Beanie level: Chaebol’s poor doppelganger

Blind (2022), Ep 11 (credits)
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Reminder to self

Drama watching rules:

– live watch preferred (DB interactions are more fun),

– pre-watch social distancing from spoilers (makes drama surprises enjoyable),

– jebal drop a drama immediately (at any stage) if you don\’t feel it,

– share your thoughts, feelings, emotions from drama watching with uri DB wooga squad,

– don\’t be sad about creatives or actors ruining a drama, geunyang write your own story,

– remember your drama watching should always be FUN!

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    This is a great list, Cera!!👍 YES drama watching should be FUN!! And the Beanie Community adds to that fun 😊

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      @seeker I don’t know if you found this post from earlier this year–or if you were a lurker at the time–but there are differing opinions about live-watch re: binge that you might enjoy reading: https://www.dramabeans.com/2023/01/drama-chat-binge-watch-vs-live-watch/

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        Seon-ha

        Thank you for the thread. Binging vs live watching is a bit like chicken and egg, isn’t it.

        I started by watching K-dramas which had already been telecast. Watching half or maybe one episode in a day would take me around 30-40 days to finish a 20 episode drama.

        Later I started downloading finished as well as on-air dramas to watch during commute. Then I would watch about 2 dramas in a month. The earliest I have completed a drama maybe 7-10 days – which perhaps may not qualify as binging.

        Given the sheer number of dramas available these days I prefer to live watch. For something like Moving – I just cannot imagine watching it any other way!!

        I guess that is why I may have been little tardy in watching Mad Dog (… also busy Ro-swooning on account of some awesome gifs). I have it downloaded Mad Dog and I promise you and HopefulRomantic that I will finish at least 3 episodes by this weekend.

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          Haha no hurry with Mad Dog!! You can join the conversation anytime – we’ll be there!😁 I’m also doing more live watching than I used to, but my preference is still to watch previously-aired dramas – then I can choose my own pace (and know how it ends…). But with live watching, I get to talk to Beanies… so I’m taking a hybrid approach now!😊

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            Hybrid is best of course – best of both worlds.

            Live watching is a relatively newer phenomenon and has become my favored preference.

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    Yes, yes, and YES!!!

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    🙂

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    I’d add some caveats to this.

    Live watch and live commentary is fun. But you can still binge watch and explore your thoughts in depth on the fall wall. This is the perfect way to bring a new angle!

    I like spoilers because I get happy at the thought that I will get to see them in the drama. Similarly, telling me ahead about the bad stuff is also helpful because I can still mentally prepare. It doesn’t lessen my enjoyment of the dramas. Everybody’s different here!

    Or go through the excruciating pain of hoping in vain that it will get better, and then you can have a massive rant on the fan wall.

    Yep, always.

    I feel actors have little say in the story. It comes down to what the director and writer want to express. Sure, they can rehearse and add emotions to the scene, but ultimately, we only get to see what the director and writer intended to show us.

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      Agreed … live watch + binge is indeed the ideal way!

      Lately I  have been live watching more because of my keen desire to steer clear of spoilers … admittedly it is not without its share of 💔 and ensuing angst.

      Thanks to HopefulRomantic and Seon-ha I have been watching “Mad Dog” and it is seriously so relaxing. Though little disorienting to watch Jin Mu in a positive role … I keep expecting him to turn on a dime (heh … I like Alchemy of Souls, what to say!).

      I know actors rarely have creative control. I was talking about my anxiety at watching say Kim Young-kwang in Call it Love and then Somebody and Evilive. While his versatility is applaude-worthy I prefer to skip such dramas or pretend to have amnesia.

      HopefulRomantic and you have given me good pointers on how to balance both live + binge … I will work on it.

      😃

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        Mad Dog is weirdly relaxing, isn’t it??? It’s one of those dramas where you know good will prevail, and it’s just the journey to get there. I like it!

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          Absolutely … totally comfort food vibes. Can actually relax and just let it all unfold.

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In case you were wondering he can also …. erm give different looks!

A search on mdl revealed a sus upcoming credit as ML in a web-drama called King of Saju. The premise seems interesting and it is –
“Adapted from the web novel “Cheonjae Yeogsulini Doeeotda” (천재 역술인이 되었다) by Seommaeul Mr. Kim (섬마을김씨).”

So let us cheer and cast a spell (can Hong-jo let us have her Destined with You spell-book) for a deserving ML role for him.

Hwaiting Seo Ji-hoon!
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    If you have not watched Seasons of Blossom (2022), I recommend it. He was the main lead. In fact, that’s the first drama where I noticed him, and later I watched Meow, Solomon’s Perjury, and minor roles in Prison Playbook and School 2017.

