[K-drama Treasure Hunt] Faulty elevators
by Dramaddictally
Welcome to the K-drama treasure hunt, where we all go looking for K-drama treasure in the form of tiny drama details that we know and love. Sometimes these details take the shape of well-worn tropes (oppa Band-Aiding) or storytelling devices (Top Secret Deadly Allergy), but other times it’s just details we know we’ve seen in other dramas, but need help putting all the clues together.
Each week we’ll put you on the hunt for a piece of K-drama treasure, and you can report your findings in the comments.
There’s no umpire in this game, so if you find the detail we’re looking for, drop the drama title (or even better, drama title + episode number) in the comments, and we’ll all take your word for it. Or, we’ll go binge watch just to see it play out.
And remember, we’re here to map our way to the treasures not to the plot twists! We know how exciting as it can be to have all the hard-earned details stashed in your head, but let’s try to keep the spoilers out of the comments.
This week’s treasure:
Faulty elevators.
Your mission:
Find all the scenes you can where an elevator just doesn’t work like it’s supposed to. Sometimes the outcome is only a little awkwardness and some lost time (as it happened for our love triangle in True Beauty), and sometimes the elevators come crashing down. Any scene where an elevator abruptly stops, stalls, or falls is a winner in this round.
Thanks @darwi for this treasure hunt idea!
Reference drama:
True Beauty (Episode 7)
Have an idea for the next treasure hunt? Email your topic to hello @ dramabeans.com!
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1 mmmmm
September 14, 2023 at 10:11 AM
I think there is one in Healer? 🧐
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Kas61
September 14, 2023 at 1:55 PM
It's a major major in Healer. Leads to the sweetest rooftop kiss and, by dint of a dropped cellphone, to Healer getting his cover blown...
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darwi
September 15, 2023 at 5:35 AM
Oh yes, there is a falling elevator in Healer.
Since there were quite a lot of faulty elevators in my first dramas, I really though that it was a staple of the genre. But now, it's been a long time since I saw one. Better maintenance, or other way to assassinate ?
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2 Minnie🫘👩🏻🚀Pioneer and Teacher 👩🏻🏫🌱🏹
September 14, 2023 at 10:26 AM
The elevator is "Happiness' is a character of its own. While it's not 'faulty' but initially the residents are warned against riding it, and then the scene where Ji Hyun tries to stop the zombies from getting into the elevator and then gets pulled in to safety by Sae Bom at the last minute is K-drama gold.
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3 Jezz
September 14, 2023 at 10:30 AM
Healer (ep 8): elevator fall down
Big Mouth (ep 7): Mi-ho attacked while stuck in elevator
Liar Game (ep 10): elevator fall down
Start-Up (ep 15): stuck in broken-down elevator
Touch Your Heart (ep 6): Jung-rok and Jin-shim stuck in elevator
Bad and Crazy (ep 10): elevator stuck halfway-down
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Lostpanda is celebrating My Ajusshi 💔
September 14, 2023 at 9:24 PM
I couldn’t think of a single one and you just rattled off 6 of them like it was nothing. I feel like a novice ie Candy
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4 Jezz
September 14, 2023 at 11:22 AM
I would like to suggest a hunt for my following ideas:
(1) real-life Filipino actors and actresses on Kdramas
(2) exploding cars, trucks or any other vehicles
(3) crying in the rain or in the snow
(4) people who getting pantsed
(5) Kopiko PPLs or any kind of real life coffee/coffee-related PPLs (e.g. Starbucks, Nescafe)
(6) breaking plates, glasses or any other utensils
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5 Blue (@mayhemf)
September 14, 2023 at 11:34 AM
Secret Garden:
Somewhere in Ep 14/15, she rides the elevator in his body while the shady Secretary stalls the elevator. Then Secretary runs off once he knows he had been caught in the act. And that exact moment the body switch happens and he ends up in the elevator is his own body and his claustrophobia kicks it. It was quite an intense scene 🙃
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bbstl 🧹
September 14, 2023 at 3:18 PM
And he was claustrophobic in the first place because of an elevator accident/fire when he was a high schooler, in which the FL’s fireman father saved the ML but died himself.
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🌸 Seeker 🌸
September 14, 2023 at 9:17 PM
I remembered this but couldn't recall which drama it was from.
🤪
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bbstl 🧹
September 15, 2023 at 8:22 AM
It took me a while, too! So many dramas jumbled in our heads!
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🌸 Seeker 🌸
September 15, 2023 at 8:27 AM
Heh ... I confused this memory with "That Psychometric Guy" and while googling it came across Jo Byeong-kyu and then remembered Uncanny Counter 2.
