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* DeathByFallingOver: While Man-soo definitely killed three people, Min-young's death was an accident. She was running away from Man-soo in a panic when she stumbled down a hill and hit her head on a rock.
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* MurderIsTheBestSolution: For this guy's problems, it seems like it.
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* MurderIsTheBestSolution: For this guy's problems, it seems like it. Man-soo kills a guy and kills two more people for blackmailing him about it. He kills Eun-ah the bartender when she only wanted $1000.
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* TheReveal: Episode 14 reveals that Hae-rin, the pretty woman that most of the men in the office have been lusting after, is actually Park Jin-hee...sister to Park Eun-ah, the murdered bartender.
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* TheReveal: TheReveal:
** Episode 14 reveals that Hae-rin, the pretty woman that most of the men in the office have been lusting after, is actually Park Jin-hee...sister to Park Eun-ah, the murderedbartender.bartender.
** Episode 19 reveals that the village head actually murdered the previous village head, and took his identity, in order to gain control of his land.
** And of course episode 20 revels that Man-soo, the branch manager, is the killer. He killed Park Sang-joon, his school bully from back in the day, in a fit of rage. Then he killed both Do-sang and Eun-ah because they separately tried blackmailing him. Min-young's death was an accident.
** Episode 14 reveals that Hae-rin, the pretty woman that most of the men in the office have been lusting after, is actually Park Jin-hee...sister to Park Eun-ah, the murdered
** Episode 19 reveals that the village head actually murdered the previous village head, and took his identity, in order to gain control of his land.
** And of course episode 20 revels that Man-soo, the branch manager, is the killer. He killed Park Sang-joon, his school bully from back in the day, in a fit of rage. Then he killed both Do-sang and Eun-ah because they separately tried blackmailing him. Min-young's death was an accident.
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* HiddenVillain: The man in the car.
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* HiddenVillain: The man in the car. car, who seems to be directing events in the village. He's the one who gives the village head the idea to kill the prior village head and assume his identity. His face is never shown and he's never identified.
* LeftHanging: Who was the mysterious HiddenVillain in the car, who was giving the village head orders and suggested that he kill the real village head? A couple of times he's on the phone giving the village head orders. At the end, he's being driven away in a limo while the village head is being arrested. His face is never shown and he is never identified. If this was a SequelHook nothing came of it.
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* TheNeedsOfTheMany: The head of the village decides that certain sacrifices must be made to protect the village...
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* BlackmailBackfire: Both the second and third victims, Do-sang and Eun-ah, tried to blackmail Man-soo over their knowledge that he killed a man. He kills them both.
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* CollidingCriminalConspiracies: There's Man-soo, who has killed three people and caused the accidental death of a fourth. Then there's the village head, who murdered the real village head and took his place so he could get all the money when the land is sold. The two crimes have nothing to do with each other.
* CrimeAfterCrime: Man-soo killed his first victim, his old school bully, in a fit of rage. He killed victims 2 and 3 because they tried to blackmail him. Victim 4, Min-young, was actually an accident.
* DistantFinale: The last scene skips forward over a year. Eun-joo and Min-sung, naturally, are a couple. It's hinted that Ji-min and Na-young might become one as well.
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* FateDrivesUsTogether: Yoo Eun-joo and Jo Min-sung manage to run into each other in some of the weirdest places.
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* FateDrivesUsTogether: Yoo Eun-joo FatalFamilyPhoto: Man-soo's picture of his daughters. He looks at it one last time, and Jo Min-sung manage to run into each other in some of fact calls them, as the weirdest places. Saengchori branch office is burning around him. Soon after he dies in the fire.
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** She does this again in episode 19, bashing two villagers over the head with the pan to free Man-soo.
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* {{Flashback}}: An episode 6 flashback shows Min-young on a date with Do-sang, the guy who was murdered. He was planning OneLastJob, it seems, after which they were going to lead the easy life.
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* {{Flashback}}: Several.
** An episode 6 flashback shows Min-young on a date with Do-sang, the guy who was murdered. He was planning OneLastJob, it seems, after which they were going to lead the easylife.life.
** An episode 19 flashback shows how the village elders conspired, three years before, to kill the village head, with one of them taking his identity.
** An episode 6 flashback shows Min-young on a date with Do-sang, the guy who was murdered. He was planning OneLastJob, it seems, after which they were going to lead the easy
** An episode 19 flashback shows how the village elders conspired, three years before, to kill the village head, with one of them taking his identity.
