Beanie level: Eunuch in drag


β€œWhen you feel like you want to die, don’t die. You’re a decent person. Hang in there. The mere fact that there is someone cheering me on like that helps me breathe…”

-Park Dong HoonΒ 
My Ajusshi
💔Lee Sun-Kyung💔

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    This hit different now. So much more poignant.

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    Did anyone in his life tell him that? Any of his friends? {sobs}

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    Ajusshi, can you tell me whether I should continue watching Kdramas when you were treated the way you were by the community you lived in where you brought so much fame for?

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“I…can’t die today. I’m not wearing expensive underwear.”

-Park Dong HoonΒ 
My Ajusshi
💔Lee Sun-Kyung💔

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β€œβ€¦So just watch…watch and see just how happy I live my life. None of this is a big deal. Being humiliated, people gossiping about how my life is ruined, none of that is a big deal. I can live a happy life. I won’t be broken. I will be happy.”

-Park Dong HoonΒ 
My Ajusshi
💔Lee Sun-Kyung💔

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    Farewell, Lee Sun-kyun. I will miss you. Rest in peace.

    Your character Dong-hun (My Mister is my favorite drama ever) will always hold a special place in my heart. Thank you.

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    Damn these MA quotes hit way more strongly now 😭

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“None of the people I’d thought of as pillars are actually holding me up.”

-Park Dong HoonΒ 

My Ajusshi

💔 Lee Sun-Kyun 💔

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    Many dark days were lit by the dialogues given life to by Lee Sun-Kyun with his unique voice and style. I can’t believe none of these could help him when he needed it the most.

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    What a poignant quote from My Ajusshi!

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Sondia
Grown Ups OST for My Mister
Translation from

https://lyricstranslated.com/grown-ups-lyrics-meaning-in-english-sondia/

At the end of an exhausting day, tears start to fall

Where am I headed to?

I thought I had already been hurt as much as possible

But it seems like there’s still a lot left

As if I’m alone in this enormous world

No one tries to take a look at my heart

No one

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My Mister
Has always been the show that was my therapy.
What do I do now?

“You’re a good person.” – Park Dong Hoon

Rest in peace Lee Sun-kyun

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#2023Roundup freestyle

Godzilla Minus One

Wow.

Beanies, I wasn’t expecting this or any Godzilla movie to be good. Not in a million years did I think I would post something like this on Dramabeans.
This wasn’t good, it was great. The reviews were through the roof, but i didn’t believe it until i saw it for myself. My wife even refused to watch it with me because β€œwho wants to watch dumb monsters?” Wife was wrong…so wrong.

Godzilla Minus One is not just an action movie- it’s a Jdrama.
The focus is not the monster, but the humans characters. They are complex and conflicted. It’s post WW2 and the Japanese citizens are defeated and tired and now they have to deal with a different threat. Yes, there are some anime like moments, but you will be rooting for the humans. What an incredibly surprising Movie of the year.



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#Roundup day 22- Best cameo

Not a person, but a cameo from another show entirely.

The Twenty Five Twenty One cameos in Behind Your Touch
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#2023Roundup day 17- Oldie (non 2023) you loved the most.

It will always be Twenty Five Twenty One

No other drama felt so real
Incredible portrayal of complex and diverse relationships. This drama did an outstanding job with its portrayal of human connections. Some examples:

The fantastic 5 friend group. A group that formed organically and a group that drifted apart over time. I saw the same thing happening in my life. I called up my old friend group that drifted away due to this show.

Na Hee-Do and her mother Shin Jae-Kyung relationship. This one hurt the most because it reminded me of my personal difficult relationship with my mother.

Hee-Do’s mother, Shin Jae-Kyung and coach Yang relationship. A friendship
that fell apart and a truce over time.

Hee-Do and her father relationship 🥹. If u didn’t ball your eyes out (was it ep 10?) u aren’t human.

Ko Yu-Rim’s incredibly loving relationship with her supportive mother and father. I still get shivers at the scene where Yu-Rim’s mother gives her daughter rival, Hee-Do, the most genuine hug.

