Ahh, so this explains the golf scenes in Hometown Cha3. I wondered about that and thought it was just the "old geezers in beards" aspect of slice-of-life dramas (note the slice).

The 5th episode of TV CHOSUN's 'Golf King 2', aired on November 15th, soared to 4.4% in the metropolitan area and 5.6% (based on Nielsen Korea), recording the highest viewership rating per minute, ranking first among all full-length channel programs aired at the same time.

It shows celebrity golf shows are very popular.

I said i'm gonna change things in 2021 - it was hard and for most part i couldn't do that at all. several days when i went hungry for more than 35hours. just a week ago it was 45 hours.
from 1 time a day to 2 times a day - +ve to -ve to +ve from November. yes. As December is approaching my hunger for fight is increasing.

Goal was casual talk - not online not for a virtual identities as virtual identities. talk with staff of this and that service isn't called talk. its called give and take.
But i did it talked casually with 3 different individuals who liked my financial views and got benefits from them. I surely not did any benefit of my own views - that's that weekly financial bulletin.
It was more like a work for me and i did god job.

One thing i did see that all these guys(why do we have so few of females) show not so good feelings towards others( and these others are too many. i could feel whataboutery from them too).
Well, are conservative when they want to have ace over others and modern when they want to have luxuries and all fun. What to say about such people. I put them into same category as facemasks and facemasks broadly covers k fandom too.

Lee Seon Kyun! This is mainly because of his very natural and understated acting. But one cannot talk about LSK without mentioning his voice. I also like the way he walks. My Ajusshi made good use of his strut.

Korean cinema introduced me to K-drama and K-musical. That's why I'm continuously fangirling over film and stage actors.😂
At that time Han Seok-kyu was the IT guy, the Song Kang Ho of today. It's too bad he took an extensive break and lost the momentum of his film career.
Han Seok-kyu will always have a special place in my heart, and that goes for Lee Junki, whom I loved in "King and the Clown."

I'm looking forward to ROMANTIC DOCTOR KIM. I miss the Amazing Han Seok-kyu on my screen.

Han Seok-kyu is definitely charismatic. But can Gong-yoo be called ajusshi? If yes, that’s my second answer.

Oh, it's a hard question! There are so many good ajusshis...

I really like Choi Min-soo since Warrior Baek Dong-So.

Does Park Hae Soo qualify as ahjussi? I take it that ahjussi is everyone born before 1981 (so, over 40s). As a 1981liner, he'd just be entering ahjuicy-dom

I'm so superficial. At first, I suspected I was fangirling only age-inappropriate guys, but I've come to realise that I've spotted way loads of ahjuicys over the couple of years I've been watching dramas 😆

*Choi Min Soo (a real ahjuicy, he's 59 and had a great turn as Samchon/bodyguard in Extracurricular)

*Jang Hyuk (the man who can use a fan or sunglasses as a letal weapon - every time I see that world-weary look in his eyes I'm dead, gone, kaput)

*Hi Seung Hyun (I'll forever call him Chido because I first saw him in My Country, but he's been working in tons of stuff: Good Detective, Search:www, You are my Spring, etc)

*Lee Jung Jin (Evil Uncle in The King Eternal Monarch)

*Shin Dong Wook ( good-for-nothing second lead in My Unfamiliar Family) and Jang Seung Jo (Good Detective) - are they ahjuicys yet? They're 1982 liners...

Dae Gil / Jang Hyuk.
i was pawwing and swooning over his poster in the liquor section of Hmart and the woman working that area gave me an extra poster!
: D

😆 🤣 😂 that term did not originate from me, I just saw it on one Yumi's Cells of post in Twitter. To answer your question, I have a thing for tall, dark and handsome guys so Jung Woo Sung is the top ahjuicy for me 😍 and Ji Jin Hee is the runner-up.

Oh, where to start. These are the actors who weave irresistible magic and keep me glued to the screen:
Shin Ha-kyun
Lee Sun-kyun
Choi Min-soo
Choi Seung-woo
Jin Ji-hee
Cha Seung-won
Jang Jae-young
Choi Won-young
Park Hae-soo
Jung Woo-sung

In no particular order and not for identical reasons. Choi Min-soo in Extracurricular, but also as the bad guy, in Lawless Lawyer and in Warrior Baek Dong-soo, because while he can be an OTT wicked caricature, he can still be heartbreakingly tragic. And I'm a sucker for bad boys.

Currently Choi Won-young for all of his roles, especially Mystic Pop-Up Bar and Dr Prisoner, and at the moment in Reflection of You. It seems that he plays very similar bad guys, but he nuances his roles skilfully.

Shin Ha-kyun I need to see more of in movies. I discovered him in Beyond Evil, but I need to catch up with Sympathy for Mr Vengeance.

And there are more, like Lee Sang-yoon and Joo Ji-tae. It all began with Jung Wò-sung.

But of them all, like everyone else, Lee Sun-kyun has my heart.

I don’t check out Open Thread these days but glad to click and find this interesting thread.

Please let me first share my episode of meeting the real “My Ajusshi” in 2019. That is, bumping into Lee Seon-kyun in Myeongdong of all places during a Seoul holiday. I saw that familiar face who looked exactly like what’s on screen and was actually even better in his smart casual and relaxed self. He’s with his mate (a vairiety guy with his toddler in a pram). They were clearly enjoying the stroll as the whole street was as its busiest with stalls and stalls of food and clothes. I walked past him and thought how could I miss this one in a million chance. So, I went back asking if I could take a photo with him. Without verbally replying, he gave me an apologetic and pleading ‘no’ gesture - which was conveyed. A ‘no’ answer it is but done so nicely. That made me like him more because I could picture the crowd it might draw if he was “discovered” on that busy street.

