What!! No Perfect Marriage Revenge in 'Revenge' category?????

This'll be so much fun.... :)

Destined With You should be in the "worst use of reincarnation" category.

In the "I didn't mean to fall in love with you" category, I definitely would have voted for Lee Min-jae ( https://asianwiki.com/Lee_Min-Jae_(2000) ) 🥰

Also, what does it mean that I didn't actually want to vote for anyone in the "Best Hero" category? I think if I had to write someone in...it may have been Bong-seok (Moving) or even, frankly, Divorce Attorney Shin? In retrospect, I really quite liked his principled stance and his underhanded tactics and his apartment...that the drama wasn't satisfying somehow didn't detract from this, I think? I'm sort of as surprised as you might be that I'm typing this.

Also, the best OST was Unlock the Boss! I'll die on this hill ;)

I'm really upset that Castaway Diva was not included in Best OTP or Best Kiss! I gave best kiss to my second choice, DWY. I'm glad it's at least winning best OST.

Also, "don't let the door hit you on the way out" was a difficult choice this year.

My favorite hero was Namgoong Min's Jang hyun in My Dearest. I'll admit I fell for him hard.

I admit it was difficult to choose in the worst parent category since there were a lot of bad parents this year.
But the rest were relatively easier.

There were too many good choices for the Biggest mess category 😅

I didn't vote for the best adaptation because I read none of these webtoon.

I totally forgot the kissing scenes and had to look them up again. Even though I never finished King The Land, if I had to pick which show was going to be the best based on kissing scenes alone, it would have been King The Land.

I love the question about who had the worst wardrobe. So many nominees, yet only one who pioneered wearing three different down comforters on screen!

For a lot of the negative categories I had a terrible time choosing between Island, Kokdu & Heavenly Idol. Going back thru my WWW notes to remind myself of my reactions was also not the high point of my year.

Strong Girl was bad, but not bad enough to be a contender.

What's a hit drama? Is it based on ratings or DB buzz?

So much fun! Damn this year was so-so, I didn't watch a lot of dramas so I skipped some categories just scratching my head... Anyways, The Heavenly Idol was such a waste of Kim Min-Kyu, didn't even bother watching it just for him. Such a disappointment.... Ryu Sio **cries highlight of my year

I am extremely offended that *Uncanny Counter 2* and *Black Knight* are in "bad" categories.

If anyone votes for them I might have to avenge my own revenge! BWAHAHAHHAA

I froze with the first question. I literally watched only 1 drama in that category and it's the drama it's my least favorite drama of the year.

No idea how I got 30 beans this year, because these polls made me feel like I've watched nothing? 😂 At least I could vote for Yi-Cheong couple and Kopiko. LMAO

Dying at some of this
I havent watched nearly enough of whats on the list to make a sound judgement, but sometimes I feel that strongly about a drama I HAD to vote.
Also, no Seo A Ri (celebrity) in "I want your closet"??? Common

I think there could have been a LOT more contenders for “worst use of reincarnation”! And I don’t really consider the couples listed from Twinkling Watermelon and Secret Romantic Guesthouse side couples, so I didn’t vote for them even though they are both fantastic.

I love that Lee Min-jae is just up there as himself 😂 Although did anyone not mean to fall in love with him? Seemed pretty intentional on my part.

This voting is always so fun and I love all the different categories! And now I’m thinking I have more ideas for the fanwall year-end ones too…

Junho vs Roswoon 👔
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No Call it love in the best kissing category? I refuse to vote! :D

Must've been the year of worst parents because I was legit at a loss who to choose, there were so many great candidates.

Worst parent needed The Glory Dong-Eun's mother

or better yet - list the 4999 bad parents of 2023

Oh boy, how hard is this?! I couldn't even vote for many cause I (a) haven't seen many of the shows and (b) couldn't choose for the ones I have seen.

For example: worst parent. The stepmother in Twinkling Watermelon is a special kind of evil for cutting off Cheong Ah's means of communicating with the world as well as locking her in the attic. Jung Bong Hwan was just terrible because of so many things (the abuse, the stalking, the causing the friend's accident, the possessiveness). The stepmother in Perfect Marriage Revenge tried killing the lead like 3 times as well as set up for jail time.

It's just really hard to choose who is the most despicable.

How is Call It Love not in Best Kissing?!!

Best overall cast chemistry for me was TALE OF THE NINE-TAILED 1938 😢

Oof realising that I preferred side couples over the majority of OTPs this year

My votes where skewed because I thought it only ethical to vote on those I watched to the end (mostly - with FF).
Except for Borah! Decided to never watch another ep after the dump truck dump and I challenge anyone to call me out on it. Did that writing team hate successful women and decide how to degrade them??

