javabeans: It seemed a natural progression to follow our favorite drama bromances with our favorite female friendships, since next to romance, it’s often the heartwarming depictions of friendships that...
javabeans: It seemed only natural to follow up our list of favorite couples with our list of favorite bromances, which are sometimes just as compelling as the love stories—er,...
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...
javabeans: It was painful to pick only 10 dramas for the previous list of gateway dramas, but when we decided to write about tropes for this list, I found that it...
javabeans: Happy New Year, happy tenth anniversary, happy 2017, happy everything-that-will-be-better-than-2016!
girlfriday: Yay, I’ve never been happier for a new year to start! I still can’t believe Dramabeans is...
girlfriday: We promised more Dramabeans Top 10s and now we’re back! Year-end shenanigans kept us busy for a while there, but it’s a brand new year and there...
javabeans: Did everyone like the first Top 10 feature? I can say I thoroughly enjoyed it... in that capping my workload to just 10 entries (...ish) is really working for me.
girlfriday:...
javabeans: Sooooo, we've been wanting to bring back the "If You Like..." series of reviews, where we take a theme or motif and recommend other shows like it. We really...
If you're anything like me, your ideal drama hero isn't the cold chaebol with the icy exterior or even the perfect Daddy Long Legs caretaker. He's the hotheaded ruffian on...
We're rolling out a new feature, which we're calling the "If You Like..." series, intended to help you wade through dramaland waters for your favorite plot devices, character types, or...
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Top 10 favorite drama girlfriends
by DB Staff
javabeans: It seemed a natural progression to follow our favorite drama bromances with our favorite female friendships, since next to romance, it’s often the heartwarming depictions of friendships that...
Tags: 1 show to rule them all, Age of Youth, Answer Me 1997, Dear My Friends, Dramabeans Top 10, Ex-Girlfriend Club, Fantastic, featured, Heartless City, High Society, I Need Romance, lists, The Woman Who Still Wants to Marry, Weightlifting Fairy Kim Bok-ju
Top 10 favorite drama bromances
by DB Staff
javabeans: It seemed only natural to follow up our list of favorite couples with our list of favorite bromances, which are sometimes just as compelling as the love stories—er,...
Tags: 1 show to rule them all, A Gentleman's Dignity, Answer Me 1988, Descended From the Sun, Dramabeans Top 10, featured, Heartless City, lists, Sandglass, School 2013, Shut Up: Flower Boy Band, Sungkyunkwan Scandal, The King 2 Hearts, The Lonely Shining Goblin
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
Our Top 10 favorite K-drama tropes
by DB Staff
javabeans: It was painful to pick only 10 dramas for the previous list of gateway dramas, but when we decided to write about tropes for this list, I found that it...
Tags: 1 show to rule them all, Dramabeans Top 10, featured, lists
Top 10 gateway dramas to hook your friends on
by DB Staff
javabeans: Happy New Year, happy tenth anniversary, happy 2017, happy everything-that-will-be-better-than-2016! girlfriday: Yay, I’ve never been happier for a new year to start! I still can’t believe Dramabeans is...
Tags: 1 show to rule them all, Answer Me 1997, Boys Before Flowers, City Hunter, Coffee Prince, Descended From the Sun, Dramabeans Top 10, featured, I Hear Your Voice, lists, My Name Is Kim Sam-soon, Nice Guy, Nine: Nine Time Travels, Sungkyunkwan Scandal
Dramabeans Top 10: Korean dramas about enemies-to-lovers romances
by javabeans
girlfriday: We promised more Dramabeans Top 10s and now we’re back! Year-end shenanigans kept us busy for a while there, but it’s a brand new year and there...
Tags: 1 show to rule them all, All About My Romance, Athena: Goddess of War, Boys Before Flowers, Dramabeans Top 10, Emergency Couple, Fantasy Couple, featured, Gaksital, Golden Cross, Green Rose, Level 7 Civil Servant, lists, Princess's Man, Prosecutor Princess, Secret, Sword and Flower, The King 2 Hearts
Dramabeans Top 10: Korean dramas about friends-to-lovers romances
by javabeans
javabeans: Did everyone like the first Top 10 feature? I can say I thoroughly enjoyed it... in that capping my workload to just 10 entries (...ish) is really working for me. girlfriday:...
Tags: 1 show to rule them all, Answer Me 1997, Bubblegum, Dramabeans Top 10, Ex-Girlfriend Club, featured, I Need Romance 2012, Jealousy, Let's Eat 2, lists, Persevere Gu Hae-ra, Personal Taste, Plus Nine Boys, Propose, She Was Pretty, The Producers, The Time I've Loved You, Twenty Again
Dramabeans Top 10: Korean dramas whose endings are better left unwatched (trust us)
by javabeans
javabeans: Sooooo, we've been wanting to bring back the "If You Like..." series of reviews, where we take a theme or motif and recommend other shows like it. We really...
Tags: 1 show to rule them all, 49 Days, Big, conversation post, Dramabeans Top 10, featured, God's Gift – 14 Days, Gu Family Book, Hong Gil Dong, lists, Mi-rae's Choice, Rooftop Prince, Surplus Princess, Vampire Idol, Who Are You–School 2015
If You Like… Noona Romances
by girlfriday
If you're anything like me, your ideal drama hero isn't the cold chaebol with the icy exterior or even the perfect Daddy Long Legs caretaker. He's the hotheaded ruffian on...
Tags: 1 show to rule them all, Baby-Faced Beauty, Big, Biscuit Teacher Star Candy, featured, Fireworks, Flower Boy Ramyun Shop, I Do I Do, I Hear Your Voice, I Need Romance, If You Like, lists, My Girlfriend Is a Gumiho, My Name Is Kim Sam-soon, My Sweet Seoul, Oh My Lady, Ojakkyo Brothers, Queen of Reversals, The Woman Who Still Wants to Marry, Unstoppable High Kick, What's Up Fox
If You Like… Contract Marriages
by javabeans
We're rolling out a new feature, which we're calling the "If You Like..." series, intended to help you wade through dramaland waters for your favorite plot devices, character types, or...
Tags: 1 show to rule them all, 1% of Anything, Accidental Couple, Big, Delightful Girl Chun-hyang, Empire of Gold, featured, Full House, Goong, Haeundae Lovers, I Love You, If You Like, It's Okay Daddy's Girl, Lie To Me, lists, Mary Stayed Out All Night, Ojakkyo Brothers, Sweet 18