I'm sort of sad that there's no recap, we-cap or open thread for SBS's Taxi Driver... It's seriously good (and high ratings!)
It's too bad that they changed the writer at Ep.11... It became a little too intense...
Anyway, this year is Lee Je-hoon's year. Taxi Driver and Move to Heaven. He is absolutely killing both roles.
Hope to see him at Baeksang next year.

Some exciting news, not related to kdrama: My composition "Under A Strange Moon" is one of the finalists of Satie Obsessions 2021, a composer's challenge for new piano music inspired by the works of French composer Erik Satie. Video featuring the pieces of all finalists is on my wall.

Korean 2020 drama productions were down 53 percent, but for the most part studio and production profits were up, mostly due to cost cutting (which I assume is talent and staff salaries). It is basic supply and demand. With less productions, the work available to actors. Actors who needed work would take less to be in a production.

But there seems to be a 2021 reversal on budgets. Call it the Netflix effect: it plans to spend $500 million (US) on at least 36 Korean productions.

One reason is that South Korean Netflix subscriptions are nearing 4 million. Another reason is that kdramas have helped drive Netflix to record 2020 profits as a new international market for Korea's unique stories and quality filmmaking stories have found a new and growing audience.

The source of kdramas used to be the big three networks. Recently, cable channels have taken a foothold in making more compelling dramas. I just wonder if Netflix's Western ideas will influence how its new dramas will turn out.

Remember Kim Hwan-hee the young actress who wonderfully played Seo Kang-joon’s little sister in WEATHER?
Kim Hwan-hee is currently appearing with Ryu Soo-young in the four episoder from MBC HERE’S MY PLAN. It is available on Viki (US) and Kocowa.
Also appearing in HMP is the young actor Kim Do-hoon who is currently playing a real bad boy in DARK HOLE. Hopefully he will be playing a good kid in HMP. I plan to check it out.

3575k - can happen within 2 weeks -

Cricket we gonna get it from June onwards - All the main events would barely few months apart. Not so good but more the cricket more the fun.

Olympics -- naah - 2022 - better.

I found this article from Koreaboo that only controversy involved on this year's Baeksang Arts Awards:
https://www.koreaboo.com/news/petition-jaejae-mmtg-ban-public-broadcast/

MC JaeJae, known for her hit interview talk show, MMTG, has recently fallen into controversy. During the Baeksang Arts Awards festival, JaeJae was seen making a hand gesture while eating a piece of chocolate. Various male community sites had taken offense with this gesture as it is reportedly a gesture of male hate.
As many would know, the South Korean community amongst males is highly sensitive to feminism as it often is misunderstood as male hate. Previously, celebrities such as Red Velvet‘s Irene received criticism for reading a reportedly feminist book. Similarly, Apink‘s Son Naeun was criticized for her phone case which supports feminism.

Regarding the controversial gesture, the producers of MMTG released an official statement. They claim that the team was discussing various outfits and ideas for the red carpet. Amongst the ideas, a clear snack baggie type of pouch was suggested in place of a clutch or a bag. As a comedic MC, JaeJae would then take out a snack from the bag and eat it on the red carpet, as sort of a joke performance.
The process of this decision would be shown through a behind-the-scenes clip to be released on MMTG‘s channel on May 20, 2021. They claim that the action of taking out a snack ended up looking similar to the controversial gesture, resulting in controversy.

Despite this statement, a petition has been submitted to the Blue House to take JaeJae off public broadcasts. This would affect her greatly as JaeJae hosts on SBS, which is a public broadcasting channel.
The petition claims that the gesture she made is a logo of an anti-male site and they claim that JaeJae has been regularly showing support for female rights and creates content that demonstrates so, hence there would be no chance that she was not aware of this.
Currently, the petition is up to 26,000 signatures and counting.

I knew that MC JaeJae will be face charges on weird unusual "unfunny, shameful anti-masculinity", damaging her own careers and warrant a lifetime ban by the Korea media institutions.

I looked forward to Mad for Each Other and My Roommate Is a Gumiho next week. So here's the official streaming sites outside Korea to both dramas:
Mad for Each Other: Netflix
My Roommate Is a Gumiho: Iqiyi

Hello Beanies! Happy Friday! Hope everyone is well!

So, all you drama-watching experts! Is there some sort of strategy to keep on top of so many different shows?!

