Beanie level: Noble idiot

Second submission for #BVIPP:

This one isn’t a bright summer song – but one I feel will really suit those summer rain days – unexpected but always welcome and one that will bring a warm smile on your face.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=veTeiiwdbDI

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Late, but hopefully I can still join! #BVIPP
Everglow had a comeback last month and no algorithm let me know ;_; but here is one of their songs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3RA7bi5

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can i just say how disappointed i am that we only got crumbs, and i mean *crumbs*, of solhwi? in recent memory, i haven’t wished for fics for an OTP more than i have with law school ;_:

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Pitifully demonic PKW from Gaksital /
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    I tried re watching this drama but couldn’t. I would need to seriously mentally prep myself!

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Joo Won screen cap spam from Gaksital for no reason whatsoever. Happy Saturday!
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    The photos I wanted to add didn’t get posted,,,, oh well,,,,

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    He was SO GOOD in that one! Actually, everyone was so good in that one. I also liked the villain. The actor who played the villain played so well I almost felt sorry for him. Oh my heart.

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      That is the wonderful Park Ki-woong!

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        Loved him here. I was truly horrified yet sorry for him. It’s hard to believe he’s the fluffy blondie idol in FULL HOUSE 2, which I’ve been trying to persuade @ndlessjoie to watch for a while now. 😉

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          Mugy, mugy, little mugy 🤗
          Do you think I’ll like FH2? Cause if I like it, she’ll probably hate it lol.

          Mugy, mugy, little mugy.

          Yes, Toki, PKW made something memorable there. He was truly great at acting.

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            Maybe you would like it… I’m hopeful Mugy will see the incredible entertainment value of FULL HOUSE TAKE 2. I am sure that she would appreciate the 2012 hair and fashion 🤣

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            I’ve seen the poster of Mary Stayed Out All Night, and I agree that based on that poster of the show she seemed so love, the hair and fashion of 2012 might be appealing to her 😂. She also mentioned the Glorious Wig of YAI sometimes, so perhaps this is exactly her thing!

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            (Disclaimer) I’m teasing you ok? @ndlessjoie. lol I can’t let her be angry with me on this though I think the characters’ hair and fashion in Mary are quite strange. 🥺

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          Ah, Full House 2. I don’t think I’ll ever be able to re-watch that, lol.

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          I hope to get to it this summer.

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I just binge-watched Ojakgyo Family and Joo Won and Uee have such good chemistry here that it\’s ??? They don\’t really act that well but the chemistry, my god. I think I\’ll be watching everything Joo Won is in for the next month. About ten years too late but finally time to pick up Gaksital. I\’m excited!

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    IKR? They were just SO GOOD together. The chemistry was so good I am gonna cry. That heartbreaking scene made my heart ache so much in a good way. One of the loveliest OTP in our Kdrama world to date. Gaksital was another show that Joo Won was praised so much for, but the story wasn’t really my cup of tea but I guess you’re gonna like it. It is a very good show. I personally like Yong Pal, but many didn’t really like it. Joo Won also won the SBS daesang for that year from his role in Yong Pal as the show got the highest rating for its time slot.

    UEE has been lovely ever since. Though I can’t say Joo Won picked good projects lately, UEE did a better job in terms of project choosing imo. I loved many of her shows later on (My Husband MrOh)

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      UEE did a wonderful job in Marriage Contract, I thought.

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      Yeah! The OTP here was <33333
      I have all of his dramas queued up. I'll try Yong Pal after Gaksital then, on your recommendation 😀
      And I might try Marriage Contract too!

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        But it seems like I’m in the VERY minority of the Beanies here that actually liked YP (Most Beanies thought it was good in the first half of it.) You might want to consider that again. 😅

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        If I’m not mistaken, both of them won the New Actor/New Actress awards at Baeksang award ceremony that year.

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          Haha, don’t worry the FF button is my best friend 😉

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    They had great chemistry. I wouldn’t mind seeing them together in another project.

