History Series / ExtraordinaryAttorneyWoo

* TheAllegedBoss: Park Min-shik, the owner of the Japanese restaurant Geu-ra-mi works at. She generally walks all over him and calls him "Hairy" instead of "Boss" and he's too kind-hearted to do much about discipline.

** A female lawyer weaponizes this against a male judge when they learn they're from the same [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bon-gwan clan]]. The judge patronizingly asks for the lawyer's father's generation name, thinking it'll give him the opportunity to talk down to her. However, the lawyer reveals that while she's younger than the judge, she's technically two generations ''above'' him, making her a distantly related aunt and forcing him to show her due deference so as not to be seen as a hypocrite by everyone else in the room.

** The late patriarch of the Dong family named his sons Dong-il, Dong-yi, and Dong-sam. In Korean, il, yi, and sam mean one, two, and three. Since the three share a generation name, it means their father simply named them First, Second, and Third.

At Hanbada, Young-woo comes under the tutelage of Jun Myung-seok, a senior attorney who patiently molds her into a litigator who can benefit the firm. She also comes into close contact with Lee Joon-ho, a member of the firm's support staff and all-around nice guy who stirs strong emotions within her.

* JerkassHasAPoint: Bnag Gu-ppong commits assault and kidnapping in pursuit of his goals but he's not wrong in saying that Korea's cram-school industry is harming the children it purports to help.

** Park Yoo-jin, who works in the provincial office, [[spoiler: never made any serious attempt to get Sodeok-dong's hackberry tree a natural monument due to him originally being in favor of an earlier subway project.]]

* MissingMom: Young-woo has no memory of her mother [[spoiler:as Tae Soo-mi gave her up at birth]]. She notes that a mother whale will die before abandoning an injured calf and wonders if she'd have a mother if she'd been born a whale.

* TheNicknamer: The head of Sodeok-dong loves to give nicknames to his neighbors by bestowing famous monikers on them based on their attributes, such as "[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Son_Heung-min Son Heung-min]]" on the town's best soccer player. Curiously enough, the town's "[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_Park]]" is really named Park Yoo-jin.

* TheNicknamer: The head of Sodeok-dong loves to give nicknames to his neighbors. Curiously enough, he bestowed the "Eugene Park" moniker to the town's resident violinist, Park Yoo-jin.

* PickyEater: Young-woo doesn't like unfamiliar foods so she will only eat gimbap, as the rolls let her see exactly what's inside.
* PottyEmergency: On the way to investigate a client's case, Soo-yeon experiences a case of indigestion so severe that Young-woo has to bring her a change of clothes.
* MissingMom: Young-woo has no memory of her mother [[spoiler:as Tae Soo-mi gave her up at birth]]. She notes that a mother whale will die before abandoning an injured calf and wonders if she'd have a mother if she'd been born a whale.

* EurekaMoment: Young-woo's flashes of insight are signaled by the scene shifting to soft lighting and a wind machine blowing her hair before fading to shots of whales.

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Myung-seok is stand-offish at first toward Young-woo, as he doesn't want the trouble of dealing with someone who's neurodivergent. However, he starts warming up to Young-woo and even goes so far as give up lucrative billables if it means dropping her from cases.

* ShipperOnDeck: Geu-ra-mi immediately sees that Joon-ho has feelings for Young-woo and tells him of a detour they can take to see a beautiful sunset. She also works to help Young-woo understand that she might have romantic feelings.

Woo Young-woo is Korea's first lawyer with autism spectrum disorder. Newly hired by Hanbada, one of the country's most-prestigious law firms, Young-woo represents her clients with gusto while slowly learning that justice is not quite as straightforward as the law.

** Han Seon-young and Tae Soo-mi, meanwhile, are powerful women in a male-dominated field but it's acknowledged that they probably wouldn't have achieved that level of success if they hadn't inherited their firms from their fathers.

* AmbiguouslyAbsentParent: The series initially doesn't address why Gwang-ho raised Young-woo as a single father. [[spoiler:Hints starts being dropped that Tae Soo-mi, the CEO of Taesan, is Young-woo birth mother.]]

* MissingMom: Young-woo has no memory of her mother. She notes that a mother whale will die before abandoning an injured calf and wonders if she'd have a mother if she'd been born a whale.

* HatesBeingTouched: Young-woo dislikes physical contact, which makes in difficult for her as Geu-ra-mi and Soo-yeon are prone to cuddle.

* CrazyEnoughToWork: Young-woo comes up with a plant to engage a man with a severe form of autism by performing "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWWFB-zw7LI This is Pengsoo]]" as the man is hyperfocused on [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pengsoo]].

** The late patriarch of the Dong family named his sons Dong-il, Dong-yi, and Dong-sam. In Korean, il, yi, and sam mean one, two, and three. Since the three share a generation name, it means their father simply named them First, Second, and Third.

** The late patriarch of the Dong family named his sons Dong-il, Dong-yi, and Dong-sam. In Korean, il, yi, and sam are one, two, and three. Since the three share a generation name, it means their father simply named them First, Second, and Third.

Woo Young-woo is Korea's first lawyer with autism spectrum disorder. Newly hired by Hanbada, one of the country's most-prestigious law firms, Young-woo

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Myung-seok is stand-offish at first toward Young-woo, as he doesn't want the trouble of dealing with someone who's neurodivergent. However, he starts warming up to Young-woo

* UnIshment: After Young-woo resigns abruptly and asks for her job back, Myung-seok says that she can return to the firm but that she won't be able to take any time off as a consequence of leaving her colleagues in the lurch. She replies that she never had any personal days to begin with.[[note]]Young-woo and the rest of the rookies are at Hanbada on one-year contracts. In Korea, contract workers aren't granted any benefits beyond basic insurance provided through their tax contributions.[[/note]]