Last Girls Night: all of us from different places, all of us living different lives. Single, partnered, married, divorced, kids, no kids. But group meeting month after month thanks to our love of the library.
We tell each other things, things that we struggle to tell even our own selves all alone. And in this circle, with lots of cheese and ways to make merry, there is love, acceptance, laughter, and affirmation. You, too? we say to each other. And each smile and each nod fells the stones we’ve been carrying in our hearts
Afterwards, I find that I’m just a little bit better at loving myself, thanks to the mirror of these women. “If we knew each other’s secrets, what comforts we would find.”
Love,
February
My nephew is 5, and we’re wedged in the back of my parents’ SUV with the whole fam as it inches forward slowly, everyone’s eyes riveted to the zoo’s holiday light shows. A polar bear, a coiled snake, a leaping dolphin and (his favorite) a trundling aardvark, all giant and lit up, blazing. His joy is palpable, more dazzling than the spectacle before us.
Swept up in the magic, he suddenly seizes my face in his small, sweet hands and kisses my cheek.
And in that moment, every single light from every single display combined from across the entire zoo would still be but dim flicker next to the supernova that is my heart.
He’s 7 now…when I was back home visiting, he came to hug me first every time we saw each other. I know the day is coming when he’ll be too cool for his aunt, so I cherish every snuggle and every “I love you” I can get now!
“You are my sun,” my friend tells me in halting French over coffee. She’s going through a rough time. We’re having coffee, and I’m listening – just someone she can say all the things she needs to say out loud to, in a language that doesn’t belong to either of us but the only one we have in common to form the vocabulary of our friendship.
I think of other times I’ve heard this throughout my life. My father singing “You are My Sunshine” at bedtime. An old friend exclaiming, “The sunshine is back!” when I returned home a long trip. Messages from another, for years now, calling me “moje sonce.” And when I reply, it has to be “Hello, moja zvezdica!” My star.
That’s what they all are to me: suns of other galaxies, the stars by which I stumble my way through life, always orienting me to my true north, always burning bright to keep me warm. So that no matter how dark it gets, I’m never truly lost.
Love,
February
I’m only just starting to dabble. Compared to you and the other kpop beanies, my collection is the equivalent of a burned CD from 2005 of odds and ends! 😁
How hecking wonderful was Mad For Each Other ep 10?! Min-kyung and Hwi-oh are on the fast track to be OTP of the year for me if this drama keeps it up.
It boggles the mind. If LITC was a beta test, at least they learned and nailed it this time around! I wish it was getting more hype, though word of mouth seems to be creating some rumbles at least.
2021 Mid-Year Drama Challenge
Sponsored by: @purplesheesh
All answers accurate at time of posting and subject to swift change due to drama progression. 1 – Best 2021 Drama (so far!): I’m going to go with Run On. It made me feel so Feelings, and I treasured watching it. 2 – Best scene from your fave drama: the surprise birthday party that went sideways in the most hilarious way; also pretty much all of episode 14 3 – Favorite OTP: I’m torn! Completed drama: Mi-joo and Seon-gyeom from Run On; Ongoing drama: Min-kyung and Hwi-Oh from Mad For Each Other 4 – Favorite OST: current favorite earworm is “Happy Anding” (no, that’s not a typo) by Martin Smith from Mad For Each Other 5 – Drama(s) you dropped: Oh! Master, which I should have dropped much sooner than I did, but I guess I am a glutton for punishment; Taxi Driver 6 – Drama you hate-watched (and finished!): River Where the Moon Rises; though had I somehow found the fortitude to make it past ep 12, the winner would have been hands-down Oh! Master 7 – Drama many loved but you didn’t: Law School 8 – Drama you loved but most didn’t: So I Married the Anti-Fan. Not sorry. 9 – Drama you’ve re-watched this year: I’ll Come to You When the Weather Is Fine 10 – Last drama you finished watching: Sell Your Haunted House
I have to keep check a whole week of wall posts, and then I’ll get to Purple challenge and post mine. And people will think I have copied your answers and it would be so unfair…
I guess great minds think alike!!
I not mad, lol, my twin and I cam disagree sometimes. There will come a time when we will be triplets with @carlybisek. So long as you don’t leave me.😂😂😂
So…what am I supposed to do now, Vincenzo? If we can\’t hang out at Geumga Plaza on the weekends anymore…is there room for us on the island, too? It\’s been a (bloody, hilarious, wacky and wonderful) ride. I’ll miss it.
A shout-out to a drama that may be flying under the radar but deserves some attention! Scripting Your Destiny is a well-written web drama with interesting turns and laugh out loud moments. It’s light yet thoughtful, touching but not cliché. It’s tightly spun without filler and has a very solid cast (I hope to see the FL in something even bigger soon). It’s in some ways a shame it wasn’t a longer, full-length drama – but then, it didn’t need to be to tell a good story! It’s on Viki, 10 episodes ca. 22 mins each in length. I highly recommend.
