Y'all. I only dropped two dramas this year. (This is up from only dropping one the year before, so I guess that's a little bit of improvement?) They were Oh! Young-shim (dropped after ep 1) and Destined with You (dropped after ep 6). I followed both through weecaps to see if anything would tempt me to return but, despite the wonderful weecapping talents of our Beankeepers, nothing did.

Oh! Young-shim I dropped because of good old fashioned boredom. The first episode didn’t make me want to continue, and that’s a much easier time to drop for me because I haven’t invested much time (sunk cost fallacy is real).

Destined with You was a harder drop because it felt like everyone else loved it. But after six episodes of liking the female lead less and less with each passing one, I realized I needed to bail unless I wanted to hate watch. Which, as a rule, I don’t.

There aren’t that many dramas that I watched that I wish I would have dropped, so I think I did okay, but next year I hope to be a little more ruthless in defending my entertainment time from dramas I’m not (or am no longer) enjoying enough.

I dropped Island and Celebrity - Island because even Kim Nam Gil couldn't get me to watch such an appallingly bad combo of B-movie horror and stale drama tropes, and Celebrity because one episode convinced me that few things make me want to run screaming out of a room more than the word "influencers".

Compared to the other years, I have dropped a lot this year. Actually, this is my first time dropping a drama. Usually, I stick it through despite anything, so this means those were terrible that I didn't look back.
Dramas dropped:
kokdu after the premiere
The Heavenly Idol with only 6 episodes left
Family after the premiere
Not Others only watchedbone ep
Longing For You after the premiere
Worst of Evil watched 5 episodes
Moon in the day watched 4 episodes

Oasis
Strong Girl Nam-soon

Both dramas wasted incredibly talented casts, who simply couldn't overcome bad writing and mediocre direction.

Destined with you
My Demon (currently airing)

I blame myself here, both male leads cant act to save their lives (but "visuals" i guess), im pretty sure if you placed either of them opposite a boiled egg as a scene partner, the egg would outshine them by a mile.

Uncanny counter 2
19th Life

I didnt hate these (they were ok) my interest simply waned and never came back, i doubt ill revisit them anytime soon.

I dropped 4 dramas and 1 show this year. I actually tend to stick with series a lot longer than I should, so there are several more I SHOULD have dropped (especially The Real Has Come, ugh don't get me started).

On my dropped list this year:

Strangers Again
I barely made it through the first episode.

The Heavenly Idol
Gave it way more time than it deserved.

Jinny's Kitchen
Just not entertaining enough and the episodes were way too long.

Oh! Youngsim
What a disaster this series was despite its cute premise. Watched 2 eps and couldn't go on.

Glitch
I love the cast and decided to give it a try despite reviews that suggested I not waste my time. I love me some quirky, unusual shows, but I barely made it past the bedroom scene with a bored Jeon Yeo-Bin to know that this was NOT what I watch K-drama for.

This year I had the luxury to consume a lot of dramas, but next year will not be the same. So I'm sharpening my dropping skills right now in order to keep myself sane and focused when the inevitable tide of temptation rises in January 😀

Why did I drop Song of The Bandits? The editing and the story was off. Netflix ‼️😪
I would be willing to watch a directors cut .
Blood splattered battle scenes as your opener doomed the Goryeo Khitan War .
Blood Splattered General in Moon in the Day Nope 🚫
Shows where the Evil2FL just won’t quit with her BS The Real Has Come

Very interesting to put my viewing into numbers... this year, to date, I've watched 50 dramas (this counts K- and C-dramas, pre-2023 dramas, and rewatches). I'm on track to finish 15 dramas from 2023. I thought this was a fabulous year for dramas - three 2023 dramas made it to my top-ten! But I did more live-watches this year than any other, which meant more drops. 2023 dramas I dropped this year:

Brain Works
Kokdu: Season of Deity
Delivery Man
Bora! Deborah
My Perfect Stranger
Tale of the Nine Tailed 1938
King the Land
My Lovely Liar
Moving
Behind Your Touch
Destined With You
Han River Police

(*Shhh, I'm coming back to finish Destined With You and My Perfect Stranger*). My drops fall into two main camps: can't stand the characters, or can't handle the violence. Most of my drops are a "hmm... nope" :(
But Kokdu was a "HAHAHAHA LOL BYEEEE" 🤣

In my 9+ years of Kdrama watching experience, the first (and hopefully last) drama I dropped at penultimate episode was The Heavenly Idol I know, I should get wiser with experience, but Kdrama writers/PDs are even more deceitful than me and in my defense, I was running low on Jan/Feb kdramas and ended up sticking with it. Well, I learnt my lesson and will never again stick to low quality crap, if I get stuck in a kdramaland drought.

