I hope for a stronger year in dramas for 2015. I started watching quite a few dramas that I dropped by episode 8/9 because the story-telling fell apart.

As an aside, I've been reading this blog for over seven years and its been great watching it grow and still maintain its core essence. Here's to a great 2015 for the Dramabeans team!

Haha seeing the first two photos, I realize that it's been 7 years since I've had jajangmyun. Those two shows really ruined it for me! Now even seeing people eat it on dramas is more than I can handle. Crazy.

The power of jajangmyun, man

Dammit. Now I want jajangmyun. ::thinks:: Do I have some black bean paste? I might. Hmm.

My New Year's Resolution is to finish watching all the dramas I stopped watching for reasons other than "this sucks". That includes the ones where the writers took the laziest, er, easiest path, but not necessarily the ones where I wound up hating the characters (and by the way, y'all, thanks so much for the recaps which allow me to have plot closure on those without having to endure the characters I'd like to push into the mud.)

I further resolve to listen to my inner voice when it tells me I'll hate a show, because - by and large - it's right, and I needlessly inflict aggravation on myself.

Watching fewer dramas might be a good goal as I'm learning myself.. I can't help it because my schedule doesn't allow it anymore but I also find myself wanting to watch other things unless a show has my full attention because it is good and not because I feel an obligation to watch it

Nice pic of Go Eun Chan! lol She was the first K-drama heroine I fell in love with. hehe

I already broke my resolution for this year. I was not gonna start up any new dramas for a while but I ended up marathoning "Healer" today so there goes that. lol

Whew, I'm not the only one who's spent the entirety of 2015 (to date) obsessing on jjajangmyeon!!! But laying hands on it in Portland is a major chore, darnit.

Happy new year girls !!!!!!

It just feels like yesterday when you announced you gonna start odds and ends posts :-O And you were talking about behind the scenes of dramabeans and all meet ups and extra podcasts. That was last new year post right??????
Where did the TIME go????

Healer-ya!!!

I have been re-watching the 8 aired episodes of Healer over and over again for the past week!

Ji Chang Wook is soooooo awesome as Healer/Bong Soo/Jung Hoo! <3 <3 <3

Oh gals, gals, you totally crack me up!!! Can't stop laughing. Thanks for this.

Pity is I don't get jajangmyun easily around here. I think I have to go to a Korean noodle place and ask for it. I just had awesome Taenjang Jiggae yesterday though, but it was at a restaurant in town. :)

I actually have been watching fewer dramas than last year (or last last year??) .. I figured that out after witnessing my friend at the office downloading every single drama available and wasting the tera-byte hard-disk. Like really.. you name it, she has it.. she kept complaining for not having enough space to keep her files.. but it doesn't seem like she will stop anytime soon.
That also made realized just how many dramas are produced every year in Korea.

I have also been employing the skipping method when I watch a drama (not watching while skipping surely). Watch the parts I like, skip the unnecessary parts, repeat the great ones. I figured out the rest of the story from reading recaps. That way, I think I have been living a healthier way, hhahah...

Haha, just the other day I told my friend that when ever I try to watch some thing that's not Healer, my mind compares it to healer. It happened while I was watching pinnochio. Just loooooooove the secret identity stuff and can't wait to see what they show us now.

well, you two can list your names behind my question in open thread, let´s see how long the "I am a religious person and Healer is my God" list gets. It is pretty damn long already...

I do not have resolutions, I always make wishes. They can come true, or not.

I wish I had time to eat SOMETHING and not work all the time.

I wish I could go to Morocco!!! I am saving up .... I love Moroccan crafts, tapestries, architecture, everything!

I wish I would greatly enjoy Tim Burton´s new film Big Eyes (but I am bracing myself against the urge to throw something at the screen and yell "You evil bastard! How can you do this to your talented wife???" cause I am a female artist and if anyone stole my credits like that I dunno what I would do. probably murder him.) Well maybe my new years resolution is not to murder anybody, again.

Isn´t that a lovely thought to leave you with...

hahaha. this banter just hilarious with perfect pictures. made my day.

Uhh... so I guess I should start watching Healer, then?

My New Year's Resolution: be better at everything. Sadly it is the same as last year because last year was a fail. Oh well. Have an awesome 2015 everyone.

