Happy Lunar New Year, friends!!!

Hyun Bin sent a video wishing his fans a happy lunar new year (on my fanwall, in case anyone is interested!

Other than that, I'm still in the black vortex of Hyun Bin obsession. Anyone else in here with me?

Happy weekend guys ❣️🎉
Who watched the ending of JOY of Life last week with me?
I am sooo upset I haven't watched a single thing since then, that hasn't happened in...never-ever-before.
Sequel comes in 2021...December, but before that, we gotta live, thank God for BTS...I need my boys rn.
What's airing presently that's annoying you?

Happy Friday Beanies!

A daily CLOY spaz with some friends yesterday brought us to the line from episode 9 when Jung-Hyuk said: "One step should be ok". After I'd finished dying all over again, I started thinking about some lines and/or speeches that have stayed with me long after a drama has ended. Here are some of them(in no particular order):

"One step should be ok" ~ Crash Landing On You.
"Whether you’re a man, or an alien… I don’t care anymore" ~ Coffee Prince.
"My wish is that your wishes come true" ~ Moonlight Drawn By Clouds
"Clichés are the best" ~ Extraordinary You.
"The pain may hurt, but it will pass. If you bear it for just a little bit, it will pass by." ~ Healer.
 "...going through this life is the first time for all of us anyways." ~ Because this is my first life.
"Take care of your "star pocket". There are moments in life that sparkle. Whenever that happens, save those moments in your star pocket. When you face hard times or you are sad, take a star from that pocket and find the power you need. " ~ Because this is my first life.
"Things will be fine when you turn 30" ~ Be Melodramatic.

So Beanies, what are some of your favorite lines from dramas?

After a really few bad weeks, this was actually a good week. Not just a good day but a whole good week. Didn't have to deal with much stress or felt depressed. I can't believe it's Friday already. Infact today was really calm.

Happy weekend everyone!
(Posted in the last weeks open thread earlier, good job Purpleink!)
Here is some rambling from me, I just need to let it out somewhere.

I met with the doctor today and she was very kind and calm. Not stressed at all as they usually are in my country. Got medicines prescribed to me that she wants me to try even though I'm scared of messing with my head with chemical substances. One is to help me sleep and the other one is to "help me feel less useless". The doctor thinks I'm having depression, but I don't feel depressed, a bit down yes but not depressed. It feels like I don't fit in anywhere and with these medicines they will try to fit me in a mold I know don't belong in. It honestly scares me.

Happy Lunar New Year Beanies!

It's a weekend without new episodes but it's a weekend with family!

The Beanie Rewatch on The Heirs makes me laugh and goodness, that drama was awful!

The only interesting thing that happened this week was that I met up with an ARMY friend who I met in SK last year. We ended up spending 15 hours talking about life, BTS, SVT and just anything under the sun. That was the first time I talked to someone that long but it didn't feel long though. It felt wonderful despite me spending the day sleepily >.<

Happy weekend Beanies!

My poor godson has been sick and banned from daycare this week, which means that my parents and I have been his main caregivers the whole week. Our hopes for a quick recovery were dashed by the pediatrician, who diagnosed our poor baby with the early stages of pneumonia. Caregiver duty is thereby extended until next Thursday. On top of that my goddaughter has no school until Tuesday and my parents have to meet with the physiotherapist at the hospital this Monday afternoon to discuss my father’s back treatment. So I am on my own this Monday afternoon with an energetic toddler and her ill baby brother and I do not feel confident about this responsibility at all, despite everyone telling me I am doing great with them. I should take some comfort from that and the fact that there is no other option. This is actually the best scenario we can wish for at the moment, because if he still has a fever tomorrow, he will have to be hospitalized instead. Of course I would babysit by myself all the time if that meant my godchildren would never have to stay at a hospital.

Ironically, I watched more this week than I usually do. To end our days on a positive note my friend and I watched ‘Ouran high school host club’ to laugh and shut off our brain every evening. Fortunately it is only about a dozen twenty minute episodes without any logic.

