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[2019 Year in Review] Part 1: The Bean Count

Time’s up! Pass your beans! It’s time for the annual Bean Count.

For those new to our yearend series, the Bean Count is our highly scientific subjective way of looking back on our year in dramas and weighing which ones became close and dear to our hearts. There’s no right or wrong answer here, just a lot of counting and possible regrets at not having more beans to give to our favorite shows.

You can join with your own bean count in the comments, as long as you stick to the following rules:

  • 1. To get your total beans, count one for each 2019 show you watched in its entirety. For currently airing shows, you also get one bean if you’re up-to-date on them.***
  • 2. Add up your beans and redistribute them between your finished/current shows, using whatever reason makes sense to you.

***This year’s list of shows includes dramas that aired after December 1 last year until November 20 this year. We’ll add a list of the shows at the bottom of the post. If we missed some, feel free to count them in your list.

It’s always fun seeing the different ways we split our beans. For example, I’m always in awe when I see a Beanie give ten to just one show. Apart from the fact that you have ten extra beans to give, that’s also saying that a show is worth 160 hours of drama-watching time! And there’s a funny smell of competition in the air… leading some of us to give in to the temptation to binge some of our dropped shows, just to get extra beans to give away. (Don’t do it! Sanity over beans!)

You can see the results of our collective bean-ing in the charts below. You can sort the shows by number of beans or airing date. Or click/tap on the our minion names at the bottom of the table to see how we split our beans individually. 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 posts in our yearend series. Happy bean-ing!

Bean Chart
My Strange Hero9
The Crowned Clown2
Spring Must Be Coming1
Kingdom11
Romance is a Bonus Book18
Reach of Sincerity5
The Light in Your Eyes12
The Fiery Priest1
Possessed2
That Psychometric Guy3
My Fellow Citizens2
A Beautiful World4
Special Labor Inspector Jo2
Her Private Life6
Nokdu Flower5
Different Dreams1
The Secret Life of My Secretary2
Angel's Last Mission: Love3
One Spring Night6
Search Query: WWW12
Chief of Staff1
Designated Survivor: 60 Days1
Watcher4
Hotel Del Luna11
Rookie Historian Gu Hae-ryung11
A Moment at Eighteen7
When the Devil Calls Your Name2
Be Melodramatic18
Graceful Family7
Love Alarm2
Hell Is Other People3
When the Camellia Blooms19
Secret Boutique6
Tale of Nokdu5
Extraordinary You10
My Country4
The Lies Within2
Catch the Ghost1
VIP1
Psychopath Diary1
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OK, whew... Just so that I can keep track of things, I'm actually looking at and scrolling thru the list of dramas for this year on one tab and posting my comment here on another tab lol
Here we go!

Completed (in full) dramas:
- Angel's Last Mission: Love
- One Spring Night
- My Country

... SIgh One of my shortest lists of "Completed" dramas in recent years T.....T What have I become!?!?!?!??!?!?!!?

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Oh wow, just three? You must’ve dropped a lot then?

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I dropped "Trap", "Hell Is Other People", "Lies Within" (but I might come back to it), "Abyss"

.... Korean dramas just didn't do it for me this year T..T

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Would love to see your list for other country dramas :)

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LOL Here goes...
Not all aired in 2019, so even if we were allowed Beans for non-Korean dramas, I still would not get that many lol

C-dramas:
- A Little Thing Called First Love (2019)
- Gank Your Heart (2019), currently on Episode 3
- Go Go Squid (2019)
- I Will Never Let You Go (2019)
- Put Your Head On My Shoulder (2019)
- The Brightest Star In the Sky (2019)
- The Legends (2019)
- The Untamed (2019)
- Love Under the Moon (2019)

Nothing from Taiwan this year, and I don't watch Japanese dramas :)

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@bebeswtz You may think it's not that many but when you realize that the untamed and go go squid together are like 80 episodes then the list doesn't seem so short haha

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@minitwin

- A Little Thing Called First Love, 36 episodes
- Go Go Squid, 41 episodes
- I Will Never Let You Go, 51
- Put Your Head On My Shoulder, 24 episodes
- The Brightest Star In the Sky, 44 episodes
- The Legends, 56 episodes
- The Untamed, 50 episodes
- Love Under the Moon, 46 episodes

😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅

I didn’t include “Gank Your Heart” since I’m still in the midst of watching it

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You've earned much beans from C-dramas! have you distributed your beans?

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I have earned many Beans from C-dramas, yes LOL

For Kdramas, I am having a dilemma for distribution of Beanies--- I'm stuck between "One Spring Night" and "My Country" lol I'm leaning towards giving it all to "One Spring Night" <3

As for C-dramas, if I COULD distribute Beans for the category, I have my Top 5 (in this specific order of likes &love for the drama):
- The Untamed
- Go Go Squid
- Put Your Head On My Shoulder
- I Will Never Let You Go (despite the WTF ending)
- The Legends

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hmmm I need to give one spring night a try then. *puts on mental list*
of the top 5 chinese ones, i've only finished 2 and am watching a third (PYHOMS)
I enjoyed IWNLYG as well... the ending was very confusing like you said but the process was very well liked

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Yea, if it weren't for the ending, I'd say that IWNLYG is very close to being a near-perfect wuxia drama :) I'm consciously choosing to ignore the entire last episode T....T

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For "One Spring Night", after a certain episode, I just chose to ignore the Second Male Lead and the FL's dad, and it made things SO MUCH BETTER OMG lol Do that-- watch it and just ignore them and you'll be good!!

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I got busy around ep 35 of IWNLYG. When I had free time a couple months later, I first checked the ending. "Nope. Not gonna continue."

Don't know why the producers made the leads completely out-of-character for that ending. The novel's ending is good. Those who are not interested in power and the throne got to live freely. The person who really wanted and was qualified for the throne got it.

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@snickers Yea, the ending made no sense. AT ALL 😱😱😱😱😱😱

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Can somebody explain the subjective distribution of beans? I thought we got 1 bean for every completed drama!

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1 Bean for every completed drama, and then you can redistribute said Beans to your favourites out of all that you’ve watched and completed ☺️☺️☺️

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Thank you 🤗

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No problem 😉😉😉

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Shows watched (k, c, t included) :
Kingdom🌟
Be Melodramatic 🌟🌟
Extraordinary you 🌟
Yong jiu Grocery store 🌟🌟🌟
Arsenal Military Academy🌟
Eternal love
Love o2o
PYHOMS 🌟
Go go squid
I want to give each show a bean/star but there were two that were definitely better than the rest.
Plus I don't want to be a bummer but I should finally come to terms with the fact that JB anf GF have finally left.

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Sky castle :🌟🌟
I forgot, watched Sky Castle too so I'm going to take that bean star from Extra you which I purely gave it for the first 6 episodes and give 2 to Sky castle.
I like how my list is all over the place , the year or country doesn't matter lol.

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I don't know if Sky Castle officially counts as 2018 or 2019. I only got access to it in 2019 but it started broadcasting late Nov 2018.

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I consider it in the 2019 bean list. It barely started in late 2018. The good stuff and the meatier part was in 2019.

