Beanie level: Errand boy

The Three Degrees big hit from 1974. The ladies are lovely. 🥰

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40 years ago epic drama Oshinaired. Child actress Ayako Kobayashi is fantastic as is Tanaka Yuuko. Crazy episode count w/15 minute eps. 😵‍💫


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Roundup 2023. Day 9 – Your non k-drama recommendation.
J drama Brush Up Life Reincarnation comedy
C drama Knockout 20 year relationship between a police detective and a fish peddler who becomes a gang boss. Cops, gangsters, corrupt politicians
C drama Ripe Town Serial Killer Revenge !!! 12 action packed episodes
C drama Lost You Forever
Non 2023 TW drama Someday or One Day Dual role Time Slip done right .

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Two characters that were institutionalized due to their mental state
Choi Myung Gil as Baek Do Yi In Durian’s Affair
Kang Kyung Hun as Kang Yeo Jin in Oasis


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    Aigoo I am stuck in inappropriate word world, my texts are being swallowed by DB system

    Anyways Good Bad Mom , (those poor pigs 🐷🐷 🐷 )
    Mom needs help

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7th December : The drama Beanies convinced you to watch and you can’t be grateful enough for 2023
J drama with English dubs Monkey . (1978) A fun watch, many Beanies knew the show.

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Watching oldies on YouTube and I saw the perfect Drama Song. From 1972 ,Dr. Hook & The Medicine Show ‘s “Sylvia’s Mother” .
Written when pay phones were the norm, the telephone operator would cut into your call and ask for additional money to continue the conversation.
Our singer relates his call to Sylvia and Sylvia’s mother answers the call.
The song is based on an actual event.* I could see a drama built around this.
* Has a Wikipedia page about it.

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LYOL What exactly is Mr. Yeom up to ?


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#2023RoundUp Kimchi Slap : Live Your Own Life Tae-min forces himself on Hyo-shim. She looks like she is in distress.

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    Sade!

    Unfortunately, we don’t get new music from Sade too often.

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LYOL Smooth Operator

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The Matchmakers


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LYOL




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LYOLMs. Choi is sexy when she is angry . Madam Jang threatens to pull her hair.




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PMC




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    That Dae Jang Geum comment cracked me up. My aunt always brings it up when she meets Korean people. It was the gateway drama for overseas fans in the early 2000s. It was very popular in Korea and overseas.
    Lee Se-young was very young when she played the younger version of Jang Geum’s rival. Nice reference!

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#2023RoundUp
4 -The drama you didn’t love, but Beanies did.
The drama was 2022 C drama but I watched it this year .
Love Between Fairy and Devil (2022) I got halfway through and quit. The female lead was a bit too cute, too much Aegyo or something.

I much preferred the Demon /FL relationship in another C drama , Lost You Forever (2023) which I finished and liked . Waiting for Season 2

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    I haven’t watched too many Demon love dramas but I think
    Lost You Forever is the one to beat. That demon could teach a vampire a thing or two about sampling the FL’s 🩸 !

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      Ooh! sounds er… interesting? (Is that the word I’m looking for.)

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        It’s good , he’s a demon that needs Fl’s blood, but he also assumes the identity of someone else . Pretty good story, FL has several suitors, she actually thinks about demon as an option at some point.
        I think I remember it correctly, someone please correct if wrong.

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      Really?? Maybe I’m the outlier in the case of not liking this character as much as many others did. Right from the get-go, I thought and felt that Tan Jian Ci was mid-cast and doesn’t have that gravitas I want in su ch a deep and intense character, not that he’s absolutely horrible, because I still enjoyed his scenes together with Yang Zi. I just kept thinking at the back of my mind that maybe Zhang Bin Bin would have been more suitable for this role, as I’ve seen him do deep and dark and I absolutely love it

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        Also, you did much better than I did in your progress in watching “Love Between Fairy and Devil”— I couldn’t make it past 15 minutes into Ep. 2, and even then, Ep. 1 was hard to get through, it didn’t fully have my attention 😅😅

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        *mis-cast

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    Understandable reason to not like Fairy tbh lol. For what it’s worth, she does get better as the show goes on and she gets character development. 🤣

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    I really struggled with the aegyo as well, and dropped. I did sample later episodes, and there was growth, but honestly, not much imho, and that voice didn’t change! You were wise to drop.

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    Even though I never know what’s happening in Chinese movies (the fantasy ones), I do enjoy them for the visuals. I tried to watching “Love between fairy and devil” and I agree – FL was too cute. I noticed that about xianxia/wuxias – FL TOO DAMN CUTE. Annoying! I just can’t. lol

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Siren’s Song (An alternative) Just 4 Fun
Mok-ha does not wind up on an island.
She is rescued at sea by a family of Fish Farmers *
I did look up aqua culture in Korea, while there are fisheries
the majority of aqua culture is seaweed. So the farmers can be seaweed farmers, which would lead to kelp slaps later on.

Anyways the family of sea farmers consists of Mom and her hunky husband and their 7hunky sons, (each named after one of the 7 seas) . It is obvious that Mok-ha is traumatized, she has nightmares and calls out about the Stalker Ahjussi is after her and she cries for Ki-Ho to save her .

The Kelp farmers misunderstood and they think Ki-Ho is the stalker ahjussi.
Mok-ha can only recall Ki-Ho’s name and face while dreaming:/nightmaring
Also, she has forgotten her name (trauma induced amnesia).
Momma Kelp sees Mok-ha as the daughter she never had and determines that the kelp farmers will shield and protect her. They start off by naming her Siren,
as she sadly sings her songs to the sea. Her 7 brothers are all fiercely protective of Siren.
Ki-Ho,who has never given up hope of finding Mok-ha finds the 7 brothers formidable foes and over the next 15 years they successfully thwart Ki-Ho’s efforts to find Mok-ha .