I just finished ep 4 and am loving it! I’m not usually a web drama person (shorter episodes can lead to very fast-paced plot), but this one has captured my attention. The story is well-paced and funny.
Thanks for the recommendation. I planned to see this but kept for getting the name lol. I don’t know if ot will be available without viki pass because i don’t have that yet but I’ll try the available episodes. I’m also enjoying the web drama How to be Thirty on Viki. Nothing groundbreaking but not ordinary either. I’m actually totally onboard the 20 to 30 minutes episodes, short and sweet.
Same! I’m also really liking How to Be Thirty. I’m surprised that these shorter web dramas are working for me, but they really are. Sometimes you just need a quick and easy story, easy to digest, something that feels like people watching while you sip a drink at an outdoor café .
I have been working pretty much every day for the last 10 or so, leaving me with little time to enjoy my dramas and books. But today is Run On Day, and that is what is getting me to the hour I’m carving out this evening to cozy on down and enjoy every second.
Anyone else having issues posting comments to recaps? I’ve tried unsuccessfully throughout the day 3 times now to post my comment (ok, my heart-eyed rave) to the Run On ep 8 recap, and it just won’t post. I get that error that “I’ve already posted that comment” but it never shows. I tried again with a completely newly written one, also to no avail. Is it just a delay?
I used to have that problem some days ago too in the What We’re Watching thread. I posted it on my fan wall and tagged DB staff. After a while I was able to post my comment on that thread, but it left me a bit anxious though. The issue of being unable to post comments in recaps, threads and fan walls has been occurring randomly and frequently these past few weeks.
I remember it happening randomly before, but it was so long ago…maybe I’ll try it again tomorrow and hope for the best. I guess there must be a wider issue or something.
Yeah.. I suppose so. I don’t know if it has anything to do with some so strange and hardcore stans posts these days in some of the hot-issue recaps (e.g. Start-Up, The King, to name some).
Anyway, @db-staff can you pls help her with this? 🥺
So, I don’t know if I’m crazy or not, but I’m thinking of re-watching Dinner Mate (obviously with applied use of the FF button). Am I nuts to do this? It’s just that as I did the 2020 Round Up, I couldn’t shake my firmly held belief that both Doo-hee and Hae-kyung (and also, frankly, Seo Ji-hye and Song Seung-heon) just deserved so. much. better. than what that drama gave them. My magical thinking is that if I re-watch, somehow the show will be better all around. This has no basis in reality, and yet here I stand, about to do it. Life is strange.
I somehow understand this feeling 😄
Last year I rewatched Temperature of Love and before my rewatch I had the same sentiments. I loved Temperature of Love when it aired, but it had some really frustrating moments. Knowing what would come I could enjoy the drama even more while rewatching. It was simply easier to ignore the frustrating stuff.
So, give it a go 😉
Thanks for this! It makes sense that it’s easier to ignore the frustrating stuff since you know it’s coming – and can hop right over it and just enjoy the good parts. 😊
This is so me. The 2020 wrap up made me realise how genuinely amazing these two were together. They weren’t ” fated” through some random childhood connection but they met each other and bonded so well. They deserved way more screen time than they got
How much more wonderful it could have been had the show really be dedicated to the OTP getting to know each other and growing their relationship! I will try to embellish via my imagination as I re-watch.
Rewatching APoYM reminded me that JHI-CSB really were the loveliest couple (yes lovely, the word just fits them so well), so yeah go rewatch w the FF button at the ready.
You’re not crazy.
And I think the experience of watching it with the FF button will make it wonderful. No Exes, no Keanu, only sassy DoHee and hot and sexy HaeKyung… It can’t be better.
These two are one of the OTP with the best chemistry in all dramaland. Unfortunately they ended up in the wrong drama.
Amen. Maybe they will get a second shot at another drama together?! I would sign up RIGHT NOW to watch that! I know I’ve said this before, but when the casting was announced, I was really happy for Seo Ji-hye and looking forward to seeing her as a leading lady in her own drama. I wish she had been better served, but I look forward to her next project!
Hello fellow Beanies! Is anyone planning on watching the 2020 APAN Awards the weekend of January 23-24? Looks like the Music Awards are on the 23rd and the Star Awards on the 24th.
There were two secondary couples that I particularly remember this year:
Heartwarming: Lee Jang-woo and Ji Eun-shil from Weather. This was a sweet couple that came together in a sweet way. Jang-woo wasn’t dissimilar from Eun-seob in carrying a long-time torch for Eun-shil, and I liked that despite his bumbling he stayed very true to himself. Watching her start to see him with new eyes, and the awkward and adorable confession in the last episode was well done – it was nice to be able to imagine happy things for them in the future. Entertaining: Hwang Seo-ra and Jang Doo-bong from Spies. To be honest, this was more of a spy ploy than an actual relationship (at least for one party), but it was highly entertaining (until Doo-bong went daaaark). I wish that he had “reformed” and turned informant for the Interpol team; a lovestruck Doo-bong and a reluctantly swayed Seo-ra would have been funny to watch.