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I... still...can't... 😢

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Drama That I Watch in 2019
C, J, K drama combined

1. Memories of the Alhambra🥕
2. Kingdom
3. Romantic Dr Kim🥕🥕
4. The Ending Planner - Japanese🥕🥕🥕
5. Reply 1994
6. Beauty Inside
7. Evernight* - Chinese
8. Romance is a Bonus Book
9. Touch Your Heart
10. He is Psychometric🥕🥕
11. Her Private Life 🥕🥕🥕
12. Legal High* - Japanese
13. Sky Castle🥕
14. Search: WWW🥕🥕🥕
15. My Fellow Citizen🥕🥕
16. Well-intended Love - Chinese
17. Abyss*
18. Good Manager*
19. One Spring Night🥕🥕🥕🥕
20. Level Up
21. Love Affairs in the Afternoon*
22. Before We Get Married - Chinese🥕🥕🥕🥕
23. Behind Your Smile - Chinese
24. Hotel Del Luna
25. Pleasantly Surprised - Chinese
26. Prison Playbook🥕🥕🥕
27. I Hear You - Chinese
28. When I See You Again - Chinese
29. Go Go Squid - Chinese
30. Vagabond*
31. Attention, At ease - Chinese
32. Le Coup de Foudre - Chinese 🥕🥕🥕🥕🥕
33. Unrequited Love - Chinese
34. Your Honor🥕🥕🥕
35. Psychopath Diary*
36. Triad Princess - Chinese
*drama that I haven’t complete yet.

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Oh my gosh yass! The moment every beanie waits for every December. And lol, I’ve watched none of the most popular shows. 😂

I love that we can click on minion names and see their choices. It makes it a lot easier to navigate, thanks @mary!

I somehow collected 12 beans and am allocating them as follows, with apples:
1. Best Chicken
2. My Strange Hero
3. The Light In Your Eyes
4. Special Labor Inspector Jo🍎🍎
5. The Secret Life Of My Secretary (SBS)
6. Nokdu Flower🍎🍎🍎🍎🍎🍎🍎🍎🍎
7. Arthdal Chronicles (🤢)
8. Rookie Historian Goo Hae Ryung
9. Extraordinary You
10. My Country
11. The Crowned Clown
12. Pegasus Market 🍎

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Oh my gosh, the interactive bean chart. I'm going to play with this for the next 45 minutes, thanks a lot, mary.

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I love the love you've given to Nokdu Flower ❤

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In terms of quality I would have given it all my beans, but I really enjoyed Inspector Jo too.

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Me too exactly!

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Watched a lot, dropped a few, stopped some, and never resumed.

Honorable mentions:

1. Memories of Alhambra - my favourite because Hyun bin was absolutely gorgeous.

2. The Last Empress - ties with Memories because Hyuk was insanely, devilishly wicked.

This was the year I fell in love with these two hot guys.

Note: This was the year I let go of Park haejin and returned him to @azzo1. Fare thee well, my beloved Oppa. Our love was never meant to be. I forgot what you look like, because you never appeared, not once the whole year. *CRIES* *WIPES TEARS* Bye, Oppa, bye.

3. Extraordinary You - Baek kyung. So cruel, yet so hot. He broke my heart.

4. The Light in Your Eyes - so sad, so good. NJH broke my heart. Effortlessly charming and sweet and so sad.

Most Awful Show

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Shows I dropped

Touch Your Heart - This heart was untouched and unmoved by the so-contrived cheesy scenes. Well, okay, okay, it did flutter a little over the almost-kiss and the dream kiss.

Vagabond - Stopped watched because I got mad over SSR's non-importance, when every inch of him screamed, Look at me. I'm so hot.

Currently watching VIP, episode 2 halfway. Jang Nara is GOOD.

Looking forward to

Crash Landing.

Check out @oppafangirl 's wall for the trailer and catch a glimpse of my awesome cameo as a graceful, swirling tornado. @bbstl @pakalanapikake @ndlessjoie @leetennant @mayhemf @ally-le @hebang Guys, seriously, you need to watch the trailer, it's so swoonworthy. Ahhh.

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*gasps* You’ve let Oppa go to @azzo1! 😱

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Who would have thought this could happen, right? *CRIES*

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Who is your new oppa YY? There must be a new oppa or noona, if you're willing to let go of your old one. Heh

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That comment would have been hilarious if I could type

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Your Nok-du apples bring me joy.

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Sanity over beans? Have you met us @mary?

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That's my evil plan to have y'all relax next year and bag the highest number of beans for myself.

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Has @mary met us? If anyone was to secretly hack us, @mary is in the best position to be the secret hacker ahjumma ~

I'm just not sure what purpose anyone could put hacking a Beanie account? Unless it's to steal beans?...

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Um... You guys... SKY Castle?! It (rightfully) wasn't included in the Bean Count last year as it just started airing, and it's not in this one either? Or did not a single person give it a bean?

Well, that's one of the only shows I really wanted to give my beans to.

Shows I completed this year: 7
Just Dance (It wasn't included last year! IT COUNTS!)
SKY Castle
Spring Must Be Coming
My Fellow Citizens
Love Alarm
Vagabond
The Lies Within

I distribute my beans as such:
Just Dance: 💖💖💖
SKY Castle: 💖💖💖
The Lies Within: 💖 (Min-ki, you guys. Min-ki.)

A lackluster drama year, but I have more beans this year than last year, so I guess that says something?

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Just Dance/Dance Sport Girls is included in the long list of shows under “spoilers” but not SKY Castle. 🤔

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1. Can't believe not a single staff member gave that gem of a show a bean
2. SKY Castle is SUCH a huge oversight. I know it started airing right before December 1st but really? That means it doesn't count? Arguably the biggest hit show of the year??????

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SKY Castle was part of last year's list since it premiered November 23. It just got zero beans from staff as of last year's bean count post. That's why it doesn't show in the chart. I started watching it mid-December. :'(

But it was in the list of shows we posted in the comments. This year, we started adding the list of shows inside the bean count post to avoid guesswork.

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I meant to say, I started watching SKY Castle mid-December so I also sadly can't give official beans to it despite loving it.

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Oh. Okay. Personally it doesn't make sense to me to include a show that wasn't even halfway through its run at the time the bean count was posted but... Okay.

IM NOT CHANGING MY BEAN COUNT

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It's your bean count! XD I see other beanies including non-K-dramas too. I wish I can count the old gems I watched this year, but alas...

The thing is, we have to balance the right cutoff date because some people might write about currently airing shows in their yearend review, and then we'd have to cut them out because they're for next year. This year, we've tried moving the cutoff date a bit earlier. Hopefully that makes it better. We'll see how it goes and maybe adjust again next year.

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imo you should only include shows that have completely finishing airing before including them in year-end reviews, because we all know how some shows turn to complete crap with their endings... like I don't think Memories of the Alhambra would have received the beans it did last year if you guys knew how it ended lol.

And yeah it's a travesty how Sky Castle didn't receive a single bean this year or last year 😔

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*decides it would be fun to jump in and wrestle @mindy's Sky Castle beans away* *throws the three beans to Just Dance*

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GAHH zero beans? The injustice!

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I managed to get a whole 13 beans! 😆 Happy Bean Count!

