[2021 Year in Review] Part 1: The Bean Count
by mary
It’s time for the yearly Bean Count! For those new to this Dramabeans tradition, Bean Count is a nerdy way of looking back at your year in dramas and giving the shows you loved more love by stealing re-appropriating the attention you gave to other shows.
Here’s how to do your own Bean Count:
1. Get your total beans by counting all the 2021 shows you watched in their entirety. One finished show = one bean. (If it’s a currently airing show that you’re up-to-date on, it also counts as one bean.)
2. Now that you have your total beans, redistribute them among your finished/current shows using whatever rule makes sense to you. You can give each show one bean back, or give all your beans to one show, or somewhere between those extremes.
NOTE: This year’s list of shows includes dramas that aired after November 27, 2020 until November 27 this year. We’ll add a list of the shows at the bottom of the post. If we missed some, feel free to count them in your list.
Check out how the DB minions did their Bean Counts below. Click on the buttons to sort shows by number of beans or airing date. Click on the minion names at the bottom of the table to see how each minion distributed their beans.
If for some reason you can’t view the charts, there’s a copy of the table here and the pie here.
But more importantly, share your own Bean Counts in the comments! Part of the fun is seeing how y’all truly feel about this year’s dramas when metrics and objectivity are thrown out the window, and it comes down to a single question: how many beans is a certain show worth to you?
| The Uncanny Counter | 3 | |
| True Beauty | 10 | |
| Mr. Queen | 3 | |
| Run On | 5 | |
| Sweet Home | 9 | |
| Sunbae, Don't Put on That Lipstick | 5 | |
| Hello? It's Me! | 1 | |
| Beyond Evil | 4 | |
| Vincenzo | 16 | |
| Navillera | 8 | |
| Taxi Driver | 2 | |
| Sell Your Haunted House | 2 | |
| Law School | 5 | |
| Youth of May | 7 | |
| Imitation | 6 | |
| Mine | 1 | |
| Move to Heaven | 12 | |
| Mad for Each Other | 2 | |
| Racket Boys | 4 | |
| At a Distance, Spring Is Green | 1 | |
| Monthly Magazine Home | 1 | |
| Hospital Playlist 2 | 12 | |
| On the Verge of Insanity | 1 | |
| You Are My Spring | 2 | |
| Kingdom: Ashin of the North | 2 | |
| Police University | 1 | |
| D.P. | 5 | |
| Hometown Cha-Cha-Cha | 5 | |
| Human Disqualification | 4 | |
| Lending You My House on Wheels | 1 | |
| Yumi's Cells | 16 | |
| Squid Game | 14 | |
| Dal-li and Gamjatang | 6 | |
| The King's Affection | 5 | |
| My Name | 4 | |
| Inspector Koo | 2 | |
| Happiness | 4 | |
| Secret Inspector and Joy | 2 | |
| Melancholia | 1 | |
| The Red Sleeve Cuff | 1 | |
| Hellbound | 4 | |
| One Ordinary Day | 1 |
Frequently Asked Questions
1. Can I get partial beans for dropping a show?
Nope. No bean for you. You must have watched all the available episodes for it to count as one bean.2. What if I fast-forwarded a show to finish it?
mary thinks it’s cheating to count it as one bean, but mary is just jealous because people have more beans than her every yearWe don’t judge people since this is supposed to be a fun tradition. 🙂 If that’s how you watch dramas and it counts as finished in your book, sure, count it as one.3. What if I watched a very long show? Shouldn’t it count as a jar of beans?
Sorry. That’s still only one bean. This rule was set in stone when the Bean Count laws were formed. Changing it will anger The Ghost of Bean Count Past.4. Can I give negative beans to some shows, and give even more beans to another show?
Since one finished show = one bean, you can get a negative bean by un-watching a sho–just kidding! Nope. You can’t award negative beans. You can, however, take comfort in the fact that you stole that show’s one bean and gave it to something else.
LIST OF 2021 SHOWS (click on spoiler to expand)
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51 roko
December 10, 2021 at 7:43 AM
Hi everyone, first post here after reading recaps here for the last 1 1/2 years when I started on k-dramas. I've completed 30 shows, and rewatched many of them, and started but dropped 6 shows. Most of course are not on the 2021 list, but here's my bean allocations for this year's dramas as well as their ranking in the 30 I've watched:
The King's Affection **** (13/30)
Hometown Cha-Cha-Cha ** (16/30)
Run On (19/30)
Hospital Playlist 2 (20/30), I've got the 1st season at 12/30
Beyond Evil (23/30)
Navillera (28/30)
My top 10 for all shows watched are:
My Mister
It's Okay to Not Be Okay
Misaeng
Romance is a Bonus Book
Oh My Ghostess
Crash Landing on You
One Spring Night
Reply 1988 (currently rewatching)
Something in the Rain (hated it first time, MUCH better 2nd viewing)
Familiar Wife
Cheers!
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CS
December 10, 2021 at 10:38 AM
Some of your favorites are some of my favorites, too!
My Mister
One Spring Night
Reply 1988
Crash Landing on You
are all in my top 10 of all time, and the others in your top 10 are ones I loved but just aren't in the top 10. You're off to a great start watching dramas!
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52 vlkBadWolf
December 10, 2021 at 8:09 AM
Only 5 beans, the lowest number since I started watching k-dramas years ago...
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53 darwi
December 10, 2021 at 8:54 AM
I discovered dramas last February. Started with Healer, have not come back yet. Worse, I have started cdramas also... I'm a bad case of addiction, as I have watched 53 shows (including 4 cdramas). So 15 dramas of the year, some as they air, some later.
