Happy New Year 2020 and Happy OT!
It's still deliciously slow in the office as work starts to increase momentum, however it's my volunteer work that's going a bit crazy. Several meetings and lots of preparation to do. I don't seem to have free time each weekend, the first 2 weeks of January.

Still I'm thankful for another year completed and a new one begun, with family doing OK, with work to do and dramas to watch (if I could only get out of the last bit of slump!)

I have been watching or trying to watch.

Kdramas
Crash Landing on You - As the stuff that annoyed others didn't bug me, I find that it's getting better and better. The dynamics of the characters, are lovely to watch and how the coincidences and coming together of the couple(s) that may take place, look organic.

Psychopath Diary - I've taken a break from this for a bit. I would like to see how the complications get unraveled, but show has strangely not gripped me as much as I thought it could.

Cdramas
Joy of Life - This is a joy to watch. The intrigue and twists, and how our hero gets around the blocks and deadly blows are compelling.

The Romance of Hua Rong - Runaway brides and husbands out to woo them back seem to be my catnip. There are some huge plot holes and silly segments that I had to FFD through though, but I may continue to see if it improves towards the end.

To Get Her - Could have been better. I was just picking this up to while away the wait for JOL. Some bits are insanely funny, but that may not be enough to elevate this show from light fluff.

Have a great start to the year!

Happy (first weekend of) 2020 Beanies!!! 😀

What an eventful week! New year’s eve was the calmest day of them all ironically. Most of my friends wanted a break from our traditional grand dinner and celebrated with their parents instead. As a result my K-drama friend and I decided to invite the birthday friend from last week to chill with us, without any drama about the menu or activities. In the end we should have worried more about the location, because none of our parents wanted to give up their evening of peace and quiet to host us, no matter how small our gathering would be. All three of us basically got kicked out by our parents that evening! 😂 Out of respect for their wishes, we last minute hired an apartment where the three of us could talk, cook and watch movies together and stay the night at a very cheap price.

For the more exciting part of the week: I took part in my final job tests round this Monday, and it all went very well! Next Monday I should receive that phone call that might change my life. Either I am permanently hired, or I will get helpful feedback to keep in mind. I do not have much time to fret about it, because I have other cover letter deadlines this weekend and I still have a lot to do for my Paris trip next week. I will be at the Day6 concert in Paris during the next OT, but I probably will have a lot of tea about the feedback and the concert to share in two weeks, whether you will like the long OT post that comes with it or not! 😉

Since there is no CRASH LANDING or STOVE LEAGUE I’ve been itching for something to watch all week... Finally, at midnight last night I casually hit play and ended up watching two episodes of PSYCHOPATH DIARY.

Random thoughts of someone who doesn’t watch crime shows:

The OST tells me it’s a comedy (I really like it) and if I skip gruesome murder scenes I could continue watching... I don’t think anyone but Yoon Shi Yoon could sell this character. I like that he seems dumb to everyone but he really isn’t (don’t spoil me if he turns out to be magnificently stupid later on, please).

Guys, I relate! He doesn’t like conflict and is an introvert. I thought he was a coward and pushover as everyone else in the drama says. But then I learned that he also chooses to be like that because he’s kind. (I think that will be his saving grace, now that he thinks he thinks he’s a serial killer😂). At the end of two episodes he’s questioning whether always being kind is really the right thing to do. I think he’s a very interesting character, in sum.

The Korean drama production method of live-shoot scheduling has been criticized for years. It leads to extremely long hours, tight weekly deadlines, extra stress on cast and crew and accidents. We rarely hear about these conditions unless there is a set tragedy or production company scandal on labor violations.

When CLOY went on sudden hiatus for cold weather and safety conditions, I thought it could only be the result of the star power of Son Ye Jin and Hyun Bin to make things right. The week before, HB bought the entire crew long winter coats. They were also working on Christmas eve. In interviews, it has been described as a "hard" or difficult shoot. But the good performances by the leads has generated good early ratings so it was in everyone's best interest to not jeopardize a good thing. It is nice to see common sense for safety and health concerns prevail over the normal production standard.

Happy new year beans!!! I hope everyone had a joyous time with friends, family and most importantly, yourself 🥳!

Happy New Year OT Beanies! This is the first one, right? Woohoo!

I know New Year's is full of people making resolutions that tend to be about accomplishing/completing goals, doing new things, sticking to plans, etc. But I'm curious - does anyone have any resolutions for things they don't want to do in the new year? Like breaking a bad habit? Not putting energy into soul-sucking relationships? Letting go of _fill in the blank_?

I just came up with one yesterday after reading a really compelling article about the dwindling art of conversation (blame social media, blah, blah, blah) - so I've decided to try and leave the small talk behind and not have "boring" conversations. Which will be tough as a Canadian, cause we tend to overdo it with talk about the weather...

2020 starts with Cricket.

Good start of 1st week with many Japanese movies translated.
Hot gimmick is the shoujo trash that makes all body ache. Strong heartburn and forces you to become violent towards fictional characters. Well, its shoujo so you in with all the protection.

Good start with money.
Installed Tiktok - had idea about it and after using it for half and hour confirmed my poor opinion of its addicts. Ahem this generation. sigh.

