Ji Chang-wook has a number of dramas that shouldn't exist: Melting Me Softly, Backstreet Rookie, Lovestruck in the City.

Oh yes, please, can we consign Playful Kiss to oblivion? Do you know how long it took me to not unfairly hate Jung So Min? Because This Life Was My First. That long.

Ah, yes, the Playful Kiss franchise in all its iterations that teaches little girls that domestic violence is a good thing.
Nailed it.

Tempted & Nevertheless.
Hours of my life that I will never get back :')

Am I the only one who doesn’t hate Playful Kiss? I mean I have a degree of bias as it was my first kdrama but I honestly don’t think it was that bad. I don’t think the hero behaves any worse than many other heroes that don’t get the same degree of scorn.

I forgot all about that Owner of the Mask drama. It was awful and has a lot of wasted potential. It relied to much on Yoo Seung Ho and Kim So Hyun as leads but had really poor storyline. They could not save that trainwreck.

Love Alarm S2: I was looking forward to it only for me to not even finish as it got spoiled for me (the S2 leads lacked chemistry imho)

DDSSLLS: Hours of my life I would never get back :')))

Sisyphus: I watched it due to it being constantly talked about and I regret it sm (fr what was that ending)

sisyphus and do do sol dol la la sol hurt me.

Bride of Habaek

Yes to Alice! I'm still trying to unsee the two episodes of that drama that I endured.

Another one that came to mind primarily because it was unbelievably boring: Soundtrack#1. I almost couldn’t believe the lackluster feeling I felt watching one of my fav actresses acting in this one.

It's THE BEST. Some day my devotion will pay off and a new generation of watchers will love Marry Me Mary for the crazy ride it is.

It's interesting that Memories of Alhambra is mentioned here because of the ending. I know some people don't like it and while the ending might not be that good, it's still one of my favorite dramas.
But i understand how the ending could ruin the whole drama for someone.

Warm and Cozy, which was neither warm nor cozy. Bin it!

I've watched and finished every single Hong sisters drama except for Warm and Cozy, which I just couldn't finish. Its existence is ruining my streak unless I throw myself.

Felt like the network needed a Hong Sisters' drama out of the blue, and which also promoted South Korea, so Warm and Cozy was the result.

I could feel your pain just reading this. You must have been beyond disappointed and angry that you had to settle. The drop in mood must been worse than going over the cliff of doom.

OMG! So true! I LOVED first 8 episodes and I watched 9th and partially watched 10th and dropped the whole thing.

bruh really!? I loved that drama in its entirety

I was so disappointed with INTROVERTED BOSS. The same writer as MARRIAGE, NOT DATING which is one of the great romcoms. How could so talented a writer mess things up so badly?

Ugh Goodbye Mr Black is so bad with that casting. I still can't believe it

I totally agree about Introverted Boss, I had to force myself to finish that one, and I hated the FL the entire time. I may have missed a couple of details in the story (although there didn't actually seem to be that many details in that story...) because i was fast forwarding her scenes so I didn't have to watch her talk.

I also wasn't amazed by Abyss, but at least I could finish that one without using fast forward. Mostly.

I hated my way through Nevertheless, too, and Do Do Sol Sol... owes me many hours of my life back.

Others I was not impressed with include When the Camellia Blooms (snoozefest) and Something in the Rain/Pretty Noona - that one I kept watching just to see psycho-eomeoni in action. I love the actors in these, but this was not one of the best choices for any of them.

Oh I liked Jirisan. For some reason, the show felt worm and I remember most of the positive scenes on the show. The ending could have been better. Still I like it.

Unpopular opinion: Squid game was really disappointing & frustrating

Personal Taste!!! I watched that full (don't know what possessed me to)

I loveeeee Personal Taste. Best Lee Minho drama for me lol

Melting Me Softly is kind of like Habaek and About Time in that you have the Survivor's Club brought together by being in the tranches together and surviving the war*. And you're now bound by that experience in a way that brings you together.

*I did not in fact survive the war when it comes to Melty. I lost that war.

@HeadsNo2 was hilarious. Her recaps made Dr. Jin into a comedy. I miss her.

I understand why you would not like Bride of Habaek and I agree with most of your points. Particularly with Nam Joo Hyuk's wardrobe as Habaek and that mane of hair. Beautiful.
But the rest has a lot of room for improvement.

The only drama I’ve really liked Nam Joo-Hyuk in is Weightlifting Fairy. It seemed to suit his personality the most. He just didn’t strike me as a math/computer genius in Start-Up and I thought he misplayed Baek Jin in 25/21- if he’d played the character as less typically earnest and with more signs of ambition and self-centeredness his character’s actions at the end may have been more understandable

Oh, and started bride of Habaek and couldn’t get through two episodes…

LOL!

I hate myself a little bit for typing this, but I actually enjoyed Bride of Haebak. However, I would absolutely agree that it's Nam Joo-hyuk's worst performance/part and the writing is all over the place.

I will have to politely disagree with this one because apart from the Boar in ep1, NJH and his fantasy wardrobe is also too fantasy for me I couldn’t help lol every time I saw him in his god costumes.

