King the Land. I'm stuck at Episode 14.

Why I keep trying ... Junho!! 😍

I would have probably have been stuck at Episode 14 of  Destined With You as well if it wasn't for the Fanwall Live-ish Watch.

There are a couple that everyone seems to love that I just haven’t been able to finish yet. I quit feeling ashamed about it, but it does make me wonder what I’m missing that others seem to love.

I have now made three attempts to watch Moon Embracing the Sun and have yet to make it past episode four. And then there’s Chuno. I’m even a fan of Jang Hyuk, so why oh why can’t I finish it??

I like romantic k-dramas where what's keeping the OTP apart is a completely nonsensical and/or fantastical premise like North Korea, or goblins, or an alien planet. But k-dramas where the OTP work through real-world issues often leave me cold (and worse, bored). It's why I'm yet to get past the first few episodes of Lost, Call it Love, and Tell Me That You Love Me. It's also why I (ducks for cover) struggle to finish Ahn Pan-seok's shows 😬.

Ojakgyo Brothers (2011)

I have tried twice, got further the 2nd time. It is 58 eps, I have about 20 episodes or so left.

Watcher, because I like mystery thrillers, but I haven't been able to go past ep 1 three times by now.

It’s ‘Into the ring’ for me. I missed the drama when it aired. Beanies and recap raved about it, so I picked it up early last year. I couldn’t get past the first episode. Then after a few months tried again and watched till Ep 4. Then later last year reached episode 8. I still haven’t marked it dropped but yeah, I don’t seem to get into it. It’s the politics (I think). I don’t mind politics in thrillers but when it’s in a romcom it makes it hard to get through those.
May be after QoT I might need to go back to this to see Park Sung Hoon as a nice softie again.

I haven’t finished the following, got bored along the way but I still wish to finish them:

1. King the Land - comedy is a miss, characters are boring. Stuck at episode 5.
2. My Demon - though the visuals are easy on the eye, the way Song Kang talks bother me. Also felt a bit slow. Stuck at episode 7.
3. The Golden Spoon - the premise looks promising but it has been all over the place, I lost track of what’s happening. Stuck at episode 9.
4. Unlock my Boss - the premise is also good but I am not just feeling it. Stuck at episode 5.
5. Strong Girl Namsoon - a lot of illogical stuff. Stuck at episode 5.

Mr. Sunshine. This has all the earmarks of a drama I would really enjoy: a sweeping historical, love story, military hero, etc. But I can't get past the first few episodes. I keep taking it off and putting it back on my Netflix watch list. But I'm just not a fan of the ML.

Fight For My Way and Master's Sun I have not dropped and will finish one day (someday). I liked them well enough while I was watching but for inexplicable reasons never finished (Fight For My Way there were so many dramas airing at the same time that I got overwhelmed). I want to love them. I want to be able to understand their meta-references.

I mostly drop dramas I hate but Arang and the Magistrate is sitting in a corner of my mind waiting for me to pick it up. Cheese in the trap too.

@dramaddictally Perhaps this is the moment where I admit that, while I am definitively in the My Ajusshi fan club, I had to watch it at 1.25x speed to make it through.

IT...IS...SO...SLOOOOWW.

I know that this means that Lee Sun-kyun's gorgeous voice is sped up--and that sounds like a total waste of mellifluous-ness--but, to counteract that, I would simply stop and listen to his longer monologues whenever they occurred. You could give it a shot!

Dr. Romantic. I thought I finished it a long time ago (and now don’t remember many of the specifics from the show especially after Seasons 2 and 3), but Viki keeps putting it on my “Continue Watching” row no matter how many times I delete it. There are no other dramas that this happens to after I delete it. So I guess it’s a drama permanently in this dropped/not dropped purgatory.

My hardest has been the Romantic Dr. Kim series. I'm halfway through season 2. It's a great cast- my favorite Kim Min Jae- good stories but I just can't get excited to move ahead. It's on a hold now until Min Jae gets out of the military- too painful😃😃.

Another one that was painful was Nine Taled Fox 1938. I loved the production, music, the brothers!! But the FL and Other fox story was so boring. It took me forever to finish and I finally just FF through any parts with them- then I loved it

@dramaddictally I understand you. My Ajusshi is the one drama that I can neither drop nor continue past Ep 3 and is forever in my watchlist. Even when I have time, I go back to catch up on other unfinished dramas or start older dramas than click play on "My Ajusshi".