Absolute Boyfriend
My Strange Hero
The Crowned Clown 🥧🥧
Kingdom 🥧
Romance is a Bonus Book
That Psychometric Guy
Her Private Life
The Secret Life of My Secretary 🥧🥧🥧🥧
Search: WWW 🥧🥧🥧🥧🥧
Hotel Del Luna
Rookie Historian
Tale of Nokdu
Extraordinary You 🥧

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I should have looked at the list! I missed Kill It and My First First Love. So 15 beans! But they would just go to Secret Life of My Secretary and Search WWW so no big deal I missed them 😁

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Yeah, I thoroughly enjoyed SLOMS so I gave it beans even when it wasn't as well 'made' as some others. 😋

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Oh ya it definitely wasn't perfect and it had its issues but it was still thoroughly entertaining. I just loved the characters ❤️

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There are a lot of dramas missing on this list. I mean I watch until the end Arthdal Chronicle, I want my bean! >_<

So first step : completing the list!

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Arthadal is in the list at the bottom of the post. The charts don't display shows that got zero beans (just to avoid getting a crowded chart/table).

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Thank You, I saw it after.

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LOL that was kind of savage “the charts don’t display shows that got zero beans” 😄

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LOL I swearz it's not vindictive! XD The table just gets super long and the pie would render lots of tiny 0% slices that made the whole thing lag... sorry!

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There were several dramas that make me want to give negative beans.

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Oh if only we could do that, I’d be so generous to some dramas.

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Same here. See @leetennant's post about anti-beans. She gets it.

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I haven't managed to count my beans yet... I'm just sad I don't see Javabeans' and Girlfriday's beans... 😢😢😢

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Yes, that’s so saddening😞

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I noticed too. :/
I came just to see specifically what they enjoyed this year.

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I looked for their names too T_T I wonder if we'll be getting some year end reviews from them...

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I watched 7 dramas this year and god! Why am I unwilling to spend my beans on these seven?!
As I was looking at the list and reading the names none of them made my heart beat faster:( what happened to me? To kdramas? To my expectations?
Is it possible to keep these seven beans and give it to the ones I am going to watch next year IF any of them is going to make me feel the way I felt after watching My Ahjussi, Forest of Secrets, Reply series,..
Ok, I do what I gotta do
Www 🦋🦋🦋
Be Melodramatic 🦋🦋
Reach of Sincerity 🦋
When the Camellia Blooms 🦋
The Tale of Nokdu
The Secret Life of My Secretary
Her Private Life

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Lmao, I propose a system where we get to carry over beans to the next year!

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I second this notion.
I also want to retroactively give beans to dramas from previous years. THE PACKAGE WAS ROBBED! This years dramas stunk! I want to give all my beans to THE PACKAGE!
I should rewatch that.

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Omg seriously, nothing like watching a drama way late and realizing it's awesome.

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Why does this remind me of carryovers from income taxes?!

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The past dramas you named are some of the best in the last few years, there just aren’t going to be many dramas that are that good.

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I thought I hadn't watched very many dramas this year--I've dropped at least a third of the ones I started watching--but I still managed to get 18 beans. Would be 19 if they had bothered to include The Last Empress in the list. Why is that not on here?

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I think TLE started airing in November 2018 :-/

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It should still be on here. Dramas are rated in the year they complete airing. Maybe our newbies on the Dramabeans team aren't aware of that.

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Here is my Chinese drama bean list which gave me 18 beans!

I Will Never Let You Go
Well Intended Love
The Legend of Hao Lan
The Legends
I Hear You
Goodbye, My Princess
Put Your Head On My Shoulder 🥧
Listening Snow Tower
Princess Silver
Gank Your Heart
The Untamed 🥧🥧🥧🥧🥧🥧🥧🥧🥧
Love Better Than Immortality
Go Go Squid 🥧🥧🥧🥧
Love and Destiny 🥧
The King's Avatar 🥧🥧
Arsenal Military Academy 🥧
My Girlfriend is an Alien
Lucky's First Love (The World Owes Me a First Love)

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I finally have enough beans to do this!!! (Usually I watch shows that aired in the past, but I guess I finished all those or something, because at last I have BEANS!! (read: I feel like Scrooge McDuck swimming in a money silo)

Dance Sports Girls
Romance is a Bonus Book
Reach of Sincerity
The Fiery Priest ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
That Psychometric Guy
My Fellow Citizens
Special Labor Inspector Jo ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Her Private Life ⭐
My First First Love
The Secret Life of My Secretary
Rookie Historian Gu Hae-ryung ⭐
A Moment at Eighteen
Let Me Hear Your Song ⭐
Welcome 2 Life ⭐
Flower Crew: Joseon Marriage Agency ⭐
Vagabond
Tale of Nokdu ⭐
Extraordinary You ⭐⭐

I liked all of these shows, to be honest. I liked most of them a whole lot, actually. For me, this was a good year for dramas, but I liked Fiery Priest and Special Labor Inspector Jo SO MUCH (so so so much y'all) that I couldn't help but keep handing them beans. A few other dramas stood out to me because of the originality of their premise, the way they addressed various issues, the fun I had watching alongside friends and beanies, or just the sheer squee of it all.

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Inspector Jo deserves all your love ❤️
Maybe I should give Fiery Priest another chance.

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Once it gets going, it's a fun ride.

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@ndlessjoie It’s random but why I can’t find your comment to see how you spent your beans?! Am I a bad detective?

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I haven't yet.

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Fiery Priest is *absolutely ridiculous,* but like in the best, most methodical, well-planned, well-written, unbelievably-believable way. It does take a few episodes to get its full stride, but it is *so* worth it.

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I'm just in awe of people's beans right now ~ I thought I had watched a(n un)healthy amount of dramas this year, but apparently I'm still behind the beans, as they say.

You make me want to try Inspector Jo ~

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Yes to Inspector Jo! Watch it Coco!

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yes yes yes! watch it, cocoa! honestly i was surprised at how much i liked it. and then it got better and better and i love love love it.

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I think 9.9 Billion Won Woman should be added, since Viki says it premiered 12.04.19. With that I have 15 beans, distributed as follows:

Kingdom 🍕
Romance is a Bonus Book 🍕🍕
Reach of Sincerity
The Light in Your Eyes 🍕
Her Private Life 🍕
Different Dreams
One Spring Night 🍕🍕
Search Query: WWW🍕
Watcher 🍕
Hotel Del Luna 🍕
Be Melodramatic🍕🍕
Graceful Family🍕
Extraordinary You 🍕🍕
The Lies Within
9.9 Billion Won Woman (premiered 12.04.19)

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This year’s list of shows includes dramas that aired after December 1 last year until November 20 this year.

9.9 Billion Won Woman has only aired four (two) episodes.

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Ah, I understand, thanks!

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Dang, @quirkycase, you watched a LOT of dramas this year! Respect.

I give all 20 of my beans to Vagabond, as it will not get any from anyone else. They're pity beans. Ironic, as I didn't watch the first episode (scared) or last episode (refused) and therefore didn't get a bean from it.

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😂🤣😂🤣
(and agreed re: quirkycase. 🤯)

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I vacillate between proud and horrified at my bean count this year.

