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[2018 Year in Review] Part 1: The Bean Count

It’s Bean Count time! For those new to our yearend series, the Bean Count is just a fun way to take stock of K-dramas we finished this year and show them some appreciation (or not) using our personal logic. It’s a visual representation of “I know this show isn’t perfect, but I liked it and wanna give it something anyway!”

To get your total beans, count one for each 2018 show you watched in its entirety. If the show is currently airing, you also get one bean if you’re up-to-date on it. Then bestow those beans to whichever show/s you like. This year’s list includes dramas we missed at the tail end of 2017, starting from Jugglers up to Memories of the Alhambra.

It’s always fun to see how ruthless decisive some folks can be when it comes to redistributing their beans. Do you spread them around so everyone gets some love? Do you snatch the other shows’ beans and give ’em all to that one show that touched you? Do you save your beans for an unknown show, hoping the others will give beans to that popular show you also loved?

You can see the results of our collective bean-ing in the charts below. Sort the shows by number of beans, or click/tap on the staff’s name to see how they split their beans. If for some reason you can’t view the charts, there’s a copy of the table here and the pie here.

Tell us in the comments how many beans you’ve collected this year and how you plan to give them away. And stay tuned for the rest of the yearend series. Happy bean-ing!

Bean Chart
Jugglers1
I'm Not a Robot31
Just Between Lovers10
Hwayugi6
Mother7
Radio Romance1
Misty8
Woohoo Waikiki7
Grand Prince1
My Husband Oh Jak-doo1
Live4
The Great Seducer1
My Ajusshi39
You Who Forgot Poetry5
Pretty Noona Who Buys Me Food7
Suits1
Greasy Melo1
Lawless Attorney4
Come Here and Hug Me3
Sketch3
Are You Human Too1
What's Wrong with Secretary Kim8
Life on Mars8
Your House Helper2
Mr. Sunshine7
Let's Eat 3: Begins3
Thirty But Seventeen10
Life7
Witch's Love1
My ID Is Gangnam Beauty10
Familiar Wife2
100 Days My Prince5
The Guest4
My Secret Terrius3
The Third Charm2
Bad Papa3
Fox Bride Star1
Beauty Inside2
Hundred Million Stars From the Sky12
Matrimonial Chaos4
Twelve Nights3
Mama Fairy and the Woodcutter1
Happy to Die3
Top Star Yoo Baek2
Red Moon, Blue Sun2
Clean With Passion for Now1
Boyfriend5
Memories of the Alhambra13
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I have 18 Beans. I've seen a few dramas I enjoyed, but these ones are the ones where I've actually felt eager to catch up with the next episodes:

Red Moon, Blue Sun - 6
100MSFtS - 5
Memories of the Alhambra - 4
The Guest - 3

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I'm a sad person compared to most people here. I've only watched 8 dramas lol

2-Suits
What’s Wrong with Secretary Kim
2-Life
1-100 Days My Prince
Hundred Million Starts From the Sky
1-SKY Castle
1-Boyfriend
1-Memories of the Alhambra

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I have only 9. Some shows I'm just one or two eps from completing...but oh well.

This is kind of hard.

I'm giving 5 to My Ahjussi. It was just beautiful.

I'm Not A Robot 1 bean. I liked it but it stressed me out. That hero just felt so vulnerable to lie to him that long.

You Who Forgot Poetry 1 beans. I loved the hero being so respectful. And I usually go for the punk hero.

A Hundred Million Stars 1 bean even though I am probably forever stuck on ep 14. But it was so well acted and the first eps I didnt know what to expect.

Terrius 1 bean. Nose kisses and strong friendships.

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I collected 27 beans this year! I know its a lot compared to other Beanies who sadly were in drama slumps, but I would personally like to give myself a pat in the back for not live watching everything and pretty much liking everything I watched. If I count up all my beans for past dramas, specials, Chinese, Japanese, Taiwanese dramas I watched this year...that's a whole ‘nother number that we won't talk about lol😂.
This is how I will distribute them:

*3 Beans:
-INAR
-JBL
-MA
-30 But 17

*2 beans:
- Waikiki
-Live
-100 DMP
-TSHLYE

*1 Bean:
- LoM
- APAD
- CAHM
- TS,YB
- MoA

Also, 1 bean each to You Drive Me Crazy and to.Jenny😊

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After preparing for the bean count for a month now, turns out I am late to submit my homework. Typical me. 😂

Only 8 beans (or mango smoothies) to give:
Grand Prince 🍹
Just Between Lovers 🍹🍹
A Poem A Day 🍹
Rich Man, Poor Woman (☠️)
Are You Human Too?
Mr. Sunshine 🍹
100 Days My Prince
Thirty But Seventeen 🍹🍹🍹

I guess webdramas don't count, but I watched a slew of them... so I'm giving a non-existent bean to To.Jenny 🍹 and another to Top Management 🍹 for the laughs.

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LOL for RMPW's ☠️

Top Management was indeed a meta delight, but I was a little peeved that the show dropped hint of the awesome CEO's homosexuality and did not mention one word about it again. The meta also worked itself in the show when it tried to explain AHS's non-idol like haircut (really for 30 But 17) and CEW's absence for the Fried Chicken PPL (really for Gangnam Beauty.)

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I’ve got 11 beans this year. Would have so many more beans if I finished all the dramas I started!

INAR: 5
Mother: 3
JBL: 2
WWWSK: 1

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I've been slacking this year, so I only have three beans to give to I'm Not A Robot, and one to Familiar Wife. Though I'm also tempted to take one of those for Pretty Noona, chew it up, and spit it back out.

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Yep, Pretty Noona is pretty much a rancid coffee bean that spoils the pot of hot coffee 😭

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My lowest bean count in years, just 6! I’m giving 3 to INAR, 2 to WWWSK and 1 to Greasy Melo.

I did watch a couple of older dramas.