I think the ones I stopped were dropped ones. I don't think I stop a drama thinking I will continue later.

I drop a lot but have two categories of Drag to the Finish dramas:
1) the ones everyone loves that I start and restart and finally finish w the feeling of taking my medicine (because it will be good for me):
My Liberation Notes
Prison Playbook
My Ajusshi
Btw, didn’t end up liking any of them.
2) dramas I finish live watching just so I know what everyone’s talking about. Sometimes these can turn into a hate watch (fun!), like
King the Land.
So, nothing currently on my list of Must Push Through dramas. Wheeee! Freedom!

I wouldn't have thought to phrase it the way it's written in the prompt but I guess Again My Life fits this.

When I think about it, I ended up not finishing a few of Lee Joon Gi's dramas but this was the first and I always think I'll get back to it at some point. I think I have it in mind because I think it's the first time I didn't complete a drama yet I felt as if I did (I watched most of it and I saw the final episode) so I always feel like I should go back & watch those episodes that I missed for the sake of completeness but alas can never bring myself to do it cause it doesn't seem particularly worth it.

My Mister is another one. I want to finish it cause I don't know if it will be taken down from the platforms yet I haven't past whatever was the last episode I watched.

This happened to me with Sandglass. I tried several times to watch it and got through 10 episodes, but it just never clicked. Then DramaFever shut down and it disappeared from legal streaming sites. Maybe someday I'll try again if it pops back up on a legit site.

One benefit (or cost?) of my two favorite kdrama genres, romance and mystery/detective shows, is that the payoff for both always comes at the end, so even for weak shows I hang around until the end, although at times I do make liberal use of the fast forward button. Currently that means I'm going to soldier on through Nothing Uncovered for another 10 episodes, alas.
The one prominent exception to this tendency is sageuks. I find it very difficult to finish sageuks, and so there are ones that I should get back to but just haven't gotten around to it. In the end, I just don't care about court politics, and I know the romance is always going to end with a fizzle rather than a passionate kiss, since they didn't kiss passionately in the Joseon era. I do feel a little bad about fast forwarding through the last episode of Red Sleeve. I might return to that one some day to watch Junho emote.

For some reason, I struggle with most dramas when I have two episodes to go. Marriage Contract is the best example for me. It's not bad, I did not dislike the drama in any way, it just fizzled out and I forgot to finish it. Years later, it seems pointless.

I'm struggling a bit with continuing Three Body, Stove League and Mr Sunshine, the first I'll need to rewatch and do a proper binge on, the second and third demands a certain mood. I managed to create a great setting for finishing When the Weather is Fine - Tuesdays, with a big cup of tea and a blanket. Maybe this is the way to go. I managed to finish Wedding Impossible this way without breaking stride.

Flower of Evil. I feel like this is an availability problem. I don't have the 3rd episode saved and I didn't bother looking for it nor have I pressed play on episode 4. Each time I stop at 1 and 2.

Beyond Evil: The episode 2 ending took me out of this world. I've never been able to go past that each time I've tried again.

I have really good remarks of Soundtrack #2 each time I watch it but somehow I'm still stuck in episode 1 every single time.

The Veil. I have both The Veil and Morbious: The Veil. I watched episode 1 several times before completing it. I actually completed episode 1 because I dropped One Dollar Lawyer and I needed some Nam Goongmin dosage. After successfully finishing episode 1, I sped through 2 and have been stuck on 3. Several repeats already.

Trying to get back into a story isn't exactly about going back to the beginning for me. I always go back to the episode I left it at. Still, I'm stuck.

I can usually drop dramas without regret: My Demon, King the Land, The impossible Heir are recent drops for me that i don't regret. One that stays on my mind is When the Camilla Blooms. It was charming when I began it, the mystery element was interesting, I love the lead actress, etc. But it's been just partially watched for over a year. I think it's the naive ML? I think I like him in his more serious roles, but not when he's playing someone who seems immature. I know other beanies were charmed by his character, but not me. At least not yet.

Goblin…it’s Goblin for me. It started brilliantly and I was especially excited to see the Quebec City scenes as I travel there every year. I just got stuck in the middle. I’m not a fan of the FL and the age gap with her being in a school uniform was off putting to say the least.

If this is about dramas that I want to watch but somehow never get around to it? I have so many!
At the top of my list would be Queen Inhyeon's man followed by While you were sleeping. Chicken Nugget is another one I have been promising myself I will finish. The one I really want to watch is Queen Inhyeon's man because Sagueks are my thing. Some day....