Line #24 Series/ScentOfAWoman


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2	[[caption-width-right:190:It's not bad falling in love to a tango!]]
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4	''Scent of a Woman'' is a KoreanSeries centered on Lee Yeon Jae, a low-level employee at a travel agency who is told she has six months to live. Her love interests include Dr Chae Eun Suk, an oncologist who was her first love 20 years before, and Kang Ji Wook, a bored corporate son who is put in charge of her division. Add to the mix Lim Se Jyung, the spoiled, rich daughter who is engaged to Ji Wook as a corporate merger between their fathers' companies.
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6	When Yeon Jae finds out about the terminal cancer, she decides to create a bucket list of twenty things she wanted to accomplish before she dies. She quits her job, determine to fulfill as many as possible. Some are easy ("Make my mom smile every day."); some are a little less so ("Go on a date with [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junsu JunSu]]"). In the course of this, she meets up with Ji Wook in Okinawa. He is first attracted to her free spirit as a stark contrast to his own shuttered heart, but eventually they learn to take care of each other.
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8	The 16-episode series premiered in July 2011 on South Korea's SBS Network.
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10	Were you looking for the 1992 Creator/AlPacino movie? Go [[Film/ScentOfAWoman here.]]
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12	!!This series provides examples of:
13	%% * ArrangedMarriage: Ji Wook and Se Jyung
14	%% * BadBoss: Yeon Jae's supervisor No Sung Sik
15	* BeleagueredAssistant: Yeon Jae, almost to ButtMonkey status, doing menial jobs for her co-workers and being harrassed by the boss.
16	* BreakTheHaughty: Pretty much spoiled brat Se Jyung's entire storyline after realizing that [[spoiler: 'a nobody' like Yeon Jae has so thoroughly beaten her for Ji Wook's affections]].
17	* TheCameo: Junsu, from the [=KPop=] group JYJ/[[Music/DongBangShinKi DBSK]], makes an appearance at a fan meeting.
18	* CarFu: Ji Wook uses his red sportscar as a shield for Yeon Jae.
19	* ClingyJealousGirl: Se Jyung, who can't stand Ji Wook with anyone else, even though she's not in love with him.
20	%% * CoolCar: Ji Wook's red cabriolet. (An Oullim motors Spirra EX Tempesta.)
21	* DanceOfRomance: The tango! Yeon Jae dances with both of her suitors.
22	%% * DrowningMySorrows: In a rather upscale bar.
23	%% * DullSurprise: Ji Wook.
24	* EiffelTowerEffect: Namsam Tower shows up in Episode 14.
25	* EmbarrassingCoverUp: Wilson, the pianist doesn't want to admit that his ring was stuck in his butt, so he claims it's a replica made by the same ringmaker. This forces Yeon Jae to pay a huge settlement for something she didn't do. Unfortunately for him, when Ji Wook investigates, this establishes him as a BadLiar [[spoiler: since the ringmaker supposedly died recently]].
26	* {{Engrish}}: A conversation in English between South Korean and Japanese characters.
27	* ExpositoryHairstyleChange: Yeon Jae calms and shortens her unruly tresses after quitting Line Tours.
28	* FinalLoveDuet: "Us Again" by Lee Sora is sung by the official couple at a ''noraebang''.
29	%% * FiveStagesOfGrief: Yeon Jae goes through all of them during the story arc.
30	* FrivolousLawsuit: Se Jyung sues Yeon Jae for $100,000, even though there was no proof of wrong-doing, just to make Yeon Jae squirm.
31	* TheGlassesComeOff: Yeon Jae when meeting Ji Wook in a nice bar. It [[TheKlutz doesn't help much]].
32	* HeartbeatSoundtrack:
33	** When Yeon Jae touches Ji Wook's chest during a tango lesson.
34	** When Yeon Jae enters the arbitration room during the lawsuit.
35	** When Dr Suk sees Yeon Jae for the first time at the double date in Episode 8.
36	* HeroicBSOD: Dr Choi Eun Suk shuts down [[spoiler: after one of his cancer patients dies]].
37	%% * HypercompetentSidekick: Ji Wook's assistant, Park Sang Woo.
38	* HypocriticalHumor: The other Lee when Ji Wook mistakenly takes Yeon Jae on as a tour guide comments that she's "weird." This is from a lady with bizarre taste in clothing, and ''way' too much eyeshadow and mascara.
39	%% * {{Jerkass}}: Yeon Jae does this when Ji Wook accuses her of keeping the money. Never mind that what she ''actually'' did with it was repay her friend, and hand out a huge donation to the hospital.
40	* KaraokeBox: Yeon Jae's boss Sun Sik takes the team out to a ''noraebang''.
41	* TheKlutz: Yeon Jae is constantly tripping over people or running into them with coffee or wine nearby spilling drinks on others or herself.
42	%% * KeepingSecretsSucks: Yeon Jae
43	%% * KPop: MBLAQ and Junsu both sing the series' main theme songs.
44	* LikeYouWereDying: Yeon Jae creates her bucket list and begins doing all the things she's wanted to do.
45	* ListOfTransgressions: When Yeon Jae quits, she tells off her boss.
46	%% * LoveTriangle:
47	%% ** Ji Wook → Yeon Jae ← Eun Suk
48	%% ** Also: Yeon Jae → Ji Wook ← Se Jyung
49	* MatingDance: The tango for Ji Wook.
50	* MotorcycleOnTheCoastRoad: Played with, in that Yeon Jae always wanted to tour the coast, but on a bicycle. Ji Wook obliges.
51	* MrFanservice: Ji Wook. Especially a certain shower scene. And the first scene where he pops out of the water. And pretty much anything where he's shirtless.
52	%% * ThePianoPlayer: Mr. Wilson and his (un)lucky ring.
53	%% * RichBitch: Lim Se Kyung.
54	* RightBehindMe: Evolved into a recurring plot device. People find out about secrets by walking in on third-person conversations throughout the show, because the characters otherwise CannotSpitItOut.
55	* ShoutOut:
56	** ''Film/CastAway'': Yeon Jae has a dream of being stuck on an island with a red-faced volleyball that morphs into a man.
57	** ''Film/ScentOfAWoman'': The Creator/AlPacino version is broadcast on Ji Wook's TV, leading him to mimic the tango scene.
58	** Ji Wook watches ''Film/PrettyWoman'' for inspiration to taking Yeon Jae out on a date.
59	%% * ShowerScene: Ji Wook, with and without clothes.
60	* SourceMusic: "Tango por Una Cabeza" is used for any tango scene, real or imagined.
61	* TakeThisJobAndShoveIt: Yeon Jae calls her boss an S.O.B. and throws her resignation literally into his face. [[spoiler:And when offered her job back, she declines.]]
62	%% * ThereIsOnlyOneBed: Ji Wook and Yeon Jae in Okinawa after escaping the Yakuza.
63	%% * [[BilingualDialogue Trilingual Dialogue]]: Korean, English and Japanese.
64	%% * UnluckyChildhoodFriend: Eun Suk
65	%% * VacationEpisode

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