Beanie level: Rooftop room dweller

Dear Hyeri, ep 7 – near the end, around 53 minutes… the ambient sounds become grating? traffic passing in the background (they are inside the apartment), footsteps exceptionally loud? wth.

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    I’ll tell you what, though, the writing is amazing to be able to tell such complex stories of the characters and not lose anyone’s story to mass confusion.

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      that’s my chagrin… i am enjoying the story and don’t know why the sound editing isn’t better, because it is a distraction in the worst way….
      : (

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WOW, netflix just loaded Kimura Takuya’s drama Good Luck from 2003… i hope they upload Long Vacation, A Millions Stars Falling From the Sky and all his other J doramas!!

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Chen Bolin fans — watch Breaking and Re-Entering on netflix!! it’s funny! he’s still adorable!

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my husband just told me he was watching The Influencer on netflix – and Jang Geun Seok is on it! not as a judge, but a contestant! WUT?? kinda sad?

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    it seems like a popular show among koreans tho, and they are concentrating on people who have a great impact on followers. I don´t think it is so bad? as long as he is happy doing it.

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Wonderland had me baffled… i must be too old to understand which is what. but Gong Yoo looks fab no matter what.

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my husband and daughter @ IU’s concert, showing… something, giveaway? merch?
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    it might be the giveaways that IU’s mom prepared for the concertgoers…

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    I’m soooooo jealous!

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      i was going to post to give away 2 tickets to the concert in rosemont, IL – but they sold on thursday morning (day of concert)… they found different tickets and were reselling their first 2 tickets (were still good seats). couldn’t figure out a way to give away free on this site…
      : (

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YAY for Kim Hye Yoon! she\’s getting lots of love from fans…
https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/art/2024/06/688_377452.html

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    So happy for her, it felt a little unfair that everyone was so stuck on BWS( who was excellent too) but she truly carried LR with her amazing acting.

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    As expected!! 👍👌👏👏👏👏
    Her fans will always cheer for her. 🎊🥰❤😘

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    She’s a talented actress! I’m sure her script selecting ability will take her far. She kind of knows what is good. Every show she’s been in has been acclaimed. I can’t think of a show that was inherently bad.

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just because.






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    I’ve followed him, the eclipse account, and his agency because I can’t get enough of this. 😝

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@db-staff – there is no comment box for “discussions” on the Lovely Runner page?

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THIS IS SO REAL – I always talk/natter at my husband without ever actually looking at him! 🤣
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    my husband once shaved (vertically) half his face to see if I and our daughter would notice. we didn’t!

    he forgot what he had done, and we were out shopping in Costco when people were giving him weird looks!

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    She is terrible to him 😣

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      Really, she is terrible to everybody, but especially to him, who is there for her and for everybody almost all the time, except the few hours he goes dancing.
      I don’t like that he fell for that weird scam with having to pay for having danced with that woman, though. He hadn’t done anything wrong, even if he might have complained sometimes, like you can do to a friend. They hadn’t kissed or even wiggled eyebrows suggestively.

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        Yeah I don’t like the scam but here but maybe this will give him the chance to discover his hidden superpower? And yes Grandma is terrible to everyone but especially him! And he continues to address her as ‘yobo’ ugh

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          You know, he doesn’t have the family super power DNA. It could be fun if the super powers were contagious. Da-hae seems to have some powers of seeing people around her and making them feel better. And the father seems to be very necessary in much the same way – he has the role of a traditional housewife with a terrible husband, the good side being caring for his family, the bad side being treated as a non-entity and accepting that.
          Some says there is something fishy about him, and what I see is that he has been fishy-fied by being treated as an annoying servant, always expected to be there when needed and be invisible and inaudible the rest of the time.
          It fits with the story-telling here that he would get into trouble before being seen, but I think I would like it to happen in some other way.
          … Or maybe not? To have stolen some happy time for himself without it being known or noted by anyone, and from that, too much trouble to arise and finally to be revealed to have done very little wrong, his pain and loneliness exposed, … that could be a way for him to end in a better position by the end of this drama. Right now, I just really dislike where his story is going.

