My fastest kdrama drop would have to be shooting Stars. I started the episode and was immediately extremely offended by the Lion King soundtrack used to show that a character was in Africa building a well. Ugh. I immediately dropped the show then and there. I have no idea how long that scene was but it can't have been up to five minutes. So my fastest drop was Shooting stars after five minutes of episode one.

1. Penthouse 1....15-30 minutes after the first episode, too much yelling.
2. Goblin...2 episodes....don't understand heads or tales of the story.
3. Doctor Lawyer: 3.5 episodes: Poor acting
4. The King of Eternal Monarch: 3.5 episode
Confusing storyline
5. KTL: Yoona and the damsel in distress line, silly portrayal of hoteliers and toilet jokes

Bad Family. I never even finished the first episode. Apparently, the drama's great and comes highly recommended, but I wasn't in the mood at the time, and now it's so old (2006) that it's hard to even go back and watch it.

I will post the most recent and that is Kkokdu Season of Deity and Arthdal Chronicles Sword of Aramun. The first because I knew right away that its not for me. The latter because I was not in the mood for it and realized that even LJK can not make me sit through ep1.

There are so many I don't even remember 😄😄

Kkokdu is my first and quickest drop after two episodes and I think I held out for long.

Because I like Son Ye Jin, I tried to watch Personal Taste recently. One episode was more than enough for me! I couldn’t stand how pathetic and clueless her character was. It’s definitely a story for a different drama generation.

Fastest drops, barely past first episode

The Impossible Heir
Heavenly Idol
Moon in the day
Oasis
Bloodhounds
Arthdal Chronicles

Older dramas:
Rookie Historian
Island
Do you like Brahms
Doctor Lawyer
Forecasting Love and Weather
Money Heist Korea
Pachinko
Memories of Alhambra
Tomorrow
Woori the virgin
Unlock my boss
The red sky

(Wow, I didn't realise I had so many. I will stop).

“The Impossible Heir” dropped it with the speed of light at episode 1.5 once I realized what they were trying to do: Melodramatic love triangle in this big 2024. I am not sitting through that.

Aside from that, every other dramas I have dropped was because I missed an episode and grew lazy to finish the drama.

Hum... I don't test dramas that I know they're not my genre even if I like the actors or people love them. I always try to stick to the rule of the 4 episodes before dropping a drama.

But I think I dropped Jinxed at First before the 4th episode.

Honestly this year has been my most ruthless year for dropping dramas. I’ve only managed to complete four shows so far, LTNS, Marry My Husband, Killer Paradox and Dr Slump.

I might come back for dramas that have good reviews for example Knight Flower, but other than that, most of the offerings have been personally lacklustre for me. And I don’t wanna waste time on bad dramas

Two recent shows I’ve dropped within the first two episodes, Queen of Tears and Impossible Heir

I made it through about 20 minutes of Boys Over Flowers before going "oh hell no" and never returning.

I don't know if I'll come back to them sometime, but these are my fastest drops:

_ So I married an anti-fan (I only watched about twenty minutes).
_ Faith (1 episode).
_ King the Land (1 episode).
_ High-end-crush (2 episodes).
_ The Golden Spoon (2 episodes).
_ Thumping Spike (2 episodes).

REVOLUTIONARY SISTERS, during the first third of the first episode.

My Demon Episode 1.
Doctor Lawyer Episode 3
King The Land episode 5
Lies Hidden In My Garden Episode 3
My Man Is Cupid EP 1
My saddest quick drop so far is My Happy Ending episode 4. I wasn't asking for a Jang Nara - Sohn Ho-jun happy married life. I just wanted to see Sohn Ho-jun in a better project after the messy First Responders. Immediately I saw the trajectory of the story from episode 1.5, episode 4 sealed it for me. I was done. I dropped Wonderful World right at the teasers and I'm preparing to drop Grabbed by the Collar for the same reasons I dropped My Happy Ending... the similar bBanes of the story.
My Lovely Liar episode 2. I watched episode 1 solely because of Kim Sun-young's cameo. After episode 1, I knew I was done.
Queen of Divorce Episode 4 - Kang Ki-young deserves better. I've finally seen that Lee Jiah isn't that much of an actress. But, she has the star power.
The Story of Park's Marriage episode 6. Great story I must admit. It just wasn't clicking for me. Plus, I've struggled to get into a Lee Se-young story since The Red Sleeve Cuff. Funnily, I watched the Crowned Clown about the same airing weeks or few weeks apart of TSoPMC and I enjoyed her stint there.