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      They did!! Yeah, it would be interesting to watch them again almost 10 years since they starred together ^^

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    Gaksital is his best to date. I’m excited just knowing you’ll be watching it!

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      Ahh! I just started and everything is _intense_ haha! But I like it so far. Preparing myself for the what I’m sure is a heavy-hearted sad ending (:

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        It is! Lol yes prepare the tissues. I’m not one to cry with fictional TV but man did I bawl my eyes out with this one. It’s riveting to the core! Please keep us posted on your watch.

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    Ooooo this drama… I forgot it existed. I cant remember the plot but I remember that their chem was lit.

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      Haha yes! This will be me a few years down the line. Pretty sure I’ll have forgotten everything about it except this 😂

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Run On day

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Start-up Ep.3 was the funniest I\’ve seen in a while! That ending speech video was GOLD!

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    The humour in this show is top-flight. Suzy is a bit weaker than the other four main cast members, but even she is a doing a good job. Seon-ho is really impressive.

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      Nam Joo Hyuk’s really learned to shine and work in the ambit of more experienced actors (in Radiant, as well as Nurse Files) and that shows here too, in his superb scenes with Seon Ho.

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You know what I miss? Dramas like Eun Joo\’s Room. It was sweet and slow and charming and healing. Nothing about it was Too Much, which I could use in these times tbh. I think I\’ll always have a soft spot for it because it was the first drama I\’d watched without any subtitles.

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I watched the first two episodes of More than Friends and…. while I was really really looking forward to this because it starred Ong Seong Wu who I was super charmed by in At Eighteen (one of my favourite dramas of last year), I don\’t think I\’ve disliked the main characters this?? much?? in a while. Like, oh god, the male lead. From the first two episodes it seemed like show was going for justifying his atrocious behaviour because of his background but dude, if your parents fought and had a messed up relationship get some therapy and deal with the trauma. But I think I am going to continue watching .____. ((And hope there\’s nice character growth.))

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The School Nurse Files was weird and wonderful and as wacky as it was deep and that\’s not something that I thought I\’d put together in the same sentence. I read that this was adapated from a novel, but the way it\’s been directed it seemed like a manga/manwha come to life in the truest way possible.

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Started watching Into the Ring just as it was about to wrap up and binge-watched it all and WHAT A SWEET DRAMA! The FL! The OTP!! Ahhh!

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    Not going to lie, I wish this was a longer series. I felt a bit disappointed by the ending.

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      Me too, but even so, it’s the best OTP I’ve seen in a loooooong time. I’m already missing SeRa and Gong.

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beanfriends, any recommendations for dramas filled with moody acoustic ballad OSTs?

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    stuff I’ve already watched and liked – Age of Youth, Just Between Lovers, Chocolate, At Eighteen. something along these lines?

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      How about you check Jealousy Incarnate, Cheese in the trap and Signal? Lol idk of you mean to listen the osts or watch the dramas but I like JBL’s ost and the first two are along that line (I mean some songs in that Ost).

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        haha, both! I find I get sucked into dramas which have these kinds of OSTs very easily. thanks for the reccos!

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        Chicago Typewriter
        I’ll Find You On A Beautiful Day
        Because This Life Is Our First

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      Goblin

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not ashamed to admit that the single hottest LMH moment I’ve witnessed was when he was scribbling with a fountain pen ✒️
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So I finished watching Extracurricular and…. I really liked it. It was dark, violent, and no redemption arcs, but bitterly funny. You could see The End of the F***ing World\’s influence on this – down to the very last scene. It wasn\’t a perfect show though. For someone as smart as Jisoo and Gyuri were made out to be, they made exceedingly stupid decisions as the show progresses – but then again, they\’re teenagers and that\’s what teenagers do, so it was utterly real in that way.

