In Her Private Life, the FL saves the ML as "saja" in her phone. Because "Ryan" and "lion" sound so similar! This was one of the first times I could read hangeul on someone's phone, so I was really proud when I saw this hahaha!

Business Proposal - Archaeopteryx : the FL compares the ML to an Archaeopteryx and then we got a little one every time he called her :D

Error aka Ae-Ra on Dong-Man's phone in Fight My Way. If I remember well.

Dog Fur in Cheese in the Trap but I don't remember if it's just a nickname or he registered her name like this.

Just saw it today: “Crescendo🤍” on Seo-ri’s phone for Woo-jin in Thirty but Seventeen…

Island ep 4 shows that Miho saved her number as 주인님 (owner, master) in the phone she gave Van, who promptly rolls his eyes as soon as he sees it

The Good Bad Mother (Episode 11): Lee Do-hyun and Yoo In-soo save each other as "Bride or Wife 색시" (Netflix translates as "Fiancée"), so when the thugs went through Yoo In-soo's phone, all they saw were calls made to his wife.

There’s Obnoxious Deborah The Liar on Su-hyeok’s phone. I found that one funny as it was so childish and petty. It made sense too given the context that Su-hyeok blamed Deborah for his breakup lol

This is a fun one! I can't pinpoint any so I sure hope more beanies will find and share these. there have been some really funny ones on dramas.

In Monthly Magazine Home, the ML saves the FL's number as Na Pa-won, in English, Na Zero-won.

The leads in Because This Life Is My First kept their names stored as landlord and tenant, after they got married.

Oh there are so many. I love that this seems to be a pretty common thing in k-dramas (maybe also for Koreans?). Other than the ones already mentioned, I can remember off the top of my head -
- The FL in The Beauty Inside saves the ML's name (Seo Do-jae) as Seo Do-jaesu-eopseo, which literally means something like "someone with no luck" but is shorthand for jerk/a**hole.
- In Hospital Playlist, Ik-joon saves Ik-soon's name as "Previously Mickey, Now Ik-soon" because Jun-wan had confused her name with that of their dog Mickey 😂.

Here’s one that’s more of a question than a response to the prompt :)

I’ve always had a question about one of the saved cellphone names from Sh**ting Stars. Now, my knowledge of Korean is minimal (and frankly, that’s generous), so I may be asking something obvious to many. However, this little detail in this drama has really bugged me in the past, and here’s a golden opportunity to ask!!

Oh Han-byeol‘s saved name for Gong Tae-sung is 꽁 치 at the start—I think it changes near the end (maybe only with the addition of a heart), but I haven’t tracked that change down (someone more persistent than me has probably already done it).

That said, focusing on the starting name, when one does one’s “due diligence machine translation” on this, it comes up as a particular species of fish, and I think I remember it being translated in the subs as just “kkong fish.”

Anyone know/understand the backstory on this one? I’d really love to know.

In Fight For My Way, Dongman has Aera saved as Error - which took an embarrassing amount of time to work out was just funny word play with her name!

Also technically not a nickname but it was kind of funny and endearing- in Doom at Your Serice, PBY's chatacter names Doom 'Saram' as in 'person' (and saves his name on her phone as such) because he doesn't have a name and she can't think of anything better. It was one of the first korean words I learnt thanks to this show 😂

In Goblin, Reaper, who has never had a cell phone, gets one for the first time and tries to save Sunny's number. When they first met, he had misheard her name as "Sun-hee," so he saves her as "Sunny Not Sun-hee" with typos and all. He also has Eun-tak saved as "Goblin's Bride." This whole scene in Episode 5 where Shin and Reaper get cell phones is hilarious.

Iirc Crash Course in Romance the ML had the FL's name saved phrased in a way so he'd remember not to say it wrong. I can't remember the name though.

I also think The Greatest Love had some good cell contact names

While you were sleeping Fl called Ml giant crab

I remember two from THE GLORY, including one of my all-time favorites:

Hyeon-Nam has Yeon-Jin saved in her phone as "Bitch Who Will End Up in a Ditch."

Yeo-jeong has Dong-eun's name saved as "Dong! Eun! Hoo! Bae!" (exclamation points included).

In Pasta, the chef saves the heroin as "Goldfish".
In Beautiful Gong Shim, she saves Ahn Dan-Tae as "Pervert Lawyer".

In Dali and Cocky Prince/ Gamjatang, he saves her as 3000 Geops because of this scene:
https://i.mydramalist.com/Qqry7_2f.gif

In Jealousy incarnate, one of the teenager has the girl saved as "Red" and it took me way too long to realise that it's just the translation of her name.
In Crash course in romance, ML saves FL as "Best banchan in the world" but that's the name of her shop.
There is a nickname in Law cafe.
In Semantic error, the nicknames reflect how they are annoyed with each others.
In a piece of your mind, she first save his number under something like "the guy who comes at night in the studio".
And in Hello Monster, does he not has her number as "my stalker" ?

Was just re-watching my favorite parts of Good Manager for Junho no good reason, and saw to my glee that Chief Kim has Director Seo in his phone as “Glutton-Sociopath.” 😉

If Beanies have said it once, they’ve said it a million times…MAN, is it enjoyable to watch Junho eat, but more importantly thoroughly relish his food in this drama. Gluttonous, maybe? Maybe not.

Thanks to @laurensophie, I fell down a Call It Love rabbit hole today, watching all my favorite scenes…totally not rewatching. Totally, totally not rewatching.

In one of these scenes, we learn that Shim Ji-gu has Han Dong-Jin saved in his phone as “CEO Armstrong” in a funny reference to their first meeting where Dong-Jin was praised for being just like “Neil Armstrong: the first man to ever woo the moon” (referring to Shim Woo-joo) 🌝

Looking back at some of the treasure hunts! I always like this topic.

Not funny but poignant: Oh Hye Won saves Lee Sun Jae as "Home" in Secret Love Affair. He is her home as her own is cold and lonely.

In Run On, Mi-joo is saved in SUn-Kyun's phone as "When Hungry, Bang".
I would very much like how that plays out in Korean. Is it an innuendo in Korean, too?

In Life the underling is saved in the hospital president's phone as Worker Ant, and the president is saved in the underling's phone as Glutton. Love it!