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4''Delightful Girl Choon Hyang'' is the first KoreanSeries RomanticComedy by the amazing team of Creator/TheHongSisters and was broadcast on the KBS channel in 2005.
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6The plot is loosely based on a Korean Folk Tale in which the faithful wife is forced to remarry a corrupt bureaucrat.
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8Two high schoolers, Mong Ryong and Choon Hyang, are forced to "marry" to save their family's reputations when they accidentally fall asleep together. The two barely tolerate each other at first, but over time, feelings grow. Byun Hak-Do, a rich, handsome and successful talent agent falls in love with Choon Hyang and blackmails her into leaving Mong Ryong. This results in a long separation for our couple. Will they ever find happiness?
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11!The series contains examples of:
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13* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: Episode 13. Awwww.
14* BadAssBureaucrat: Mong Ryong describes himself as a "Prosecutor who fights". He spin-kicks in a double-breasted suit, and who doesn't love that!
15* BelligerentSexualTension: Mong Ryong and Chun Hyang, who when prodded to act lovey dovey to each other feel terribly uneasy about it ("It's so cheesy!")
16* CannotSpitItOut: Mong Ryong who, as a high schooler, never tells Choon Hyang that he loves her.
17%%* DerailingLoveInterests: Hak Do.
18* DrowningMySorrows: Mong Ryong, when Choon Hyang leaves him for Hak Do.
19* IHaveYouNowMyPretty: {{Averted}}. Choon Hyang abandons Hak Do while waiting for the plane to Japan to take off, and goes into hiding in Korea.
20* LampshadeHanging: A Hong sisters staple. After the TimeSkip, Mong Ryong comments to Choon Hyang, "Boy, time flew by as if you were in some TV drama."
21* LoveMakesYouEvil: Hak Do.
22* MobstacleCourse: Happens a couple of times.
23* OrbitalShot: Used several times in the series.
24* RealMenHateAffection: Mong Ryong and Ji Hyuk bond with a back tap, instead of a hug.
25* RealMenWearPink: Throughout both time arcs, Mong Ryong almost always wears something pink. He's still manly.
26* RidiculouslySuccessfulFutureSelf: Although the series doesn't specify the amount of time that passes during the TimeSkip, Mong Ryong has metamorphosed from a high school delinquent into a District Attorney / Prosecutor in Seoul. Ji Hyuk, who lacked focus as a teen, is now a wildly successful actor / model. Choon Hyang is hiding in plain sight, creating distinct jewelry under her own name.
27* RomanticFalseLead: Hong Chae Rin.
28* RoofHopping: This happens during the 'saeguk' episode endings.
29* ShoutOut:
30** Episode 16, tearful moment on the beach, with the love theme from ''Series/WinterSonata'' in the background. ''Winter Sonata'' was a runaway hit in South Korea in 2000.
31** In the same episode is a homage to ''[[Series/PulHauseu Full House]]'', a 2004 KoreanDrama.
32* SplitScreen: Used frequently to show simultaneous events involving different characters.
33* TermsOfEndangerment: Hak Do becomes so obsessed with Choon Hyang that he threatens to destroy her true love unless she goes to him.
34* TimeSkip: "A Few Years Later" in Episode 14 catches us up with the character's lives.
35* {{Tsundere}}: Chun Hyang is very dere to everyone but her husband, to whom she is almost invariably tsun.
36* WireFu: During the 'saeguk' portions of the episodes.
37* WomanScorned: Hong Chae Rin, Mong Ryong's previous girlfriend, who rejected him but did an about-face when he started dating Choon Hyang.
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