Hello friends, @seeker and @isagc, in particular to you, Cera …. Just a quick note what I am up to.

I have been and am really, really busy learning in-depth about the so called Human Design system, so Ra Uru Hu’s elaborations on the «Science of Differentiation», which means nothing less than learning about existence and how it works and came about, all of existence.

In that context, of course, K-Drama watching becomes sometimes a bit of a frustrating exercise … due to the tropism found in pretty much all dramas. But it remains a source of fascination for me because I am still very, very interested in how the Confucian cultural undercurrent has and is still influencing this society — and with it, its artforms.

So what the French call « la septième art » —filmmaking— Korean filmmaking for the small screen, in serialisation, is still of great interest to me.

Therefore, in detail I have been following two strands of interests at the moment:

(1) When I watched Pasta (2010) on Netflix Europe a few weeks ago, I got interested in which other dramas this screenwriter had penned. I then got hold of Romance Town and watched it in its entirety and started on another one.
So, one avenue of interest is to build up a database and knowledge base on screenwriters and their dramas.

(2) The second avenue is similar, but started with my interest and fascination with an actor/actress. I have, in the past, followed the individual works of various actors/actresses and watched many of their dramas.
But now I decided to combine my interest in an actor with my interest in Human Design.
So the first actor where I am doing this is with Choi Jin-hyuk. When I saw him again in Miss Night and Day (2024) very much this time too, there was something I admired about his portrayal and demeanour in this drama series. I had loved his Designer portrayal in Secret Garden — apparently a Korean remake of a Taiwanese original drama. I also rewatched Devilish Joy on Viki Europe. I had loved that drama series, when I watched it the first time around in 2022, and this time too, I was very touched and impressed. Then I also watched Numbers which I had not seen so far. Again, very good. Now, I got hold of a copy of Gu Family Book which is not available on sites in Europe I have access to; Viki US seems to have it though, so at least I can get the subtitle files (the rubbers for Viki tend to be really, really good most of the time). I am about to start watching that. Choi had said himself in a recent conversation that this was the character he had enjoyed playing the most, so I want to have a look. The series seemed to have been a huge success in Korea at the time too, with viewership into the 20 percentage in the end.

I will probably follow these two avenues for a while, building up my own database of dramas and films from Korean filmmaking — and with it, my knowledge base. I also try to get hold of the Hangul-language subtitles so as to —eventually— use it to learn Hangul with it properly. But that’s still along way away … for now. 🙂

That’s me, Cera. Hope you are doing well?