With so many drops it’s hard to remember. The ones I can recollect are romcoms which I had hopes for but I couldn’t get past episode 1.
Love in contract and Now, we are breaking up.

I'm chuckling to myself over the dramas everyone's listing that I wish I'd been smart enough to drop 😂

My fastest drop was Strangers Again. I didn't even make it through the first episode. I don't even remember why now, but something about it was a complete turnoff. It was a bummer because the poster art of the two leads sitting in bar chairs was fantastic, so I was expecting something equally sophisticated in the drama itself. Yeah, not so much.

Impossible Heir after Ep. 1. I was on board with the enemies-to-bromance, but then we met the FL by the vending machine and I had no idea why she was catnip to both boys. Where was the drama about clever underdogs scheming their way to the top? Never started Ep. 2.

My list includes quite a few shows that may rank among people's favorites. (Different strokes for different folks, people.) I included any comments I made at the time.

Dropped before the end of episode 1

Dropped for "wackiness" (to me, a pejorative term.):
Brain Works
Emergency Couple
Eulachacha Waikiki
Gaus Electronics
The Package
Dropped for other reasons:
Awaken
Black
Café Minamdang - Need I explain?
The City Hall - Dated sitcom.
Daily Dose of Sunshine - Nurse who doesn't even know the definition of bipolar disorder is allowed to take care of psychiatric patients? I don't think so.
Diary of a Prosecutor - Not my sensibility.
Dr. Brain - Awful writing.
Good Job - Lame.
The Greatest Love - Grade-B cheese.
Hwarang
Into the Ring - Sitcom vibe.
Lovestruck in the City
Mad for Each Other - Obnoxious lead characters.
Memorist - Boring.
Panda and Hedgehog
Partners for Justice - Clueless FL.
Que Sera Sera - Sitcom vibe, obnoxious FL.
Remarriage & Desires - Too makjang.
Romance Is a Bonus Book - Dropped twice. Didn't care about any of the characters.
That Winter, the Wind Blows - Excessively bleak.
Weightlifting Fairy Kim Bok-Joo - Sophomoric.
Whisper - Meh.

I made it all the way through episode 1 of these shows:
Beautiful World - Not my type of show.
Flower Crew: Joseon Marriage Agency - Meh.
The Merchant of Gaekju - Terrible acting; felt like community theater sageuk.
Miss Hammurabi - Didn't like FL; no chemistry among the characters.
My Father Is Strange - Sitcom vibe.
My Sassy Girl - Sophomoric.
Nine: 9 Times Time Travel - Hated FL.
Revenant - Too heavy for me.

There are too many, but the latest was "Squid Game" (episode 1)." I know it's crazy popular, but not for me. Not even Wi Ha-joon could make me watch another episode.

Wow, Branding in S-wherever, couldn’t even finish ep 1. That never happens to this strict Rule-of-Four abider.

I’ve dropped a bunch of shows after one episode:
Dance Sports Girls: took an instant dislike to the FL and the setting.
Girls' Generation 1979: I know the 70s were sexist because I lived through them, and revisiting that isn’t entertaining for me.
Behind Your Touch: holy sh*t was was that? Hated everything.
Doona!: hated Doona.
Man to Man: found the FL weird and off-putting (both actress and character) and I could see they were going to wedge in an unwelcome and unnecessary romance.

And a few others in short order:
Encounter: lost me when it turned into yet another inappropriate workplace romance in episode 2, plus I found the ML callow and the FL inert.
Hogu’s Love: gutted out two episodes before giving up. I lack the ability to find cringe humor funny.
Oh! Youngsim: noisy and mindless. I started FFing in episode 1 and didn’t finish episode 2.
The Real Has Come: dipped into parts of a few episodes and couldn’t find anything to grab onto.
Would You Like a Cup of Coffee: soporific. This might be my quickest drop in elapsed time with the short episodes; I don’t think I finished episode 3. I wandered off to make a cup of coffee and never came back.

I dont remember, but most recent was Wedding Impossible, didn't finish the episode, I think there were 3 mins left.

1. King the Land - it was horrible (toilet humour in 2023???);
2. The King: Eternal Monarch - what a mess;
3. Money Heist: Korea (I didn' t feel the vibe);
4. Goblin - unfortunately, I didn't drop it fast enough (I had just finished "Coffee Prince", so I wanted more of Gong Yoo).

The are much more dramas that I dropped after few episodes. Thirty or something 🙂