Beanie level: Entertainer-in-training

12th December 2024.

🎊Happy 22nd Debut Anniversary Shin Sung Rok!!!! 🎊

Thank you for appearing in dramaland this year as Bael in TJFH. May you return to dramaland in 2025 too.

Enjoy various SSR looks from his 2024 musicals: Swing Days, Frankenstein, Pagwa and Dracula.




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#2024 Drama Roundup
Day 5 – Scene Stealer

Taesung-ie!!!! – Lovely Runner

During his teens…

Or in his 20s…

Or in present time…

He steals every scene. My favourite character in Lovely Runner.

Bonus gif: Taesung 💔 Sunny.

Honorable mentions: Seo Si Won and his wifeu Lee Mi Jin – Cinderella at 2 AM.

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#2024 Drama Roundup
Day 4 – Crush

Have to make an edit from 2024 drama roundup to just 2024 roundup since my biggest discovery this  year is LUCY band.

I like them all especially Shin Ye Chan the violinist. I call him Shin Jr, because Shin Sr. is Shin Sung Rok 😂.

Enjoy Shin Ye Chan’s live violin piece ‘Outro’ from LUCY’s concert.

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#2024 Drama Roundup
Day 3 – Favourite 2024 male lead

I have 2 favourites:
1. Dongbang Yubin – Seoul Busters

2. Seo Ji Hwan – My Sweet Mobster

They both brought joy into my 2024 dramaland~

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Keeping this banner draft on my fanwall. Initially, I wanted to change my banner to this simple collage of Lee Dong Hwi, Shin Sung Rok and Roy Kim (reference: Kat’s 2024 K-celeb list). But the sizing was wrong and I didn’t have time to edit or figure out the correct size.

Fast forward a few weeks later, I forgot about changing DB banner. In the meantime, I got to know LUCY, like them and their songs and their group pic fits the banner size nicely without any editing required 😂.
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Finally updated my banner!!!

It’s LUCY band!!!

The pic is low res but I like the summery vibe of the pic a lot. I started following them a few weeks ago and have indulged in their various content on youtube, it’s like watching a real life youth drama. From how each of them started their music journey, their busking days, how they got together, how they named their band after Lucy the dog that was always at the studio where they practiced, how they debuted in midst of COVID, to where they are now. It’s so nice and warm, just like how coming of age dramas feel like.

Bonus LUCY song to go with my new banner:

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#2024 Drama Roundup
Day 2 – Favourite 2024 female lead

Go Eun Ha – My Sweet Mobster

Standout 2024 female lead in my books. She’s sweet, thoughtful, good with kids and adults. Go Eun Ha shows that you don’t need to be in a powersuit to be a lady with strong sense of self.

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    I loved her too! I struggled with this prompt, but I think she’s my pick as well 👍

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      I like her a lot. She’s not flawless but she wins with her sweet, kind and resilient nature. I also like her styling. They made her look and feel like a commoner, not a chaebol heiress in disguise 😂

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    Go Eun-ha was indeed the titular sweet character. As you said, not without flaws but that was more because of the uneven script. Han Sun-hwa played Go Eun-ha really well. We could believe that the Lady is strong enough to wrap not just Papa Deer but all the deerlings around her little finger. Her chemistry with the gang was unbeatable. 😊❤💪🏻✊🏻

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    Good point about the styling. Not necessarily a kindergarten teacher but not as you put it a chaebol heiress in disguise. 😂

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#2024 Drama Roundup
Day 1 – Favourite 2024 drama

Seoul Busters!!!
Read my review: here

I also just learned that LUCY’s Sangyeop sang the rock version of Seoul Buster’a main OST! Refer my previous post for who LUCY is 🤣.

p/s: This song will probably reappear in my 2024 recap for best OST 😆.

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Fanwall, say hello to my new favourite K-band: LUCY!!!

I want to talk about them more…but maybe in future posts 🤣. Any LUCY fans here?

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    looks interesting. Like the violin

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      The violin was the starting point of my LUCY spiral 🤣. Their songs are good and I like their ability to incorporate the violin which isn’t a common band instrument.

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        I listen to a lot of folk rock, and they usually have violins in their bands

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          Ohhh interesting. I’m not familiar with folk rock. Any groups you would recommend?

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            Well the classic bands are people like Fairport Convention. I think what I listen to is more ‘electric folk’ rather than ‘folk rock’ actually, so thats people like the Battlefield Band, or Eliza Carthy. There is an Australian Band called Weddings Parties Anything that I like. But I’m never very up to date with music, sorry, so I’m listing some old bands!

