As cute as the word "oppa" is, donggap are my favorite romances. I love same age friends for how comfortable they are with each other and how they use banmal. My favorites this year include Suzy and Nam Joo-hyuk Start-Up, Park Bo-gum and Park So-dam Record of Youth, Kim Soo-hyun and Seo Ye-ji It's Okay to Not Be Okay, and Ahn Hyo-seop and Lee Sung-kyung Romantic Doctor Teacher Kim 2.

This is why I'm so disappointed with Do Do Sol Sol La La Sol and Do You Like Brahms? because Do Do Sol Sol La La Sol Go Ara and Lee Jae-wook were donggap until the most unnecessary plot twist ever made them all of a sudden not, and Do You Like Brahms? Park Eun-bin and Kim Min-jae were donggap but spoke in jondaemal until the bitter end.

This is also why I love high school dramas (Lee Do-hyun and Han So-eun and Roh Jeong-eui and Choi Bo-min 18 Again) because everyone speaks casually in high school, and they feel close when they call each other by their full names ("Hong Si-ah").

So unless your boyfriend is a North Korean soldier, I can't ship if you call your significant other "ssi'."

Happy Friday, Beanies! Taking a quick break from cleaning our apartment to tell you all that I finally have a chance to return to my hometown after nearly a year!!!

For me the worst thing about the coronavirus is the uncertainty of when I'll ever see my family again. So yeah, I hope I don't jinx it by being too happy and excited.

Also, I'll take on more responsibility at work next month and get to lead a small team of 3. Uhhh... Farewell, my carefree days 🤣

Little Boy - 1375k - a bit late so go for

1415k - 1st week December

and 1475k - 19th December

December as +ve month - time for Little Boy to go. Next from 1st week January 2021.

I'm still having cold. Couldn't sense for an hour, opps - it was stuffy nose. heh. Then at night time drank bottled water at room temperature - almost 1.8ltr and withing few minutes i was trembling, clacking teeths, chattering teeths and heavy breath. I had to resort to breathing through mouth and thought once more Opps.

As said last week people like us has to face the consequences of the actions of others. I haven't stepped outside for 2 months and here i'm a bit skeptic of what and what not.

Little Boy don't knock my door. I won't be able to withstand it.

Not me crying over a fictional couple as if they were real not me. 😭 But I love them so. Need to watch other dramas already.

I am waiting for the annual K-Drama specials to air. Until then, KBS America has been showing reruns of older dramas. Currently, it is Chief Kim (Good Manager). I remember first watching it to conclude that it was a great show. In this re-watch, it is enjoyable but does not have the same impact as the first time around.

Do you have the same mild let-down watching an old favorite for a second time?

I was surprised to hear Sayuri's story. She's a Japanese enternainer in Korea and she had the same story than Oh My Baby's plot. She wanted to be mum but her health condition won't let her in the future. So she decided to be a single mum and she faced the same issues that the FL in Oh My Baby, so she went to Japan to find a hospital where sperm donations for single mother are possible. Now, she's the mother of a little boy :)

It's pre-emptions to sports on Kdramaland schedule again this week!
Each three Kdramas had only one episode this week (Kairos did the same last week as well as Fly Dragon/Delayed Justice).

- Kairos (Ep. 6) and The Spies Who Loved Me (Ep. 8) aired this week = preempted to KBO/Korean baseball (again!) on MBC
- Penthouse: War in Life (Ep. 7) aired this week = preempted to friendship football match between South Korea and Qatar in Austria on SBS (the former which is the Kdramaland home won this football match)

BTW, Kairos will be back to two episodes format next week, this time on Tuesday slot only due to preemption of upcoming/future KBO baseball games on Monday.

Happy weekend Beanies and keep Beaning On!

