Hi Beanies !

Long time no see ! I've been busy because of uni and my laptop died two months ago so I can't watch as much dramas as I want 😔 Finding an internship is not as easy as I thought but I still have time.

Thankfully it's holidays and I can relax a bit. My first Christmas in Dusseldorf was great. The Christmas marketing is really pretty and I drank Glühwein (hot wine) for the first time ! The bad thing is classes start Monday. I don't want to go back to studying.

Also what I wish for this year in dramaland:
- Actresses - rookies or veterans - to appear more and to act interesting characters. Also more female ensembles !
- ‎Rookie actors to keep rising (Woo Do Wan, Yang Se Jong, Kim Jong Hyun, cast of Solomon's Perjury, cast of Chief Kim and more)
- Kim Sung Oh, Kim Seul Gi and other talented actors and actresses to lead GOOD dramas
- Kim Nam Gil not to die... not even fake death will be accepted
- Ha Ji Won and Lee Jun Ki in an epic sageuk with schemes and action (I know this duo's choices can be frightening for their respective fans but I am crazy ok? )
- A comedy that will make me laugh so loud my neighbors will come to complain. Maybe a sitcom?
- ‎A melodrama that will dehydrate my body from all the tears I will shed
- ‎Better working conditions for the staff (security, wages paid on time, less stressful working hours)

Happy Friday and again happy new year :D

I was looking for something different and I’ve come across one documentary Save my Seoul which is kind of an anagram of soul and Seoul. After that I searched more about similar stuff to understand more about man’s behaviour in South Korea (but it can be applied to any other country with long patriarchal hierarchy) and I’ve found many. And I started to understand...and to be disgusted...and to be saddened.
The documentary talks about the thin line between prostitution and human trafficking in South Korea, but especially the common notion and role of a female in this country. Mostly men compare a woman to a rug, ones it’s dirty it stays dirty and nobody wants it. It talks about common abuse on women and alcoholism which is not considered as a sickness in SK, but it’s widespread and like sexual abuse towards women very tolerated. I wish the documentary could contain more of the actual problems like insufficient mental health system (alcohol is replacing everything), idolisation of perfect beauty and constant conflict of this blood and not blood relation matters. I could write about this for hours, but I can partially understand now how all the famous men could change so easily from sexual abusers to gold digging victimes and that even international fans defended them. Some girls were telling not guilty until proven, but this implies to everything even a murder. There was this idol guy telling in one variety show“When I’m 30 years old, I want to be a father. I’ll raise my children in a way that’s cool. I’ll give my son anything he wants and take care of him, so he can grow up well.As for my daughter, it’s a woman’s job to stay at home. If need be, I’ll hit her and keep her locked up at home.” How is this all f...ked up!!! I’m sorry to all this girls and women.

Hello, everyone! Happy Friday! 🎉🎊

Last week I talked about being worried that I was getting burnt out on dramas but I really shouldn’t have been worried. Looks like that was just a funky day for me!

Here’s what I’m watching:

Smart Prison Living: No new eps last week :( So looking forward to this week being subbed!
I’m Not a Robot: Oh, this week got me right in the heart! How are Chae Soo-bin and Yoo Seung-ho SO GOOD? I’m excited and scared for next week. How much angst will there be? Will she be up-front and tell him everything? Ugh! I don’t want more angst but it seems necessary at this point in the story for the emotions to be believable!
Just Between Lovers: Still loving it and praying for no noble idiocy. I just want Moon-soo and Gang-doo to be happy at the end. That is all I am asking.

And older dramas:

Circle: Binged this a few days ago and LOVED IT. I NEED a season 2! Need it! More than any potential season 2 ever! I’ve fallen for Gong Seung-yeon after this show. Her eyes are amazing. I can’t wait to see her in Are You Human Too later this month. She has led me to watch...
My Only Love Song: What a ridiculous, delightful show! I’m only a few episodes in but I’m having so much fun watching it.

Dal-ja’s Spring is on hold simply because I’m worried I’m burning through LMK’s filmography too quickly. 😂

I’ve been watching Because This Life is Our First with the BFF and she’s loving it, woohoo! Mission accomplished! We stopped after episode 11 last time and she was freaking out. It was great. The last 5 minutes of each episode get her so bad.

Happy New Year everyone.
K-dramas last year left to be desired (especially since I watched a ton of old dramas, so the 2017 ones felt meh).

