A female version of Prison Playbook.

Want a drama with a flawed vulnerable hero again who make mistake and relatable come out again. . Almost all hero in kdramaland these days is potrayed as this perfect and even though they have flaws, is always stil a woman dreams, meanwhile there is alot more Chang Hee in My liberation notes than prince charming in real world.

My drama features crime thriller and melo romance.

I always dream of this scenario.

-Strong female lead who is a detective and is very good at fighting.
- Her father is kinda like mafia and have committed heinous crimes and the girl will fight for justice and make her father pay for his deeds.
-The girl is tied in a contract kinda marriage to one of her friends and is an influential person, but he is wrongfully accused and in jail for some years. She have vowed to protect him, but she doesnt love him. Her husband loves the main girl's twin, but he doesnt have any romantic feelings for the main girl.
-As for the main lead, he is rich person, single dad, and during one of the cases, the child get kidnapped and she saves the kid.
-The main guy loves the feistiness of the main girl and instantly falls for her. But he finds out she is married, so he distance himself. But he uses his power to help fight against crime. She acknowledges his effort and then after saving her husband from jail she divorces him and starts a new life with the main lead.

There is another scenario in my head completely opposite of the previous one.

This would be similar as princess hours, but tiny changes made.

-The girl is a high school student around 19 years
- The main lead is around 26 years, rich and is the director of the family company.
- The parents of the leads have already agreed to marry both of them when they were young, but the boy's family moved to Seoul and they lost contact.
- They got married secretly without the school knowing ,due to dying grandmother's wish of the male lead.
- The male lead has gf and he absolutely hates the main girl. They have made up a contact to get a divorce within 8 months.
- The gf cheats on with the the guy's best friend. So the male lead gets angry and get so much drunk that he sleeps with his wife.
- The girl gets pregnant, and she leaves home and the boy doesnt know on her being pregnant.
-Years later they meet and misunderstandings happen but get cleared and they are reunited.

Mine is almost a soap spanning many many episodes.
A boy grows up with a girl who came to their town with her father. The father is reclusive, boy's mum takes care of them and helps them to settle. They grow up and start to love each other but being too familiar is a bit uncomfortable.
The girl's father suddenly decides to go away.They pack up and leave without saying goodbye. The girl writes a letter saying if he loves her as much as she loves him should come somewhere (date, time, place) and asks her friend to deliver. However, the letter never gets to the recipient. The boy feels betrayed and bitter.
Later on the friend gets close the boy and gets pregnant. They decide to get married, when their child is 5 he finds the letter. Cannot do anything but becomes cold to his wife, eventually they decide to part.
The boy starts looking for the girl.
The girl went to abroad and studied medicine. As a student she participated an experiment and finds out she has BRCA1/2 mutation. She never knew her mother so tries to find out more.
She finishes her school and became an oncology pathologist. Meets a guy whom she dearly loves but does not want to marry. In order to make her loved one have a happy life she leaves without a notice back to a different town.
A few years later the guy is married gets a job in the same hospital she works and moves to into the next door. Tension between the girl and guy's wife.
Eventually, she breaks her silence explains why she ran away. She was diagnosed with breast cancer had double mastectomy. His mother begged her to leave so he can move on and have a family. So she left. Of course she would not tell the mum part.
Then she gets bad news that her cancer came back and is everywhere. She sells her house and leaves for Korea. Runs into the boy. They talk she said she assumed he was not in love with her because he did not show up where she would meet him. He says he never got the letter.
They start spending time together tracing their childhood etc. He says he loves her even after all these years. She tells him she loves someone else but willing to forget him because she cannot be with him.
She does not tell him that she is dying. Eventually, she realizes that she is falling in love with the boy again.
They try to make love. Passionate kiss and take their clothes off then she tells him to stop.
After a few failed attempts she explains she finally tells him she is embarrassed because she does not have breasts. He cries rivers and says he is not in love with breasts but with her. They make love.
She starts being sick and knows the end is near. He stops working and takes care of her. The friend comes and asks for forgiveness.
She dies in peace. At the funeral, the guy comes with his mother and learns about her being sick and how his mother pushed her away. He cries a river.
In between the father is not her birth father but her gay uncle. He had to leave abruptly to protect his lover. Her birth mother was...

I absolutely love the idea!

Here's my pitch:
Still grieving the death of his girlfriend, a young man forms an unlikely friendship with his dead girlfriend's mother. They bond over their shared grief and their love for kdramas/kpop.

Oh. Haha. Lol. I have so many though.
And I'll sound like a broken record if I say "Epic Silla Fantasy Sageuk" or my "Title Unknown" short story.
And I'm late to this so don't know if I feel like trying to summarise any others. Besides, I don't want just SOMEONE to make them; *I* want to make them... lmao.

Although, your drama @missvictrix, sounds very similar to a number of kpop based plot bunnies of my own, except I think mine are probably liable to be a lot darker ;) ;)
Unfortunately, k-ent as a whole isn't quite self aware enough about the darker sides of kpop yet to authentically make those dramas, imo.

An actual serious Body Swap drama, that doesn't use the body swap as an afterthought but with real consequences. Something similar to the old jdrama himitsu.

For example, lets say, 30 year old man, an executive, high status then gets body swapped into a body of a woman 22 years old, living with an abusive boyfriend.

The body swap is permanent and the main character will not be able to swap back.

I want real consequences and real discussions about being in a new body and how their lives will be changed forever, and yet somehow they meet each other after triumph, both changed people, and no romance between them but a strong bond, because each used to be the other person.

Song Hye Kyo falls in love and marries an older man.

Damn @missvictrix we need this drama right now.

I dont have a particular story I want to see, but would really like to see more powerful, smart, and complex female characters like in Search WWW, Because This Life is My First, and Boyfriend. I need more more more

I never get tired of stories about lost souls finding healing and love, and if the drama is a sageuk, even better! Throw in some tragic swordsman and a conflicted villain in search of redemption, and I will watch it in a heartbeat!

FL is a mystery writer and recluse. She had a tragic childhood where her mentally ill mother poisoned herself and FL in a murder suicide attempt. Her mother died but she survived. Since then she doesn't get close to people and as an adult lives like a recluse. She publishes under a pseudonym. Her latest book is a huge best seller and a major studio wants to make into a movie. ML is a formerly successful actor down on his luck due to a scandal. He's definitely a bit of a playboy. But he wants to regain his career by getting the role of the handsome lead detective. (Something that annoys the FL since the studio insists on changing him from a middle aged man to a hot younger guy.) He and his manager team up to find the mysterious author to try to convince them to give him the part. When he finds FL he is shocked-they went to high school together where he was the popular boy and she was an outcast. 2nd ML would be a handsome policeman who FL helps with his cases she has a huge crush on him but he doesn't notice.

This totally needs to be a regular Drama Chat - different DB writer pitching their best/latest drama idea then we add ours in the comments.
Drama concept pitch - a kdrama remake of the BBC’s ‘Our Girl’ would be daebak!

Quite some time ago, @reply1988 (I think) used ”unexpected bank holiday" as a euphemism for the queen's funeral 😂😂😂 and then I started imagining a dark rom-com along the lines of “Same Time Next Year” but with a couple that only gets together on Unexpected Bank Holidays, but one’s a monarchist and the other is a republican, so they’re torn between hoping for and feeling sad about UBHs and they get caught up in a conspiracy to make such UBHs happen so they can meet more often and eventually they start running out of royals. For kdrama, maybe it could be recast with NK/SK conflict negotiators who can only see each other when there’s a crisis.

Also, I'm sure this post totally did not start getting comments again months later so that header photo could keep popping up on our screens.