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[K-drama Treasure Hunt] Love at the supermarket

Welcome to the K-drama treasure hunt, where we all go looking for K-drama treasure in the form of tiny drama details that we know and love. Sometimes these details take the shape of well-worn tropes (oppa Band-Aiding) or storytelling devices (Top Secret Deadly Allergy), but other times it’s just details we know we’ve seen in other dramas, but need help putting all the clues together.

Each week we’ll put you on the hunt for a piece of K-drama treasure, and you can report your findings in the comments.

There’s no umpire in this game, so if you find the detail we’re looking for, drop the drama title (or even better, drama title + episode number) in the comments, and we’ll all take your word for it. Or, we’ll go binge watch just to see it play out.

And remember, we’re here to map our way to the treasures not to the plot twists! We know how exciting it can be to have all the hard-earned details stashed in your head, but let’s try to keep the spoilers out of the comments.


This week’s treasure:

Love at the supermarket

 
Your mission:

Find as many scenes as you can where hearts are flying (or aching) in the isles of a grocery store. Maybe the pair is already coupled-up and shopping for snacks, or maybe they just happen to run into each other at the local mart before they know their true feelings. Whether they’re pushing separate carts or ready to share, all supermarket sweethearts are welcome in this round.

 
Reference drama:

Because This Life Is Our First (Episode 10)


 
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Eunjoo’s room shopping for glamping he thinks it’s just the two of them and can’t understand why she is picking up so much food. He plans to use the opportunity to confess.

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The grocery store scene in Soundtrack #1 is cotton candy cute.

Mystic Pop-Up Bar had one of the leads working in a grocery store and I believe there were some funny "love" scenes with his co-worker the angry security guard?!

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I have had the scene from You’re Beautiful in the supermarket with all the bandmates living in my head rent-free for 15 years now and I can’t explain why but it’s like it was a core memory for my middle school self.

I don’t think it was particularly romantic, though…

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They are trying to remember the choreography they did for an ad 😂

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You’re right, I’m watching it right now and dear god I can’t believe I was so obsessed with this show while watching it.

…actually, I can. I was the exact target audience.

You know, the way Hongki has no shame or reservations with acting as the unbearably annoying Jeremy while Yonghwa seems embarrassed to even be standing next to him is… gold.

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I loved this show!

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I loved it back then. Not sure I would last very long now lmao.

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Asfshdkdkd me toooooo!
Buy I think I'd drop it now kkkk too embarrassing to watch 😅😂

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@ziziboice I don't think I would. Maybe I would FF some parts but it was a fun show and the OST was great.

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Idk this show has a special place in my heart I love it too much so I can't be a good judge 😅
OSTs were GREAT!
*whispers* still one of my fave parts in FNC family concerts are live performances of "You're beautiful" OSTs!

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I also thought of a few supermarket scenes that weren’t romantic! Three brave siblings had two mothers whose adult children were in love but neither parent wanted the relationship to proceed due to history that led to them hating each other. They had trolly wars in the supermarket.

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I think there was a scene of the leads buying a pair of matching coffee mugs at the supermarket in What's Wrong With Secretary Kim 🤔?

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So many!!
For some reason I really enjoy this kind of scenes.
Some of them:

_ My unfamiliar family.
_ The Best Hit.
_ Yumi's cells.
_ My Holo Love.

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There was just a scene like this in LYOL with Tae-ho's cart filled with toilet paper or paper towels as he helped Hyo-shim (ostensibly) start actually living her own life in her own apartment. Not that this has been working out for her independence...

And on the bromance front there's a great scene in Run On where Im Si-wan and Kang Tae-oh both lay hands on the same milk carton...and sparks fly.

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I was going to say that scene in Run-On. Just checking first if anyone else had it. And you did.
And Tae-oh makes the E.T. that means a bit more, (it is repeated between Chief Kim and chaebol boy, and Min-min's secretary uses the gesture when he talks about rumours about Min-min's sexuality) and wide-eyed Siwan takes it up (in Run-on) and uses it kindly, but wrong, once or twice, which is a quiet little joke in that show.

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I actually made a picture sequence long time ago, and in the comments of that post, there's a further link for the contact lenses scene later:
https://www.dramabeans.com/members/CecilieDK/activity/1431696/

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Love all Play : When she realized he had only pair of baskets at home and no useful things like a cup, they went shopping. Be bought things for her :P It was a cute scene (so many anst in this drama, cuteness was welcomed!)

Judge vs Judge : She needs bulbs because her aunt asked her to buy them on her way but she had no idea what type, she took different ones and he doesn't understand this way to do things. But at the end, he's the one who changed the bulbs and they were very pleased to see he didn't need a chair to do it :p

She Would Never Know : the ML had to look after his niece and presented her to his new girlfriend and they shopped together like a family. It was a cute scene.

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I know you don’t care about the levels but well done on getting your tracksuit that is a level few reach so I wanted to acknowledge it anyway.🥳

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Oh thank you! I don't go so often on my fan wall, so I don't really follow my status :p

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🎉 Congratulations!! 🥂👏♥️

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Thank you 🥰

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The one that sticks out in my mind is in the Cdrama My Sunshine. When the FL returns to China, she runs into her ex at the grocery store. Lots of awkwardness and years of pent up emotions.

