Be Melodramatic Episode 1. Epic scene of the threesome plus gay brother watching the Fiery Priest and awesome commentary at that 👍

In Crash Landing on You Episode 1, North Korean soldier Kim Ju-muk watches the classic K-drama Stairway to Heaven instead of working. As a big K-drama fan, Ju-muk explains South Korean culture to Jung-hyuk and the ducklings by using K-drama tropes.

Surely one of the more iconic 'Kdrama characters watching a Kdrama' scenes is the one in Legend of The Blue Sea when Shim Cheong gets introduced to K-dramas/media in general for the first time and she binges things all night - I don't remember exactly which dramas she was watching but I think at one point So Ji-sub is on her screen 😂

Am I tripping?? I feel like in ANOTHER OH HAE-YOUNG, the ML a sound engineer was working on scenes from the drama IN NEED OF ROMANCE 2012? But from my quick skimming I can’t confirm…
Now my stubbornness is getting to me and I’ll probably rewatch it just to get my vindication

i know i hv watched at least 3 such dramas watching dramas but why cant i recall any now... aahhhh my brain 🧠 🙃 😑
ill go back to my MDL list to see if i can reall anything.... till then *scratching my head*

While this is a super-hard one (love those!! Like all k-drama treasure hunts!!! 👀🔍…💥🕺), I wonder if some additional trouble is made by international services snipping out scenes that contain other IP.

That is, I hear tell that Netflix (not Viki, though) removed the Train to Busan scenes from the hilarious movie theater bit in Goblin that we were discussing the other week so people would not have known it was there. (I mean that’s *an* internal reference to another piece of filmed fiction—but not to another drama, so maybe it counts like for half-a-point??!).

There was a scene in Thirty-Nine where the third FL (I don't remember her character's name, but the one who had the romance with the chef) was watching Run On with her mother.

Drama characters watching REAL dramas? That's not fun, fake shows within shows are the best))) Made up makjangs from WELCOME TO WAIKIKI and A BUSINESS PROPOSAL still give me life with their crackstatic ridiculousness lmao.

As for the question specifically... In DOOM AT YOUR SERVICE FL pondered over question what it's like to be in love with/date a supernatural being and watched TALE OF THE NINE-TAILED Season1 to get that vibe. Her conclusion? It's no issue at all as long as the guy is hot))) Another PBY reference - in SOUNDTRACK#1 PHS's character was shown sobbing over a scene from WEREWOLF BOY movie.

It may not be a “real” drama within a drama, but Scarlett from Search: WWW watching “what’s wrong with my mother-in-law” is forever iconic.

Crash Landing On You: North Korean soldier Ju Meok is watching Chuno. He is only up to Episode 14, when Se Ri spoils the ending. Later on when JM ends up in Seoul, he watches the ending of the drama in an internet cafe and is devastated.

I do not have the episodes references, and I do not always remember (or recognized) the title of the drama in the drama... However, there is (what I took for) a real drama on a small screen in
- Chicago typewriter
- Prison playbook
- Find Me in Your Memory
- Gaus electronics
- Zombie Detective (the last emperess?)
- Stranger
- Shooting stars
- Legend of the blue sea
- Doom at your service (Tales of the nine tailed, Start Up)
- Devilish joy
- Touch Your Heart
- Crash landing on you

And though it is not shown on screen, there is mention of My lovely Sam song in My roomate is a gumiho and Pride and prejudice.

This is so hard!

I know for a fact that I have seen Never Give Up on at least one drama-screen (and maybe two?) but cannot for the life of me remember which one(s). But it must be in the same network, right? So must be something ENA has done in the last year or so.

In "Live Up to your name", ML and FL share a sofa while they are watching Bride of Habaek, which I quickly recognized because I had watched that drama quite recently.

In Princess Hours, Queen Mother watch My Lovely Samsoon in the scene where Hyun Bin put down his head on Kim Sun Ah's belly..

There are lots of instances of characters watching real-life movies, too. Perhaps that can be the subject of a future treasure hunt?

In Hometown Cha Cha Cha, the heroine's best friend is watching The Crowned Clown while she's home sick. I think both dramas share the same screenwriter?

Does anyone know the drama where a couple of friends watches the ending of "Sandglass"? Or maybe it was a movie... I've been racking my brain trying to remember 😣 Help!

Crazy love episode 9! Looks like Kim Jae wook’s character is watching an episode of Jugglers!

This is the second treasure hunt where I'm sure I've seen it but can't pinpoint where (the previous one was the phone nicknames).

I feel it's just recently I saw a kdrama character watching the "Saranghae! Saranghae! Saranghae!" scene in I'm Sorry, I Love you.

And a few years ago, unless it was all a dream, I saw a kdrama character presenting the end of Ruler of Your Own World as a successful medical case study.

Doon at your service Fl watching Hotel de Luna and Tale of Nine Tailed
Thirty Nine One of three female leads watching Run On

I have no idea what the dramas are but there are scenes in You're All Surrounded when Dae Gu has dramas and anime playing on his phone as he sleeps. One example is in episode 3.

Do sitcoms count as dramas? I'm not even sure if High Kick (I think that's what it was called) is a sitcom and I'm not even sure if that was the exact title but Kim Hang Ah watched that show to try to learn the cutesy voice & gestures (and almost threw up in her mouth haha) in episode 8 of The King 2 Hearts

NOT OTHERS has STRANGERS AGAIN playing on the TV in the background. Is this super late to post this comment? Yes definitely! But I need a win today okay?!