This one really used the Netflix advantage to tell the story it really wanted to – warts and all, without having to wrap it all up in a pretty pink bow at the end. *cough Sky Castle cough*

Watching this also made think about the kinds of shows that streaming services allowed to mushroom in India. Shows with subjects that are rarely, if ever seen on mainstream television or film and the kind of no-holds-barred treatment that it can give those stories (even if they are terribly made).

The K-dramas that we all love and follow are, for the most part, the ones that were made for cable or public television broadcasts and so forced to work within certain conventions. I\’m really curious about the wave of Extracurricular-like shows that may come out of Korea and just how much of that \”K-drama\”ness about them they\’ll have.

Have any other beanies finished watching this? What did you all think?

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    I hadn’t thought of it before but this drama does remind me of The End of the F***ing World.

    I really liked it too. Definitely the best k-drama Netflix has made to date IMO and just a good drama, period. The acting was really good, especially from a pretty green cast. I liked that being on Netflix allowed them to tell a darker story and to show teenagers doing things like swearing, smoking and you know, sex trafficking.

    I have a feeling a lot of people won’t like the ending, but I loved it. I want it to be an open ending and not a cliffhanger to Season 2 because there’s just no good way for that to go.

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      Yeah, I would have gotten severe whiplash had they done anything else with the ending!
      I’ve seen some folks clamoring for a second season because they *want* the ending to be a cliffhanger and I’m….. really not on board with that. We just might get a Season 2 from Gyuri’s POV and a new story though if they follow The End of the F***ing World.

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Is anyone watching Extracurricular/인간수업? I don\’t see much chatter about it. I\’m about 4 episodes in and have so many Thoughts! (In comments)

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    First off the execution of the series reminds me of The End of the F***ing World, which I wasn’t expecting at all!
    Given all that’s going in South Korea – nth room, burning sun etc, I am wary of the subject matter but I’m withholding judgement till the end to see how the show treats it.
    I’ve to give credit to the writers for writing Jisoo really believably and showing how a teenager who knows what he’s doing isn’t right but convinces himself it’s not what he’s really doing. Kim Dong-hee does a fab job of portraying the class loser/nerd but he does equally well when we see him fray at the edges and all the anger and disillusionment bubbles up to the surface.
    Park Joo-Hyun’s Bae Gyuri is also done really well in a role we’ve seen many times before – the rich girl with family issues who wants more, who wants different things from her life than what’s set out for her and quietly, menacingly, and without much compunction, gathers all she needs to have her way.

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      Also, it’s really amusing to me that the female lead is played by Park Joo-Hyun a.k.a. Jisoo from A Piece of Your Mind but the male lead is called Jisoo here, so whenever I see Jisoo in the subtitles I look to her but it’s not Jisoo.
      *Off to watch the rest*

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      I’m watching and I agree about Jisoo. It’s interesting how he has convinced himself that he’s just running a security service. He’s a pimp but he’s so awkward around the opposite sex. Kim Dong-hee is doing well with the role.

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Yoon Shi Yoon is back today!!!

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It\’s a little hard for me to get into intense Sageuks right away but My Country was gripping from the get go!

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    Not to start a Great KDrama Debate but is a show set in Goryeo technically a Sageuk?

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      Isn’t it? Sageuk refers to all historical dramas I thought?

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      Yes. After the Joseon dynasty, Goryeo is another one that is quite frequently explored by kdramas. Any drama that is based on historical figures, events, or uses a historical backdrop, would be a Sageuk. The word “sageuk” literally translates to “historical drama”. So the time period is irrelevant.

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        Yeah. I even looked up the hanja in Sageuk just a while back cause I was wondering if I missed out on something. 😅

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    I am enthralled! But I like sageuks, so I’m entirely biased!!!

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      Hahah, I am enthralled too, even if I am unbiased! But wait, maybe I am biased cause of Yang Se-jong 😀

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    “… from the get go” is exactly right!

