It's hard to choose, this was a really bad year!
These are my disappointments:
-Trolley
-Strangers again
-Interest of love
-Heartbeat
-Good bad mother
-Crash course in romance
However I want to give the bean to Worst of evil. Not because I hated, because it had so much potential in story and I constantly hoped it to be great.

It's family: the unbreakable bond for me
When I read the news about this drama , I screamed from happiness but what I got was soooooo mehhhh I dropped it at ep 2 with a broken heart 💔

For me, it's a contest between My Lovely Liar and Divorce Attorney Shin. It's true, See You in My Nineteenth Life was disappointing, but I had a bad feeling about it from the first moments of the show and didn't last past the fourth episode. My Lovely Liar and Divorce Attorney Shin each managed to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. But which was a greater disappointment? My Lovely Liar was a better show overall, and the homophobia of the resolution was inescapable, but it happened before the last episode. The weird decision to have Attorney Shin day drinking alone in front of a convenience store until his friends discovered him? That was the last scene, after the beautiful resolution of the protagonist getting custody of his nephew. Oh, man, it's like they don't even get why alcoholism is bad.

I didn't watch as many 2023 shows as I thought I had, but some of the ones I found disappointing have already been mentioned. So I'm going to throw a curveball and name A Time Called You as my biggest disappointment.

Though I had never seen the original, I had very high hopes for this drama, thanks to the story line and the actors involved. But ultimately I felt let down by this show. I didn't think the two leads had strong enough chemistry to justify this all-encompassing love story that would have them travelling across time. The murder mystery portion was well-plotted but felt like it took over the romance many times. Why can't we get a straight romance without a murder?! And the time travel elements were somewhat confusing. I finished this feeling sad at what could have been.

Hello everyone, for me it's **Doona!** because I was impatiently waiting to watch Bae Suzy grace my screen again after her stellar performance in Anna.

I was moved and impressed by her acting in Anna and her character had depth. I was expecting her to pick a role as impressive for her following project but instead it was painful to watch her in Doona!, such a waste of talent!

I take comfort in thinking it's because of a limited choice of great FL roles available and that she's not completely free to decide on her projects.

I'm seeing this sad pattern of great actresses performing their top art and then not remaining steady and being offered underwhelming projects. For example Shin Hye Sun in Mr Queen > 19th life or Lee Se Young in Red sleeve > The law cafe.
I havn't watched Cast away Diva but the same seems to have happened to Park Eun Bin.

Wow, See you in my 19th Life is getting a lot of hate. I didn't think it was great, but I didn't think it was that bad either.

My biggest disappointment is an on-going drama Welcome to Samdal-Ri.

Once it was announced, a healing return to home type drama with Shin Hae-Sun and Ji Chang-Wook, I was ecstatic. Even the poster looked welcoming and calming.
I couldn't connect with any of the characters at any level and I spend almost an entire week attempting to finish ep 4 and now I'm giving up on it. The writer will be on my blacklist.

joesonghnabnida my lovely Shin Hae-Sun for picking on you. She's one of my all time favorites and I think her presence sets the expectations higher than normal

"The more the central characters succumbed to the whims of the stalker plot and its male-lead mysteries — leaving its female lead as washed out as she was on that deserted island."

Ouch. I made a good decision to not watch it then, thank-you-very-much.

1. King the Land
2. Song of the Bandits
3. Diva Castaway
4. Family: The Unbreakable Bond
5. Island 2
6. Strong Girl, Nam Soon

Mine goes to King the Land. I was eagerly looking forward to Jun-Ho's next project. It wasn't that bad, I really enjoyed parts of it. But as a sucker for romcoms, my expectations were high. I thought this is gonna be good for Junho to choose a romcom after Red Sleeve.

Definitely King the Land. Such an utter waste of Junho and just lacking in soul. Yoona was the only thing I enjoyed from this drama (which I dropped at episode 8), and that is coming from my memory of the horrid drama known as K2.

See You in My 19th Life was disappointing but I can't really put my finger on why. It just slowly sauntered downhill in every aspect.

Castaway Diva for me. I loved the teens in that first episode, and I must be made of stronger stuff because the domestic abuse didn't seem any worse than in other dramas and after all, it didn't destroy them, they took action and decided to leave. What I didn't like was what followed when the adult versions took over. It all became so superficial and there's been enough discussion of Mok-ha's unrealistic character so no need for me to weigh in on it. I was just expecting a totally different story, seeing as if was built on the premise of a lost chance at fame suddenly becoming possible again after 15 years, but absolutely nothing of what I envisaged came to pass - at least not in the first 3 episodes or so, after which I dropped it. It turned into the usual stupid nonsense when there were so many other avenues to go down relating to her 15 year absence. Experiences that would have built on her resourcefulness not evaporated it and turned her into a silly gullible child.

19th Life i watched to the end unbothered, even though Yoona is the most bland insipid actress on the planet. She has learned to act different moods and emotions but there's nothing behind it - as the saying goes, 'the lights are on but there's nobody home'. There's something oddly fascinating about that and I kept going, but I admit it was mostly for the ML who I had not seen before but wouldn't mind seeing again in nice suits. Ahem ...

Beanies Prize of disappointment this year definitely goes to Strong Girl Nam-soon.

I think I have to give the bean to Castaway Diva. Which seems like an unfortunately popular pick for this bean. I was really invested early on, and that first song after she gets rescued from the island hit me EXACTLY right. Just a rush of emotions and had me really anticipating the rest of the show. Even the early dark bits, though jarring and not what I was expecting from the trailers worked for me.

Then it just kind of...continued. It seemed like at every opportunity to go the interesting route when a problem arose, it just didn't. Noble idiocy became rampant, "surprise" twists abound, and just an alright ending that seemed to be ticking off boxes.

I guess like a lot of people, I was here for Park Eun Bin, as she tends to pick interesting scripts or shows in general and I can't say it was her performance that I had an issue with. Mostly came down to the potential I felt was wasted, and the writing in general just being...fine.

My Bean of Disappointment goes to Joseon Attorney. I loved this show, the romance especially, in the beginning but literally fell asleep during the later episodes. The storyline about his sister was a melo, and I hated the forced separation and timeskip between the OTP. I was so disappointed because it would've been one of my favorites of the year.

I dropped most dramas that could have gotten my bean of disappointment. But since they were all dropped, I’ll give it to one that I watched and had expectation for: 19th life. This is one drama that could have done better justice tonits story if it was longer so the end wasn’t rushed to meet some “plausible” (read debatable) conclusion. The end storyline was crap and so was the execution. I won’t mention other dramas like island for this bean because I didn’t even have any expectations for these going in or watching the show, just watched this to kill time and my god did it kill time and more for me.