Queen Seondeok is on your list😲😲😲. It's a shock.
But I'd love to know why it made your honorable mentions.

Lol I also wanted to love it, but I really struggle with the vague relationships + chemistry between a married person and a third party.

Welcome!

Welcome to the party!

Welcome aboard @chiomzyfrancie. You have me beat by 2 years and I passed on SQUID GAMES also. I saw a trailer and said to myself, “no thanks”.

Welcome!! Hehe I remember my first beanie post... so glad to have you!

Haha I get it with Squid games... I just don't like the gore. Also, I heard All of Us are Dead had a really graphic sexual abuse scene or something? Some clarification there would be appreciated, other beanies^^

I like Vincenzo, but there were moments when i didn't like Jeon Yeobin's comedic acting. But then she got more serious scenes in which she shines more, so Vincenzo was fine for me

We have shows in common but different reasons.

My sunshine: plot, main couple. I literally finished it for Kim Min Jung.
Vicenzo: I just didn't get into it. I think I'll finished it someday.
Hotel De Luna: the ML was so annoying telling her how to feel or deal with her problems. I liked her better with her ex (Joseon dude).

I couldn’t get into Camellias either. I normally like Gong Hyojin but….nope.

I disliked Camelias. Gong Hyo Jin is not only typecast, but her constant whining and self-pitying made me angry.

Lol I agree with you for a few and I disagree with a few. I never watched Vincenzo, but it just didn't feel like a high quality production whenever I read recaps / looked things up. By that I mean the directing tone and writing didn't seem to match, and the writing itself didn't feel super tight.

Hotel de Luna: I really wanted to like this one, but I kind of found Yeo Jin Gu a little bit stale as a male lead... it rubbed off on my impressions of the other actors.

It's Ok not to be Ok: 100% agree they were toxic and I didn't like her.

However, I loved Master's Sun, Just Between Lovers and When the Camelias bloom... looking back I don't know if I'd watch Master's Sun again because So Ji Sub was such a terrible man there. When the Camelias bloom... I do actually like Gong Hyo Jin (although I agree she's typecast). Lastly, it just makes me laugh (in a good way) that you dislike JBL because of his haircut (I totally agree it's a wild cut, but I think it matches his character)

Lee byunhyun was in something called ‘My sunshine’ as well as in the wonderful ‘Mr Sunshine’? (He didn’t make it wonderful for me but the other actors did for sure). What kind of sorcery is that?.

Aside of Just Between Lover, I'm with you but for different reason :D

Parasite made me a bit upset because there weren't any likeable characters. Like, everyone was just terrible. I have a hard time liking shows or movies when there's nobody I can root for.

Signal is in my top 10 drama list. But it is kind of fun reading everyone else reason to not like drama that I love. See the drama from different perspective after that.

I agree with all of this.

Tried , tried again, tried a third time and could not finish Signal. It was on Lee T's top ten of the decade list and every other drama there was excellent. Breathed a sigh of relief to see your bravery in naming this much-loved drama.

I watched signal; and let alone liking it, i cant understand whats it at all 😅

Agree with every single word.

I also couldn't stand Lee Je Hoon's character in signal 😑 and it affected my viewing experience tbh

Coming from someone who 100% loves Signal, I still have to agree Lee Je Hoon rubbed me the wrong way on a second watch through (only for the first few episodes, though). I still feel like the style and pacing were incredibly well done--there are a few scenes that still get to me (when JJW's character goes to the movies and cries, when KHS comes back, and the entire arc working to save LJH's brother). Hopefully that doesn't spoil anything for anyone.

Exactly.

Really! That's so fascinating to me--JJH in this was one of the few times I liked a FL who was a bit of a brat (or so I thought, at first).

You from another star was the first drama I ever watched (and nobody told me that Korean TV was supposed to be good: I just thought the premise was so goofy that I'd enjoy something mindlessly trashy) so there were a whole lot of things that were new and interesting. On a second watch, it's the fact that they are such horrible people that makes it such fun for me, knowing how things turn out.

