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[Drama Chat] How to be a dramaland billionaire?

They say that in business, knowledge is power, and no one is more knowledgeable about K-dramas than us fans. What if you used that knowledge to build your own business empire inside dramaland? What pain points would you solve?

Do you see untapped potential in the Truck of Doom rental business? Or perhaps a couple-breakup service that caters to disapproving chaebol parents? Perhaps you would like to be in the business of empowerment. If so, opening multiple gyms and teaching Water Slap Dodging and Wrist Grab Breaking moves might be your jam.

Let’s put our hours of watching K-dramas “research” to use in this week’s chat.

If you were dropped inside dramaland right now, how would you make your first billion or trillion won? Give us your wildest business ideas that would only work inside a K-drama.

 
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(It’s good to see Mary’s back 🩵)

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Indeed - welcome back, Mary!

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Sell PPL slots auction style, best one goes to the highest bidder.

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- A 24-hour bookstore with cheapest priced books
- A 11 billion won chaebol-themed sportscar
- A charity event of piggyback race/marathon
- A 12 billion won dream house for the second leads

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Own a Subway restaurant

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Running a swap service for when you meet your childhood crush for the first time in years and are feeling down on yourself #She was Pretty style!

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Being the lost daugther of a chaebol family and tadaaaa

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I would open up a cafe/anything-you-need. (We're going for something like Harry Potter's room of requirement if folks are familiar with that.)

We already know there is high demand for cafe/something-else hybrids, but who wants to go to a million different cafes just to get legal advice, lie detection services, and interior design work done? Sounds exhausting. Instead, folks can just come to my cafe, which magically changes (at night, naturally) into whatever cafe combination they need in that moment. Need an evil spirit expelled? No problem, you can come to the cafe to get in contact with a handful of curly haired found-family members who can take care of that for you. Need some advice from a shaman? Say no more, you can come to the cafe and meet with a super famous but also secretive shaman* who is almost definitely going to be wearing colored glasses. It's perfect! Plus, we make great iced americanos and have only Italy-trained baristas.

*we do not claim that all shamans you meet with are legitimately spiritually connected to a deity, please use at your own risk.

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A line of bad guy outerwear: black masks, black caps, black jackets...

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With a reminder attached to take off the mask when in a cctv view line or when shining a light on some important documents.

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A secretarial school catering to the needs of chaebols. Courses in:
-Espionage
-Safe cracking
-Coffee making
-Self defense
-Etiquette
-Shorthand
-Improv comedy

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Put watching Protect the Boss in your curriculum must do's.

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Yes!! Lol I almost want to put a syllabus together with required videos 😂

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Anything but paying attention to a crazy but well dressed man who wants to play with me in the subway platform.

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The only way: marry rich chaebol heiress.

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I feel like the most obvious is sole liquor provider to the chaebols and poors alike. I don't discriminate based on socio-economic status. I sell to everyone from the law abiding judges to the head of the underworld criminal organizations. No individual or group will be exempt. Come one, come all to Liquor for All.

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Through the plot device of either immortality (as in Goblin) or sudden reincarnation/time skip (as in...a lot of dramas, but say Marry My Husband), buy undervalued real estate, or shares of stock. Then sell these items when their value is high. Or you could just put a tiny bit of money in an interest-bearing account at a bank you know will exist for a long time.

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I would run a personal helper service (you could order it via app) whose working hours would be from cca 9 PM to 6 AM, where those personal helpers would be dispatched (when ordered, like a taxi), to help the poor pijama-challenged people of dramaland to take off their clothes before they go to bed. The service would have three main levels: 1. take off at least the jacket and put to bed (the cheapest); 2. take off everything except underwear and put to bed (Classic); 3. take off everything, help put on pijama, and then put to bed (Premier). Voilá, I'm rich.

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It's true that drama characters have an inexplicable inability to do this themselves. You have struck gold!

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You can throw in a freebie: get rid of their fuzzy hot sweaters they sleep in under their blankets! Their sleep would instantly improve too!

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Yes, that could be like a variation of level 1. Good point.

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You'll need to provide a line a pijama.

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Owning a rental service with the following offerings priced at 1 Million Won Per Hour:

- Pool of great depths to dunk in for the romantic leads;
- White truck of doom to quickly get rid of the things that overstayed their presence;
- Cliff of doom to artificially raise the stakes and end the long boring chases;
- Half-face transparent veils and gaudy eyeshadows that make the lead instantly stop recognizing their love interest;
- Expertly written talismans guarding against many misfortunes and a variety of ghosts;
- And many other things!

As a free bonus, I'd throw in the tickets to a magical and beautiful land of Argan, because my customer might just find the elusive love of their life! You know what they say, happy customers return!

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Jackie O head scarves and discreet shades - sold separately

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Sell preprinted Resignation Letters at convenience stores, 2 for the price of 1.

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A matchup service for chaebols who have to pretend they’re in a relationship. We provide the fake GF/BF/spouse AND the backstory with pictures and social media for extra charges. This way they don’t have to involve someone from their workplace which does get sooooo sticky. NDAs included.

Separately, a service to reinstall car headrests on the front passenger side and turn off the interior car lights for night driving 🙄

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LOLOL at reinstalling car headrests!! 🤣 THAT is how you know a kdrama veteran!!👌

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Noble-idiocy-o-meters that look like diamonds for ALL couple rings. Would flash red and scream "I'm being stupid" when activated.

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🫘Beansprout award for community service 🌱 this is the one I would invest in because it would mean we could enjoy a drama to the end without enduring unnecessary angst scenes. It would mean no need for those wailing ballads to accompany the slow walking or multiple crying scenes. It would increase the happy ever after tie up and stop the ten minutes from the end wrap up after two years of no contact because mobile phones in K dramaland don’t work when someone moves abroad.

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I'd get a Subway franchise and Kopiko shares! Then I'd create a designated driver company that would drive the lead's car to they can have their romantic stroll under the cherry blossoms, get tipsy and even share a bus ride so they can fall into each other's shoulders while dozing off without the hazzle of worrying about retrieving the car later... My most risqué business venture would be the "happy accidents for plot development agency" with "overnight couple trip countryside airbnb" services on the side. where our couples can find a cozy magical place to stay while they wait for their car (that "mysteriously" broke) to be repaired or because they lost the last bus to Seoul (they mysteriously got lost in some village temple and arrived late to the bus station!).

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A dressing up service for those doused with a glass of water by that disapproving to-be MIL.

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