This was me last November/December - I had to leave MY DEMON and WELCOME TO SAMDAL-RI halfway completed because I was so pressed for time getting ready for my sabbatical. And now I haven't gone back to them at all.

Instead I have moved on to LIKE FLOWER IN SAND, A SHOP FOR KILLERS etc (all of which I have completed).

I may or may not go back to those two dramas no matter how fond I am of K-Romance and supernatural dramas.

On another note: I see your clever mirroring of RM from BTS's RIGHT PLACE WRONG PERSON album title as the title of this article!

Kdramas I know I would love are so precious that their timing is never wrong. I always come back and finish them, so this syndrome has never happened to me.

Hide, Nothing Uncovered, and Wonderful World aired about the same time, each featuring infidelity in marriages. And the descent into their behavior just kept dipping. I had to pick one of the 3 to watch instead and I opted for Nothing Uncovered. I ended up not completing it though. Stopped at episode 14. What makes the wrong timing in all these is that all were look forward to dramas. Hide had me looking forward to the 4 Lees; Wonderful World, Kim Nam-joo; Nothing Uncovered, Jang Seung-jo, Yeon Woo-jin and Kim Hanuel.

I think the latest wrong timing drama will be Resident Playbook which can't sit at any definite date thanks to the medical crisis occuring in SK. I do wish that screenwriter Lee Soo-yeon writes a drama around this topic when the heat has cooled a bit. She did same for Stranger - tackled the police-prosecutor investigative/indicting(I'm unsure of which) powers in Stranger 2.
Back to Resident Playbook, I don't know the content of this drama. But I don't know why they feel it should be off the shelf because of the social conditions at hand.

Another wrong timing will be the just concluded drama by the Penthouse duo, Escape of the Seven. It competed with far stellar performances throughout its run, both seasons. I thought it'd replicate the Penthouse magic. I'm not one of the viewers though.

And then I have the dramas that aired at a time when I was pressed for time. I simply axed them off.

I'm going the reverse. I have recently watched Doctor Slump, and Thirty-nine, and I know for a certainty that my personal circumstances at the moment played a huge role in my falling in love and feeling every second of them with my whole heart.

Now I'm wondering what other shows I have missed in my life because of my circumstances at that moment.

I remember starting Welcome to Waikiki and thinking it was the stupidest thing I'd ever seen and dropped it after 2 episodes. At least a year or more later, I found myself wanting something super silly to watch, I picked it up again, and laughed long and loud at every episode. I really think so much of drama enjoyment is dependent on where we are in our lives at any given time.

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I don't know if it is timing issues or those dramas weren't for me in the first place.

Normally if I drop a show, I’m done for good. The one exception to that rule so far is My Girlfriend is a Gumiho. Originally I quit after the first few episodes. I just felt it was cheesy and the older production values frustrated me. But I gave it another shot a year later and really loved Shin Min A’s adorably innocent Gumiho.

It’s more frequent for me to not have any interest in a show when it first airs or after reading rave reviews about older series and then later decide it’s worth my time. My contrarian nature has to be overcome first. Some that didn’t interest me initially but became favorites later are Just Between Lovers, Hospital Playlist and Fiery Priest.

I don't drop that many shows after they've passed the 4 episode test. (the ones I do drop late are generally fantasies like Midnight Studio, 19th Life, and My Demon, that just get more and more absurd, change the fantasy rules, and pretty much undermine any sympathy I might have with the characters--so I say that's it, I can't suspend my belief any more. That response has nothing to do with how I'm feeling at the time. Its the shows fault! )

But there is one show I'm watching now, which I like, I find it interesting--but for whatever reason, now is not the right time, so I'm going to put it aside for now: Uncle Samsik. Its the kind of serious political drama involving a minor degree of intrigue and suspense, that I find takes a kind of intellectual engagement on my part. So maybe I'm just slothful as we enter the lazy hazy crazy days of summer. Also, I think if I was teaching this time period in Korean history, I'd love it, because it would be fun to play the game of connecting the fictional characters to real life ones. But I'm not, so I'm temporarily crying Uncle, and I hope to get back to it later.

Unfortunately for me, there’s never a good time for me to watch zombie or scary aliens/monsters movies ALONE. There’re so many great scary shows with my favorite actors coming out every year. I swear, more horror shows with great actors are made than rom-coms or melos. My girl friends are the same as I - scaredy cats, refuse to watch it with me. Hubby likes sports and action movies only, no zombies for him. So it was a big problem until my sons grew up to the age when making them, or bribing them, to watch scary movies with me is not, technically, a child abuse. And they just love, love everything about zombies. That’s how I finally got to watch the Kingdom seasons. All of Us Are Dead. Train to Busan. Rampant. Zombie Detective. Sweet Home. Search (2020). Heh.

If I know I would like a drama I usually go back to it and finish it. Examples are OTVOI and Misaeng. I didnt watch it live and only got to it months later.

I would normally drop a drama if I end of disliking something about it and never going back.

That happens to me with melodramas.

I haven't finished Call it Love or Human Disqualification because I haven't been in the mood for it. I have to be sad but not too sad? 😂😂

For melos the timing has to be perfect. Shows like My Ahjussi, Live, Seasons of Blossom, My Liberation Notes, etc, gave me the comfort I needed it at that moment in my life.