Oh! Youngsim: Dropped after 7 episodes. It was awful. No redeeming qualities.

My Love Liar: Hmm.. this one went on pause for a week at ep 10 and I just never picked it back up again. I did follow along with the recaps and don't really have a major complaint against the show apart from the boatload of annoying and stupid secondary characters so I think I'll maybe continue it someday at 2x speed.

Apart from those two all the other shows I dropped or paused were shows that aired before, but I only started them in 2023 (Our Beloved Summer, Shooting Stars, Shopping King Louie, While You Were Sleeping.)

I dropped five dramas this year (which for me means watching at least one-quarter of the drama before proactively deciding never to return) .

Strong Woman Kang-nam Soon
I wrote a Fan Wall post about the moment this drama turned me off so hard that I walked away.

Castaway Diva
This show has such love in other corners, and I'm very happy for the show and its advocates. I'm in the camp that felt that both the main character and the pervasive theme of abuse are being handled in ways that keep me uncomfortably unable to watch.

Han River Police
Started for Lee Sang-yi...he didn't keep me there. I worry that this may also happen in My Demon, but at least that latter show has more characters going for it!!

Moon in the Day
@ladykrueger's gif-ssays on "Instances when Kim Young-dae gives the viewers something/anything" are enough for me. Here's a funny example of the genre.

Race
I really wanted to finish because of @reply1988's devotion, but Hulu was taking so long to release the episodes that I said, "I'll wait until it's done and then go back..." but never ever did because I heard how it ended. Grr.

Dropped only 3 but given that I can't remember dropping any last year, I'll give myself a pat on the back 😅.

Dropped Kokdu's Deity somewhere early on, dropped Oh! Young-shim after the first two episodes, and dropped Destined With You much later than I should have!

Surprisingly, I didn't drop any drama this year. But I also barely watched 4 dramas despite the endless offering, so...

Sigh, the life of a veteran k-drama watcher. I guess after more than a decade, I'm jaded enough to judge a drama entirely from its premise and the writer's past work these days.

At first I thought the only drama I had dropped was King The Land, after having watched the first episode (I didn't like the humor, I didn't connect with the leads, the plot didn't grab my attention...) but now I remember I dropped Oasis too. In fact, I think this one is "on hold" and someday I'll finish it. I watched the first six episodes in a few days but I got tired of so many fights.

I dropped Uncanny Counter Season 1, which I had started because I wanted to watch the two seasons in a row, but I was quite disappointed on that show and I dropped it after nine episodes.

Omo! According to MDL, I had dropped 29 dramas this year.
Looking at the list, I have no regrets.

Only regret is not dropping King the land much earlier. I Dropped it at Ep 14!! It was just getting tedious with no story, logic and just close up shots of Jun Ho in diff angles. But at least, I had great fun on the beanies fan wall, so I guess it was alright.

Another frustrating drop at ep 8 was Destined with you. I just couldn't enjoy it. Rowoon was funny at times, but I didn't connect to the leads one bit.

To my utter shock, I, an infamously habitual dropper, this year finished significantly more kdramas than I dropped. Mostly by not starting at all shows I was doubtful about, but still, that's crazy! What will happen to my reputation at this point? *worries* Anyway, let's go on with my 2023 Shame List^^

JOSEON ATTORNEY: The most interesting thing about it was pretty pastel outfits.
HEARTBEAT: I didn't find it as good as everyone else from the get-go and FL was super annoying. Life proved I wasn't wrong to run for the hills.
MY DEAREST: Does it count as a drop if I've finished Part1 but did not even touch Part2? Reasons... *sigh* I liked the show initially, I really, really did. But finale of Part1 let me down hard and upon reading that Part2 only doubled down on things I wasn't happy with instead of correcting them, I knew it's time to nope out. Writer-him, how could you? I don't have much faith in humanity left in me overall, and you just killed yet another bit of it!
STRONG GIRL NAM SOON: Actually I only bothered with this drama for that one time OG leads cameo, but I did press play and then didn't continue, so it's a technical drop.

