Korean dramas are brimming with tropes and plot devices, and they often revolve around illnesses or injuries sustained by leading characters. From the skinned knee or sprained ankle that necessitates...
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....
The PD-writer team behind the revenge "trilogy" Resurrection, Devil/Mawang, and Shark (not a technical trilogy since they're three separate stories) is headed to cable network tvN next year. Aren't...
The one good thing about working one day a year and outsourcing most of your menial labor to elves is that it gives you plenty of time to watch dramas....
It's that time of year, for Show to trade in all its good deeds and gold stars for a spot on Santa's list. Have you been naughty, nice, or something...
Here are your Beanie Awards! It's December, which means our monkeys are madly typing away in the backroom to prepare our annual Year End Review Extravaganza, which we'll be kicking...
And so it ends, and just about how you'd expect it to. I'd like to think that we just had extremely high expectations for Shark that it just couldn't meet,...
It's time for judgments, revelations, and gun-slinging face-offs. We're one episode from the end, as the hero finally confronts the harsh truth that he's dedicated his life to avenge a...
Some earth-shattering revelations about the not-so-distant past arrive just in time to haunt the present and catch up to some of our characters in the worst of ways. While our...
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Transplant tropes: How K-dramas use health crises as storytelling devices
by missvictrix
Korean dramas are brimming with tropes and plot devices, and they often revolve around illnesses or injuries sustained by leading characters. From the skinned knee or sprained ankle that necessitates...
Tags: Cross, editorial, Falling for Innocence, I'm Sorry I Love You, Just Between Lovers, Shark, Summer Scent
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
Resurrection, Devil, Shark team helms new tvN drama
by girlfriday
The PD-writer team behind the revenge "trilogy" Resurrection, Devil/Mawang, and Shark (not a technical trilogy since they're three separate stories) is headed to cable network tvN next year. Aren't...
Tags: Devil, Shark
Santa presents: Things I Learned from Dramaland
by Santa Claus
The one good thing about working one day a year and outsourcing most of your menial labor to elves is that it gives you plenty of time to watch dramas....
Tags: 1 show to rule them all, Answer Me 1994, Basketball, Dating Agency Cyrano, Empire of Gold, featured, Flower Boy Next Door, Good Doctor, Gu Family Book, Heartless City, Heirs, I Hear Your Voice, Jeon Woo-chi, Level 7 Civil Servant, Mandate of Heaven, Master's Sun, Medical Top Team, Mi-rae's Choice, Monstar, Nail Shop Paris, Nine: Nine Time Travels, School 2013, Secret, Shark, Sirius, That Winter the Wind Blows, Two Weeks, Who Are You (tvN), year in review, year in review 2013, You're the Best Lee Soon-shin
Gonna find out who’s naughty or nice [Year in Review, Part 4]
by girlfriday
It's that time of year, for Show to trade in all its good deeds and gold stars for a spot on Santa's list. Have you been naughty, nice, or something...
Tags: 1 show to rule them all, Answer Me 1994, Dating Agency Cyrano, Empire of Gold, featured, Flower Boy Next Door, Gu Family Book, Heirs, I Hear Your Voice, Jeon Woo-chi, Level 7 Civil Servant, Master's Sun, Mi-rae's Choice, Monstar, School 2013, Shark, Two Weeks, Unemployed Romance, year in review, year in review 2013
A Year in Compliment Sandwiches [Year in Review, Part 3]
by HeadsNo2
It’s been an interesting year for the world of dramas, hasn’t it? Usually any given year will at least give us that one epic drama we can all...
Tags: 1 show to rule them all, Basketball, Empire of Gold, featured, Flower Boy Next Door, Heartless City, Heirs, Master's Sun, Mi-rae's Choice, Nine: Nine Time Travels, Secret, Shark, Sword and Flower, That Winter the Wind Blows, Who Are You (tvN), year in review, year in review 2013
2013 Beanie Awards: Vote for your favorite dramas of the year
by javabeans
Here are your Beanie Awards! It's December, which means our monkeys are madly typing away in the backroom to prepare our annual Year End Review Extravaganza, which we'll be kicking...
Tags: 1 show to rule them all, Answer Me 1994, Basketball, Beanie Awards, Dating Agency Cyrano, Empire of Gold, featured, Flower Boy Next Door, Good Doctor, Gu Family Book, Heirs, I Hear Your Voice, Incarnation of Money, Jeon Woo-chi, King's Family, Level 7 Civil Servant, Mandate of Heaven, Master's Sun, Mi-rae's Choice, Monstar, Nine: Nine Time Travels, School 2013, Shark, Suspicious Housekeeper, Sword and Flower, That Winter the Wind Blows, Two Weeks, Who Are You (tvN), year in review, year in review 2013, You're the Best Lee Soon-shin
Shark: Episode 20 (Final)
by HeadsNo2
And so it ends, and just about how you'd expect it to. I'd like to think that we just had extremely high expectations for Shark that it just couldn't meet,...
Tags: featured, Kim Nam-gil, Shark, Sohn Ye-jin
Shark: Episode 19
by girlfriday
It's time for judgments, revelations, and gun-slinging face-offs. We're one episode from the end, as the hero finally confronts the harsh truth that he's dedicated his life to avenge a...
Tags: featured, Kim Nam-gil, Shark, Sohn Ye-jin
Shark: Episode 18
by HeadsNo2
Some earth-shattering revelations about the not-so-distant past arrive just in time to haunt the present and catch up to some of our characters in the worst of ways. While our...
Tags: featured, Kim Nam-gil, Shark, Sohn Ye-jin