Me too...I couldn't finish a single drama starred by Gianna Jun.
No matter how big and famous their ML, I still cannot continue to watch her.

Oh man Shopping King Louie….it got better after about maybe episode 8? But man the first part was a slog. And then it was about an episode too long as well. I liked the middle bit 😅

And same on Coffee Prince - if you’re causing someone that much pain and you could just solve it just like that, why would you not?!?

Lol I will agree with you in your offending on all except I am Not a Robot :) Particularly Coffee Prince, I really disliked that drama. It was basically for the same reason, too--even after he confessed she didn't tell him she was a girl. It felt mean, especially if he was going to have even more trauma then trying to re-assess himself after finding out she was a girl.

I watched the first episode and felt zero desire to continue.

This is the first time for me to know someone who doesn't like Forest of Secrets, as it's one of my fave. I respect your opinions

It was just fine. Exactly. I loved the villain arc but the main characters and the story were just normal procedural. The second season was just fine too, with the added minus of the previous villain.

Ooooh I thought this was just so very boring! I tried so many times.

You win with the first one. It's very rare to find someone here who didn't like Healer (I love it though).

I dont like Healer too: Because there is a daddy long legs to help her? So I cant take her seriously as badassed agent. 😄

I fervently loved Healer when it was aired but it doesn’t really stick for long. Not sure why.

*giving EXTREME side-eye* 😡

Lol re:healer.

I also liked What's Wrong With Secretary Kim, mostly because I felt like Secretary Kim was so amazingly competent she was life goals for me. I struggle to like the ML here though, even until the end.

WWWSK was an extreme hate watch for me. I'd love for someone to fix it so the competent woman goes on to have a wonderful life.

I didn't like a single thing about Goblin.

Goblin was a chore for me to get through as well.

I thought the first two episodes of Goblin were great, and then it just . . . went . . . nowhere. No antagonist. A creepy age difference between the leads. Lots of PPL and weeping. Realllly long episodes. Yeah, I'm definitely with you on this one.

Kim Go-eun acting cue …. I just can’t. Exit at the earliest opportunity.

My husband watched Goblin, but he really didn't like it. I thought it was gorgeously shot and rather hilarious the first time around (if light on plot)... but when I rewatched I realized I really didn't like the main couple together. They're so mean to each other! For the longest time! I do love the Goblin and reaper still, as well as the Reaper and Goblin's sister.

Goblin is too hyped for my taste... I have zero desire to watch it.

I liked Goblin, only because of Gong Yoo eye candy, and the hilarious bromance of Goblin and Reaper. There was a whole lot I didn't like though. Kim Go Eun role was cute to the point of being obnoxious. An adult man and a high school aged girl - especially one who acted this young - falling for one another made me very uncomfortable. Goblin surviving in that no man's land was weird. The ending was disappointing; it would have been so much better if she was older when they met again, a career woman rather than back in her high school uniform.

Drat, that coding. Sorry.
Sigh.

Are there any news on that long sought-after edit button?

Business Proposal - struggling to watch it and I'm tempted to drop it. Probably will.

I finished Just Between Lovers for Junho, but I disliked it till the end.

I loved The Untamed but agree that the ghost city arc is a definite low point as far as being super depressing and largely pointless.

And I agree that the magic of Coffee Prince is mostly due to the magic of Gong Yoo (not to mention The Voice, whom I ❤️)

Boys over Flowers. Thank you. It is like THE iconic worldwide drama of Hallyu (for the modern era, at least... not counting older hits)...

I also realy didn't like it. Lol earlier I thought it was funny that someone disliked a hairstyle (@pohonphee), but now I have to call myself a hypocrite. I hate his LMH hair here. So much so it affected my viewing pleasure. Rather drastically. (I also just disliked the personalities etc. lots of stuff). But yeah, I'm a hair hypocrite.

I tried 1 ep of The untamed, but I am unable to distinguish between the various characters... and the photos that I have seen do not motive me to try further. I though it would be fun, after Words of honour. But not enough colours for me.