Dishonorable mentions from cdrama pool:

ASHES OF LOVE: Blergh story, curtain shop visuals, insufferable leads etc. Perhaps one day I'll finish it as a hate-watch for LYX's sake, but man, 500 years of acid waters torture in Nether River sounds less painful in comparison!
DESTINED: It wasn't bad per se, but somehow my interest just waned before I've got to the finish line.
LOVE YOU SEVEN TIMES: I had big expectations, but crappy script and directing killed it with fire. Stop blaming actors here, you cowards!
MY JOURNEY TO YOU: Spoilers of trash ending taught me to not bother finishing, but overall it was very pretty to look at, 10 it's-raining-hot-wuxia-men out of 10!
STORY OF KUNNING PALACE: Doomed attempt to stomach a genre I hate unsurprisingly failed.

Pretty sure I forgot some other, but alas... Will there be another one, this time for "I've earned the bean, pls take it back in exchange for my wasted time"?

2023 BIWBG (BEANS I WON’T BE GETTING):
1. ENA’s STRANGERS AGAIN. Dropped after eps 7.
2. tvN’s OUR BLOOMING YOUTH. After eps 14.
3. ENA’s BORA! DEBORAH. After eps 1.
4. ENA’s LONGING FOR YOU. After eps 2.

I guess ENA’s dramas just didn’t click with me this year.
Dropping No. 2 OBY was difficult because I am a Park Hyung-sik fan and loved the original Chinese historical mystery novel (“The Golden Hairpin” by Qinghan CeCe) which was supposed to be the source for the kdrama version but for a lot of reasons the kdrama version was not a true adaptation. I couldn’t make it to the end.

I don’t really keep a tally of my dropped dramas as I always feel compelled to finish shows if I do. I also don’t count dramas as ‘dropped’ if I only watched one episode.

From what I remember:

HEAVENLY IDOL - I liked the leads but even they weren’t enough the save whatever trash fire hell this drama was

BAIT - Waaay too dark to see anything

OUR BLOOMING YOUTH - Dropped at the halfway mark, preferred the second leads over the insufferable main leads

DOONA - Wasn't my cup of tea, still this one hurts as I was so close to finishing it, buuuut the ML annoys me to no end

STRONG GIRL NAM-SOON - I gave this drama multiple tries and I just couldn’t get into it. The screenshots and gifs looked fun so I was experiencing a lot of FOMO with this one

MY DEAREST - I’ve been stuck on episode 16 for weeks now, I don’t know if I’m deluding myself that I’ll finish or not but after vaguely reading spoilers about double amnesia…

I'm so very new to K-Dramas (having on started getting into this in the late summer this year and so I've been bingeing here and there to find out what I like or dislike... and there are a few I've dropped:

1. NEVERTHELESS - I am not a fan of seeing toxic relationships and a F***boi as the ML in dramas I watch unless there are other elements balancing things out.

2. CINDERELLA AND THE FOUR KNIGHTS - Everyone in this series is just unlikeable.

3. OH MY BABY - The FL's desperation for a child is just cringe. A lot of women hear their biological clock ticking and dealing with women's reproductive health issues and it's great to see a drama attempting to address all that. But the execution is exactly the best and I would have liked to see the story handle it differently. Instead we see the FL trying to make the best of choosing between 3 crappy potential sperm donor candidates.

4. SONG OF THE BANDITS - I really wanted to like this one but it seemed... off.

I'm proud of myself, I've dropped more dramas this year than last year. Mostly because they bored me.
These include The Heavenly Idol, The Secret Romantic Guesthouse, Moon In The Day, Island and Oh! Young-shim. I usually gave up after the first two or three episodes.

Delightfully Deceitful started well, but at some point the steam was gone.
Somehow I never got round to watching the last two episodes of Stealer: The Treasure Keeper and at some point I forgot all about it.
I liked the first few episodes of Heartbeat, but later the magic was lost.

