2025 MDL Challenge Round 2

Short film

Duration: 8 minutes

Completed: 05/24

A drama with 10 episodes or less

Episode count: 9 episodes

Completed: 03/09

A movie that is more than 180 minutes

Duration: 208 minutes (3 hours and 28 minutes)

Completed: 03/13

A drama with more than 25 episodes

Episode count: 31 episodes

Completed: 03/23

A drama with more than 1 season 

How many: 2 seasons

Completed: 02/19

Drama

Completed: 05/18

Movie

Completed: 04/09

Special

Completed: 06/07

TV Show

Completed: 06/05

A Title with less than 1000 watchers

How many?: 55 as of completion

Completed: 04/08

A title with a rating below 6.0

Rating: 5.8 as of completion

Completed: 03/18

A title with a main actor in the Top 50 in the Leaderboard

Who? Lee Joon Gi was #50 as of starting (03/25)

Completed: 04/08

A title with a main lead who is not on the Leaderboard

Who?: Ryu Seung Ryeong as of completion

Completed: 02/27

A title at the top 100 popularity in its country

Popularity ranking: #73 as of starting (05/14)

Completed: 05/21

A title with no reviews

Completed: 02/28

A title that was mentioned in an article or editorial 

Title of article/editorial: Ask MDL Harem/Reverse Harem

Note: Re-watched

Completed:02/24

A title that was mentioned in a game

Game Title: Best 2024 Drama

Note: Re-watched

Completed: 03/23

A City or the word City in the title

Completed: 04/08

A title with a Cityscape on the poster

Completed: 04/15

A title with city view in the intro

Note: Re-watched episodes 1-7 (since it was on hold)

Completed: 05/13

A title that was filmed in a city that you wish to visit

Where?: Osaka, Japan

Completed: 02/26

A title that was filmed in a city that is in the continent you live in

Where?: Calgary, Canada, North America

Completed: 05/24

A main/supporting character is a doctor

Who?: Doctor/Psychologist ML

Completed: 04/28

A main/supporting character is a teacher

Who?: Archaeologist professor ML

Completed: 05/14

A main/supporting character is a maintenance/park Attendant/ traffic director

Who?: FL works in a laundromat (according to the internet, laundry is consider maintenance)

Completed: 03/16

A main/supporting character is a sex worker or host/ess

Who?: The female lead works at a cabaret 

Completed: 05/18

A main/supporting character works at a convenience store or night market

Who?: FL works at a 7-Eleven

Completed: 02/18

A main/supporting character working as a court official or office worker (court official is a judge, general, prosecutor, etc.)

Who?: Male lead is an office worker

Completed: 05/24

A main/supporting character is a performer or celebrity (singers/idols, band group, actors, influencers, even famous athletes)

Who?: The Male Lead is a celebrity and the 2nd female lead is a beauty influencer

Completed: 03/15

A main/supporting character is an architect 

Who?: The female lead

Completed: 05/10

A main/supporting character is a real estate agent

Who?: Most of the characters are real estate agents since it is an office drama

Completed: 03/24

A group of delinquents/gang members spotted

Who?: Random gang members going after some of our main characters (episodes 11-13?)

Completed: 04/06

A person sitting alone spotted

Who?: The female lead in episode 2

Completed: 03/16

A group of people dancing or exercising at a park

Who?: Main characters stretching and exercising outside the hospital

Completed: 02/26

Students in uniforms spotted

Completed: 03/11

A dead body spotted

who?: a lot of dead bodies since the FL is a coroner

Note: Re-watched

Completed: 04/20

A main/supporting character burying something (body, evidence, treasure, etc.)

What?: The female lead tries to bury herself alive

Completed: 04/29

A spy or secret agent spotted

Who?: SPOLIER: A police officer is working as double agent between the police and the teacher

Note: Re-watched

Completed: 04/28

A main character is at a praying ritual

Who?: Both leads lead a shamen-type of ritual various episodes

Completed: 06/07

A main character trying new food

Who?: The female lead tries Abalone in episode 2

Completed: 03/07

A main character seeing scenery in a moving vehicle

Who/what or when?: Episode 2

Completed: 04/20

A main character stargazing

Who?: Both leads in episode 9

Completed: 06/07

A main character on a rooftop

Completed: 03/21

A main character involved in a wedding

Who?: All the main characters

Completed: 03/12

A main character involved in a festival

Who?: Female lead when she was young in episode 1

Completed: 02/23

A main character involved in a graduation or inauguration 

who?: Both leads in episode 12

Completed: 05/04

A main character involved in a funeral

Who?: FL's father's funeral in episode 1

Completed: 04/20

A main character involved in a date

Who?: FL goes on a date with her friend's boyfriend after her friends pass away in a bus accident she was involved in episode 1,

