@minniegupta1 perfect one for you

I’m going to put a group out there- our cute business men from Strongest Deliverymen. I love the camaraderie in this drama. They see a problem and try to fix the problem by gathering friends together. Things go bad and it looks like it’s over for our band of hero’s but then the very people that they were trying to help, step up and show their support. It’s a great “You can Do It” show. And our cute Kim Seon Ho, who is the reluctant villain, steps up with support at the end. I also love this cast! Go Kyung Pyo (Frankly Speaking) does plays the strong leader so well.

Not a k-drama, but the c-drama Under the Microscope does this particular trope well.

OTVOI would be a good example of this. Ban Seok has been working hard for the company only to be targeted for dismissal. He got the validation and support in the end. He also managed to grow out of his comfort zone to something better.

In the FIERY PRIEST, Father Hae-il's past gets exposed and it causes a huge stir. Hae-il is discouraged, but everyone rallies around him to offer their support, and (trying not to be spoiler-y here) they even "rescue" him at the airport.

@jls943 what a great prompt! I love this, too, but I can't think of anything concrete to add 😅 I think this "rallying-round" a MC after a big setback also happened in Wok of Love, Police University, May It Please the Court, Stove League, Gauss Electronics, Joseon Attorney, and Chief Kim, but my memory is VERY fuzzy, so I'm going to put this with question marks (???), and anyone can feel free to correct me!

I know I’m literally the person who wrote in about this 😂 but I might have just thought of another! In Never Give Up something similar happens to our ajusshi lead when his chicken shop is going to get shut down by his awful landlord. The community rallies in support because he’s always been such a great guy to everyone!

Of all I have seen, Our Blooming Youth is probably the best example of this (no drama has done friendship, trust and support better) but the other one I can think of is another Park Hyung Sik drama Doctor Slump where the ML is grossly shunned by everyone even though he is the kindest, most generous person around, until the people he thought would never be his friends are the ones who not only step up and defend him, but eventually help to turn his life around and help him form real connections instead of superfluous one.

I'm not sure if Cho Seungwoo's character in Life falls into this category. He was misunderstood by the doctors, but the FL (Won Jinah), his secretary (Yeom Hyeran), and his friend who is in charge of organ donation at that hospital (Tae Inho) know what kind of person he is and defend him at multiple occasions.

Romance is a Bonus Book, Dan-i resigns after her past academic and work achievements are exposed and she is wrongly accused of not sending a termination notice to the printers, she is later reinstated under the 'special recruitment policy'.

This is the kind of trope that happens at the very end of drama usually...

I don't know if Mad Dog could be counted. But they don't like the ML because they misunderstood him but at the end, they all worked together.

Not the main plot, but I need to give a shout out for Captain Yoo in Prison Playbook. The wrongest of wrongs done to him, and what a team to bring him back from the brink!

Maybe Lee Dong-sik in 'Beyond Evil'? No matter how hard his colleagues try to protect him, he is forever tainted with suspicion over the disappearance of his sister.

And there's 'My Lawyer, Mr Joe'. ( Disgraced prosecutor who has lost everything, and is living on the streets, starts offering legal aid to the poor and homeless...)

I think the Cha Tae-hyun and Jung Yong-hwa starrer Brain Works does this trope rather well.

The end of Thank You is kind of like that, although it's more like all her neighbors stopped being such jerks.

A recent one I remember is " pyramid game" I was really angry when they switched the blame on soji but everyone did their best and supported her.

@jls943
When I first read your request I was surprised that this was a trope to you. I had never thought about it this way, and I couldn't remember any particular instance from any drama.

Then just now I encountered a big lovely such scene in ep 9 of Please Don't Date Him! I will write more about the show in the next WWW post.