I should have dropped My Lovely Liar much earlier, ML was dull and boring, but I kept watching because everyone else was so into it and wondered why I wasn't seeing it.
In Joseon Attorney it was FL which I just found bland so I didn't want to keep watching.
In Strangers Again, I found both ML and FL unbearable towards the end.
Real Has Come: actually all were unbearable.

2023 - dropped All English speaking dramas
I watched zero English speaking dramas (does it count as a drop if I don’t even start)

ZERO

If I’m not reading subtitles- I’m not watching it. I find this revelation kinda weird.
I racked my brain for why this is and here is what my 2nd voice said:
With English speaking dramas you watch 50 shows hoping for 1 great one. So many are forgettable. The last great English show I remember watching was The Queens Gambit from 2020. I can’t think of another great English speaking show I watched in 2021 or 2022.
With Kdramas the expectation is that the show is great and the exception (dropped shows) is that the show just isn’t for you for whatever reason.

Real Has Come and Live Your Own Life: Maybe I’m not cut out for weekenders, or these two failed to offer the right combo of appealing characters and plot progress.

My Dearest: Found it hard to get back into the torture, separation and angst after the break.

King the Land: Lost interest once the romance ramped up. I’m not sure why — I just stopped looking forward to the show.

Strong Girl Nam Soon: Dropped when it became evident it wasn’t the show I’d hoped it would be. The best parts of the early episodes were more like happy accidents rather than indications of script quality or depth.

Thank you very much for the list! I tried using another one (maybe dramawiki?) and it was missing so much 😠

Oh, you got me where I live. I am a serial dropper, so prepare for... A LOT.

*WORST OF EVIL* - great style and the best the JCW has ever acted, but the plot was just not all there. Rom-com esque plot points, a total waste of a secound lead, and, overall, a very boring narrative execution of the premise.

*SECRET GUEST HOUSE* - At first I didn't feel like watching it 'cause it looked to kitch-y. Then I was semi intrigued by the mystery - but, as I told a friend - the moment I know who the crown prince is, I'm OUT. I was wrong. I couldn't handle the kitch and the whole bubbly shebang (which is a me thing, tbh), so I dropped it the moment I had a SOLID SUSPICIOUCON about who the crown prince is and checked online to confirm. Also I donno why they did the solider character dirty with his wig. His head looked like a turnip. I was like, what are you hiding under that WIG? SECRETS?

*ISLAND* - at times a Drama tells you what it is during the first ten minutes and you gotta listen.

*LONGING FOR YOU* - could have been a decent show (if a little bit out there) had the leads were not insufferable. My patiance is running thin to cop characters showing police burtality and the drama being like "ohhh he's such a scamp!"

"BATTLE FOR HAPPINESS* - good one, I liked it - however, the central mystery was solved a TAD to early (ep 14 or 15) and I lost intrest in seeing how it wrapps up. IT IS SUPER FUN, though, with great character progression.

*TAXI DRIVER* - Was I the only one bothered that our quirky group of misfits vigillantees was *Checks notes* taking criminals to an offsite location where they are imprisioned by an organ trafficar loan shark under unbeliveably inhumane conditions? Also, the show was carried by the OST and the ML bomber jacket + sunglasses + fingerless outfit look.

*MY LOVELY LIAR* - I fogrot I dropped it, which should tell you more than enough how little I cared. My faves were the tarot reading girl and the baker guy. I would watch a show about them.

*MOON IN THE DAY* - the description of FL as a "firewoman who never lost a life" (sometimes it's out of the firefighter control) alongside the too sweet moment of dramatically resuracting that dog told me it was not for me.

TRUST that I have dropped quite a few more. However I don't really have anything interesting to say about most of them.

Oasis I liked the casting but the story was way too cliché.
The Uncanny Counters 2 It didn't have the magic of the first season.
Strong Girl Nam-Soon It was worst than the first season.
Queenmaker I don't remember 😅
Cold Blood Intern I didn't like the characters.
Oh! Young-Shim Everything was bad.
Good Bad Mother The story of the worst mother in the world.
Arthdal Chronicle 2 I'm still in the deny and kept the episodes on my computer thinking I will watch them one day.
Bloodhounds Abs can't save everything.

