Got my last bean in!

Waahhhh! This is exciting! I have marathoned two more shows to increase my bean count so now I know with even more certainty which shows I really liked!

May the best show win 😉

Awww... @ndlessjoie our Stabby OTP didn’t make it to the list 😢😩

Since I can't vote for anything on this beanie royale because most dramas I watched are not even in it.....I created a new category: 'What made me want to throw stuff at the screen' award.

Options: Vagabond, Devil, Memories of The Alhambra, Trap
My pick: all of the above
Honorable mention: Melty, because even the article google trans nearly melted my brain (ref: http://www.dramabeans.com/members/katakwasabi/activity/927486/#)

Jang Man-wol had a glorious wardrobe, there’s no doubt I’d love to steal them 💜

I'm sad Veronica Park wasn't an option for best scene stealer 😭

Kinda sad that there's no mention of Haechi and A Beautiful World. At least Gal-hee's red cardigan made an appearance.

I wish all the match ups were even to avoid dramas and characters getting to automatically advance (i.e., Best Baddie). Haru! with his exclamation mark can't beat Baek Kyung Seol Ji-hwan for me. Gong Myung and Han Ji-eun not ending up together was a tragedy, even more tragic than him getting back together with his toxic girlfriend.

Can there be a poll on the most ridiculous names of characters? I have this teeny weeny request to the writers regarding naming characters. As a non-Korean, but an avid Kdrama follower, i certainly and so easily get confused with the names; couldn't easily identify them by gender either. At some point, a writer names 3 totally unrelated characters as Ms. Park, Mr. Park or Mrs. Park..??? To top them all, a husband is named Sung Jun And the wife is called Jung Sun. Is there a rule regarding names of characters or are writers given limited choices?

I wanna vote but I’m bad at stuff like these because it’s hard to choose step by step. :’(

aw, why isn't eun dan oh x haru an option for best chemistry?

Sigh. I have watched 17 shows this year but as always, not even a quarter of the shows listed in the poll.

BEST OST
Which is your favorite OST?

My vote goes to REACH OF SINCERITY: Good Night by Jeong Sewoon. I also loved HOTEL DEL LUNA: All About You by Taeyeon and EXTRAORDINARY YOU: The Story That Has Never Been Told by Sondia.

Graceful Family should win the Battle Royale.

My top 2 choice for each category is either Camellia or Be Melodramatic. 😅
Had a hard time choosing best chemistry and ended up with Han Joo and Jae Hoon from Be Melodramatic. Although they didn’t end up together 🤓
Scene stealer Seol Ji Hwan was an easy win 🤭

looking at the dramas in the list..feels like all good dramas are not part of the list..i am sure there were some kdramas which were amazing

and then i also realize..i guess this year was a c-drama year

BOKSOO BOKSOO BOKSOO!!!

2019 is almost over I promise I will stop

I'm sad Veronica Park wasn't on best scene stealer, I literally said her name out loud when I read the title.

I only struggled to answer one of these: Best Protagonist! How could you make me choose between Dan-oh, Nokdu and Bok-soo? 😭

I only voted for the first category, I didn't watch the dramas in the rest of the categories.

My honourable mentions are

1. The Last Empress - I walked around with a hole in my heart for a week after the show ended. I felt numb. I haven't felt this way about any drama before. Hyuk stole my heart. Hyuk broke my heart.

Best Hero/Villain: Hyuk

2. Memories of the Alhambra
Hyun Bin was so charming and so gorgeous he took my breath away every scene he was in. And I loved the chemistry he had with Park Shin hye. They were such a goodlooking couple, and I loved the contrast between his cynicism and hardness and her sweetness and fragility. This couple made my heart skip a beat every time they were together.

Best Smile, Most Goodlooking Character - Hyun Bin
Favourite Couple - Hyun Bin and Park Shin hye.

3. The Light in Your Eyes - Most Heartbreaking Drama. Cried from start to finish.

4. VIP - Rawest Drama of the Year. It made me so angry, and I felt so much pain that at times it was unbearable to watch. Every episode left me drained, and tight. But, ultimately, it was a tribute to the resilience and dignity of the betrayed wife, and Jang Nara delivered, and I ran the entire gamut of emotions with her. Such nuanced acting, a look, a tightening of the lips, a flash of pain, hidden the next - Jang Nara did it all, and I feel so proud of her character.

Best Lead Actress - Jang Nara
Most Painful Drama - VIP
Best Ending - VIP

I really didn't watch my K-dramas this year. Dang.

This is a cool concept. I just think that getting to see the results before voting could make people vote differently.

Were the brackets drawn randomly? How were the byes chosen?

I'm guessing Hotel Del Luna will clean house. Extraordinary You coming in a close second.

One Last Bean :-
Surprisingly not hard because I wasn't that enamoured with this years crop. I have a feeling if I had finished Graceful Family it'd get the bean, but as it is among the choices given (Between RIABB & M@18) I'd choose RIABB. However my one kdrama bean would go to Rookie Historian Goo Hye Ryung, which wasn't nominated. Why? 👀

Best scene stealer :-
Omg how? Haru vs Seol Ji Hwan (Sorry, Rowoon, Ilu 🤟🏻 fantasy forever, but Seol Ji Hwan wins....) But how can I choose between Kang Sung Mo & Cha Hyun? Well Cha Hyun will have other fans I'm sure..