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      The drama was on my radar because of So Ju-Yeon who I liked from “A Love So Beautiful” but the synopsis put me off. Guess I should give it a try now. I did see “Meow” but I only remember L! I haven’t seen the other dramas.
      Feeling low-key anxiety …. so many dramas, so less time!!
      Okay for now I’ll just go with Seasons.

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        Keep in mind that Seasons of Blossom is a melo. However, it has so many heart-fluttering and swoony moments, that I loved it ❤️

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    I don’t get it. People say the pretty actors get the lead roles. But how does he not qualify?

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      The character in MLL made him seem one note initially but as @Mrs Buckwheat pointed out (in the comments of Ep 13-14 recap) he has out-acted the ML.
      Good thing we have noticed him now … uri DB wooga squad’s positive vibes will be sure to get him good roles in future!

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        Can uri DB woofs squad’s positive vibes give me anything that I want to, too? *rubs a lamp*

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    This is how I do images, GIFs and insert them in between texts.

    Prepare it on a text editor

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      The line in between the brackets is
      img src
      then the equal sign and double quotation marks. Remember it MUST be the straight double marks.
      No space between any characters EXCEPT between “img” and “src”.

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      Okay, I will try it.

      Wow … you do have super impressive skills!!

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        If you use Safari web browser, sometimes using right mouse to copy image address

        will give some thing that looks like this ABc12AC. gif. This is not usable.

        If so, you can hover your mouse over the three dots like this

        and copy the URL for forums.

        It should looks something like this

        Opera web browser works perfectly all the time. I don’t use Chrome so I don’t know.

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The guy always had pain gaze down pat.
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    He has to do more than pain gazing everyone, everywhere, and everytime!

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To be fair Flower Crew was my first Kim Min-jae drama and I couldn’t get enough of his dimples – leave alone looking at the blacksmith turned king.

Look! How happy he is with the flower!!
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    My first Kim Min Jae drama was The Best Hit!! 🎤🎧🎚️

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      I first saw “Flower Crew” where I felt he was a little raw in acting but his dimples were cute and the drama was fun.

      In “Do You Like Brahms?” I was blown away by his piano skill and his voice.

      In Dal-li and Gamjatang – I was like who is this guy and was amazed to know that I had watched him twice before!

      The of course I saw The Best Hit, Poong (but not Poong 2).

      Hope he will give us good dramas after enlistment – maybe a musical as he would  be joining the Army band.

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        So you watched The Best Hit last year, as me 🥳
        (Last year was my first one watching k-dramas, if I don’t count Squid Game, which I watched in 2021, and the first episode of Memories of Alhambra, which I watched maybe in 2018-19 🤭).

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Thanks to @IsaGC who pointed out his previous acting credit in Flower Crew: Joseon Marriage Agency I took the 5 seconds to google him and boom!!
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    Look at him being… a Prince? 🙂

    “Flower Crew: Joseon Marriage Agency” is on my Plan to watch list. Seo Ji Hoon, Kim Min Jae, Park Ji Hoon, Byeon Woo Seok, Gong Seung-yeon… The cast is great.

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Upcoming crush on Seo Ji-hoon!

He is the SML in My Lovely Liar. Just to be clear the crush has no relation to MLL, his character in it, pain gazing or (wonder of wonders) professional policing.
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Thank you so much for the support uri DB wooga squad. So greatful for all our interactions. I really really really love (nomu nomu nomu chuae) this DB found family. How wonderful is it to be able to express oneself so freely.

We all start watching K-dramas for the sheer joy of it. After all (channeling Sleepless in Seattle) we don\’t just want to be in love, we want to be in love in a K-drama, complete with the bows and whistles.

Unasked for (but equally welcome) our K-dramas let us experience positivity, healing and life lessons. We learn how to go about leading an enriching life and how important it to:

communicate effectively, share our feelings, emotions, sadness, hopes, aspirations with our trusted few and not suffer alone,

support, take care of well-being and be a cheerleader to ourselves and others,

be open to love (being loved and giving love) to our otp, family and friends,

enjoy making and eating delicious meals together,

spending time together, going out or just hanging out on roop tops with our loved ones (food, snacks and drinks mandatory),

make and be a daebak friend (uri chinggu, my friend, mon ami, watashi no tomodachi),

deal with big and small heart breaks, and overcome tragedies,

take care of ourselves, all the while wearing fabulous clothes (with winter coats and awesome hats, if possible) and good shoes (as they take you to good places),

start and maintain a beauty regimen to ensure smooth, poreless skin (bonus points for chatting with friends with face mask on),

take up a hobby (other than K-dramas!), read books (so we can drop awesome literary references like our K-drama leads), play a sport or musical instrument,

go on trips, beaches, amusement parks,

basically live our lives with openness, love, kindness and believing that good things happen to good people.