Well, that was interesting. I printed out your list and using MDL realized I well on my way to a decent bean count. My dropped list falls roughly into two groups: early drops and well-underway but can't stands-no-more group.
Early drops for "can't connect/ho hum" include Heavenly Idol, Divorce Attny Shin, Secret Romantic Guesthouse, A Time Called You, Han River Police, Strong Girl Nam-soon. Special mention goes to The Glory for over the top torture, My Lovely Boxer for the grifter ML who tricks, bullies & gaslights the FL and sadly Song of the Bandits that I wanted to love but couldn't (study Sergio Leone again director-nim).
Harder to drop were shows at the middle or near end. Crash Course in Romance just revived my parent-teacher PTSD and Jinny's Kitchen</b simply stopped being fun with all the corporate male hierarchy . Lastly Borah! Deborah was a disgusted hard drop after the FL was degraded/shamed for the 10th time. I see My Dearest appears twice so I get a bean for season one but nothing could induce me to finish the angst fest of # 2. Amnesia twice, seriously?

Unlock The Boss - My favorite character died.

Big Bet 1&2 - I began this solely for Sohn Seok-ku. I began watching the episode his character was introduced in season 1. By the time season 2 aired, I thought the whole show in general dragged even though I love love some performances in here.

Trolley, Lies Hidden In My Garden - Despite the beautiful start and or perfect momentum it built up, I had to give them up for my peace of mind.

Red Balloon - I will and always remain team Seo Ji-hye. But, at episode 18, I just didn't bother anymore as it seemed like it lost steam. This however isn't Bye Felicia, I'm going to complete it before the end of the year or when the spirit gingers me.

Brain Works, Behind Your Touch - I loved the first episode, no doubt. But it was one those dramas where if I missed a week or a beat, I'm gone.
If anything, I followed BYT faithfully with the recaps.

Triple KKKokdu - I'm so sorry Kim Jung-hyun, Cha Chung-hwa, and Kim In-kwon. The trio of you couldn't save this collosal mess from a drop.

Oasis - That time in Korean history is not a palatable setting for me. I just couldn't keep up.

Queenmaker - Dropped at ep 1. Powerful as it was, I thought it was simply a makjangfest without an aim.

Queen of the Mask Ep 5 - I'm just done with bad blood dramas that were airing at the time and this one especially was not satisfactory. I loved the revenges that were dished before I dropped it though. I have to give it that credit.

Delightfully Deceitful - I just couldn't stand the female lead. No offense. It is so sad cause it's the first Kim Dong-wook drama I'm dropping.

King The Land - I'm surely not a Jun-ho fan. King The Land helped me realize that. Somehow I enjoyed him in The Red Sleeve Cuff but it just wasn't clicking here. I look forward to his next project though and hope he's actually acting in there.

Revenant - Ghosts...I could only survive the premiere week. Any other follow-up was via recaps.

Heartbeat, My Lovely Liar, Han River Police - This is one of the dramas that excite me in the premiere but I drop like hot potato once I'm done with the two episodes. Also the kind of dramas i watch out of solidarity for the leads but I'm sure I'm not going beyond two episodes.

Not Others - The recaps already made me know mother and daughter remained in their loop. However loving it is, i also find it parasitic. So i just wanted to leave it ending as palatable as it did at Ep 10. I'll forever love the Golden Poop episode. It is my highlight of the drama. The tough conversation between mother and daughter was pure gold and the writing was pure sex.

The First Responder 2 - Premiere week drop.
I thought they had repented from their disservice to Sohn Ho-jun in season 1. Alas! They were just about to top it.

Destined With You - Dropped at 14. Continued with recaps to the end.
At this point I was already tired of Hong-ju. Aeng-cho should have the center of the story and Hong-ju...

Looking at that list just reminds me of all the dramas I would like to check out but haven't touched yet.

Dropped and unlikely to come back. I didn't mean to drop them. Just paused and then never came back and didn't regret it.
Kokdu: Season of Deity
Strong Girl Nam-soon
Forbidden Marriage
The Real Has Come
Poong Season 2
My Lovely Liar

May come back to it:
Love to Hate You.
One Day Off
Moving
Perfect Marriage Revenge

Still airing and may drop:
Live Your Own Life. I've made it further than expected. The "will we finally see her live her own life?" carrot-dangling is working I guess...