There was no plot in WWWSK. But Park Seo-joon was wonderful, I fell in love.😍

LOL Run On: I like running too and contemplative aspect of it, but the ML as runner in this drama don't run that much, and think it is a chore.

I did not like Run on either and only watched for the second leads.

Everything with Song Hye Kyo that I've tried.

Wow, someone else who didn't love Reply 1988. I thought it was well acted, but I wasn't really feeling nostalgic for patriarchy and spending one's entire life within the confines of a single block.

this is my feeling about Secretary Kim as well. I wouldn’t have forced myself to finish it if not for all the love it received, but then I was angry with myself for continuing with something I found so offensive.
(and the reason I’ve never watched Crash Landing on You is because I could guess it would be how you’ve described.)

I thought Crash Landing on You was okay but nothing special. Around Episode 6 I got busy and never felt like coming back to it.

I liked Reply 1988 but don't hold it in as high regard as most people. Probably my least favorite teen group out of all the Reply series. I never understood all the angst over the husband reveal. It was painfully obvious to me.

In retrospect, I agree with you about WWWSK.

I generally don't like sageuks either.

I think a lot of people like myself just suspended all belief and reason to watch CLOY. It’s popularity was clearly amplified by the viewer isolation of the pandemic.

Reply 1988 is the least of my favorite in Replay series. I finished that though.
WWTSK and Her Private Life: Romance between condescending boss and his secretary or his employee. YAWN. Never pass ep 2
CLOY: It is fine as fan service.

Sagueks are my main reasons for watching Kdramas today. It's what introduced me to Kdramas. It's just 4 yrs ago (Stranger and SKY Castle) I took an interest in watching modern Kdramas, before then modern was a no-no.

Crash landing felt so silly and boring to me..

I assumed Crash Landing on You would not do justice to North Korea and for that reason have never really wanted to watch it. Likewise the people who like the Reply series tend to say that it reminds them of when they were a student in Seoul - which I wasn't.

I might come back to Secretary Kim despite your warning. I dropped it after one episode as I was all cold chaebol'ed out at the time.

I'm not keen on sageuks as a rule (but did like Rookie Historian), because of the tendency to give the viewer a cheap warm feeling by including a (usually main) character with modern values that they can identify with and so feel superior. Rookie Historian suffered from this too but its other strengths outweighed this.
The power struggles are boring too: one bearded chap in a red robe with the knives out for another bearded chap in a red robe.
It's interesting that fantasy dramas often have a sageuk element: in nearly every case I can think of, the sageuk part is tragic and the modern story is a do-over that is not tragic, or less so.

I also refuse to watch sageuks. The plot always revolves around a woman being treated absolutely horrifically. I cannot do it.

The only time I didn't mind LMH was in Legend of the Blue Sea (that Mermaid drama). If I ever get the chance to watch Pachinko, I'm hoping he'll be ok there, too.

:) I cannot bring myself to start a LMH drama.
I do have an issue with popular actors. I genuinely does not understand why he is so popular. He is a clone, and I do not find him any charm.
(Junho is also very clone-esque but he has presence...)

Totally forgot about this one. I struggled with both seasons, however, season 1 was better. But yeah mainly watched it for JJS and wanted to watch for JKH but they didn't do justice to his character or his acting abilities.

I managed to finish HP season 1.
I don't watch season 2.
Medical dramas stress me
LOL. I hope it is not medical theme, I love the friendship

Lol that's so different from me! I loved the group interactions, but JJS was a weaker link for me (I was introduced to him in Jealousy Incarnate where I hated his character, but have since seen him in more things and don't mind him). I don't normally like medical dramas (too much corparate politics) but this focused on a much more human aspect, and I liked that.

You didn't like School Nurse Files? Can I ask why?

Yours is like the fifth or sixth comment I've seen that didn't like WWwSK... I didn't know there were so many people who didn't like it! ...It wasn't my favorite drama overall, but it definitely wasn't one I hated. Fascinating!