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I loved Vagabond. Granted, I gave its bean away to another drama, but the show was pure entertainment, and I looked forward to it every week, which is more than I can say about other dramas which I forced myself to finish to get a bean.

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this is exactly how i felt about Vagabond, too.

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I think 1st episode of VB was the best of all 16.

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24 Beans:

NOKDU FLOWER - 10 beans
MOMENT AT 18 - 4 beans
MELO SUITS ME - 4 beans
WWW - 2 beans
WATCHER - 3 beans
CHIEF OF STAFF - 1 bean

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Ha, I didn't check under the spoiler. I have 32 beans actually

So:
DANCE SPORT GIRLS - 4 beans
SAVE ME 2 - 2 beans
BAD DETECTIVE - 2 beans

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My 2019 list is a mere shadow of my 2018 list. Have I gained more sanity?
Kingdom 🥖🥖
Graceful Family 🐠
Perfume 🥖🥖
Secret Life of my Secretary 🐠
Just Dance 🥖
Her Private Life
Touch Your Heart

I struggled with this distribution because i want to throw more beans at Perfume, Kingdom, and Graceful Family

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I have but 1 bean but it is a good bean for a good show. I do have a couple of bean sprouts from shows I have on hold though 🌱

My count right now is:
The Light in Your Eyes- ☄

And lots of love to Put Head on My Shoulder ❤ And the writing and villain were too bothersome for me to want to finish Angel's Last Mission but Shin Hye Sun was so amazing I almost want to finish it and collect beans from other dramas just for her 😉

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2019 was the year of dropping for me, so I "only" watched 50 Kdramas (not counting drama specials and webdramas). I don't have one specific drama that stood out. Themes that made me come back to them.

Shows that cracked me up:
My Fellow Citizens ⭕⭕⭕
The Fiery Priest ⭕⭕
Pegasus Market ⭕⭕⭕
Special Labor Inspector Jo ⭕⭕
Leverage ⭕⭕
Spring Must Be Coming ⭕

Shows that got me in the feels:
Beautiful World ⭕⭕
Nokdu Flower⭕⭕⭕
Dance Sports Girls ⭕⭕⭕
Save Me 2 ⭕⭕⭕
Perfume ⭕⭕
When The Camellia Blooms ⭕⭕
Secret Boutique ⭕⭕

Addictive factor:
Her Private Life ⭕
The Secret Life of My Secretary ⭕
Moment of Eighteen ⭕
Extraordinary You ⭕
Graceful Family ⭕⭕⭕
Rookie Historian Goo Hae Ryung ⭕⭕⭕
Be Melodramatic ⭕⭕⭕
VIP ⭕⭕ (I hope it will stay addictive until the finale)

I'm left with 5 beans so I'm giving one to Le Coup de Foudre, Dakara Watashi wa Oshimashita, What Did You Eat Yesterday, My Family Has Gone Viral and A House on The Slope.

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You should do a course for all of us on how you watch so many dramas. I’m impressed! 😯

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Lesson 1: watch dramas when you're stressed. The more stressed you are, more dramas you watch.

Lesson 2: Watch dramas on air. Having episodes waiting for you in the evening is like a price as t the end of the day :)

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You have HOW many beans?! Im a slacker. Even if I meet my goal for next year it'll still be less than half of what you watched.

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The number doesn't matter. The most important is how much joy you feel when watching dramas :)

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Still impressive.

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Here's to hoping that dramas provide more joy in 2020

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I wasn't sure about starting Leverage because I thought it'd be a serious drama and I'm not looking for that right now. But...it cracked you up? This changes things.

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The fun really kicks off when the team is working together. They just tease each other so much and Jeon Hye Bin's character is fun to Watch when she goes undercover.

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This might just be what I'm looking for. The found family trope is my favourite.

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You will certainly like it then!

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I'm over halfway through Leverage and it's so much fun. I love the team's dynamics especially. Crime, Shenanigans And Tomfoolery™️ - exactly what the doctor ordered.

I really hope that Na Byeol and the hacker chingu whose name escapes me get together in the end. They have such a good dynamic and they complement each other well in terms of skill sets. I confess I really love seeing Na Byeol swooping in to save him from bad guys. It's so sweet.

Also, Soo-Kyung, resident scene-stealer, never change.

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Glad you like it :D Keep in mind the team dynamics are the focus here ;)

Soo Kyung is so good. How come she doesn't have a Daesang yet? LOL

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I have 29 beans. *Embarrassed*

I know Sky Castle isn't on the list, but I didn't get a chance to give it beans last year.

Sky Castle - 5 beans
The Light in Your Eyes - 4 beans
When the Camellia Blooms - 4 beans
Be Melodramatic - 4 beans
Special Labor Inspector Jo - 3 beans
Pegasus Market - 2 beans
Search WWW - 1 bean
My Fellow Citizens - 1 bean
Watcher - 1 bean
Rookie Historian Goo Hae Ryung - 1 bean
My Country (for Jang Hyuk and his fan) - 1 bean
Beautiful World - 1 bean
Doctor John - 1 bean

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I have at least eight (valid) beans, so it's simple:

2 for Bom Bam
4 for Be Melodramatic
2 for Haru Found by Chance

Boy, I don't have a lot of favourites this year - compare it to last year, where there was Mother, Live, Thirty But Seventeen, Your Honor, Miss Hammurabi...

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Oh damn, I forgot Bok-soo! Okay, I guess I can relinquish a bean from Be Melodramatic for the sake of that beautifully-edited gem.

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BOKSOO BOKSOO BOKSOO!!!

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I rewatched the first episode today, and damn, I'd forgotten how much joy it brought me! Remember how it was basically just you, me, and LT putting any comments on the recaps?

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It is so so so good and underrated. PURE JOY.

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Shows completed: 10

The private life of my secretary: This took me by surprise , I wasn't expecting to like this show as much as I did. Veronica was such a good character and I loved seeing galhee take on some of Veronica's confidence. For once, a show where there isn't a magical cure and the characters actually learn to live with their conditon. Amazing! I did think the secretaries were underused, I was disappointed at the big reveal.
My Fellow Citizens : the cast did a great job, very funny and heartwarming. I hadn't paid much attention to the politics in Korea, it was really cool to see how the process works and the lobbying.
Reach of Sincerity - huge fan of YIN and LDW so of course, I loved seeing them on screen together. I also enjoyed the romance between the two lawyers. Was expecting the stalker ex to be used more, it seemed like that was resolved very quickly, considering he was stalking her for years.
Romance is a bonus book- would have enjoyed more if there was no romance for danoh and more of 2nd leads. It did a great job of showcasing the publishing industry and I really enjoyed the team dynamic.
Class of Lies: A good thriller, I think it had the potential to go even darker. I would have liked a clearer picture of what happened to the villain and I thought the teacher was unnecessarily dumb.
Search query: WWW: this show introduced me to Lee Jae Wook 😍 I didn't like Tammy and Morgan's romance, thought it was a really interesting topic to base a show on.
Rookie historian gu hae ryung : Turned out to be more insightful and heartwarming than what I expected from the show in the beginning. I enjoyed seeing how do-won grew throughout the show into a leader and the romance was pretty cute too!
The lies within: LMK and YY were brilliant, the writing let the show down. I was only invested in YY and LMK so it was hard to care about the numerous characters and politics. I think they should have introduced each character slowly or just had a smaller cast.
Graceful family: Makjang heaven! I am disappointed with the ending but I did look forward to watching this show every week and made me cry with laughter.
Sky castle : Gripping from the first episode and I liked the pacing, tension throughout the show. Again would have liked a different ending but overall a great drama.