I have also read contradicting statements about whether ‘No Second Chances’ will be airing tomorrow or not. I actually do hope that they are postponed, because in that case I can catch up on some episodes before February starts next week. I am seriously considering challenging myself to a February movie month, which is not going to work out if I keep getting behind on No Second Chances episodes and watch them haphazardly like I am doing now.

Happy Friday Beanies!!

Uni is in full swing. I'm kinda glad epsiodes for basically all dramas airing over the weekend are postponed because I don't think I would have been able to watch any of them! Still haven't had the chance to watch Black Dog episodes. I'll probably (hopefully) watch it tomorrow!

Happy New Year! Mine has started some weeks ago, but I'm all for New beginnings 😋
So, this week the stars aligned and I got posted on a place not far from home. This means a shorter commute (on one hand, yay!, on the other hand, less "me time" to listen to kpop and podcasts, buh!), and, more importantly- I can come home for lunch for a luxurious half an hour!
I've found the perfect k-fix for this daily respite: Prison Playbook! The slice of life format without cliffhangers makes it perfect to watch parts of episodes and just turn off by the end of a scene (by 1:30h running time, it's not as if I could binge watch anyway). And it is a great show! Good actors, sweet humor, quirky characters and a setting so foreign to me that just watching how they live their lives is engaging for me (are prisons in Korea really like that?).
From Tuesday to Friday I can come home, relax a bit in jail, and go back to work fully refreshed, it feels dandy! 🕺
So, Beanies, I've had a really nice week! Hope you had one too, and let's all head into a well-deserved weekend full of relaxation and kdrama

hello Beanies, didn't want to let another week go by without sharing something, so just dropping by to say a quick hello:-) hope everyone's doing good:-)...have been super busy with work, and its only January (but days are going by so quickly already), haven't watched much of kdramas lately, having a bad hangover due to Joy of Life cliffhanger ending at the moment:-( can't wait for 2021 to come soon enough!

Thanks to the lack of new drama episodes this weekend I started Romantic Doctor Kim 1. It might have the most unusual first episode I've seen in a K-drama outside of Pegasus Market.

Hi there, beanies! It’s a grey world where I am, the sky and the ground are the same color – turn the world upside down and it doesn’t matter – winter blahs.

I was sorry to say goodbye to Please Take Care of My Refrigerator after 5 years. It was a sort of filler show for me, but I usually found it entertaining and I loved the chefs’ efforts to create tasty foods. Speaking of that, Baek Jong-won’s newest show, Delicious Rendezvous, is fun especially with Hee Chul and Kim Dong Jun (who has the cutest facial expressions). Hee Chul is a charmer and has grown on me over the years. Also, he is everywhere these days on Ask Us Anything, Matching Survival 1+1, and My Little Old Boy, but I think he needs a new hairstyle than the yellow mic-chin parted down the middle hair he’s had for a while now. Something that shows off his handsome features better. He’s a keeper though, surviving all these idol years and still going strong without scandal (as they say).

Crash Landing on You is good, I’m sticking with Stove League (although it’s losing it cohesiveness with the internal club value clashes), Black Dog, Romantic doctor Kim 2, and I’m wrapping up my Reply 1988 rewatch with ep 20 tonight. I LOVE this show so much. What will I rewatch next that can fill my K-drama nostalgia-loving heart like Reply does?

All the Parasite accolades are well-deserved and amazing. I feel so happy for the elation that the director, producer and cast are experiencing with their international acclaim. (Maybe rewtaching Pasta is called for?)

Here are the Korean variety shows I typically watch every week: Master in the House (go, team, go! – their cheerleading challenge went well!), My Little Old Boy, The Return of Superman, LoJ, 2D1N season 4 (love the new cast camaraderie), Ask Us Anything (the quality of each episode varies drastically), Delicious Rendezcous (I like the format), The King of Mask Singer (love the participation by so many amazing singers/performers), The Manager (focus on the managers is such a refreshing angle), Jung Hae In’s Travel Log (he was too adorable cruising around NYC and getting doused at Niagara Falls), Humanimal (watch the first 2 eps – it’s just ok), Happy Together (I love the casual conversation with guests), Because I Want to Talk (Dong Wook is a great MC for this type of in-depth talk show); Weekly Idol (it is what it is), Immortal Songs 2 (impressed by the show’s consistent quality), Radio Star (ditto for quality here, too), Love Naggers 3 (I watch through squinted eyes at some of the tangled relationships)’ E-news Exclusive, Battle Trip, and Yu Huiyeol’s Sketchbook.
Yep, that’s a lot of K-entertainment! Makes me happy! ♥

I had a weird drama-watching week in that I really liked (or even loved) everything I watched (apart from the daily drama, but that doesn't really count)

I now feel I'm going to end up paying for that by hating everything next week in that well-know phenomenon called drama-karma.

