Wuthering Heights, Yes please! 😄😍
It could even be a weekender, except that the ghost-y side should have a budget that didn't make it embarrassing.

I am very protective about the mood of this one, but ... I "The Shamer's Daughter" could be filmed and have Park So-yi as the main character, Dina ... It could just actually be magnificent.
Dragons and complicated family relationships; actually, Family is at the center of the story, together with a critique of ... I don't know exactly how to say it, but it overlaps with the ice coldness found in Squid game.
The books are so intense.
Yes, while it could be made horribly and superficially, with the right writers I could see it better represented as a K-drama than if Netflix tried.
There is a Danish film adaption, and it's okay, especially the villain actor. But I would like the story to get a lot more time and care.

he´s become an ahjussi.
well, but I am by now an ahjumma...

mushrooming sounds like such an estonian gift. biggest, even. Because taking someone mushrooming means you know where and you are willing to share the location. which happens like once in a century. we´ll take our mushroom spots to the grave usually
great gift and more fun than most people assume

The third gif link doesn't work, it seems, so here is the comment I wrote at imgur, and the gif should be accessible at Giphy. Link below.
"If you ever analyzed pictures in school, what did the teacher tell you about clinging to a beam (A dramabeam?) with a ladle and that round thing with a hole in jumping around?"

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Thank you for helping me out here.
And:
Okay, that is so strange. When all the other ones work.
Maybe it's because I wrote: "If you ever analyzed pictures in school, what did the teacher tell you about clinging to a beam (A dramabeam?) with a ladle and that round thing with a hole in jumping around?"

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@ceciliedk The mp4 version doesn't work either (page not found).

just watched ep 1... Park Hyung Sik with a mullet AND wings???
i'm ALL IN.

This gets more disappointing with each episode...

If someone assaults a student, you call the police. You don't let him telling his lies. How the mum is now her daughter can't shoot anymore? It doesn't make sense to hide this part to her if Yi-ji wants to send Woo-jin at university...

Ga-ram could have stop misunderstandings way before by telling the truth.

Sung-joon continues to be useless as captain. Woo-jin should stay with the cute newbie.

The Prisoner of Zenda would be fun as a K-drama remake. The ML playing both the mediocre prince, and the heroic replacement ( They are doppelgangers of each other). And then of course the bittersweet end- I won't spoil it for you, go read the book. But lots of great emotional beats.
Also sword fights, romantic love interests, bad guys, royal (or could be chaebol) heirs. Its a great plot.
A K-drama version of the Murderbot diaries. They have just recently filmed an English version which I haven't seen, but Murderbot is a great character- who also happens to be addicted to soap operas/weekenders. They could have a lot of fun with the meta references and have a second cameo cast for the weekender
A K-drama version of any of the Penric short stories ( or a few of them) ( Louis Mcmaster Bujold). Heroic guys, horses and swords, fantasy, beautiful women, demons.....

You're right. That's an important distinction. But his father also told him he should've just stayed single, when just a short time ago, he was giving him a hard time about that. Sometimes there's no winning with parents! Not the same situation, but I had discussions with my mom where she couldn't accept my viewpoint and only saw it as me blaming her.

I feel for Jihyuk. Really, the more I think about it, this is giving more of a glimpse into his way of thinking. His dad also blew up at him in the flashback about taking his room for the grandparents. Yes, sacrifices need to be made, but he was a child and he should have received support then, too, not be made to feel like he, his dreams, and the things in his room didn't matter.

I was really touched by Eunoh's flashback to him giving her the colored pencils and other supplies and boosting her confidence. He was doing what he wished someone had done for him.

Yes, Heyer is what I immediately think of when I think " why don't they adapt..."

@ghostoftim

Thank you!

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30 th country. Yay!

