Traditional Korean farmyard

From the kdrama "My Liberation Notes," episode 5, the front yard of a farmhouse. The low table is called a pyeong-sang (flat table), and it's used as a room, in that people leave their shoes on the ground. Sometimes a small table is put in the middle (for food or drinks), or sometimes it's just for sitting, or lounging.

There are other Korean-looking things, and the wheelbarrow is probably generic, rather than local. But I've seen more plastic (rather than steel) pans lately, and this one has a steel brace in the front, rising from the axle, to strengthen the part that might be holding the most weight when the wheelbarrow is in motion.

Korean Drama prop

Warehouse, slant of light...
This is the sort of place missing people end up.

The wheelbarrow proves that people still work there, sometimes.

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Another image from that drama, The King—Eternal Monarch (click to go to that post)

Two on a truck

From a Korean drama called "Mouse," Episode 16, made in 2021.

At first I thought it was one wheelbarrow up on a wall, in a construction zone, which didn't make sense to me, but it's on a truck with a side that hinges up, like a pickup tailgate in the U.S. Nice truck! Two wheelbarrows.

Goat tied to a wheelbarrow... I'll tell you why

In a South Korean drama, North Korea was depicted. This little wheelbarrow scenario was designed to help suggest poverty, farm animals, and lack of knot-tying ability, I guess.

Cinematic focus

This is an image of a wheelbarrow.

In this field of "junk" (some of it artfully arranged; not all), the wheelbarrow is framed by that laundry, looking like prayer flags, and the camera angle allows for the (unusually straight) line of the bottom of the hanging laundry to be clear of the parallel edge of the wheelbarrow, so sky shows through.

I wouldn't be surprised to learn there were lights inside the wheelbarrow. The sky is very overcast, but it seems there's light shining through the color.

The scene is about the guy sitting over there on the the side, but the focus of this image is that wheelbarrow.



Also there are lots of pairs of things there—two, and not three, of several items, often close and matching, but in the case of the tables, separate and mismatched; still two. The colors are red, white and blue, and the wheelbarrow is more orange than the other reds.

Korean dramas have some very high-quality cinematography. This is from The King—Eternal Monarch, first episode.

Wheelbarrows on the ceiling

In a cafe, near Mt. Jiri in South Korea, wheelbarrows turned into lighting fixtures:

Back entrance—the wall opens up so the mountains can be seen.



Yellow wheelbarrows, a tom-tom, some buckets, and I don't know what else.






Front:



This was spotted (and discussed briefly, by city boys who didn't live around wheelbarrows) in a program called "Master in the House," a reality show (sort of) which they call a variety show, but is more like an interview program in a way. Anyway, wheelbarrows.

Spooky Korean Drama Set Dressing

I don't know how set up it was, or how somewhat-candid, but in a dark and tense scene, portraying a dangerous construction area, it helps show that, and there's a bit of color in an otherwise way-dark scene.

Very often in cinema a wheelbarrow is used to represent lots of work, or quickly abandoned work, or to-be-continued work.
Probably in real-life, too. :-)

Korean drama, "Thank You"

Episode two of "Thank You," a Korean television drama from 2007.

Conan O'Brien, Buddhist Monastery

Conan O'Brien shoveling snow into a wheelbarrow, at a Buddhist monastery in Korea.



Click the photo to go to the video from which it was lifted.

Korean Litter

Before the dynasty of dictators... article with many photos, DailyMail.com, March 2013.

The photos are late 19th, early 20th century. I've shown the difference between a Chinese wheelbarrow and a European—with different origins, one replacing a beast of burden, and one with a wheel replacing the other person carring the other end of a barrow.

Below is something more like the Chinese barrow, and also like a litter with two bearers.