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      Yup! I was watching it on the TV and even my father got sucked in and started watching it along with me. 😀

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I\’m so sad that Melo Me ended but what a great note to end on! One of the best final episodes in a drama, ever, for me.

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Was looking up options for streaming dramas in NZ and found this on a site,,,,,,
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    Dae Boo-na is a fantastic actor…

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    Hello friend. I am on a mission to find more Kiwi Beans so that I can visit them, being from the fair land myself. I have had the misfortune of mistaking two NON Kiwi beans for Kiwis and it was most embarrassing.
    Are you a Kiwi bean dear Sadhana? Or are you just currently residing here? I need to know!
    (p.s. illegal streaming is your best bet in NZ. Everywhere else “videos are not available in your country” and VPNs fail thee!! you know, being in Narnia and all)

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      Hello. I’m not a Kiwi bean, but I will be in Kiwi-land soon for a few months on a work assignment. That’s why the research. Ah, too bad about the streaming. At least there’s Netflix! Also, why.. do VPNs fail there? :O We use them pretty often at work (my colleagues there I mean) and they seem to work? 🤔

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        Oooh cool! What is your work assignment and where will you be stationed?

        I mean, I don’t think ALL the VPNs fail? I just haven’t had much luck with them on Viki for certain shows. You can get Viki (I haven’t tried any of the other streaming sights) but not all dramas are available basically and I found their subs painfully slow even though we live in the future so I gave up after a while.
        What VPN do you have? It’s worth a shot.

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          The company I work for is headquartered in Auckland, so will be there for a while. We’re helping Auckland Transport with a new project, and I’ll be involved in that.

          As for VPN, we use Cisco’s AnyConnect. But yeah, Viki subs are pretty slow though they tend to be better than others. Netflix has most of Dramafever’s content now so there’s a quite a bit on there.

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            OoOH I see! (sorry for late reply btw) How long are you here for?
            Netflix is probably your best bet then.

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            No worries! Uh, well I was _supposed_ to be there end of this month, but it looks like it’ll get postponed by a month or two. I might be there for around 4-5 months (if I do)

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            Oooh over the summer! That will be nice.
            I’m all the way down the other end of the country alas, or I’d be like “beanie meet up?!” haha

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            @sicarius Ooh a beanie meetup would have been nice! Where do you live though? Also, everyone’s saying Nice! Summer! But the temperatures in summer there are like those during peak “winter” where I live so I’ve been really confused as to what to expect from the weather. @_@

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            HAHAHAHA Oh typical kiwis. We can’t handle too much over 30 Celsius hahah or we melt.
            I can’t really say as to what weather you’ll get because NZ weather is also notorious for four seasons in one day and we have a myriad of micro climates, meaning that different parts of the same proivnce will get different weather in one hour. I also come from the south, Queenstown area to be precise, which is slightly more continental than the rest of NZ, so it’s colder and drier down here, than coastal or north.

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            Yeah! That’s what I’d heard – the four seasons in one day bit. I’m excited though, cause I’ll finally get to wear coats xDD

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            LOL! Be prepared for shorts and tshirts and barefeet everywhere for contrast haha

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            @sicarius i was going through my fanwall and came across this again and just realised you live in queenstown. T_T i am not in nz anymore but i was briefly in queenstown in august just before i flew back. it wasn’t the best month to visit but it was so!!! charming!!! nonetheless??? i’m so envious that you live there 😀 do you live in queenstown proper?

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            Oh hey!!!!! How are you??
            I live in Arrowtown actually, which is 20 mins out of Queenstown central.

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            @sicarius i went to arrowtown! it was super charming as well 😀 i visited it when there weren’t many people around so one of the only nice photos I managed to take was in arrowtown ^^

            it seemed like it was mainly a tourist town though – are things okay now after the lockdowns?

            indians are obsessed with gold so i got those little floating gold flakes they sell in the stores as souvenirs for my mum and she was asking me why i didn’t buy more hahah

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