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    Video breakdown:
    0: intro
    0.46: chapter 1 – how LUCY came to be
    6.06: chapter 2 – get to know LUCY
    26.42: chapter 3 – LUCY’s Discography
    34: Last chapter – to the future

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    I love them!

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    I like Lucy! 😊
    I have listened to many of their themes. Flowery is so catchy!

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🎂Happy Sungrok Day!🎂

23rd Nov is Shin Sung Rok’s birthday ^__^
Saengil chukahamnida Royal Hotness!
💜🤴🏻🌻☕🐰

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In the past few weeks, I have been pulled into k-youtubeland and k-varietyland, where 2 celebs stood out from the others. I have no choice but to add them on my list. Previously I had a K-Actor list, I have upgraded the list to \’K-celebs\’ to include non-actors too.

*drumroll*

Introducing 2 new members on my k-celeb lineup!!! I decided to keep it short and highlight the ones I consistently want to watch/hear over the past few weeks. Can you guess who they are from the pictures below?


(ps: the cat is his!)

Of course Shin Sung Rok remains on the list. He\’s still in No.1 spot. But I ran out of content to watch as k-musicaland is not as accessible as k-movies, k-dramas, k-variety and kpop. I\’ll patiently wait for his return to the small screen.

(pps: SSR has 2 cats!!! He should have a photoshoot with his cats too)

On the other hand, my newly added k-celebs are currently very active in their respective fields and since I just started following them, there\’s still lots of content to be watched.

Honorable mentions: Kim Dong Wook (Seoul Busters), Uhm Tae Goo (My Lovely Mobster) and Yoon Park (Birthcare Center), they are somewhere on my new K-celeb list too.

Let\’s see how long this new list will survive 😂.

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    #1 Lee Donghwi, a cat lover.

    Is #2 Lee Soohyuk?

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      #2 is Roy Kim.

      Kairoskat @katakwasabi & Healer’s @claire2009 Are you planning to watch Rented in Finland for Lee Dong-hwi and Lee Je-hoon? I’m planning to watch for Cha Eun-woo.

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        Ding dong deng!

        #1 is Lee Dong Hwi @claire2009
        #2 is Kim Sang Woo aka Roy Kim @panshel

        I do plan to watch Rented in Finland. Hopefully it gets subbed. I like the cast. I have a softspot for CEW in variety show since Master in the House. LJH and KDH are close and hilarious together (watched them on Yoo Jae Suk’s youtube show). I’m not familiar with WDH. I think the show will be entertaining.

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Preparing to say goodbye to my Seo Yi Do banner. This pic has been my banner for maybe 5-6 years, since Perfume aired in 2019.

Time to move on…but imo Perfume is still one of the best fantasy romcoms out there and Yi Do is still one of my favourite SSR drama characters~
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Here’s a song for everyone who reads this:

🎤It’ll Be Alright

When someone asks about you out of the blue,
I will sing for you
So that you can, without hesitating, 
Say that you’re happy.

It’ll be alright.
It’ll be alright.
It’ll be alright.

Full lyrics: here

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Roy Kim’s voice is like 🍯. His live singing sounds like a recording.

Also cool video concept, maybe we’ll get more artists singing undercover.

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    HE IS BACK!!!??!!!

    i am surprised that people r allowing him ot be back

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Calling it. Kim Tae Ri is highly likely to receive a Baeksang Award for her role in Jeongnyeon. Eventhough Jeongnyeon can be annoying at times (most of the time 😅), she’s also such a chameleon and so memorable on stage. It’s awesome to see her transformation with each character she plays. She’s so good, she doesn’t only captivate the audience, she renders her castmate speechless too, mesmerized by her performance. As of ep 7, I think it is safe to say she has passed her I-want-to-shine-alone stage, she has proven she’s quick on her feet and a valuable troupe member.

I can’t wait to see the full final musical performance where Jeongnyeon will be the main lead role on stage. Question is…who will be the other main lead?

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The guys minus their leader…but I expect leader-nim to be just like these 3 😅


Leave it to the only lady in the team, Detective Seo to save the day!!!

#seoulbusters

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Everyone should run and watch Seoul Busters 😂


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I gauge how much I like a drama by the amount of fanwall posts I wanna make for the drama. Currently I want to spam my DB fan wall with Seoul Busters gifs. I find SB funny and highly enjoyable. One of the rare dramas I’m glad had more episodes than normal (20 vs 16).

I’ll probably share gifs for a while until I can get the drama out of my system. Drama had too many gif-able moments. For starters, some Yubin gifs from ep 1:



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Me not getting what I ordered in my parcel 😑

#seoulbusters

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Me when my online shopping parcel arrives 😆

#seoulbusters

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