@missvictrix Thank you so much for putting this out there I needed it today. I was so upset about the last episode of Shooting Stars but reading through the vexations of the beanies has had me literally crying with laughter as I shared the pain of their reactions.

My most recent one was Coffee Prince I decided after struggling to get through the first episode so many times over the years that I should endure it so see if it got better. I hate watched the middle episodes but thought the rest was OK. The one I hate watched in its entirety was Goblin as I kept waiting for the epic elements to kick in. It just didn’t do it for it at all.

Like most others if I can bypass certain episodes by recapping on Dramabeans or fast forwarding I will but otherwise I just walk away as life is short and there are hundreds of other shows to try.

That Winter, the Wind Blows and Introverted Boss. Interestingly, the moment when I decided I hated both of these dramas came when the FL was slapped (in Winter, by the hero, which I could never get over; in IB it was a work superior and none of the multiple people witnessing it intervene or defend her even though it's clear everyone knows it's disgusting and wrong). Winter was a hatewatch for me after the slap because a) the FL believes the ML is her brother almost all the way through making all of the tropey romantic scenes flesh-crawlingly gross and yet I couldn't look away and b) the lead actress does ok with playing blind, but she slips up enough times that I kept watching to see when she'd make eye contact with someone or move out of the way of something, lol. Would've made a great drinking game.

I didn't *quite* make it all the way through Introverted Boss, but I hung on for a long time. After my anger over the ignored slap faded, I was either rolling my eyes, bored out of my mind, or suffering from tonal whiplash. But I could not stop watching. I didn't like the FL (actress or character) AT ALL, the writing was painfully confused and confusing, and there was a distinct lack of actual story. I could chalk it up to the fact that I developed a soft spot for the ML and wanted him to be happy, but I didn't really care about the OTP at all. I'm still not sure what kept me watching this one almost to the end.

I don't drop dramas when I start watching (I should learn how to do this 😅) but I guess I have been lucky because I don't really think I have actually hate-watched any of them.

Here I would define hate-watching as "meeting the description of hate-watching in this post" for more than 50% of the drama. A few dramas may have toed the line though ; I have to think

Most recently: OCN’s A SUPERIOR DAY. (I hung in there for Jin Goo).
In 2021: OCN’s DARK HOLE. (I hung in there for LJH (1984).

When I first arrived into kdramaland I had a rule: start a drama, finish a drama. It wasn’t till my 56th kdrama that I had my first ‘drop’ and that was OCN’s CHILDREN OF A LESSER GOD (2018). I dropped it because of unintelligible subtitles. It was the best thing because with that I let go of the burden of completing dramas. Looking back at 2016-2018 I plodded through a number of dramas especially the 20/40 episode ones that I should have let go e.g. HOSPITAL SHIP (2017) and TEMPERATURE OF LOVE (2017).
Also my least favorite drama of 2017 (and watched to the end) was WITCH’S COURT. I know beanies loved it and I am in a distinct minority but I was annoyed to no end for the entire drama the way the FL (Jung Ryeo-won) treated the ML (Yoon Hyun-min).

I tend to drop shows that test my patience. But at very few instances I have sticked to few dramas to curb my curiosity.

The drama that tops this list will be "Love (ft. Marriage & Divorce). Everything about this is messy. I have ranted a lot about how crazy this drama is and how crazier this gets with each season but I can't stop myself from watching it. I mean a hungry ghost that wanders all houses and shuffling of the leads every season, I don't know what more !!! I have endured the first season and hate watched S2 and S3. I don't know how many more seasons of this will be coming but I am sure I will watch no matter how many in a hope that all three leading ladies will get a happy ending.

The next one will be the Penthouse series. I still feel the level of frustration and boiling blood pressure whenever I think about it. I live watched the series ending up mentally exhausted from all the stress the series gave me, but returned every time.

Lastly "When I was the Prettiest". This one was a pure torture. I still don't know what made me complete this drama since I am not a fan of both the leads. And I hated the "Younger brother loving sister in law "trope. I watch, I hate, I regret, I watch again.

