Okay back from the Break. I miss here 😭

Little Boy - 1175k - 1st week November

1215k - 19 November

Busy - too many shows and movies at hand. I can get throw all of them if keep following the rules designed. Good to see quick translations of almost all airing Japanese shows.

This week stock market was hectic but far far far more fun. All the ups and downs, managing positions. This week mostly was saving your investment as well as whatever return you get than making profits.

3 countries fighting over water for month
few more gonna do that in upcoming years in Asia.

2 countries fighting over land.
Real life is always most interesting.

2 fighting over a chair
and both are unqualified.

Happy Friday.

My region is being attacked by early snowfall and I'm going to use this as an excuse to hermit under a blanket and maybe catch up some dramas and reading. I mean, not that I haven't been staying home for the last seven months to avoid covid, but the snow and ice are making this forced sequestering slightly more in the "normal" range of life.

Anyways, have I mentioned that you should watch Into the Ring? It will make you smile and laugh, and best of all, you can watch the whole thing in one big gulp. Feel free to thank me when you finish.

Stay safe and healthy beans. Treat yourself to something delicious, and maybe reach out to someone who might be quietly struggling during this weird and awful time.

Happy Friday everyone! I made my return to dramabeans after 2 years, it feels good to be back watching dramas again!
School has been brutal with midterm season and next month will be finals term (I can’t believe it’s already here).
COVID has really changed life so drastically but I feel some normalcy when I see my friends to catch up.
We recently adopted a Husky from our local shelter and she’s been making herself at home, she’s so adorable, it’s been nice to spend quarantine with a furry friend!

Park Eun-Bin and Kim Min-Jae will have been cute until the end :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n99pMAysSnM&ab_channel=SBSCatch

I try to keep up on k-entertainment trends. But recently I have found that many celebrity fans have flooded my feeds with a monsoon of misinformation. When I open YouTube, there are dozens of fan created gossip or shipper videos. When I open Twitter, there are fandom conflicts over a celebrity's "best" OTP. They are not based on facts but personal opinions defended as only truth.

There are now weekly social media polls on who is the best celebrity. It has come to the point where people are creating photoshopped Dispatch style "dating" pictures or reading imaginary tea leaves to predict the future marriages. Fandoms take these so seriously it is like they are at war with potential rivals. Things get so heated that hate comments begin to flow into the actual celebrity's IG or Twitter accounts.

I know fan is from fanatic. I know fans are passionate about their favorite actors and idols. I know there are anti-fans who troll others to cause conflict.

I find this incredibly unfair to the actual celebrity, whose image, especially in Asia, is a key component to their ability to work or get endorsements. Agencies tend to manicure an artist's reputation. Artists are encouraged to interact with their fans. But on social media, one rumor that spreads like wildfire can cause actual harm (professionally and personally). I find this a disturbing trend.

Happy weekend Beanies and keep Beaning On!

My social network and I are healthy for now, but some of my loved ones experienced scary things in their own social network this week. My K-drama friend had to wait a whole weekend to find out that she had tested negative. My goddaughter had to stay at home a few days because her kindergarten teacher had to wait for her (negative) test result after a colleague had tested positive. My sister has been social distancing in her day care center, but a couple of parents tested positive and had to quarantine their young children as well. The worst one was the sudden disappearance of a good friend of a relative, who died an accidental death and was found a few days later. I cannot help but feel for those people in my social network. How horrible it must have been to wait by the phone the whole time for confirmation on whether they or their loved ones were still in good health or alive!😨

I do feel sheepish about making a fuss about that job offer the past few Open Threads now.😳 At least I still get to be here in good health, no matter what the outcome might be. I also got the intel that state departments usually take their sweet time with recruitment affairs, and the stricter corona measures cause them more delays nowadays. So I started my long overdue break this week with little guilt, books and some movies from my list.📚🎥 My frenemy Time will take care of the rest as usual, I just need to make sure that I am not starting all the K-dramas and fun projects that I stumble upon at once.😂

I am a bit sad knowing the age (in the show) of ML of DDSSLLS. The show has been very cute from the beginning. I don't want to feel this way, but I can't think of how Ra-ra will feel once she finds out about this.

I don't know how to explain this but I'm feeling like I can't enjoy their cute relationship to the fullest; He still hasn't told her about this, so she still has no clues. Somehow, I even feel like Dr.Cha is the more suitable choice if this happens in real life.

Ohh.. my heart is so heavy. 😔

Happy Friday, all! I hope everyone is safe and healthy!

I will not complain about the snow, because I’m sure someone else already has, lol.

I’m at my actual physical work place for only the third time since March. There are only two other people on this floor right now. It’s a little creepy, tbh.

Question: what is the fan wall for? I have some drama-related ranting to get off my chest, and I was wondering if that was the appropriate forum?

Hi beanies. It's been a rough week for my family here. We lost a family friend to Covid. He was the husband of my mom's friend. His elder son had been in UK at the beginning of this year for his postgrad and was diagnosed with depression. They had gone to the UK and got him back and did not got covid then. It was so strange that the dad contracted covid at home. We're extremely concerned about the family because we haven't been able to get in touch with them.
In other bad news, my grandmother, who had been staying with my uncle, who is in another state, before the pandemic began and is still there, slipped in the bathroom. She got stitches on her head and has injured her 7th vertebra. She's currently on complete bed rest. Stay safe and take care of yourself beanies

Happy Friday everyone. I finally came back to dramabeans after 5 months or more can't remember. I see people complaining about snow. It's so hot here I feel like staying in the tub all day. Could anyone pls recommend a new kdrama to watch cause it's been ages since I watched kdrama.

