Time to prepare the top 10 of 2021.

This season i don't appreciate - Well, i have to face it somehow and hope that i'll change things in 2022.

Little Boy is on the run or not.

Delicious is this week's SPACE.

Financially want to have +ve next 2 weeks.

Dramaland needs to stop the practice of casting randos at the Incheon arrival gates for non-Korean roles. That is all I wanted to say.

In the entertainment industry, success is what have you done lately. The pressure to repeat successes is daunting.

Word is week is that CLOY PD Lee Jung Hyo's UNTIL MORNING COMES has suddenly halted production after filming 8 episodes. JTBC stated it was to take time to rearrange the show.

The story of a forensic scientist who becomes a murder suspect. It depicts the process in covers the hidden truth through a profiler. It is based on the Chinese novel, which itself was controversial earlier in the year when SK and China launched another round of culture wars.

The film halt was not due to Covid so that means there could be issues with story, acting, direction, scandal or financing. It is so unusual to dead stop a series at the half way point. In live shoot series, crews can pivot story to fit viewer comments. But this is a pre-produced show which makes it more mysterious considering the PD's last show, CLOY, continues to rank high in international ratings two years after its release.

To all beanies, next week will be a Christmas Eve and next Saturday was Christmas!
For me, I'm saying that Christmas isn't officially cancelled and I wanted to wish a safe Christmas!

Sort of looking forward to watching the new suspense show Snowdrop - or at least one episode of it. When I call it a suspense show I'm not referring to any intended suspense in the story. I mean, will it get Joseon Exorcised and if so how quickly? I might break in to my New Years Eve Supplies and make a drinking game out of one beer for every episode that actually gets aired.

Hello everyone. This is fever speaking.

I just got my second shot today, and I’m having low fever. I put a wet small towel on my forehead - the thing I can’t remember the last time I did.

I should be sleeping now, but instead I’m here typing feeling like I’m drunk.

Happy weekend Beanies and keep Beaning On!

I just plopped down in my sofa after a very exhausting week. Some anxiety triggers had to be dealt with and everything else was paused as a result. After the triggers had lost their power, I still had to unpause everything else before I could rest properly. I guess it will be bedtime for me right after posting this.😴On the bright side, I finished everything before my winter break!🥳Now it is up to time to hold up their part of the deal to grant me lots of hours of sleeping, writing roundup pieces and watching K-drama episodes!😊

happy friday beanies!
it’s been so long! i miss you guys a lot. college has kept me busy, but today is the last day of my final exams, and then i’m flying home for a month! about time, because the last few weeks have been incredibly chaotic.

not only have my exams been grueling, but my health is doing quite poorly. (luckily, no covid tho! *knock on wood*) i got a cold last week for about the 10th time this semester, leaving me fatigued, and yesterday i figured out it was due to a blockage in my nostril. i also managed to puncture my eardrum last thursday, which has been very annoying and painful (tip: stop. using. q-tips.) the health centers here have been pretty careless— i had to wait 2 hours to see a doctor, who told me she would send a follow up email with treatment tips the same day… and i still have not received an email despite reaching out. the cafeteria food here is terrible, and i’ve lost my appetite during this bout of sickness, so i worry that i have lost weight (i already lost a visible amount when i went home for thanksgiving).

it’s almost funny— one of the reasons i applied to this college and wanted to go so badly was to go far from my family and be independent. but after this semester, i’m excited for winter break and to be back home. i think independence is nice and college has been good overall (i’m really lucky to be here!), but the past two weeks have been too much with academic and physical stress, so all i want now is to be sheltered and not worry about all these things that i took for granted at home.

anyway, i wish you guys a happy holidays and a good week! ◡̈
love,
shachi

I've been cleaning walls, something you should only do once or, at most, twice in a lifetime (or not at all, if you can get away with it. It's strangely satisfying but oh, my body hurts.

My book arrived from the publisher this week. I opened the box and put the copies on the table and did not touch them for three days. Yesterday I read some of it and said to myself, "It's not too bad. I might even be proud of it." It's much worse than having a baby because you're determined to love the baby come what may, but with a book... It's more like someone you've spent too much time with. You know them by heart and you're trying not to yawn when they repeat themselves, but you've given so much of yourself to them, you just have to see it through.

So I'm happy to say that all my hours reading Agatha Christie's books paid off!

Yesterday, for the compagny diner, we went to a murder and mystery diner and I won \o/

I am a cops/crime/mystery genre guy and I have compared my beans for 2020 and 2021 in that genre. My opinion based on my viewing.
2021 does not compare to 2020 for the quality and quantity of dramas in that genre.
2020 was an excellent year for cops/crime/mystery. I watched 12 dramas in that genre and I consider 6 excellent (top marks): NOBODY KNOWS, THE GOOD DETECTIVE, FLOWER OF EVIL, FOREST OF SECRETS 2, MISSING: THE OTHER SIDE and KAIROS.

For 2021 I watched 5 kdramas and 4 cdramas in the cops/crime/mystery genre. I would rate 3 of my kdramas as very good: MOVE TO HEAVEN, D.P. and HAPPINESS and 2 of my cdramas as very good: THE IMPERIAL CORONER and DOUBLE TAP.
(I had not watched a cdrama in years.)

Looking ahead to 2022. I am really looking forward to Kim Nam-gil’s upcoming drama from SBS: THROUGH THE DARKNESS.

I want to talk about Snowdrop.

As I am writing this, I have finished Episode 2 (It is pretty difficult to watch the show because it only available in Disney+ in Asia, so don't ask me how I watch it) as well read some of those controversies on the news. I understand the 1987 democratic movement is a very important event for South Korean (and through movie 1987: When the Day Comes, I care about the movement because of my birthplace). However, I frustrated because of the over-reaction of South Korean netizens (it seems).

I am not a South Korean, so I can't fairly judge what they are thinking, but I always hope to see some more episodes before I can determine if they have distort history (According to what I am watching, I don't see anything yet--or someone should enlighten me?). For the time being, I feel like those people are shutting out some message simply because they don't like to hear.

I may not be right, and I am hoping for more dialogue, because on some issue South Koreans love or hate, it's hard to discuss without bias (like Japan, which is another issue which is so easy to hate--It doesn't mean they didn't do those heinous massacres, biological and chemical tests on people, etc. I am following this YouTube playlist as well its attached podcast to try to understand more about it), but at least we need to open the path to discuss them.

A suggestion to @db-staff: shouldn't we open something to talk about the show? Certainly a recap of every episode is the best, but I am open to everything.

Wish you all well.