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I watched a lot at the beginning of the year:
Jugglers
I'm Not a Robot
Black Knight
Hwayugi
Radio Romance
My Husband Oh Jak-doo
The Great Seducer
Shall We Live Together
My Ajusshi
Switch

Of these, I only liked 3 wholeheartedly.
My Ajusshi - 5
INAR - 4
and Jak-doo - 1

There's just something about Jak-doo that is irresistible... 💕

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Jak-doo was initially in my "low quality"/no-bean list too. But I fished it out of there because these are my beans, dammit! I can give it to any show I want!

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@mary, @egads, you are so right...

My Ajusshi - 5 - 1 = 4
INAR - 4 - 1 = 3
and Jak-doo - 1 + 2 = 3

(JUSTICE for Jak-doo!!!)

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I completely forgot that I watched 'The Good Witch'...
Which one should get this extra bean???

My Ajusshi - 5
INAR - 4 - 1 = 3
and Jak-doo - 1 + 2 = 3

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Jak-doo deserves the bean. Not just because he's lovely, but because, he'll plant it, tend it, and make a nice bean soup for you later. Jak-doo will take care of the bean and you.

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He will. How could I have forgotten?!

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Our husband was definitely irresistible.

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I didn't finish many shows, so I have 11.

Life on Mars - 3
My Ajusshi - 3
Live - 2
Life - 1
I'm Not a Robot - 1
30 but 17 - 1

I am in the middle of Pretty Noona and The Guest, so I would give each show a point so far. Also, I'd give points to Prison Playbook, too, if it made the list. The few shows I watched this year were actually excellent, and I would like to watch Mr. Sunshine and Suits, too.

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I have 15 beans... Now how to divide them 🤔🤔🤔
I Am Not a Robot 🤖🤖🤖
Mystery Queen 2 (can I give negative beans? 🙏)
Switch-
A Poem A Day😭
What's Wrong with Secretary Kim-
Are You Human Too?🤖
My ID is Gangnam Beauty-
30 but 17💕💕
GOT7 Hard Carry Season 2💚💚
100 Days Prince👑👑
To. Jenny🎶
Top Management😂
100 Million Stars From the Sky💔💔
Happy if You Died-
Boyfriend-

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😂 Negative bean, I have one also , sorry Noona WBMF

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Surely GOT7 Hard Carry Season 2 is not a drama, yet you gave it two beans. 🐦🐦

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The directions said to count the "shows" not "dramas" 😉 So I decided to include it on the technicality 😄💚

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Hahhah I should some of the variety shows I watched then! It would give me more beans to give to LoM and 100MS :D

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😄

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Technicality 🤣 Those birds were supposed to be green baby birds.

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Perfect! And so cute 💚

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minus beans for the ones I dropped. One bean to Mr. Sunshine, Alhambra (since it isn't finished) one bean to Life on Mars (since it was only available to me illegally. The rest are divided between Just Between Lovers and Because This is My First Life because I've watched them more than once.
If I had beans for Chinese dramas, my favorite of all because I've watched it four times and am ready to watch it again: Nirvana in Fire 2, NOT 1!). Legend of Fuyao, many beans to Ethan Ruan. And the current Oriental Odyssey because he is so pretty and loves her and will follow her to the ends of the earth.

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Only 10 completed k dramas this year. 😢😢

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I hope they are good though. A few good shows is better than 20 meh ones. Any year with a couple of great shows is a good year for me. :)

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My meager beans 😔 I either liked 🙂 or loved🥰 my shows.
Mother ❤️❤️❤️
My Ajusshi ❤️❤️❤️
Life On Mars❤️❤️
Live❤️❤️
I’d give more if I could. Here’s to a good 2019. There will be great ones and lame ones and something in between. We’ll laugh , cry, occasionally flip the table or hope for another season. Thanks to JB, GF, Mary and all the minions and Beanies for making this a fun place to be. Cheers

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20 beans.
My ID Is Gangnam Beauty - 4
Radio Romance - 3
Just Between Lovers - 3
You Who Forgot Poetry - 2
The Beauty Inside - 2
Life - 3
Thirty But Seventeen - 2
Devilish Joy -1
I'd have shared my Beauty Inside beans with Fluttering Alert's first eight episodes but the last four make that a 'no'. If Show gets back on track by next week, I still might.

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*feeds Yoon Yoo-Jung of Fluttering Alert all my beans because she has been starving herself from episode 1 to prepare for her drama*

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This comment is so funny!

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Hmm, I finished 16 dramas this year. I checked last year's thread and I realized I never posted my bean count. Dx

I actually started watching Greasy Melo yesterday after a long procrastination. I only have 2 hours of it left, but I'm determined to finish it tonight (so I'm including it here).

Hwayugi
Radio Romance
Mystery Queen 2
The Great Seducer
You Who Forgot Poetry - 🍫🍫
What's Wrong With Secretary Kim - 🍫🍫
Life on Mars - 🍫🍫🍫
Let's Eat 3 - 🍫
Lawless Lawyer - 🍫
Voice 2 - 🍫
Devilish Joy
The Guest - 🍫🍫🍫
Beauty Inside - 🍫
My Secret Terrius - 🍫
An Empress's Dignity - 🍫
Greasy Melo

I'm behind on Top Star Yoo Baek so I guess I won't count it. ;-; I meant to start Life and try to get it done before this yearly review, but oh well.

And dang, I really need to check out My Ajusshi. Not sure where it's at now that DF is gone. x[

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14 beans in total! That's the most i've had for a bean count 🎉

Just Between Lovers⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Radio Romance
The Great Seducer
You Who Forgot Poetry⭐️⭐️
Greasy Melo
What's Wrong with Secretary Kim⭐️⭐️⭐️
Your House Helper
My ID Is Gangnam Beauty⭐️
Devilish Joy
Player
Fox Bride Star⭐️
Top Star Yoo Baek⭐️
An Empress's Dignity⭐️
Boyfriend⭐️

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okay, i think i get 34 beans...