I couldn't watch Human Disqualification because I wasn't sad enough. 😂 And I couldn't get into the mood for Call it Love because I was too sad for it. 😂 Or maybe it was the opposite, 🤔 Idk.

And that's also why I can't rewatch melodramas easily. I remember that I watched My Ahjussi on air, and then rewatched multiple times after that. For like a year or two, because I was in the same tone of the show. But if I try to watch it now, it won't do much for me.

I loved You Are My Spring, because everything they said in that show felt like words directed to me at the time. That was a very healing experience. But I'm not sure how I would feel about it now.

And not only melos, but any drama that has like a deep message that resonates with me from any point in my life, becomes hard to rewatch after that period of time. I rewatched FBND like crazy for six years and then never was able to finish it again.

That always happens unless I go back to feeling that way.
In other cases it could be that a show I loved before can become a show that I hate now because I've changed and my life has changed.
For something that I read about Live, I'm pretty sure that if I try to rewatch it now I will completely hate it. But back then that was probably the type of show I needed.

I started Cinderella and the Four Knights and I probably wasn’t in the mood at the time to watch a romantic series so stopped after Ep 4. After watching Bossam: Steal the Fate, I went back to mainly to see Jung Il-woo and got into Cinderella and the FKs and finished the series. Not in my Top 10 romantic series but enjoyable nevertheless.

Should add that I loved The Nokdu Flower.

It's not exactly the answer to the question, but I really prefer to watch drams live most of the time, because when I binge one I can hit pause for variety of reasons and likely never pick it up. But! Some shows are just not made for slow and torturous live-watch, let's admit it. So when this preference of mine and show don't match, it ends up becoming a regret.

This is also connected to Crappy Ending Syndrome - there's plenty of dramas that I watched live and loved madly only to be disappointed big time by how they ended. To the point of begrudgingly admitting that if I stumbled upon these shows once they were already completed and read about how much they suck in the last episodes (I love me some spoilers, OK?), I'd NEVER touch them at all and thus would've missed out on a lot of fun before things inevitably turned sour. So yes, certain dramas are ALL about timing for me.

I think I started Reply 1988 in the wrong moment, maybe too early, because I only watched two episodes (the sound effects were almost unbearable). The same happened with Healer (also two episodes). I started these shows when I had been watching k-dramas for three of four months and even though that was not the right time yet, I know I want to re-start them in the future.

And the same goes for Gaus Electronics, Waikiki or Perfect Stranger. I'm sure I started them in the wrong time.

Several months ago I started Joy of Life and only watched the first two episodes because I wasn't enjoying it, but I resumed it some weeks ago and I love it.

A different thing is my case with Six Flying Dragons. I started it more than a year ago but I'm unable to binge-watch it (despite of liking it).I have been stuck on episode 35 for months.
But maybe one day, when it's the right time, I'll go back to it and I'll finish the rest of episodes in a few days.

About Nokdu Flower, I encourage everybody to give it a try. It's a wonderful drama.

Watching a drama is definitely related to the mood, though I must admit it's also the leads. If the leads are good, I will end up watching it, but at times I have watched drama where I was more invested in the story and the time and the genre was right (Mr Sunshine for example).

I also have found I seldom if ever go back to a drama if I have dropped it.

I don't think this fits the question completly, but I think I couldn't love Signal as much as I could have because of Viki Comments. They are fine and funny most of the time, but the amount of vile comments i've seen for signal is insane.

There were so many misogynistic comments about the FL, blowing her flaws out of proportion, saying she should be in the kitchen and being mad at her for doing things the ML's also often did (like going somewhere alone) I saw a comment going as far to say that she wanted to sa'd because she does this??? Not to mention death treaths and saying a character deserved being sa'd by dozens of boys because she was pressured to lie and feared for her life. Oh boy glad I never was stupid enough again to enable viki comments.

I only managed to finish the show after I stopped using viki comments xD.

Either way, I hate that I think of those comments when I think of this show xD. I hope this will change with the coming season 2 ^^.

For me, it's When the Weather is Fine. I generally like PMY, and I enjoyed this as an introduction to SKJ. I love books and slow burns and snow/rain and warm cups of coffee/tea and countryside settings. This drama was 100% made for me. Except... Honestly, except what? I couldn't tell you. For some reason, I got to ep 11 and got pulled away by either real life or shiny new dramas, and my interest just fizzled. I think in a different season (both weather (ha) and life), this would be in my top 10. But instead, it's in my list of puzzling drops - this drama and I should be a match made in Dramaland, but instead, it's the second male lead. I should like it. Everything about it is exact to my specifications. But it has to sadly watch me walk away, stars in my eyes, toward my next male lead drama.

Hospital Playlist was the right drama but wrong timing for me. I watched an episode when it first came out, but couldn't get into it mostly because of all the real life hospital news and trauma that was happening in the world with COVID lockdown. I tried to watch it again in 2022 and still couldn't do it. Tried for a third time last year and loved it so much and binged both seasons. I found myself healing, laughing, and crying along with the characters but probably won't watch it for a few more years because of how emotionally exhausting it is. It's a fantastic drama, but you do have to be in the right head space for it.