Something that's kinda funny to me is how different the reaction to certain dramas here is to what other folks/viewers say; an example would be how much Big Mouth & Again My Life were criticized here and yet I think both lead actors won awards for their performances that year as well as the dramas being highly watched. But sure, awards and viewership can be superficial so how do you *really* know a quality drama?
I guess it's just a to each its own solution.
If you truly enjoy something even if everyone else criticizes it, just enjoy it.

I felt weird seeing "another Park Min Young rom com" because I kinda feel like she may be one of those folks who are damned if she does something different and damned if she doesn't do something different. I wonder if she still enjoys doing rom coms or is she now just typecast into that role.

I saw something that said Ji Chang Wook was considered an "action star" but he just considered himself an "actor" so he's been taking on different kinds of projects that don't include action such as the magician role, the hospice worker, and I think he did some rom coms but the audiences/viewers aren't showing up for those like they did his action projects.

Rookie’s career will skyrocket:
My choice : Noh Sang-hyun

Natural disasters would be good cause we are living it.
a plot with speaking animals would be great (maybe mythical beasts who form a commune in human society)
an artist fascical, absurd murder mystery would be great with charming quirky profssors and likable villains

please I also need some more martial arts (perhaps a drama about an ahjumma taekwondo club and neighborhood watch who catches perverts, spies and cheating husbands with tricks only ahjummas possess). and their antisocial young teacher, who is more of a show dont tell type.

More deaf characters represented and sign language in dramas

a semi drama semi cooking show where you can cook along

After decades away, more top Korean movie stars will return to TV dramas. The reason is simple: international platforms have big budgets and the Korean box office has only recovered 50 percent of pre-pandemic revenue.

When they hit their early 40s, more lead actresses will be pushed aside from rom-com roles to secondary/supporting roles or different genres like crime/mysteries since 2022 began to feature new actresses in their late 20s-30s taking lead positions.

The best drama of the year could be another Hook Entertainment scandal involving top stars being taken advantage of by their agents.

Dramaland in general will bring:
another HosPlay dynamic but with no lovelive within the group🙏
thank you.

LOL the lee min ho drama. Boy am I buckled up for that one. I frkn love Go yoon-jung; she makes up for the void in my heart for Jun ji-hyun. They're my girls.

OMG this is so hilarious!!! 🤣🤣🤣

I almost chocked on the chocolate milk I was drinking reading the first question and choices!

For 2023, dramaland would bring more dramas without the romance or the romance is taking the backstage from start to finish.

Also something along the lines of Hospital Playlist - a medical drama that is medical at heart and mind first and foremost. Any other subplots comes third.
I hope dramaland brings Hospital Playlist 3.

K-dramas will continue to make serial killing look like 99.9% of the crime committed on the Korean peninsula.

wish I could say we would see a bigger variety of characters being represented, especially in the projects on global platforms like netflix, but unfortunately, I have no expectations of this really happening.

First of all, I liked and laughed the clever quizzes. As usual, well done Dramabeans staff!

I will not answer, though, because I am skeptical of all but general predictions. We base our predictions on the past shaping our imagination of the future, so judging by this last year, I would say there will be at least one blockbuster romantic fantasy set in a magical time vaguely resembling the Goguryeo period involving magical hanbok that will attract 400 comments where viewers debate exactly what specific rules govern the use of the magical hanbok, since the show is vague in defining them.

But I don’t think this will happen. Instead, I tend to think history is contingent, not determinative—somewhere a butterfly flaps its wings, influencing a pop idol’s dating scandal that inspires a writer to think of a show about a traveling troupe of musicians during the Joseon era.

Instead I’d like to make predictions about Dramabeans, which I read daily. While I think these will happen, I’m not going to bet my Dramabeans subscription on them. That would be $48 down the drain and I’d have to spend all my Internet time watching Youtube influencer videos.

1. Regardless of how many sageuks are produced, by September someone will write on Dramabeans: “we need more sageuks!”
2. A rom-com will bomb in the ratings and a different person will write “people are sick of trope filled fluffy rom coms. We need more sageuks.”
3. In the reviews of a detective drama a commentator will write “I’m so happy they didn’t feel compelled to put in a romance.”
4. At least once a month someone will write in the open forum: “I’m tired of all these dark dramas. Could someone recommend a fluffy romance?”
5. By November, someone will write “what happened to all the legal dramas? I miss the old style lawyer shows where a lawyer opened up a coffee shop.”
6. Once a week at least one person will write in “what we’re watching” raving about a 60 episode fantasy C-drama in which an arrogant male doctor is transported back in time, where he meets and falls in love with a bubbly female servant and they decide to serve the Qing dynasty by helping to subdue the evil Kingdom of Tungning.
7. Someone will write in the open forum “I miss the old style Dramabeans, where there were routinely 400 comments on a thread debating the rules governing magic hanbok”
8. At least 10 readers will write in blaming Netflix for sex and violence in shows, shortening kdramas, extending kdramas, and not showing kdramas. Meanwhile, Netflix will go out of business, and Disney will take over the streaming of kdramas, showing them to legal subscribers only in the island country of Nauru.
9. I’m running out of characters, so I’ll end with one final prediction: at least one person will be enraged with the crazy contributor Hacja, who seems to think he is funny when he’s just stupid.

This is great! I'm waiting for a year where wrist grabs and unconsented skinships become a taboe thing of the past. And the excessieve alcohol consumption! You can have big revelations and move the plot with dialogs while sober.
And because I've seen so few of then, I want a good medical Saeguk and a good Weekender! C'mon MBC!

More chaebols who have normal people jobs....which makes me think that the job market is so brutally tight in korea, maybe the chaebols should step aside and let someone whose family scrimped and saved to send them to college have the job. Chaebols should use their chaebol status and create more jobs.

I predict in there will be three truly outstanding, ground-breaking dramas in 2023. And they will not get particularly good ratings. Oh, and people will argue over how they ended.