Lovestruck in the City
Vincenzo **
Imitation
Doom at Your Service ****
My Roommate Is a Gumiho
Hospital Playlist 2 *
Nevertheless
The Devil Judge ****
You Are My Spring
The Great Shaman Ga Doo-shim
Police University
Red Sky
Yumi’s Cells *
Dal-li and Gamjatang *
Happiness **
It's Ji Chang wook that pulled me into Dramaland, but Lovestruck had so few tension that it took me 3 months to watch it.
I fells hard for Seo In Guk, Park Bo Young and Ji Sung.
And Lee Sung Gi in Flowers of evil, but that's not from 2021.
There are some drama whose music and visuals are just on another level.
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54 Fly Colours
December 10, 2021 at 8:56 AM
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55 beffels
December 10, 2021 at 9:06 AM
My completion rate was dreadful this year - I started over 50 dramas and finished 6 (that count for this year - I did also finish some older ones but not as many as you might hope).
My bean allocation -
Mouse 2
Mad for Each Other 2
Run On 1
Dali and Gamjatang 1
The beanless wonders were Lovestruck in the City and Please Don’t Date Him (arguably a 2020 one, but it finished this year and I watched it this year, so I’m counting it).
I wonder if I’d watched Run On more recently if it would take the extra bean from Mad for Each Other - being at the start of the year is a disadvantage, my memory is blurry.
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56 Kipikip
December 10, 2021 at 9:18 AM
Got 15
So here it is...
- 1 bean to:
Vincenzo 🦠
- 2 beans each for:
Nevertheless 🦠🦠
Squid Game 🦠🦠
- 3 beans to:
Sweet Home 🦠🦠🦠
- Finally, ALL OF THE REST to:
Run On 🦠🦠🦠🦠🦠🦠🦠
Overall for me in 2021, Kdrama had such a promising start especially in the 1st quarter, with 3 of the series that got my beans (listed above) belong here. But the next batches of dramas, despite a few occasional hits, struggled to match them and to make me invested to the same heights (or maybe the problem were just my watchlist choices :).
Missing out on the beans, but not necessarily means bad:
Royal Secret Inspector
Mr. Queen
Move to Heaven
Youth of May
Kingdom - Ashin
The Witch's Diner
Hometown Cha Cha Cha
My Name
Dali and Gamjatang
Hellbound
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Kipikip
December 14, 2021 at 9:05 AM
Ugh.. I didn’t expect my ‘bean’ emoji to turn out to be the virus emoji..
In my PC the emo looks like a cute blue amoeba that somehow resembles the bean from DB site.
Oh well.. I guess they’re appropriate for the corona year we’re still living in 😅😅
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mugyuljoie is preciousss
December 14, 2021 at 9:55 AM
😂
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57 latebloomer
December 10, 2021 at 9:27 AM
Only nine beans this year!
2 *** to Dali and Gamjatang
2 *** to Bossam
2 *** to the Red Sleeve Cuff
1* to Mad for Each Other
1 * to Hello, It's Me
1* to Secret Inspector and Joy
Wish I had more beans to give!!
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58 Edgar Pordwed
December 10, 2021 at 9:37 AM
Got a few days to catch up on missed dramas! I'll do my bean count at the end of the month.
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59 Fly Colours
December 10, 2021 at 9:38 AM
So, 23 Beans. Here we go (I'm adding Happiness and Idol: the Coup, which I'm expecting to finish over next week)
1 At a Distance, Spring Is Green
2 Bossam: Steal the Fate 🍿🍿🍿
3 D.P.🍿🍿🍿
4 Dali and the Cocky Prince
5 Hellbound 🍿🍿🍿
6 Hello, Me!🍿
7 Imitation 🍿 (I just want to give Jun a Bean)
8 Lost🍿🍿🍿
9 Lovers of the Red Sky
10 Mad for Each Other
11 Move to Heaven🍿🍿🍿
12 Mr Queen
13 My Name
14 My Roommate Is a Gumiho
15 Navillera
16 Nevertheless,
17 She would never know
18 Squid Game
19 Yumi’s Cells🍿🍿🍿
20 Ashin of the North
21. Happiness 🍿🍿
22. Idol: the Coup🍿(Hani and Kwak Siyang have been working hard this year, this Bean is for them)
23. Run On
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Fly Colours
December 10, 2021 at 2:13 PM
Oopsie, still have another Bean for Sweet Home, and it goes to.... Sweet Home!
24. Sweet Home 🍿
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60 tabong is ironing the crosswalk
December 10, 2021 at 10:07 AM
23 beanies.
You Are My Spring: 5
Mad for each other: 4
Run On: 4
Be My Dream Family: 3
Yumi's Cells: 3
Mr. Queen: 1.2
The Red Sleeve: 1
Happiness: 1
Racket Sonyeondan: 0.4
Sweet Home: 0.4
Dramas I probably should've finished so I could give them beans:
One The Woman
Hospital Playlist 2
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61 CS
December 10, 2021 at 10:31 AM
It seems to me that 2021 was a year of completely adequate dramas. I watched a lot (33) and liked them OK, but just don't feel really passionately about them. It could be worse, but it could also be better... Here's my reckoning:
True Beauty 🦔🦔
Run On 🦔🦔🦔🦔
Sunbae, Don't... 🦔🦔🦔
Love Alarm 2 🦔🦔🦔
Law School 🦔🦔🦔
Mad for Each Other 🦔🦔🦔
My Roommate is a Gumiho 🦔🦔
You Are My Spring 🦔🦔
Human Disqualification 🦔🦔
Yumi's Cells 🦔🦔🦔
Hospital Playlist 2 🦔🦔
Chimera 🦔
Awaken 🦔
Melancholia 🦔
Vincenzo 🦔
Just because of mood, I haven't watched D.P., Move to Heaven, Hellbound (Yoo Ah-in is always worth it), On the Verge of Insanity or Happiness, although I have a feeling these are all shows that I would like for various reasons. I'm sure I'll fit them in sometime in the next year.