Learning 3d modeling once again.

Happy New Year beanies! I spent a few weeks in Philadelphia and Colorado over Christmas visiting family members. Lots of traveling across the country. I watched Stranger with my brother. He liked it but thought the middle dragged and I agree. I think he would like Crash Landing on You. I adore this show so much! I am in love with the smart characters Jeong-Hyeok and Se-Ri played by very smart Hyun-Bin and Son Ye-Jin. Did I say smart Hyun-Bin before handsome Hyun-Bin?! Well he is both (puh pum, puh pum♥). I loved Ye-Jin in Personal Taste and I think she is such a bright star in Crash Landing. This K-drama gives me the same feels as when I first watched Pasta, Boys Over Flowers, and Coffee House, as if I am rediscovering K-dramas. It is very well done and I am enjoying the story. Gah, episode 6 cliffhanger ending. And I heard CLoY won’t air this week – you’re gonna make me wait double??

Also watching Chocolate, the new cast of 1N2D, Black Dog, Psychopath Diary (I’m behind, does it get better?), Radio Star with good ol’ SuJu Hee Chul and Faker (cute episode), and season 2 Tokyo House.

It is fun reading all the end-of-year Dramabeans awards and voting. Thanks, DB team for all your hard work.

I plan to relax this weekend before starting back on Monday's schedule for 2020. Wishing you all a good year and happy K-drama viewing, let’s do it! \/ (Fighting!) luv owl

Hello everyone I just started Go Back Couple (love it so far) I’m at episode 3 & the 2nd ML Nam Gil aka Jang Ki Young is wearing a uniform. It is a black/grey suit with a military like beret & a suitcase (I don’t know the exact English word). I was wondering if anybody knew what kind of uniform it is & why he is wearing it?

I am Assexual. There I said it. So one would think that all the problems, I had gone through and am still going through was enough. But oh no, there had to be another thing that bothered me during my depression. And that is marrying and especially, having kids. Another thing to worry about now and the future. I found out I was Asexual and that is when I realized a lot of things about myself. I told my mother that I won't marry. I told her I just didn't want to ever marry and have a baby. (My parents don't but my sister knows about my asexuality, and but she can't seem to believe it. Nor would my parents except that or understand about such a thing's existence.) But my mother said that I had to do all that. Though she wanted me to do all those degrees, so that I could earn my own money and not have to depend on others, she thinks marriage is important. Infact my mother herself earns the money to take care of the family but my father doesn't earn enough money to do that at all. Infact my mother not only does her job but also does the work around the house but my father thinks housework is a women's job. So he rarely does work around the house except in cases where my mother is not home, for a long time. So on those days when both me and my sister has to do most of the work, he might help in making the food. But not without complaining they we should be ashamed we can't do it alone and that he is a man and they are not supposed to do such work. See that's not the biggest problem, the problem is he mostly idle and literally does nothing except when he does go for his job, which he does only for two days a week. Yes you read that right. He even does not do that a lot of times cause of some reason or the other, making excuses. My mother herself has no problem with either him or my brother not doing anything around the house (though she does have a problem with my father's job). My brother is the one who spends the most money (once he literally spent 'my allowance' without me realizing until too late, on an online game, money which I had saved, it was a lot), and is always outside the house and doesn't like to eat home cooked meal, demands my mother to give him money, even the times she says she doesn't have enough money. So he mostly orders food or forgoes eating the whole day. My mother says he's just a kid (who is in college by the way). My mother really spoils him and literally says nothing most of the time even when he hits her or shouts at her. And I pointed it out to my mother and she literally said his wife will take care of him. So she expects me and my sister to help with the chores and so we do. A lot of fights happen in my house, every other day. You see for my mother marriage is really important too. She thinks that otherwise people will talk, otherwise they will wonder. Except it's not about what they will think of me but about my parents.

Happy 2020 Beanies! Happy 1st OT too!

I have fallen the The Untamed rabbit hole TT__TT

I've got two episodes left. I think I finally understand why Chinese dramas needed a rewatch after finishing a drama. You've been with the characters from the start. You were with them the whole journey, you can't help but love them dearly. I've felt this with The Untamed and Arsenal Military Academy. A little late to the party but I'm here~~~

The year started with me binge watching The Untamed, and I think it's a great start!

Happy 2020 to all! Hope we get to have more fun chatting about kdramas this year. I know I'm loving Crash Landing On You and enjoying it so much more than I expected.

I also started watching Romance is a Bonus Book since it's hard for me to wait around until the weekend for new episodes of CLOY.

I went to Korea back in November for 3 weeks and it was the most amazing thing ever. I'm Korean American and had only gone once before when I was very young. It was nice to see that my Korean was passable enough that Koreans were surprised when I said I was from the US. I'd like to practice my Korean more and be more natural, hoping that watching kdramas will help increase my limited vocabulary. :)

TGIF! Can't wait to just relax for the next two days. Love the weekend. <3

Happy Friday everyone and Happy New year 🎉 🎊 🎆 🎇 to everyone who made to 2020. And may 2019s soul rest in peace so it doesn't come back. It was really awful for me.

