53) Nice rich guy always has evil parent(s). His father has to be the head of this gigantic company and spends lots and lots of money to ruin the son’s relationship with a poor “uneducated” girlfriend - usually main female character.

54) Near the end of a drama, an “evil” chracter must go study abroad. Usually to the States or Europe (France!).

55) The main female character suddenly becomes attractive once the main male character starts liking her. All the other guys start finding her attractive.

56) People are capable of cleaning/cooking ONLY when they are wearing the brightest and tackiest apron-and-glove set they can find. If they are working *exceptionally* hard, they wear a funny hat/tie their hair up in the craziest, most haphazard way possible.

57) The first words you learn upon watching a Korean Drama were: Mi ahn hae, ahnyoung, gamsamnida, sarang hae, oppa/hyung/unnie/etc, babo, wae? and yobusaeyo. You might also start bowing when meeting people’s parents. (I could never get rid of the habit aftewards…)

58) When people need to talk to each other and are in the same place at the same time, they NEED to drive silently for 20 minutes to some remote restaurant on the 30th floor where they will sit silently some more before uttering a single word of the needed conversation.

59) They NEVER touch the food or drinks. EVER. If they do for really odd reason, they never finish them, because one of them always gets angry and storms out of the restaurant and the one who’s left behind sadly looks out the window or follows him/her.

60) If the protagonist(s) don’t happen to have leukemia, they will for sure get hit by a car or go blind.

61) When the main female character cries, she suddenly has lost the ability to walk, or heck even stand…*plop* =]

62) It seems all characters must be told important life lessons or soul-jerking moral stories at least twice…

63) A young woman starts to mature when she stops curling her hair midway through the series.

64) If someone has cancer/an incurable disease, they must keep it secret. They *must* suffer alone. In fact, they must do *everything* secretly — going to the hospital, getting the therapy, etc. There may be a few close calls, but no one manages to notice that they are sick until they are about to die.

65) Whenever the character finds out that he/she has cancer, cancer’s always at its malignant stage therefore incurable. (Regular health checkups are unheard of.)

66) The character always stays good-looking/pretty nonethless how painful/deadly cancer is.

67) A woman must always speak to her lover in honorifics while he may speak down to her as soon as they’ve shared their first love-saturated ambush-hug.

68) The strongest physical manifestation of desire and love is the ambush-hug: they usually arise right after a wistful goodbye. The woman has to be the one to walk away. Always. This is when the man must grab her arm, twist it gently and with great skill so that her entire body can be enclosed (no doubt something he learned during his mandatory military service). Then he must hug her. HARD. For about 3 minutes. The woman must not move and must definitely wear a quizzical expression on her face even though she’s probably wetting herself, and then act downright shocked when she can finally extricate herself from his fervent grip. The woman must ask, “What are you doing?!” which is code for “I’m so wet right now”.

69) If there is a cross-dresser in the drama, and the cross dresser happens to be a man, then he will be the absolute most GORGEOUS woman in the entire series. If the cross-dresser happens to be a woman, she is either adorable, hot and/or will make other guys question their sexualities, resulting in personal stress and (gasp) more drama.

70) The grandmother of the house is the ultimate authority… everyone (dad, grandpa, daughters, sons, mom, grandkids, other distant relatives) must bow to the absolute monarchy. And when she dies, instead of celebrating for their freedom, they all bawl their eyes out… wailing and hitting the ground… [hal mon eeeeeeeeeeeeee :’( ]