6 Kurama
September 14, 2023 at 11:54 AM
True Beauty : The scene was hilarious with the FL who needed to pee and the ML who offered her a bottle 🤣
Que Sera Sera : The cutest first kiss scene :p
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Kurama
September 15, 2023 at 6:03 AM
Oh in She Would Never Know, the elevator didn't work because they were doing a safety test, it gave us a couple scene in the staircase with the FL loosing her high heel 😅
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7 Isa is always time travelling
September 14, 2023 at 12:15 PM
I remember the already mentioned intense scene in Secret Garden, but apart from that... I can only think of crowded elevators (everywhere) or magic elevators (as in Scripting your Destiny).
And the only faulty elevator scene which comes to my mind is from a C-drama: Meteor Garden.
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StacyA
September 14, 2023 at 5:07 PM
The two I thought of were also Secret Garden and Boys Over Flowers/Hana Yori Dango/Meteor Garden.
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8 🌸 Seeker 🌸
September 14, 2023 at 1:58 PM
He Is Psychometric (episode 1)
Jin-young (ML) is saved by Jo Byeong-kyu from an elevator in a building on fire. ML's parents are still trapped in the elevator as it falls down.
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9 🌸 Seeker 🌸
September 14, 2023 at 2:17 PM
I would say Uncanny Counter 2 (episode 2) had a faulty elevator in as much as Jin Seon-kyu's character's wife was killed.
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10 Ally
September 14, 2023 at 2:35 PM
The secret life of my secretary. Towards the end. I don’t remember exactly what happens but the lead gets stuck in an elevator, has to be rescued out, and runs to the female lead. He has some PTSD as well. I just remember that it was emotionally jarring for me.
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11 🌸 Seeker 🌸
September 14, 2023 at 3:04 PM
Just Between Lovers
The FL was scared of elevators and used stairs.
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12 bbstl 🧹
September 14, 2023 at 3:20 PM
Well, nothing bad happened but about a hundred-ninety conversations took place in and especially in front of elevators in Phoenix, they must have saved a ton on sets.
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13 HopefulRomantic 🦋 Tigermoth 🦞
September 14, 2023 at 4:21 PM
Oh my gosh... my very favorite example of this is a funny version of the scenario in The Sound of Your Heart (the original, not the remake). The ML and FL get "trapped" in a "faulty" elevator, and completely spiral into chaos, before realizing . . . (*SPOILER*) . . . they never pressed the button 😂
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14 Gikata
September 14, 2023 at 11:47 PM
Since HAPPINESS was already mentioned, here's my another favorite faulty elevator scene - QUEEN IN HYUN'S MAN, Ep3-4 (ending scene of 3, beginning of 4). While the elevator itself was working properly, CCTV inside it wasn't, allowing FL to go along with them feels and jump-kiss totally unprepared for such boldness Joseon time-traveller ML without sacrificing her innocent reputation as a celebrity. The best part? She didn't know atm that CCTV was off but went for it anyway)))
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15 beffels
September 15, 2023 at 1:02 AM
Not a kdrama but in Taiwanese drama Love Around, they get stuck in a faulty elevator - I think he offers to hold her hand if she’s scared or something else fairly innocuous and she overreacts like crazy 😅
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16 technicat
September 15, 2023 at 7:08 AM
Radiant Office, episode 3: Elevator stop leads to one of Ho-won's fantasy thought sequences.
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17 darwi
September 16, 2023 at 12:00 PM
There is a falling elevator in My holo love (one of the numerous similarities with Healer).
And Ji Chang Wook also meet an elevator of doom in the K2.
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18 SusanF
September 16, 2023 at 11:07 PM
Help me here - wasn’t there a wonderfully funny scene early on in The Rooftop Prince where he and his followers thought the elevator was the place to get changed? But then the doors opened in front of a crowd waiting to get on? That elevator certainly didn’t work as expected! 😂
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Reply1988 -❣️Mother Bean❣️
September 16, 2023 at 11:33 PM
Yes I can confirm that scene. I am watching The Rooftop Prince and that scene is hysterical. I love how they have turned so many everyday things on their head by showing how weird they would be when viewed by time travellers.
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19 Kitsune Moon
September 17, 2023 at 9:06 AM
in "sweet home" the elevator works fine but ends up being the place of the saddest death in the show. because the elevator worked so damn perfectly, a monster just shuffles in and breaks our hearts.
does this count? LOL
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20 Neolttwigi
November 24, 2023 at 12:37 AM
Touch Your Heart, Episode 6, has a faulty elevator leading to much URST. And then there is gossip the next day that a couple were sprung kissing in the elevator when it got stuck- so our leads are going around being guilty and furtive when all they actually did was gaze at each other!
She Was Pretty has a stuck elevator in episode two ( or maybe one? near the beginning). FL is anxious because hiding her identity from ML.. but of course ML thinks she is anxious from claustrophobia. Either way, he is kind to her- which is just as well, because the is then awful to her for the next 4 episodes.
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