In Dramaland I think I'll pick REMEMBER SON'S WAR on top of CLY Son Ye Jin is making my day.

Anyone else waiting to the Twelfth Night?
In Spain we celebrate Epiphany. During the night the Three Wise Men (Mechior, Caspar and Balthazar) bring presents to all childen who previously wrote them a letter. The ones who've been bad don't get a present but coal (although it's sugar coal, you can eat it).
Every Spanish child has been threatened to receive coal if they don't behave.
So anyone around shares this tradition?

If I had known the gem Dance Sports Girl would turn out to be and that it only has 8 epsiodes I would definately have tried watching it before the year 2019 ended (yes I'm being greedy for beans and also I haven't finished it yet but I love it❤)
Ahh better late than never, right!?

Hello all:
Hoping everyone is doing well this new year. I myself am feeling a bit unsettled. Probably the bombing, probably the deaths of several of my friends's sons, primarily by suicide. Hard times all over. i hope everyone has a good healthy and happy new year.

Dramas:

Stove League -- my present kdrama crack
99 million woman -- the coincidences are annoying me and the stress is horrible. A good show but i can't say i'll ever watch it again.
Prosecutors diary -- wish i could like female lead
cdramas:
Joy of life -- my crack cdrama
Yanxi palace -- princess adventures. = fun and short
must get back to lingjian mountain
Chongqing hot pot on amazonprime. a good movie.
Must connect to sword dynasty

jdramas:
nee sensei -- good... a bit too much like ugly girlfriend

have a great year y'all

Binge(ing) People with flaws. Not a big deal.
I am disappointed the characters are so vain.
In general, the values this drama portray are very low.

Hi y'all!
i hope you're all having a lovely start to the New Year. I am so ding dang grateful that the holiday season is over. I just wasnt feeling it this year--I didnt even go to Hobby Lobby or Michaels and pillage the after Christmas sales that I've been looking forward to all season long. My thought was, even if I can't/don't feel like celebrating much of anything in my apartment I can get tons of cute stuff for next year (in my hopefully much better apartment!) but when the sales rolled in, I rolled over and went back to sleep. Could be this stupid, lingering, cold/flu/plague/allergies/wtfamIevendyingfrom?! continuing to drain the energy out of me. I dont know. But, oh well. That ship has sailed.
Things have been so stressful and hectic in libraryland!
There haven't been any more run-ins with the manager but we're a small staff and since it was the holidays most of the staff took 2-3 days off to spend time with family, friends, celebrate the season. Except--just because its the holidays doesnt mean that things slow down at the library! Things pick up! For the last two weeks I've had kids in the building from the time the doors open until we close. Most of them staying 4+ hours day, not even leaving to go home for meals (and there without any adult supervision, I might add). My manager kept looking at me like: DO SOMETHING WITH THESE TINY HUMANS. But, there wasn't much I could do because we were short staffed. Shrug.
I had teacher collections come in, out reaches to prepare, story times to prepare and 3 separate things to look at regarding collection development and I had to fill out a self evaluation form. Its hard to give an honest evaluation when I know my boss doesnt like me. It was hard to get as much of it finished as I did, but. I tried.
I dont really have real resolutions--except for the ones that I made on the wall--but I do want to try and get to know my sister this year. She's exactly 10 years older than me and I can count how many times I've seen her in person (7). She's married with two young kids and she lives in Georgia I think. We're friends on facebook. She posts a lot about her friends who became like sisters to her, stuff about letting go of people who dont spark joy in your life, and religious stuff. When my older brother got married last year the two of them became closes so I reached out to her as well. But now I dont know what to do! I have her phone number and said that I would call or text but I have no idea what to say!
Also, as much as I love my little apartment Im making moves to actually...go out in the world some? I'm supposed to meet up with some coworkers next Wednesday (they chose a place that is literally down the road from me. Feels like I cant say no) and I'm trying to find a class of some sort to take. Not an educational class but something for fun. There's going to be a one-off Korean cooking class in March that I want to take but I need something before then! I just can't find...

Can anyone suggest an new/old K-drama which is interesting from start to end?

What is news on Park Bo Gum????? Awaiting his next drama/movie!

For people who liked Be Melodramatic, the actors Ahn Jae-hong and Jeon Yeo-bin with Kang So-ra and Kim Sung-oh will be in Knowing Brother the 11th January :) They will promote their new mvie Secret Zoo I guess.

I'm so glad Dramabeans is back. I had flashbacks to the Drama Fever debacle and didn't know how I would cope without this site! 😁

I’ve been struggling with migraines crisis these last weeks. I had one two weeks ago and I had a rough time yesterday and the day before because the crisis was so strong, meds didn’t work so good and I had to double the dosis. I tolerate meds quite well, but they leave me exhausted, and it’s hard to focus on work (yes, I’m so stupid I go to work).
Today I’m feeling better, and I hope it stays that way, because I cannot take more meds until tomorrow.
Migraines are bitches.
And I hate it when everybody is acting like a doctor and diagnoses you: it’s hormonal, it’s related to your period, you shouldn’t eat spicy things, you’re having them because you’re stressed...