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[K-drama Treasure Hunt] Male leads with rain trauma

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 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:

Male leads with rain trauma

 
Your mission:

This week we’re rounding up rain traumas — specifically those endured by a male lead. Even if he’s not a chaebol (though it’s highly likely he is), his condition will surely cause some consternation, from fractured flashbacks to insecurity in love. If you know a hero who suffers when it sprinkles, it counts!

 
Reference drama:

Wedding Impossible


 
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Sungjun (Park Seojoon) in She was pretty.

I'm not sure if Doguk (Sung Hoon) in Perfect marriage revenge falls into this category, because I just remember he has water trauma, but I'm not sure if it involves rain.

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Yeah, the PMR water trauma was from fear of drowning, not from drops coming from the heavens, for what it's worth...

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I have always imagined a writers meeting... " And the ML has water trauma and hates when it rains due to an assault... Oh, the ML is Sung Hoon, I know, lets make it fear of drowning!"

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Because of course that phobia befits a swimming champion!! 🏊‍♂️ 😊💪🏻

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Business Proposal and Wedding Impossible are the only two they came to mind straight away. Maybe there are others I have forgotten like She was pretty, thanks @claire2009 for the reminder.

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Yeah! Business Proposal. I knew it was this one.

All I remembered about this trauma was the yellow umbrella Shin Ha-ri put over Kang Tae-mo's head.
I freaking forgot the name of the drama and the actors🤦🏽. How...?

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Right? Recently I had a similar experience with Park Bo Gum and Byeong Seo Wook's Record of Youth.

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He'll come as the rain. He'll come as the first snow.

Sometimes the ML causes the rain trauma! Eun-tak's chant of Kim Shin's words. Goblin, episode 14.

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If I remember correctly, the ML in Seasons of Blossom (Seo Ji Hoon) didn't like rainy days (he says he doesn't like when Summer comes because of the rain).
But it's not such a big trauma as in Business Proposal or Wedding Impossible.

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I believe Dear M has a ML like that... or is it the FL? Now I'm questioning it, lol

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Found the clip on YouTube and it is indeed the ML! I should not doubt myself

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I with kdramas would understand traumas dont need triggers to manifest. the brain itself is the trigger, it doesnt depend on outside circumstances / conditions. If you get a panic attack there is often no trigger, no warning, it is completely out of the blue and disconnected from the situation. thats why it is even scarier.
so there cannot actually be such a thing as a trauma + thing. bc if you gonna have a panic attack you gonna have it whether it rains or not. Trauma doesnt wait for the "right conditions"

that said, if it was only rain all people who actually experienced panic attacks would rejoice, to be able to predict and take countermeasures. but you cannot! thats the thing

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Well, that's not exactly true. For PTSD, reexperiencing symptoms are usually brought about by trauma cue, and that can be internal but it also can be an external reminder, like some sort of sensory stimuli. But I agree with you that you would have symptoms, including reexperiencing symptoms, outside of that specific trigger. It wouldn't just be narrowly confined to that. That's why I say the only realistic portrayals of PTSD I've seen in Kdramas are Just Between Lovers and The Atypical Family.

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That being said, I think it's unrealistic that RAIN is their trigger and not, say, riding in a car (assuming they were in a car accident). The only patients I've seen with weather-related trauma cues are people with PTSD secondary to inclement weather events, like tornados

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Fear of rain takes many forms. According to the Cleveland Clinic:
Ombrophobia is an extreme fear of rain. The condition is a specific phobia (fear), which is a type of anxiety disorder. A person who is afraid of rain (an ombrophobe) may be afraid of major, destructive rain or just a light drizzle.

People with ombrophobia may believe that rain can be harmful in some way. For example, they may worry about acid rain or germs in rainfall. They may have generalized fears that rain will cause darkness, floods, landslides, power failures or other dangers.

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I'm talking about PTSD, though. Specific phobia is different from an external trauma cue (or trigger, to use the more well known term). We wouldn't diagnose someone with specific phobia if their fear of the rain is better accounted for by PTSD.

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Got it. What I meant to say that fear of rain is a recognized condition that can be accounted for by PTSD *or* a generalized phobia.

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While not trauma inducing our lovely angel from Angel's Last Mission needed to keep out of the rain due to his wings popping out when wet.

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Well prior to meeting Sol uri Sun-Jae had rain trauma in Carry Sun-Jae and Run (Lovely Runner).

Thereafter now only he started liking rain but wrote a super hit song too!!

PS - Sudden Shower currently has 13M views on YT and is in the Billboard Global 200 chart.

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Sol helped him overcome his dislike for rainy days. 😊

I am happy for the success of Sudden Shower.

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I wouldn't call it a rain *trauma,* though - he just said he hated when it rained, and especially going outside and getting wet again after swim practice.

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First world problems 😂

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rain washing all the chloride off oh no

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Well one would hope he'd shower after coming out of the pool. 😂

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I had just written about Wedding Impossible ML and his rain trauma a few hours ago on my review and then saw this article lol.

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I have a female lead -- Park So-dam from Record of Youth. When she was a child, her mom had left her at school, and she had to watch the other kids get picked up by their moms with umbrellas, while she had to walk home alone in the rain, so she associates rain with loneliness.

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TIL - apparently fear of rain is known as Ombrophobia.

I think Lee Hye-ri's character in May I Help You had a similar sort of memory. Lee Jun-young the ML and Song Duk-ho the 2ML also have form type of rain trauma. Trying to avoid spoilers here. 😂

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Kang Tae Moo in Business proposal.
He was suffering from rain trauma cuz he thought his parents' death was because of him but I was relieved that he overcame it at the end. 😊

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since I cannot think of any more I still propose (again): a silhouette on the moon a la E.T. - one example being My love From The Star drunk alien Joseon era mishaps.
another good treasure hunt would be makeover gone wrong with horrible haircuts

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Secretary Kim - Egotistical chaebol is triggered by red shoes, which dredge up the buried memory from childhood, when he was kidnapped by a scary lady in red shoes who committed suicide right in front of him.

Oh My Venus - Chaebol/trainer's secret trauma has something to do with a terrible leg injury he suffered as a teen.

Kill Me, Heal Me - I think this one's my favorite. The ML's childhood trauma, involving being kept locked in the basement and also a fire, causes him to suffer from Multiple Personality Disorder.

King the Land - Chaebol's panic attacks are triggered by [WTF?] insincere smiles that have something to do with his being abandoned as a child.

Protect the Boss - Secretary helps her demanding chaebol boss overcome his agoraphobia, tied to—you guessed it—a childhood trauma. The childhood trauma of the obnoxious chaebol in Secret Garden causes the opposite problem—claustrophobia—as well as memory loss.

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