" As I read the subtitles every now and again I hear myself saying the Korean word. "

Lol I do this all the time. And vice versa as well.

"In Mimicus the kids say what sounds like and is translated as Hi when they are saying goodbye is this a youth slang thing or is hi a shortened form of a Korean casual word for goodbye?"

Do you mean "annyeong"?? 안녕
Annyeong can mean both hi and bye in informal Korean, yes.

That's so cool.
The problem I have these days is that I can't remember words in spanish.
When I can only know how to say the word in english, it's fine because I can just ask the other person (most of the people I know speaks english) but when I can only remember the word in korean, I get frustrated because I can't ask and the other person is waiting for me to finish the sentence 😂😞

@reply1988 I did watch a few Chinese and Japanese serials in the last few days so I am curious which ones are you watching. My recent most is a Chinese show called Love like the Galaxy and it was such a pleasant surprise.

I read for EAW they had a reward trip, maybe to JejuDo?

I just googled them 😅and I totally see it. Im Ju-Hwan's face seems slimmer

I just looked them up and had to do a double take as they were wearing similar colours in their Asian Wiki pictures. I have some face blindness issues at the best of times so it doesn’t take much to confuse me! But looking up one of their works I think I have found my next favourite drama based solely on the write up so will be looking for any further info between now and release. Its called Three siblings bravely who knows if it will be an international release. I hope I will get to watch it and that it is a slice of life with no thriller elements.

I know what you mean, 😆 I also got confused in the past, but with time you'll probably get used to it.

For the longest time, i thought Kim Ji Seok was the ex-boyfriend in My Name is Kim Sam Soon. I hated his character but thought his acting improved over time. It was only the past year or two that i found out (thanks to a beanie) the guy in MNIKSS was actually Lee Kyu Hwan

Sorry I'm clueless

Me knowing nothing about baking bread, being gluten free home made bread land has been barren wasteland after a couple of disasters, google troubleshooting. I think if none of those posts help its time to bin and go because it may be it’s not up to the job and you need to cut your losses. Nothing worse than savouring the aroma of freshly baked bread only to be faced with a brick or nasty tasty product.🤢

If you have a local independent baker, you may want to ask them how to make a starter dough.

Starters are not that hard to raise... if you started with a "live" (bubbly) one and it seems like it has conked out, bring it to room temperature and feed it once or twice in a day, it should perk back up. They can live in the fridge just fine once they are healthy, as long as you feed them once a week, but they'll be perkier at room temperature.

Feed it every two days and perhaps add a tablespoon of rye flour.

If you can't get a good performance out of it it probably means you're feeding it too seldom. Kept in the fridge, I think you need to feed it about twice a week once it's settled in. Or a simpler method is to add a small amount of yeast. It keeps the slightly sour taste to the bread but rises as it should within a few hours.

I kept my starters for several years but grew tired of this constant process of feeding. Nowadays I simply use about 8g of fresh yeast and let the dough prove for about 3-4 hours. This gives a better taste and is a lot more pleasant to the gut. Plus, a packet of fresh yeast, kept in an air-tight container in the fridge keeps for at least two months, given that you wipe of the condense once in a blue moon.

I used this advice for my starter - https://www.homegrown-kitchen.co.nz/2012/10/03/sourdough-starter/ (except I used chlorinated water because that is what comes out our tap, it was fine) - she has some troubleshooting advice for common issues that might help.

My husband is into these things. The only thing I know is that it is a fun tradition to name your starter and his is called Hermione the fifth (because this is is fifth new starter in this year). :-D But if you have a specific question, I can ask and relay the answer.

In time with you the Japanese version? Friends to lovers. I like the story and have watched two versions the Chinese version Eternal love, being my favourite but it’s longer. Just started the Japanese version which is supposed to be the best version.

The day of becoming you - Chinese Fantasy rom com
My love, my bride - rom com film Korean film
My first love - rom com fantasy

I'm watching cdrama Love between fairy and devil and it fits your requirements. I've paused a few kdramas to watch it because it's that addictive and good. The only con is that it's yet not completed. There are 12 more episodes to go that will air this week and next, 6 per week. But if you can manage to binge the 24 released just in time, for the final week, it can work out. Else you can wait for it to finish.

But for squee alone, I'd recommend You are My glory. Day of becoming you is another good show but with lesser squee and more fun.

The Day of Becoming You is a great suggestion down below! I'd also like to mention the silly Cdrama Love By Hypnotic and Kdrama I am Not a Robot and Marriage not Dating

The crackle of chemistry! The squee!

I don't know if you watch BLs but japanese BLs are so damn cute. I would recommend Cherry Magic and My Love Mix Up.