Alternatively, I've suffered enough over the past 12 months that I deserve this.

From the Korean Times:
Cable channel tvN's North Korea-themed drama "Crash Landing on You" has been accused of glamorizing the reclusive state, police said Wednesday.

The conservative Christian Liberty Party lodged a complaint with police against tvN on Jan. 9 for allegedly violating the National Security Law. It claims the soap opera ― which is mostly set in a small village in North Korea ― has only depicted North Korean soldiers in a "peaceful" way.

The party released a statement on Jan. 10, insisting South Korean citizens have been "incited" by the TV series that failed to clearly indicate that North Korea is the nation's "main opponent."

"Our security law stipulates we should not sympathize with an anti-government organization that threatens the nation's existence," the statement reads. "We want the instigators to be promptly investigated and punished."

Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency has been reviewing the complaint, but reportedly has not yet launched an investigation.

Since the TV series is based on fiction, many believe the cable channel is unlikely to be punished.

"Fiction-based dramas have rarely been punished for breaking the security law," a police agency official said.

What do you think of my Top 5 list of the worst OST songs for Korean dramas? Compiled after research that was a little too extensive for my sanity.

5. Eternal Love, Healer
4. You are my Destiny, MYLFTS
3. Love is the Moment, Heirs
2. Stand By Your Man, Pretty Noona
1. Almost Paradise, BOF

Hey there!

Dramas:
Kdramas: Am only watching Stove League, Money Game, The Game. I love these dramas. Stove and Money have a quiet realism that feels right. Stove League is totally showing me the ins and outs of baseball, and am loving our weary depressed self-loathing hero. Those tears in the last episode as he held the baby! Wow! The Big Bad in Money Game is on the edge of madness and ouri ahjusshi actor plays him so well. I had to get over the change in his features though. Did he get a facelift? I'm not a fan of romance but i'm hoping for a romance in Money Game. Usually when we have a poor put upon woman with hidden inner strength, she is either a total caricature candy or a touchy nasty overly feisty bitter selfish woman. (Looking at you 99 million woman). But there isn't a lot of self-pitying bitterness or selfishness to our heroine. And she looks normal with a girl-next-door beauty. And as for The Game, Taecyeon has grown up from a kid to a seriously handsome guy. His acting has so improved. Story is pretty typical in many ways but i like it that everything and everyone will all come together to heal some past issue.

Japanese:
Nee, Sensei -- My impatience with this kind of doormat exemplar of Japanese femininity battles against my need to watch a jdrama with a cute male lead.

Chinese dramas:
Joy of Life is finished and i so hope the next season will have the same actors.
Ever Night 2 -- feels cheaper somehow and has less gravitas but i'm in.
Dr Cutie is adorable! The second lead syndrome is hard though. The fated otp consists of a guy who is just stiff, and the second lead is so wonderful. Ah me, i'll have to endure i guess.
Handmaidens united -- silly, old fashioned, romance.

Have a great weekend, all.

First World Problem #504

Some sort of computer glitch leaves me unable to download a library ebook that I've had on hold for WEEKS, and which finally came around to me yesterday. I've been trouble-shooting on my end and talking to or emailing tech support of 3 different organizations, but so far no luck. (There are too many organizations involved, and I can access each of them separately but not in the combination that would actually let me do anything useful. Some sort of ISP / backbone interconnect problem??????).

And they hit me with this exactly when I want to read over the weekend because of the Chinese-New-Year-induced kdrama drought. Grrr... 🤬😭😭😭

And yes, it is Problem #504 because "504 Gateway Time-out". Over and over.