You guys crack me up.

Happy new year girls!! May the new year bring with bowls and bowls of delicious jajangmyung!!!

I am wishing for a 2015 with less amnesia. I work in medicine and I swear there's a crazy disproportionate number of Koreans who get amnesia as compared to the rest of the world :) Happy New year!

My dramas related resolution for this year is Time Management. I really should plan drama watching time precisely so I don't feel like there are not enough hours in a day and days in a week...

New years resolutions don't work out well for me...I tell myself every year to pick up a new hobby, but nothing ever changes just because a new year comes along, and I just get older. :/

Happy New year to you all !
Thanks JB and GF for all the work you do. I've actually been reading your blog for several years now (I stumbled upon it when I stopped watching To The Beautiful You : it was horrible, but I still wanted to know how far they would destroy the original story, and then I found your recaps. And stayed).
My resolution for this year ? I don't take any : I keep them 1 week (maybe 2) and then forget I ever took them. The only one I can keep : continue to watch each episode of Healer at least twice when the subs are out. Then read your recaps, and watch it again. Just for the pretty <3

I'v actually never tasted/seen jajangmyun before : what is it like ? And, by the way, if someone knows a good Korean restaurant in Paris... :)

Korea may be the only country where eating noodles is taught in acting class. There are so many actresses so good at stuffing their faces!

That's a complement, by the way.

HAHAHAHA!!! ;)

THANK YOU SO MUCH, JB and GF!!! ;)

I was laughing my head off pretty much
the entire time spent reading
your brilliantly-wacky-and-hilariously-entertaining conversation!! ;)

Have a blessed and joyous 2015, JB and GF!! ;)

You both know how much we, your fans,
appreciate and love you both for all that you have done
in the name of your undying love for Korean dramas, right?

As a consequence, you have transformed my life
to such an extent that I cannot imagine
not coming here every single day (when I can find the time)
to fangirl and swoon
with the both of you gals and the rest of your fans,
over super-hot Korean actors,
or super-cute actresses,
or have a blast deconstructing (your word)
dramas to death
(or in other words, to our hearts' content),
but most of all having the time of our lives savouring
(and at times face-palming ourselves to death)
all that the Korean drama industry has to offer us, drama-viewers. Hehehe... ;)

May God continue to bless you both and your loved ones
with all that is good and wonderful! ;)

Thank you from the bottom of my heart!! ;)

That was the best Odds and Ends post ever!

"Sending you on a path of revenge, where you would invariably fall in love with the son of the person who was behind the wheel. And then your parents would be like, “How could you disrespect oppa’s memory like that?” And then you’d be a noble idiot and break up, only to realize you couldn’t live without each other. But then one of you dies of cancer."

^^Totally slayed me.

I learned to cook jjangjungmyun. Now I keep a supply of pork loin [I'm single - shoulder would be excessive] to allow me to have a sort of instant gratification whenever a craving hits. I plan on learning to make the noodles too. The plan is making more steps so I reconsider the noodle consumption each time.

If I had my own place, I have a feeling it would be covered in fermentation crocks too.

This year I hope to determine what I stand for, what I want, and how much square footage that may actually require. . .

I <3 dramabeans!

Thank you ladies for providing reams of drama related wit! Pure entertainment. Been reading you all for over six years now, and I can honestly say, it's been a real pleasure. Here's hoping for a fabulous 2015- though with Healer currently on the radar, it seems things are already shaping up to be pretty fab.

x

Now I'm craving for some jajangmyun!!!

Btw, can you pleaseeeeee do another variety roulette?? WGM with the LTE couple - Kim So Eun and Song Jae Rim??? These two are adorbs together! ^^ They made my SoEulmate heart waver! Or I might have already jumped ship!?

hahahaha! Happy New Year!

I'm so having jajangmyun tonight!

Hahahahah! I love the ending to this post!!

And this,

" I generally don’t make any because I don’t like to set myself up for failure."

My life in general.

Happy New Year! Thanks for the great reviews! Hopefully 2015 will be filled with more light and fluffy romcoms!

You two are hilarious! Everything I read from you guys makes me choke with laughter, so thank you for making my day. I hope you guys have an awesome 2015 and I'll be right over here at the Beanut Gallery waiting for more epic-ness from y'all! :)