Wow it's that time of the year already?!!!
Idk but i feel like I actually missed out on so many dramas i was looking forward to (mainly the legal/thriller/mystery not because it doesn't seem interesting but because I really don't have the energy to go through something heavy) but turns out- I really had watched a whopping 22 dramas this year (that's more than i've ever watched in a year since 2011). I think with the streaming services creating original dramas left and rigbt the drama supply this year was so intense so i feel like I missed out on so much.

So here we go I have 22 and I'm gonna be giving it to...
Mr Queen : 4 beans
Run On : 4 Beans
Vincenzo : 4 Beans
Hospital Playlist 2 : 3 beans
Dali and Gamjatang : 2 beans
And the rest which is 5 beans to You are My Spring because honestly, it's something I'd watch at the end of a tiring day or when I wanted to feel something or even when I want to watch something light and fluffy. It probably deserves EVERY Beans that I earned and everyone to check it out and perhaps found one of the most heartwarming drama they ever gonna encounter

*im soooo sad that it only has 2 beans 😭

WO-HO! 22 beans! It was an interesting year. Many very different stories. Some unespected surprises... some big delusions too.

I'm giving half my beans to Lost because it was my fave this year. Let's see:

Human Disqualification 11 BEANS it was just THAT good!

Mr Queen 2 BEANS
Doom at your service 2 BEAN
Happiness 1 BEAN
D.P. 1 BEAN
King's Affection 1 BEAN
Beyonf Evil 1 BEAN
Run On 1 BEAN
Dali 1 BEAN
Red sleeve 1 BEAN

Feel like I should point out that Hometown CHA CHA CHA deserves -2 BEANS for being such a big delusion and -2 to Hospital Playlist for failing to be amazing.

Wow, it's already that time of the year. As my company continued the work from home policy, I thought I could finish more than 30 dramas. But as it turned out, working from home actually made me spend more time on work. That said, I managed to score 21 Beans for 2021!!
As a hardcore sageuk fan, I have been spoilt silly this year. The Red Sleeve Cuffs tops my list because of the wonderful story, directing and casting. I've said this before & will say it again: Kudos to  Junho & Lee Se-young. They have successfully breathed charm and beauty into the characters. Many fans think a sad ending is inevitable for this drama based on history. But, I'd like to think their ending was a happy one - they met, fell in love, got married and made each other happy during the times they were together.
Mr Queen was absolute fun and I'm happy that Secret Inspector & Joy is giving me the same happy vibe. Gender-bender plot had always intrigued me and Park Eun-bin has definitely raised the bar in The King's Affection.
Below is my humble list:
1. The Red Sleeves Cuffs ❤❤❤❤❤
2. Mr Queen ❤❤❤
3. The King's Affection ❤❤
4. Yumi's Cells (Kim Go-eun. Need I say more?) ❤❤❤
5. Move to Heaven  (I don't favour dark plots but the drama had wonderfully balanced it with the warm love and affection shared between father-son & nephew-uncle.) ❤❤
6. Squid Game ❤
7. DP ❤
8. Secret Inspector & Joy ❤❤
9. My Roommate is a Gumiho (Who can resist a handsome & smart Gumiho?) ❤
10. Inspector Koo ❤
11. You are My Spring (for Kim Dong-wook & Seo Hyun-jin) ❤
12. Mouse
13. Mad For Each Other
14. The Uncanny Encounter
15. Delayed Justice
16. The Witch's Diner
17. True Beauty
18. Hometown Cha3
19. Sell Your Haunted House
20. You Raised Me Up
21. My Wonderful Life
22. Cheat on me if you can

Not been to Dramabeans for months! And it’s been even longer than that since I posted. But here is my bean count! I watched very few kdramas compared to cdramas so I made a list for both!

KDRAMAS (9):
Lovers of the Red Sky 🍆
My Name
Run On
King’s Affection
Red Sleeve 🍆
Happiness
Melancholia 🍆
Mr. Queen 🍆
Sweet Home 🍆🍆🍆🍆🍆

CDRAMAS (28):

A Female Student Arrives at the Imperial College
A Girl Like Me 🍆🍆
Ancient Love Poetry 🍆🍆🍆🍆🍆
Crush
Dear Diary 🍆
Falling into your Smile
Love Crossed
Miss The Dragon
My Fated Boy 🍆🍆🍆🍆🍆
My Heroic Husband
My Little Happiness
Mysterious Love
One and Only 🍆
Qing Luo
Stand by Me
Sweet Teeth
A Day of Becoming You 🍆🍆🍆🍆
Eternal Love 3 🍆
The Long Ballad 🍆🍆🍆
Rational Life
Sword and the Brocade 🍆🍆
Time Flies and You Are Here
Truth or Dare
Ugly Beauty
Unforgettable Love
Word of Honor 🍆
You Are My Glory
You Are My Hero 🍆🍆🍆

I managed to get 4 beans this year!!! I was so worried I'd only end up with two.....