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wapz
December 10, 2021 at 11:14 AM
The mood surely is to blame this year. As you said, there were good shows but I didn't feel passionate about any really. Yumi's cells and The red sleeve may have made me wait for Fri Sats impatiently but that's all.
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62 Lonestar Girl
December 10, 2021 at 10:51 AM
Mr. Queen ❤️❤️
Run-On ❤️
Hello! It’s Me?
Navillera ❤️
Law School ❤️
Move to Heaven ❤️
Mad for Each Other ❤️
Hospital Playlist 2
You are My Spring
Hometown Cha Cha Cha ❤️
Yumi’s Cells ❤️
The King’s Affection ❤️❤️
The Red Sleeve Cuff ❤️❤️
The sageuks are doing it for me this year.
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Alluvial_Fan
December 12, 2021 at 1:18 PM
Have you tried Bossam?
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Lonestar Girl
January 16, 2022 at 2:49 PM
My apologies for just now seeing your comment! Yes, and I forgot all about it, otherwise I would have included it in my list. I enjoyed Bossam very much.
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63 lillamy
December 10, 2021 at 11:04 AM
My bean count grows larger by the year.
Mad for each other
Move to heaven ★
Doom at your service
Dali and Gamjatang
So I married the anti-fan
Scripting your destiny ★★★
Vincenzo ★★
Run on ★★
Sell your haunted house
Red Sleeve ★★
Hospital Playlist ★
And the other asian dramas I watched are:
The Becoming of You ☀︎☀︎
Jun Jiu Ling ☀︎☀︎
Mysterious Love
Please Feel at Ease, Mr Ling
Moonlight
You’re My Glory ☀︎
She’s the One
Miss the Dragon (for lonesome lord and blue bird) ☀︎
Rainless Love in a Godless Land ☂☂☂
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tsutsuloo
December 12, 2021 at 5:45 PM
@lillamy—I just finished Jun Liu Ling last week! I'm usually not interested in court politics but I actually didn't fast forward through the conspiracy shenanigans. Really good character growth for the key players and it's nice to see women supporting each other. Wasn't it interesting how people kept telling Jiu Ling, "If you were a man, you'd be a hero." Her smirk said it all.
I'm saving Rainless Love in a Godless Land for my winter break binge. I was entranced by the first two episodes and wanted to collect more episodes before I got in any deeper.
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lillamy
December 13, 2021 at 10:32 AM
Glad to hear someone else loved Jun Jiu Ling! It is one of my surprise favorites this year. I just fell head over heals for the cray-cray ex-husband. 😍 The actor really committed to the crazy cause.
I grew somewhat tired of the mad king but I think the drama overall showed great restraint in its characters. Everyone got their come-uppence in good time.
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64 CasualDramaFan
December 10, 2021 at 11:20 AM
have got 28 beans this year. Here is my bean distribution.
D.P ****
Run On ***
Sweet home ***
Sell Your haunted house ***
Mad for each other **
Happiness **
Red sleeve cuff **
She would never know *
Hello Me *
Law school *
Imitation *
Hospital Playlist *
Yumi's cells *
Dali and Cocky prince *
Secret royal inspector and joy *
You are my spring *
The Uncanny Counter
Cheat on me if you can
True beauty
Lovestruck in city
Love featuring marriage and divorce
Sisyphus the myth
So not worth it
Doom
Monthly Magazine Home
Mine
Melancholia
Now we are breaking up
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65 CharmingKey
December 10, 2021 at 11:20 AM
I have more beans than I thought and quite a few that deserve lots of bean love.
Total: 9
The Uncanny Counter
True Beauty: 1
Naverilla: 2
Move to Heaven: 1
Kingdom: Ashin of North
Hometown Cha-Cha-Cha
Yumi's Cells: 4
Squid Game: 1
Inspector Koo
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66 ShilohRain
December 10, 2021 at 11:46 AM
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67 ShilohRain
December 10, 2021 at 11:51 AM
Is that really all the dramas there were this year? I swear there were others.
Anyway, Here are my beans and how I distributed them:
Uncanny Counter: 1 bean
Monthly Magazine Home: 0 beans (Are we SURE we can't give negative beans?)
Vincenzo: 1 bean
Hospital Playlist: 2 beans
Yumi's Cells: 2 beans
You Are My Spring: 1 bean
Secret Inspector & Joy: 1 bean
Sisyphus: 0 beans
This is hard! I like Vincenzo and Uncanny counter more than Secret Inspector, but there just aren't enough beans to go around, if I want to give two of my favourite ever dramas, Hospital Playlist and Yumi's Cells, the love they deserve.
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ShilohRain
December 10, 2021 at 12:20 PM
Oh! I forgot I watched The Witch's Diner, so I have 1 more bean to give to Yumi's Cells. Yessss.
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panshel
December 10, 2021 at 5:34 PM
For other dramas this year, you can use the DramaWiki list, but add Sweet Home, which aired after November 27, 2020, and only count Yumi's Cells, which is listed twice (tvN and TVING), once. https://wiki.d-addicts.com/List_of_Dramas_aired_in_Korea_by_Network_in_2021
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tsutsuloo
December 12, 2021 at 6:28 PM
@shilohrain—I absolutely agree on Monthly Magazine Home deserving negative beans. It's one thing for a show to be dreadful from the start. Or even after four episodes. But going off the rails in the penultimate episode feels like a form of violence towards the audience.