K-dramas are so emotionally engaging (and hence addictive) that unbeknownst to ourselves we start identifying with the characters and rooting for them to succeed in life (Still 17, At 18, Shopaholic Louis, Miss Panda and Mr. Hedgehog, My Absolute Boyfriend, Do Do Sol Sol La La Sol, True Beauty, Chief Kim, Just Between Lovers, Come and Hug Me, Revolutionary Love, Warm and Cozy).

Of course the yin to this yang of K-drama watching experience is scary villainous turns by our favorite actors.

Voice, Mouse, Strangers from Hell, Missing You, Hello Monster, Somebody.

With what seems like a touch of Su Mun\’s Uncanny Counter territory summoning powers these same actors can also take 180 degree turn in other dramas and enchant us with their positive vibes.

Her Private Life, My Girlfriend Is a Gumiho, Touch Your Heart, Moonshine,  Moonlight Drawn By Clouds, The Secret Life of My Secretary.

The DB wooga squad embraces us whole heartedly, let\’s us put in practice all these K-drama learnings, offers us a safe space to share our joy of drama watching, venting our frustration on illogical drama narratives and freedom to express ourselves completely. It is so liberating!!

Thank you, thank you, thank you my DB wooga squad.

🥰 ❤ 🤗 😁👍👏

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    on the same page. this place is safe. real life hit me in the face 4 years in a row and I always came here. I can rant and relate my woes to the characters and is is sort of like medicine.

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      As K-dramas teach us … don’t suffer alone, avail free therapy from drama watching, discussing, analyzing, fan-girling.
      Hwaiting!

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    This is so wonderfully put. Thanks to you.
    I should watch Wooga Squad sometime. 🙂

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      I thought I would just scan In the Soop: Friendcation but I watched it all the way through and waited each week for Jinny’s Kitchen.

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    Beautiful! Well done, Chingu! ❤️

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Okay … I\’m getting the feels.
Rowoon, Destined With You.
Hwaiting!

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Beanie level: Jang Geu-rae
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    You have done well!

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      Having so much fun interacting with all of you … didn’t even realise when the level got upgraded from Candy!

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        I saw you were Candy some hours ago so you have leveled up today! Congratulations!

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    Congratulations!

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    🥳Congratulations on climbing three levels in as many days! Did you miss your transition through Water maid because now you are a Noble idiot. Whatever you are doing keep doing it you are on a roll.

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      Thank you. I did transition through water maid. I am so happy chatting with everyone that I don’t really know how I passed these Beanie levels.

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        We have a range of theories but we assume that the frequency of commenting, engaging across the site and in threads makes a difference. The main aim of the site is to make the site interesting so people come visit and then decide to join the beanie community because it is a interesting, lively and friendly place to be. Your positive posts on the fan wall and engagement in the comments section all help the site achieve this goal and thus they reward us with the points that lead to climbing the levels. We are still trying to work out what influences the rate of the climb. The number of comments plays a part but is not the only factor as some people have lower comment numbers but are in higher levels. All levels up to Errand boy can be climbed in days but from that level onwards it takes months some people do it in under 2 months and others can take years.

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My silver lining from Heart ❤ Beat was that I should not let a 10 min ending affect the joy and happiness of the drama as a whole. I was inspired to explore / re-visit dramas I didn\’t watch or watched and placed in the black list. While looking to skim through just a few treasured memories of Lee Jae-Wook in Do Do Sol  Sol La La Sol I actually ended up binge watching the entire drama and was charmed once more.

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    Does uri DB gajog (our DB family) have any recommendations to revisit dramas we dropped or chose to forget on account of inexplicable literary choices by the writer-nims.

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      I think that bad or frustrating endings make some dramas hard to rewatch.
      I loved Memories of Alhambra but because of the ending I think I won’t rewatch it. Anyways, I still have a list of more than 200 k-dramas/C-dramas to watch, so I rarely rewatch full dramas (I have only completely rewatched Live Up to your name and Flower Boy Next Door).

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        The angst of tearing your hair out endings does make one gingerly pass by any / all future references, clips or mentions of the offender drama. Sometimes it makes one steer clear the actor’s future work too!! I may review clips of beloved dramas from time to time usually during a drama slump but generally I just move on to new or old unwatched dramas. I didn’t realise the heartbreak from Heart ❤ Beat and maybe some carried forward heartbreak from Blind (based on his intoduction scene Taecyeon’s character had so much  potential) would fuel my DDSSLLS binge 🙃. My first time rewatching an entire drama.
        Both the dramas mentioned by you are most definitely worth full rewatch and are actually in my top 5 most rewatched drama extracts.

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Dear Fellow Beanies,
Thank you for welcoming me with open arms on DB. This warm and fuzzy feeling makes me feel like a member of the DB wooga squad. “Woori-ga gajok-inga?” (Are we family?) Yes, yes and a thousand times yes we are the DB family. Yay!!

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