I just discovered that one of my guilty-pleasure shows, Mistresses, is on track to be a k-drama at OCN. And I just want to ask : Why?
That show had a cheater (I enjoyed that part so much) one that got in a relationship with her dead lover's son, one who got in a relationship with another parent but then her husband was alive, and a free spirit who fell in love with another woman who was in a committed relationship.
Even the US adaptation was a complete mess. How much justice can a korean version make? Especially since they're ok with complete violence but hate sex in tv. 😡😡😡😡😡

OT Week 48! I hope your week is going well! Happy 2018! Did you celebrate the New Year with friends or family or both, as I did? It's absolutely frigid here in the heartland. I've spent less than 5 minutes outside all week on account of it! But that's ok, because I have dramas to keep me warm!

Speaking of, I did an end of year review thinking I would submit it to DB, but alas, I missed the deadline (way too much holiday stuff to complete, and barely made it through that)! Not to worry, though, I just posted it to the blog I do for my own vanity. It's here and very superficial, so there's that! https://freethekimchi.wordpress.com/2017/12/28/my-first-year-in-dramas-new-to-me-actors-to-admire/

Dramas I did watch this week...I finished Forest of Secrets and those last few episodes FINALLY reeled me in and I didn't let go. And I agree with everything mary said in her end of year review about lovely Weasel. I'm looking forward to his next project now!

I continued I'm Not a Robot, but am woefully behind, like, so behind that I can't lurk on the Beanie wall on account of all the spoilers and the angst. Because I'm not even halfway there yet! And whoever this Tilda person is, sounds like she needs her own drama! I'm laughing at myself over here, because of the random names they give these characters. Tilda and Johnny should probably be Matilda and John if we were going to give them names. Sounds like what they were called by their parents when they were 2 years old. LOL!

Started 20th Century Boy and Girl with the hubs. Oh my word, how adorable is this OTP? I've always liked Kim Ji Suk, but he is just so charismatic here and his English is impeccable. I'd love to work with him and would gladly be his work-wife in corporate Hong Kong. Nevermind that I know next to nothing about finances and the stock market. I'm a quick study!

And does Kung Fu Panda count? LOL. My daughter has been really battling a virus and we've been camped out on the couch all week watching all these with her. Really, laugh out loud funny, with a great message and lots of cute pandas.

So, this conversation happened as I was listening to the soundtrack of Love Rain (my husband's favorite OST) this week:

Hubby: I can't listen to this tonight *takes my phone and pushes the pause button*

Me: Why not? *Really, it came out as "wah noth" because I was brushing my teeth at the time.*

Hubby: Because all I'll want to do tonight is cuddle and look into your eyes, and stroke your hair, and then I won't get what I really need!

Me: LOLOLOLOLOLOL! ROTFLOL!

Moral of the Story: All we did was cuddle that night.

2nd Moral: Behold the power of the OST!

3rd Moral: I'm working on this month's theme and *fingers crossed* it gets accepted, but if not, you'll know where to find it. *Shamelessly plugging her own blog*

As a loyal viewer of Father is Strange, so happy about Lee Joon and Jung So Min!!!!

Best news of 2018 yet! 😂

HI happy new year beanies

Happy Friday beanies!

Crying over Nothing To Lose, this show had a potential to be a good one, if only the writing and execution were done right. The plot supposedly to be heavy and more suitable as a melodrama genre, not a romcom. Yeon Woo-jin is criminally underutilised here, just like Kang Hanna in Just Between Lovers. sigh. I thought I wanted to see epi 27 at first, but then I was curious about what happened in epi 25-26. So I decided to go back from epi 24. Still in the middle of watching it. One thing for sure, actors saved this drama with their 150% efforts to make every scene alive.

Read that Kim Hyun-joo was offered a lead role with Kim Myung-min in new drama (KMM was offered earlier) , I hope this will become true! Although they are still considering. Many of my favourites are coming back for the first half of this year, I can only pray their drama will be the good ones!

Hi Beanies,

Drama seems to weave its way into Real Life more and more. I chatted to a friend yesterday, and she told me that a very good friend of hers is seriously ill in hospital. She WhatsApps her a 5 - 10 times a day, sometimes just sends her an emoji, just to remind her that someone is thinking of her. And I started to say: 'what you need to get is one of those...' and stopped myself just in time. Because heart lamps don't actually exist. Thanks to my fellow-Beanies for explaining in the recap discussion why the lamps are really so brilliant - before Ji-A herself did.

I also reached a new Dramabeans milestone by not only becoming a Noble Idiot, but also submitting my first post for Theme of the Month. To add screencaps, and get it just right, I watched... too many incidents of the Truck of Doom. It was quite disturbing.