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68 wonhwa
December 10, 2021 at 12:12 PM
Only 5 beans! But here goes:
Beyond Evil ***
Bossam: Steal the Fate
Vincenzo
On the Verge of Insanity *
Dali and Gamjatang *
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69 squstar9
December 10, 2021 at 12:31 PM
posted my bean count on my page (as i can't add photo here)
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70 Zestileigh
December 10, 2021 at 12:56 PM
Finished 10!
True Beauty
Mr. Queen
Hello? It's Me
Vincenzo ⭐⭐⭐
Racket Boys ⭐⭐
At a Distance, Spring is Green ⭐
D.P. ⭐⭐
Squid Game
Dal-li and Gamjatang
The King's Affection ⭐⭐
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71 jerrykuvira
December 10, 2021 at 1:34 PM
32 Beans for me.(I guess thats the amount of shows listed there that I recall).
Now to give them back.
Monthly Magazine Home gets 4
Hospital Playlist 6
You are my Spring 4
Oh Master 1
Red Sleeve Cuff 3
Bossam 3
One the Woman 3
On the Verge of Insanity 6
Reflection of You 2.
Penthouse 3 and Love ft Marriage and Divorce 2. If anyone told me I'd drop you guys, I'll tell they're a joke.
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72 neener ~ Inside the Magic Shop ~
December 10, 2021 at 1:50 PM
It's that time of the year! And HI @mary
Looks like I have 19 beans and dropped 15, will have to recalculate but so far that's standing. I might go back to some of the dropped dramas esp those that only has 2-4eps left before the year ends or not.
Question.. why is Lending You My House on Wheels part of the list? Does variety count? Added it to the bean count though ;)
Run On - 💜💜💜
Move to Heaven - 💜💜💜
Mr. Queen - 💜💜💜
Shall We Have a Cup of Coffee - 💜
Red Cuff Sleeve - 💜💜
Navillera - 💜💜
Vincenzo - 💜
Hospital Playlist 2 - 💜
You Are My Spring - 💜
Dali and Gamjatang - 💜
Yumi's Cells - 💜
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73 Lady Lolo
December 10, 2021 at 2:00 PM
I've definitely been watching more anime and playing games than watching k-dramas this year lol:
Sweet Home 🍷
Sell Your Haunted House 🍷🍷
Mine
Beyond Evil🍷🍷🍷
Squid Game
Inspector Koo
Argh so hard I'm honestly really liking Inspector Koo but I can't say for sure until I've seen the ending this weekend!
Also Beyond Evil is slept on (at least in the west I think) when it's such an AMAZING show! 😣
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74 Zora
December 10, 2021 at 2:32 PM
I managed to collect 21 beans despite of dropping tons of dramas. I blame Doom for exhausting all my patience and tolerance for bs this year.
Mister Queen 👑👑👑👑
Vincenzo 🕊🕊🕊🕊
Yumi’s Cells 🐸🐸🐸
HomeCha 👠👠
OTVOI 👍👍
Move to Heaven 👍👍
Mad For Each Other 👍
Run On 👍
Navillera 👍
Sunbae 👍
Doom (this one needs a bad bean)
D.P
My Name
Hellbound
Squid game
Witch’s Diner
Hospital Playlist (I want to give one bean but…)
Uncanny Counter
You Are My spring
True Beauty
Law School
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75 klmeri
December 10, 2021 at 3:11 PM
2021 surprisingly did not turn out to be a kdrama slump year for me, leaving me with a bean count of 20. Now, I like to dole out my beans - or rather, kiwis - according to how much I still think about a show after it's over. Some kdramas you forget easily over time; others stay with you forever!
Mr. Queen 🥝 🥝 🥝
Sweet Home 🥝
Beyond Evil 🥝
Vincenzo 🥝 🥝 🥝
Sell Your Haunted House 🥝 🥝
Imitation 🥝 🥝
Mad for Each Other 🥝
On the Verge of Insanity 🥝 🥝 🥝
The Great Shaman Ga Doo-shim 🥝
Hometown Cha-Cha-Cha 🥝
Dal-li and Gamjatang 🥝
Idol: The Coup 🥝
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76 chiclet
December 10, 2021 at 3:27 PM
29 beans - those I’m sure that I have completed. There are some that I can’t remember if I did and it’s too mind-boggling for me to distribute the beans and there are too many that I really like LOL
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77 tv_junkie_123
December 10, 2021 at 5:53 PM
I believe I have 34 Beans, which is way more than I thought. However, some of these shows were a struggle to finish and my finger may have been on the fast forward button at parts towards their ends. 😀
The Uncanny Counter - 🎈
True Beauty - 🎈
Mr. Queen - 🎈🎈🎈
Run On
River Where the Moon Rises
Penthouse 2 - 🎈
Mouse
Navillera - 🎈
Taxi Driver - 🎈
Sell Your Haunted House - 🎈
Bossam: Steal the Fate
Imitation - 🎈🎈
Doom at Your Service
Move to Heaven - 🎈🎈🎈
Mad for Each Other
My Roommate Is a Gumiho
Racket Boys - 🎈🎈🎈
Penthouse 3
At a Distance, Spring Is Green
Monthly Magazine Home
Hospital Playlist 2
The Devil Judge - 🎈🎈🎈
The Great Shaman Ga Doo-shim - 🎈
Police University
Hometown Cha-Cha-Cha - 🎈
The Veil
Yumi’s Cells - 🎈🎈
Dal-li and Gamjatang - 🎈🎈
The King’s Affection
Happiness - 🎈🎈
Idol: The Coup - 🎈🎈
Secret Inspector and Joy
Melancholia - 🎈
The Red Sleeve Cuff - 🎈🎈🎈
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78 junichyung
December 10, 2021 at 6:06 PM
It's been a good year of Kdramas for me. I've been in a drama slump for years before 2021 dramas came to save me. For this year, I got 9 beans to give (yay! managed to finish 9 dramas this year, such a glow up since last year in which I just finished 2 lmao).