Silly me just packed away winter sweaters and sweatshirts only to have to pull a couple out today and for the rest of the chilly weekend. Truly summer doesn’t begin until June 20!! I cried my way through Move to Heaven , but my heart is heavy for all the deep past misunderstandings between Sang-gu and Jeong-u and the forever unspoken words they can never have. I do like the way healing for Sang-gu is portrayed. Hopefully, he has escaped the long tentacles of Madame Cage Fight and can work on his relationship and life with Geu-ru. The story of Dad as a firefighter and Mom’s illness, gah - the good they die young! 😞 hurry season 2 (a Netflix K-drama division I really don’t like; just give me 20 eps straight up).
I’ll return to Taxi now; also watching Youth of May, Kingdom Legendary War - which is our singing teams this week. I love the camaraderie and high quality performances from all our idols 😉 . Have a great weekend Beanies!

An update:
So, recovery, like surgery, is harder than I thought. I went back to work on Monday and every day has been some new agony that I thought I had conquered during the days I was off after surgery. I was WRONG, friends, W-R-O-N-G, WRONG. I woke up this morning and my neck couldn't move and my head felt like it had been run over by. My shoulders hurt. Why? I think its so they dont feel left out. My waist and sides and back hurt. My legs hurt. Im a study in pain and discomfort. I dont even like studying, yo. I wanted to call in to work because I felt truly miserable but we've moved our scheduling system to a new platform and I couldnt figure out who was working with me today. Either way it would be short staffed but there's a few people Id be ok leaving to helm the library alone and there's some people I would 100% never leave to run the ship. Besides. Summer Reading starts in like 10 days. I have a million things to do before then.
AND plan Fall--we have to be at least 3 months ahead (although the pandemic did make that a laughable goal) but that IS the goal.
I spoke to my brother last night about my dad. He finally went to the doctors office. He took several tests for his memory and to quote my brother he did one of two ways for all of them (except for math): he failed or he failed horribly. They still dont know what caused those days of hallucinations or delusions. He needs more testing. But his feet and legs are swollen and he has been severely dehydrated. I feel badly. I've been trying my best to help my dad for YEARS and no one took me seriously until this happened. Everyone is listening and jumping to do whatever my brother says and on the one hand--I feel great that my dad is getting the help he needs. But on the other hand if someone--ANYONE would have listened to me YEARS AGO maybe he wouldnt be so bad off now. It makes it hard to want to faun over what an amazing job hes doing like everyone else.
I was then informed that I need to get my dads house packed up. Im scratching my head like I know no one cares that I had surgery and that Im still in the recovery phase and my body is actually in a whole heck of a lot of pain most days but...sure. I'll figure out how to pack his house up so that they can put his stuff in storage. Sure.
And with that being said, I'm going to try to focus on work! Im really dizzy and disoriented and I dont know why but whatever!

Move to heaven, oh my heart! The stories weren't really surprising, and the subject matter would put me off - I totally started watching for LJH (yes, I'm a shallow human being and I love LJH's nose, his unbelievable ripeness for this was just a bonus 🤣). This drama managed to grab my heart and run away with it. Geuru is my baby and I'll protect him no matter what

Happy friday, beanies!

Calling in to remind all the european beanies out there Eurovision Song Contest is back with finals tomorrow! I haven't had time to check out all the songs this year, so that's my plan for tomorrow. Bake something time-consuming and give it a good pre-listen. Thinking about it, I'm still snuffed about Iceland not winning last year. Take care out there!

Wow, the OST in Bossam is so cool! It is unexpectedly rock-y, off the beaten track, and it really adds to the drama 💚

Hi beanies. Landing internships is such a confusing affair. I have to maintain resumes on multiple platforms, have one ready with me at all times and the worst part is that I can't really write anything under work experience because I am just starting out. A very sordid affair but I have decided to devote 30 minutes to it each day. There is a lot to be learn in terms of skills but I really want to persevere in this.
In some good news, its muskmelon and mango season here in India and I am all here for it. They are 2 of my favourite fruits. Also nothing compares to Indian mangoes, they're absolute heaven.

So my bully has gotten his friends to spam my account with their ******* and ask me whether I also paint sex scenes and im like of course not.
If he doesnt care why is he harrassing me? Why are his friends treating ME like the psycho if they KNOW what he did?
I cant believe a person I trusted and respected has turned out to be so disgusting.
I keep bursting in tears today.
What to do when you miss who someone used to be except it turned out to be fake?
I just can't take the bullying any more

Can someone tell me what drama this picture is from? I wanted to watch it but I cant remember the title...