I made a new year resolution at the beginning of the year that I wouldn't force myself to watch anything that's not working for me. Coz life's too short to watch bad dramas. Here's my list:-

Strangers Again
Rainless Love In A Godless Land (Taiwan)
Triad Princess (Taiwan)
Unintentional Love Story
Happy Merry Ending
Something In The Rain
Step By Step (Thailand)
Oh! YoungSim
King The Land
See You In My 19th Life
Not Others
Heartbeat
Hidden Love (China)
Bon Appétit
Wedding Plan (Thailand)
Dangerous Romance (Thailand)
A Time Called You
Extraordinary Attorney Woo
Doona
Moon In The Day
A Good Day To Be A Dog
It's Okay, That's Love
The Story of Park's Marriage Contract
My Man is Cupid

There are more but I guess this is enough 🙈

DROPPED:
THE HEAVENLY IDOL: I started it because I like Go Bo-Gyeol's performance in HI BYE MAMA and this was going to be a lead role. The idol part was terrible; the heavenly part was horrible and Kim Min-Kyu's acting was a fail; the whole premise and execution was a train wreck.

FAMILY: THE UNBREAKABLE BOND: Again, I started it because of the FL, Jang Na-Ra, but right off the bat the characters were unlikeable and the story line was dead body stinky bad.

The two shows I dropped (never fully watched) but lurked about in the comments were the weekenders:

THE REAL HAS COME: Repetitive drivel at its worst

LIVE YOUR OWN LIFE: How much emotional abuse and Uee's "deer in the headlights" expression can one viewer take every weekend?

I dropped a lot of dramas this year. And a handful I placed in my indefinite pause list. The secons list has a possibility that I will pick it up in the future thing.

A bunch in my dropped list is because I lost interest, disliked characters or storylines, not my genre, disappointment and just had too much dramas on my list I couldn't be bothered to care for the rest of the story. 😅

Dropped (Bye Felicia)
Missing The Other Side S2 ep6
Payback ep5
Island ep5
Decoy ep1
Big Bet ep1
Our Blooming Youth ep10
Kokdu Season of Deity ep1
The Heavenly Idol ep4
Delivery Man ep2
Stealer: The Treasure Keeper ep4
Divorce Attorney Shin ep6
See You In My 19th Life ep2
King the Land ep8
One Piece ep2
Destined With You ep6
Arthdal Chronicles Sword of Aramun ep1
Possessed ep5
An Ancient Love Song ep3
Dong Yi ep14
Ashes of Love ep2
My Dearest 2 ep17 🙊
Castaway Diva ep7
Goryeo Khitan War ep3

While the ones in this list, I liked something about the the drama but I am not in the mood for it, another drama/s captured my interest more or just lack time.

🤞Indefinite Pause
Love All Play ep7⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Six Flying Dragons ep33 ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Falling for Innocence ep4 ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Hyena ep5 ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Lost You Forever ep12 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Who Rules the World ep25 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
My Journey to You ⭐️⭐️⭐️ ep4
A Good Day to be a Dog ep1
Wonderland of Love ep1 ⭐️⭐️⭐️

Oh gosh, it's almost that time of year! O:
I'm usually patient with my drama watching or I'm pretty bad at dropping shows. 🤷

DROPPED:
Castaway Diva 8/12 = Just did not enjoy this after the first few episodes, but I tried. Coming into this show, I was not expecting the domestic & family abuse. I do not care about the evil dad or his outcome at all.

Delightfully Deceitful 2/16 = Probably didn't engage me enough at the time and I was busy with other dramas. I was perplexed about the vibe of the show. I want to go back and give it another try though....

Family: The Unbreakable Bond 2/12 = Lack of Eng subs was the main problem and then the reviews seemed bad, lacking comedy, etc. so I never gave it another chance.

The Heavenly Idol 9/12 = Gahhh... I tried. Kim Min Gyu was handsome and cute. I think he did well in his role. I barely remember the story though. It was bland and the villain was boring. Not scary.