Beans to:
The private life of my secretary🐟🐟
My Fellow Citizens🍰
Reach of Sincerity💄
Class of Lies : 👨‍🏫
Rookie historian gu hae ryung♥️
Graceful family💎💎
Sky castle🖤🖤

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Beans also given to :
Never Twice : 🦸‍♀️
The Last Empress: ☕
The award for best dramas in 2019 should go to The Last Empress and Sky Castle.

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Memories of the Alhambra
Her Private life
Search Query:WWW🍁🍁
Hotel del luna
A moment at eighteen🍁🍁
Be Melodramatic🍁🍁🍁
Love Alarm
Secret Boutique 🍁🍁
Tale Of Nokdu 🍁
Extraordinary You
Catch the ghost🍁

Distributing these beans was really hard. I needed more to give to my favourite shows!!
[Note for self: Do not-- no strike that-DO watch more shows in the coming year]

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Ok so I watched Sky Castle as well and I'm giving that bean to At Eighteen

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I binged watched the light in your eyes so another bean-- yay
And that bean itself goes to the light in your eyes🍁

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I have 35 beans (don't judge, I have a lot of train :p)

It's kinda hard to judge like this. So I gave my beans to the dramas for which I felt most invested by watching BTS, interviews and FMV, ; listenning the OST ; rewatching the episode-scene ; etc.

Be Melodramatic ❤❤❤❤❤
Extraordinary You ❤❤❤❤❤

Hotel Del Luna ❤❤❤❤
One Spring Night ❤❤❤❤
The Crowned Clown ❤❤❤❤

My Country ❤❤❤
Search Query: WWW ❤❤❤

Her Private Life ❤❤
Watcher ❤❤

Angel's Last Mission: Love ❤
My Strange Hero ❤
When the Devil Calls Your Name ❤

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I'm so glad that Dance Sports Girls gets to be counted because that was such a little gem of a show. But the fact that this year's two best shows - Sky Castle and Children of Nobody - get completely overlooked because of a technicality bites.

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Yes, Children of Nobody was an amazing show and generated really interesting discussions under every recap.

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True!! Children of Nobody was a gem.

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Yeah, I don't count show I didn't finish (except Cath the Ghost because there are only 2 episode that left and I won't give bean :p) But I loved Children of Nobody, it was really a great story, for once I loved the police work.

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Atleast i gave my bean to it last year! I feel so happy about it! Lol! (Children of nobody)

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2019 is hardly a good drama year for me, with very few dramas I shall ever go back to. Bring it on 2020!

Kingdom 🥐🥐🥐
Romance is a bonus book
Chronicles of Arthal
Absolute boyfriend
Perfume
Rookie Historian Gu Hae-ryung
When the devil call your name
Love alarm🥐🥐
The tale of Nokdu
Extraordinary you 🥐🥐🥐
Be Melodramatic🥐🥐🥐

(Nonetheless, 2020 will be the year of the seasons twos that I can hardly wait for: Love alarm, kingdom, Forest of secrets... Please be little gems akin to Age of youth 2 and not terrible let-downs akin to Queen of Mystery 2!!!)

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17 beans!

Kingdom 🍿🍿🍿
RIBB 🍿🍿
Graceful Family 🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿
Just Dance 🍿🍿🍿
WWW 🍿🍿
Rookie 🍿🍿

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It is finally time! 2019 was a pretty good drama watching year for me, considering how busy I was in real life. This was definitely the year of dropped dramas. I found myself unsatisfied with so many dramas. Anyways, I still managed to rack up a total of 13 beans, which I will distribute like this:

Be Melodramatic: 🌱🌱🌱
Above all, I adored this drama's meta. Also, its subtle commentary about being in one's 30s made life seem both beautiful and melancholy. Our three women were wonderfully written — they were capable and hard-working, but vulnerable. Their friendship shined so brightly.
Search Query WWW: 🌱🌱🌱🌱
I just loved Park Mo-gun and Bae Ta-mi together. A scene I will never forget from this gem of a drama is their secret, risky kiss in the break room. I discovered Lee Da-hee, who's my favorite unni now. Also, strong women chasing their dream careers while being incredibly successful, graceful, and gorgeous all at once was so inspiring.
The Light in Your Eyes: 🌱🌱🌱🌱
I fell in love with Nam Joo-hyuk all over again with this drama. It's an unpopular opinion, but I thought his acting was excellent. His love story with Han Ji-min that was ultimately revealed broke my heart to pieces. I cried a whole ocean of tears for this drama. To be excessively artistic, this show touched my soul, even with all of its flaws.
The Secret Life of My Secretary: 🌱
This one was just so cute. I decided to binge-watch it on a whim and I finished it within a week. I'm giving it a beansprout for how cute cute cute it was. And Veronica Park. She was a hoot.
Special Labor Inspector Jo: 🌱
This drama's characters deserve the last beansprout. The dynamic brotherhood between Kim Dong-wook and Kim Kyung-nam was electric. And I loved watching the good guys always end up beating the bad guys.

And if I had any remaining beansprouts, I would give it to Dramabeans. This community truly made my drama year 🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱

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This is my first time... and Omg, this is tough!

Ok, I got 17 Korean beans, 2 Chinese beans, 1 Japanese bean and 1 Taiwanese bean = 21.

Dance Sport Girls 🍆🍆🍆🍆🍆

Melo Suit Her 🍆🍆🍆🍆
King's Avatar 🍆🍆🍆🍆

Dazzling 🍆🍆🍆

Psychometric Guy 🍆
WWW + WWW My MIL 🍆
Camellia 🍆
FAILing in Love 🍆
No Second Chances 🍆 (yes, I'm biased 😁)

Honourable mention:
Bonus Book

Want to finish:
Fiery Priest
Survivor
18
Pegasus
Nagi

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Yay for Nagi . Other J dramas I enjoyed, Dakara Watashi wa Oshimashita, (My Favorite Member), and Mukai no Bazuru Kazoku, (My Family Goes Viral).

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I'm afraid I'm at a disadvantage when it comes to watching Kdramas, especially the new ones. I find it hard to watch them as they come out because of subtitle and other streaming issues. I managed to watch the following dramas during the time frame stated. I'll distribute my 9 bean*stars* among them.

Haehi
Doctor Prisoner
Confession *
One Spring Night***
Designated Survivor*
Doctor John
My Country
A Beautiful World**
Weekday Afternoon Lovers**

Perhaps what's even more telling about my Kdrama viewing in 2019 are the dramas on the list I started but couldn't get through.

That Psychometric Guy
My Fellow Citizen
The Secret Life of My Secretary
Abyss
Rookie Historian
When the Camellia Blooms (still trying on this one)

My resolution in the new year is to find a really good place other than Netflix to watch Kdramas. KOCOWA is out--right now OnDemand Korea is my favorite but they don't have many new shows with English subtitles. Oh, and I also resolve to learn more Korean so I don't have to depend on subtitles.

