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Would You Rather #38

In dramaland, leading ladies often find themselves torn between the love of two equally attractive men — a choice none of us would want to make! But what if you did have to pick between the frustrating lawyer and the adorkable police officer? In this weekly feature, we ask you to make the difficult decisions — and we aren’t limiting our options to dreamy oppas.

Vote via the poll and feel free to use the comments to explain exactly how you were able to choose! So, Beanies:
 


 
WOULD YOU RATHER #37 RESULTS

I’m fully aware of how ridiculous the previous Would You Rather prompt was, but c’mon — when dramaland drops a show about a woman getting turned into a chicken nugget, I can’t ignore it! It’s perfect fodder for our silly little debates, and because I can’t make the choice too easy for you, parachuting into North Korea seemed nearly as unrealistic and undesirable. Yes, @mmmmm, you caught me. I’m having a ton of fun reading your comments, so I’m thankful for everyone who took the time to chime in on why they chose one of these “two crazy options.” And for those of you who picked the totally-not-an-option option of “not rathering” — you know who you are — well, @babylilo already called you out.

So, back to the debate at hand: chicken nugget versus North Korea. Nearly 69% of Beanies would rather take their chances in North Korea than become a tasty chicken nugget. For the most part, the decision came down to the probability of survival in North Korea. For Beanies like @kurama, a Swiss national, the odds were favorable that they’d return to their home country safely, but for others, like @kodra and @minniegupta1, their survival depended upon whether or not there’d be a Captain Ri waiting for them on the other side of the DMZ. In which case, the chances of survival — and romance — seemed higher.

Without Captain Ri to come to the rescue, though, several of you would rather opt for the quick (and presumably) painless death by consumption. You know, assuming you aren’t a “sentient chicken nugget” (@marysadanaga). If you are sentient, though, the debate starts all over again — or as is the case with the Dramabeans comments section — branches off into an amusing thread between @mary, @mayhemf, @asianromance, and @bbstl as they question when, exactly, a chicken nugget becomes “alive.”

 
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If he is taking me shopping, does he have access to buying Hermes bags (not some fake Herchyz store) and some Cartier/Bvlgari diamonds?
I mean, I can advance my retirement by a few years if I can get a handful of those.

I hate amusement parks - it’s crowded. And I don’t like the rides. So this was too easy an option compared to last weeks life choices.

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Oops. I just saw it’s an empty amusement park. Still, nope.

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I choose shopping...but I'd rather it be at a food market than clothing. So, since there are no rules here in Would-You-Rather-Ville, I choose for my chaebol to take me to some fantastic food-oriented marketplace in a country where I've always dreamed of going!! Wherever that might be...do Beanies have ideas for me? OOOOHHH...please pitch foodie places in your own country, please!!!

Unfortunately for me, I ended up with inner ear damage one day in my early thirties from riding Goliath at Magic Mountain in Southern California twice in a row--it was one of those magical days when there were no lines...so, that could also serve as a warning for those who pick that option! Don't go crazy on the thrill rides!! Especially ones with tight downward racing spirals.

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So your ear drums can burst from roller coaster rides? Is it due to the force of air or due to hypersensitive equilibrium fluid in the ears?

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My ear drums didn't burst; my inner ear, where all the balance happens, became, well, unbalanced. I now get dizzy very easily after that event, and really can only ride one thrill ride per visit before I get physically ill and stop being able to stand upright (yes, I still do it... 🤪)

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Poor you. I get super dizzy from time to time. Can that happen from loud sounds? I thought it was a virus or something.
I've seen a virus can at times attack you ear, so you get dizzy and out of balance.

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Yeah. It's not as bad as all that, although it's good that I'm usually the driver on family car trips because I'm not such a good passenger, dizziness-wise. Mainly, I just can't keep my balance when inside moving machines--especially ones made for making you dizzy 🤣

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Honestly I long for Brazilian streetfood. Especially Acaraché, so much.
In Denmark ... we have copied Italian ice cream, so if you go to the right places, you can get that quality. But our cornets for the ice are way better than the cardboard constructions Italians for some reason choose to serve their superior ice cream in.
And then there are pølsevogne, serving hotdogs. Some of them are really good. Close to Nørreport Station Copenhagen, there's a luxurious food market, - but it is constructed and too modern to have charm. With a Chaebol, it would make more sense to go to one of the Michelin starred restaurants, like NOMA, deemed Best Restaurant in the World a couple of times. Or Kiin Kiin - not extremely Danish, but lovely. I have been there - I have never been at NOMA.
I see they have a project in Kyoto right now, actually, so anyone there could enjoy their experimental cuisine.

