While our drama heroes and heroines generally take the limelight - as they should — every so often a drama features a side character that just steals the scene away from...
There are heroes, and then there are vigilante heroes. Whether they're fighting against the system that failed them, against deep-rooted corruption, or against their own demons — or heck, why not...
A drama's OST, or original soundtrack, is a powerful player in dramaland. It has the ability to single-handedly make or break the show's strongest and most powerful scenes. The soundtrack...
The concept of justice is one of the backbones of K-drama storytelling. We've looked at some ways dramas deploy justice — through compensating their heroes/heroines with a gift, and delivering...
Here at Dramabeans, we spend a lot of time dissecting the intricacies of K-dramas. We look at everything from the tropes and themes to the actors and settings and sweeping...
Korean dramas love interconnectedness. In fact, it's hard to find a drama that doesn't connect even the smallest, faintest of dots between its characters through their shared histories and experiences....
PD Lee Jung-sub, who helmed Ji Chang-wook's action thriller Healer and Park Shin-yang's underdog legal drama Neighborhood Lawyer Jo Deul-ho, is returning with a new project called Seven Day Queen....
javabeans: Okay, I think we were being punished in this list for saying how easy the last one was (in picking our top 10 drama tropes), because damn if picking our...
We're finally here, at the end of another Year in Review series! We warned you it'd be long this time, but hopefully you all made it through with us. We...
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You can only pick one: Park Min-young drama
by DB Staff
You can only pick one, and boy the pressure is on. The DB team will answer a new prompt in each post, and you're invited to do the same in...
Tags: City Hunter, featured2, Healer, I'll Find You on a Beautiful Day, Park Min-young, What's Wrong With Secretary Kim, You can only pick one
Five drama recommendations… with memorable scene-stealers
by DB Staff
While our drama heroes and heroines generally take the limelight - as they should — every so often a drama features a side character that just steals the scene away from...
Tags: Drama recommendations, Healer, Liar Game, Smart Prison Living, The Secret Life of My Secretary, Thirty But Seventeen
Five drama recommendations… with vigilante heroes
by DB Staff
There are heroes, and then there are vigilante heroes. Whether they're fighting against the system that failed them, against deep-rooted corruption, or against their own demons — or heck, why not...
Tags: City Hunter, Drama recommendations, Healer, Heartless City, Taxi Driver, Vincenzo
Almost paradise: K-dramas and their OSTs
by missvictrix
A drama's OST, or original soundtrack, is a powerful player in dramaland. It has the ability to single-handedly make or break the show's strongest and most powerful scenes. The soundtrack...
Tags: Boys Before Flowers, editorial, Extraordinary You, Healer, Memories of the Alhambra, Shut Up: Flower Boy Band, The Lonely Shining Goblin
Dramaland justice: The vigilante edition
by missvictrix
The concept of justice is one of the backbones of K-drama storytelling. We've looked at some ways dramas deploy justice — through compensating their heroes/heroines with a gift, and delivering...
Tags: City Hunter, editorial, Healer, Neighborhood Lawyer Jo Deul-ho, The Secret Life of My Secretary, Time
How fashion helps a drama tell its story
by missvictrix
Here at Dramabeans, we spend a lot of time dissecting the intricacies of K-dramas. We look at everything from the tropes and themes to the actors and settings and sweeping...
Tags: Boyfriend, editorial, Flower Boy Next Door, Healer, Memories of the Alhambra
We’ve met before… once upon a K-drama
by missvictrix
Korean dramas love interconnectedness. In fact, it's hard to find a drama that doesn't connect even the smallest, faintest of dots between its characters through their shared histories and experiences....
Tags: 20th Century Boy and Girl, Come Here and Hug Me, editorial, Healer, Hundred Million Stars From the Sky, Just Between Lovers, Kill Me Heal Me, Pretty Noona Who Buys Me Food, Shark, What's Wrong With Secretary Kim
Healer PD helms new sageuk romance project Seven Day Queen
by tineybeanie
PD Lee Jung-sub, who helmed Ji Chang-wook's action thriller Healer and Park Shin-yang's underdog legal drama Neighborhood Lawyer Jo Deul-ho, is returning with a new project called Seven Day Queen....
Tags: Baker King Kim Tak-gu, Healer, Neighborhood Lawyer Jo Deul-ho, Seven Day Queen
Top 10 favorite drama OTPs (One True Pairings)
by DB Staff
javabeans: Okay, I think we were being punished in this list for saying how easy the last one was (in picking our top 10 drama tropes), because damn if picking our...
Tags: 1 show to rule them all, 1% of Anything, Coffee Prince, Dramabeans Top 10, featured, Goong, Healer, lists, Master's Sun, Ojakkyo Brothers, Princess's Man, Queen In-hyun's Man, The King 2 Hearts, You From Another Star
2015 Editors’ Picks [Year in Review, Part 11]
by javabeans
We're finally here, at the end of another Year in Review series! We warned you it'd be long this time, but hopefully you all made it through with us. We...
Tags: 1 show to rule them all, Answer Me 1988, Awl, Byun Yo-han, Choi Won-young, Editors' Picks, featured, Healer, I Remember You, Ji Sung, Jo Soo-hyang, Kim Seul-gi, Last, Oh My Ghostess, Park Bo-gum, Park Bo-young, Persevere Gu Hae-ra, Punch, Sassy Go Go, Six Flying Dragons, Warm and Cozy, year in review, year in review 2015, Yoo Yeon-seok