Youth of May 💘💘💘
The Great Shaman Ga Doo Shim
Happiness
Inspector Koo 💘

I am currently watching Melancholia, School 2021, and I`ll try to squish Imitation in before this year ends. The list will change if I ever started and finish Imitation! I think Melancholia should be done by end of this year too unless they cancel due to year end shows! So I might get 6 beans this year!!!!!!

19 beans this year:
Run On 💖💖💖💖
Love Alarm 2 💖 (for being better than season 1)
Mine 💖
Move to Heaven 💖💖💖
My Roommate is a Gumiho 💖 (for the secondary couple)
You Are My Spring 💖💖💖
The King's Affection 💖💖💖💖
Happiness 💖💖

1 Run On ❤️
2 Sweet Home
3. Lovestruck in the City
4. Love (ft. Marriage and Divorce)
5. Penthouse 2
6. Vincenzo ❤️❤️
7. Love Alarm 2
8. Law School ❤️❤️
9. Mine
10 Move to Heaven ❤️
11 My Roommate Is a Gumiho
12 Penthouse 3
13 Love (ft. Marriage and Divorce) 2
14 Hospital Playlist 2 ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
15 Nevertheless
16 You Are My Spring
17 Hometown Cha-Cha-Cha ❤️
18 Now, We Are Breaking Up ❤️

Finished : Yumi's Cell, HellBound, My Name, Vinzenzo, Beyond Evil, Lost, Mr Queen

Beyond Evil= 3 Beans
Hellbound = 2 beans
Yumi Cell = 1 beans

So I've got 37 beans..goodness!.. how did I manage this? Anyways, I distribute them to the following :

4 beans each for :
Vincenzo
Mr. Queen
Move To Heaven
D.P

3 Beans each for :
RacketBoys
Hometown ChaChaCha
Law School

2 beans for
Beyond Evil
Darli and Gamjatang
Sweet Home
Squid Game

1 bean each for :
You Are my Spring
The Uncanny Counter
Secret Royal Inspector Joy
Happiness

37 in total!.

Err, I only have 7 magic beans. I thought Vincenzo was slick and superficial, and I only remember I didn't like the ending. So I'm giving my beans to the only dramas that appealed to my brain (a sageuk) and my worn-out pandemic self (a slice-of-life short drama).

Secret Royal Inspector
River Where The Moon Rises
Vincenzo
Bossam: Stealing Fate 🍎🍎🍎🍎
Imitation
Would You Like A Cup of Coffee? 🍎🍎🍎
Let Me Be Your Knight (up to ep. 5)

My crack dramas and where I spent most of my time (besides BOSSAM) were all Cdramas:
The Long Ballad
The Rebel Princess
The Story of Ming Lan (2018) 💜

12 beans

I started a number of other ones on the list (including highly rated ones by others here) and just...couldn't make myself finish them. So the ones here were enough to keep my interest. But of those...the three standouts were Move to Heaven (I had to watch in small doses because it was intense), The Great Shaman Ga Doo Shim (now that is a school story done right, plus Nam Da Reum, such a great actor at any age, and finally the LEAD, yay!), and Happiness. Frankly, Happiness deserved a lot more buzz than it got. It was super tightly written and the acting of every character was dead-on. What I loved about it (despite not liking horror/zombies in general) was that it was a story about people and what ultimately matters most when you are forced to decide what your true priorities are. It had a lot of resonance for everyone who has gone through the pandemic (which is literally everyone); that lent quite a bit of reality to the scenario. And it left you with a warm feeling, both about the characters and about the people around you in real life. I highly recommend it!

True Beauty
Hello, It's Me!
Mine
Doom at Your Service
Move to Heaven **
My Roommate is a Gumiho
Monthly Magazine Home
The Great Shaman Ga Doo-shim****
Hometown Cha-Cha-Cha
Dal-li and Gamjatang
Jirisan
Happiness******

I wonder why Jirisan wasn't in the list. I'm pretty sure it started before Nov 27th. Just completed the series and it's one of my favorites this year.

Where's the time?! But this year was really good dramawise and only dramawise. So I'll be distributing all the beans.

Wow I'm super late but I've watched WAY too many dramas this year to not gloat over all the dang beans I have, so here we go!

