the availability of Korean films has dwindled drastically.
I want to see Escape, and that Jeo Jin Gu film, and movie Flood, and a movie named Seeking the king with a mysetrious alien object in the forest.
excuse me I must yell at a patron

done.

anyway, I am plotting turning the Korean Culture Club into a movie club and somehow acquire access to streaming services and start having regular movie nights. also pressuring cinema chains but they say koreans no longer bring movies to the film markets they sell them directly to streaming sites.
meh.
tonight, Tallinn Old Town days, I must buy a knife, again. They sell the best knives on medieval fair.

art project almost finished, now only sewing the dress together and attaching leds.

I have the urge to sew so much but I mixed up all the patterns now I had to borrow Burda to figure out which pattern is which..

Taemin promised to start giving fans very early morning calls. I must prepare myself.

All right Beanies, it’s midyear and I’m counting my bean worthy candidates:

- Like Flowers in Sand
- Knight Flower
- Flex X Cop
- Lovely Runner
- The Atypical Family (yup, counting my chickens)

And June’s just beginning. Not bad I’d say. How about you?

Dear Beanies can you please help me understand if I can change / modify / update my DB username (i.e. @ tag name). While I have seen many Beanies change their display names and even add emojis from time-to-time I'm not sure if I can also change my username similarly.

Hi Open Threaders! You know, in a Dramabeans a long time ago, in a land far away, I used to write little stories here about my life related to kdramas. It was when one saw the blog change from just interactive through recaps and blog posts to what it is now, with the fan wall and everything else. The Open Thread is a place you can write your thoughts of anything, kdrama-related or not, and if kdrama-related, then spoilers welcome.

In my own little kdrama world on the OT, you were introduced to “math genius” and my clever daughter, who (spoiler alert) has become somewhat of a math genius herself and planning on majoring in math when she goes to college in a couple years. I used to write about their friendship hoping it might turn into my favorite trope, but I’m still waiting for that. (He did wish her a happy 16th birthday and recently took up golf, which being delusional, I think was so he could spend time with she-who-went-to-state-her-freshman-year. But daughter would rather die than actually invite him to play with her because, “mom, that would look too desperate and I’m not desperate, and not for him.” But he also got asked out to a “ladies pay all” dance by my daughter’s friend — not a good friend, but the one that asks my daughter for math help which daughter happily obliges, and why doesn’t she ask “math genius” and just asks him out to a dance instead 🙄; I know why, so that she doesn’t look dumb in front of her crush.)

Also, my pretty green flag husband who introduced me to kdramas and (little did he know) would create a kdrama/kpop fanatic in the process. And has said that if Gong Yoo wanted me, he’d fly him here and give him to me wrapped in a bow and step aside himself, because truly, who can compete with that? And has also said that if PBG was walking across the street, my kids would have a new dad. 😆

Also, my quiet, introverted son with the deep right-sided dimple, like so many of our favorite
oppas (and right now like Byeon Woo Seok who is just as obsessed with his dimple as we are) and now standing over 6ft, or 185 cm, starting to look like an adult and not a kid anymore. And yeah, he’s off to college in the fall.

And my mom who loves kdramas probably more than I do and has watched I’m not a Robot a dozen times to my, uh, zero times.

That catches everyone up to today. 😂

So the end of The Atypical Family has come. And I must admit, I started this partly because it was only 12 episodes, and mostly because it was Jang Ki-yong’s first kdrama post-military, and 1% because it was about time travel. But kdramas imprint themselves in my brain and I must have had an out of body experience like Gwi-ju because two nights ago, I was picking up around the house and went to the bathroom where my husband had taken out our scale to weigh some luggage that he was taking on a trip. I NEVER weigh myself. Maybe I did about 6-8 months ago. I don’t need that negativity in my life. (And also, I was a skinny kid and when I...

SOULMATE (2023) is a coming-of-age story where two friends first meet at 11 years old and spend the course of 14 years remaining close and sharing experiences in both friendship and romance. It starred Kim Da Mi and Jeon So Nee. It did modest Korean box office ($1.7 million). But the production company is now re-releasing it this year because of the breakout of actor Byeon Woo Seok. Will a second bite at the Apple be worth it? I don’t know, but producers are making odd choices on distributing content (example, three episodes of TAROT bundled into a movie theater release on June 14).

I don't know what happened but I stopped getting notification emails from here.

NOTES FROM EARLY 9TAILEDFOX'S EARLY JUNE:

1. THE MOUSE IS A LOUSE

Disney+ in my region sneakily revised their offered plans and transitioned me WITHOUT MY PERMISSION to a more expensive plan since now instead of forcing everyone to take out a quarterly subscription, they finally are offering monthly, quarterly, and annual plans. But wait! The quarterly plan is PREMIUM which means I got charged 33% more this month.

But are they going to refund me or pro-rate it so I can switch to the basic plan? Nope. I had to cancel my auto-renew and wait out the current subscription and then resubscribe for the annual basic plan.

If Disney+ wasn't carrying so many K-Dramas, Marvel, Hulu, Star Wars and Doctor Who, I'd have just kicked them to the curb.

So PSA to Beanies - if you're a Disney+ subscriber in Asia, go check their website for your region/country to see if they've sneakily changed plans.

2. COMING UP - ANOTHER TURN ROUND THE SUN

My birthday week is coming up and I'm feeling oddly flat about it.

