After doing this poll, I've realized that there are so many other very good (and better) dramas besides Moon/Sun yet I still find it being my favorite!!

For some reason, I really just did not understand King 2 Hearts. Didn't finish it out.

Rooftop was good at the beginning and at the end.

I think if I actually watched Answer Me 1997 and Nice Guy, they would probably top my list (haha, just read recaps!)

The descriptions are HILARIOUS!
I choked on air at this: "Best King: Fashion King: Ironically, of course. Though I do have the best Rolexes."
Funnily enough, even though this year had some amazing dramas, and actually my fave (Gaksitaaaaaal was just too good), the question I struggled with was the WTF drama of the year. There have been some truly crappy dramas this year. Ended up going with Dr. Jin though. Chose the Gummy Bear for the last question too LOL.

Anyway, I'd just like to say thank you to the writers, and the regular commenters here at DramaBeans. I've been watching dramas for two years, and I'm so glad I found this site. I have very few people I can talk to about dramas, and the ones that do watch it have (in my opinion) awful taste in them. The polls show how a lot of us have similar taste, as my answers are a lot of people's answers too. So, even though I don't always comment here, it's great having a place I can go to for my drama gossip and chat. Weirdly, I feel like I know some of you here. Thank you for adding to my drama experience and making it so enjoyable (you guys saved me through Dr.Jin). Keep up the great and hilarious work! :)

I think Historical dramas should be split into 3 categories to be fair.

1 coventional sageuks
2 fusion sageuks
3 modern history.

I have a hard time comparing The Horse Healer to Arang or Gaksital. They are so different imo.

good god can i just vote for everyone for the worst hair??

but good god Full House 2 wins all the awards for that. seriously someone should fire the hairstylist.

though.... rooftop troll doll. ROFLMAO.

Wow! I'm surprised K2H isn't as up there along queen in hyuns man or answer me in favorite drama.
I guess it all boils down to taste, but i thought DB was most alive during the K2H era -- explosive thread.

Everytime I hear/read/see Shi-kyung, I always cry *sniffs*

DEAD. at horsital... OMG.

Is it me or it's a tough choice this year? I watched most of the dramas and it is really hard to decide. My favourite is Gakstikal, I love everything in the drama but not so the couple love story. I am not into the couple and seeing the vote, I think everyone also think pretty much the same. Queen In Hyun's man, Kim Bong Do is my favourite character of the year, what a player he stole my heart too. If I live in Joseon era I think I wont mind being one of his concubines. and the third one is a Answer me 1997, being a kpop fan myself that girl is a mentor. I wish it is a top 5 and I can add the king 2 heart and flower boy band too. I always love a badass heroine and a hot guitarist in a band that also sings ballad. what about Lee min Ho oppa? Now that what I call a big disappointment. Even with my love ( alot ) to Min Ho oppa, I cant love the drama.

I wanted to vote for everyone under 'breakout performance.' They were all so great!

Maybe it's just me, maybe I have a slight drama fatigue, but this year has been somewhat - not disappointing - just slightly underwhelming, I guess? QIHM, Answer Me and Gaksital, for example, were solid, and King of Dramas is shaping up to be good, but there was just so much wasted potential it makes me want to cry. :( There were also dramas that left good overall impressions, but were just so throughly flawed (don't want to give examples)...Still, there were some really great, original characters this year that were sometimes better than the dramas they were part of - eg. the couple in K2H, the badass plastic surgeon in Faith, or the caring beta male in IDID.
Finally, on a completely different note, the bromance jokes nearly made me fall of my chair. Thanks, girls!

gaksital alll the wayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!!!

Was so tempted to choose Moon/Sun for Best King just because of the description. XDDD

LOL @ Shunji being the run-away bad guy in this poll.

Javabeans, Girlfriday , everyone! are we missing something here? no best OST?

Queen Inhyun man still give me goosebumps...best for this year 2012...

so many good ones this year! so difficult to choose~ (but also quite a few less-than-stellar ones as well)

this is fun! hahaha

Tons of great dramas this year like History of a Salaryman which I didn't expect, Nice guy, King2Hearts, Gaksital. Also for those that haven't watched Padam Padam give it a go. I don't think it got the attention it deserved.

As for me, there has been only two dramas that really stuck onto me this past year.

Beginning of this year, January, Shut Up Flower Boy Band. Everything about it was amazing - the acting, the bromance, the teen angst, the underdogs. I think we can all relate to it because we as human beings can get lost and wander for a while before we really and truly find that something that sparks us to continue to live.

& then there was Gaksital. Nothing I say can even describe how amazing this drama was. All I know is that it TOPPED my top three. I also think that Nice Guy was pretty amazing too along with Arang.

I tried watching Moon/Sun and did eventually finished it but... somehow I just didn't get into that crazed but of course, I watched every single episode because of MY JUNG IL-WOO.

UMMMMM.... CAN I PETITION FOR AMENDMENTS!?!?

1. Can we please add Seo Eun Gi to favorite character, because she amazing and perfect and the only redeeming character for the first half of that drama.

2. For best alternative pairing *ahem* my otp for gaksital *ahem* I would like to add my vote towards an alternative universe pairing between Rie and Shunji living happily ever after.

I just realized I watched so amyn k-dramas this year !!!!