Three 2021 dramas ended up as my all-time favorite list so I'm giving them more than one beans.
Racket Boys - 💙💙💙
Best ensemble. Best chemistry. Best friendship.
Move to Heaven - 💙💙💙
Really love how the characters were written especially the relationship between Sang-gu and Geu-ru. The stories told in this drama made me realize a lot of things in a good way.
(Tang Joonsang is the highlight of my 2021, obviously)
Yumi's Cells - 💙💙
Cute and fun. Love how the fusion of real life situations and cells animation totally worked here. Yumi is definitely my favorite female character of the year. Just simply relatable with a heart.
I'll be giving my last bean to this drama since it's such a well-produced show with amazing cast.
DP - 💙
Other dramas that I've finished but did not end up as my favorite choices this year:
Hospital Playlist 2
Run On
Hellbound
My Name
Happiness (I'll be finished watching this weekend)
Hope there are good dramas in the coming new year! ✨
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79 Jellybn
December 10, 2021 at 6:15 PM
I have 12 beans this year! Since I have been very busy lately, I now make sure to watch only highly rated dramas by Beanies. Sometimes it means that I get spoiled and though I am not very active, I miss all the buzz a drama gets, but it also means I watch some pretty good dramas!
-Sweet Home
-Run On❤️
-Navillera❤️❤️
-Oh, Master!
-Youth of May❤️❤️
-Mad For Each Other❤️
-Move To Heaven (w/Dad)❤️
-Hospital Playlist S2❤️
-D.P.(w/Dad)❤️
-Squid Game (w/Dad and sister)
-Hometown Cha Cha Cha❤️
-Vincenzo❤️❤️
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80 barbjean
December 10, 2021 at 6:55 PM
1. Bossam: Steal the Fate - @@
2. Hospital Playlist 2 - @
3. Happiness - @@@
4. Law school - @
5. Hometown cha cha cha -
6. Squid game - @@
7. LUCA The beginning - @
8. Run On
9. Vincenzo
10. You are my spring - @
11. Do do la la sol sol
12. Dali and gamjatang - @@
13. The King’s Affection
14. Mad For Each Other - @
On To Watch List - Move To Heaven
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81 korfan
December 10, 2021 at 7:49 PM
Finally getting around to counting my beans and it seems to be 18 beans for me!
One question though: do the two episodes of Moebius count as part of The Veil or do they count as a separate, stand alone show? If the latter is the case, then I suppose I have 19 beans. If not, that's ok, it'll be 18 then. The streaming sites list it as a separate show but I'm unsure what Dramabeans thinks. What say you dear Beanies?
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82 merry
December 10, 2021 at 8:42 PM
In the spirit of the season and db community, i'm counting. From the list above, i got only 9 beans-- so here goes my count
Move to Heaven - 2
Hospital Playlist - 3
Run On - 2
The Red Sleeve- 2
Oh, what to do? These should have 1 each, but i follow instructions-- reveal preferences
Vincenzo
Kingdom
Hometown CCC
Squid Game
My Name
I have 2 c-dramas that deserve a bean count or two,
The Ideal City
You are My Glory
And a few jdoramas that i enjoyed but nothing sticks to be memorable. Currently enjoying Japan Sinks with Shun Oguri. Enjoyed You, Me and Bach, though. And one anime, No Name (?)
So, i guess 2021 is a year of grazing and divided attention. Must be the proliferation of platforms. I have 4 paid subscriptions! Its gone haywire to such an extent that every time there is a new show, I wish it will be identified where it is being shown.
Happy bean-counting folks. The best of the season to you. Merry Christmas! May 2022 bring us out of the pandemic. Stay safe y'all!
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83 Koiling
December 11, 2021 at 1:02 AM
I'm honestly surprised I've 8 beans because this year I've dropped just so many shows!! Anyways here we go, just rewarding my faves:
Beyond Evil **
Dark Hole
Happiness **
Hometown Cha-Cha-Cha
Mad for Each Other **
Monthly Magazine Home
Run On **
Sisyphus: The Myth
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84 beantown
December 11, 2021 at 5:37 AM
It's always such a weird experience to look back; I'm surprised by what I watched, what I dropped and what shows end up sticking in my memory.
I watched 11 kdramas and dropped 10, and then added 8 doramas and 4 cdramas. My beans go to.....
Dali and the Cocky Prince 🥰🥰
Hometown Chachacha
Move to Heaven🏠🏠🏠
Nevertheless
On The Verge of Insanity🤯🤯🤯
Squid Game
Yumis Cells👶👶
Mr. Queen
Run On
Happiness💗
Navillera 🕺
I loved three shows; Move to Heaven, Kikarazu Koi ni wa Riyuu ga Atte, and especially Definitely Not Today.