Terius Behind Me
Dae Jang Geum is Watching
Please Don't Date Him (everything with Song Ha Yoon in it tbh)
Shopping Wang Louie
Weightlifting Fairy Kim Bok Joo

I think you would enjoy family dramas too, they have the best couples:
Five Children
It's Beautiful Now
Smile You
Be My Dream Family
Once Again

I recently watched one C-Drama called "Be my princess". It fits the bill of what you are asking for.

It was good, it is good and with more less rain it will be even more good. Teasing clouds are a beautiful watch. This time around not much rainfall - well, every year should be different. Only then you can check the quality levels of things around.

Night time that moisture isn't, the cool clean air isn't. so, yeah, something you want but overall pretty good season leading to more expectations from autumn.

XI has the possibility to escape - let's see the quality of their think tanks which usually include all data analytics.

This season will be decided by inflation - play well and gain more control, hero to villain, villain to hero. common man to leader - This is what a good gamble is. Good gamble with huge rewards. If you are sensible, capable and ambitious you can make big. I don't think 2023 earlier months gonna provide such good platform. go all in and try hard.

Well, these words are much for everyone, and i would do better to take full advantage of such atmosphere.

That and notes, texts etc. shown on the screen long enough to let us know it’s significant but no subtitles to help us out. Maybe Netflix only generates by sound and no humans are overseeing to pick up on the gaps or correct where literal translations don’t work.

I have noticed instrumentals playing but words are shown on screen. I had assumed they were just instrumentals but clearly they are the versions without words.

You can see the English translations of the episode titles on IMDb.
Here - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14730768/episodes

Not gonna lie, when this scene popped up, I was preparing myself for another possible ToD scene 😱 I said to myself, "they better not dare pull some crap to set up season 2 lol".

I'm still processing it, too. I loved the show--including the Jeju episodes--and thought the final shot and line was perfect. But I'm not sure if I think the somewhat open endings were to set up a future season (which I'm ambivalent about) or if they were in line with the writing (which I thought was excellent overall) all along. Regardless, this is definitely one of the very few kdramas I enjoyed all the way through and feel sad to see it go!

Loving the fact you had a literal wardrobe malfunction and will be doing an unexpected ‘does it bring me joy’ event tomorrow!

I hope you and your friend had the much needed bonding time even if it was in a different context to the original plan. Hopefully you have something nice and relaxing planned at some point it sounds like you all need and deserve it.

When it comes to wardrobe malfunctions I’m pretty sure I’d rather it was my actual wardrobe than the clothes
I’m wearing 😅 did you find things you forgot you owned? I don’t even have many clothes and that still happens to me if I go into the high shelves (I’m short so only the stuff I don’t really use goes up there).

How could SIG have thought this Cafe M was any good? One line of dialogue should have been enough to convince him. I get trying to do a fresh character but if it means a bad script, it is better to wait. Having said that, some dramas might be great on paper and somehow don't work when produced. I don't think they can back away after doing tables because by then contracts are signed. Writers do change and wreck or improve dramas but again, I think when people blame the actor's choice they only talk about dramas that were bad from early episodes.

Dramas are either written only the week of or a few weeks in advance, and shot whilst airing, or they're preproduced.
And, as can be seen by Kwak Dong Yeon's interview on Jinjoo's YT channel, not all actors get to pick their own scripts period. It is highly dependent on a myriad of other factors and not everyone has the same freedom.

I think the term "actor picked a bad script" has become a sort of colloquialism almost for "this drama is a bad or unfortunate pick for this actor, no matter what the circumstances of the picking or if they could've foreseen how it'd end up/had the whole script available".

But yeah, it's usually more complicated than that haha.

It is becoming more common that agencies are aligned or affiliated with production companies who have more control over casting. Independent agencies may attempt to line- up projects well in advance so projects can change direction/cast/direction before filming starts. Very few stars can outright veto a script; it is a collaboration between agency, manager and artist. There are some actor/agency that go for the most money. More and more schedule conflicts are the final factor.

A story may be great on paper but it takes effort to execute it onto film. Actors have bring life to characters and director needs to put the vision together. There are a lot of moving pieces that can go wrong, including burnout from 4 am wake up calls for 14 hour shoots.

Oh bless you, clearly you needed it I bet you only woke up because your body was saying forget sleep where’s the food like Yumi’s cells hunger was taking over the village 🤣. I hope you didn’t upset your body clock and you did get to sleep in the end.

I hope you got some sleep 😅

Her fiancé said the sweetest things in the written announcement too. I saw it on Instagram so lovely to see this in real life.