Korean Drama Trivia
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90 free Korean Drama trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
A paraglider blown into North Korea, a goblin who can only die if his bride pulls a sword from his chest, a visitor who has been hiding in Seoul since 1609 and 456 debtors playing children's games for their lives: Korean dramas have been hooking the world since the first hits made Japan swoon in the early 2000s. These 90 questions run from that first wave to Squid Game, Extraordinary Attorney Woo and Queen of Tears. They cover the shows themselves (Crash Landing on You, Goblin, Itaewon Class, Reply 1988, Kingdom, The Glory), the stars who broke out of them, the ballads that topped the charts, the channels that aired them, and the words every fan picks up along the way. Every answer is cited to a page we checked, and each explanation adds one more detail. Play it solo, or print it for a K-drama night with friends.
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Q 01Which playground game, watched by a giant doll based on a textbook character, is the first contest in Squid Game?
Red Light, Green Light
Red Light, Green Light lets the 456 players move only while the doll's face is turned away, and anyone she catches moving is shot dead.
Q 02In Crash Landing on You, which hobby carries heiress Yoon Se-ri over the border into North Korea?
Paragliding
Paragliding goes wrong when a tornado sweeps Se-ri over the border, where army captain Ri Jeong-hyeok finds her and decides to hide her instead of turning her in.
Q 03What kind of being is Do Min-joon, the K-drama hero unaged since he arrived in Joseon in 1609?
An alien
An alien in My Love from the Star: the premise grew from a real 1609 entry in Joseon's royal annals recording a mysterious flying object over Korea, and Do Min-joon, living on Earth ever since, falls for the actress next door.
Q 04Which Korean term for family-run giants like Samsung and Hyundai also tags K-drama's rich heirs?
Chaebol
Chaebol is written with the same two characters as zaibatsu, Japan's pre-war family combines; the Allied occupation broke those up, while Korea's chaebol went on to dominate its economy.
Q 05Which term for the worldwide boom in Korean pop culture was coined by Chinese journalists in 1999?
Hallyu
Hallyu, the Korean Wave, got its name from journalists in Beijing in 1999, struck by the zeal of Chinese audiences for Korean television dramas and pop songs.
Q 06Which 2002 drama, shot on Nami Island, made Bae Yong-joon an idol to middle-aged Japanese women?
Winter Sonata
Winter Sonata is credited with carrying Korea's pop-culture boom into Japan: when Bae flew into Tokyo late in 2004, thousands of middle-aged women thronged the airport to greet him.
Q 07In Goblin, Lee Dong-wook plays what supernatural figure alongside Gong Yoo's undying Goryeo general?
A grim reaper
A grim reaper, Wang Yeo, shares the screen with Kim Shin, the Goryeo general framed as a traitor and killed by his young king, whose immortality only his bride can end.
Q 08Which animals fascinate Woo Young-woo, the autistic rookie lawyer of Extraordinary Attorney Woo?
Whales
Whales are Young-woo's special interest: she explains cases and people through whale facts, and her eureka moments arrive with visions of sea creatures swimming past.
Q 09Who created Squid Game, whose script sat unsold for ten years after studios called it too grotesque?
Hwang Dong-hyuk
Hwang Dong-hyuk wrote the script in 2009, put it aside without any takers and made three other films over the next ten years; in 2022 he won the Emmy for directing its first episode.
Q 10My Love from the Star's Cheon Song-yi craved which snack pairing, sparking a craze across China?
Chicken and beer
Chicken and beer, chimaek in Korean, flooded Chinese social media after Song-yi craved it on screen, and eateries there cashed in by selling the two together as a set meal.
Q 11Which Squid Game star became the first Asian man to win the Emmy for lead actor in a drama series?
Lee Jung-jae
Lee Jung-jae's 2022 Emmy was also the first in that category for a non-English-language role, and it came a month after the release of Hunt, the spy thriller he directed and starred in.
Q 12Which candy of melted sugar and baking soda do Squid Game players carve a shape from in game two?
Dalgona
Dalgona for the show came from a Seoul street vendor, and after it aired fans queued at his stall and his daily sales more than doubled.
Q 13Crash Landing on You's leads first cross paths, years before North Korea, in which country?
Switzerland
Switzerland hosted the opening weeks of filming, and the lakeside village of Iseltwald is where Ri Jeong-hyeok, then a piano student, plays by the water in the scene Se-ri later calls destiny.
Q 21In Signal, profiler Park Hae-young contacts a detective in the past through which discarded device?
A walkie-talkie
A walkie-talkie found in 2015 connects Hae-young to Detective Lee Jae-han, and the cold cases they chase were inspired by real crimes, including the Hwaseong serial murders.
Q 22Born a Joseon slave, Mr. Sunshine's Eugene Choi returns to Hanseong as a captain in which military?