For the record, I think I count a little differently than the DB staff so my shows and number might be a lil bit different. I count a show is a 2021 show if it FINISHES in 2021. Anyway, here we go!

Bean Total: 32
A Love So Beautiful
D.P. ❤️❤️❤️
Doom at Your Service
Hellbound
Hello, Me! ❤️❤️
Hometown Cha-Cha-Cha
Hospital Playlist 2
Inspector Koo ❤️
Law School ❤️❤️
Love (ft. Marriage and Divorce)
Love (ft. Marriage and Divorce) 2 (IT COUNTS AS ANOTHER BEAN. FIGHT ME.)
Love Alarm 2
Lovestruck in the City
Mad for Each Other
Mine ❤️❤️
Move to Heaven ❤️❤️
Mr. Queen
My Name ❤️❤️
Navillera
Nevertheless,
One Ordinary Day
Please Don't Date Him ❤️❤️
Racket Boys
Reflection of You
Run On ❤️❤️
Sisyphus: The Myth
So Not Worth It
The King's Affection ❤️❤️
The Uncanny Counter
Vincenzo ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Work Later, Drink Now ❤️❤️❤️
You Are My Spring ❤️❤️❤️

I have procrastinated enough. My 2021 Bean Count report.
I earned 19 beans. They are distributed as follows:
RUN ON—3
BEYOND EVIL—3
BOSSAM: STEAL THE FATE—3
MOVE TO HEAVEN—3
D.P.—3
NAVILLERA—2
ON THE VERGE OF INSANITY—2.

Out of competition honorable mention goes to two 2021 cdramas in the crime/mystery genre:
THE IMPERIAL CORONER
DOUBLE TAP

I award all my accumulated beans in 2021 to the underated gem of 2020 : Kairos!!!

Kairos aired late 2020 and ended on 22nd Dec 2020, nearly a month after 2020 bean count started (5 dec 2020). Therefore, it should be included in 2021 bean count, I make the rules for my bean count 😎. Reference for 2020 bean count comment: https://www.dramabeans.com/2020/12/2020-year-in-review-part-1-the-bean-count/#comment-3754526

Dramas that start in 2021, which i think I finished or might finish with the help of ffwd button:
-Sisyphus
-Taxi Driver
-Sell Your Haunted House
-Imitation
-Idol the coup
-Melancholia
-Reflection of You
-Mouse
-On the Verge of Insanity
-My Name

Hmmm..On the Verge of Insanity was good too. So 1 bean for OTVOI, 9 beans for Kairos. Watch Kairos and OTVOI 😆.

Bean Chart: 10
Actual: 17

the uncanny counter: ☕️
(started off strong but then got a bit convoluted)
Mr. queen: ☕️☕️☕️
Secret Royal Inspector & Jo-yi: __
Lovestruck in the City: __
Beyond Evil: ☕️☕️
Love Alarm 2: __
Law School: ☕️☕️☕️☕️
DAYS: __
My Roommate…: ☕️☕️
Monthly Mag home: __
So Not Worth It: __
The Devil Judge: ☕️
You are my spring: __
Yumi’s Cells: ☕️☕️
The King’s Affection: ☕️☕️
Secret Royal Investigator: __
Hello? It’s Me: __

Finally got time to review my drama list for 2021 - 15 kdrama shows!

Vincenzo ***
The Uncanny Counter ***
Mr. Queen **
Youth of May **
Move to Heaven **
Taxi Driver *
Beyond Evil *
Hospital Playlist 2
Yumi's Cells
Navillera
Secret Royal Inspector and Joy
Hometown Cha-Cha-Cha
Jirisan
Melancholia

-DROPPED-
Run On
Racket Boys
Hometown Cha-Cha-Cha
The King's Affection

-NO BEANS @ FORGETTABLE DRAMA-
Beyond Evil
Mine
Law School

-WITH BEANS AND UNFORGETTABLE DRAMA-
Sweet Home
D.P
Vincenzo
Move to Heaven
Hospital Playlist 2 🌱
Squid Game
My Name
Happiness 🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱
Hellbound

how sad, i only have 14 beans this year....
: (

48 Beans for my retired with too much time on my hands. Ask me how I spend my days in Korea...watching Korean dramas. 48 Beans! I am almost embarrassed.

Of the 48, I give the most beans to Squid Game. Not only did I like it, it seems to be a game changer for Korean Dramas around the world, therefore I grant half or 24 beans to Squid Game - 24

Vincenzo. Who doesn't love this show? 10 beans for this awesome show.

