End of year round up catch up post!
 
My theme for this year should be failure to follow through – I have lost count of the number of dramas I started and then just stopped watching even if I was actually enjoying them. Maybe I’ll finish some one of these days.
I watched a lot of old dramas but I only finished two 2020 dramas (properly).
 
Day 1: Male Lead You’ll Never Forget
This is going to Captain Ri from CLOY. Strong, capable man in uniform trying but failing to restrain himself from love because of duty is basically exactly my ideal drama hero 😃 I finally understood the appeal of Hyun Bin.
 
Day 2: Female Lead You’ll Never Forget
….I’m going to have to pick one from a drama I didn’t finish because otherwise my choices are too limited. I’ll go with Ko Moon-young from IOTNBO for her style. Honestly I didn’t find any of the female leads particularly memorable this year, sadly.
 
Day 3: That PPL a drama feels empty without
The Dyson. I don’t even like Dyson vacuums (my last one was not good to me) and I was still like “oooh, that looks good”
 
Day 4: A drama you couldn’t finish
Where do I start? Ha. I’ll give this to Dinner Mate, because of all the dramas I started yet did not finish (and there were MANY) this one is the one I am least interested in returning to one day.
Or maybe Sweet Munchies, because I forgot that was even a thing until right now.
 
Day 5: Drama you finished for the bean
Oh My Baby. Which was really great for a big stretch and then just…..I shouldn’t get disappointed any more when dramas let me down at the end but they DO. I did a lot of fast-forwarding. I don’t think it counts really as having finished it.
(I have not counted it in my bean count, because I didn’t know what that was until a couple of days ago).
 
Day 6: Drama that you know you’ll rewatch
Mystic Pop Up Bar, because it was lovely.
 
Day 7: That OST that you’re obsessed with
Not a drama OST, but I cannot get enough of Henry’s version of Youngblood from Begin Again Korea.
https://youtu.be/iqzxRt0AB5s
 
Day 8: OTP that you didn’t think you’d adore
Adore is probably a bit strong but I got much more invested in Woljoo and Manager Gwi than I expected to.

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    Wol-joo and Manager Gwi were a great OTP. I can’t believe I forgot about them! And agree with your ML choice – it was the show that made me get his appeal, too.

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    Hi @beffels, I love your round-up! It’s so fun to see where our tastes and preferences continue to line up! A number of your picks would have been mine, too. :o) I think the only major difference would be that I loved IOTNBO from beginning to end and even re-watched it. :oP

    Just wanted to say that if you liked Henry’s cover, you may enjoy checking out the youtube channels for Kurt Hugo Schneider, as well as Walk Off the Earth. They do lots of fun multi-instrumental musical arrangements (albeit not as a one-man band). I realise I’ve gone a bit off-topic and this is not k-drama-related…but I have such a soft spot for musical talent, creativity and innovation. :o)

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      I plan to finish IOTNBO one of these days, I was enjoying it but I just stopped watching and never picked it back up for some reason.

      I like Walk Off The Eartn, their cover of Somebody That I Used To Know is a favourite of mine, I’ll have to check out the other channel you recommend.. I find that kind of thing so impressive – possibly because I am so very not musical myself!

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        Sometimes it’s a mood/mindframe thing, isn’t it? I wouldn’t re-watch it right now because it’s not quite what I fancy at the moment.

        Kurt uses some interesting instruments/non-instruments… this cover collaboration of Sia’s Cheap Thrills with Kina Grannis (whom I adore in a big way) always puts me in a good mood for some reason: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wk2l-CNUFR4&list=PLBzYyF9YRHeJ_xqiEgqDJBCDe6ynUdBVn&index=7

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          Definitely sometimes a mind frame thing, if you’re not in the mood you just won’t enjoy it.

          Thanks for the link!I can see myself descending down a YouTube spiral 😄 i saw they did a cover of Niall Horan as well so I’m off to send it to my sister who is a Niall Horan super fan 😎

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        P.S. I meant to say in my original comment that my favourite Capt Ri scene was in one of the epilogues, when he’s crouched down whilst talking to the plant. I feel a visceral pull at my heart just remembering that scene. Hyun Bin really was so good as Capt Ri (I did not get the hype in Secret Garden, which I haven’t been able to finish…).

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          I only dragged myself to the end of Secret Garden with the help of the FF button. 😄

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    You are so right about FL. Not that there were many this year that I really liked, but then dramas are more about ML than FL mainly.
    And I feel your pain about Oh my Baby and all the dramas you love until… suddenly you feel abandoned by PD-nim, writer-nim and even actors while you keep asking yourself: what happened? what did I do wrong?

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