Baek Yi-Jin’s relationship with his mother and father and the weight of the world to rebuild his family.

The intense rivalry to womance of Ko Yi-Rim and Na-Hee Do.

The non romantic besties Ji Seung Wang and Moon Ji-Woong

The cute pairing of Ko Yu-Rim and Moon Ji-Woong

And finally the main heartbreaking story of Na Hee-Do and Baek Yi-Jin

Yes, I know. It didn’t stick the landing and it hurt so much. It wouldn’t have hurt so much if it didn’t feel so real. It wouldn’t have hurt so much if we didn’t care as much as we did.

I will love this show until the end of time.

And finally- probably the most heartbreaking rendition of Jaurin’s song 25-21 by Younha

https://youtu.be/FHll_CxOupA?si=WDnJWgnd6PEkmhti
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    It’s a classic it’s a gem. 💖

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    It’s a wonderful drama which I think doesn’t receive the love it deserves, just because some people were disappointed with the ending. I even know some people who hate this drama.

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#Roundup day 16- Your guilty pleasure.

The Handmaiden (2016)

I was a newly minted Kim Tae-Ri fan and started to pull up her older works. I don’t like spoilers so I purposely don’t pull up reviews or synopses. The IMDB score was high and that’s enough for me to start.

Keep in mind that I’m just getting used to the innocence of Kdramas and I love how they typically don’t need graphic depictions of sex and violence to generate intense emotions. I haven’t watched many K movies and assumed they were like Kdramas.

So here I am watching and Kim Tae-Ri stips down naked in an intensely erotic scene 🫣.
WTF

My jaw is hitting the floor by now.

I wasn’t expecting that. 😳😱🤯

Do I feel guilty? Yup
Pleasure? Embarrassed to say I didn’t not feel pleasure. ☺️
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    😱😱😱

    There is such a scene of Kim Tae-ri?????

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    I actually think this is a good movie 😅
    (And a tribute to some famous Japanese er0tIc drawings.)
    But yeah, not a kdrama innocence 😅😅
    (Kdramas and kmovies are really two completely different worlds. 😉)

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    I watched a looooooot of kmovies. im used to it. but itΒ΄s just that I prefer mystery suspense genre. in my opinion, directors who go for nude scenes… they are a bit lazy and begging for fast attention. I like it when both tension and eroticism is created by cinematic techniques only. and when instead of sex, it is the camera making love to the actors

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    This movie is the best, one of my favorites.
    And yeah, kdramas and kmovies are totally different worlds.

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      Until Netflix messed it up …. 🤦‍♀️ 🤷‍♀️

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        I think that except for Kingdom and Sweet Home, all the Netflix originals I’ve watched have have all the violence, sex and smoking other dramas can’t have. It’s like they’re trying to compensate or something.

        I’m pretty sure Suzy smoked for every single kdramaland character in those 9 episodes of Doo Na. LMAO

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#2023Roundup Day 14 Best Bromance/Womance

Moon Dong-Eun and Park Yeon-Jin from
The Glory

Look at how Dong-Eun lovingly cheers on Yeon-Jin in the cafeteria. This is just perfect woomantic support.

Listen to how Dong-Eun repeatedly enunciates β€œYeon-Jin”. You can feeeel the longing and yearning for her. That love is so palpable and raw. Everything I do, I do for you Yeon-Jin. How romantic is that?

Look at how well Dong-Eun treats Yeong-Jin’s husband. It’s like one big happy family.

Dong-Eun cares soo much about Yeon-Jin that she sends a full time investigator to watch over her. What a caring friend!

If you read this far – I hope you aren’t taking this post seriously. 😜












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    Thank you for the laugh today!

    I watched this with my dad and sometimes I just randomly clap and say what Dong-Eun says and my dad is the only one that gets the joke, lol. I always mean sincerely though, haha

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I’m having a hard time getting through ep 4 of Welcome to Samdal-Ri. I wanted to love this soo bad but I’m just not connecting with any of the characters. I can’t explain why. I love the lead actor/actress, but the writing either bores or annoys me. Reverted to watching Hidden Love for the 3rd time this year to scratch that itch.