With the exception of QUEEN: LOVE AND WAR I basically took the last cycle of dramas off. I wrapped up PSYCHOPATH DIARY. I wanted to watch ROMANTIC DOCTOR TEACHER KIM (20 episodes) before starting RDTK 2. I expect to finish RDTK tonight so suddenly my viewing card looks to be filling up quickly.
Along with Q: L&W and RDTK 2 I anticipate watching THE GAME: TOWARDS ZERO, TELL ME WHAT YOU SAW and I’LL GO TO YOU WHEN THE WEATHER IS NICE hence forth known as NICE WEATHER (until a final title is decided upon). Coming down the line will be Lee Min-ho’s THE KING: ETERNAL MONARCH which according to Wiki will finish production this month.
Unfortunately that means TOUCH will have to be dropped before I even started it. Sorry Lee Tae-hwan.

Happy Lunar New Year to all!

I have a completely random question for all ye kdrama veterans - what do the various Bean levels on DB stand for? I am not at all aspirational, but curious to know the hierarchy and the references. Some are obvious to me (Jang Gu-rae, Sparkly Tracksuit), but many are not. Is there a DB post somewhere that contains an explainer? Thank you in advance.

It has been a stressful 24 hours, beanies.
And those 24 hours have SUCKED.
So, I have been listening to Michelle Obama's book, Becoming. The beginning, hearing about her father being diagnosed with MS was hard for me, especially this time of year so close to the anniversary of my moms own death. But, last night I reached the point in Michelle's life were her father passed away. I was sitting in the drivers seat crossing and uncrossing my legs because by goll I had to pee but I didn't want to start the day on Friday listening to how he died. So I shifted around in my seat and cried my eyes out. Michelle narrates the book herself and she gets choked up reading this part of the book. Goodness it hurt. But listening I realized that its been 10 days since I spoke to my own dad and after hearing
"life is short"
"you never know"
I decided to call my dad as soon as I finished in the bathroom. And I did. But the call didn't go through. He's a personable fellow so I assumed that he was on the phone. I tried again an hour later. And then an hour after that. All three times the phone never rang, my phone would finish dialing-reach to make the connection-and drop the call.
I was worried, but not maniac. I decided to listen to my messages, just in case.
Here's a thing about me: I HATE TALKING ON THE PHONE. For a time my outgoing vm message was, "Im not going to answer your call. Im not going to listen to your voicemail. You can leave one if you want, but Im not going to. If you ACTUALLY want me to get back to you send a text, email, heck send me a fax." So, VMs tend to build up and once every few months I go through and delete all the messages because I get sick of looking at that voicemail signal on my homescreen. So, imagine my surprise when I have 3 voicemails from my uncle.
Message 1: hey [isa] its your Unc. Looking for your daddy, give me a call!
Message 2: hey [isa] still looking for your daddy, whens the last time you talked to him?
Message 3: [Isa]. I am calling to tell you that NO ONE has seen or heard from your father. He is officially MIA. Im telling you again, your father is missing.
What
The
French toast?
For wahtever reason none of these messages are date or time stamped so I have NO IDEA when these messages were left. In Novemeber my dad spent 3 days with me in OH. My aunt called to tell me that he was missing then. Were these messages left during this time? What the heck is going on here?
I text my brother who doesn't text me back--but its almost midnight and he gets up at 5 to go to work. It seems pointless to call him in the middle of the night, its not like he can DO anything. I spend the next 3 or 4 hours trying to decide what to do. I can drive down to KY but its storming outside, its 2.5 hours away and I have to be at work at 10 in the morning. I send a fb message to my little cousin to get the phone numbers of her dad and our other uncle and finally settle down and go to sleep. 3...

Hi beans. How's your weekend so far? I hope everyone is healthy and having a great time.

As for me....I finished Heirs. *pats myself on the back*
It was a mess. No character was likeable. I ffwd half or more of it. Zoned out several times. Slept several times. Gif-ing made it fun. Discussing on the wall and recaps made the drama a tad bit bearable. All in all. I survived. I didn't expect my first completed drama watch of 2020 would be a 2013 drama 🤣.

Thank you beans for joining my Heirs journey and sharing my pain.

*finger heart*