Honorable mentions : Melting me softly, When the camelia blooms

When I Was The Most Beautiful:
I kept waiting for the good part. Each episode had one little nugget that would keep me thinking "Maybe this will finally pay off next episode," and it just never did. Just baffling decisions by the characters.

Oh My Ladylord/Oh! Master:
OOOOOF. Lee Min-Ki always gets extra points from me because he's in one of my favorite shows (Because This Is My First Life), and Nana had just done the great 'Into The Ring' so my expectations were SKY HIGH. But even these two couldn't save this one. I did end up watching the whole thing, much to the detriment of my soul. What a massive waste of a solid cast horribly foiled by a nonsensical story and just plain bad writing.

"Hate-watched all the way through" is my second name. I'm really bad at dropping shows, I always think they'll get better. Sometimes I like a character or couple a lot and because of them I finish the show.

You Are Beautiful
Dream High 2
Innocent Man (half hate, half fun)
Hi School Love On
Pinocchio
Kill Me Heal Me (half hate, half fun)
The K2
Hwarang
Tomorrow with you
Perfect Wife
Daebak
Heart to heart (half hate, half fun)
Let's eat 3
The greatest Love
Wild Romance (...I guess I hate myself)
When time Stopped (I've never thought dramas could be boring until I watched this one)
Investigation Couple
Mama Fairy and the Wood-something (what I do for Chae Won unnie...)
Mr Sunshine
Where Stars Land
Train
My Holo Love
Lovestruck in the City (half hate, half fun)
My Daughter Seo Young
I'm Sorry I Love You (LOL)
My Roomie is a Gumiho (half hate, half fun)
Dalie and the Cocky Prince
Midas
The Red Sleeve
Our Beloved Summer
Tale of the 9tailed
Me too, Flower
The heirs (me and all my family hate-watched all the way through it)
I am Sam (me and all my family hate-watched all the way through it)

Bonus: A bunch of BLs

If I start disliking a drama or lost interest on it, I tend to drop it. But there are two dramas in recent memory that made me sit through two dramas that in hindsight, I should've just dropped.

LUCA and Doom at Your Service.

The latter I blame Lee Soo Hyuk and my curiosity if he gets the girl. The former, i may have nothing to watch at the time.

Night Light, just for for Jung Hae-in. Damn, that was bad and stupid. He’s a trooper but even he looked discouraged and like he was trudging through it by the end. I regret every moment I spent on that improbable mess.

Dishonorable mention to Hometown Cha-cha-cha. I disliked most of the supporting characters from the get-go and got really impatient with the FL after she turned on the aegyo, but I persevered right through the bloodless home birth and disappearing baby, the over-the-top Tragic Backstory, and the out-of-nowhere ghost bullshit, so I figured I might as well finish. I’ve learned my lesson and have dropped a number of stinkers since then.

This is going to surprise a lot of people but...
18 Again... I really really hated this drama and everyone in it. It started okay and then ended in a disaster.
I think I managed to get to the end of it because of Lee Do Hyun who was very good... but not enough to save his dumb character. There was no logic in this story... everyone kept doing the wrong thing. The mother was the worse of them all. Everyone was stupid... that was the plot device that made this story move on.
So yes, 18 Again. GAH

I am pretty sure, i hate watch a lot of drama because i am a glutton for punishment but sadly i cant think of any right now, can we get dramas that the ending sucked and ruined the whole story, I can write a 3 page Essay on that topic!!

Jirisan and bulgasal were definetly a hate watch cause every single episode I was hoping to see something but it kept being bland or disappointing

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I’ve heard people list each of these as their favorite dramas of all time, and so, I stuck around to the end against my better episode 2 judgment. By the end, I wasn’t hating the dramas so much as myself for not stopping when I wanted to.

I tend to drop dramas if I don't find anything to like about them, though there have been times that I stuck with a drama waay longer than I should have and should have gotten those hours back.

Exhibition of Fireworks. This was early in my drama-watching days, so I didn't have the smorgasbord of drama options that I do now. It had a good OST and Han Chae-young. But it was so many hours of the FL - who was strong at first- pining over a ML pining over his dead bro's wife (second female lead) and the ML and SFL/SIL were all in angst over their feelings for each other since it's incredibly taboo for in-laws to marry. ML was dumb AF and SFL was your usual selfish SFL.