The Devil Judge. I loved it, and I will give it 4 beans.

Doom at your service...made me cry so much...4 beans

Mine! Why is this not more popular? 4 beans

Yumi's Cells gets my last two beans. Sometimes I hated her, but it was a very fresh look at an old story. 2 beans

It's 33 beans for me:
Awaken
The Uncanny counter
Run On
Lovestruck in the city
Sisyphus: The Myth
River where the Moon rises
Not Yet 30
Navillera
Vincenzo
Oh, Master!
Scripting your destiny
Beyond Evil
Youth of May
Sell your haunted house
So I married an antifan
Doom at your service
Racket boys
Imitation
Monthly Magazine House
The Devil Judge
You are my spring
Hospital Playlist 2
D.P.
The great shaman Ga Doo Shim
My Name
Hometown ChaChaCha
The Veil
Lovers of the red sky
Move to Heaven
Lost / Human disqualification
Jirisan
Hellbound

I dropped far more dramas than I watched this year. I'm giving my beans to the three dramas that lifted my spirits the most:

Dali and Gamjatang 👁👁👁👁👁👁
Hello, Me! 👁👁👁👁
Racket Boys 👁👁

Special mention goes to Mad for Each Other for the best trans character in a K-drama. I appreciated the way the character was treated with respect by the ML as well as the way the character became an appreciated member of the community.

I hope @mmmmm recognizes Junho's beautiful and emotive 👁👁. I'll be awarding beans to his drama next year, since I haven't finished it yet.

It's been a very rough year, so I am not surprised to see that nearly all of my finished shows were romances or feel-good dramas. I managed to finish 16, and here is my bean distribution:
* Sunbae, Don't Put on that Unbelievable Ending
* At a Distance, Spring looks better
** Imitation of my kpop playlist
** Hospital Playlist 2 ccs of saccharine
*** You Are My Spring but Not Summer
*** Run On out and buy that OST
**** True Beauty and Chani's sadface (and another great OST)

32 beans this year!! i guess all i did in 2021 was watch k-dramas to pass the time~ XD

The Uncanny Counter
True Beauty **
Mr. Queen
Run On
Sweet Home
Beyond Evil
Vincenzo *****
Love Alarm 2
Navillera ****
Taxi Driver
Law School
Imitation
Mine
Move to Heaven
Mad for Each Other ****
My Roommate Is a Gumiho
Racket Boys ****
Hospital Playlist 2 ***
So Not Worth It
The Devil Judge
You Are My Spring
Kingdom: Ashin of the North
D.P. ***
Human Disqualification
Yumi’s Cells
Squid Game
Dal-li and Gamjatang ****
Inspector Koo ***
Happiness
The Red Sleeve Cuff
Hellbound
One Ordinary Day

Mr. Queen 👑
Vincenzo. 👑
Sweet Home
Hometown Cha Cha Cha👑👑👑
Squid Game👑
Yumi's Cells👑
Doom At Your Service
Secret Inspector and Joy👑

This was hard but I loved all the dramas this year. Still catching up on Jirisan and mostly watching dramas from the past years featuring my favorite oppas and unnis. Hometown Cha Cha Cha takes the cake for me.

Total : 22 Beans

The Uncanny Counter -* (1*) I rem it was quite exciting. I think.
Awaken
True Beauty
Sisyphus - Its a bloody mess. I want all the hours back.
Times
Taxi Driver
Sell Your Haunted House
Doom at Your Service
My Roommate Is a Gumiho
Hospital Playlist 2-********** (10*) Hey, its our famous Five.
Voice 4
The Devil Judge
The Great Shaman Ga Doo-shim
Police University
Hometown Cha-Cha-Cha
Red Sky
The Veil-* (1*) - NGM, the act, the dedication to his work and that bod.
One the Woman
The King’s Affection
Jirisan - I just want to get it off my chest! Argh! you wasted so much talents. Everyone of them! Someone, please REDO the show! so so wasted.
Happiness- ********** (10*) Fine! I'm too besotted with PHS and HHJ that girl makes it so easy to love her.
The Red Sleeve Cuff

what in the world do you guys see in Vincenzo?
I have been struggling through 5 episodes and... honest, it is the most consitpated drama. I didnt like chief kim either, maybe I dont click with this wroter. but... im sorry, to me, it is just BAD.