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27 beans ...
My Ajusshi 9
Mother. 8
Mr. Sunshine 7
Life on Mars. 3

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23 Beans! Yay!

It'll be 24 if I can manage to get back to Room No. 9 and finish it before the year is over!

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Hi @korfan. I am also a 23 Beaner with a possibility for 1 more for LIVE which is a late year catch up. I filed my report today (late) but was scanning the comments and noticed yours.
Happy Viewing in 2019.

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What...???
The Guest and Matrimonial chaos only got 4 beans~
whhhyyyy~
I....didnt have that many beans to give...again

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The competition is tough. I'm guessing that not everyone watched Matrimonial Chaos and people like me avoid really scary stuff even if it features magnificent cheekbones.

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hahaha
I'm pretty sure that magnificent cheekbones do attract more people to watch TG which is a feat in itself tbh.

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I know right! I haven't got to catch up with Matrimonial chaos which I will definitely do so during this hols.

The Guest was really good. It was the first horror drama I watched and I am impressed by the overall quality. I like how the writers was inspired from a simple message, that 'They said humans are scarier than ghosts'. It was tied to the whole drama.

I like your ID. I stepped out of my comfort zone and watched the drama for Kim Jae Wook too hahas.

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I'm so happy TG is so well made tbh since horror is one of my fave genres. It has that movie quality especially the first 2 epsiodes.

😂😂😂 my ID just me being unabashedly KJW's fan

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Hi everyone! 😄 Got too busy to watch recently airing dramas.
Looking forward to watching Memories of the Alhambra :)
Here's, my list of dramas watched this year (13 beans/❤)
Jugglers
I'm Not A Robot - ❤❤
Just Between Lovers - ❤
Hwayugi - ❤
Woohoo Waikiki - ❤
Mother - ❤
My Ajusshi - ❤
Come Here and Hug Me
Are You A Human - ❤❤❤
WWWSK
Mr. Sunshine - ❤
100 Days My Prince - ❤❤
Beauty Inside

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Forgot about Live, giving 1 ❤ for it :)
(For a total of 14 beans)
So grateful for all the likes/ thumbs up 😄

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I only got 11 beans though. Sorry but not really...?

The Guest 4
Matrimonial chaos 2
Mother 1
Ahjussi 1
LOM 1
Red Moon 2

Sorry Life, I gave 1 but thinking back..nah~ good but just not good enough for my mere 11 beans.

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only 5 beans total ^^; so many dramas dropped from my watchlist this year

hwayugi- (bye sorry)
you who forgot poetry-1
are you human too-1
familiar wife-2
red moon blue sun-1

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This was one of the lightest drama watching years I have had in a while. Only six dramas! Wow. I give them all to Thirty but Seventeen because that was just a perfect drama for me. Gave me all the feels!

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It's my favorite among favorites too. A good all rounder feel good drama, the subject is interesting too, do u go for physical age or emotional age.

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I have few beans because I watched Chinese dramas and also busy in real life. I will watched some of the dramas that I have not watched yet later on when I am not busy. LOL Also, it seems that I watched more melodramas and suspense/thriller drama this year too. Oh well... Have a good night everyone.

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Chinese and Japanese or older K dramas take up a good part of my viewing time as well.

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I also have been watching a lot of Chinese dramas. I could have a whole other bean count for those!

What has been your favorite Chinese drama for the year? Mine would be Ashes of Love.

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Story of Yanxi Palace.

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I have Story of Yanxi Palace on my to-watch-list. Maybe I'll watch that after I finish The Rise of Phoenixes. I've heard it's very good.

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Bloody Romance and Eternal Love 2 so far. I dropped Ashes of Love. I will watch that one later on. I am trying to catch up Sweet like dream. I have 9 episodes left and also tried to catch up Our Glamrous Time.

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I've been waiting patiently for Viki to sub Bloody Romance because I've been wanting to watch it so bad, but they have been taking ages to sub it. It's almost done being subbed which I'm super happy about. I was thinking on watching it next but I'll wait a bit longer for the whole series to be done.

Sweet Dreams was cute. It was a little too long though. I think the drama could have been about 10 episodes shorter. But it was a fun premise and different.

I tried watching Eternal Love (the original one) but I just couldn't. The actress was not good imo. And it was so so low budget that it went too far into the cringe. It got good ratings so I really tried but I got to about episode 10 and couldn't force myself to endure it anymore.

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You can watch Bloody Romance on Youtube! I watched it there.

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I actually started to watch it on YT but wasn't a fan of the subs, so I decided I'll wait on Viki. It's almost done though, I think it only has 4 episodes left to be subbed.

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Ashes of Love is my favorite one, too! (And my current favorite Chinese drama, period. Haha)

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It's definitely one of my tops ones. I think if I rated my favorite cdramas they would be:

1. Nirvana in Fire (this is actually one of my favorite dramas in general)
2. 10 Miles Of Peach Blossoms
3. Ashes of Love

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20 beans! That's actually a little less than I expected. I feel like all I've been doing is watching kdramas all year long. I think I might be more selective next year. I couldn't find any bean emojis so I used the next best thing: ramyun! It's what I usually end up eating after hours of watching kdramas.

Hwayugi
Woohoo Waikiki 🍲
You Who Forgot Poetry 🍲🍲
Greasy Melo
Are You Human Too🍲🍲
Your House Helper 🍲
Thirty but Seventeen 🍲🍲
My ID is Gangnam Beauty 🍲
My Secret Terrius
The Third Charm
Bad Papa 🍲🍲🍲
Fox Bride Star
Happy to Die 🍲
Red Moon, Blue Sun 🍲
Clean With a Passion for Now
Memories of Alahamra 🍲🍲
Miracle We Met 🍲
Miss Hammurabi 🍲
Dae Jang-Geum is Watching 🍲🍲
What's Wrong With Secretary Kim

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YASSSSS Bad Papa! Thank you for giving it your precious beans~

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Yes! I wanted to give it more and there were times where I kept taking beans away from other shows, but I had to recognize the shows that kept me up late night when I should have been sleeping instead. Bad Papa deserves these beans and many more!