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I only have 7 until I finish up a couple and then a whole 9 beans, lol.

I'm not sure how I want to distribute them.

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This year's bean count will be in Duct Tapes. I needed some after finding out that the two best shows weren't counted.

Dance Sports Girls - 🍸🍸🍸🍸
My Strange Hero - 🍸🍸🍸🍸🍸
Best Chicken
Kingdom- 🍸
The Light in Your Eyes
That Psychometric Guy
Kill It (formerly Blue Eyes)
Confession
My Fellow Citizens - 🍸🍸🍸🍸🍸
The Secret Life of My Secretary
Abyss
Angel’s Last Mission: Love
One Spring Night -🍸
Class of Lies
Graceful Family - 🍸
When the Camellia Blooms -🍸
Vagabond
Tale of Nokdu - 🍸
My First First Love

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And of course, my updated Antibean count

Dance Sports Girls -  0
My Strange Hero -  0
Best Chicken - 0.2
Kingdom -  0
The Light in Your Eyes - 0
That Psychometric Guy - 1
Kill It (formerly Blue Eyes) - 0.5
Confession - 0.2
My Fellow Citizens - 0
The Secret Life of My Secretary - 0.25
Abyss - 1
Angel’s Last Mission: Love - 0.25
One Spring Night - 0
Class of Lies - 0.2
Graceful Family -  0.2
When the Camellia Blooms - 0
Vagabond - 0.5
Tale of Nokdu -  0.2
My First First Love - 0
Melting Me Softly - 1
Total 5.5

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How would you redistribute with Sky Castle and Children of Nobody in the mix?

I just think Sky Castle deserves more love.

Also I am shooting myself in the foot because it will mean less beans for Boksoo which deserves ALL the beans.

BOKSOO BOKSOO BOKSOO!!!

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If Sky Castle and Children of Nobody were in the mix I'd have to take the minor beans away from the other shows to give me an extra 5 beans to work with (along with the two I get for the other two shows) and maybe take a bean off Dance Sport Girls to give Sky Castle six.

Dance Sport Girls - 🍸🍸🍸
My Strange Hero - 🍸🍸🍸🍸
My Fellow Citizens - 🍸🍸🍸🍸
Sky Castle - 🍸🍸🍸🍸🍸🍸
Children of Nobody - 🍸🍸🍸🍸

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Do i notice that you have not seen be melodramatic?or you did not like it?

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I haven't seen it. It started when I was overseas and I never got to it. I will watch it, it's just not going to be watched this year. I haven't heard a bad thing about it though.

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Hope you like it, it took all my dismal amount of beans!

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The first episodes are not the best. I didn't really like the FL and the ML but after your patience is rewarded :)

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Watched just 5 shows. Ooh this is hard! I'm going to cheat and add a 6th cause I'm done with Season 1 of Chief of Staff.
-Her Private Life
-Abyss
-Chief of Staff Season 1 🤩
-Graceful Family 🤩
-When the Camellia Blooms 🤩🤩🤩🤩
-The Lies Within

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I watched 5 2019 shows but watched 18 shows including older ones, dropped just 1 and rewatched many.
Shows I watched this year that went straight to my favourites: Kill Me, Heal Me, Angry Mom, When the Camellia Blooms, Chief Kim, Woohoo Waikiki, This Week My Wife Will Have an Affair.

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Completed list for 2019:

Babel
Trap
Item
Extraordinary You
My Country
Spring Must Be Coming
Kingdom
Reach of Sincerity
The Fiery Priest
Her Private Life
One Spring Night
Search WWW
Chief of Staff, S1
Chief of Staff S2 (wraps up tomorrow)
DS 60
Watcher
Rookie Historian
When the Devil Calls Your Name
Be Melodramatic
Graceful Family
When the Camellia Blooms
Big Issue
Confession
Mother of Mine
The Banker
The Wind Blows
Doctor Detective
Pegasus Market
SKY Castle

So that puts me at 29 completed.

Will finish VIP so I should be at 30 by year's end.

The best of for me:
1. Pegasus Market
2. SKY Castle
3. Watcher
4. My Country
5. Kingdom
6. The Fiery Priest
7. When the Camellia Blooms
8. Trap
9. Rookie Historian
10. Confession

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So... I watch a lot of TV. I need to come to terms with that. I have 27 beans, and here's a list of what I watched. I'm going to list bean worthy shows first followed by the others.
- The Light In Your Eyes ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
- Be Melodramatic ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
- One Spring Night ❤️❤️❤️❤️
- Designated Survivor ❤️❤️❤️
- Sky Castle ❤️❤️❤️
- Just Dance/ Dance Sports Girls ❤️
- Love Alarm ❤️
- A Beautiful World ❤️
- Romance is a Bonus Book ❤️
- WWW ❤️
- Weekday Afternoon Lovers ❤️
- A Moment at Eighteen ❤️
Everyone else (in no special order):
- My Strange Hero
- Reach of Sincerity
- Possessed
- Confession
- My Fellow Citizens
- Her Private Life
- The Secret Life of My Secretary
- Arthdal Chronicles
- Hotel del Luna
- Rookie Historian...
- Hell is Other People
- When the Camellia Blooms
- Melting Me Softly
- Extraordinary You
- My Country
I also really enjoyed many of the shows that didn't get beans, but when weighed against my favorites they just didn't have the same impact on my year. Also, there were several shows I thought I'd watch but I just never did. Sometimes, I don't understand my own choices...

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I forgot to count Memories of the Alhambra and I feel like I really EARNED that one... So, a bean goes to Her Private Life after all.

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If you managed to watch Memories to the end, you definitely EARNED the bean! From a fellow sufferer....

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Boy I watched alot of dramas for 2019. (F) for finished (A) for abandoned (O)Ongoing. Have 32 Finished and 1 Ongoing

Bad Detective(A)
Dance Sports Girls(F)🌟
The Crowned Clown(F)🌟🌟
Spring Must Be Coming(A)
Kingdom(F)🌟🌟🌟🌟
Romance is a Bonus Book(F)
Reach of Sincerity(A)
Trap(F)
The Fiery Priest(F)
Possessed(F)
Doctor Prisoner(F)🌟🌟🌟
Kill It (formerly Blue Eyes)(F)
Confession(F)
Woohoo Waikiki 2(F)
My Fellow Citizens(F)
Special Labor Inspector Jo(F)
Her Private Life(F)
The Secret Life of My Secretary(F)
Voice 3(F)
Angel’s Last Mission: Love(F)
One Spring Night(A)
Partners for Justice 2(F)
Search Query: WWW(F)
Joseon Survival Guide(A)
Chief of Staff(F)🌟
Designated Survivor: 60 Days(F)🌟🌟🌟🌟
Watcher(F)
Hotel Del Luna(F)🌟🌟
Rookie Historian Gu Hae-ryung
Doctor John(F)🌟🌟🌟
When the Devil Calls Your Name(F)🌟🌟
Be Melodramatic(F)🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
Hell Is Other People(F)🌟
When the Camellia Blooms(F)🌟
Melting Me Softly(A)
Tale of Nokdu(F)
Extraordinary You(F)🌟🌟🌟
The Lies Within(F)
Leverage(F)
Psychopath Diary (O)🌟🌟

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I am glad to have VIKI, but it’s website ratings are bogus!