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** The village head did this in episode 7 to make a point to President Park. In episode 19 he does this in a far darker context, when he decides he has to kill all the outsiders.
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* FryingPanOfDoom: Hee-rin clocks Sang-yoon over the head with a frying pan in episode 18. She then ties him up and threatens to bash him in the head again, before he finally reveals that he is an undercover cop.
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* UndercoverCopReveal: It isn't hard to guess, since Sang-yoon has been calling the Seoul police and has a StringTheory chart in his room. But episode 18 confirms that yes, he is an undercover cop there to investigate the murders.
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* EveryoneIsASuspect: Yoo Eun-joo has to take some calculated risks towards the end of the series.
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* EveryoneIsASuspect: Yoo Eun-joo has to take some calculated risks towards the end of the series. series, after Sang-yoon tells her that the killer is almost certainly someone in the office.
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* QuirkyTown: Saengchori is quirky and there hides a secret. Episode 12 reveals that someone is directing the village master to arrange for villagers to invest with the Garibong gang.
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* TownWithADarkSecret: The village head actually isn't the real village head. He was the youth director, and he, and several other citizens of the town, conspired to murder the real village head, so they could take possession of his land, which will soon be sold off for a huge sum when the area is developed. Episode 12 reveals that someone is directing the village master to arrange for villagers to invest with the Garibong gang.
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* PlotHole: There's a plot thread towards the end where President Park decides to fire everyone in the Saengchori branch, and Min-sung drags his feet in canning them...which of course ignores the beginning of the series in which Park sent the Garibong gang to Saengchori precisely because he couldn't fire them.
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* RaceForYourLove: Episode 17 ends with Eun-joo racing back to Seoul to stop Min-sung's engagement ceremony to Bok-soon. She makes it JustInTime, and he runs out with her, becoming something close to a gender-flipped RunawayBride.
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* ThatDidntHappen: Yoo Eun-joo and Jo Min-sung have a hard time sorting things out.
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* ThatDidntHappen: Yoo Eun-joo and Jo Min-sung have a hard time sorting things out. After their kisses they agree that it was just about work (it ''was'' about work in that he needed her to kiss him to zap his brain back into gear). Later he tries to confess his feelings but Eun-joo, unwilling to steal another woman's man, insists that no, it was just work.
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** The most egregious one is in episode 16, when Na-young and Man-soo eat dinner at a hole-in-the-wall Seoul restaurant, which they picked completely at random, and the woman who serves them turns out to be Na-young's long-lost mother.
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* DoggedNiceGuy: Han Ji-min is a really nice guy with a secret: he's in love with Eun-joo.
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* DoggedNiceGuy: Han Ji-min is a really nice guy with a secret: he's in love with Eun-joo. In episode 16 he tells her that he's very patient and will wait as long as it takes, even if she's in love with Min-sung at the moment.
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* CampGay: The fashion designer that Bok-soon brings out to Saengchori design her wedding dress is very, very camp.
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* TitleDrop: Combined with some LampshadeHanging in episode 15. Hae-rin has figured out that Sang-yoon isn't really a mystery writer. She challenges him, asking him the title of the book he's supposedly writing.
-->'''Sang-yoon''': ''[improvising]'' Once Upon a Time...in Saengchori?\\
'''Hae-rin''': What? Does that even make sense? Even an elementary school kid can make a better title than that.
-->'''Sang-yoon''': ''[improvising]'' Once Upon a Time...in Saengchori?\\
'''Hae-rin''': What? Does that even make sense? Even an elementary school kid can make a better title than that.
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* MonochromePast: Used for flashbacks, which are shown in a sort of washed-out color. This is how the flashback is shown in episode 14 when Sang-yoon sees Hee-rin and realizes where he saw her before: when she was running past him as a RunawayBride.
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* MonochromePast: Used for flashbacks, which are shown in a sort of washed-out color. This is how the flashback is shown in episode 14 when Sang-yoon sees Hee-rin Hae-rin and realizes where he saw her before: when she was running past him as a RunawayBride.
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* ShirtlessScene: This near-mandatory KoreanDrama trope is delayed until Episode 14. It's while Min-sung is taking a shower and showing off his chiseled chest that he realizes he can read numbers again.
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* TheBigDamnKiss: A big damn ''important'' kiss, it solved some problems, and caused others.