2020 Round Up Day 21 – Freestyle: best drama poster
Great idea about favorite posters! Three 2020 posters captured wonderfully well for me the atmosphere of the drama that they were promoting: – Crashing Landing On You: main poster captured the North/South juxtaposition in a slightly fantastical and colorful way, while the secondary imagery strongly encapsulated both the divide and the pull between the OTP. – I’ll Come to You When the Weather is Fine: captured so well the stillness of the season and mountain village, the pause between heartbeats, and the slow melt of two people starting to entertain the possibility that life may look better in the spring. – It’s Okay to Not Be Okay: captures the ephemeral beauty of the fairytale world that this show spun around us, both its luminescence and its fragility.
And a bonus one just because, well…who doesn’t like looking at pretty things: Tale of the Nine-Tailed
No. We’re not here for the pretty boy. No we’re not.
We have long and brainy conversations (by the way, we DO!).
But because of the pretty distracting boy.
No. Possible. Way.
You are absolutely correct @eazal! We are most definitely here for the thoughtful, brainy philosophizing that we do with high-minded intellectual fervor, and we can’t help it if sometimes we do that while taking in the…um… you know, the view and…well…whatever may happen to just be…in view…. (*sips wine*). 😉🥂
CLOY was already finished when I found out the background showed North and South Korea… 🤦🏻♀️ it’s a beautiful poster (plus the choice of having only Se-ri in red and all the others in black), but I really love the one with the camp fire, it is so intimate and reminds me of a great scene!
Weather poster has the same magic of the drama: it manages to be warm even if it’s snowing 😮
Yes, good point – it is really cozy, despite the snow!
By the way, I’ve been reading through your blog (thanks to Google Translate and my contorting French words into Italian), and I feel like I’m nodding along with you all the time. It’s great! Thanks again for sharing the link. 🙂
For me, one of the most heart-warming scenes this year was at the end of episode 10 in Weather, when Eun-soeb comes back to the family home after having spent the day with his estranged uncle and questioning where he belongs in the world – only to find his infuriated and frightened little sister who, in one of the most realistic sibling confrontations, manages to tell him in the same breath that she loves him and hates him at the same time. The new bike saddle she’s been coveting is his gift to her, but her unvarnished love and possessiveness of her oppa is her gift to him – and the look on his face when his voiceover gently says, No, I’m not leaving, was just one of the most beautiful drama moments for me this year.
2020 Round Up Day 20 – the cameo that blew your mind
I don’t know that I have one for this category, at least not for a 2020 drama. I did watch Hotel del Lunain 2020, and I happened to watch it about the time that I was watching IOTNBO – so the cameo of Kim Soo-hyun at the end was fun. The slick, smoldering, whisky-drinking ghost was a far cry from the sober, downtrodden yet sweet Moon Gang-tae I’d become used to.
Me, too! It’s one drama I’d be 100% on board with them doing a second season for – the premise is loose enough that they could truly do a whole other character arc.
My favourite scene as well!!
It may be the fact that I miss my sister, as we’ve barely seen each other this year, but the moment I watched it I just felt all the love these two siblings share, although they would never confess it (at least for a long time). Also the sweet flashbacks that are shown just before this scene (EunSeob watching for hours Hwi in her cradle and him being delighted when he shows the beetle to his proud mum) set the mood for what we are going to see.
Yes, it’s so lovely how they weave those flashbacks into Eun-seob’s overall arc. It was subtle but so beautiful to me how it’s so obvious that his family loves him so much and how he slowly by the end is finally able to receive and accept this gift and starts intentionally reciprocating. It warmed my soul to watch that unfold.
OLakes
February 3, 2023 at 3:25 PM
Last Girls Night: all of us from different places, all of us living different lives. Single, partnered, married, divorced, kids, no kids. But group meeting month after month thanks to our love of the library.
We tell each other things, things that we struggle to tell even our own selves all alone. And in this circle, with lots of cheese and ways to make merry, there is love, acceptance, laughter, and affirmation. You, too? we say to each other. And each smile and each nod fells the stones we’ve been carrying in our hearts
Afterwards, I find that I’m just a little bit better at loving myself, thanks to the mirror of these women. “If we knew each other’s secrets, what comforts we would find.”
Love,
February
Cocoa, The Fake Poet of February
February 3, 2023 at 6:29 PM
<3 That sounds really lovely ^_^
OLakes
February 2, 2023 at 3:08 PM
My nephew is 5, and we’re wedged in the back of my parents’ SUV with the whole fam as it inches forward slowly, everyone’s eyes riveted to the zoo’s holiday light shows. A polar bear, a coiled snake, a leaping dolphin and (his favorite) a trundling aardvark, all giant and lit up, blazing. His joy is palpable, more dazzling than the spectacle before us.
