Yay! Been waiting for this! Can't wait to listen!

YES! I can't wait to put this on my phone and listen to it while getting to work tomorrow - thank you for bothering with putting all these questions together, seeing this list makes me even more curious. Thank you!

Super excited about this! And even more so now that I know that it includes drunken rambling... I hope there was lots of giggling too because listening to drunken, rambling, giggling jb and gf is like the best thing ever.

Thank you! We love you!!!

You guys picked awesome questions to answer! I remember reading some of these. I'll find a nice, quiet place to listen to this (because it's harder for me to comprehend something without visuals). That way I'll be able to give this my full attention.

My internet connection is so sloooooooow. I want to finish downloading so I could listen to your podcast.

I love the song "Kissing Me" and the MV they made. Thank you for using it. I actually love the OST of that movie. I also thought Daniel Henney and his female co-star (the lead) had a really good chemistry, especially BTS. There is one BTS where I think the filming comes to an end, and she get teary eyed and emotional, and he is very tender and affectionate with her (or maybe it was just the scene they were shooting that got her like that, I am not sure). I kinda wished that scene was in the movie, because it was a beautiful scene between the two of them.

I'm surprised to hear that ppl in real life don't know about dramabeans. So even your friends aren't aware?

I don't know about others, but I, for one, would find dramabeans quite fascinating to hear from ya'll in person.

Thanks for taking the time to do something like this- especially in such a busy sleep-deprived tim for you guys.

Looking forward to hearing the next podcast!

Good idea about having dramas available on iTunes!!!!If only wishes were beans!I wish I could watch my dramas right here on Dramabeans!It'd be my one stop site for all things drama!

Over-educated and underemployed....hmm...now I'm really curious what schools you went to and what your day jobs are.

I also love hearing the pronunciation of names and words. When I first began watching kdramas, I just followed along with the subs and never learned the characters names, let alone the real names of the actors. Now I try to learn the characters' names and the actors' names and say them in my head without knowing the correct pronunciation. So your conversations really help with that!

Loved the distinction you made between recap and commentary. For example. when I have a conversation, it is typically a mix of both. But to have an objective recap and separate commentary in context - wow, you really do work hard for us. It's like getting double for the money. A big thanks for that.

In fact, we beanies benefit from the collective high quality of what you want for yourselves that is generously pass on to us.

On Korea wanting its media cake and eating it too - I have often thought that if kdramas and kpop (which you acknowledged is ahead of the game) and other things Korean want to reach a bigger global market, then they have to make access easier, not more difficult. On top of easier access from the networks there is the added step of subbing without which I wouldn't be a kdramaaddict. At all.

Loved the podcast - thank you thank you thank you!

Thank you. Love the music!!! Please open another request line, next maybe? :)

Oooooh thanks, I can´t even start to describe how much I love listening to your conversation! And you have such pleasant voices! For someone who gets normally easily bored with radio talks, podcasts and the likes, I can only marvel at how entertaining this is! Can´t wait for part 2:-)

I got a question: What´s the name of the actor born in 1987 that you compare to Lee Jeong Suk? I should know all of the 87 actors, but hearing you say it, it doesn´t ring a bell! Makes me wonder how many Korean names I actually pronounce in a wrong way in my head........

Such a great listen while stuck in traffic. I've never listened I a previous podcast because I'm always behind in the live watches. Loved seeing a glimpse behind the curtain and realizing I have no idea how to pronounce any names.

Awesome awesome awesome podcast!!! Way too cool getting inside a very small part of your brains to see how they tick. Count me in as one who will definitely make the trip down I-5 to Los Angeles for a DB Meetup. ROAD TRIP!!! :P

Thanks GF and JB! Love your podcasts. Curious though, who do you consider the alpha vs. beta male in the LMH/JIW vs. LJS/KWB pairs?

Javabeans,

Can I add some questions here for the next podcast? I was going to go back to the other thread to write it there but I'm not sure if you guys still check it.

1. Your top 5 heroines/heros, and why.
2. Your top 5 crack dramas
3. Favorite writer/producer
4 Favorite current dramas (Monstar, I hear Your Voice, You're the Worst, Lee Soon Shin- Hee ;) and etc.)

Thank-you again!

Wow, what a fun podcast! Thank you!