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* TheBigDamnKiss: A big damn ''important'' kiss, it solved some problems, and caused others. Kissing Eun-joo restored Min-sung's ability to understand numbers...but only temporarily, so he had to kiss her again.
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* FirstKiss: Late at night after much soju. Min-sung has been [[DrowningMySorrows drowning his sorrows]] to the point that he is swaying and staggering as he leaves the bar. Eun-Joo tries to help him out the door, he sways into her, and they kiss. It was electric.
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* FirstKiss: Late at night after much soju. Min-sung has been [[DrowningMySorrows drowning his sorrows]] to the point that he is swaying and staggering as he leaves the bar. Eun-Joo Eun-joo tries to help him out the door, he sways into her, and they kiss. It was electric.
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: After they are both struck by lightning together, Eun-joo and Min-sung exchange literal sparks of electricity whenever they touch. This sets up the events of episode 13 and 14, when TheBigDamnKiss between the two of them shocks Min-sung's brain, resetting it and restores his ability to understand numbers.
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* CatchPhrase: Min-sung always responds to questions he doesn't want to answer by saying "Do you need to know?" This pisses Man-soo off enough that in one episode he finally says "Yes, I need to know!", but he is a beta male and Min-sung stares him down.
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* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Each character gets these early in the show.
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* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Each character gets these early in the show. Ji-min and Eun-joo are introduced together when she comes to the front door of the Garibong office and finds that it has been closed. Ji-min is there too, and they commiserate on how much it sucks--until she sees the package tape and magic marker in his hand and realizes that he did it as a prank. She starts smacking him as they go in, and their characters and relationship to each other are established.
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** Min-sung does this again at the end of episode 13 after his secret is revealed to the entire Samjin board, apparently destroying his career. This time it leads to TheBigDamnKiss.
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* FirstKiss: Late at night after much soju. It was electric.
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* FirstKiss: Late at night after much soju. Min-sung has been [[DrowningMySorrows drowning his sorrows]] to the point that he is swaying and staggering as he leaves the bar. Eun-Joo tries to help him out the door, he sways into her, and they kiss. It was electric.
* OnceUponATime: The title evokes the whimsical story, with all the goofy city folks getting reassigned to a QuirkyTown where they have misadventures with the weird locals, as well as the fantasy element of Min-sung's LightningCanDoAnything plot.
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* StartToCorpse: The show starts with that first murder.murder, in which an unseen assailant chases Do-sang through the streets of Seoul and finally into a public restroom, where Do-sang is murdered.
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* ScoobyStack: The three nincompoops--Jin-soo, Dal-gook, and Man-soo--do this in episode 12 when they hear some strange noises in the adjoining room of Hae-rin's house, and they peek through the door. They find out that she's a shaman.
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* StringTheory: Episode 12 reveals that Sang-yoon, the mystery writer who keeps trying out a SherlockScan and failing miserably, is actually there investigating the murders. He has the standard wall display with pictures of all the suspects and strings connecting them. He also has realized that Min-young is missing (the audience has seen Min-young apparently murdered at the end of episode 8, although at this point no one else in Saengchori has even realized she has disappeared).
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* MiserableMassage: In episode 12 Min-sung, desperate for a cure for his brain damage, goes to some kooky alternative medicine guy. He winds up getting a painful massage.
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* ImagineSpot: Man-soo grows paranoid after realizing that Min-sung and Na-young are up to something together. He pictures Min-sung making her his spy in the office...then he imagines the two of them dating, and Na-young taking Min-soo's job...then, hilariously, he imagines the exact truth, that Min-sung has lost his sense of numbers and she is tutoring him.
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* IncrediblyObviousBug: Man-soo grows so desperate to know what Min-sung and Na-young are up to in the office that he puts a computer in there with the camera on to spy on them. But because he is a nincompoop, he puts the computer in plain sight, pointing down from a rafter directly above the office table. This gets him a security camera on his desk, pointed at him, so that Min-sung can know where he is at all times.
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* SherlockScan: Parodied in a random gag about Kim Sang-yoon, the mystery writer who moves into the house next door to our heroes. He meets the village elder and the neighborhood watch captain, does his Sherlock Scan, confidently announces which one is the village elder--and is wrong. Later in the same episode, he meets Ji-min coming out of the house, observes his chopsticks, deduces what Ji-min was eating, and is again wrong.
