Aaaahhh how is it 2021 already?

I sincerely hope everyone is doing as well as possible, staying safe and looking after each other. It’s really been a year, hasn’t it?

Even aside from pandemic concerns, it was a year full of change and difficulties for me on the personal front, but I have taken joy in the friends I have here, and I hope I’ve been able to send back a little of that joy to your days, too, at least on the K-drama front, even if it’s not here on Dramabeans.

I’ve been keeping busy with the podcast – I (finally) learned how to edit audio earlier this year, and after a lot of aborted attempts at the whole process, finally FULLY produced an episode with the Forest of Secrets 2 special. I’m proud of me, I thought I’d never get there!! *pats self*

We had a lot of milestone moments in 2020 with Dramas Over Flowers, from producing some groundbreaking episodes, getting a proper website, doing weekly coverage on airing shows, and welcoming guest writers, to doing our first livestream, meeting fellow fans face-to-face (well, as face-to-face as pandemic living allows!), and joining a podcast network.

I have no idea what this year will bring – does anyone!! – but I hope and pray that you find peace and security in these challenging days of our lives, and also are able to appreciate the many daily blessings that remain to us despite our hardships.

And finally, let me leave you with our end-of-year opus, The Year-End Yak, which is THE LONGEST YAK (ever?), but I hope you’ll have as much fun listening to it as we did producing it. We’re particularly excited about our own end-of-year awards, the Goguma Awards, and there’s some good stuff inside, if I do say so myself! (I don’t want to spoil it for you, but honestly, Lee Joon-hyuk…)

Love and finger-hearts to you all 💙💙💙