Note: Re-watched

Completed: 06/01

A food cart/truck spotted

what?: Food cart

Completed: 03/18

A dine-in restaurant spotted

what?: The female lead works at a cafe to see if she can retrieve her memories that way

Note: re-watched

Completed: 04/10

A Rice or Noodle dish spotted

What: Ramen in episode 1

Completed: 05/10

Intercountry or interracial relationship

what: intercountry

Completed: 06/05

Friendship relationship

Completed: 03/09

Family relationship

Type: Mother-son

Completed: 03/12

Heterosexual or same-sex relationship

Type: Same-sex

Completed: 02/28

Public or street music performance spotted

What: Public performance in various episodes

Completed: 03/24

Athletic Competition spotted

What?: Body building competition in episode 1( Male lead)

Completed: 06/07

A club/saloon/bar spotted

what?: Bar in episode 3

Completed: 03/15

Traditional performance spotted

What: Shadow puppets in episode 1

Completed: 03/23

Globe or Map spotted

What?: Globe 

Completed: 03/21

Postcard or letter spotted

What?: Letter in episode 5

Completed: 04/19

Souvenir spotted

What?: Key chain from a date in episode 2

Completed: 06/01

Photograph or picture spotted

What?: Paintings

Completed: 04/08

Suitcase or trunk spotted

What: female lead had a trunk in episode 1

Completed: 03/03

signage spotted

What?: a commercial that one of the male leads was in

Completed: 02/18

other languages or dialect spoken 

What?: Japanese (it is a Korean special)

Completed: 03/21

City lights spotted

What?: Neon lights in the same block as the Male lead's workplace

Completed: 04/28

Main character going out of town on a trip

Who and what?: Both leads on their honeymoon in episode 1

Note: re-watched

Completed: 03/22

main character taking public transportation

What?: a train

Completed: 04/20

A main character has a goodbye scene

Who?: Both leads say goodbye at the airport

Completed: 03/12

A main/supporting character is a taxi driver/tuktuk driver/Rickshaw driver/etc.

What?: Taxi driver

Note: re-watched

Completed: 04/06

A Main/supporting character is a hotel concierge

Who?: Female lead

Completed: 03/21

Main character spotted in a village

Completed: 05/24

Main character spotted on a beach

Completed: 03/12

Main character spotted in the mountains or dessert 

where?: Mountain setting

Completed: 03/16

Skyscraper or tower spotted

Where or When?: Episode 3

Completed: 05/18

A scene happens at a crosswalk, plaza, public square or business street

Where?: The Male lead was having a panic attack on a crosswalk (ep. 2)

Completed: 04/06

A Bridge spotted

where or when?: Episode 1 - someone asks the leads questions when they are alone,they win a prize because they participated. 

Completed: 02/03

Central Station spotted

When or what happens?: one of the female leads talks on the phone while she is at central station

Completed: 06/08

Main character spotted in a park (nature or playground)

Where?: Various scene at a playground

Completed: 02/27

Main character spotted in a theater (movie, play or opera)

Where?: Pansori is a traditional play that involves singing- various episodes

Completed: 04/21

Main character in an athletic arena

Where?: Race car track

Completed: 03/17

Main/supporting character staying in a multi-family house (apartment, condo, penthouse, etc.)

Where?: Both leads staying in an apartment

Completed; 03/21

Main/supporting character staying at a hotel/hostel

Where?: Main leads at a hotel to catch a con artist

Completed: 03/18

Main/supporting character living in the slums

Completed: 02/27

Main/supporting character living in a mansion

Completed: 03/01

Hospital spotted

Completed: 04/09

School spotted

Completed: 03/05

A bomb shelter spotted or a bomb being dropped

What?: bomb explosion in episode 3

Note: re-watched

Completed: 03/11

Military Zone spotted

Where or when: during the past timeline

Completed: 05/23

A scene shot underground, tunnel, basement, shelter, etc.

Where?: Underground boxing ring in episode 1

Completed: 04/19

A field spotted

Completed: 04/08

China

Completed: 03/05

Hong Kong 

Completed: 05/14

Philippines

Completed: 06/07

South Korea

Completed: 03/15

Taiwan

Note: Re-watched

Completed: 05/10

Thailand

Completed: 03/09

Art District #1

A shower/bath scene or someone coming out of the shower

Completed: 02/28

Art District #2

Features a scene at a locker room, cubby or shoe locker(Japanese school drama for reference)

What?: Lockers in ep. 1

Completed: 04/28