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beantown
December 11, 2021 at 5:39 AM
Ooooops, I cheated, take the extra one off of OTVOI🤪😜
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85 pickleddragon
December 11, 2021 at 9:22 AM
I got 11 beans this year, I think it's the same as what I got last year :/ Clearly, my drama watching skills haven't improved. (and I'm not mentioning that 2 of those beans were self-awarded for fastforwarded shows. shhh.).
Anyway, of these 11 precious beans, I am giving 7 (yes SEVEN out of 11, a whole giant majority of 63% of my bean hoard) to the drama I won't stop raving about even if I'm hoarse, ON THE VERGE OF INSANITY. The best show of the year, IMO, and catapults right into my all-time great kdramas.
The remaining 4 beans get distributed thus:
one each to
-- the heartbreaking but beautifully made YOUTH OF MAY;
-- the delightfully bright, sunny and cheery RACKET BOYS;
-- the rom-com of the year despite being almost lost in translation, i.e., RUN ON;
and half each to:
-- the OTP-that-wasn't in LAW SCHOOL; and
-- the anti-hero and his cray cray anti-heroine in VINCENZO.
This lopsided distribution is because INSANITY doesn't have enough beans :( and the other shows have more that their due share.
(People who haven't - go watch INSANITY).
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86 yayabean
December 11, 2021 at 9:44 AM
🎵It's the most wonderful time of the year🎶
When beanies count their beans😆
2021 turned out to be the year that I dropped too many dramas- I started and never finished:
Cheat on Me, if You Can
True Beauty
Run On
Hello? It’s Me!
Sisyphus
Penthouse 2
Love Alarm 2
Doom at Your Service
Mad for Each Other
My Roommate Is a Gumiho
Racket Boys
Monthly Magazine Home
The Devil Judge
Hometown Cha-Cha-Cha
Dal-li and Gamjatang
Jirisan
Would You Like a Cup of Coffee?
Happiness
Secret Inspector and Joy
Now, We Are Breaking Up
However, Mr. Queen, Yumi's Cells and the very frustrating and UGH inducing Love (ft. Marriage and Divorce) 1 AND 2 - managed to keep me watching from beginning to end, with a lot of fast forwarding for Love😬
Thus, I will split my 2021 four beans ⭐⭐⭐⭐ as follows:
⭐⭐ Mr. Queen
⭐⭐ Yumi's Cell's
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87 GetawayJunkie
December 11, 2021 at 10:48 AM
My first time doing this! I watched 9 shows from this year, dropped 3 other 2021 shows and spent a lot of time watching older shows and rewatching my favourites!
The Uncanny Counter*
True Beauty*
Vincenzo***
Navillera
Hospital Playlist 2***
Kingdom: Ashin of the North*
The Great Shaman Ga Doo-shim
Squid Game
The King’s Affection
HP2 was still the comfort food just like HP1 was during the lockdown. I really enjoyed Vincenzo as well. The Uncanny Counter was a breathe of fresh air and I love the cinematography in True Beauty. Kingdom: Ashin was surprising my favourite among the 3 (seasons), hence these shows get my beans.
So many more 2021 shows which I wanna watch but didn't get down to finding the time (DP, Move to Heaven, Racket Boys, My Name, among others).
I'm just waiting for TKA to end now, and eagerly anticipating the new shows which will add to my bean count in 2022 (Moonshine, Showdrop, Bad & Crazy, Our Beloved Summer).
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88 sorrynotsorry
December 11, 2021 at 11:15 AM
Fair is fair and all my beans will stay with the drama I finished because there are only 8: Run On, Navillera, Move to Heaven, Mad for Each Other, On The Verge of Insanity, Dal Li and Gamjatang, Red Sleeve Cuff.
Sure, I could take Navillera's bean away because they gave that lovely man dementia which is used to the point of trope, but I'm not gonna as it was overall lovely. So many shows that I either dropped quickly or made it to episode 10ish and called it a day. I mean I didn't realize I was gonna but it just ended up that way. Here's looking at you Hometown Cha Cha Cha, Mr. Queen, The King's Affection, Sell Your Haunted House, Monthly Magazine. Maybe I'll be back but probably not.
(Dropped in the first 3 ep: Inspector Koo, Uncanny Counter, Racket Boys, Happiness)
Might come back to - Beyond Evil and Secret Inspector & Joy.
That's it for you 2021 k-dramaland.
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89 owl 🦉 🫰
December 11, 2021 at 3:33 PM
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90 owl 🦉 🫰
December 11, 2021 at 3:40 PM
I’ve watched 31 K-dramas:
Lost. Bean bean bean bean bean bean
Hello, Me! Bean bean
Sunbae, don’t put on that 💋 bean
Navillera bean
Bossam: bean
Youth of May bean bean
Move to Heaven bean bean
Raquet Boys bean bean bean
Mad for Each Other bean
Hospital Playlist 2 bean bean bean
You are my Spring bean
On theVerge Insanity bean bean
Hometown CCC bean bean
Yuma’s Cells bean
Dali and Prince bean bean
Now we are Breaking Up bean
Our Beloved Summer bean
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91 kakakash
December 11, 2021 at 6:23 PM
4 little beansies from my curated watched-dramas this year get distributed evenly:
Happiness 🥫
True Beauty 🥫
Kingdom (Ashin of the North) {this a movie but if ya'll says it counts it counts} 🥫
King's Affection 🥫
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92 finalparadox
December 11, 2021 at 7:44 PM
15 beans for me!
Beyond Evil (4)
Vincenzo (3)
Sweet Home (2)
DP (2)
Sell Your Haunted House (1)
Navillera (1)
Dali and Gamjatang (1)
Inspector Koo (1)
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93 benneun
December 11, 2021 at 9:36 PM
Had a total of 22 dramas that aired this year that I watched all the way through.