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Oh, no, I'm on Search www ep 12! When will the bean count finish? Will I have time to add that bean to my count?

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I have 41. My list below shows up to 42 but that's because I was counting Last Empress and I'm too lazy to re-number everything.

Meanwhile, it seems that none of the staff gave any votes to Pegasus Market !??? Time for another vote-rigging scandal? :)

01 My Strange Hero
02 Less Than Evil / Bad Detective
03 Kingdom
04 Trap
06 Crowned Clown
07 Romance Is a Bonus Book
08 Spring Turns to Spring
09 Reach of Sincerity / Touch Your Heart
10 Legal High
11 Haechi
12 Big Issue
13 Kill It
14 Pyschometric Guy
15 My Fellow Citizens
16 Her Private Life
17 Abyss
18 Voice 3
19 Angel's last mission
20 Secret Life of My Secretary
21 Partners for Justice 2
22 designated survivor
23 Love Alarm
24 Hotel del Luna
25 Joseon Survival
26 Doctor Detective
27 Doctor John
28 watcher
29 When the Devil Calls Your Name
30 Welcome to Life
31 Arthdal
32 Rookie Historian
33 Running Investigators
34 When the Camellia Blooms
35 Melting Me Softly
36 Vagabond
37 Extraordinary You
38 Tale of Nokdu
39 My Country
40 Pegasus Market
41 Leverage
42 Catch the Ghost

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Wow you made it through Joseon Survival, Abyss AND Melting Me Softly?

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That's for an award on its own 😁

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The Antibean Award

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Maybe an antimatter vortex or something.

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Lord Cobol proves conclusively there is something that can escape a black hole.

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Wow. How do you do this?

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It helps to be semi-retired and have LOTS of free time.
Joseon Survival: not bad except for the outside-the-show news and the lack of subs for the final 4 episodes.
Abyss: it's hard to make me drop a show with that FL.
Melting: I thought the first 2 days were fun, then inertia took over.

BTW, expect lots of votes for Pegasus & My Fellow Citizens. HdL might get a few leftovers.

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Pegasus deserves the love indeed!

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Also 42 is a significant number for Douglas Adams fans.

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So close to the meaning of life.

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Don't panic!

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Started 12 and only finished half. I still need to watch the last episode of PM so that would be 7.

Rookie Historian Gu Haeryeong - 2
Beautiful World - 3
The Light in Your Eyes - 2

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Finishing half of what you start is amazing! I started 33 shows, got half way through 13, and finished 8.

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Wow! 33! At least you gave them a try!

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Haha, my commitment issues are intense! Along with all the stuff I don't enjoy, some of the stuff I do gets dropped as well.

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I have 19 beans.

Confession ⭐⭐⭐
Nokdu Flower⭐⭐⭐
My Fellow Citizens⭐⭐⭐
Special Labour Inspector Jo⭐⭐⭐

Welcome to Life⭐⭐
Romance is a Bonus Book⭐⭐

My Strange Hero⭐
Memories of Alhambra⭐
Hotel del Luna⭐

Doctor John
Children of Nobody
The Light in Your Eyes

The Fiery Priest
Be Melodramatic
Her Private Life
Touch Your Heart
He is Psychometric
When the Camellia Blooms
One Spring Night

I will give some candy to DJ, ChoN, and TLIYI later. They don't desreve to be in the same catagory with the last 7 on my list, but I don't have any more beans to give them.

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I just remember finishing Perfume and The Last Empress. Perfume had all my heart, The Last Empress got my attention. Clearly both are not favourites of 2019 on Dramabeans. Which really breaks my heart, ngl. But it is what it is.

I watched other dramas but my ffwd button was in full use or I was not focused enough to recall either I started watching from ep 1 or completed watching or not, which makes me question wether those dramas even deserve to be considered for a bean count.

Therefore...for whatever other dramas I trudged to the end and got a bean...I award all the beans I accumulated to both Perfume and The Last Empress.

Dramas I did finish:
Perfume 💜💜💜💜
The Last Empress 🤴🏻🤴🏻🤴🏻

Dramas i might have finished, jumped some episodes or my ffwd was in full use:
The Fiery Priest
Trap
Devil
Vagabond
My Fellow Citizens

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Take heart, my favorite dramas are rarely the popularity poll winners.

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Oh...I missed out Just Dance. Hmmm.

1/2 💃🏻 for Just Dance
Add another 1/2 💜 for Perfume

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My 2019 drama list seems short. Well...with the help of my ffwd button, I actually binged watched a lot of older dramas/movies (can you notice the trend? ㅋㅋㅋ).

Dramas
Hyena (2006), Thank You (2007), 3 Dads 1 Mum (2008), My Life's Golden Age (2009), You Who Came From The Stars (2013/14), Liar Game (2014), Trot) Lovers (2014), The King's Face (2015), On The Way To The Airport (2016), The Man Who Dies To Live (2017), Return (2018)

Movies
The Age of Shadows (2016), Prisoner (2017), 6 Years in Love (2008), Bloody Innocent (2010)

I don't know which one was my favourite. But out of all these, the characters I like most are: Kyung Tae from 3D1M, Ho Rim from TMWDTL and Tae Suk from Return.

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I don't think I need to use Google to find out who plays those 3 characters...

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Hmmm, who could it be?

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I wonder who too. Hmmm 🤔

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Lol 😆. Google is not needed to know why I chose to watch all those dramas either mindy.

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I loved Perfume! I don't care if SSR's character didn't start out appearing politically correct.

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Yay! Perfume deserves more 💜~ Seo Yi Do and Min Jae Hee are 💜.

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Now on to my dropped 2019 dramas..I had to refer to the list by @mary, I forgot most of them 😅:

Angel's Last Mission
Be Melo
WWW
Hotel Del Luna
Arthdal
Liver or Die
Beautiful World
I Wanna Hear Your Song
The Banker
Doctor Prisoner
Catch The Ghost
Extra You
The Light in Your Eyes
Graceful Family
Her Private Life(?)
Reach of Sincerity(?)
Kill It(?)
....

That's all I think 🧐.

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Hmmm...I also somewhat finished SKY Castle and MoA. I'm just going to include it in my bean count. I also award an extra bean to myself for somewhat completing Devil, the drama that was so loved by many when it started but I was one of the few who trudged until the end (I blame JKH for this. Hah!). So I have 9+1extra bean.

My new distribution is as below.
Perfume 💜💜💜💜💜💜
The Last Empress 🤴🏻🤴🏻🤴🏻+1/4🤴🏻
SKY Castle 1/4 📖
Just Dance 1/4 💃🏻
The Fiery Priest 1/4 🔥

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The Last Empress was all over the wall, wasnt it? I think it didnt get any beans this year because it started to early and was on last years count.
There were SO many people at the TLE watches.

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It started on 21st Nov 2018. I started watching maybe around mid Dec 2018, which was after the 2018 bean count. My favourite scenes like coffee Hyuk, bunny Hyuk and many more happened in 2019~ hohoho.