Warrior friend has invited the friend squad for a video chat this evening, I am pretty excited to see and hear how she and the others have been doing.😊 She started with immunotherapy this week and I hope her body will be able to handle it. The chemotherapy sent her to IC last time and I really do not want a repeat of that.🥺 Everyone else also seems to be fine or recovering well, so I guess the deities agree that I should focus on myself and my new job from now on.💪

Real life somehow heard the news too, because now my health is suffering for a change. Dentist appointment was a few months ago, but a piece of my tooth broke off the other day. Regular eye check-up was this week, but instead of stagnating as required at my age, my sight deteriorated even more. I will have to spend a lot of time with my dentist, my optician and my credit card next week.😭 At least most of it should be settled before I start work in December. The last month of the year is going to be a busy one, so I have one week left to get ready.😉

Wait….Last month of the year!!!!!!!!😲

Happy Friday, beanies!

Last week on the Open thread some beanies discussed about the possibility of reviewing the this year in dramas, we came up with this list and this hashtag for this December-sort-of-challenge.

#2020roundup
Day 1- That male lead you will never forget (for better or worse).
Day 2 - That female lead you will never forget (for better or worse).
Day 3 - That PPL a drama feels empty without.
Day 4 - The drama you couldn’t finish.
Day 5 - The drama you finished just for the bean.
Day 6 - The drama you know you will rewatch.
Day 7 - That OST you’re obsessed with.
Day 8 - The OTP you didn’t think you’ll adore.
Day 9 - The drama you watched just because and end up loving.
Day 10 - The drama beanies convinced you to watch and you can’t be grateful enough.
Day 11- The crush you discovered in 2020.
Day 12 - The “oldie” (not 2020) you loved the most.
Day 13 - Most fashionable / elegant character in a drama.
Day 14 - The drama that could have been but wasn’t… (if only they listened beanies!)
Day 15 - Those secondary characters you will never forget: SL, villain, kids...(for better or worse).
Day 16 - Best quote / oneliner.
Day 17 - The drama that made you emotional.
Day 18 - The drama you want to rant about.
Day 19 - Most memorable scene.
Day 20 - That cameo that blew up your mind.
Days 21 to 31- Freestyle

You can join for one day, or try the whole month, you can follow the themes or just freestyle all the time. It would be lovely to read the comments and reviews from all of you. The idea is that we talk about dramas aired in 2020 (as if we haven't talked about them enough, hehe).

If you don't keep a record of what you've watched, you can find some help in this link: https://wiki.d-addicts.com/List_of_Dramas_aired_in_Korea_by_Network_in_2020

A lovely way to keep beaning on!!

happy friday beanies!
drama updates: i have the last episode of BTIMFL left, and i am NOT READY to leave nam sehee *cries*. i have officially fallen for lee min-ki, but thanks to @mindy, i will have more of his content for a while now. the r88 rewatch is going great, i actually have been noticing details here and there that i never saw before! which is really exciting. i also continue to swoon for junghwan with each ep, i thought i wouldn't this time, just because i've seen his scenes so often, but my love only continues to grow ◡̈ i have to watch my ajusshi, it's been a while. i'm enjoying all these dramas so much, i wish i could binge them! (except maybe MA bc it's kinda dark lol) but i'm just happy i'm watching.

life is quite uneventful honestly, i did get blue light glasses, which have been helpful, but that's about it. i hope you guys have a good weekend!

love and hwaiting,
shachi

Starting to make a list of dramas of this year. I am just not sure yet how I am gonna separate them into categories.
"1.Dramas from 2020 that I watched.
2.Dramas from 2020 I liked.
3.Dramas from 2020 I forced myself to finish.
4.Thats why I cant never trust a writer again 2020 edition.
5.Great episode/writing (this will be for just one episode of a drama)."

Hey beanies! We made it through another week! I can't believe that we're 2/3 done with November - every year, I feel like someone vacuum packs Oct-December and then hurtles it at warp speed through the space-time continuum. Or however that would work. The only astrophysics I think I know is from watching Big Bang Theory.

This weekend I plan to get cracking on some embroidery projects (Christmas gifts for my sisters) while working through my waiting podcast episodes, finishing Search and getting sleep. We're also still doing virtual kids events via the American Library; I'm always so sorry we can't do them in person the way we usually do, but those kids always show up full of energy and happy to be there anyway. And the librarians work so hard to make it a fun and engaging hour. I'm amazed at what people are pulling off in 2020 - there's a lot more light than I sometimes realize.