Swept up in the magic, he suddenly seizes my face in his small, sweet hands and kisses my cheek.
And in that moment, every single light from every single display combined from across the entire zoo would still be but dim flicker next to the supernova that is my heart.
Love,
February
Linarrick
February 2, 2023 at 3:24 PM
Awww that’s so sweet 🥰
Thanks for sharing such a beautiful and heartwarming story!
parkchuna ❤️🍉
February 2, 2023 at 9:26 PM
Awww LOVE!! ❤️❤️
I miss baby kids, theyre not so much fun as teens 😂
OLakes
February 3, 2023 at 3:03 PM
He’s 7 now…when I was back home visiting, he came to hug me first every time we saw each other. I know the day is coming when he’ll be too cool for his aunt, so I cherish every snuggle and every “I love you” I can get now!
OLakes
February 1, 2023 at 1:54 PM
“You are my sun,” my friend tells me in halting French over coffee. She’s going through a rough time. We’re having coffee, and I’m listening – just someone she can say all the things she needs to say out loud to, in a language that doesn’t belong to either of us but the only one we have in common to form the vocabulary of our friendship.
I think of other times I’ve heard this throughout my life. My father singing “You are My Sunshine” at bedtime. An old friend exclaiming, “The sunshine is back!” when I returned home a long trip. Messages from another, for years now, calling me “moje sonce.” And when I reply, it has to be “Hello, moja zvezdica!” My star.
That’s what they all are to me: suns of other galaxies, the stars by which I stumble my way through life, always orienting me to my true north, always burning bright to keep me warm. So that no matter how dark it gets, I’m never truly lost.
Love,
February
tabong has two different tears🍉
February 1, 2023 at 3:24 PM
🥺💚
Cocoa, The Fake Poet of February
February 1, 2023 at 8:29 PM
💜 this is really beautiful, thank you for sharing
OLakes
February 2, 2023 at 10:37 AM
Thank you for starting this movement!
mmmmm
February 1, 2023 at 8:34 PM
Beautiful.
OLakes
August 4, 2021 at 1:35 AM
Anyone else think the OST (including instrumental) is totally superb in You Are My Spring? How is everything about this drama making me fall so hard??
Eazal
August 4, 2021 at 2:47 AM
I’m loving it. Both the songs and the r BGM. Last song released, Dear my spring is so touching and Onew voice is just 💙
OLakes
August 4, 2021 at 3:05 AM
Yes! I also love Still Wonder and Falling Flower. The whole collection is just so eclectic and tonally spot on for each episode.
princesspreets
August 26, 2021 at 5:04 AM
bought the album, once the full thing was released 😍
OLakes
July 9, 2021 at 8:57 AM
Hello, beanies! How was your day? 💕🎶
#BVIPP
Ayan
July 9, 2021 at 9:18 AM
@ally-le
OLakes
July 9, 2021 at 7:32 AM
Another favorite for #BVIPP
Ayan
July 9, 2021 at 9:23 AM
@ally-le
OLakes
July 9, 2021 at 6:47 AM
This one always makes me want to dance.
우리같이 !
#BVIPP
Ayan
July 9, 2021 at 9:23 AM
@ally-le
OLakes
July 9, 2021 at 6:11 AM
Coming to the party with my current favorite summer ride!
#BVIPP
Eazal
July 9, 2021 at 9:15 AM
When you said you were not into kpop you were lying I guess….
OLakes
July 9, 2021 at 9:29 AM
I’m only just starting to dabble. Compared to you and the other kpop beanies, my collection is the equivalent of a burned CD from 2005 of odds and ends! 😁
OLakes
June 14, 2021 at 1:20 PM
How hecking wonderful was Mad For Each Other ep 10?! Min-kyung and Hwi-oh are on the fast track to be OTP of the year for me if this drama keeps it up.
tsutsuloo
June 14, 2021 at 1:57 PM
I feel the same, @carleybisek! This show is perfectly paced and their love feels well-earned. I love them so freaking much.
tsutsuloo
June 14, 2021 at 1:57 PM
Sorry for misspelling @carlybisek!
OLakes
June 15, 2021 at 5:56 AM
No worries and 100% nodding in agreement – “well-earned” is a great way to describe that. I adore them!
miss h
June 14, 2021 at 5:01 PM
The relationship has been handled so well. They better not screw it up.
I can’t believe Kakao Tv made both Lovestruck in the City and this.
OLakes
June 15, 2021 at 5:56 AM
It boggles the mind. If LITC was a beta test, at least they learned and nailed it this time around! I wish it was getting more hype, though word of mouth seems to be creating some rumbles at least.
OLakes
June 10, 2021 at 8:17 AM
2021 Mid-Year Drama Challenge
Sponsored by: @purplesheesh
All answers accurate at time of posting and subject to swift change due to drama progression.
