No, it actually doesn’t 
You’re literally trying a ja!l break
Trust me, others have tried 
including me 
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Obvs the titles of Asian dramas in languages other than the original languages and scripts sometimes have no literal equivalent.
Marketing those dramas to a potential world-wide audience (with hopes of sucking in more eager B---- W-----) means somehow conveying something about the overall feel of a particular drama in a way that says, “YEAH! Let me spend that $9.99 a month!” But not just that, it’s got to be “YEAH! $9.99 a month on VIKI!”
I think of the concept “the elevator pitch.”
The trope is a flamboyant creative type managing to blurt out his or her proposal for an entertainment moneymaker to a calculating chaebol type when they accidentally cross paths during a brief elevator ride in some skyscraper.
The less confusing and puzzling language that the chaebol has to process, the better.
In the past, when I have described to curious folks the “typical” story line for a K-drama, I have always joked: “She’s poor and annoying yet kind and brilliant; he’s rich and boring yet fair-minded and brilliant; they meet on top of a speeding panel truck at midnight in January near the DMZ; merriment ensues.”
Regarding 밥이 되어라 I am on episode 76. I am beginning to think that Samchon is the character in certain medieval European poems known as the Holy Fool.
In a couple of versions of the Arthurian legend, the young knight Parsifal or Percival–because of his pure and spiritual devotion (and some would say naive devotion) to God–is granted a vision of the Holy Grail, gold chalice filled with Christ’s blood. Parsifal is pretty much the main motivator and rift-healer among the Knights of the Round table.
Again, there are no words. What a beautiful, beautiful drama.
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I saw a great K-drama on Netflix in which a country family of some repute was trying to marry off their “agassi” in order to secure funding to keep the family house from complete collapse.
There is a scene in which a hapless young man from Seoul ends up having a conversation with the “agassi” in which she is modestly talking from behind a screen. He thinks he is talking real estate; she thinks she is talking marriage.
Very funny, especially since the “agassi” is so determined to uphold her conservative family’s precarious existence that she ends up in the most embarrassing situations which (ironically) show that she is definitely the sanest, most stable one in the bunch.
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Now I can see the wiki edit icon on your post above and below (clicking on the above shows the html of corrected post, this concept is kinda interesting and new for me), gosh that looks scary “the possibility of editing your post”! I haven’t activated mines… not sure if it’s good or not
@lutra how come you have the wiki badge when I don’t see the wiki edit icon on your post, can you actually retract it?? Or perhaps I have to activate it in order to see it?? This is so confusing…
I think folks are just curious about these features which weren’t much “discovered” and the hype started… it’s perhaps not that much about the badge itself but about “how to get the badge” since you have to communicate with a “discobot” AI and it’s kinda fun!!
It’s perhaps a domino effect, everyone cheers after getting the certificate and/or the wiki editing badge… meaning special access to editing posts obviously “in good faith” which I think won’t happen, unless in really grave situation if at all…
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LOL Can you recall which drama that was?
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Yes, you can retract it from a being a wiki 
but as @feyfayer found out if that was your first edit of a wiki to get the wiki editor badge, if you then remove it you also lose the wiki badge, it’s seem to know and keeps tabs which wiki it was and not just a case of give the badge out and that it, badge collected, done and dusted!
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I wish I could remember. It was on DramaFever about the same time as Once Upon A Time In Saengchori . . . somewhere between 2010 and 2012.
Both dramas involved, as the English saying goes, the “city slickers” versus the “country bumpkins.” I’m thinking both were TvN. I just loved both.
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We button pushers might need to pause before pushing buttons now the stakes are higher, at risk of life, and limbs.
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This is for subber “zyxw” who wonders about the activity on a thread that appears to be very cut-and-dried but underneath is not . . .
This is a thread designed to lure the unwary into a life of utter silliness.
Since you have come into the strange soju-and-dried-squid tent that “Badges” has become . . . I think maybe I can get you on my sub-team.
I would contend that kielbasa and REAL sauerkraut can take on sundae and kimchi ANY day. Am I right?
Take a seat, have a snack!
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LOL it was even a reply to you
use the search function - type - I am not that young
search this topic and a comment written by me, it should be there.
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In the words of this link, you-know-youve-been-watching-too-many-kdramas-when?
When earning badges, gives you power to further explore said dramas. Annnd! There you have it! In a nut shell.
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Yeah, push these buttons the wrong way and Sun Tzu will wake up and take over the whole thread . . . and all the etiquette mods will NOT know what to do . . .
(from Amazon)
Could be messy.
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right! Nostalgia, this Go board setup, immediately reminds me of An Incomplete Life - Maesang
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I saw An Incomplete Life when I was in the middle of the final collapse of my efforts to keep going in a horrible civil service job.
The only K-drama I’ve ever seen that made me more and more depressed the more i laughed.
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Or, Ever Night, I’ve watched both, keeping fingers crossed for a third. What’s his name? Fu Zi must return from the heavens, there is so many loose ends to tie.
https://www.viki.com/tv/36178c-ever-night
@feyfayer Thank you! 
@piranna Thank you!
https://www.viki.com/tv/36446c-ever-night-2
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( T_T)＼(^-^ )
There is nothing ever wasted though, look what joy you’ve brought to many along the way 
I don’t adhere to a boxed existence, unless created by that individual. 
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Here’s everyone trying to break out of heart jail but you apparently kept digging tunnels into prison!
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You crack me up
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I just got out of “love” jail! YAY!
And I am giving everyone lots of love! 
If I missed you along the way… just holler!
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