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Dang! Forgot to add Just Dance 🍲 (would give it another bowl if I could just bring myself to take a bowl away from another drama 🤔😓)

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I only managed to finish 24 shows this year, I did 27 last year. Here I thought I watched more this year. But come to think of it, I did dropped quite a number of shows. Out of those 24, these that deserve my beans:

MY AHJUSSI: 4
LIFE ON MARS: 4
MATRIMONIAL CHAOS : 3
THE SMILE HAS LEFT YOUR EYES: 2
LIVE: 2
THE GUEST: 2
100 DAYS MY PRINCE: 2
FAMILIAR WIFE: 1
I'M NOT A ROBOT: 1
SHOULD WE KISS FIRST: 1
JUST BETWEEN LOVERS: 1
WOOHOO WAIKIKI: 1

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Currently at 8 drama beans, though I plan on finishing a few more dramas before the year ends. So far:

Just Between Lovers: 3
My Mister: 3
Come and Hug Me: 1
I'm Not A Robot: 1

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My first time joining the bean count. Too bad I didn't finish some of the shows listed or else I could have gotten more beans to vote :(

Here is my list of finished shows and distributed beans (I have 14 beans! Maybe I should finish some of my unfinished ones to collet more beans...):

I'm Not a Robot🍿
Just Between Lovers
Mother🍿
Live🍿🍿
My Ajusshi🍿🍿🍿
Switch
Miracle That We Met
Are You Human Too🍿
Life on Mars
Mr. Sunshine🍿🍿
My ID Is Gangnam Beauty🍿🍿🍿
100 Days My Prince🍿
The Guest
Hundred Million Stars From the Sky

Don't get me wrong. I like a lot of them but there's just not enough beans to go around...

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Yay! I just finished Life and got an extra bean!!! Here are my new distribution:

I'm Not a Robot🍿
Just Between Lovers
Mother🍿
Live🍿🍿
My Ajusshi🍿🍿🍿
Switch
Miracle That We Met
Are You Human Too
Life on Mars🍿
Mr. Sunshine🍿🍿
My ID Is Gangnam Beauty🍿🍿
100 Days My Prince🍿
The Guest
Hundred Million Stars From the Sky
Life🍿🍿

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Wow. The shows I completed this year are a pittance - just 5 - of previous years. I left more unfinished than finished. This has been a hard kdrama year for me Beanies. Still haven't gotten my kdrama legs beneath me again.

My Ahjussi - 2
Life on Mars - 1
Live - 1
Hwayugi - you get a Beanie in spirit.
Woohoo Waikiki - you too

This is the saddest Beanie count ever TT

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I feel your pain, here's to a better 2019 🥂

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🍾 I was curious to see how much I really slowed down so I looked back on previous years. Bad. Idea. I completed 18! shows in 2016 and 15 last year. 5 makes it seem like I didn't really even try. What a pitiful number. Hahahaha

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Oh wow. I have 3 beans...and will give 2 beans to Life (for obvs reason) and 1 to Life on Mars.

I have finished a lot of older dramas and dropped a lot of the 2018 ones. I think I'd rather binge watch dramas once a month now, instead of impatiently waiting for new eps every week. Haha

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I NEVER rewatch dramas, and I rewatched My Ahjusshi - glad to see it got the top spot! Best drama I've watched in years I must say.

I think LIVE is underrated. It was so real! Highly recommended. It had the excitement of a cop/crime drama but the highlight is the character development of all the newbies.

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oof, it felt like a bad year but it's my worst by far since starting kdramas in 2006 😱
22 current shows started, 12 completed. Dropped or missed all the favorites and hardly saw anything the last half of year.
12 Beans (bees) distributed as:
Life On Mars 5 🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝
Secretary Kim 3 🐝🐝🐝
Greasy Melo 1 🐝
Mr Sunshine 1 🐝
Alhambra 1 🐝

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2 beans for me and I will gift them to "Memories of the Alhambra"

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My precious 9 beans..

Live 🚓🚓🚓🚓
The Guest 😈😈
My ID Is Gangnam Beauty 💄💄
My Husband Oh Jak-doo 👨🏻‍🌾
Thirty But Seventeen
Familiar Wife
What's Wrong with Secretary Kim
My Secret Terrius
Fox Bride Star

Also looks like I'll have to add Just Between Lovers to the long list of shows I still have to catch up on.. 🤔

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@HC Yes, do try Just Between Lovers. Thinking about it makes me feel warm all over.

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I didn't give my own bean count in 2017, but decided to take a stab at it this year. Numbers are not my strongest suit. I ruthlessly (for me) allocated beans in an unscientific fashion, in some cases relying on my gut feelings of appreciation for impressive performances in shows whose scripts were not necessarily the greatest (ARE YOU HUMAN TOO, THE THIRD CHARM, COME HERE AND HUG ME, 100 DAYS MY PRINCE). In a few cases, it was for truly superb shows, such as LIVE, JUST BETWEEN LOVERS, LIFE ON MARS, THE GUEST, GOD'S QUIZ: REBOOT. In other cases it was sentimental favoritism and rampant fangirlism (DAE JANG-GEUM IS WATCHING for Shin Dong-wook; TOP STAR YOO-BAEK for Kim Ji-sik; GRAND PRINCE for Yoon Si-yoon; BAD PAPA for Jang Hyuk). So sue me. ;-)

My grand total of live-watched shows is 38. And then there are the older series (such as OCN's blood-soaked sageuk YAKSHA from 2010-11) and movies, and Cdrama GUARDIAN, and and and.