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I ate a Kopico candy today.

My second voice is asking if I would have eaten this without Kdramas. 🤔

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Roundup day 10: Your 2023 crush.

Chung-Ah from Twinkling Watermelon played by Shin Eun-Su

Here’s an actress I’ve never heard of and had no expectations going into the show. Her brilliant portrayal of Chung-Ah without saying a single word made me a fan. At one point, most of us were screaming for more Chung-Ah screen time because her parts were the most touching. I’ll be looking for Shin Eun-Su in future roles.
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Roundup day 9: Your non k-drama recommendation.

Hidden Love

Hands down my best show of the year.
A testament that a good story doesn’t need any distractions.
No side plots. No serial murders. No amnesia, No toxic parents.
This show was so focused on the two (ridiculously attractive) main leads in the most beautiful and realistic way.
A show succeeds if it feels real and every character felt so real. The feelz from this were through the roof, the casting of the two leads was perfection, even the music/OST was memorable. I tried to think of anything I would change…nothing. Hidden Love is perfect

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My Demon Ep5
A bit crass? Yes
Hilarious? Also Yes
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    It was a great throwback to ep 1, in case some one had missed it earlier. I laughed all over again.

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#Roundup day 8 – The character who most screams for mental health care.

In kdrama land:
Doona could benefit from therapy. She’s been abused for so long

In the real world:
Sulli the real life Sulli – the idol that took her own life. On her last live interview on Persona: Sulli, the interviewer asks what she wishes for. After taking a long time to think about an answer, she answers in the most genuine manner: she wishes for a therapist and she wishes to be able to date.
I wish we could go back in time to grant her wishes.

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#Roundup Day 7: The drama Beanies convinced you to watch and you can’t be grateful enough.

Twinkling Watermelon
And Fake it till you make it

Twinkling Watermelon was teetering on my β€œshould I start this drama” and the constant incessant Beanie chatter pushed me over the edge. Thank you beanies- I needed this push. What a lovely show.

Fake it Till you make it

I’m usually overwhelmed with the sheer number of Cdramas, plus I don’t know of any Dramabeans like site for Cdramas – so I end up watching extremely few Cdramas (analysis paralysis). Earlier this year I watched Hidden Love and I thought it was a masterpiece. Random beanie chatter made me try Fake it till you make it and what else can I say other than β€œThank You!!!!” Another fantastic show that I didn’t know existed. You Beanies rock.

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Beanies- I’ve hit that magic number of likes. Please please please nobody like any of my posts.
Twenty Five Twenty One forever.
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#Roundup Day 6 – The character(s) that deserves a kimchi slap.

Ladies and gentlemen, I’ve been waiting the entire year to give one big collective kimchi slap to every single toxic parent (I honestly don’t even know what a kimchi slap is until DB, who thinks of this stuff? But I digress)

I did a count this year.
11 shows portrayed at least one parent in the most toxic way possible. Please give a 🖕to the winners. And we wonder why Korea’s birthrate is so low. Become a parent – turn into an asshole.

Toxic Parent(s)
The Glory – takes the cake as the worst mom ever. You win, now please stop
Call it Love – aaaugh
See You in My 19th Life – 🤮
The Good Bad Mother – more like the bad bad mother
Lies Hidden in my Garden – 🤢
My Lovely Liar – give me money. Aaaauuugh
My Lovely Boxer – I’m gonna punch my adolescent daughter into a boxer
Kidnapping Day – daughter or science project. Same thing
Doona – mom says you’re a β€œproduct”, now quit bitchin and get back to work
Twinkling Watermelon – slapping that ho (stepmom) never felt so good. (Counteracted by Chung-Ah and Yi-Chan as adorable parents)
Castaway Diva 2X – it’s like a contest of which Dad can impart more violence on helpless kids.

On the flip side I did a count of the number of shows with nothing but loving parents. I counted….

One

Congrats to Moving as the only show I watched the entire year with a positive portrayal of unconditionally loving parents.

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