Wishing you all a happy and healthy weekend, and can't wait to start the #2020RoundUp with those who plan to participate in one way or another!

Hello, Beanies! Happy Friday! I hope you’re all well.

We just finished two weeks of Covid-related isolation in our household. We all tested negative, but the local recommendation was to be in quarantine, so yeah. The situation in our geography is sort of dire, so staying home for a few weeks is probably for the best.

Still behind on all the new k-drama, but—after much resistance and questioning, I’m now watching Secret Garden. To my genuine surprise, I kind of LOVE it, wacky plot, tacky track suits and all! I can now see why it was the gateway drug to k-drama for so many.

Kdrama watching schedule kind of slow this week with all the slow subs, preempted shows and some dramas just falling flat about halfway through.
I see that KBS is doing the single episode drama special again - I missed those, some were pretty good. However of the 3 episodes so far, first was OK, second was bleh, third was pretty good.

I was rather disappointed in Penthouse - only one episode, and the body count failed to go up, so still stuck at 4 or 5. That show is the very definition of over the top makjang, yet I can't look away.

Nearly all the other shows I follow are being super slow to sub, so been surfing NetFlix for all the weirdest stuff. I spend more time surfing/looking than actually watching...

Just got back from my morning run and feeling kind of guilty - I passed an old guy on the way out trying to catch his dog (an enormous German shepherd) and he asked me to grab her if she came to me. She didn’t but I also didn’t really try because I thought he was joking....came back the same way ten minutes later, still there, I went close and the dog came straight to me.....apparently she is a ladies dog. I could have saved him so much frustration! So now I feel like a terrible person for not trying at the start.

I am having a nice week - it’s been pretty LSG heavy, because he just released his first song in years (and I really like it, requisite link to music video here... https://youtu.be/uJEKfFUbu0c - although if I’m honest the music video makes me laugh and I can’t take it seriously, I prefer the live version, https://youtu.be/JTc7wsUXpxI). Getting my revenge on my kids for making me listen to Twice 50 million times a day 😈

Christmas time is just around the door, and what better way to pass the remainder of this droll year by kick-starting Christmas by baking gingerbread. I promised my children we'd bake some gingerbread this weekend so I suppose I've got my work cut out for me this sunday.

I am usually terribly strict with the timing of seasonal decorations, but this year I might just holler along with Mariah Carey and Triad a bit early. Sorry, neighbors!

Here's something to spoil your day. Or week, or... Instead of worrying about how many people have have had the plague, or total deaths, or test positivity rates, look at death rates. Then run and hide.

I just read that in North Dakota about 1 person in every 1,000 has died of Covid, so I had to do some checking by comparing Wikipedia population figures to Covid death counts on one of the sites that list those by state.

In North Dakota it turns out to be a bit more than 1 in 1,000. In California where I live, it's "only" a bit less than 1 in 2,000. For the U.S. as a whole about 1 in 1,300.
😱

Am I the only one having problems with this website’s page load? It takes forever on mobile.

Hello beans. I hope everyone had a good week and happy weekend. I have some announcements:

1) D-day!!! Rok Monte is finally here! 21st Nov is Sungrok's first performance in Monte Cristo 2020! It's his 4th time as Edmond since the musical premiered in 2010 ⛵.

2) D-2 to Happy Sungrok Day aka SSR birthday! 23rd Nov!! 🎂

3) 21st Nov is also 'The Last Empress' 2nd year anniversary! The drama that changed my dramaland~ where are my TLE rabbit beans? Bogoshipoyo~~ 👀

4) Kairos will air both ep 7-8 on Tuesday 24th Nov, as the Monday slot is canceled for baseball. Yay! We get 2 eps next week~~ 1 ep per week is not enough and it breaks the flow of the story. It's so good so far, hopefully it remains good or be better until the end~ ⏳

I am thankful for Korean Dramas. #givethanks, everyone!^^

It's become part of my holiday tradition to rewatch Oh My Venus close to Christmas. Does anyone have any more suggestions or recommendation for a sweet, comic, or at least not dark K-drama that has key episodes during Christmas/New Year's Day?