Happy friday everyone
I rarely join friday open thread since reading other Beanie posts are more fun ngl 😂

Had a busy week and can I say I not a fan of video conferencing/virtual meeting? Probably because I always end up doing other work while in a meeting and distracted.
Good way to get your job done when you have to attend meeting as an observer tho. lol

- I starts rewatching Record of youth but not feeling it.
- I watched Search and Startup too. Havent decide on those 2 shows but I did laugh when I saw Dalmi holding a dior bag when she cant afford a new high heels.
- Alice is just... I lost even tho I'm watching that show ngl. and give me more Minhyuk you coward 😡😡

So right now the only show that I really like now is just 18 Again tbh.

I was upset about Zombie Detective. I think because not only ratings, but disastrous performances by its cast and confusion of same name Kim Moo-young and dad Kim Moo-young.

In the downfall of ratings, after last week, it reached the highest rating peak by episode 8 where Moo-young's mom/grandma died (3.7). But this week, the ratings got darker. The ninth episode sank to 3.1 and by the following episode, it collapsed back to 2.0. I think my fave Zombie Detective will be flop if it couldn't get surpassing 3.7 above by the next week's finale. :(

In my opinion, in the aftermath of episode 8, the cast were not happy at their acting job at all with poor dialogues and underperformed because making funny, hilarious scenes beyond episode 8 are unlaughable. But again, in my opinion, my only cameo who did a great job was the real Seol Chae-hyeon (https://asianwiki.com/Seol_Chae-Hyeon_(1985)) by himself (episode 9). All newbies of episode 10 with the regular cast were truly disastrous so this week's episodes were ended up my disappointment.

I'm checked at its Asianwiki page that I didn't think and I confuse that Kim Moo-young and Kim Moo-young are same name because I hope it would be ML/zombie-and-dad connection so let's see my predicted connection will be correct.

I think Shim Jae-hyun (https://asianwiki.com/Shim_Jae-Hyun_(director))'s PD job will not be do well if Zombie Detective will be flop if the last two episode's ratings didn't go past 3.7. He was the PD of all KBS drama shows... so one out of three didn't go forward with the production yet. I wondered for me what happened to his previous KBS drama PD project Wings, Fly Up (taekwondo drama), it's because for me, the principal photography was halted because of Covid-19 and he was forgot! I hope if Zombie Detective will flop in the end, then Shim will not be duplicate his success from another PD project (The Producers, 2015).

Meanwhile, I need more action scenes/crime scenes for that Zombie Detective write. I blame it's my fault on returning spoofs and comedy this week's episodes and I knew the Zombie Detective writer will be disappointment and I hope to need another try for new drama writing so I beg this writer.

Good morning Beanies,

Last Friday was sad/happy Day. I voted and we went to funeral viewing of my grandma. It was funny. As I could not find the ballot box during day time. However, when it was night time. I find ballot box. I am very proud as my daughter behave at church that night. That morning was my grandfather reburial. We could not go there.
Therefore, yesterday, my uncle post the video on fb. It made me cried again as I was not there. On Saturday, last week, was burial for my grandma. It was really hard to say goodbye final time. My youngest aunt took it really hard because she lived with my grandma. I am very proud of my daughter as she he have those two days. The only strange thing are to my families wearing mask. Therefore, I have not seen much dramas.

RIP Grandma. Be happy in Heaven with Grandpa and uncles. I love you.💕❤️

Be safe and healthy every one!!!

Aaaaaa.....

2 more days to Kairos!!!

Excited and worried! Worried I'm too excited 🤣. Anyways...lately I'm busy playing trivia and collecting virtual halloween monsters and also trying not to look suspicious in Among Us. I'm getting distracted from dramas because...mmm...I'm a gamer now 🙃.

Hi beanies! I hope y'all happy and healthy!

Been a rainy and stormy week, literally here in the pearl of the orient seas! 😅
I've watched finale of 2 shows I've been watching: Age of Youth S2 and DYLB. And boy was that satisfying! Haha. But deep inside, there is that little feeling of loss every after kdrama ends, like everytime! 😄😄
I plan to start new shows soon I get over this feeling! Most beanies recommended Start Up and I plan to watch this sooon!

On the other hand, I busied myself trying to be in shape. I mean its hard. Coming from years of dedicating myself to work then suddenly having to be on a break. 😅 Currently, I enjoy boxing! Not that I am near good at it but I am learning each day through google (ha! Can't bring myself to gym yet and thankful for I have jumping rope, punching bag and gloves here at home! 🙈) It releases stress and gives me a feeling of being strong! 💪

Attended my very first webinar that is work-related and things looked a little favorable with the processing for our deployment, I think I'll be back in the field soon 🙈🤞🙏

Keep on beaning!

Can we talk about Do do la la do do sol and how Ra-Ra stalker knew her from way before! Also he just gives me the creeps especially when she was talking about having more students and he freaked out. I just know he is going to hurt the little kid ( I think preview confirms this)
Also that kiss! I thought I would be more weirded out but I’m actually ok with it. They make a cute couple. I love it when he says no to ra ra but does it anyway.. like that salad. Also loved the way she shot down dr cha so completely. She is not that ditsy. I think she has a deeper understanding of people’s feeling it’s just she has a care free positive attitude. At least we know the dr is her benefactor, but still a bit odd he waited so long to tell her and encouraged her to go to that town.

P.s sorry for spelling I’m on my phone and auto correct hates me lol