Run On***
Sell Your Haunted House***
The Uncanny Counter**
Jirisan**
Law School**
D.P.**
Lovestruck in the City*
Hello, Me!*
Police University*
The Great Shaman Ga Doo-Shim*
Vincenzo*
Navillera*
You Are My Spring*
Doom at Your Service*
Mad for Each Other
Racket Boys
Monthly Magazine Home
Hospital Playlist 2
Nevertheless
Kingdom: Ashin of the North
Sisyphus
Hometown Cha Cha Cha
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94 Over-Dramaddictally
December 11, 2021 at 9:40 PM
My first year participating in the bean count. So exciting!
10 dramas, in order of how I liked them:
Yumi’s cells 💙💙💙💙
Run On 💙💙💙
She would never know 💙💙
nevertheless 💙
dal-li and gamjatang
the king’s affection
the red sleeve cuff
my roommate is a gumiho
lovestruck in the city
love alarm 2
Yumi’s Cells, Run On, and Rowoon, uh, I mean, She Would Never Know because I would watch them all again.
Nevertheless because i was obsessed with it until episode 9—the ending was just so bad.
Dal-li, TKA, and TRS I really like but probably won’t rewatch (except Junho’s scenes 😋).
Gumiho was really funny but got soooo draggy—I stayed with it for Kang Han-na and Kim Do-won.
Lovestruck in the City wasn’t very good.
And, Love Alarm 2, there is no excuse for why I watched this. It was a one weekend event, binging Love Alarm 1 & 2 while I was in my Nevertheless obsession. Freakin’ Song Kang!
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95 azimuth
December 11, 2021 at 10:02 PM
We had our first pregnancy and child this year. Our drama time together was limited at times. :D
Bean Possessors:
-Mr Queen: 4 beans. Favorite show of the year. Loved the leads' performances.
-Sweet Home: 1 bean. I don't normally care for zombie movies and it was watchable.
-Vincenzo: 1 bean. Dragged in places, iffy finish, but legitimately hilarious set of side characters and great villain(s).
-Mad for Each Other: 1 bean. Finally watched something with
-My Name: 1 bean. Gritty but good, finally saw what the hype about this actress was about.
-Happiness: 1 bean, see Sweet Home.
-Mr Brain: 1 bean. Good cast, fun story, probably could have used a couple more episodes as things got a bit breakneck at the end and some fascinating stuff wasn't explored.
Bean contributors:
-Devil Judge: Thriller but somehow less than the sum of its parts.
-Mine: Same old strong first half of drama / not sure how we finished second half of drama story
-Monthly Magazine Home: We like the main leads a lot, but what was that ending!?
Bonus bean (wife only):
-Navillera: My wife loved this, I was not super interested in the subject matter. First one of 1-only dramas since Chocolate a couple years ago.
Half-eaten beans (min 4 eps):
-True Beauty (brutal, timeskip before final 2 eps was where we bailed)
-Taxi Driver (watchable take-that vigilantism vs unwatchable dodging accusations of vigilantism final 4 eps)
-Sell Your Haunted House (monster-of-the-week malaise halfway thru)
-Hometown Cha-Cha-Cha (10 episodes in we realized it didn't have a plot)
-Hometown NOT Cha-Cha-Cha (we had a kid lol, it was good but felt very spooky and we couldn't get back into it once spooky season ended)
-Squid Game (honestly we found it hard to care about our "protagonists", ironically all our non-drama watching friends bring this one up)
-The King's Affection (let us know if they have a happy ending, felt like we bogged down around Ep 7-8 when we were dealing with the ?Chinese?ambassador?why?)
"One Bite Club" beans (2 eps or less and dropped):
-Run On
-Sunbae, Don't Put On That Lipstick
-Law School
-Youth of May
-Move to Heaven
-Da-li and Gamjatang
-Secret Inspector and Joy
-The Red Sleeve Cuff
-Hellbound
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azimuth
December 11, 2021 at 10:17 PM
Just looking around I see I missed Lovestruck in the City (1 bean it provides is added to...mmm let's say Vincenzo).
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96 ssandulak
December 11, 2021 at 11:40 PM
51 beans! Solid year, and a bunch of shows I'd almost forgotten about until the list at the top reminded me. I feel like there were some missing from the list but nothing jumps out so I'll leave it at these!
The Uncanny Counter - 🌱
Awaken
True Beauty - 🌱
Mr. Queen - 🌱
Run On - 🌱🌱
Sweet Home - 🌱🌱🌱🌱
Secret Royal Investigator
Sunbae, Don’t Put on That Lipstick
Love (ft. Marriage and Divorce) - If only there were negative beans...
L.U.C.A.: The Beginning
River Where the Moon Rises - Such potential.