Love, love your answer. LOFL

SUFBB, Reply 1997, QIHM, Padam Padam for all the awards tbh! I'm surprised Nice Guy is leading in so many categories. I really should just stick to cable dramas.

i haven't watched a lot of dramas; but so far my best choices goes to Nice Guy, Answer Me 1997, and The Moon that Embrace the Sun. looking forward to watching King 2 Hearts, Rooftop Prince, and Missing You :D:D

horsital is epic . *vote*

King 2 Hearts will always have my vote. And Shunji-kun.

The hardest category for me to decided was the bromance one...

And lol @ Mane of Shame, "Hwang Jung-eum: What’s your excuse?" No, really. What was going on in the mind of her stylist??? I agree with every single comment of yours in that category.. I kept asking myself the same thing when I watched those.

Only Kang Ma-ru (Nice Guy) and Han Jung-woo (I Miss you) stay clear in my mind this time around so 2012 is a fav melo year for me ^^

Dramas I watched (or tried to watch) this year:

Dr Jin (dropped after 10 mins of first episode) - just couldn't believe anything could be this bad.

The Chaser - super underrated amongst the online English-speaking crowd, probably for want of more "famous" actors. Plot was very intense and you would never know who was going to win - the balance kept tilting until the last episode *but* the finale was pretty rushed. I still love Haera and all the dysfunction in the chaebol family, but the scenes with the cop-dad were sometimes too emo for my taste. Best parts of The Chaser: acting, suspense and the dialogue.

Queen In-hyun's man - really cute story. Love the time-travel device.

Faith - *sigh* So much potential.

Moon/sun - After the episodes with the child actors, I fast-forwarded to Kim So Hyun's scenes. Somehow he just lights up the screen. Okay, I mean, sets it on fire.

TK2H - THIS. I see this as my personal discovery of 2012. Never really paid attention to it until ep. 5 recaps were posted here, then gave it a shot. Got totally, hopelessly addicted. I found it to be very rich and original, with themes of hard power (Bong Gu) versus soft power (The king), persistence, vulnerability being the foundation of cooperation, and with unique characters I never thought I'd see in a K-drama. Also discovered LSG's amazing acting, especially in the later (darker) episodes. Bonus: nice ending. Would rather Shi Kyung have lived but bittersweet endings stick a lot more. It has been months and I still have a deep impression of this show. OST was great too. Taeyeon, K-will and that instrumental piece "Two hearts". You have to look them up on youtube if you haven't heard these tracks!

Ha! You know you are all just jealous of Hwang Jung-eum's hair, lol.

I hate melos. Famous for that, so I skipped them, especially when there are logic errors for the sake of dramatic tension which makes me lose it and automatically hit the back button before I know what I'm doing.

That means I skipped QIHM after I was 1. bored stiff with the first episode and 2. Fell asleep during the second and third episode. Blech. Acting wasn't there for me. I kept trying to direct the thing.

Nice Guy I lost it after several logic errors.

Love Rain, I plain skipped. I don't like the director.

Several dramas fizzled except for The King2Hearts. (Which should get most illogical title of the year), History of a Salaryman, I Need Romance 2012 and Answer Me 1997. They all delivered on their promises in interesting ways.

This does not mean that I disliked Faith or Arang and the Magistrate. I just think the endings were a bit hamfisted and could have delivered better. I know I'm upset when I'm making up better endings. Live Shoots.

Biggest Fizzle was Moon Sun where I thought that the novel was better and much more atmospheric and I also thought that the child actors were better than the adults.

I watched pretty much all of the Historical dramas except Gakistal. Again, not into melos and again, tried the first two episodes and was looking elsewhere. Not my type of drama.

Horse Doctor still feels like rewatching Dong Yi. As if Dong Yi had a long lost brother. I wish the writer would push herself as she did on other projects.

Queen Insoo, I know no one is really watching, but I kinda like that.

King of Dramas is the one I'm particularly watching for. And hoping it won't screw up. Jeon Woochi is the other drama I'm watching... though the plotting in the first two episodes is scattered.

Answer Me 1997 was pretty much a perfect drama with no lag, it just needed to work out the daddy issues earlier (I figured it out by Episode 7--the cellphone scene v. the coffee was my tip off), so I put that as a solid 1.

History of a Salaryman is 2. Tight scripting and acting to the very,very end.

The King 2Hearts is 3.

For spot number 4... I'm not sure, I'd put in Runningman, which would win the number 1 spot if they got (I know I'm hammering this) Yoon Eun Hye. Not a drama, but their making fun of dramas was some of the best work.

I Need Romance is probably 5 or 6. I wanted to strangle the grandmother in that, but that wasn't an option on the list. People also disliked the ending because they were "I need to know" but I thought that was a stronger statement, and for being that brave as well as having a DECENT Adopted person in it for once, that's not emoing and angsting all of the place, it needs to be in the top ten list for the bravery over social issues it raised.

Gosh I died laughing ..just lol.I seriously almost voted for Dr Jin as best comedy. And wow pompadour of glory and mane of war? epic!

Yay! I always have a great time reading the punchlines of the voting choices. One of my favorite times of the year! I can't wait to read the year-end review extravaganza!

For the what on earth?!? catagory I had such a hard time picking! I scrolled down and I was like, that one! Oh wait, that one was ridiculous too! Oh wait...that one was awful, and so was that one!!! There were some great ones and some just crazy ones this year. :P Certainly got a kick out of reading all the descriptions. :D

your little descriptions had me laughing but I expect Answer Me 1997 to take the largest piece of cake.

My beanie award goes to the folks at DB who consistently dole out LOLs.

Horsitaaaaaaaaaal

I have laughed out more than a few times while reading.
Thanks for this. Seriously girls you are the best!