Business Proposal (2022)

Which Korean entertainment tropes appear in Business Proposal?

Business Proposal is cataloged under 4 of DubSori's tropes. Each links to a definition with the Hangul, Revised Romanization, and other titles where the trope appears.

• Banmal / jondaetmal switch - 반말 / 존댓말 전환 (Banmal / jondaetmal jeonhwan) - A character switches between informal speech (반말, banmal) and formal speech (존댓말, jondaetmal) - a register shift that English subtitles flatten and English dubs almost always lose. In Korean drama the switch is itself a plot beat.
• Chaebol heir - 재벌가 후계자 (Jaebeol-ga hugyeja) - A character - usually a romantic lead - who stands to inherit a *chaebol* (a large, family-controlled Korean conglomerate). The trope turns the structure of South Korean corporate ownership into a recurring engine for romance, comedy, and class-conflict storytelling.
• Sixteen-episode runtime - 16부작 (Ship-yuk-bujak) - The default run length of a Korean primetime drama: sixteen episodes, each roughly 60–75 minutes. The shape of a 16-episode arc - three acts, late-twist reveals around episode 12, peak around 14 - is so consistent it has become a structural unit of analysis.
• Tsundere lead - 츤데레 (Cheundere) - A romantic lead - usually but not exclusively male - who presents as cold, dismissive, or actively hostile early in the relationship and reveals tenderness only to a specific other character, gradually. The term is loaned from Japanese "tsundere" and used widely in Korean fan and trade press.