing the Beanie makjang fans HAHAHA
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mary
April 30, 2020 at 11:33 PM
Makjang plots are so similar but they're also so wild and it gets me every time.
Me, watching makjang: pffft I already know there's a birth secret
Also me: OMG SHE'S HER ENEMY'S REAL DAUGHTER???
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liar song #PuppyNotPuppyLeeJaeWookIsBack
May 1, 2020 at 1:34 AM
Makjang dramas are a guilty pleasure. On one hand, you'll get tired of birth secrets that you already know since episode hand, on the other hand, you still want to know who is the biological parents of that character, only to realize in the end that the poor candy lead's stepsister is actually her half-sister who was the adopted daughter of her stepmother and that the sister is the long-lost daughter of the best friend of the rival of her biological mother who was the first love of the chaebol male lead's father.
mary
May 1, 2020 at 6:29 AM
LMAO that description
AsianDramaniac
May 1, 2020 at 7:52 AM
PSJ is a good clue, otherwise I couldn't have guessed it.
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liar song #PuppyNotPuppyLeeJaeWookIsBack
May 1, 2020 at 5:16 PM
It is a really good clue, but I am a sucker for makjangs involving twins, so I recognized this one easily HAHA
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3 mary
April 30, 2020 at 9:09 PM
These are totally wrong but #1 sounds like Rooftop Prince, while #2 sounds like You're The Best Lee Soon-shin. (My only good guess, Cinderella's Sister, was already excluded by the asker T___T)
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JiaYou
April 30, 2020 at 9:16 PM
Same guess with you on #1.
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liar song #PuppyNotPuppyLeeJaeWookIsBack
April 30, 2020 at 9:35 PM
After some searching and A LOT of recalling, I think you are right about No. 1 and No. 2!
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Ayan
May 1, 2020 at 1:18 AM
I think Number 2 must be You're the best lee soon shin.
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Eazal
May 1, 2020 at 3:06 PM
I also thought number 1 was Rooftop Prince, but I dismissed as it's supposed to be a movie, not a drama...
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mary
May 1, 2020 at 8:18 PM
That's why I also think RP is wrong even if it's my closest guess! And IIRC the stepmom in Rooftop Prince wasn't that bad. She just cares for her bio-daughter more and gets pushed into being mean to her stepdaughter because bio-daughter throws mega-tantrums.
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MikeyD signed up
May 6, 2020 at 3:20 PM
I was thinking You're The Best Lee Soon-shin too, but the puzzle pieces didn't all seem to fit. Or maybe they do and I'm forgetting major plot points. That series co-starred future besties IU and Yoo In-na.
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4 Kim
April 30, 2020 at 9:56 PM
#1 sounds like ‘Her Legend.’ I’m not to sure but just in case, another point is that she’s a bag designer.
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5 marina
April 30, 2020 at 10:22 PM
I guess the last one is Pots of Gold.
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6 Senajang
April 30, 2020 at 11:37 PM
No. 4 is As much as heaven and earth or Land and Sky. The adopted brother was Park Haejin paired with Han Hyojoo...killer chemistry these two had.
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AsianDramaniac
May 1, 2020 at 6:46 PM
I did watch it but I skipped all the family stuff...too longwinded... I only watched the lovelines
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7 Ayan
May 1, 2020 at 1:18 AM
Ah so happy to see Name this drama is back!
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8 kdrama super fan
May 1, 2020 at 5:35 AM
No. 2 is definitely Stairway to Heaven with Choi Ji Woo and Kwon Sang Woo as leads. One of the best k-drama classics and I really love it a lot. Will always rewatch from time to time!
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9 alasecond
May 1, 2020 at 5:54 AM
2. is stairway to heaven
park shin hye is the older sister whose dad married an actress.. and that bike scene
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10 mary
May 1, 2020 at 6:29 AM
Jumeok would've aced this quiz.
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11 That drama addict
May 1, 2020 at 6:53 AM
No. 1 Definetly, Her Legend
No. 2 Stairway to Heaven
No. 3 Not sure
No. 4 Not enough details, but it sounds so familiar, will research on it
No 5 I summon you gold
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mishagam
May 2, 2020 at 1:13 AM
I agree No 1 is Her Legend with Choi Jung-Won and Kim Jeong-Hoon
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12 Shay
May 1, 2020 at 2:44 PM
I think “the other step sister” is called stairway to heaven it’s an oldie but a goodie one of my favorite drama of all time
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13 pcch2345
May 3, 2020 at 12:28 PM
lol, i still can't answer any of these, just makes me realize that i still have a long way to go in drama watching:-)
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14 Bebot
May 5, 2020 at 4:08 PM
#Number 5 is I summon you gold/Pots of gold starring Han Ji Hye, Yeon Jung Hoon (reunited after east of eden) , Baek Jin Hee and Park Seo Joon.
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15 CS
May 6, 2020 at 7:48 AM
Is #3 one of the side plots from 12 years promise? It just seems so familiar to me...
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16 Rumi~
May 10, 2020 at 7:18 AM
No 3 sounds like a drama I've seen, but that may be because it's a common trope 🤔
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17 Flightey Gazelles
May 11, 2020 at 7:58 PM
All the entries are so Makjang LMAO! Love it.
No 1 definitely sounds like Her Legend. I think that was my first and only Korea Makjang so far. Ah, good times. I need to watch another one. You find yourself rolling your eyes and yet, you can't stop.
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18 Khinny
August 3, 2020 at 11:39 PM
No. #3 is "Loving You a Thousand Times" - a couple of mismatched details though. The girl with whom the man is cheating on is not the single mother - just his mistress. Regarding the single mother, It's about the surrogate pregnancy where the girl became a surrogate to that man's child and had to give him up to the family and she ended up marrying his younger brother.
But the scene about necklace and cake delivery did happen in that drama.
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