1 – Best 2021 Drama (so far!): I’m going to go with Run On. It made me feel so Feelings, and I treasured watching it.
2 – Best scene from your fave drama: the surprise birthday party that went sideways in the most hilarious way; also pretty much all of episode 14
3 – Favorite OTP: I’m torn! Completed drama: Mi-joo and Seon-gyeom from Run On; Ongoing drama: Min-kyung and Hwi-Oh from Mad For Each Other
4 – Favorite OST: current favorite earworm is “Happy Anding” (no, that’s not a typo) by Martin Smith from Mad For Each Other
5 – Drama(s) you dropped: Oh! Master, which I should have dropped much sooner than I did, but I guess I am a glutton for punishment; Taxi Driver
6 – Drama you hate-watched (and finished!): River Where the Moon Rises; though had I somehow found the fortitude to make it past ep 12, the winner would have been hands-down Oh! Master
7 – Drama many loved but you didn’t: Law School
8 – Drama you loved but most didn’t: So I Married the Anti-Fan. Not sorry.
9 – Drama you’ve re-watched this year: I’ll Come to You When the Weather Is Fine
10 – Last drama you finished watching: Sell Your Haunted House
miss h
June 10, 2021 at 8:50 AM
I put down the same for #2 and 3:)
OLakes
June 10, 2021 at 9:04 AM
I simply could not choose! 🙂 They both have such great OTP dynamics.
Ally
June 10, 2021 at 9:00 AM
That’s a great list. Kind of wish I started anti-fan because if you.
OLakes
June 10, 2021 at 9:05 AM
It’s absolute fluffy nonsense, but I am really enjoying the heck out of it. Did you post your list? Did I miss it?!
Ally
June 10, 2021 at 11:28 AM
I did post mine under @purplesheesh’s prompt.
Eazal
June 10, 2021 at 9:22 AM
I have to keep check a whole week of wall posts, and then I’ll get to Purple challenge and post mine. And people will think I have copied your answers and it would be so unfair…
I guess great minds think alike!!
OLakes
June 10, 2021 at 10:20 AM
You can’t help it if you have good taste. 😉
Ally
June 10, 2021 at 11:29 AM
You and @carlybisek are carbon copies.
Eazal
June 10, 2021 at 12:05 PM
I’m afraid we are 🙊
@kafiyah-bello this doesn’t mean I’m cheating on you!!
Or Lakes on @mmmmm
🤣🤣🤣🤣
OLakes
June 10, 2021 at 12:29 PM
Haha, it’s true! And, yes, as you say, it just means that we are all part of an excellent “family!” 😂😂😂
mmmmm
June 10, 2021 at 10:36 PM
Omo! I caught you red-handed!!!
🤣🤣🤣☺️☺️☺️😜😜😜
OLakes
June 11, 2021 at 12:18 AM
As you already know, Twin @mmmmm, you will never, ever get rid of me. 😎💖
Kafiyah Bello
June 10, 2021 at 12:51 PM
I not mad, lol, my twin and I cam disagree sometimes. There will come a time when we will be triplets with @carlybisek. So long as you don’t leave me.😂😂😂
Eazal
June 11, 2021 at 12:49 AM
I will never do!!! 🥰🥰🥰
OLakes
June 10, 2021 at 9:41 AM
I can’t believe I didn’t say my fave OST was “Starlight” from Run On, because actually it totally is.
purplesheesh
June 10, 2021 at 5:39 PM
Thanks for joining, Lakes! I wholeheartedly agree with your number 5!
Karmen ~ 🍜🏢🎭 ~ 📚☔🦋 ~ 🪂🌱💘 ~ ✨🍊💫 ~
June 12, 2021 at 5:35 AM
Anti-fan puts a smile on my face and it’s all I need 😊
OLakes
May 2, 2021 at 10:13 AM
So…what am I supposed to do now, Vincenzo? If we can\’t hang out at Geumga Plaza on the weekends anymore…is there room for us on the island, too? It\’s been a (bloody, hilarious, wacky and wonderful) ride. I’ll miss it.
Lucy🦋 | Hyun Bins First Love
May 2, 2021 at 10:48 AM
We might need to wait. I think its invitation based as of now, and even HCY haven’t even been there yet. 😛
egads aka Dame Maggie
May 2, 2021 at 11:15 AM
I’m going to miss them all.
korfan
May 3, 2021 at 7:22 AM
Me too!
OLakes
March 29, 2021 at 9:51 AM
A shout-out to a drama that may be flying under the radar but deserves some attention! Scripting Your Destiny is a well-written web drama with interesting turns and laugh out loud moments. It’s light yet thoughtful, touching but not cliché. It’s tightly spun without filler and has a very solid cast (I hope to see the FL in something even bigger soon). It’s in some ways a shame it wasn’t a longer, full-length drama – but then, it didn’t need to be to tell a good story! It’s on Viki, 10 episodes ca. 22 mins each in length. I highly recommend.