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Blast it all. For some reason my images on my fan wall for all intents and purposes have disappeared 😟 LOL. I had posted images from the shows I had completed. Now, without my visual mementos , going down the list, I only count four completed K dramas !?!
Many of the dramas that I did watch were either J or C dramas or K dramas that fell out of this time frame. Sad state of affairs. 😟

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Closer look at list shows 6 completed, lol 😔, will probably split it 3 and 3 . Note to self, keep copies of images , don’t put too much stock in hosting service that claims “permanent links”. I guess they are permanent until they aren’t. 😟

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I just took a peak at your fan wall, and I can still see the images you posted over the last year. Unless, there were a lot more... I had noticed you doing this earlier in the year and thought it was a really clever way to keep track of what you've been watching. :)

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2019 was the year I learned to drop some shows early.
(*) shows in progress

Best Ranking:

1. Hotel de Luna. The best top to bottom show this year; story, plot, and staging were excellent.
2. Spring Turns to Spring. A very fun and well acted show.
3. Pegasus Market. Could have been higher because of the absurd humor but it did not stick the landing with the prospect of a second season.
4. Doctor Prisoner. The show with the most twists and turns.
5. Best Chicken. A very nice, underrated show about young men and women getting started on adulthood in a small neighborhood. The ending was rushed because the show must have been axed because of low ratings.
6. Beautiful Love Wonderful Life (*) The most well-rounded weekender of the year.
7. Camellia Blooms. The ending was too happy for everyone; but overall it was a good show (better without the murder mystery).
8. Angel’s Last Mission. Relied more on puppy love than plot.
9. Neighborhood Lawyer Jo 2. Gritty but not believable at times.
10. My Only One. Typical family class conflict which had too much repetition and entitled rich guy stalking.
11. One Spring Night. Noona Lite. I preferred Pretty Noona's sparks to this show's very slow burn. Really did not deliver on single dad tries to find happiness premise while balancing raising his child. (Camellia did that better)
12. Liver or Die. Good actors, bad plot lines.
13. Mother of Mine. Mostly tired class family tropes.
14. Chocolate (*) Come for the food porn, stay for the angst?
15. 9.9 Million Won Woman (*) Come for the stolen money, stay for the angst?

Dropped:
Her Private Life
I Wanna Hear Your Song
My Fellow Citizens
Perfume

I think 2019 had more quality child actor performances than normal, but also had more good main actors working hard to salvage bad or weak scripts.

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They are missing Pegasus Market, and me, I have only watched 8! (It will be ten by the end of December, when I finished Pegasus Market and the Rooky historian!
I feel it is a short number of dramas. But what can I tell you??? I have also watched around three or four Chinese dramas in this year.

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I surprised myself at how many dramas I actually completed. I dropped so many... Alas, I still have 15 beans in my pocket. I dropped probably almost double that. Here's my list of completed drama.

The Crowned Clown 🍿
Romance is a Bonus Book 🍿
That Psychometric Guy
Her Private Life
My First First Love
One Spring Night
Arthdal Chronicles 🍿
Search Query: WWW 🍿🍿
Hotel Del Luna 🍿
Rookie Historian Gu Hae-ryung 🍿
Class of Lies
Be Melodramatic 🍿🍿🍿
Graceful Family 🍿
When the Camellia Blooms 🍿🍿🍿Extraordinary You 🍿

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I feel wrong giving a whole bean to Arthdal. It only deserve half a bean at most for the ambition of doing something different in kdrama.

I'd give the other half to HDL.

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Well, I have 7 beans in total this year and here is the distribution:
- Kingdom *
- Search www *
- Hotel del Luna
- Be Melodramatic *** (actually rewatched it 3 times)
- Romance is a bonus book
- Camelia **
- Catch the ghost

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For the sake of going overboard, I made 4 different lists.
🔷= 1 full bean 🔸= 1/2 bean

K-dramas that aired in 2019:

A Moment at Eighteen 🔷🔷🔸
Extraordinary You 🔸
Reach of Sincerity

All full length K-dramas I watched in 2019:

A Moment at Eighteen 🔷🔷🔸
Circle 🔷🔷
Dream High 🔷🔷
Kill Me, Heal Me 🔷
School 2013 🔷
Goblin 🔸
Fight My Way
Reach of Sincerity
Extraordinary You

K-dramas + mini dramas & J-drama:

A Moment at Eighteen 🔷🔷🔷
Circle 🔷🔷
Dream High 🔷🔷
to.Jenny (mini drama) 🔷🔷
Kill Me, Heal Me 🔷
School 2013 🔷
Overprotected Kahoko (J-drama) 🔷
Goblin 🔸
Individualist Ji-young (mini drama) 🔸
Extraordinary You
You Drive Me Crazy (mini drama)
Reach of Sincerity
Fight My Way

(Cont.)

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Bonus List:

Movies:

My Long Awaited Love Story (J-movie) 🔷🔷🔷
Little Forest 🔷
A Werewolf Boy
On Your Wedding Day

Started but put on hold to finish later:

Hotel del Luna
Pegasus Market
My Country

Currently Watching:

Just Between Lovers. This definitely deserves multiple beans, but since I’m not quite finished, it will have to go on next year’s list.

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Fight My Way gets nothing? Oh....sad.

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Ah, sorry! I know that was a well loved drama, but I don’t know...it just didn’t do much for me personally. 🤷🏼‍♀️

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Everyone is entitled to spend their beans as they so choose. Thats why there are so many dramas, right? Not everything appeals to every one.
I'll just love it extra hard for everyone out there who doesnt love it!

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@isthatacorner
Haha, yes. We all have our own unique tastes. And mine feels a bit random sometimes. Some things hit the right spot, and others, for whatever reason, just don’t. I’m glad you enjoyed it though 😀

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Thats exactly the reason why I liked it. I watched it at the right place at the right time when I was having a hard time with work and dreams and here comes this delightful drama dealing with having a hard time with work and dreams.

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I had the same thought abut Fight My Way. But, I guess, no show is a perfect fit for everyone... I'm truly excited that you're loving Just Between Lovers. It's such a great show.

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@kat23
You may like "Seventeen Year Old's Condition" with Park Shi Eun and Yoon Chan Young. (I prefer its alternate title: Everything and Nothing)

I think it sits in your wheel house given your beans. For me, one of the best 2 dramas of the year.

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Thanks for the recommendation! I’ve heard of that one. It’s a mini drama, right? I’ll put it on my list of things I need to check out.

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@kat23
Yes. Its a 2 parter...small but so well envisioned. Like GG79, it uses teen as a lens on the inconsistencies we all share.

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I only watched 6 dramas in full though I read almost all the recaps posted on Dramabeans this year. I'm allocating my beans as follows:
Search Query: WWW - 5
That Psychometric Guy - 1
Romance is a Bonus Book
Reach of Sincerity
Woohoo Waikiki 2
The Secret Life of My Secretary

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I have 19 beans and these are the dramas I loved the most this year:

Moment at Eighteen 1
WWW 1
Kingdom 2
Camellia Blooms 2
Radiant 3
Hotel Del Luna 10

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