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And I would love to go to Tivoli, "The Old Garden", but it's no fun if the whole park is empty. I have been there with reduced audience of children with impaired immune system and their parents - like a few hundred people, so you didn't have to stand in line for half an hour - that was nice.

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I may, or may not, be needing to get from Copenhagen to Malmö in May, so...I'll probably check out that food market next to the central train station regardless of its charm. I may also potentially have time for one fancy meal. Where would you recommend most for that??

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How about a cup of coffee?
Blink Blink - with sound effect.
Anyways, depending on the price range, I felt really spoiled (me, def. not the food) at Kiin Kiin, and would recommend it for anyone looking for something in that price range. The tasting menu - be careful about the wine menu - it's wonderful, but you might get a little more sprinkled than you had planned.
https://book.easytablebooking.com/book/?id=dda47&lang=auto#
Another really nice place - and in a price range less chaebol - is Restaurant Norrlyst. May is a perfect time to eat at a local-seasonal-products-based restaurant, when all the greens are at their most spring-y best. We ate there autumn 22, I think it was. It was lovely; I am spoiled with food at home, because everyone but me are foodies, but Norrlyst's food seemed well-known, only a much better version of everything. Delicious. https://norrlyst.dk/restaurantnorrlyst/
I am too tired to make a list of with more fanciness at all different price levels, but you can get wuite fancy street food at that market, - they have italian-style ice cream and those Danish cornets in Parad-IS - but then again, if you are going to Malmö, they have a *really* fancy ice cream there, you just have to find it ..when I was there, it was like, in a market that seemed half empty and shut down, but then they had that wonderful, crazy ice place inside with normal ice and then gorgonzola ice, beer ice, curcumin ice ... 😛 Here they present their more common tastes, but they usually have some less traditional also.
https://kold.co/#smaker

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link to the food market is here: https://torvehallernekbh.dk/

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Seriously, if you want to, let's have a cuppa?

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I hear your coffee invite, Cecilie, and I'll let you know if it looks possible. Right now, probably not, but hey, ya never know!

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My husband was born in Horsens but I've not been there. His mom used to make all kinds of Danish foods but they on the heavier side so not my favorite.

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Like traditional food in a lot of countries it's made for people who do hard manual labour 12-16 hours a day. Which nobody does.
And also, most of those people could not afford meat every day, so now that we can, it's the traditional + for special occasions food, and it's super heavy.
Except for traditional fish dishes, traditional Danish food is not a good choice for most days. Most Danes eat lots of Italian, or at least Italian-derived, food, and Asian food (Indian and East-Asian) is popular now. Eating rice and pasta as the main fill also frees you from all that potato peeling. As a child, I peeled Soooo many potatoes.

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But at Norrlyst, you will love the wiff of tradition.
And the foodmarket I mentioned has all kinds of foods from all kinds of places.

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Food markets! I date there would definitely be nice.

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I think I would choose the shopping spree because it's nice to have tangible stuff especially if it's stuff you can use at a later date.
I know this was about a luxury shopping spree but I was totally thinking about Target/Costcos haha

The amusement park at night is nice and romantic (I'm thinking of The King 2 Hearts) but the novelty can wear off; people will always need stuff

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Yeah, I hate trying on clothes, so in front of my datem nah... And I don't wear accessories like jewelry, bags, etc. I don't have place in my closet neither.

I prefer the amusment park! I can do the same attraction again and again without waiting or getting off the ride.

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I'm tellin' ya, don't do the ride-repeating!!! Permanent damage can result!!

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You don't have to make the super fast ones with a lot of turns, etc. The moderate ones with water are fun.

I like the "magic" ones like Peter Pan in Disneyland too.

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You could go shopping for at bigger apartment, and afterwards, the Zoo. (Now I am thinking Denmark. Copenhagen Zoo is a great place to hang out, getting better with time. Bigger enclosures, more happy animals).

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I don't think buying an appartment is really considered as a shopping spree 😅

I never went to Copenhagen or Denmark yet. My sister did and she liked it a lot.