I hated Bride of Habaek, but I shipped Krystal Jung and Gong Myung's characters, so I only cared about their storyline.

Oh Arthdal! Good shout. Criminal waste of talent, awful pacing, bizarre story and such dark lighting that we squinted at our screens for 16+ hours. :( My eyesight has never been the same…

Oh, jeez! Arthdal 😖
I had managed to forget how insultingly awful that was.

Arthdal was truly alarmingly awful in so many ways, and as others have said, such a waste of soooo much talent. Can't believe they're actually making more of it.

I already removed Woori the Virgin from my mind but that should also be included in my list.

Absolute Boyfriend was only watchable because of Yeo Jingoo as Ken, and lots of people dropped before then. Which is why I really need to see him in a Bad Boy role!

Pretty Noona/Something in the Rain was even more frustrating than Bride of Habaek because I kept expecting it to correct course all the way to the end.

Same with Do Do Sol. That was a betrayal.

Melty and Backstreet Rookie had bad written all over them, so I didn't watch. Arthdal, same.

*joins the act of hulk smashing*

'Do Do La La F F U' had me cackling HAHAHA I couldn't agree more!!!

I read the weecaps of Woori the Virgin hoping it would be a wild, self aware, cracktastic ride, and it was for like a hot second before it tanked so so so hard. At least I never have to waste my time watching it now.

Huh interesting, I watched it solo and didn’t lurk or participate in online discussions. I found out about the online vitriol way later lol
Good thing I stayed away tbh

Yuppp. Glad to see I’m not the only who thinks this way.

I liked Start Up but I also didnt like the unnecessary online hate. The story was good as it was and understood why it was the way it is.

So true. I loved that drama and enjoyed both leads, but thought the writing made it very clear from the start where Da-mi's heart lied. It wasn't the type of drama--*cough*Reply1988*cough*--where the writing is clearly designed to jerk viewers around until the very end as to who the FL would end up with. So the on-line vitriol took me by complete surprise. It's a shame because it's now impossible to think of that drama without remembering that vitriol rather than the story itself.

I didn't watch Start Up because my mild annoyance with Suzy's inability to act has over time reached a full blown aversion to seeing her on screen. But as it unfolded, I was glad I didn't because the online commentary on it was... I'm trying to think of a word less than deranged but it was. It was deranged.

I actually find often if I’m live watching and enjoying something I’m better off staying away from conversations about it especially if it’s controversial in any way; it can really ruin the experience. I felt the same with Start Up.

But the show itself was really good and worth a watch. It is such a shame that the online comments affected you the way that they did.

As a part of the vitriol spewers I kind of feel a bit sad that it ruined your watching experience.

@linarrick to add to your response, it was more of the writers shoving Nam Do-san right in the faces of the viewers than HJP not ending up with Dal-mi. Also them shoving 15 years down the drain like it meant absolutely nothing. In retrospect, while it was cool that our FL was unwavering in her feelings, Nam Do-san rubbed what I knew right in my face. The best thing you could have done was recognize the fact that someone laid down the groundwork for you. HJP could have claimed to be Nam Do-san and Dal-mi would have fallen for him, but Nam Do-san was being an ass to the person who used his name as a penname that even made him know someone name Dal-mi knows about his existence. His consistent asshole vibes even when it was mostly unwarranted cost he and Dal-mi something at the end.

Had the writers done something about his 'stealing' HJP's groundwork even if it's one conversation, Nam Do-san wouldn't have come off as a parasitic opportunistic, and the 3-year separation they had wouldn't have occured if only he accepted that he began riding on HJP's thunder before he finally got Dal-mi to fall for his own thunder. Addressing the thunder riding would have gone a long way in touching his self-esteem issues because I saw how much it was eating away at Nam Do-san's psyche, and he would have taken HJP's help all the times when it mattered but he being feeling threatened by HJP even when HJP was just being HJP pissed me off more when it was clear he himself was the problem. Not everything is about marking territory, Nam Do-san. And that always on defence mode marking territory vibe was amongst the major reasons that ruined his character for me.
Even when he was able to at least be comfortable materially, not to HJP's level but at least way better then he was before, he still marked territory. Looking back as I write this I'll say that Nam Do-san never grew, even till the end. Growth is essential, and the writers didn't grow Do-san's psyche so he never measured up.

Tbh I think it could've been avoided if they opted to remove the letters storyline and use smth else instead (to tie Ji-Pyeong & Dal-mi tgt) cuz it just ended up being a complete waste (I had a feeling when I started that the letters wont be of use towards the end) of time since the story relied heavily on the premise of the letters.

I really don't care about people opinion. If I like or dislike something, they won't change my mind.

I think the opposition between the viewers was more than who Dal-Mi will choose but more about the fact that Ji-Pyeong was written as a ML with the introduction of his character.

But the big issue for me was the written of Dal-Mi... She was badly written.

I did not read any online discussions because I was hoping to catch it later. I liked a lot of work by the same writer but my brush with the first episode made me dislike FL. (Nothing against Suzy, I was okay with her in While you were sleeping). Dropped it like a hot potato.