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          Also, he has been secretly bitter for some time. I would prefer for him to speak up a little more, to demand from Man-heum that he be treated better, not worse, than hired staff. But in relationships with a tilted power balance this can always be hard, and that goes for all housewives dependant on the man’s wages. If he (in this case, she) doesn’t see that they need to work emotionally and listenlingly to keep the relationship happy and equal, than the power will shift into a money/emotion exchange of power, and that is not good.

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          WHat does “yobo” mean?

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get outta here!!! tatami mat flooring in the japanese prison cells??? Believe, ep 1 starring Kimura Takuya.
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    I’d actually like to watch sth with Kimura Taku someday to understand his hype. I tried Love Vacation but that didn’t work for me.

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      try A Million Stars Falling From the Sky. there was a Kdrama remake, but they changed the story and it made no sense. this original J dorama version will haunt you – and you’ll understand the hype around Kimura Takuya.
      *winks*

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        Oh, didn’t it have incest though? (You can spoil me on that, I want to know if it did or not), because that’s something I wouldn’t want to see in my dramas. I’ve heard good things about Pride as well.

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          it’s dark and the end is the final twist…

          i thought Engine was funny. Good Luck was good also.
          ; )

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          oh, Hero was quirky fun…

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this is what the women should have looked like in Shogun, but i guess it wouldn’t have been a great “sell” to western audiences… (photo from Legend & Butterfly mentioned earlier).
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just watched a movie with my two J favs… The Legend & Butterfly released last year – with Ayase Haruka and Kimura Takuya. Oda Nobunaga fans will like this \”spin\” on the historical event.

for Shogun fans, this illustrates the decades prior to the time period of Shogun.

https://asianwiki.com/The_Legend_%26_Butterfly

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Lovely Runner – LOVE halmeoni!!

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meta… where have we heard this before…
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    😂 🙈 Truth is stranger than fiction!? Not anymore. 😊

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    Just a week or two ago in Frankly Speaking?

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      it was Seo Ye jin (the jealous girlfriend) saying that to Kim Jung Hyun when he was filming The Time with Seohyun.

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        It was more than just embarrassing.

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        Ahhhh. Right.

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        lol.. i was instantly reminded of that..

        and i wonder why they took a potshot at that.. was that drama on TVN?

        this script has made fun of a lot of TVN dramas..

        and i can imaging LDW as the grim reaper trying to take SJ’s soul again and again .. ha ha,, bored t o max with this repetitive work entrusted upon him

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          I kind of remember this incident, but I never associated the joke with it.

          I too wonder why would they make this joke when nothing about what happened back then strikes me as funny. I remember Kim Jung Hyun being really sick.

          I don’t think it’s a TVN thing because I’ve seen the same joke and many shows.

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            i am not sure about KJH being sick..

            there were already reports that ML and FL were not getting along, crew had issues and then the stress narrative was released and the actor bowed out… all good till then, he even gained public sympathy… but then few years later it all came tumbling down.. and i don’t think people buy the stress story anymore and called him out on the unprofessionalism.. both him and Seo jin

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            @alasecond can’t believe I’m still reading stuff like this all these years later…
            They literally had him bring out his medical records, the last time…but no, he just made it all up because he suddenly woke up one day and wanted to be a jerk on set. 🙃
            And btw, people gave him a hard time already when the drama was airing..for some reason those who knew how serious the situation was on set, decided to wait until after his hiatus, once he was all good again, to bring up the past..why not do it immediately? Instead of letting him receive all that “sympathy” 🤔

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          @cubely Lelly19.. medical certificate in Korea.. they produce fake certificate right left center… even for the most dangerous ofthe jobs.. to fake way out of military enlistment…

          We will never know how true or untrue those certificates are… but we do know that tension was brewing and we do know there was definitely atleast the other reason to quit

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      I think she’s referring to the real life dating between Seo Ye-ji and Kim Jung-hyun when she forbade him to kiss another actress in a show while he was dating her. He ended up taking a mental health leave of absence after that show (and breaking up with Seo Ye-ji).