Hello? It’s Me! - 🌱
Sisyphus
Beyond Evil - 🌱🌱🌱
Vincenzo - 🌱🌱
Mouse
Navillera - 🌱🌱
Oh! Master
Taxi Driver - 🌱
Sell Your Haunted House - 🌱🌱
Law School
Undercover
Bossam: Steal the Fate - 🌱
Imitation
Doom at Your Service
Move to Heaven - 🌱🌱🌱
Mad for Each Other - 🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱
My Roommate Is a Gumiho
Racket Boys - 🌱🌱🌱
At a Distance, Spring Is Green
Monthly Magazine Home
Hospital Playlist 2
So Not Worth It
The Devil Judge - 🌱
You Are My Spring
Kingdom: Ashin of the North
The Great Shaman Ga Doo-shim - 🌱
The Road: Tragedy of One
Police University
D.P. - 🌱🌱🌱
Hometown Cha-Cha-Cha
The Veil
One the Woman
Squid Game - 🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱
Dal-li and Gamjatang
Hometown
The King’s Affection
My Name
Inspector Koo - 🌱🌱🌱
Happiness - 🌱
Idol: The Coup - 🌱
Secret Inspector and Joy
The Red Sleeve Cuff - 🌱
Hellbound - 🌱🌱
School 2021 - 🌱
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ssandulak
December 11, 2021 at 11:59 PM
Most of these were pretty self explanatory, and I enjoyed most of what I watched this year, to varying degrees of course! The Netflix dramas were mostly bangers, and I really enjoyed Squid Game, Hellbound, Move to Heaven, Sweet Home (which I actually watched 2 or 3 times I think), and D.P. especially from that group.
The one that surprised me the most absolutely had to be Mad for Each Other. I wasn't expecting anything going in, and I came out loving it. Great chemistry, and drama that hit just right. A short watch by drama standards, and highly recommended.
Inspector Koo: Another surprise for me. I'm just really enjoying this one and I think it's again having to do with expectations. Going in with none, I found myself really enjoying the quirky characters and offbeat way of filming certain scenes.
On the other end of the spectrum, ones I had high hopes for but didn't end up wowing me included:
Hometown Cha-Cha-Cha: Decent chemistry, and I loved both the leads, but it just spun it's wheels and didn't have satisfying conclusions to a lot of the arcs. Even the immaculate dimples of our leads couldn't save this one.
Hospital Playlist 2: This one will probably surprise a lot of folks, but I didn't find it as good as the first season, and actually had trouble finishing it, despite the stellar cast.
Jirisan: Speaking of stellar casts...this one I didn't actually end up finishing (or keeping up to date, think it ends next week?). You couldn't throw a stone without hitting an amazing actor/actress in this show and it still couldn't hold my attention. Rough.
Sunbae, Don't Put on that Lipstick: Won Jin-A was an actress I've been excited about since her first show 'Just Between Lovers' and she just hasn't done anything as good since. I'll have to go into her next show with trepidation.
Ones on my list I would actively suggest people avoid:
Love (ft. Marriage and Divorce), Oh! Master, and Doom at Your Service. The last two I had high hopes for (mainly due to their cast) and they just...dumpstered those hopes.
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97 FriesWithMayo
December 12, 2021 at 12:30 AM
Beans 2021
Numbered in the order I watched. 29 total beans but 19 ♥️beans of enjoyment are thanks to beanies’ recoms.
2 Run on ♥️♥️♥️
3 Mr Queen ♥️♥️
7 We married as a job special ep♥️
10 Vincenzo 🤎
11 Move to Heaven 🤎🤎🤎
14 Mad for each other ♥️♥️♥️
16 Imitation ♥️♥️
19 Kikazaru koi ni ha riyuu ga atte ♥️♥️♥️♥️
20 Hospital Playlist S2 🤎🤎🤎
24 The day of becoming you ♥️♥️
28 Dali and the Cocky Prince ♥️♥️
29 Happiness 🤎🤎🤎
1 Please dont date him
4 Lovestruck in the City
5 True Beauty
6 She would never know
8 You are my hero
9 Scripting your destiny
12 Hello me
13 Hello Mr Gu
15 My Roommate is a Gumiho
17 Monthly magazine home
18 Navillera
21 Renai mangaka
22 Definitely not today
23 You are my spring
25 Squid game
26 Great shaman Ga doo shim
27 Hometown Chachacha
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98 DHKatie
December 12, 2021 at 1:57 AM
Looking forward to going back and watching some of the popular titles I missed -often because I can’t find them streaming at the time! I got 15 beams this year:
True Beauty ❤️❤️❤️
Mr Queen ❤️❤️
Run On
Hello? It’s me!
My Roommate Is a Gumiho ❤️
Monthly Magazine Home
Hospital Playlist 2
You Are My Spring ❤️❤️
The Great Shaman Ga Doo-shim ❤️
Home Town Cha-Cha-Cha
Squid Game ❤️
Dal-li and Gamjatang ❤️❤️
The King’s Affection
Happiness ❤️❤️❤️
School 2021
True Beauty and Happiness make an unlikely pair of favourite kdrama bookends, but apparently that’s the way I roll. Both really well executed within their genre. Currently late-watching ‘Sunbae…’ but even if I finish it this year its bean would be headed elsewhere.
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DHKatie
December 12, 2021 at 2:24 AM
Grr… I never remember the title of Youth of May! Make that 16 shows. I’ll give its bean to Hospital Playlist 2, which I’d probably underscored just for not being as good as the first series.
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99 OAsia
December 12, 2021 at 7:01 AM
2021
The Devil Judge
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100 Dramas found by chance
December 12, 2021 at 8:38 AM
I seem to have 9 beans:
Uncanny Counter: 1
Run On: 2
True Beauty: 2
A Love so Beautiful: 0
Sunbae, Don't put on that Lipstick!: 2
Sisyphus: The Myth: 0
Vincenzo: 2
Sell Your Haunted House: 0
Hometown Cha Cha Cha: 0
Not really accurate as I'm enjoying Secret Royal Inspector and Joy, and Idol: the Coup more than any of these but am behind. Ditto Yumi's Cells.
Also, So Not Worth It (dropped after half an episode) deserves an award for the most accurate title of the year.
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tsutsuloo
December 12, 2021 at 6:54 PM
😂😂😂
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