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For some reason, c-dramas, esp. modern rom-coms, almost always have supermarket scenes. If I were to think of recent rom-coms I've watched - Hi Venus, Love Me, Love My Voice, Here We Meet Again, When I Fly Towards You, etc., all had these scenes.

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C-drama choices— and 1 Thai BL— is all I can think of and not Kdramas lol

- the “My Sunshine” scene you mentioned above

- the supermarket scene from “The Oath of Love” wherein the FL is helping the ML shop for things for his new home (at this point, he’s already smitten with her—but she’s clueless— and this trip to the supermarket just makes him fall harder, deeper)

- the many supermarket (wet market) scenes from a newer C-drama, “Love Endures”, but this one is more about familial love rather than romantic love

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Goong—when Shin takes Chae Kyung to see the sunrise and they go shopping together and cook something for themselves at the Summer Palace. This little interlude away from everyone is one of the best parts of the drama.

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A BUSINESS PROPOSAL, when the second couple basically have their meet-cute at the convenience store. She doesn’t yet take notice of him while she deals with a kid who ran into her holding a pen and painting her white skirt. (How she made a flower out of that scribble was cute. The kid’s reaction was even better 😂)
The 2ML sees that whole story unravel, and they actually meet after she already left the store, but rushes back to pick up the car key she forgot on the counter. He noticed it and runs after her. The way they then first lay eyes on each other, and a sea of wildflowers spring from the background is super hilarious. Wouldn’t have happened without the super market, even if they practically didn’t meet inside the store. 🤔😂

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You Are My Spring Episode 15.
The treasure I have in mind had already found love.
So when they found themselves in the market courtesy of the female lead's mom, it was to flaunt their love. Point of correction, it was for her mom to flaunt her daughter's man.

And there's Yoon-hak and Yeon-seon in Knight Flower. I can't recall the episode number but there waa this time he came across her at the market. She wanted an accessory for herself and he offered to pay for it for her. Each of their coincidental meets were meet-cutes.

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For some reason, all I can think of is when a shopper caught Hyun Bin and Son Ye Jin shopping together in a California grocery store IRL, way before they admitted dating 😆

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That photo that circulated was definite proof that they are more than friends. 😆

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I need to stop reading the Treasure Hunt posts, as they only confirm my suspicion that my short-term memory is rapidly disappearing—just like the plot in any number of Kdramas whose names I can't recall.

I have vague images of any number of supermarket shopping scenes (some of which I saw very recently), but am drawing a blank on the specific shows, actors, situations, characters, etc. I fear I need to add extra columns on my spreadsheet to keep track of tropes. There are so many that the column headers will have to go into double letters!

I think @reply1988 already tracks tropes, as well as themes and genres. Am I correct, or is my memory betraying me once again?

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Trying to remember which thread this was related to as there are beanies that have extensive spreadsheets with tropes included. Recently I referred to a beanie who tracks tropes in rom coms via a bingo card. As I have been involved in threads about these resources either of them may be in the back of your mind.

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Bingo cards galore can be found if one goes some pages back on my fan wall. With footnotes.
@darwi has something more comprehensive and systematic.

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If you want to see the filled-out bingo cards and their footnotes, go to:

https://www.dramabeans.com/members/CecilieDK/?page=fan_wall+5&acpage=10

The number after +5&acpage= should be 10, 11, or 12. That's where the bingo cards are.

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Oh, and the number of pages one needs to go back will go up, of course, with time. As for now it's 10, 11 and 12.
Really, it's just the three oldest pages.

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On my wall, i.e.

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The entire show was about a market, so not much hunting involved to find scenes … but CEO-dol Mart had a pair of romances that played out in the grocery store, one more overtly than the other.

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Our Beloved Summer - Yeon Soo and Ung ran into each other at the supermarket

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I think it is quite common in zombie-and-the-like apocalypse films and shows that people meet in the supermarket or in a smaller convenience store and maybe fight each other a bit before turning towards the zombies or whatever.
I have not seen a lot of Korean apocalypse dramas, but it's such a trope I am sure some of y'all have seen something like that.

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Happiness is one of them. There is a scene in the supermarket, but it's a creepy hide and seek not a funny or romantic moment 😅

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Call it Love- they meet at the Supermarket right at the beginning, before the ML knows who the FL is, and the FL makes pointed comments to the ML. From memory, meeting him and him being oblivious is one of the reasons she forms her revenge plan.
Marry my Husband the villanous couple had desire at the supermarket. Not romantic love though.

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Soundtrack#1 : One of my favourite grocery store clip where Seon Woo buys Eun Su chocolates because she likes them (and he doesn't). And the way buys doubles of everything (and he keeps them back).
Happiness : The grocery store makes a very important appearance in a very well done scene.
High Society Both couples fall in love in a grocery store owned by one of them, and rest of them his employees.
Extraordinary Attorney Woo Young Woo and Jun Ho go to a convenience store for a case.

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There is a love triangle scene in soundtrack#2
A hilarious shopping scene in It is okay to not be okay where the ML turns blushing after FL asks him to support her (If you know what I mean)

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This doesn't really qualify, but my favorite supermarket-adjacent scene is the one in My Ajusshi with the stolen grocery cart.

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I don't know why my mind should jump to a scary but romantic relationship instead of a really sweet one, but I remember 1 of "Signal" murderers played by Lee Sang yeob fell in love with his last victim in a supermarket. It's Still vivid in my memory 🥲

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