My Total Completed: 32

100 DAYS MY PRINCE 2
ABOUT TIME (Sorry, Lee Sang-yoon.)
ARE YOU HUMAN TOO 2
BAD PAPA 2
BEAUTY INSIDE (Sorry, Seo Hyun-jin & Lee Min-ki. Eun-ho stole the show.)
COME HERE AND HUG ME 2
GRAND PRINCE 2
GREASY MELO (It had its moments. Buster, kitty, & the Shin Saimdang Room stole the show.)
THE GREAT SEDUCER (Not. Sorry, Woo Do-Hwan & Kim Min-jae.)
THE GUEST 2
HANDSOME GUY AND JUNG-EUM (Sorry, Namgoong Min.)
HUNDRED MILLION STARS FROM THE SKY 1
HWAYUGI (It had its moments. Zombie Girl and OctoPrince stole the show.)
JUST BETWEEN LOVERS 3
LAWLESS ATTORNEY 2
LET'S EAT 3: BEGINS (Dyspepsia from the intrusion of real life into the ending. Give YDJ a do-over when he gets out of the service!)
LIFE ON MARS 2
LIVE 3
MISS HAMMURABI 1
MR. SUNSHINE 1
MY SECRET TERRIUS 1
PLAYER 1
RADIO ROMANCE (Sorry, Yoon Doojoon.)
ROOM NO. 9 1
SHALL WE LIVE TOGETHER (I loved most of it, until the diagnosis and noble idiocy.)
SHOULD WE KISS FIRST (I wanted to love it. Sorry, Kam Woo-sung.)
SKETCH (Not bad, but other shows were better. Sorry, Rain and Lee Dong-gun.)
SUITS 1
THE THIRD CHARM 2
THIRTY BUT SEVENTEEN 1
WHAT'S WRONG WITH SECRETARY KIM (I liked her boss better.)
YOUR HONOR (Sorry, YSY.)

My Total Currently Airing: 6

CLEAN WITH PASSION FOR NOW (Sorry, Yoon Kyun-sang.)
DAE JANG-GEUM IS WATCHING 2
GOD’S QUIZ: REBOOT 2
MAMA FAIRY AND THE WOODCUTTER (Cute but decaffeinated.)

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Oops! Lost the tail end:

My Total Currently Airing: 6

CLEAN WITH PASSION FOR NOW (Sorry, Yoon Kyun-sang.)
DAE JANG-GEUM IS WATCHING 2
GOD’S QUIZ: REBOOT 2
MAMA FAIRY AND THE WOODCUTTER (Cute but decaffeinated.)
PRIEST 1
TOP STAR YOO BAEK 1

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Hi @pakalanapikake just a few hours before I take off on vacation and I popped over to check on the bean count. I'm glad to see that you've posted your beans this year and that you've give a high 3 bean score to my fave this year, Just Between Lovers. The Guest and Life on Mars are also the ones I've put up there close to the top.

I'm waiting to see how Alhambra, Red Moon, Boyfriend and Bad Detective (Less Than Evil) pan out. I hope to be able to add them to my fave list as well, ... I'm anticipating they'll not as high up there as JBL but close to Life on Mars. 😉

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You're most welcome, @growingbeautifully. Thanks so much for dropping by as you prepare to be ON YOUR WAY TO THE AIRPORT. Have a wonderful, safe trip. ;-)

I tried to focus on shows that hit me in the feels while having a satisfying ending with excellent performances. One thing I've noticed this year is how many shows abended in various ways. It has made me realize that LIVE and LIFE ON MARS, for instance, are the exceptions to the vast majority of shows that are entertaining, but don't grab me where I live, nor leave a lasting impression. Their characters made a deep impression on me.

Happy Trails!

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Addendum:

My Total Completed: 33
TIME 1

Revised Grand Total of 39 new shows watched in 2018.

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This is so embarrasing. I cannot count, dang it!

Regrettably, I have to reassign TIME's 1 Bean to LIFE ON MARS in order to yield a 3-Bean three-way tie with JUST BETWEEN LOVERS and LIVE. An Honorable Mention goes out to Kim Jung-hyun for his lead performance.

Please emulate @egads's pitchfork technique if you plan to register your disapproval.

*skedaddles to TOP STAR YOO-BAEK's island, but decides to take refuge in PRIEST's exorcism chamber instead*

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You get no pitchfork from me! Those three shows make up my Top 4 along with THE GUEST.

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I just discovered the wonder that is the world of kdramas this year. I have 18 Beans

-What's wrong with secretary Kim : 2 beans *In the end it wasn't my favorite, but it was my first kdrama and what got me started so it gets an extra beans from me. I did think it started out really funny and strong, though.
-Are you human too: 3 beans
-My ID is Gangnam Beauty : 1 bean
-Player : 1 bean
-Hundred Million Stars: 2 beans It was a downer, and I feel that how they changed certain elements from the original storyline actually did the story a disservice, but I couldn't stop watching
-Mama Fairy and the woodcutter: 3 beans I find the show hilarious and touching at the same time.
-Happy to die: 2 beans This show cracks me up
-Boyfriend: 2 beans It's beautiful
-Memories of the alhambra : 1
-My secret terrius ; 1 bean for Kang Ki Young he stole the show!

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The Bean Count is making me hate-watch dramas I otherwise would have dropped. I keep rationalizing with myself, "Only six episodes left, just finish it for the bean." When I wasn't into the OTPs (Pretty Noona Who Buys Me Food, Greasy Melo, Radio Romance), I had to find another reason to watch (office politics, revenge, childhood friend).

cries, I don't have enough beans. I have 22 beans, so I had to take beans away from shows I like (Hwayugi, Memories of the Alhambra, My ID Is Gangnam Beauty) because I don't want to give my favorite shows the same amount of beans as my second favorite shows.

