Beanie level: Loan shark with a heart of gold

Article about the BTS visit to the White House to fight AAPI Hate, nice video too!
https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2022/06/bts-white-house-visit-aapi-inclusion/661206/

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    That group is really starting to grow on me. Huh. What do you know. What do you know.

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      Me, too. ARMY can be very proud of their guys 👍🏼

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Oh boy, helluva future K-film:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/books/2022/05/31/soon-wiley-novel/?outputType=comment

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I’m only halfway through the hour but this show is just marvelous. CNN Nomad in Seoul:

https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/nomad-carlton-mccoy-itinerary-origseriesfilms/index.html

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Only as far as the start of Ep 2 of Our Blues but already thinking of @michh because I want to know where all these places are 🤗

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    Yes! I’m especially interested in the little bar that they ended the day at for the first love story. Adorable!

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    aww hi @bbstl!! super SUPER sorry for the late reply >.< been busy IRL! haven't had the chance to start on Our Blues (..eeps) but hope to at some point 🙆🏻

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      Hi again, and thanks! There’s certainly no shortage of dramas to keep you guys busy!

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        indeed! we’re trying our best to keep up 🥲🥲🥲

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Dear DB Staff,
I just speed-scrolled down the page and flew right past Recent Posts because they’ve been moved to the top! Thanks for that! I think Beanies will like it 👍🏼

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How the ‘Garlic Girls’ Overcame Abuse to Return to the Olympics
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/09/world/asia/olympics-garlic-girls-curling.html?referringSource=articleShare

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    @bbstl: I am so glad you read this too and posted it here. These young women are amazing individuals. They have survived abuse and have overcome so many obstacles to win those silver medals. Manse!

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@ally-le, thought of you & your Mom!
https://news.stlpublicradio.org/show/st-louis-on-the-air/2022-01-25/a-st-louis-woman-discovered-her-moms-secret-past-as-a-vietnamese-rock-star

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    Thank you! I sent this to my relatives, turns out my mom knew who she was! This was her childhood.

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Need a Life Coach? This 5-Year-Old Can Help.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/03/well/mind/life-coach-5-year-old.html?referringSource=articleShare

👍🏼Like Dolly on a dinosaur

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Why Netflix Can Keep Raising Its Prices

https://www.theverge.com/2022/1/20/22893419/netflix-price-increase-q1-2022-earnings

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Heyyyy @beffels! Ways to fix those messed up sound dynamics:

https://www.popsci.com/story/diy/movies-too-quiet-too-loud/

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    Ooh! I am on holiday at the moment but when I get home I’m playing with my sound system settings. Thanks!

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Happy Korean-American Day! 🇰🇷 🇺🇸
https://nationaldaycalendar.com/korean-american-day-january-13/

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🤦🏼‍♀️ “Desperate Kim Jong Un Pleads With Citizens to Make More Poop”
https://www.thedailybeast.com/desperate-kim-jong-un-pleads-with-north-korean-citizens-to-make-more-poop?via=ios

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“What happened to colors in TV and movies” :

https://www.vox.com/culture/22840526/colors-movies-tv-gray-digital-color-sludge

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    That was really interesting! I was actually just talking about this with my husband the other day – I’ve been not that interested in movies lately and I put it down to them all being the same shade of grey-blue.

    Now if they could move away from that and also fix the sound so I could hear people talking, that would be great 😂

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      Yes, that sound thing has bugged me for years. I read something about how the sound for movies has vast highs and lows that are designed for theater systems and our tvs/screens aren’t equipped for that.

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        I’ve read that too, the sound mixed for one situation but it’s not the one we normally watch it in now. It’s awkward!

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          Yeah it is. I’m embarrassed to admit I just discovered what the ↪️ button is for on the Roku remote, likewise the option to only see “captions on replay”. It’s like a whole new life for me 🤦🏼‍♀️

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            Don’t be embarrassed – I don’t know what most of the buttons on my remote do 😅 possibly nothing 😂

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            @beffels I feel that way about all the buttons in my car as well 😬

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Omg, SO much to unpack here:

The New Political Cry in South Korea: ‘Out With Man Haters’
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/01/world/asia/south-korea-men-anti-feminists.html?referringSource=articleShare

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    I read about this in the summer when the Olympic archer was being attacked for having short hair. It was ugly. I fear it’s only going to get worse, as the SK conservative party has tapped into the angry young male vote much the way Trump tapped into the angry white male vote in the U.S, and look where we are.

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      Yep. That’s what I’m sayin’. What a bunch of knuckleheads.

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“The Trauma Plot” made me think of almost every kdrama ML since forever.

The Case Against the Trauma Plot
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/01/03/the-case-against-the-trauma-plot

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“The Spectacular Vindication of BTS” – The Atlantic Magazine

https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2021/12/bts-concert-permission-to-dance-sofi/621031/

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Roundup Day 13.
I didn’t like and Beanies loved: Racket Boys. I couldn’t stand the coach and dropped pretty early.
I didn’t get and Beanies loved: On the Verge of Insanity. It was just ok for me.
I liked a lot and Beanies didn’t (not really sure anyone else watched it?): Mine. Great performances from the actresses, fabulous costumes, crazy MIL and, I can’t lie, soap opera-ish stories and still I liked it 😊

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Day 12. I never remember much but thanks, I think, to Lord Cobol I can offer this line that rang home with me in a big way.



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    This is why Jun-wan is my favourite. You know apart from being played by Jung Kyung-ho

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    This. Is. Me…So.Me.

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Saw this in a store and thought of all the Beanies, for whom goat sounds have a special meaning.
🐐🐐🐐

https://mcphee.com/products/emergency-goat

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    I want to get one! 😆 🐐 ❤

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      Right? I want to play the bleat sound whenever I’m in a conversation that runs out of steam 😆

      Except no one but kdrama fans would get the joke 🤷🏻‍♀️

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        That would be funny though! 😆 I want to get this when I go back to the office for my obnoxious coworkers who chitchat all day
        🤣 😂 🤣

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    That store is so much fun!!! @mmmmm add this to your list for when you come to Seattle to eat salmon.

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      Ok! Though I wonder what need I will have for a goat sound.

      For the record, Mugy convinced me that salmon is really good there and I want to see the first Starbucks branch. Oh.. there is a movie named Sleepless in Seattle which makes me interested I traveling there.

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😁
Sesame Street’ will debut Asian American muppet during Thanksgiving special
The long-running children\’s show will introduce 7-year-old Ji-Young during an upcoming special.
By Lateshia Beachum

https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/2021/11/15/sesame-street-asian-character-thanksgiving/

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