I found this amazing article on Umbrellas of Dramaland.

https://mydramalist.com/article/umbrellas-of-dramaland
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    That’s a great article! Thanks for sharing it.

    Pd: Did you tried to play the game at the bottom? It’s not so easy…

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      *try

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      I did try to play the game and my mind just went blank … same as what happens during the treasure hunt prompts 🤣

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        Same here. I have always thought I have a very good memory, but when I play this kind of games I can only remember a few dramas… 😐

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          The three dramas in the gifs have my most favorite umbrella scenes.

          Ummies are pretty ubiquitous in K-dramas and somewhere down the line they tend to get jumbled up – but I do remember the transparent one in I Am Robot and the yellow one in Business Proposal.

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            The scene with the yellow umbrella in Business Proposal was one of my first “umbrella scenes”. I barely knew that was a trope.

            One of my favorite scenes is from The Best Hit (before what I call the ”La La Land sequence”).

            And that scene in Go Back Couple (it’s in the article too): two couples, two umbrellas.

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          I can remember having seen a lot of those Bingo examples, but there are only a few where I also remember which drama it was.
          ANd then I tried to put the card in an app so I could write in the slots and THAT would have taken me several hours. But if I just go with what I definitely remember seeing in some drama, I have at least two whole rows.
          What is “TYU”?

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    I recommend the Chinese movie Shadow (2018), it has the coolest umbrellas ever.

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    That is an amazing article, they did such a great job!
    My favorite umbrella is the one in She Was Pretty, it looks like a typical black umbrella outside but inside is a famous Impressionist painting (that I can’t remember).

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    Those umbrellas are gifs beautiful!
    I believe even before watching any K-dramas I had an introduction to the subject from Kotaro Lives Alone, where the serious little boy explained, that when a gentleman held an umbrella for a lady, his shoulder would be wet. The umbrella couldn’t cover both completely, and the wet shoulder showed that he prioritized her comfort over his; a gentleman.
    In my bingo card, the slot about umbrellas says: “How do you know who loves whom? Umbrellas and Rain”. And that is true, but it is more than that.
    I have noticed in the rare K-drama where the heroin is in no danger and doesn’t need saving, that the hero even before he knows he loves her, feels a sudden urge to “protect her”. It was easier notisable when it this urge was triggered by no danger at all.
    In western tradition (I think) umbrellas are first and foremost a good excuse for a meet-cute and a chance to walk close together, and maybe to “have to” follow the loved one to wherever she was going.
    But when first you think of umbrellas as protection, they also show when a lonely person knows how to take care of herself. Or someone overprotected that have fawning servants who run towards his car with several competing umbrellas. Or someone who is totally losing it – just unhappily being drenched, alone, hardly noticing it.

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    So true, umbrellas speak!

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    Nice article. They mentioned SITR. It was my gateway drama so the red umbrella scene is seared into my memory. I think another drama did a parody of it that was quite funny as well.

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      It is so nice that all of us have our favorite “umbrella” scenes.

      I think Be Melo had parodied the red umbrella scene from Something in the Rain.

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