Respectfully, I think everyone and their mother deserves to experience the ups and downs, the rainbows and angst that is Love All Play

I'm looking forward to watching the Cinderella and Prince Cha-min show and My Lovely Lobster Sweet Mobster.

* Thanks @zindigo for such an appetizing show name. 🦞

Those who havent should immediately jump into "Extraordinary you", its a gem of a drama and Kim Hye-yoon is fantastic there as well.

Other recommendations:
Still 17
Weighlifting fairy Bok-joo
Queen In-hyuns man
Twinkling Watermelon
Shopping King Louis
Shooting Stars
Perfect Marriage Revenge

Someday or One Day: the original - don't watch the remake A Time Called You

Well I, for one, will be browsing Byun Woo Seok's images online until I find a perfect reference photo for my practicing drawing portraits. Because I like my references gorgeous.
Also, I just found out via You Tube that BWS and I apparently share the obsessive fear of catching a cold, which is why we both carry around propolis to quickly consume it if we sense even a faintest sign of sore throat, lol. So I think that we can all agree that the boy and me are soulmates. Just sayin'

It’s kinda of funny how I randomly watched this film called GREATEST HITS with my friends today. It reminded me a lot of LOVELY RUNNER and a little bit of ATYPICAL FAMILY. Time travelling back to a loved one and trying to prevent their death. I will say I didn’t feel any chemistry between the FL Harriet and her dead boyfriend, I didn’t even feel they loved each other. However, I absolutely adored her new romantic interest David in her present life. It’s kinda like if Sun-jae was meh, uninteresting and had zero personality so instead Sol ended up with Tae-sung 😁

I would recommend Chicago typewriter it has a similar but different vibe re fate and sacrifices for love. Even if you only watch to fall in love with Yoo Ahin and join the group of us mourning his disappearance from the screen.

Lovely Runner did too great of a job at reviving the time travel sub-genre (after it was used to the point of saturation in the last few years) that I couldn't watch or read another time travel story after it finished its run. Not to mention the sprinkle of time-loop element in the story that hit my soft spot, combined with the loveliest and deadliest chemistry I've witnessed in the recent years (no wonder people wouldn't stop speculating about the 2 leads dating in real life).

And so, I found myself turning to a completely unrelated genre to fill that huge void. Thank goodness the 2nd season of c-drama Joy of Life aired at that exact time. Nothing could be further from epic time-travel romance than palace intrigue and power struggle, after all.

Though I foresee that I'm going to go on a rewatch spree soon. The Seol-Sunjae magic is still going on strong, everyone...

For the time travel element that serves to prevent the circumstances that caused the travel, I'll unashamedly suggest Perfect Marriage Revenge.
And maybe a touch of Durian's Affair and The Story of Park's Marriage Contract.

For the fluff...
Business Proposal, Crazy Love, Queen In-hyun's Man.

I'm going to do a few things to get through Lovely Runner withdrawals! I'm going to get my mom to watch ASAP so I can enjoy the first-watch experience vicariously through her. I'm definitely going to do a rewatch, too, just not sure when. After I've watched something really really good, I like to watch something mediocre next, because it helps me to reset my expectations, so I'm watching Dare to Love Me. I also like to switch between genres to reset, so I'm finishing Mr. Queen and My Perfect Stranger. I've also saved all the BTS footage, Byeon Woo-seok's Running Man episode, and Hye-yoon and Woo-seok's interview on comedian Jang Do-youn's Salon Drip talk show to watch. So you could say I have a strategy lined up 😅

I am going for a rewatch to savour each scene without worrying about the ending 😍😍😍

I think Splash Splash Love is good one. No angst, no weird time travel rules, not too long, just a cute couple and height difference :p

I just finished a rewatch. 😳 My daughter started LR on Tuesday and wanted viewing company. 😅 It was fun picking up on more of the “echoes through time” moments, like how Sun-jae and Tae-sung had drinking contests with soda, tea and soju. Or how In-Hyuk being on flower petal duty meant a confession/proposal would fail. She got frustrated when Sun-jae kept dying but loved the show overall and will be consulting all your what-to-watch-next recommendations. The school years resonated most with her — leading to her one critique, which applies most to Tae-sung’s arc: “I wish the whole crew from high school still had their memories of the beach trip and other moments 😡”

I started a rewatch of The Tale Of Nokdu.

Other dramas with sweet romance:

I Am Not A Robot
Tamra The Island
30 but 17

I definitely agree with Extraordinary You and also think Weightlifting Fairy has similar vibes for the college romance!! I think Our Beloved Summer could also work well if you need a high school throwback but then an adult relationship!

Even though I didn't finish it (I'm not sure if it's a drop or not yet) I suggest True Beauty. Same writer, and very similar style, humor, some characters and situations...