CharmingKey
March 29, 2021 at 10:48 AM
I just finished ep 4 and am loving it! I’m not usually a web drama person (shorter episodes can lead to very fast-paced plot), but this one has captured my attention. The story is well-paced and funny.
OLakes
March 29, 2021 at 1:59 PM
I didn’t think I was a web drama person either, so I guess now…hello, new rabbit hole!
Ally
March 29, 2021 at 7:38 PM
I’ve liked every web drama I’ve seen so far. Will keep tidied on my watch list for a rainy day!
wapz
March 29, 2021 at 11:46 AM
Thanks for the recommendation. I planned to see this but kept for getting the name lol. I don’t know if ot will be available without viki pass because i don’t have that yet but I’ll try the available episodes. I’m also enjoying the web drama How to be Thirty on Viki. Nothing groundbreaking but not ordinary either. I’m actually totally onboard the 20 to 30 minutes episodes, short and sweet.
OLakes
March 29, 2021 at 1:57 PM
Same! I’m also really liking How to Be Thirty. I’m surprised that these shorter web dramas are working for me, but they really are. Sometimes you just need a quick and easy story, easy to digest, something that feels like people watching while you sip a drink at an outdoor café .
earthna
March 31, 2021 at 1:31 PM
Thanks for the reminder! I forgot about this and I really wanted to watch it
OLakes
February 4, 2021 at 1:17 PM
Ah, Run On. We have been inside your heart, and it was radiant. 💖
OLakes
January 20, 2021 at 3:23 AM
I have been working pretty much every day for the last 10 or so, leaving me with little time to enjoy my dramas and books. But today is Run On Day, and that is what is getting me to the hour I’m carving out this evening to cozy on down and enjoy every second.
Eazal
January 20, 2021 at 9:14 AM
You will!! I’m crying now because it’s over and I have to wait until tomorrow.
OLakes
January 20, 2021 at 11:46 AM
I hope time flies for you til then!
OLakes
January 14, 2021 at 6:23 AM
Anyone else having issues posting comments to recaps? I’ve tried unsuccessfully throughout the day 3 times now to post my comment (ok, my heart-eyed rave) to the Run On ep 8 recap, and it just won’t post. I get that error that “I’ve already posted that comment” but it never shows. I tried again with a completely newly written one, also to no avail. Is it just a delay?
mmmmm
January 14, 2021 at 9:18 AM
I used to have that problem some days ago too in the What We’re Watching thread. I posted it on my fan wall and tagged DB staff. After a while I was able to post my comment on that thread, but it left me a bit anxious though. The issue of being unable to post comments in recaps, threads and fan walls has been occurring randomly and frequently these past few weeks.
OLakes
January 14, 2021 at 1:11 PM
I remember it happening randomly before, but it was so long ago…maybe I’ll try it again tomorrow and hope for the best. I guess there must be a wider issue or something.
mmmmm
January 14, 2021 at 3:46 PM
Yeah.. I suppose so. I don’t know if it has anything to do with some so strange and hardcore stans posts these days in some of the hot-issue recaps (e.g. Start-Up, The King, to name some).
Anyway, @db-staff can you pls help her with this? 🥺
OLakes
January 15, 2021 at 12:43 AM
Thanks @mmmmm! And good point, I hadn’t thought of that.
wapz
January 14, 2021 at 11:16 AM
This is why I could never post on the last episode recap of Spies 😭
OLakes
January 14, 2021 at 1:10 PM
That is especially painful for a last episode!! 😥
mmmmm
January 14, 2021 at 3:48 PM
😭
OLakes
January 11, 2021 at 3:19 AM
So, I don’t know if I’m crazy or not, but I’m thinking of re-watching Dinner Mate (obviously with applied use of the FF button). Am I nuts to do this? It’s just that as I did the 2020 Round Up, I couldn’t shake my firmly held belief that both Doo-hee and Hae-kyung (and also, frankly, Seo Ji-hye and Song Seung-heon) just deserved so. much. better. than what that drama gave them. My magical thinking is that if I re-watch, somehow the show will be better all around. This has no basis in reality, and yet here I stand, about to do it. Life is strange.
SW unnie
January 11, 2021 at 3:33 AM
I somehow understand this feeling 😄
Last year I rewatched Temperature of Love and before my rewatch I had the same sentiments. I loved Temperature of Love when it aired, but it had some really frustrating moments. Knowing what would come I could enjoy the drama even more while rewatching. It was simply easier to ignore the frustrating stuff.