I'm Not a Robot: 4
Thirty But Seventeen: 4
Just Between Lovers: 3
You Who Forgot Poetry: 3
Are You Human Too: 2
Mr. Sunshine: 2
SKY Castle: 2
My Ajusshi: 1 (for Lee Sun Kyun)
Hundred Million Stars From the Sky: 1 (for Seo In Guk)

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Seven beans this year! Collected from I’m Not a Robot, Hundred Million Stars, Thirty But Seventeen, Secretary Kim, Boyfriend, The Beauty Inside, and Suits…

3017: 3 coffee beans for the found family, character growth, wisdom, and warmth
Hundred Million Stars: 2 kidney beans for the unforgettable, tragically beautiful love
INAR: 1 sweet red bean bean for the cute
Secretary Kim: 1 jelly bean for the laughs

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18 beans is a rough total, given 41 dramas started this year by my count. Not a drama slump for us this year as much as more ruthless culling for characters or plotlines we couldn't care about.

Distributed beanage among the 18 as follows. Admitted and notable personal biases: tension up to the resolution, bittersweet feelings, melo, Baek Jin-Hee in anything.

GROUP: Best of the year, maybe my personal favorite ever.

-My Ajusshi 🍿🍿🍿🍿

GROUP: Cute, funny, mostly light-hearted dramas that we loved to sit down to...

-I'm Not a Robot 🍿
-What's Wrong With Secretary Kim 🍿🍿

GROUP: ...in order to give ourselves a break from these good dramas that were more serious thematically.

-Mother 🍿
-Sketch 🍿

GROUP: Baek Jin-Hee automatic beans in our house.

-Jugglers 🍿🍿
-Let's Eat 3 🍿🍿
-Happy to Die 🍿

GROUP: Surprisingly engaging melo with a lot of other stuff going for it. Kim Jung-Hyun, wow.

-Time 🍿

GROUP: Good dramas we quit for several weeks mid-course out of frustration with pacing or characters. Bounced back to watch the endings (final 8 episodes for the first, last 15 minutes for the second), and earned beans to award deservingly.

-Mr Sunshine 🍿🍿
-Pretty Noona 🍿

GROUP: We watched/are watching these because we liked the first 4-6 episodes and just never got around to pulling the plug when we got halfway through.

-Black Knight
-About Time
-Are You Human Too
-Familiar Wife
-Terius Behind Me
-Love Alert

GROUP: Too soon to tell. I want to like this one but it still seems less than the sum of its parts.

-Memories of the Alhambra

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@azimuth,

LOL at "beanage." ;-)

Thanks for reminding me that I also watched TIME -- in addition to ABOUT TIME. The other confusing pairs of titles this year:
LIVE vs. LIFE
SKETCH vs. SWITCH

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I have 21 beans, but just putting them on few that made the most impression (whether visual, emotional or humor.)
What’s wrong with Sec. Kim? - 4
Mr. Sunshine - 4
Red Moon, Blue Sun - 3
Memories of Alhambra - 3
Mother - 1
Secret Mother - 1
Happy to Die - 1
Jugglers - 1
Beauty Inside - 1
Mrs. Ma, Nemesis - 1
Just Dance -1
The dramas late in the year have made more of an impression.

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Jugglers
I'm Not a Robot
Radio Romance
Woohoo Waikiki
Should We Kiss First
Mystery Queen 2
Grand Prince
My Husband Oh Jak-doo
Tale of a Good Witch
That Man Oh-soo
Live
The Great Seducer
Shall We Live Together
My Ajusshi
Let's Hold Hands and Watch the Sunset
You Who Forgot Poetry
Switch
Pretty Noona Who Buys Me Food
Miracle That We Met
Suits
Greasy Melo
Lawless Attorney
Investigation Couple
Miss Hammurabi
Are You Human Too
What's Wrong with Secretary Kim
Your House Helper
Thirty But Seventeen
Risky Romance
Life
Witch's Love
Your Honor
Let Me Introduce Her
Time
My ID Is Gangnam Beauty
100 Days My Prince
My Secret Terrius
The Third Charm
Player
Fox Bride Star
Beauty Inside
My Healing Love
Fluttering Alert
Happy to Die
Top Star Yoo Baek
Red Moon, Blue Sun
An Empress's Dignity
SKY Castle
Boyfriend
Memories of the Alhambra
Meteor Garden 2018
Top Management
My Only Love/My Only Ally
My Strange Hero / Revenge Returns
... 54? Yaiks! This is what I could do while working online at night ... Imagine what I could have done if I wasn't working :>

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I don't know how to count my beans but I'm gonna dump all of them to Where Stars Land (Fox Bride Star).

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I waited a year to give my beans to Just Between Lovers but I only managed to collect a measly 4 😭😭😭😭 from
JBL,
Dear Judge,
100 Days My Prince and
You Drive Me Crazy.
So, all 4 💕💔💘💖 go to JBL.
I'll get extra 1 bean after I finish with last ep of Woohoo Waikiki tonight and it'll go to Dear Judge 💞.
Other shows from this year that I started but somehow still not finished:
My Husband Oh Jak Doo - sorry Jak Doo-shi
I'm Not A Robot - maybe I should pick this up again? 🤔
Hwayugi - sorry Seung Gi oppa
Wok of Love - Poong-ie, kitty, Gangster ajusshi, I'll get back to you sometime soon
Grand Prince - Hwi 🙇🙇
Terius Behind Me - just started on this 😁
A drama that I watched entirely but not from this year list, Oh My Ghost - I almost forgot just how much I could get smitten by JJS 😆😆

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”The Queen is in her parlour, counting bread and beans”
Well.
I am going to cheat. Sort of. And also write too much, as usual.
Look out bellow!