Of the long list of ajusshi’s from Korea, I guess top on my list is Han Seok-kyu. His “Christmas in August” is among my top favorite movie. His role there is also so different from the top dog roles he plays most of the time. I always wonder what his career will be like if he didn’t take the hiatus and what it means for the next generation of big names. He was like the Song Kang-ho of his times, winning everything.

If LSK is Mr Velvet Voice, then Cho Seung-woo is the Voice of Honey. I love his rendition of anything. Just check out what you can find in YT. It’s in my bucket list to watch his musical live in Korea. Fingers crossed. He’s more a stage actor than a movie one in those days but hands up, those who have watched The Classics a zillion times.

TBC

I'm glad you are enjoying SRIJ. I can only handle 2 sageuks at a time.

Sorry you have to move ☹️
I don’t know about Lake Nona planned community but there’s this in its Wikipedia entry:
Vertiport[edit]
German aviation company Lilium plans to open one of its so-called "vertiports" in Lake Nona. The company is building 6-seater electric air taxis with the ability to vertically take-off.[7][8]

So, you could become like The Jetsons 😮?

Oh dear. I left FLA many years ago and never looked back. Still have lots of family back there but that is still not enough pull.
It has its beauty spots: crystal clear spring-fed streams, gorgeous beaches and quietly beautiful swamps (not kidding). It is overwhelmed by too many people. Too many people and not enough roads. I lived there and loved it but left when I learned that 250 people were moving to my county every DAY.
Let me know after you've arrived. I can get you out of the crush.

Also, Hwang Chi Yeul appeared in "Killing Voice" on Dingo Music YT channel and among the songs he sang were his OSTs from "Moonlight Drawn By Clouds" - Because I Miss You (Lee Young version) @ 12:01 and "Mr Sunshine" - How Can I Forget You @ 13:31 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-5T1hlr9jw

Oh nooooooo ☕️ Such a disappointment! Next time you can order it decaf to be sure but my sympathies today.

Oh, M..
I agree with your sis, you truly deserve a treat.

As someone who was legitimately once addicted to Starbucks, I found your "slice-of-life" brimming with lightheartedness and marvelous candor. All I can assure you, these drinks taste garbage after a year or so, but you keep drinking them cause they are convenient and, well, caffeine. In my book, your mom saved you from the clutches of "caffeine devil"! 😂

Yay, fellow reader! To be honest, I haven't been reading many novels lately because I fell into a webtoon/manga rabbit hole (tons of SK content on the Webtoon app, some got adapted to dramas too).
Still, looking back, I enjoyed very much Almond (it's YA literature), by Won-Pyung Sohn, and Please Look After Mother (family drama), by Kyung-Sook Shin. I also read a couple of books by Young-ha Kim: I hear your voice and I have the right to destroy myself. Both have a good setup, but they're kind of dark.
If you're into thrillers and sageuks, I liked a lot The silence of bones, and The Forest of Stolen Girls!

I'm taking note of The Good Son tip!

Island of Sea Women by Lisa See
about the jeju women divers!

currently i am reading Crying in Hmart by Michelle Zauner. it is not fiction but a memoir of a half korean daughter mourning the loss of her korean mother.

Never read any japanese thrillers, could you give me some recs?

Highly recommend "Kim Ji-Young, Born 1982"

Yes, happens all the time. Some places just have a terrible institutional culture - even if they hire nice people, the way things are done rewards toxic behaviour and people end up getting sick from working there... Glad that your relative found a way out!

😆 how I just chortled to hear this story! I bet that cackling felt REALLY REALLY GOOD to you! Enjoy it!
I see tons of articles about how many people are leaving their workplaces (a record 4.4 million in September) in the US, many due to toxic work situations. You’d think the companies would be working on fixing themselves instead of just carrying on about how there’s no one to hire, I hope they are.

I think it's resemblance to Killing Eve is superficial but I kind of love it so far. It's on Netflix here.

I agree. I don't know how Viki subbed it so fast! I love it so far and I think I will stick to it to see how the love story unfolds.

Hazel sounds like a great exercise coach for him! Good luck with the weight loss, poor Bo.

Hello Bo! *waves* Cookie wanted me to deliver her message to Bo (Oh, did I mention that Cookie is a "she"?) that she would like to congratulate him for the upcoming trip. She would, still, want Bo to behave and to not knock over the sheep as she thought fondly for the fluffy animal. She also wanted me to tell Bo that because of the words "Yuckie Cookie", she now decided to avoid eating "wurms" as after a while she thought they didn't really taste that good and made her have a foul-smell mouth. Lastly, she wanted Bo to taste the bitterness of what humans call "being on a diet" because that was no fun at all.

🐕

I think it's on Iqiyi, but I don't know if you need to be a VIP or not.

It's also on Viu.

Drama***l if you're really desperate, like me. 😉

Yayyy!

gosh, that's a LOT!!! well, i'm glad you got to see your dad and you feel he's being taken care of.

wrt your mean relatives, let them stay away, you stay away - maybe later things will change, but... as they say "you can pick your friends..."

try to decompress and pamper yourself. with the holidays coming it always feels like we're supposed to RUSH. shop, rush, decorate, etc., etc., etc... i haven't had an xmas tree in several years, i've grown tired of the holiday marketing for all the holidays. it's all about the $$$....

books are nice. i have been using audiobooks to fall asleep to! problem is that, even tho i use the timer option, i don't know where i fell asleep. so i've been checking out audiobooks from the library of books i've already read! doesn't matter! and it helps me doze off and not have my head going over all the stresses that surround us.

give it a try, i think it might help you decompress! use one of your favorite books to listen to...