I have secured a super long weekend that started yesterday and will run until my birthday on Monday (i.e. no classes to teach at all!) but so far it's just more of sabbatical chillaxing to regain my spoons.

I did receive a surprise in the mail - an ARMY friend from Scotland and her daughter sent me the official BTS biography with a photo card of a particular BTS member inside *ahem*. They are among several ARMY friends who are still campaigning for me to officially become ARMY and this is their latest salvo haha!

(c) THIS WEEK IN KOREAN WOMEN'S NEWS

Actor Lee Sun-bin promotes female volunteer army in commemoration of Memorial Day

Actress Lee Sun-bin and Seo Kyoung-duk, a professor at Sungshin Women's University and an activist promoting Korea, have joined forces to shed light on the female volunteer army during the Korean War (1950-53) in commemoration of the June 6 Memorial Day.

As part of a campaign to honor people who sacrificed themselves for their nation's defense, the two have collaborated to share an online post on social media introducing some 2,400 women who participated in the Korean War without receiving any compensation. According to the post, they not only engaged in combat activities, but also dedicated themselves to nursing and administration in the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine Corps.

https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/art/2024/06/398_376106.html

Happy Friday, Beanies! It was a pretty crazy week – at some point I even doubted I will be able to prepare a new playlist in time, but thankfully my stubbornness won over unfortunate circumstances. My ridiculous injury is healing very well too, don't worry. In fact, I've been shedding scabs like a snake these few days – more in X-Files monster of the week fashion, sadly, and not like a spirit in fantasy drama...

I think it was 2 weeks ago I complained about powerhouse duo of LYN and Zhang Bichen being given a rather lame to my tastes OST to sing together and guess what? Universe must've agreed with me since I apparently they also performed together once! And not just anything, but their famous solo drama songs respectively – hers “Direction of light” from THE LONG BALLAD (ha, the meta!) and his “Ask heavens” from WORD OF HONOR. Now that's a blockbuster stage by all things considered! Also they're both just so pretty here, wow (I'm really fond of his belted jacket and those xianxia hairclips):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0raIsdrL4HM

Mini-bonus: no idea what's this about, but such a cute ending after all the drama! TV stations with their tight schedules always cut the good stuff:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k47uXXG1J-g

Since we're back again to Yuning feat female singers topic, here's one with Miriam Yeung from yet another Spring Festival (Lunar NY) galas – sometimes I feel like he's done too many of them, way more than it's believable logically for a guy who's only been around for 5 years lol. It's a mix from 3 different songs - “Gravity”, “Mojito” (should I comment on the irony of him having to dance AGAIN or him singing about alcohol when he cannot handle a single glass of wine?) and “See you, see you, see you”. Choose your fighter – good quality video with super low volume or microwave video with a decent sound:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEcxGB4d8VQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fS7SVPKX2Ps

If you're getting tired from real life ladies, he also once sang with an AI – I'll never understood the appeal of virtual idols (if they're not real, what's so impressive about their “talents” then?), but Asia loves them... Idk, he still sings (and looks) better than this Chinese anime snow-maiden, whatever “her” name is. Props to my man for managing to have a chemistry even with a hologram!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGzRmGQsddg

Speaking of festive galas, not everything has to be about romance or girls – sometimes a whole choir can do too. This has distinctive propaganda undertones, but that I can overlook. Also, just how many moving platforms were needed to make everyone on the same level/above him? Bwahaha, another day in his “Gandalf among hobbits” tough life))) Right, song is called “Ideal”, I think.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQDucX0OI4Q

I finished Wedding Impossible yesterday. Here's my review:
https://allthatdrama9201424.wordpress.com/2024/06/06/wedding-impossible/

I was watching the fight scene from the HBO show Euphoria (I don't know if that show has a lot of fight scenes but this one is pretty iconic fron what I understand) and oh my god, I feel such second hand mortification every time I see it. It's layers to it.
1- this happened onstage in front of damn near the entire school
2- a shameful betrayal was announced in front of hundreds of people
3- the actual beating
4- this is being filmed on people's phone so it's gonna spread like wildfire

Ugh, it's just so mortifying to me to even imagine and I know it's a tv show but it made me think about how hard it is to be a teen or a kid today because if something mortifying or even embarrassing or just naive and dumb happen nowadays, you can't really live it down. It just haunts you forever or threatens to haunt you.

I will sound like a boomer but it's one of those moments that make me go "it was better in the past)

Aren't humans hilarious?
Even though the reason why I feel comfortable asking my friends for favors that annoy them is because the ask me favors that annoy me, I still get annoyed when they ask for those favors and they get annoyed with me the same way.

But we're the only people we can ask annoying favors to, so what are we supposed to do? LOL

This week I really appreciated my friends.

Also, on a kdrama note. Isn't is kind of funny the gay-erasure drama is airing on pride month?
I don't know, I find it hilarious.
I find everything about it hilarious.

Anyway, I (re)watched The Bear with one of my besties last weekend but we talk way too much (before, during and after every single episode), so we only finished season 1.

I don't want to be THAT friend, but she disappeared for the rest of the week and I'm seriously considering rewatching season 2 without her if she doesn't give any signals tomorrow. I can just watch it again whenever she comes back anyway (already watched it 4 times before). 😂

Oh, I started reading the book Anxious People... it feels like it was written by a Twitter troll. People need to stop saying the ending is worth it because I don't want to suffer anymore.

I hope you had a great week, beanies de mi corazón! XOXO