Happy weekend beanies!
Me, I worked Friday evening-night, and have to work Saturday morning 7-12. (Right now is 6am), and I feel totally destroyed! 😡

Funny, I am supposed to be on vacation, from my main job, but then I have this other job, and today is actually a favor, I suppose, for someone called in sick.... anyways!!
Even on "vacations", I couldn't go anywhere, thanks covid lock down, and I haven't had time to watch dramas, since I started to write again, and it's taking most of my time, research and so....

But manly, because the dramas I have been watching are disappointing me so much, I am upset.
What's wrong with Ddsslls' writer?😒😡😒 I was ok with the twist of Jun being younger than Ra ra, it's just 5 years difference.... But I hate, I hate how down hill the drama has gone since that reveal. 😐
And... I was also watching 100 days my Prince, but somehow I can't pass through ep. 12, (I think), because it is when they well start killing people I am afraid... and I don't want to see that.😐😐😐😐
I want to start watching start up since most of you have praised it, but again, I don't find the time or the mood.
I have Netflix, I don't turn it on.... It is just a bore in this moment.... 🙄
Don't know why.

But I hope I will recover. Drama slump.... never thought it could happen to me.

virtual kisses and hugs, beanies!🙋

Watching these zombie dramas prompted me to dream of my own Kingdom one night. Me and 5 of my friends lived in the same dorm on campus, we were the most popular group, and we were all rounders! The zombie virus started on campus and all zombie students and teachers were coming for us to our dorms. The 6 of us took out our swords (where did they come from?) and took the heads of the zombies. These zombies were tricky, they would retreat and then attack when you're least expecting it. Anyway there were too many of them for us, and although we were good, I was the worst of my friends in fighting them. I was being just like the magistrate in Kingdom, so terrified, just barely dodging them and killing them with my eyes closed. Also it was just unending, it went on and on and on and I was exhausted. Anyway 3 of the friends succumbed and we had to take them down. At one point when the zombies retreated, or maybe we destroyed all of them, the 3 of us who remained decided to just leave the campus and never speak about this again. Haha that was strange! :P

Hello, beanies! I am new to k-drama and dramabeans, but have found so much fun and solace in reading posts and comments by all of you. Thank you for such a wonderful community! Real life has been hard, and deep-diving here has helped a lot whilst I am figuring out how to work through and move on from my real life dramas.

I started watching k-dramas earlier this year, with It's Okay to Not be Okay...and I have been addicted ever since. I think IOTNBO will always be my first and greatest love, but I have since watched many more that I adore and can't believe it's taken me so long to discover this world!

My 'routine' is to research shows via reviews and MyDramaList.com recommendations (based on shows I've liked) to decide what to watch next, start watching until I get to a stage when I feel embedded and invested, and then I come to Dramabeans to read the recaps to find out the ending before I continue. That probably sounds very weird to most people, but I prefer to know endings so that I can enjoy the journey more. (I even do this with books...)

The comments sections on the recaps have been a lifesaver for me because beanies will invariably have started/had discussions that I wanted to have about a show, and somehow, that makes me feel less alone in my drama addiction and obsession. However, because I'm watching shows from a number of years ago, it's too late to participate in those comments sections, so I'm driving my husband crazy by making him discuss storylines that he isn't invested in himself. (Currently, I am going on incessantly about the love triangle in Jealousy Incarnate). :oP

Anyhow, I just wanted to say hello and join in on the fun! I love how international this community is (as I am mixed, culturally), and somehow feel at home here. :o)

Lastly, if any of you fancy humouring me, I was wondering whether there were any shows that you aren't fussed about, but that are widely beloved? I'm curious because I have a couple of those already, and whilst I know that's just normal, I can't help but wonder what I'm missing...