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      nah..its real life drama wiht a drama that had the SL from crash landing and FL is the youngest of the Girls Generation group.. that drama was so weird and ML got replaced midway

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        ML didn’t get replaced..he dropped out a few episodes before the end (and was not replaced by anyone) because of health reasons.

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          correct wasn’t replaced.. they come up with some stress narrative and he left the show

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            The character had a brain tumor, they just killed him off a little earlier 😅

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    i can’t place him but we have seen him somewhere before.. which dramas has he done?

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      Kim Min-gi. His cameo appearance is because the screenwriter for Lovely Runner wrote True Beauty where he played Moon Ga-young’s little brother. Besides True Beauty, he was also in Racket Boys and Under the Queen’s Umbrella.

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      True Beauty as a little brother, Under The Queen’s Umbrella as the smart Prince, Racket Boys as the smart boy.

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okay, just gotta say LR ep 12 had too much \”fluffy filler\”. it was the first time i felt like the comedic moments were just stalling the dramatic aspects of the story… didn\’t fit the pace?

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    Well I did keep waiting for the other shoe to drop so … 🤷‍♀️ perhaps that says something. Also all the frolicking at the beach in their twinkling youth seemed like a trope to be filled in and didn’t seem organic to the story.

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      I agree, and it didn’t help that I know this was filmed in winter, not summer, so those poor actors were freezing the entire time. I could see how cold they were sometimes despite their best efforts. I’d rather have skipped checking off that box of cuteness.

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    I was bored. The cute was too much and there was no plot movement. We get a one second killer end of each episode to remind us he is still there. I was also
    Getting tired of the FL’s shocked wide eyed expression every time he does something loving. (Eg lifting her up) And then she smiles once the slo mo ends. Given that they both decided to be together shouldn’t it be more natural. Why is she so shocked and not delighted?

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      Plus, don’t forget that she’s still really 34 in her heart, even if only 19 in body. So after a while, those wide-eyed expressions of shock every time Sun Jae flirts with or even slightly touches her are silly. Even if she wasn’t a hugely experienced 34 year old, in her memory, they have at least made out, so no reason to get goofy if he picks her up.

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        This, exactly, is really making the show drag for me. And I haven’t even seen 12 due to some kind of problem at Viki 🙁

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    Episode 11 was one of the best and 12 one of the worst, imo.
    After the Monday episode I thought “at last I have genuinely enjoyed this show”, but Tuesday episode was a bit of a letdown.

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    I enjoyed most of the filler since the serial killer/time travel logic is becoming top nonsense.
    But even if I couldn’t care less about the killer, some of the “comedy” was too much.

    For ex. Sun Jae’s dad trapped in the bathroom was the most random scene in the entire show. It was weird and boring.

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      And everytime you manage to forget about him they feel the need to remind us and cut back to him.

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    I think 16 episodes are too much for this kind of drama, they needed some kind of filler.

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for crying out loud… i was having brainthings watching 3 makjang dramas w/cheating husbands. and now i just started Atypical Family and there\’s elements of time leap that\’s going to mess with my head while also watching Lovely Runner….

i hope trying to stay focussed on which drama has who doing what to whom will help prevent early onset of alzheimer’s, or it’s contributing to my expected age-related onset of dementia.

*harumph*

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    Same same but different⁉️

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    I’ve come to realize that so many Kdramas are the same things but just different delivery, e.g. When Kdramaland had that phase of random unnecessary serial killer trope in a handful of dramas previously.
    It’s a part of the reason why I have pulled back from Kdramas so much— I watch only 1 a year, maybe even less. The last one I watched was “Extraordinary Attorney Woo” and before that, I don’t even know what Kdrama I had watched or when it was

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    Kdrama . . . It’s not for sissies! 🤯

    Seriously, good luck keeping it all straight 🤦🏼‍♀️ I feel you!

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is this meta?
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LR ep 8… on my second rewatch I noticed he\’s winding the clock counter- clockwise…
*rolls eyes*

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Lovely Runner – much happened in the early eps, i wondered what else could fill the rest. this drama is surprising me with all the new elements… LOVE this drama so much – 8 more eps, YAY!

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    Omo … we’re already halfway through!? How come I never realized that. Ottoke what will I do with uri Sun Sol.

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