Beanie level: Wrongly accused fugitive

It’s hard to focus on reading the New York Times with this kind of visual distraction…
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    True dat! 👏💕

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    I stop and take a moment every time I pass by the TUMI store in the mall that I frequent 😊 I am just loving and revelling in the increased global (South) East Asian representation in the consumerism world as of late

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Hooray! The New York Times finally included a Korean show (Sweet Home) among their recommendations of what to watch on Netflix. Not the one I would have chosen, but I’ll take it.
https://www.nytimes.com/article/best-tv-shows-netflix.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

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    Nice! Good to see the love being spread. What would you have chosen?

    I think I’d have gone for
    Hospital Playlist
    Romance is a Bonus Book
    The Good Detective/Stranger

    Especially the first two appeal in format to shows already popular in the US (medical procedural and human drama). I didn’t see a real procedural cop show that I thought was similar to the western style (Bad and Crazy maybe?) but The Good Detective and Stranger are both just so well done with the overarching mystery that I think they’d appeal to the same audience. It did to me 🙂

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      I like your recommendations, except for Romance Is a Bonus Book, which I’ve tried twice to watch but couldn’t get through the first episode. I know a lot of people who loved Extraordinary Attorney Woo, but I usually recommend Crash Landing on You, Hyena, Because This Is My First Life, or Misaeng. With the possible exception of CLOY, these fall into genres that would be familiar to Western audiences. But the main reason I suggest them is because they’re such well-made dramas and rank among my favorites.

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        Nice! I also love Misaeng – it was probably when I discovered that depressing dramas can be really really good hahaha (not that it was all depressing, but you probably get what I mean)

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    On the one hand, great news (and definitely not the one I would have chosen, but I guess we’ll have to take it).

    But, on the other hand, the mini rebel in me wants to stand up on a rooftop and scream: The NYTimes can thoroughly go and fuck itself.

    The majority of the absolute best shows to watch on Netflix according to them are mostly US-focused, and when they are not US-focused, they are in English and preferably dubbed. There are so many, so so sooooo many great non-English-speaking and non-US-friendly-topic shows out there. There was no effort made to open and challenge the mind of the audience 🙁

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Just posted my comments on Nokdu Flower on “What We’re Watching,” and thought I’d post the image I described. A gorgeous composition that added so much meaning to the scene.
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    As I said before, it was an unforgettable moment.
    The colors are talking, but they are open to interpretation.

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      I’d love to know what you thought about the colors. It can be quite enlightening to see something through someone else’s eyes!

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        I understood the black and white side of the screen as Yi Hyun’s ultimate fall in hell. The point of no return. One of the saddest moments in the drama.

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          I can totally see that. I just noticed that the vertical trees sort of look like a cage or prison bars. It makes is appear as if YH is confined in a narrow space.

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As I’m preparing to rewatch all 3 seasons of Happy Valley, I can’t help but fantasize about a Korean remake, with Kim Hye-Soo as the tough-as-nails policewoman and Kim Young-Kwang as the psychopath.

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I just came across this fabulous article from the BBC highlighting the increasing presence of women—especially older women—in leading roles in Kdrama. Yay! 💃🏻👏👏👏
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-67583282

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    Ooh…ooh…I have just the gif for this!!! Stealer. I love this whole scene as Lee Chun-ja’s running the show for Skunk as he gets her money back…while in her robe…messy hair…and drinking her wine.

    Happy New Year, Babylilo!!!! All the best for a marvellous 2024 from me.

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      Haven’t gotten to Stealer yet. You just moved it up a couple of notches on my watch list.

      Happy New Year to you as well, Seon-Ha. Wishing you a truly gif-able 2024! 🍾🎉

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Not sure whether I’ll watch Castaway Diva, but I’d love to know whether the title is meant to be a play on words with “Casta Diva,” the famous aria from the opera Norma.

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It’s Beautiful Now. Aspiring pâtissière Yoo-Na must have flunked Cookies 101. Tossing a lump of butter into the flour? Even beginning cookie bakers know you cream together the butter, sugar, eggs, and vanilla, and then stir in the flour and other dry ingredients.
This is why we have technical advisors.
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@dncingemma – Sorry you’re having a down day. Will this help?
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    @dncingemma You’re down!?? I’ve not been over on the main site much today…what’s up? Surely the cells that are Yumi’s have helped? If not, what might?