Almost dropped???
Arthdal Chronicles.... I'm not feeling much for any of the characters or the story. I paused on it because I was busy with My Dearest and stuff. Might drop... I still have time! And my current drama plate is small. XD *signs of a delusional fan*

The Escape of the Seven = Only two episodes left! I'm disappointed at some of the direction, but I want to finish and see what happens in the end.

Random note: I was reading the drama list and comments here and I was blanking on Joseon Attorney. I knew it was familiar and I had watched it....
Then I remembered.
This was one hard-earned bean!!!!

Shows I dropped because I found at least one of the leads creepy AF
19th Life
Destined With You
TOT9T 1938

Got bored (sometimes it was a "me" thing, sometimes the show was really bad)
Kokdu
Oh Young Shim
CEO-dol Mart
Live Your Own Life
The Heavenly Idol
Delivery Man
My Man Cupid

Just not for me
Doctor Cha
The Worst of Evil

I don't remember why I dropped them (I'll give them a second chance in the future).
Unlock the Boss
Brain Works
Our Blooming Youth
King The Land

At least one of the leads was extremely annoying or except for the leads everyone else were just plain awful (or both?)
Family
Love to Hate You
Bo Ra!
Strangers Again
The Interest of Love
The Real Has Come
Castaway Diva

Other reasons
The Matchmakers: the show is great but the pace is killing me. I have that problem with historical/costume shows. They have to give me big drama or big comedy, otherwise I can't focus. I'll try again in the future.
The Glory: too much. I almost got sick watching it.
Perfect Marriage Revenge: I didn't get the motivation for the revenge. I'll probably try again in the future for the comedy.

Reading the comments, I realized I haven’t watched as many 2023 dramas as I thought I had. But it sounds like I’m not missing too much. As I’m still playing catch up from previous years, here is my list:

Melo Is My Nature - the quirky was just not the right kind of quirk for me
A Dream of Splendor (China) - It’s so beautifully filmed and has strong female leads, I tried to push through, but I just couldn’t get past the fact that it bored me.
Chuno - I made it to episode 8, but kept thinking, do I really wanna watch another 16 hours of this? The answer was no.
Be My Princess (China) - Despite good reviews, I couldn’t get past the very dull male lead.
Personal Taste - I admire Son Ye Jin, but hated how her character was written.
Bora Deborah! - I tried so hard to finish out of my loyalty to Yoo In Na, but finally called it quits two episodes from the end.
Tale of the Nine Tailed 1938 - Just too over the top for me.
The Moon Embracing the Sun - I made it a bit further in my third attempt to watch this classic, but I think I’m done for good.

Dramas I SHOULD HAVE DNF’d:
Dine with Love (China) - I loved the food segments, but never warmed up to the male lead
About Time - Such wasted story potential. And I didn’t find the hero remotely appealing
Moonshine - a train wreck of a show which cemented my disinterest in Hyeri
Joseon Attorney - I only finished this bc my best friend is a huge fan of Woo Do Hwan. The female actress just about put me to sleep with her performance.
Doctor Stranger - love the characterization of the lead, but everything else was a disaster
Ending Again - even though it was a short series, it was still too long.

Taking notes on the comments to skip the undesirables and what to put on my watch list. Thank you all.

I have dropped more dramas than last year, but only one from 2023 : Numbers.
I though that my love for Choi Jin Hyuk could make me see it. But the bad acting, the overpresent music and the nonsense plot were an ordeal. I was watching while reading, and cut 2 eps before the end. I tried for so long because on paper this drama should have be my jam: case of the week procedural (or similar) with Choi Jin Hyuk.

I learned a lesson: if I do not like the male lead and really want to hurt him everytime he appears, its better to drop fast. When I do not feel a drama, it will not get better.

Haha, I never know how to count this.
Genuine drop as in I watched it until I just could not:
- Payback - Kokdu: Season of Deity - The Worst of Evil - The Uncanny Counter S2 - Island -
Started but thought I would go back to it at some point (maybe I will someday. Who knows)
The Forbidden Marriage - One Day Off

I dropped many, but the ones that stand out are King the Land( I liked the ML but couldn’t stand the FL) and Bora (the unending humiliation of the FL was too much for me