So, give it a go 😉
OLakes
January 11, 2021 at 3:56 AM
Thanks for this! It makes sense that it’s easier to ignore the frustrating stuff since you know it’s coming – and can hop right over it and just enjoy the good parts. 😊
Mani-chan
January 11, 2021 at 4:38 AM
This is so me. The 2020 wrap up made me realise how genuinely amazing these two were together. They weren’t ” fated” through some random childhood connection but they met each other and bonded so well. They deserved way more screen time than they got
OLakes
January 11, 2021 at 5:24 AM
How much more wonderful it could have been had the show really be dedicated to the OTP getting to know each other and growing their relationship! I will try to embellish via my imagination as I re-watch.
parkchuna ❤️🍉
January 11, 2021 at 5:20 AM
Rewatching APoYM reminded me that JHI-CSB really were the loveliest couple (yes lovely, the word just fits them so well), so yeah go rewatch w the FF button at the ready.
Eazal
January 11, 2021 at 8:28 AM
You’re not crazy.
And I think the experience of watching it with the FF button will make it wonderful. No Exes, no Keanu, only sassy DoHee and hot and sexy HaeKyung… It can’t be better.
These two are one of the OTP with the best chemistry in all dramaland. Unfortunately they ended up in the wrong drama.
OLakes
January 11, 2021 at 8:32 AM
Amen. Maybe they will get a second shot at another drama together?! I would sign up RIGHT NOW to watch that! I know I’ve said this before, but when the casting was announced, I was really happy for Seo Ji-hye and looking forward to seeing her as a leading lady in her own drama. I wish she had been better served, but I look forward to her next project!
OLakes
January 6, 2021 at 6:55 AM
Hello fellow Beanies! Is anyone planning on watching the 2020 APAN Awards the weekend of January 23-24? Looks like the Music Awards are on the 23rd and the Star Awards on the 24th.
https://www.bandwagon.asia/articles/how-to-watch-the-2020-apan-awards-star-music-k-drama-k-pop-korea-tickets-livestream-video-interpark-amazer-january-2021
bbstl 🧹
January 6, 2021 at 2:39 PM
Haha I wonder why there are pictures of Hyun Bin and Son Ye Jin 😁
OLakes
January 6, 2021 at 2:58 PM
Can you imagine the avalanche of ticket purchases I’m sure that’s triggering?! 😆
bbstl 🧹
January 7, 2021 at 10:11 AM
Yes! Brilliant marketing! 🤣
OLakes
December 22, 2020 at 10:13 AM
2020 Round Up
Day 22 – Freestyle: favorite secondary couple
Great idea, @edgarpordwed !
There were two secondary couples that I particularly remember this year:
Heartwarming: Lee Jang-woo and Ji Eun-shil from Weather. This was a sweet couple that came together in a sweet way. Jang-woo wasn’t dissimilar from Eun-seob in carrying a long-time torch for Eun-shil, and I liked that despite his bumbling he stayed very true to himself. Watching her start to see him with new eyes, and the awkward and adorable confession in the last episode was well done – it was nice to be able to imagine happy things for them in the future.
Entertaining: Hwang Seo-ra and Jang Doo-bong from Spies. To be honest, this was more of a spy ploy than an actual relationship (at least for one party), but it was highly entertaining (until Doo-bong went daaaark). I wish that he had “reformed” and turned informant for the Interpol team; a lovestruck Doo-bong and a reluctantly swayed Seo-ra would have been funny to watch.
Karmen ~ 🍜🏢🎭 ~ 📚☔🦋 ~ 🪂🌱💘 ~ ✨🍊💫 ~
December 22, 2020 at 1:37 PM
Are you telling me that Doo-bong and Seo-ra won’t end up together?? 😢
OLakes
December 22, 2020 at 2:11 PM
Just…keep watching! Let’s just say that the funniness took a turn I was not expecting (and I’m really sorry if I spoiled something for you!!! 🙁 ).
Karmen ~ 🍜🏢🎭 ~ 📚☔🦋 ~ 🪂🌱💘 ~ ✨🍊💫 ~
December 23, 2020 at 10:48 AM
Oh, no, don’t worry! I try to stay away from spoilers concerning the leads and the murder, some news about secondary characters is ok! 😊
OLakes
December 24, 2020 at 10:05 AM
I’m relieved! 😊 When you’re done watching, I look forward to hearing your thoughts on the show.
Karmen ~ 🍜🏢🎭 ~ 📚☔🦋 ~ 🪂🌱💘 ~ ✨🍊💫 ~
December 25, 2020 at 7:40 AM
Sure! 😊
dramadillo
December 22, 2020 at 1:50 PM
This photo of Jang Woo and Eun Shil made my heart burst!! That over-the-top bouquet is everything!
OLakes
December 21, 2020 at 10:04 AM
2020 Round Up
Day 21 – Freestyle: best drama poster
Great idea about favorite posters! Three 2020 posters captured wonderfully well for me the atmosphere of the drama that they were promoting:
– Crashing Landing On You: main poster captured the North/South juxtaposition in a slightly fantastical and colorful way, while the secondary imagery strongly encapsulated both the divide and the pull between the OTP.