Meanwhile , RJ is not washed up but hosts a talent search show, Find A Star
Mo-rae went on to become a star as she took Mok-ha’s place in RJ’s Find A Star program.
Mo-rae is fascinated by the brother’s devotion to Mok-ha. She has seen Mok-ha’s original video and is determined to perform a duo with Mok-ha one day.

Woo Hak is still a reporter and he supports Ki-ho’s efforts to find Mok-ha .
Woo hak and Mo-rae have become an item but it is a low key romance as Mo-rae has to avoid relationships due to Korea’s horrible netizens , so it is a slow burning romance there.
Ki-Ho does form the Island Search Team and search he does, to no avail.

One evening, Mo-rae and RJ in an effort to help Ki-Ho , plays Mok-ha’s audition tape on RJ’s show. The kelp farmers see the performance and realize that Siren is Mok-ha. They really become concerned that Siren will be taken away from them so they try to prevent Mok-ha from watching her own audition tape.
Of course she sees the video, she sees Ki-Ho on television pleading for any information to help find Mok-ha.

Woohak overhears a market place ahjumma talking about the Siren that warbles her songs to the sea. Locals say it is a virgin ghost but they are just superstitious folk.

Mo-rae has landed a contract for a seaweed snack endorsement and a film crew shows up at the Kelp farm to shoot a CF. While there, Mo-rae hears what she thinks Is Mok-ha singing. She tries to find her but is blocked . Undeterred, she tells Ki-Ho of her suspicions. Ki-Ho tries flying the drone , but seagulls, trained by the brothers bring down the drone .
Before the drone crashes, it does record audio of Mok-ha .
Ki-Ho embarks on the most important Island Search mission ever and plan an invasion of the Kelp Farm by sea.
The weather started getting rough and the tiny ship was tossed.
Picture a storm lashed sea with Siren singing with all her might.
Ki-Ho sees Mok-ha and after some moments where all hopes are being dashed on the rocks, Ki-Ho makes it ashore and sees Mok-ha .
Monk-ha is not sure if this is a dream. The OTP reunites amidst the raging sea.
Ki-Ho tells Mok-ha that he has come for her. Mok-ha says it’s a dream.
Ki-Ho pinches her, breaking her amnesia !!
There is a happy reunion, Mo-rae and Mok-ha perform their duet on RJ’s Find A Star program.
Stalker Dad tries to attack Moh-ha while she is on stage during her World Tour.
The Kelp Brothers Attack Seagulls peck Ahjussi’s eyes out, blinding him , no biggie as his rage had effectively already blinded him. Ahjussi falls off the stage, landing on a patron, a K drama script writer, who is known for their crap dramas, killing them.
Mok-ha and Mo-rae have a double wedding ceremony with the brothers, held live on RJ’s Find A Star program.

That’s how I would have written Mok-ha’s story .

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    I completely lost it at Ki Ho pinches her and her amnesia is gone… hahaha.. This needs to be a K drama.. Makjang style.. with some dramatic repeat frames from different angles for the amnesia reversing pinch

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    “The weather started getting rough and the tiny ship was tossed.” 😂😂😂 (I think I’ve just dated myself)

    Love your take on Mokha’s story, especially the limited appearance of the stalker dad. Thank you for the laughs this morning!!

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      The show could have been something like this (minus the island), she still gets a found family,
      Both boys have seperate love lines so no angst there, it’s Mok-ha that has the amnesia, not the boy, Mok-ha, Mo-rae and RJ have a much stronger connection, Dad gets his come uppance and the seagulls come to the rescue. Ki-Ho and Mok-ha’s reunion and ending are much more satisfying imho.

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        Love it! Have you considered a career in screenwriting?! 😉

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          More of a consultant, with a white board to scribble ideas on and a long pointer stick to intimidate writers with while shouting Yah !! at them.
          I would have writers kneel in the hallway with their arms up when they tried to use their typical drama BS.

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    I don’t even know what to say to this masterpiece except thank you this is hilarious and just brilliant in general. I’ll be mailing a copy to SBS, MBC and KBC because please make this into a drama. Maybe Netflix is a better bet because they take creative bets with their projects most of the time 😂

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K Dramas I finished 2023
Reborn Rich
Curtain Call
Big Bet 1 & 2
Heavenly Idol
Oasis
Secret Royal Guesthouse
Good Bad Mom
Lies Hidden In My Garden
Durian’s Affair
Heartbeat
My Dearest 1 & 2
Perfect Marriage Revenge
Castaway Diva

Several in progress at the moment

In addition, numerous non 2023 dramas plus J & C dramas and films
I don’t take notes, especially for 1 or 2 episode looks at dramas , too numerous
to mention .
Some of the “other than 2023 “ dramas I finished were
Damo
Monkey (J)
Pegasus Market
Gaus Electronics
Political Fever
Some Day or One Day (TW)
D.P. 1
Ripe Town (C)
Knockout (C)
Under the Microscope (C)

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Jung died one night, died in his bed
Bottle of whiskey, sleeping tablets by his head
Jung’s life passed him by like a warm summer day
If you listen to the wind, you can still hear him play

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PMR Sec Kim & Yi-joo would make a good couple too , Punchy and Yoo-ra. Punchy went from Yi-joo to Yoo-ra , what a decline in fortune.



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