Btw where do I vote? The polls aren't available for all the categories *scratches head* [Edit now they are!]

Best chaos -
I loved Kill It's nonsense & Graceful Family's makjang & Trashdals hot trash but What's wrong with my mother in law wins hands down. I'd pay to watch it, ngl.
[WTH why did you name the poll question differently? I voted for Trashdal because it said strangely glued instead of chaos. Ugh]

Best Chemistry -
Scarlett & Seol Ji Hwan. Burn baby burn. Oh the lovely cinders, they still sizzle. What a couple. What a girl. What a guy. [Sorry Jang Hyuk & Yang Se Jong. I love you guys, I solemnly swear I refrained from being dazzled by abs & muscles 💪.... Please star together again... But I guess I'm too straight for this. Sorry. I wish I could. But hey you're my No 2!]

That was fun! Can't wait for the results!

Also, didn't vote for the Best Doctor Drama, I did watch Doctor John but I wouldn't say it was the best without checking the other two

We're supposed to follow the match-ups given right? then there's shows that i didn't watch pitted against what i did..and shows i watched but not in the match-up..
I appreciate the effort DB but i'll just vote directly yeah..

The Glorious Chaos one took me the longest time to think but I lost it when I saw What's Wrong With My Mother-In-Law. HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

I wished Reach for Sincerity was up for more categories. This may be my puny bean count talking but I really did love the OTP, LDW was a great protagonist, and it would be a fun office to join!

So there’s a difference between best objective show but also best show that kept you hooked. And the hooked one is overcoming my objective side (extraordinary you)

As I was going through the list this year I learned that....2019 was the year other countries stepped up their game because some of my truly favorite series this year were not kdramas.

Why wasn't Veronica Park a choice for scene stealer? She would have won hands down.

I realise the title makes it sound so, but Doctor Detective is not a doctoring drama. I know because I watched about six episodes, really hoping it would be good. I can't tell if it's there as a joke, or if the mysterious Dramabeans overlords just didn't research it and guessed 😂

Why isn't Dan Oh x Haru a contender for best chemistry?!?!? What a travesty!

Wow, this was surprising in some ways. I had to skip two categories simply because I didn't see enough shows to make my voting appropriate. Other than that, I think this helped me answer a question - what was my favorite drama of the year? The answer is Graceful Family. I mean, it was difficult, especially for the "last bean" vote because I also loved Be Melodramatic so, so much... but at the end of the day, Graceful Family was a true gem from a little known network like MBN that was completely unrepenant about its insane levels of melodrama. I loved the badass lead and her beta male, I loved the family's ridiculous infighting and brilliant moments of comedy (the fish funeral!), I loved the villains, and I loved how emotional I was about the tragedy too even when I saw it coming. Thanks for this fun way to help me really set this drama apart from the others I watched this year.

Sageuks were sadly under-represented in Beanie Royale, especially in the Best Wardrobe category. CROWNED CLOWN, MY COUNTRY, and FLOWER CREW: JOSEON MARRIAGE AGENCY had gorgeous costumes. Sun-ho's gat-free late-Goryeo fashions were particularly fetching, while Bang-won and Bang-gan sported understated but opulent fabrics in their civvies. Even Bang-won's soldiers were well-dressed, and his lieutenants even more so. Madame Seo and her staff at Ihwaru were sumptuously attired. Lee Chang Seja and his faithful guard Moo-young looked quite spiffy until they were covered in zombie gore in KINGDOM; the royal guards were dressed to kill, while everyone else wore the ragamuffin look. Two of the three yentas in FLOWER CREW were fashion plates themselves who dolled up their clients with fetching makeovers.

In the present day, DESIGNATED SURVIVOR's civil servants and baddies were all kinds of fine in their suits and uniforms, in particular the special ops team. PEGASUS MARKET was awash in spiffy business duds and traditional Bbaya garb topped off with signature horns. President Jung took the cake with his surreally-memorable outfits: That sunflower petal halo! Those white tights! His mask and cape! Don't forget the royal robes and winged cap of Customer Satisfaction's Oh In-bae and the employees' red and gold dragon uniforms raiment. And Kim Gab's signature fluffy fur neck piece. ;-)

In the Best Accessory category, 3 in WHEN THE CAMELLIA BLOOMS: Dong-baek's germanium bracelet, Peanut Moocher's freebie peanuts, and Yong-shik's beloved mandoo. 5 if you count Ongsan's marinated crabs and Pil-gu's baseball bat. ;-)

With wall-to-wall villains in NOKDU FLOWER, it's hard to pick the biggest. I won't even get into the high-ranking Joseon traitors and Japanese aggressors. Master Baek Man-deuk and Lord Hwang Seok-joo were the hometown baddies whose actions and attitudes created monsters who caused immense suffering far beyond Gobu. Speaking of whom, Best Busted Bromance goes to estranged brothers Geoshige Baek Yi-kang and Oni Baek Yi-hyun.

Shout out to Choi Moo-sung for his memorable portrayal of a true blue hero, Mung Bean General Jeon Bong-joon. He was great in MR. SUNSHINE, and even better in this role.