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The complete list of my shows over the course of this year

This includes:
2018 shows started and completed🍈
Non 2018 shows started and completed🎩
2018 shows dropped 💔
Shows I started over a year ago and finished this year ⚡️
Non Korean shows 🍍
Hiatus shows 🕑
Mini or web shows 🍑
Currently Watching 🔥
Rewatched 👻

1. I am Not A Robot 🍈
2. One More Happy Ending 🎩
3. After School: Lucky Or Not 🎩🍑
4. Drinking Solo🎩
5. Love For a Thousand More 🎩🍑
6. Hwayugi 🍈
7. Video Killed the Radio Star (Radio Romance) 💔
8. Waikiki 💔
9. We Broke Up 🎩🍑
10. You’re All Surrounded 🎩
11. A Poem A Day/You Who Forgot Poetry 🍈
12. Imaginary Cat 🎩🍑
13. You Drive Me Crazy 🍈🍑
14. Lawless Lawyer/Attorney 🍈
15. Come and Hug Me 🍈
16. Are You Human Too? 🍈
17. What’s Wrong With Secretary Kim? 🍈
18. Meteor Garden 2018 🍈🍍
19. Hanadan 1+2 🎩🍍🕑
20. I Remember You/Hello Monster 🎩
21. 100 Days My Prince 🍈
22. Hundred Million Stars From the Sky 🍈
23. Fox Bride Star 🍈
24. Suspicious Partner ⚡️
25. Fight My Way ⚡️
26. Witch’s Romance 🔥 (🎩)
27. Clean with passion for now 🔥 (🍈)
28. Memories of the Alhambra 🔥 (🍈)
29. The Liar and His Lover 🔥 (⚡️)
30. Sassy Go Go 👻

Total=30

In my own personal bean count rules I do not count shows dropped with 4 or more fully unwatched episodes left as watched.
Thus, AYHT (dropped two to end) and WWSK (skimmed last 4) count, but Radio Romance (code name Video Killed the Radio Star in my master doc) and Waikiki do not. (T-2)

I do, as of this year, count non Korean shows. I will fight you if you make me leave out the Lord Pineapple and his Lady Weed ok. There would be a full scale Dramaland continental war if I left them out. Thus Meteor Garden counts, but Hanadan, since it’s on hiatus and unfinished and unlikely to be finished before the year ends, doesn’t.
(T-1)
I don’t count rewatches. That’s not new material, that’s just a fun trip down memory lane.
(T-1)
I count SP and FMY. I finished at least half of them this year, and I had to physically force the former into my brain in order for it to count as watched, not just this year but overall.

I also, as a Respectibiggle Marshwiggle, still have a lot of older dramas to watch and finish and they do in fact, they take up almost half of my total of watched and completed shows this year.
And I will for Posterity's sake count my currently watchings. Since the airings will be half finished and the older shows will (God willing rivers don’t rise) be entirely completed by the end of 2018.

So the first total (and super bias) bean count, including minis, older shows and MG, is therefore:
26

The second total bean count, if I am a good and righteous Queen, and only count dramas from the list that the illustrious @mary made, is: 12

So now I must distribute 26 illegal beans among the shows I watched this year, and 12 legal beans to the shows that aired and were watched this year. (Or well… melons. Since beans are expensive to...

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Illegal Beans:
I Remember You 🍈🍈🍈🍈🍈
I Am Not A Robot 🍈🍈🍈🍈
Meteor Garden 🍈🍈🍈🍈 + infinite 🍍
The Liar and His Lover 🍈🍈🍈 for a Dramabeans legacy and a whole lot of fun and screenshots to come
Fight My Way 🍈🍈 for almost making me cry
Hwayugi 🍈🍈 for the monkey king and coat porn
Drinking Solo 🍈 for Key
Come and Hug Me 🍈 for the first six episodes
Fox Bride Star 🍈 for the Security Team Couple and What Ifs
Memories of Alhambra 🍈 for the NPC Ghost
Witch’s Romance 🍈 for being the first ever noona romance I can actually watch and not drop
Hundred Million Stars 🍈 for making me write 4000 words
Bonus round-
You Who Forgot Poetry 🐊🐊🐊
You drive me crazy 🍑🍑

Legal Beans:
I'm Not a Robot 🍈🍈🍈🍈 and ½
Hwayugi 🍈🍈
Fox Bride Star 🍈 for what could have been and for reaching crack status
Come and Hug Me 🍈 “”
Just Between Lovers 🍈 for the show I should’ve watched this year but didn’t.
You Who Forgot Poetry 🍈 for the Beanie experience
Hundred Million Stars From the Sky 🍈 any drama I analyse that much deserves at least one bean-melon
Are You Human Too ½ a 🍈 for watching it with my mother

Special Award Ceremony.

To Come and Hug Me, I present the DON’T HUG ME I’M SCARED AWARD. For attempted creativity but not quite enough.
To
A Poem A Day, I present the YOU MADE ME WRITE FANFICTION (again) AWARD.
To
Hundred Million Stars, I present the MOST POLARISING LATTER HALF AWARD
To Fox Bride Star, WORST ENDING AWARD (Definitely some contenders for this but this is the freshest in mine memory)
To Hawyugi, TRAIN WRECK SHOW I DEFINITELY SHOULDN’T HAVE LOVED AWARD

And to I Am Not A Robot, The 2018 Crack Drama Daesung Award, for most loved show by the Queen of Melonia. Kim Bok Ju of Weightlifting Fairy Kim Bok Ju will be presenting this award, as the winner of the 2017 Crack Daesung.
Congratulations!!!

(And to all the other shows I probably should’ve watched this year but didn’t, you get pretty presentation medals, because the awards list is bias to my personal watched… sorry.)

*I really just wanted to make that DHMIS reference lol*

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Love the personal award ceremony. Haha. I dropped Hwayugi around the 10th episode, even Cha Seung Won and Lee Seung Gi could not keep me in. Glad to know that I was not missing anything good! Haha.
p/s - where did you get the time to watch all those dramas? There's a lot! wow

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Oh Hwayugi. Haha I liked it way too much for what it deserved lol. It really wasn't good at the end but I dropped my expectations for the ending so low I was actually almost surprised because I thought it was gonna be a lot worse haha.
It was my guilty pleasure I think by that point.
P/s uh... I don't know? Hahaha
I on average have around 3-4 shows ongoing at one time.