– I’ll Come to You When the Weather is Fine: captured so well the stillness of the season and mountain village, the pause between heartbeats, and the slow melt of two people starting to entertain the possibility that life may look better in the spring.
– It’s Okay to Not Be Okay: captures the ephemeral beauty of the fairytale world that this show spun around us, both its luminescence and its fragility.
And a bonus one just because, well…who doesn’t like looking at pretty things: Tale of the Nine-Tailed
Eazal
December 21, 2020 at 12:37 PM
No. We’re not here for the pretty boy. No we’re not.
We have long and brainy conversations (by the way, we DO!).
But because of the pretty distracting boy.
No. Possible. Way.
OLakes
December 21, 2020 at 12:48 PM
You are absolutely correct @eazal! We are most definitely here for the thoughtful, brainy philosophizing that we do with high-minded intellectual fervor, and we can’t help it if sometimes we do that while taking in the…um… you know, the view and…well…whatever may happen to just be…in view…. (*sips wine*). 😉🥂
Eazal
December 21, 2020 at 1:19 PM
Always in context.
The pretty boy will never distract us from our mission!!
Karmen ~ 🍜🏢🎭 ~ 📚☔🦋 ~ 🪂🌱💘 ~ ✨🍊💫 ~
December 22, 2020 at 12:38 PM
CLOY was already finished when I found out the background showed North and South Korea… 🤦🏻♀️ it’s a beautiful poster (plus the choice of having only Se-ri in red and all the others in black), but I really love the one with the camp fire, it is so intimate and reminds me of a great scene!
Weather poster has the same magic of the drama: it manages to be warm even if it’s snowing 😮
OLakes
December 22, 2020 at 12:59 PM
Yes, good point – it is really cozy, despite the snow!
By the way, I’ve been reading through your blog (thanks to Google Translate and my contorting French words into Italian), and I feel like I’m nodding along with you all the time. It’s great! Thanks again for sharing the link. 🙂
Karmen ~ 🍜🏢🎭 ~ 📚☔🦋 ~ 🪂🌱💘 ~ ✨🍊💫 ~
December 22, 2020 at 1:13 PM
Oh, really? Did you read it? Thank you to you!! 😆
OLakes
December 22, 2020 at 2:14 PM
Of course! I wouldn’t have asked for the link otherwise. 🙂
Karmen ~ 🍜🏢🎭 ~ 📚☔🦋 ~ 🪂🌱💘 ~ ✨🍊💫 ~
December 23, 2020 at 10:43 AM
😊😊😊
OLakes
December 21, 2020 at 6:50 AM
2020 Round Up
Day 19 – most memorable scene
For me, one of the most heart-warming scenes this year was at the end of episode 10 in Weather, when Eun-soeb comes back to the family home after having spent the day with his estranged uncle and questioning where he belongs in the world – only to find his infuriated and frightened little sister who, in one of the most realistic sibling confrontations, manages to tell him in the same breath that she loves him and hates him at the same time. The new bike saddle she’s been coveting is his gift to her, but her unvarnished love and possessiveness of her oppa is her gift to him – and the look on his face when his voiceover gently says, No, I’m not leaving, was just one of the most beautiful drama moments for me this year.
2020 Round Up
Day 20 – the cameo that blew your mind
I don’t know that I have one for this category, at least not for a 2020 drama. I did watch Hotel del Luna in 2020, and I happened to watch it about the time that I was watching IOTNBO – so the cameo of Kim Soo-hyun at the end was fun. The slick, smoldering, whisky-drinking ghost was a far cry from the sober, downtrodden yet sweet Moon Gang-tae I’d become used to.
bbstl 🧹
December 21, 2020 at 7:33 AM
whoooooooo, that was one hot cameo! I totally wanted to see an entire show about that character.
OLakes
December 21, 2020 at 7:49 AM
Me, too! It’s one drama I’d be 100% on board with them doing a second season for – the premise is loose enough that they could truly do a whole other character arc.
Mani-chan
December 21, 2020 at 8:24 AM
That was a really sexy cameo. Made me realise how much I missed him on my screen
Eazal
December 21, 2020 at 10:11 AM
My favourite scene as well!!
It may be the fact that I miss my sister, as we’ve barely seen each other this year, but the moment I watched it I just felt all the love these two siblings share, although they would never confess it (at least for a long time). Also the sweet flashbacks that are shown just before this scene (EunSeob watching for hours Hwi in her cradle and him being delighted when he shows the beetle to his proud mum) set the mood for what we are going to see.
OLakes
December 21, 2020 at 10:17 AM
Yes, it’s so lovely how they weave those flashbacks into Eun-seob’s overall arc. It was subtle but so beautiful to me how it’s so obvious that his family loves him so much and how he slowly by the end is finally able to receive and accept this gift and starts intentionally reciprocating. It warmed my soul to watch that unfold.