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      My dear Seon-ha: Thanks for your comment. Am just horrified and depressed at the atrocities going on while I’m watching KDs. Just feeling privileged, useless and despondent (not asking for sympathy as this is not about me and don’t want to turn it into that). Take care and have a lovely day.

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    @babylilo: Thank you for taking the time. I just saw it and it kade me smile for sure. Have a lovely day.

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Kdrama actors are masters of the technique of crying out of just one eye. I wonder if there are left-eye weepers and right-eye weepers, the way people can be either left-handed and right-handed.
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    I’ve also wondered how they trained their tear ducts to just flow from 1 side.

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    I came to the conclusion after similarly wondering that some crying scenes have been CGI’d as it is implausible that tears could fall so fast and in volume as in some absurd scenes. I wonder if the ‘one-eyed crying’ is a byproduct of that as maybe it is too expensive to do both eyes?

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      Your comment made me laugh so hard it brought tears to my eye! 🥲

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      It is no longer an assumption anymore. The editor of several great shows like FoS, My Mister, UTQU said so herself in her interview. I very much believe so. But in that same interview actress Song Yun Ah said that it wasn’t that easy to shed tears from both eyes. so glad they can CGI that part now.

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        All the more reason to appreciate all the actors who were able to nail their crying scenes before the advent of CGI!

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    I also noticed it, which takes me out of the moment because it makes me laugh at the fake tears.

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    Crying can actually become a VERY controlled skill—down to the very moment a person wants their tear(s) to drop— as I have learned from watching too many bts clips of C-dramas and listening to C-actors and C-actresses talk and and share their thoughts as they are doing a run down-rehearsal of a scene or re-filming scenes (not because there was an NG in the first take, but because the actor/actress or director might want another take for one reason or another to make the scene better, for the emotions of a scene come out better)

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The governor of New Jersey recently met with South Korea’s president and the mayor of Seoul. I was surprised to learn that my tiny home state has the 3rd-largest Korean population in America!
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Fans attending STAYC’s concert in Dallas, Texas probably forgave the group for confusing Scotland’s Rangers Football Club with America’s Texas Rangers baseball team. 😂🤣 😂



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    And the Rangers (the Texas ones) win the baseball World Series for the first time in the club’s 60+-year history!

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Two of my favorite things: corgis and Kdramas!









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    @babylilo May I respond here to your request for help on finding the new drama? Yes? Great!

    The scene is in a small auditorium where there’s some sort of vote about to happen that will affect the ML chaebol’s role in the company. At the last minute, his grandmother shows up to save the day. She’s dressed like Queen Elizabeth, complete with two corgis on a leash.

    First of all, I don’t think I’ve seen this drama myself—but never fear, I might still be able to help.

    Second of all, are you actually pulling my leg?? This sounds pretty far-fetched, even for a K-drama 🤣

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      Nope, it’s for real. A real LOL moment for me! But I should clarify — she’s not wearing a crown and evening gown, but a sensible skirt-and-jacket suit topped with a hat, in the style typical of what you’d see Queen Elizabeth wearing during the day. I’m picturing a blue outfit, but I may be wrong.

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        Loll. I’m lolling around with you 🙂

        Here’s an important clue for me: You say you started with thinking it was Unlock my/the Boss. Is that because you are remembering that this drama was from the past year? Can you locate the drama in time? I mean, like how old is it?

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          It was a drama I watched fairly early in my Kdrama experience (maybe 2020 or 2021), and it wasn’t a new drama then. I’m positive this time that it’s not a sci-fi/fantasy drama!

          I looked through my watch history, and Protect the Boss is the only one that feels like a possibility. The grandmother I think used to run the company and comes back to assert her authority to help her favorite grandson. The actors involved (Ji Sung as the grandson and Kim Young-Ok as Grandma) seem right to me.

          It’s definitely not Unlock My Boss, which I haven’t watched.

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          I’m not sure whether it’s from the same drama, but I recall the chaebol heir preparing to make a presentation in an auditorium showing off some kind of high-tech gadget enclosed in a lucite case. A sniper is somewhere in the balcony preparing to shoot him.

          Gah—I feel as if I should start taking notes while watching dramas, but that would spoil some of the pleasure of watching!

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