What did amuse me was that, even though I know it doesn't work like this, I imagined that I was totally messing with Netflix' recommendation system (you seem to like... trucks? do you want to watch Monster Truck?) In fact, if Netflix and Viki shared information on my viewing habits, it might go something like: you seem to like things with Trucks and Robots? Do you want to watch Transformers?
So maybe it's a good thing that I have to wait a week before I can watch more INAR (it really isn't)

Happy Friday!

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Hi Everyone!

I hope you are all doing well today. ..... To any Beanies who find themselves in the east coast of the U.S., stay warm! I saw the images of big waves splashing onshore and then instantly freezing!!

This week:

Jugglers - From the clueless office staff to fluffy slippers, it's just so much fun watching this!

Black Knight - Kim Rae-won. I've always found him kind of interesting ..... but suddenly now, a little more.

Just Between Lovers - Still haven't watched this week's episodes, but from the Beanies' fan wall posts, I know it continues to be good. ..... And yay! I found the discussion thread here where the Beanies have been hanging out!

That's all for now. ...... Take care everyone and have a great Friday!

Hi, can't talk right now because I am making frogs, but I 'll be back.

Kdrama ponderings on a wintry day:

Every ER patient’s record in Korea: Patient ripped out IV and walked out.

Just Between Lovers: what’s wrong with me? I almost didn’t watch this and then on a whim I started and marathoned the first six episodes. I am totally in love with Joon Ho as Dong Goo. He is a really great actor, I know him as a member of 2 PM, but I’m super happy to see him on the screen. He reminds me a bit of Seo Kang Jun and Park Seo Joon (maybe better).

Jugglers: I’ve been marathoning this too, and originally it was for Daniel Choi, but I really like Baek Jin Hee’s acting, “Doing just what you’re told is the same as barely working.” Daniel Choi’s acting is a bit predictable. “Merry Christmas, Merry Christmas, Happy New Year!” Lee Won Geun is the smiliest "little punk" cutenik. The two-family story line, so weird and is an odd distraction, not to mention the Best Boss Award. And then Chi Won gave Yoon Yi a gift of scary rabbit slippers ~ and I was like, “What?”, and then, well the umbrella, and he smiled. And I melted.

I Am Not A Robot: Reset.

*spoiler* Master in the House: Lee Seung Gi is back in variety! Yook Seong Jae ♥♥Seung Gi bromance. I guess Yang Se Hyeong really is hot these days. New guy Lee Sang Yoon– hmmm, I think I like this combo! I knew the first master was Jeon In Kwon with the sunglasses hint and the mountains. (In Kwon said he lived in the mountains on Sketchbook one time.) And he strikes me as someone who doesn’t like young people talking too much. Looking forward to next week.

Happy weekend winter wonderland!

Crazy horror sageuk idea: inspired by The Rose Elf/Isabella or the Pot of Basil. Two young people (likely one noble, one servant) fall in love. The lady's brother(s) hate him, so under the guise of sending him on a long and dangerous journey, they kill him and sever his body from his head. The lady discovers the body, and decides to take her beloved's head and plant it in a pot. How do you think this story ends?

Hello, Beanies, Happy new Year to you all. This is my first new year away from home. Wishing all beanies a successful new year filled with joys and good dramas hopefully.

Happy Friday everyone!

It has been a busy week, but my free time has been completely absorbed by Autumn's Concerto. I found it randomly on Netflix and I LOVED IT. I saw a review comparing it to a Judith McNaught novel, and I completely agree, it's basically a 1990s romance novel come to life. I'm having trouble moving on! I'm in deep - I even bought the soundtrack. But because I'm 8 years behind on it, I have no one to gush about it with! My husband is probably tired of my fangirling.

I'm also watching Just Between Lovers and I'm Not a Robot and am enjoying both of them (especially Just Between Lovers!), but they are both in the angsty period where the couples are separated. I need more epic romance to help me move on from Autumn's Concerto!

Hope everyone has a great weekend and stays warm!

Hello Beanies! How's the first week of 2018 treating you??

It's been up and down for me but drama speaking.... enjoying Just Between Lovers (although I have to do a rewatch with subs this time) I just can't wait xD I'm just happy that I found where beanies discussing this gem so I'll be lurking there ;)

Smart Prison Playbook continues to be good! I was about to watch ep12 but my brain is not ready for an hour and a half without subs so will probably watch it with breaks tomorrow since it's midnight here.

I've got a few completed dramas that I've paused so I'm watching it one episode a day...

Hope the year will be full of smiles and hugs to each beanie!