Thanks, @lovepark for your recap that as always captures exactly my reaction, and I think the reaction of everyone to this show. The underdog sports theme is, as always, appealing, the coach, if differently written with a lot less noble idiocy) could have been appealing as well, as as could have Yi-ji's character

But the whole thing is undermined by not spending enough time fleshing out , and wasting too many minutes on trivial things like the “good luck” rituals, plus showing too many computer visualizations of shooting targets. The feeling will be at the end is that “I wish there had been more episodes” when In fact 12 episodes would have been more than enough if it had been decently written.

Also, has often been said, making the Vice Principal and the shooting coach absurdly villainous in a way that is completely unrealistic, This is high school education, after all, not a ruthless corporation. There are plenty of competitive, totally self-centered people in education, as I well know, but they have to at least pay lip-service to student welfare, as these two do not. In particular, the shooting coach would have had to have been enormously successful in the past with other student athletes to get away with anything like the abuse he’s shown, but we've been shown no evidence of this past success.

And, as I've probably said, as a high school coach of a couple of sports for several years, who dealt with driven sports parents, AND then as a (not so driven and obnoxious) sports parent myself the reaction of Woo-jin’s Mom was so unrealistic, I started ranting at the T.V. Absolutely NO sports parent would put up with this abuse, and downplay the injury to her child because the evil coach promised her, AFTER BADLY INJURING HER, that he would get her a professional contract, especially if the mother herself had been a national team athlete.

I can tell you the IMMEDIATE reaction of a driven sports parent would be to either 1. transfer her daughter, while also suing the coach Or. 2) have your daughter go pro immediately, using your connections as a professional athlete.

It just shows that the writer(s) never have encountered sports parents, but also,they just aren’t very good writers.

Of course, I'm going to finish the show, with only 2 episodes left, but as a fan of even the most trite sports dramas, I'm pretty disappointed.

PupmomAnnie, you are so right about Ji-hyeuk apologizing over and over again even though he had done nothing wrong.

But that was not really what made the father angry- it was that Ji-hyeuk was refusing to admit that he had the wrong reasons for the marriage. Father was offended that son refuses to follow a strict romantic script in getting married and took it as a direct criticism of the father's own life decisions. Ji-hyeuk intended no such criticism but his father refused to listen, and refuses to recognize ji-hyeuk's right to make different choices. That was what he was really angry about- that Ji-hyeuk refused to admit that he had been wrong.

@wonhwa

It brings tears to my eyes just thinking how Koreans could adapt it. To have such a powerful insight into the medieval period as seen through the eyes of a woman (from everyday life to landscapes to diseases and wars and rebellions to marriage and motherhood) — the hairs on my arm stand up. But I’d also be curious how would they reinterpret The Cross — it leans heavily on Catholic religious themes, and it was the least favorite for me in the trilogy.

Agree re the father being horrid/actor being good.

I'm also finding it interesting to think about how things like this are written in the US. When little sister was going to bat for Jihyuk with little brother, she made some really good points about Jihyuk paying them allowances out of his college job money, even as they got older. We often see oldest siblings wind up somewhat resentful because they gave up part of themselves to help with the younger siblings.

The drama of the situation is where I knew JIW would shine, and he's not disappointed me.

I'm wondering if his repeated muttering of "fool" is him speaking of himself, or is he thinking that of Eunoh and Seongjae? I'm also wondering the same when Eunoh was walking back to the cafe after the wedding that wasn't. She thinks about her moments with BoA and Jihyuk jilted at the altar and says, "Loser". Was she direction that at him, or still beating herself up a bit?

I agree regarding the father's treatment of Jihyuk. Jihyuk apologized multiple times, and seemed absolutely sincere every time. Then his dad cries to the mom "that if he'd only apologized, I would've given him hug and a pat on the back, told him it was no big deal" !!! I wish the mom would've called him out on that instead of being taken aback by her husband's drunken crying fit.

@qingdao Nice places! I liked Jeju but it was quite frustrating how they drive slowly in Korea 😅