Definitely catching up on everything Byun Woo-seok via You Tube 🤣

I am not doing any of the above. I am moving on and enjoying the new drama, Dreaming of A Freaking Fairy Tale and Connection. Also the other dramas on my watch list.
Don't get me wrong. I am happy that Byun Woo Seok and Kim Hye Yoon are getting their time in the sun. I wish both of them all the best. I am happy their characters got their happily ever after. I am just not hung up on the drama like others.

I didn't have a chance to miss "Lovely Runner" because I joined the community watch for "See You In My Nineteenth Life", and I had a sensory overload with the fine moments and nuanced sensitivities that coloured every frame of that drama. Its textured narrative at the core filled with exquisite dialogues and Shin Hye Sun's evocative eyes didn't much room to think of anything else. So while I loved BSW and KHY, I hope both get a chance to act in something more substantial.

Right now, I have made a dive into Fairy Tale (it's whacky and is creeping up on me), Joseon X Files (it's so so good) and started Nokdu Flower (I got confused between Tale of Nokdu and Nokdu flower, only recently realising they are different dramas). I wanted to watch JJS in another historical and this is going to be my first Yoon Shi Yoon drama so excited. It's giving Mr Sunshine vibes without the gloss, so let's see.

We are going in for another community watch soon - Soundtrack #1, followed by Just Between Lovers, Happiness and Bossam. If you want to join us, just tag me, or @Claire2009 (Claire) or @seeker (Cera).

I am finding my way to get watch Twinkling Watermelon before my subscription ends this month 😅😅😅...nowadays, need to wait all current drama airing finish/ almost done its series before can fully focus. But then, still got no time to even watch Moving and Chief Detective yet 🥹

Still can't move on .. any dramas felt bland to me right now 😅
Stalking BWS, HY and LR in X and YT. Rewatch Salon Drip and Hyeri club for the million time.

if the going between past and future is what gets you, I can't recommend better than the OG, Answer Me 1997 - it has the fangirl heroine, the music, the adorable high school parts, the chemistry (!!) and the catching up as adults <3, only there the past is, well, 1997 and the present is 2012 - just four years after LR's high school timeline!

also ever since that edit of Kim Hye-yoon and Byun Woo-seok's sageuk scenes from their earlier dramas into a four minute 'remake' of it, I would recommend watching the original Goong (2006, also known as Princess Hours). It's a Hallyu legend for good reason despite the occasional frustration/lagging bits, the chemistry was 10/10 and the costumes and sets remain to die for to this day, I've never seen anything quite like it.

if you want the cinnamon-roll hero (I prefer my drama male leads to not have jerk personalities), The Tale of Nokdu is a good bet.

I'm feeling the separation anxiety now that Lovely Runner has ended. I anticipated each episodes and now I need to get back to my real life and stop escaping. I will try to watch some of the recommended titles here like Someday or One Day but its not available on Viu. 😭 Ugh, I've never been hit with such angst for a KDrama before.

In the days after the final episode, I did rewatch the final 2 episodes multiple times.

During the weekend, I missed seeing such a cute couple, so did a quick speed rewatch (skip all scenes with the bad guys and the palace people) of 100 Days My Prince while I was lying down and recovering from over-exercising. It felt like the drama and the couple mainly worked because of Nam Ji-hyun and Do Kyung-soo's pairing. They're just so cute! And I'm not sure if either actor will be in a rom-com anytime soon.

If your heart thrills at the whole love and waiting part, I want to throw in Mystic Pop-Up Bar as a suggestion for those who haven't watched it yet. It's got a found family thing going on too.

On a high after LR and since I'm so free now, I

Going opposite end of the spectrum with Connection with Ji Sung and Mido. But not just them, but a whole cast of standout talent. IT IS RIVETING!

Continuing Atypical family which I find quirky enough to keep me engaged and I just really like Jang Ki Yong’s voice. I find it absolutely soothing. He could read the phone book (yeah, I’m that old) and I’d listen to it on repeat.

But I’m now scouring social media for interview crumbs with BWS doing press junkets these last few days. His interviews are so sincere and I’m learning a lot about him and about how in love he was with Sunjae, like all of us. He’s planning to binge watch the show again before going off to his fan meets next month. It sounds like he can rest for a couple weeks at least. I’ve also watched him on Hyeri’s YouTube show. I really ship them. I also ship her with Jang Kiyong. It’d be a real life love triangle. I don’t know if it can happen because of how they all know each other, but she’s single now and they are as well (from what I can tell). I might be writing a fanfic in my head right now. 😂

Maybe before anything else grabs our fleeting attention, we can all hope that the awful and sexist PD from Lovely Runner has a comeuppance and at the very least, apologises to KMY for his hateful and derogatory comments. As a dude, BWS will do just fine unless he stuffs up by the prevailing standards. I’m much more interested and concerned about KHY having to navigate the misogynistic KD waters. May she go from strength to strength and endure.