The US Marine Corps
The US Marine Corps made an officer of the boy who fled Joseon for America in 1871, and he returns to the land that enslaved him only to fall for Go Ae-shin, a nobleman's granddaughter.
Q 23Reply 1988's Deok-sun trains as Madagascar's placard holder for which event's opening ceremony?
Q 14Which Crash Landing on You co-stars married each other in a private ceremony in 2022?
Hyun Bin and Son Ye-jin
Hyun Bin and Son Ye-jin broke the news themselves that February, each posting a letter to fans, a year after confirming they had become a couple once the series ended.
Q 15Who played Gu Jun-pyo, leader of the F4 and heir to the Shinhwa Group, in 2009's Boys Over Flowers?
Lee Min-ho
Lee Min-ho won the part after his first lead, the high-school series Mackerel Run, was cut short at eight episodes; Boys Over Flowers itself was adapted from Yoko Kamio's manga Hana Yori Dango.
Q 16Which drama sends captain Yoo Shi-jin and surgeon Kang Mo-yeon to Uruk, a fictional disaster zone?
Descendants of the Sun
Descendants of the Sun was filmed in full before it aired, a break with Korea's shoot-as-you-broadcast habit, so it could premiere in Korea and China at once; Greece's Zakynthos stood in for Uruk's coast.
Q 17Probing the king's mystery illness, Kingdom's Joseon Crown Prince Lee Chang uncovers what threat?
A zombie plague
A zombie plague is what he finds ravaging the countryside, and while he fights it his rivals at court move to seize the throne; Kim Eun-hee based the series on her own web comic, The Kingdom of the Gods.
Q 18Which institution's medical school does Sky Castle's Kang Ye-seo chase with a coordinator's help?
Seoul National University
Seoul National University is the S of SKY, the acronym for Korea's three most prestigious universities with Korea and Yonsei, and the reason the drama's gated community is called SKY Castle.
Q 19The World of the Married, whose 28.4% finale set a cable ratings record, remakes which BBC series?
Doctor Foster
Doctor Foster follows a doctor who uncovers her husband's affair, as the Korean version does, and JTBC followed the remake's finale by airing the BBC original.
Q 20In Secret Garden, what magical twist befalls store boss Kim Joo-won and stuntwoman Gil Ra-im?
A body swap
A body swap follows a mysterious flower liquor the pair both drink, and rain flips them back and forth; while in his body she punches one of his store's VIP customers and lands in a police cell.
The Olympic Games
The Olympic Games in Seoul go ahead without Madagascar, which joined the boycott of 1988, so after weeks of practice Deok-sun learns on camera that her country is not coming.
Q 24In Jewel in the Palace, orphan Jang-geum rises from kitchen cook to the king's first female what?
Physician
Physician to the king is what the real Jang-geum is reputed to have become: Joseon's court annals mention her as a medical woman whom King Jungjong trusted with the royal family's care.
Q 25In Full House, writer Han Ji-eun and actor Lee Young-jae end up sharing her old home under what arrangement?
A contract marriage
A contract marriage follows her spell as his maid, working to buy back the house her friends sold him; it is Young-jae's idea, to make his crush Kang Hye-won jealous, in the 2004 hit starring Rain and Song Hye-kyo.
Q 26Hotel del Luna, run by Jang Man-wol as a thousand-year punishment, takes which guests only?
Ghosts
Ghosts with unfinished business are the only guests, so the hotel always keeps one living manager to deal with the human world, and elite hotelier Koo Chan-sung is the latest to be hired.
Q 27Which singer, born Lee Ji-eun, played Hotel del Luna's Jang Man-wol and a lead role in My Mister?
IU
IU played two generations in When Life Gives You Tangerines, the young Ae-sun and later Ae-sun's daughter, and the 2025 series won Best Drama at the Baeksang Arts Awards.
Q 28Twenty-Five Twenty-One's Na Hee-do loses her school team to the 1998 IMF crisis in which sport?
Fencing
Fencing is what Hee-do refuses to give up: when the crisis disbands her team at Seonjung Girls' High School, she gets herself transferred to another school and later makes the national team.
Q 29In Business Proposal, Shin Ha-ri poses as her friend on a blind date and discovers the man is whom?
Her company's CEO
Her company's CEO, Kang Tae-moo of Go Food, is who turns up when she stands in for her friend Jin Young-seo; her plan was to get rejected, but he proposes instead.
Q 30In The Glory, what job puts Moon Dong-eun in the elementary school of her main bully's daughter?
Homeroom teacher
Homeroom teacher to Park Yeon-jin's daughter Ha Ye-sol is a central move in a revenge plot partly based on a 2006 case in Cheongju, where middle schoolers beat and burned a classmate for about a month.