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It's just, when we're talking chaebol money, a bigger apartment would probably be something they could afford, and then they could give you presents afterwords, that you could have in your new walk-in closet.

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And of course, when I say afterwords, it's not because I am sleepy and The Midnight Speller has arrived, it's because you would talk first, hence words.
Let's agree on that.

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When I was only just into double digits, my Aunt and Uncle took me to a shopping mall that had TWO iceskating rinks. We went iceskating, and then had a giant icecream sundae afterwards.. So definitely the shopping trip, someplace there is iceskating, a ferris wheel, and a chair lift to take you across the top so you can look down at the shops and plan your next move. Best of both worlds.

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one of those mall buildings with a ferris wheel on the roof and corndogs with fake ketchup... fun memories of childhood summers in Asia

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Are you in triple digits now? 😲🫡

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Er? no. But I was in single digits for the first 9 years of my life. This was sometime between 11 and 14 I think?

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I'd choose the amusement park because it's more of a shared experience where we can relax and be ourselves. It could be romantic and fun and nostalgic all at once. Not having to pay for clothes (or whatever we're shopping for) sounds good in theory, but there's the pressure to go along with the buyer's choices, which I believe is what happened in Business Proposal (pictured above), right?

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I don't buy clothing except from sustainable brands or secondhand, so I think I'd rather go shopping. Sustainable shoes get expensive quickly, and it'd be nice to have someone else pick up that tab! Plus, I love wandering around looking at pretty things and taking frequent snack breaks, and you get to learn a lot about what the other person likes, so I think it would be really fun!

Amusement parks are reasonably fun, but I don't think I'd have that much more fun in an emptied-out one. Part of the fun is chatting while you're waiting in line for things, so we can do that any old time.

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As much as being alone in a theme park gives this delicious creepy haunting flavor to the otherwise vanilla date, shopping spree wins. Why, you ask? Well, no one specified what we're going to shop for, right? Hello, bookstores, occult shops, that one that sells jewelry from surgical steel and all the weirdest places to spend money our city could offer! If THAT won't scare my date away, at least I'll know for sure he's worthy of the second round^^

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i.e. don't chicken nuggets come already cooked? as in deader than a doornail?
I would love to go on a shopping spree for once in my life. However, I would choose a few people (silently) and try to get things for them too. Having it all for myself is too selfish a thing to do. But the chance to get a gorgeous dress or shoes with an equally gorgeous handbag does seem kind of nice. The practical side of me would snag things like a new rice cooker or bed comforter too. (Or is it just clothes for the getting?) And, do NOT forget the matching outfits! That is a must. Along with matching rings, toothbrushes and cups etc. etc.) Guess we'd need a few cars to haul it in and yes, I'm getting way too greedy and carried away.

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Due to fear of being made to wear a school uniform, the amusement park is OUT 😮

A shopping spree, preferably at Max Mara and Etro, all the way!

Is the second picture from Secretary Kim? I can’t think of her in such a dowdy blouse and cardigan and with her hair down, I’m stumped!

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Yup, Sec'y Kim for sure. Episode 3, the internet informs me!

https://youtu.be/soVVrEpx-dA

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Thank you!

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If SHE was the nice chaebol heiress of k-drama dreamland, I would take the experience of doing things with her for hours at an amusement park than being a life-like fashion mannequin.

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Sorry guys money matters so go shopping spree 😄

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I'm a sucker for solitude. I also love private intimate moments...something to savor - just me and you. So I know renting out an entire theme park for our date is a gift I'll relish for forever.

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Well, my first thought would be that a fantasy date with Kim Sejeong where she was buying me clothes and admiring my muscular physique as I modeled them would be pretty desirable, but then I’m struck by the reality that everyone would think she was buying clothes for her grandpa, especially if she bought me plaid slacks with the same fabric of the outfit she is wearing above. I actually had a pair of exactly that pattern pants in the 1970s, (“flared,” not bell-bottomed) that my Dad bought me off the clearance rack at Macy’s.

So I guess I would go with the amusement park, although I had almost the same experience of @attiton, without the inner ear damage, when I took my daughter and niece to the Southern California Disney adjunct, California Adventure. At the time it had not caught on, so it was relatively empty, and my park companions became fascinated by the roller coaster “California Screamin’” not because of the ride itself, but because of the “scream cam” that posted pictures of riders faces on a big screen as you exited the ride. We rode that at least 5 times in a row so they could make funny faces for the scream cam. Undoubtedly these photos are archived and periodically sold to Internet marketing firms for phishing scams.