I love listening to your podcasts! After reading so much of your writing it feels like I'm sitting and talking with friends, even if I'm just sitting here giggling along to myself.

The photo of the podcast, whoever it is Javabeans or girlfriday... looks like Kim Ha Neul :-DDD verry pretty!!! Thanks for the podcast!

JB, why did you mention Wesleyan in the beginning of the podcast? Is that your alma mater?

Dear all,
Thank you for your ratings, I use it for my reference, most of the time I don't agree, but stikk end up watching k drama if you said it a good one
I wondring why I always watch drama or movie even its bad one if the hero and the heroin are :
Lee min hot , jang keun suk, kim soo hyun, lee seung gi, kim nam gil, son ye jin, zoo in sung, song hye kyo, kim ha neul,
Song seung heon, sin se kyung, lee bo young, rain, yoon eun hye, lee dae ha....., can you tell me why?

Anyway thank you for your time and effort all this time to fulfilled our thirsty off k drama.

I knew Kim OkBin's "sageuk"-speak sounds off in Sword and Flower! But since I am not a Korean speaker I thought it was just the show being fusion-y.

Regarding the acting-directing-writing trifecta, I am a bit confused. I have always thought that the director is in charge of framing the shot and correcting the movements of the actors/actresses while editors are the ones who are in charge of music placement, cut-to-cut/scene-to-scene transitions (at least this is how I understand the North American model of film production) but in your podcast, javabeans describes these roles as the same. Is this more of a difference in the Korean entertainment industry or am I missing something?

Loved the podcast! I missed the podcast request thread so, may I ask have you girls met any k celebs irl? Thanks!

I mined Park Hae-il first. He's mine mine mine.

regarding the legal availability of kdramas: YES, PRECISELY. if there was a (good) way, i would be willing to pay to have my fix delivered to me.

mbc and one of the other stations has a whole slew of older dramas up on youtube through their official channels, which i found to be a pretty promising sign. unfortunately, for the mbc drama i wanted to re-watch, chunks of episodes were missing. there were about five or six videos per episode for this particular drama, and they never connected. i don't know if this was intentional or an error.

my mom gets korean cable, and all the shows from mbc, kbs, and sbs are recorded and stored for (only) a month. after that, they delete automatically. but despite the fact that we have good internet, it's just not the most reliable. it freezes all too frequently, and i just wish it updated faster (typically, monday's shows are updated by monday evening eastern time. i can't wait a whole day to watch i can hear your voice! haha).

so personally, i torrent everything. i recently discovered viki, which is a great backup. but i like having the files so i can watch at my own leisure, at my own pace. i can skim and fast forward and rewind much more easily on a computer than i can with a remote aimed at a television or with viki. streaming sites can be slow, and dependent on having (good) internet. which i do, but if i'm on the go somewhere, there's nothing like having the file right there to play.

i wonder if korea is aware of the extent of this sort of thirst for their kdrama products? koreans are speedy about a lot of things, but really slow about stuff like this.

I liked your points about snarking. I'm open-minded to dramas, but I pretty much know if I'll like them or not based on plot, genre, and the actors/actresses starring. You guys are waaaay more optimistic than me. And I like that. I know a... um... drama blogger... whose snark I... pretty much... cannot stand. Ha. So trust me when I say, I appreciate the manner in which you two approach projects.

I liked your comments about good acting, directing, and writing too. 2/3 is a definite plus.

And Park Boyoung... I love watching that girl on screen. I totally wish she would do more television and reteam with some of her former co-stars from movies and music videos. Song Joongki, Joowon, Ji Changwook, even Junhyung of 'Monstar' to name a few. Ha. They all had such good chemistry with her but every story ended sadly. Boo. And I'm totally down for a Park Boyoung/Lee Jongseok pairing. Ha. Was that ever confirmed? I just hope her next project is awesome.

Anyways, thanks for responding to these questions. Nice to know there are so many of us entertainment enthusiasts.

Also... I must be on this site way too much... when I'm reading an article and forget to check who posted it, I can tell right away through your styles of writing and humor whose post I'm reading. Ha. Yeah, I think I fall under that over-educated, under-employed category too. Ha.