There were some votes I did not cast as I did not even want to watch any of the shows listed.

Great polls! If I could make two additions to the choices:

Escape of 7 was I think the biggest mess

Koo Yeon Joon was my favorite hero in A Time Called You

Can we add the grapes to the PPL category? I'm seeing them everywhere now.

We should have been given the chance to choose more than one for the worst categories. Honestly, I hesitated more while choosing the worse than the best since many shows deserved to be chosen for that title

Always waiting this vote every year!
Too bad, I didn't watch many kdrama this year, it pretty much packed in the last month of this year but still it didn't much.

I'm OK with either Tale of the Nine Tailed 1938 or Twinkling Watermelon winning "Best bromance," but I need Twinkling Watermelon to win "Best OST." I can't even rank my favorite Twinkling Watermelon OSTs because I love them all equally (RP - Tomorrow, Jung Joonil - A Song For You, Kim Hangyeom - Shining, 5moon - My Song).

"Everything was fine until the last few episodes" was My Lovely Liar for me. I cursed out loud when the plot twist was revealed.

Revenant deserved a nod.

mm well no point voting when my least favorite and my opinion most boring drama will win anyway.

Rang, I fell so deep. I literally would have died for him. I would even watch heartbeat again. Rang deserves everything

Twinkling watermelon is not a surprise hit ?

For quite several of these 2023 dramas, the commentary is the best part...

Kopiko for the win 🥳

Overall conclusion - Perfect Marriage Revenge is the little engine that could and surprised everyone this year. It was indeed a refreshing and delightful surprise after all of the much hyped disappointments like King the Land and Strong Girl Namsoon.

No Kim young kwang in best hero? Are we going to get another poll for best actors actress etc? I hope we do coz this guys deserves all the awards there is for his nuanced performances.

For most frivolous waste of talent, I'd vote for Ong Seong Wu in Strong Girl Namsoon. He was the freaking male lead and he disappeared off the screen for like the second half of the drama. Netflix recommended Moment of Eighteen to me after Strong Girl, as he plays the lead there. That guy can ACT. It made me doubly sad after that to think what could have been in Strong Girl.

For best kissing, Alchemy of Souls over every one of the possible options listed.

I vote Perfect Marriage Revenge

Where is protein coffee in best ppl? I admit, I am not a coffee person and may never try it, but it made me curious and thats what matter right? They made a non-coffee person to do volunaty seach for a protien based coffeee...thats a win right there...........

Why is there no "so bad it's good" category? LOL! I can think of some dramas which would handily fall into this classification.

OK a few rants on the above choices/dramas.
It always surprises me how varied our tastes for dramas. It shouldn't as we all come from such different perspective and experiences in life. My from my own selfish perspective (not right, but just my own):

How Can People Not See How Bad These Dramas Were?
-The Heavenly Idol - such high hopes, but utter dreck!
- Island - so sure I would love this, but I kept checking myself that my senses weren't fooling me; relief that others thought it was just as bad as I did;
- Black Knight - should totally be my type of drama, but it was such a waste. The webcomic of which this drama is based on is so good, when the drama was so bad. Wasted opportunity when the roadmap was right in front of them!
- Strong Girl Nam-soon - I really enjoyed the first two or three episodes, then my hatred for this show burned brighter than the manuscript I wanted to chuck in the fireplace!
-"Most frivolous waste of talent...Everybody in The Uncanny Counter 2" I am at peace with the world again when I saw this. Everyone kept raving about UC2, but it was beyond meh....

How Can People Not See How Good These Dramas Were?

- See You in My 19th Life: I thought this was decently received and I enjoyed it even with a slightly weaker ending (but true to the webcomic) but this poll made me think I really missed something, but it was decent. Didn't not regret watching.
- Doona!: I totally get that the ending was bad. You would be even more infuriated to see that the webcomic laid out a perfect ending and they ignored it. It wasn't a romance happy ending, but it made sense and was fulfilling. But this show was not that bad or did I miss something completely??
- The Good Bad Mother - the Poll hates it, but wasn't it not that bad and people liked it? What changed?
- Bora! Deborah: I think I am not sophisticated to see why everyone hated this. It was not a classic or even rewatchable, but was it that terrible?
- Daily Dose of Sunshine: I wish more love was given to this show.

We are all different and alien to each other. All that combines us is our hate for Island, Strong Girl and The Heavenly Idol. Let us not lose that bond!

My dear Kim Nam Gil wasted his talent this year.
I didn't watch Island but it seems clear it wasn't a good show and KNG's talent was wasted.
But I finished Song of the bandits, another mess of a drama (for several reasons).

I hope 2024 is a better year for him.

Woww i really didn’t watch a lot of dramas this year, at least not those in these nominations..