As an aside, I noticed that about 5 years ago the “California Screamin” was renamed the “Incredicoaster” after the Pixar cartoon, The Incredibles. This brought to mind the possibility that the whole amusement park might be renamed after Disney’s kdrama investment, The “Hallyu Adventure.” There could be “The Moving Experience” for little kids, where they could “fly” but also rip off the arms and drive spikes through the heads of life-like animatronic villains. This ride would end with a “pluck your eyball out” mirror that would make it seem like you had an empty eyesocket. Teens could go into “Its a Worst of Evil World" where they could smoke heavily and practice cheating on their first love, destroying their chances at a prom date. I would choose the much tamer Call it Love Tunnel, where every tableau is lighted pink, steeling myself for the last part, where the cars split and you are pulled away from your riding companion, only to be reunited as you exit.

If you are a Disney+ subscriber for kdramas, don’t be surprised to see ads for this new amusement park in your internet feed. However, if you see pictures of me with my daughter and niece, wildly waving our arms as we ride the “Shop for Killers Coaster” note that those are actually 2007 photos from the rebranded “California Screamin.”

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I went on a shopping spree with my godmother and her boyfriend... made him buy a top of the line toy set for me and my friend... after that my godmother kinda disappeared lol

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so I guess I have PTSD from shopping sprees lol...

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I like the theme park. I can get to know him and also ride my favorite rides as many times I want since there are no lines! I can also have time to talk if it is worth pursuing. Since he can rent out the theme park, I know he is loaded. So he van take me out shopping nex time. 😉😉😉

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If we aren’t specifying what shopping center or what kind of spree, then I can think of so many things I would buy for everyone I knew who could really use something-furniture, new clothes for my cash-strapped students, supplies for me artist friends barely eking out a living, outdoor gear for me and everyone to better survive the weather.

I have always disliked amusement parks- too manufactured when compared to the great outdoors, cheap aesthetics that feel forced upon me, and most of the rides make me motion sick.

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For me, going for a shopping spree would totally made my day. But wait i am conflicted haha i would ehermmm rather he gave me gazillions money and me going to shopping spree with my girls. Come on we need comrades so we can really enjoy the money right. And having a guy commenting there and there abt clothes either honestly speaking or sugarcoating it just no no for me.. yeah girls are complicated like that 😂😅🤪🤪🤪
On the hand, renting the whole theme park will take out the fun of it. I meant i like where we can totally rides without having to wait long and all but the lively adrenaline rush waiting will like sizzle out...right?right? You get my point right? Heh blame my libra genes i cant make a choice at all but well if i have to choose gimme my shopping money 🤣🤣🤣🤣

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I can buy my own clothes. But I have terrible anxiety, especially around crowds so I don't go to amusement parks . . . ever. But if I could go to an amusement park and it's just me and my date, I'd be able to have a blast.

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uh oh. I hate shopping and trying on clothes, but the last time i was in an amusement park, i felt dizzy for days after lol (also i've seen way to many true crime/accident documentaries to feel save there). I think i would still prefer the amusement park, i don't have to do the crazy rides and they usually have some nice places to sit there. Also, it would feel like a lost place, so i could just explore that?

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i hate both options

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Let's be shopaholic ... today and everyday ... right, Louie!?

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I opt for the shopping trip. If it doesn’t work out between us, I can return the items, even if just for store credit. And otherwise I can relive the memory and make new ones by wearing the items to dates, or I see them in the items in my apartment. It’s not like down the line we can’t be plebs in a theme park with the crowds.

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An easy one for me this time! Shopping spree. So much variety - clothes, jewelry, electronics, home goods.

Whenever a character rents out an entire park, restaurant etc., I can't help but think about how it's sort of inconsiderate to others. Imagine going out of the way to head to the theme park during its regular hours of operations only to see the gates shut. Then you find that some rich dude rented out the place.

And if they're renting after-hours, I think about how the rental would be wasted on me. I don't hate theme parks, but I hate rollercoasters and thrill rides, which is like 90% of the appeal of theme parks for most people. I'm the boring person who would want to take a picture with a costumed character instead or ride something that would only appeal to 5 years olds or spend my time trying to win stuffed animals.

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If the shopping spree includes car dealerships, I’m all in.

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