Name That Drama: Glueing eyeballs on stuffed animals

12 July 11, 2024July 11, 2024

Name That Drama: Glueing eyeballs on stuffed animals

by DB Staff

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Help @missvictrix identify this drama:

Ages ago I watched a drama where the down-and-out heroine and her family (mom?) had to make ends meet by glueing (or sewing?) eyeballs onto stuffed animals (bears?). I think it was an old and cheesy drama — like Boys Before Flowers — but I can’t seem to remember it. I swear I’ve seen this trope in other dramas since, and I love it, because the drama gods know that when things get rough, you can always perform menial labor tasks at your kitchen table. Can anyone help me find this drama?

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1 mightbenatalie

July 11, 2024 at 11:13 AM

It was Coffee Prince.

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mightbenatalie

July 11, 2024 at 11:14 AM

Don't know if we're allowed to link images but here is our heroine's mom gluing eyeballs: https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPJtDpFJqFN7751owDvaKxbxJvwXNOyW76Go6PvVNlNODSNKR5T-CZOVaTEIB7YPAcM2swUzzgha4Y6Mj0A3RASsTTrw11qMjrPG9zuch26MgBKUpyZYPnENxFgL0KptzVd4yKbG0NROE/s1600/CoffeePrince_ep1_0388.jpg

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mightbenatalie

July 11, 2024 at 11:15 AM

Here is our hero helping our heroine out with the task: https://ocdramadee.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/cp_ep3_06.jpg?w=800

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missvictrix

July 11, 2024 at 12:07 PM

omg haha!

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2 redfox

July 11, 2024 at 11:58 AM

bears? weren´t they penguins? It was Coffee Prince

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3 Gum Shoe

July 11, 2024 at 12:11 PM

Yes, it is Coffee Prince. When Han Gyul helps her sew on the eyes after rescuing her from the fighting couple, that's when Eun Chan convinces him to take over the coffee shop. He keeps the one that he sewed with crooked eyes and the position of that doll on his shelf indicated how their relationship was progressing. Those dolls and the other menial piece work--peeling chestnuts-- played a great part in the drama.

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4 Kurama

July 11, 2024 at 12:22 PM

I remember a scene where the room was full of stuff animals but I can't tell the name of the drama >_<

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5 Diana Hansen

July 11, 2024 at 2:19 PM

I seem to recall this being in a lot of the older dramas but the names alas escape me. It was pretty popular as a way to stretch the budget.

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DancingEmma

July 11, 2024 at 2:45 PM

In the current weekender and the immediate previous one I watched, the 2 screeching intolerable characters had this as a do at home gig.

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6 jillian

July 11, 2024 at 2:35 PM

Coffee Prince - this was so long ago I barely remember the details

I think something similar was done by the FL's mom in Live Your Own Life.

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7 PYC

July 11, 2024 at 9:35 PM

Coffee Prince!!

The family also did chestnut peeling as noted by @pynyc. The chestnut picking scene remains to this day my favorite kdrama scene - for which @Javabean said during the live recap that the scriptwriter deserved a rise.

https://youtu.be/57XLHGiJJTM?si=UarpkwOxXqAOxVwM - poignant, bittersweet and tender. And the music, not to mention the ever charming Gong Yoo and Yoon Yue-hye.