Falling for Innocence. Didn't watch it all the way through but I got to halfway point even though I didn't even like the first episode? I guess since it's because it had gotten a pretty okay reception?

AIGOOOOO, Realized I posted on "What Watch" what I wanted to share on Open Thread. My apology.
I have only hate watched through Sisyphus, the Mess because I casually mentioned duct tape and got 60 replies in 24 hours.
Made me realize how many Beanies hoped that this drama would live up to the hype and how great the collective wail when it tanked BIGLY .

Oh gosh too many to count! Most of these dramas I had to watch because nothing else better was on air at the time. But from the top of my mind, here it goes (though some of the older ones I don’t even remember atm because those were just too long ago. I’ll add them if and when I remember them):

Doom at service
Hometown cha cha
You Are Beautiful
Dream High 2
Innocent Man
Hi School Love On
Kill Me Heal Me
The K2
Tomorrow with you
The greatest Love
Mr Sunshine
Where Stars Land
Lovestruck in the City
Tale of the 9 tailed
Goblin (hated everything about Kim go eun’s character portrayal, otherwise would have been a phenomenal drama because everything else about the drama was daebak)
Monthly home magazine
Playful kiss
Boys over flower
Lucky romance
Now we are breaking up
A love so beautiful (sucky remake of a legendary lovely cdrama)
Melancholia
Nevertheless
Vincenzo

I don’t hate-watch shows, but there is one curious case. It was The Sound of Music. I realized after I finished it that I hated it so much I can’t describe it in words.

Bulgasal : Way too long to drop. I annoyed this drama to the max and I was like gosh could you just tell the whole story now? I couldn't keep on watching anymore lol. I wish Ok eultae, my most fave and the only reason I continuted the drama, die ASAP. And when he's dead, it's in the 16th.
Cloy - Keep watching for the side characters (NK-soldiers and the gang of housewives) The leads story is cute but too drag, too makjang and too unreal.
Warm and cozy - I watch only for Kang sora and the Jeju island.

Voice 4. Anything to do with Voice. My husband and I were so dissapointed they didn't actually full send with the clown-dwarf serial killer.

The entire dramas that I hate-watched are pretty old ones, e.g. Pasta, Greatest Love, cos I've learnt to drop shows without a backward glance. Hell, I don't even pick them up in the first place.

I don't think I did this anymore recently, since I have no energy to go through hate-watch.

The only title I remember on top of my head is Hwarang (whose recaps page made it so much fun) and Trap (disturbingly dark, which I hate, to the point of being morbidly fascinating to watch).

I used to watch dramas with a friend. Not together, we lived in different cities. But it was what we bonded over, and she was basically the only person who cared about kdramas and I could rave and rant to.

But!
We have insanely different tastes in dramas, and she wouldn't accept that. A third of the dramas I watched in my first decade of drama-watching I only finished because she wouldn't accept dropping. I ffed as much as I could, even let the show run and went out of the room 😂 just to be able to say truthfully that I did finished it. I felt that hate-watching to my core.

Nowadays I finish a lot of shows that I end up disliking but it is not hate-watching. I am free to drop anytime I wish, and it is truly liberating.

There are some dramas I can never bring myself to begin, such as Hwarang and Boys Over Flowers. I call it good instincts.

There are also some I can't bear to continue, like The Bride of Habaek, because I am putting my sanity and overall sense of well-being in jeapody if I continue. I call this self preservation.

I never fast forward through a drama because I can't properly criticise it if I haven't given it a chance. You can call this noble idiocy.

But my most hated hate watch was That's Love. It made me so mad, I had to vent every week, and I watched it to the pointless bitter end.

Then there was Encounter which also made my blood pressure rise dangerously. That Winter the Wind Blows and Now We are Breaking Up are in the same basket, although I never finished the latter. This I call incredulity. I just couldn't believe she could be so bland and still get roles, so I had to keep on giving her another chance. But no. I've learnt.

Same with Sisyphus. This I call a broken contract.

Snowdrop 😅 it kept getting worse but I couldn't stop watching