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See @irishrah--- I was so late to it. 144th comment haha

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So was I ! Which is why I hijacked @obsessedmuch 's comment without any qualms ! *giggles*

but u did have a lot more to say... i cant believe my drama watching is so meagre this year compared to last.. for that matter it's been nearly a year since my last big binge on DB.

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Kekekke. I was planning to read this whole comment thread... But dunno if I have time pfft.

Yes... Hey but you've had your thesis! You have a perfectly reasonable excuse for it being meagre!!

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Oh my gosh, now that I saw the list of all 2018 k-dramas, I realize how little drama I have watched over this year and how many among them I dropped mid-way!
Then I'm not able to play the bean count this year!

- Jugglers: complete, it was a very good journey, nothing so special, but it leaves good feelings.
- Radio Romance: drop last episode, stay that far for Do Joon only.
- Are you human too: watched half, it's just a moral issue that prevent me from complete it.
- What's wrong with Sec. Kim: drop last episodes after they solved their childhood mystery.
- My ID is Gangnam beauty: complete, another feel-good drama.
- My secret Terrius: could not complete 2 last episodes, watched cuts only.
The winner seems to be MY AJUSSHI. I am saving it for a special weekend alone, doing nothing but watch this drama and sob to release all the stress.

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Finished 10 dramas in the list. My beans go to:

Woohoo Waikiki - 1
Greasy Melo - 1
My ID is Gangnam Beauty - 1
100 Days My Prince - 4
My Secret Terius - 3

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I managed to get 19 beans and distributed to those that got me emotionally/love the plot/love the ending, and the ones that got me actively engaged in discussions:

Woohoo Waikiki - 3
Life on Mars - 1
Mr. Sunshine - 5
Life - 2
Terius Behind Me - 2
The Player -1
Children of Nobody/Red Moon Blue Sun - 1
SKY Castle - 1
Memories of the Alhambra - 3

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Happy to see my favorite show of the year tops the list. The only good thing about watching all the crappy shows is to have more beans to give to my favorites at the end of the year!

Here are my beanworthy shows:
My Ahjussi (10 beans)
Memories of the Alhambra (3 beans)
I’m Not a Robot (2 beans)
Are You Human Too? (2 beans)
What’s Wrong with Secretary Kim? (2 beans)
Mr. Sunshine (1 bean)
My Secret Terius (1 bean)
Clean with Passion for Now (1 bean)
Boyfriend (1 bean)

And here's where all those stolen beans come from:
Hwayugi
Radio Romance
My Husband Oh Jak Doo
That Man Oh Soo
Pretty Noona Who Buys Me Food
Rich Man
About Time
Handsome Guy and Jung Eum
Let’s Eat 3
Thirty But Seventeen
Devilish Joy
100 Days, My Prince
Beauty Inside
Top Star Yoo Baek

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I'm late in the game. Oh, and only 12 beans (well, smileys) for me! After seeing the bean distribution and reading most of the comments, I think I have to watch My Ajusshi and Life on Mars!

I’m not a Robot
Hwayugi
Woohoo Waikiki ☺
Are You Human Too
Suits
What’s Wrong with Secretary Kim
Thirty but Seventeen ☺☺
100 Days My Prince ☺
Hundred Million Stars from the Sky ☺☺☺☺
Red, Moon, Blue Sun ☺☺
Boyfriend
Memories of the Alhambra ☺☺

Loving RMBS and Alhambra and keeping my fingers crossed that they won't disappoint!

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It's the yearly beanies count! Wow, it's the end of 2018 already, and I am still, an avid drama watcher. Watched a total of 18 completed dramas this year (the highest count per year so far for me), and also, dropped 11 dramas halfway. Phew~
Here's my list of bean count, given based on how fond I am thinking about those dramas now.
Mr Sunshine - 4, I can still picture the gorgeous cinematography
Misty - 3, the awesome pantsuits and husband!
Live - 3, just how close to reality the story was
The Guest - 2 , super duper scary yet addicitive
Familiar Wife - 2, Ji Sung.
Life on Mars - 2, probably one of my all time favourite
My Ahjussi - 2, moody, one of the rare gem

I Am Not A Robot scored quite high in the beanies count but I lost interest by the third or fourth episodes..hmm maybe I should rewatch this.

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The other watched dramas that I would want to give invisible beans to :
The Ghost Detective - subway eating ghost
Life - Lee Dong Wook kept me watching
Voice 2- most ‘this is soooo not the end’ ending ever
A Poem A Day - Ye-liner all the way! 🛳
Should We Kiss First - should have cut the story in half 😅
Mystery Queen 2 - push and pull with no ending in sight..
The Package - unexpected 🎁
Feel Good to Die - my current crack 🔥
Memories of Alhambra - dimples!
Jugglers - Choi Daniel 💗
Eulachacha Waikiki - absolutely funny 😂

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I loved The Package! It was really a great dramas with all those characters, they were touching.

The Ghost Detective : Choi Daniel too :p

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Yes. Unexpected twist at each episodes. Still have warm fuzzy feelings when I think about it. 🥰

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And here’s my “I really want to finish watching these”
• suits - even Park Hyung shik could not keep me watching
• 100 million stars - I would want to watch this back, just as long as I can find the time
• Greasy Melo - dropped halfway
• Matrimonial Chaos - maybe later..
• Pretty Noona Who Buys Me Food - 🥘 stopped at ep 2
• Are You Human Too - 🤖
• Your House Helper - stopped at 6th
• Let’s Eat 3 - I tried, but just could not keep up
• 100 days My Prince - dropped
• Beauty Inside - I’m sorry Lee Min Ki. 🤧

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