This podcast is another reminder of why I fucking love you guys and Dramabeans. I get the feeling that I should learn Korean professionally so I can appreciate the kdrama/k-entertainment world a little better (or have a better reason to snark). As cheesy as it sounds, I think you guys are pretty inspiring pioneers (drunk slurs included).

I love the fact that you guys go day by day without planning much. CARPE DIEM.
But i still can't help but notice you guys mentioning it's still up for precisely that reason. So that means when you guys get married and have kids things will be different? Can i "mine" you ladies the way everyone "mines" their oppas?
Thanks for answering my question! :)

UHMFORCE !!!

See, I was supposed to be transcribing an interview for work, but guess who stopped doing *that* to listen to this podcast? :p

I'm as curious as everyone else on where you studied or what your past day jobs were, though I'd also like to take a moment and shriek "Television Without Pity!! FTW!!! Woot!!!" If you've been hanging out there a while for US show recaps then I'll peg you both as being my age or slightly younger. :p

I had such a lightbulb moment when you mentioned it, because I've been reading your recaps since last year (when I first started being interested in K-dramas) and something about the quality of your recapping and the smart use of snarkiness rang familiar. (though yes, the snark levels of TVWP were something else)

This was a fun podcast to listen to, and I really enjoyed learning a bit more about you two. :)

Javabeans, Sung Shi-Kyung! I'm with you here. He's one of very few celebrities with whom I'd really like to have a conversation (also marry). He's self-aware and subtle and really upright, and he clearly values his education.

He's totally not encouraged to speak the way he does, and I love that he's a big stubborn stick in the mud about it. I love that bokbulbok is a matter of integrity for him.

If anyone hasn't seen it, he kind of railroaded his episode of Knee-Drop Guru and it was awesome: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xqgovj_eng-gf-sung-shi-kyung-071031_people

I also like his snaggly bottom teeth.

This was totally genius. Thank you. You don't think you're "famous" but...you are absolutely heroes/goddesses of wit to us. My life without dramabeans would be super sad.

No drama episode is complete without a DB recap. DB is the internet equivalent of bacon- it makes bad things tolerable (see BIG) and awesome things even better (see IHYV).

dramabeans 4evah

I am at work and can't listen to it right now. But I am so happy to see this post!! Looking forward (and can't wait) to listening to it later.

OMG. Totally random.

I see in my inbox, WOO, another podcast... listening listening... OING, me? Totally embarrassing! I am alive, but this is so weird - like showing up to one's funeral as a ghost.

What can I say, I LOVE jb and gf and everybody and I wish that there were 36 hours in a day, and that I could devote that much more time to do things.

1. Yes, family and work are keeping me busy.

2. I miss DB and everybody at DB terribly.

3. These days, I don't watch much of anything k-drama related. I feel like I belong to a past age of k-dramas, and all the new stuff now is just over my head - I don't really get them. The new series feel foreign, feel formulaic, and lack the honesty and creativity that series like Coffee Prince exuded.

4. If I ever got $1B, I would quit my job, buy the rights to Robotech, re-make Robotech as a Korean sci-fi drama series and then convince JB and GF to executive co-produce. Rick Hunter would get Minmei and not Lisa Hayes. Why? Because Rick and Minmei were MFEO. I cannot even begin to tell you how much I want this dream to come true. Until then, I am just grinding away at being a dad, a husband and a lawyer.

5. Finally, I don't see myself as having had a "male" viewpoint with respect to k-dramas. I just had a viewpoint. And to be honest, I tend to be irritated by what I see to be the stylings of what males are supposed to be like in korean media. As I said recently to a close friend, the male role model in k-dramas appears to still be one of two archetypes - (a) the hyper stylized flower boy, and (b) the chauvinistic arrogance (binnie drinking cantata coffee).

Why not simply show humility, equality, soft-speaking, generosity, intelligence, humor, tolerance and a strong sense of duty (but without the makeup, the guy-liner, the slimming cardigans, the aloof emo-tastic attitude)? Why not be strong, without being antagonistic or attitutidistic? Why must every k-drama male character be so hard to relate to (other than, as my friend suggests, UTW)?

Anyhoo. I am so happy to have had a small part of DB's success and growth, and I am eternally grateful to JB and GF for allowing me to express myself and to have fun.

=) *wave*