Yay, just watched My sweet dear webdrama, and now I've got another Bean to spare! And I'm giving it to:
Happiness 🍿
Sae Bom and Yi Hyun are my 2021 favourite power couple 💚

I watched 16 dramas this year (this is an amazing record to me; i stayed home a lot this year due to the pandemic so i managed to watch many) and alloted my beans to the following dramas:

1.   Mr. Queen 🥜
2.   Beyond Evil 🥜
3.   Taxi Driver 🥜
4.   Law School 🥜
5.   Move to Heaven 🥜🥜🥜
6.   Racket Boys 🥜🥜🥜🥜
7.   Hospital Playlist 2 🥜
8.   Kingdom: Ashin of the North
9.   Police University
10. D.P. 🥜
11. My Name 🥜
12. Inspector Koo
13. Happiness 🥜
14. Secret Inspector and Joy 🥜
15. Hellbound
16. One Ordinary Day

Oh wow. I only got 10 beans. I give 5 to Run On, 2 to Hospital Playlist 2, 1 to HomeCha, 1 to Navillera, and 1 to Hello Me.

I thought this is a dry year for me, but I still manage to collect 17 beans. What does that say to my media consumption.

I'm late in submission but don't want to have my beans expires. So here goes...

🌵Sweet Home
🌵Hello? It's Me!
🌵 Sell Your Haunted House
🌵 Imitation
🌵Hospital Playlist 2
🌵You Are My Spring
🌵 Dal-li and Gamjatang
🌵The Red Sleeve Cuff
🌵🌵 Navillera
🌵🌵Move to Heaven
🌵🌵 Mad for Each Other
🌵🌵🌵D.P

Wow this year, there are a lot of kdrama I dropped !!! Maybe I am becoming to exigeant!! (at the same time I rewatched lot of "old" ones)

It's been a slow year for me on the K-drama front. I completed (about to complete) 14 titles out of this year's releases. My favorites have been Jirisan and Youth of May. I did complete a few more that I wishlisted from previous years, but they don't get beans this year.

I started but did not complete (still hoping to complete them) Hospital Playlist 2; River Where the Moon Rises; Melancholia; Hometown Cha-Cha; Mouse; Vicenzo; and a couple of other hits.

The Uncanny Counter
Mr. Queen
Penthouse - 2
Taxi Driver
Youth of May - 4
Move to Heaven - 2
My Roommate Is a Gumiho
Racket Boys - 2
Kingdom: Ashin of the North
Squid Game - 1
My Name
Jirisan - 4
The Red Sleeve Cuff - 1
Now, We Are Breaking Up

What happened with "Doom at your service"? It's not on the list...

Only six beans this year (watched mostly pre-2021 shows) but here goes:

Navillera 🕺🕺🕺
Mr. Queen 👸🏻👸🏻
Sell Your Haunted House 👻
Hometown Cha-Cha-Cha
Squid Game
Kingdom: Ashin of the North

I didn't dislike any of them, but wanted to give the ones at the top a little extra love (and Squid Game doesn't need my darned bean). Right now, I'm partway through Roomate/Gumiho, which would definitely challenge for Haunted's bean based on what I've seen so far.

I wanted to gather more Beans by the end of the year but I'm stuck on Yumi's Cells at Episode 12 and Squid Game at Episode 5 so won't be counting them.
My bean count for 2021:

Secret Royal Inspector 🤩🤩
Mr. Queen 🤩🤩🤩
How to be Thirty
So Not Worth It
Hometown Cha-cha-cha 🤩
The King's Affection

Happy New Year all Beanies! 😁

17 Beans:

Hospital Playlist 2 *****
Move to Heaven ****
Law School **
Youth of May ***
Beyond Evil ***

Ok, finally doing a bean count late, but not going to allocate since it's after the official count. (Totally dodging that bullet, yep.)

35 beans. I am astounded but now really understand why I dropped some shows last year since I was "catching up" to a few older shows (and the usual guilty pleasure rewatches). 🥴

Super late, but I never managed to catch up before the holidays last year. I started to move away from watching kdramas (got distracted with other things). Then I became active again due to Dali and Gamjatang. ^^ Anyway, I wanted to post my 2021 bean count to keep a record for myself. I think I skipped a year in the past.

(In Order of Airdate)
Cheat on Me, if You Can
True Beauty 🎇
River Where the Moon Rises
Hometown Cha-Cha-Cha 🎇
Squid Game
Dal-li and Gamjatang 🎇🎇
The King's Affection 🎇
Happiness 🎇🎇🎇

8 total beans! (Might be my lowest yet. >_<)
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Dramas I'm still watching, but behind:
Hospital Playlist 2

Dramas I started, but not yet dropped:
The Penthouse 3: War in Life

Just reviewing this before the season comes around again! ... so excited for all the year end reviews this year!