Beanie level: Jang Geu-rae

AHHH I just caught up to ep 7 of Worst of Evil and things are about to go down! Poor Gi-cheol getting let down by everyone but now he knows everything… Joon-Mo better come up with something

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It’s a bit late, but I finally finished Vincenzo! Cheers for being one of my favorite watches of this year :)) I’m super glad I waited until this finished, because it was nice being able to click through all the episodes knowing it was a completed series already. This drama has never failed to make laugh or cry each episode and it will be missed!! T_T

Any suggestions for k-dramas? To name a few, I’m currently watching AOS, Vagabond, Flower of Evil and Extraordinary You. One can never have too many dramas to watch haha

Goodbye to the craziness that is Vincenzo!

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    Oh, I need to rewatch, I had so much fun watching this.

    Seems like you are into crime/police dramas. Have you watched Forest of Secrets, Watcher or The good detective?

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      Actually I became interested in crime/police after watching Signal and While You Were Sleeping (which gave the worst SL syndrome even though I was on ML’s ship) last year! So I have not watched too many crime/police dramas yet. I will definitely look up the shows you recommended 🙂

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    This was a fun one! Glad you enjoyed it!

    Of the currently airing dramas, give Adamas a try. It’s quite the ride!

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      Yes it was! & Adamas is definitely on my watchlist!

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      i started yesterday and I am already on episode 5, so yes, good recommendation!

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    I recommend the recent Never Give Up (aka There is No Goo Pil-Soo). This show is easy and enjoyable viewing, with a great story and acting.

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      Will definitely take a look at Never Give Up! Thanks for the rec. 🙂

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    If you have the viki app, try Untouchable, Sketch, Tell me what you saw & Memorist. For Netflix, I recommend Voice.

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      Woww! I just searched up all your recommendations and they all look like such good crime / thriller shows <3 Thank you for the recs! 🙂 Did not expect to see that the Voice had four seasons

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Jang Han-Seo <3

#Vincenzo ep 20




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    He was so precious in this!!! I still haven’t forgiven that ending tho…. 🙁

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      Yess :'( I was touched by his actions and I know it was to further the plot but damn that ending really hurt me badly

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Vincenzo is such a gem <3 Only have 5 episodes left of this drama T-T
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A while back when I was obsessing over Chicago Typewriter (and Yoo In-Ah’s hot wig), I got recommended a show called Rebel! I just binged through the first two episodes and woow. I don’t think I’m necessarily hooked on it yet, but the acting is amazing. Kim Sang-Joong who plays the father is great and I’m definitely going to search up other dramas he’s been in.

Two episodes in and tragedy has already struck ☹ Rebel really does a good job portraying the sexist nature and unfair social classes of the past. I was so furious when the judge basically said it was the mother’s fault for having an attractive face which drew the attention of a noble. When all she did was try to walk away when she noticed a creepy old man was following her! Ugh.

Can’t wait to see more of this drama and finally get a glimpse of the main actor, Yoon Kyun-sang (aka the amazing brother from Pinocchio)!

I really hope this will not be a sad drama. Also started Lee Seung-Gi’s Vagabond, and the airplane crash was brutal 😭

Ending with an image of Yoo-In Ah’s amazing wig <3

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I know this isn’t exactly what you expect to find on dramabeans haha, but let’s talk about webtoons! I\’ve been curious since episode 1 of the drama \”Today\’s Webtoon\”, but does anyone know who the artist for Lim Chul-Soo\’s (Na Gang-Nam) webtoon in this show is? I’m a avid webtoon’s reader so I’ve come across so many different styles of art, and the art for Princess Gumiho looks like the artist (Zhena) who did Eleceed and Girl’s of the Wild. I’ve tried searching up articles about the artists who are featured in this kdrama, but have not really found much. What do you guys think? To those that have read or haven’t read this yet, are these just similar art styles or could they be Zhena? But anyways you should totally check out this drama and the webtoon Eleceed!

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    Thank you so much for posting this because I also wanted to ask a webtoon question and wasn’t sure if anyone would be able to answer but it seems you are the person I need! The webtoon clips that Maeum sent over to encourage Daelyug to trust her request looked so cute and I wanted to know if it was a real webtoon. Is it one you recognise or know where I could try to find its name? I tried to screen shot it but it just showed up as a black screen with the subtitles. No worries if you can’t help I will post the question with my recap write up. I hope someone can help you find the answer to your question. It may be both the answers we want are mentioned in the credits so we could ask someone to check them for us.

    Do you read a lot of webtoons? I have only read webtoons connected with dramas so far Yumi’s cells, Sixth sense, See you in my 19th life, and Nurse Sheena’s asylum diary (I think the drama is called Morning comes to the psychiatric ward too).

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      When I ask do you read a lot of webtoons? I mean do you have all the different app platforms and know where to find the English versions as I have struggled to find some of the webtoons the dramas are based on and when I do locate them they are often not in English. I know they are not all translated as I found a fan based translation of love and leashes that ended before the webtoon finished but I was grateful for the effort they put in as it was one of the longer ones.

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        Well I wouldn’t say I have downloaded all the webtoon platforms, but I have used a lot of apps/websites of the apps like Webtoons, Tappytoons, Lezhin, and Tapas before. Usually when I am in a situation where I like a webtoon but can’t find an english version, I search its name and add mangaupdates after it. Mangaupdates is basically a website that has a huge database on manga, manhwa, etc. information. For an example, you said you’ve watched Six Sense, so if I found its korean name but not its english name, I would type “식스센스 mangaupdates” and usually the first thing that will pop up is the mangaupdates website. I can use that korean name to find it because in mangaupdates there’s a section for associated names. However, there are times where there aren’t any english translations, so I will use the same method I did earlier and click on a section under the description for the webtoon. It will show links to the original platform the webtoon was published on, which to name a few could be on Naver, Daum/Kakao or Lezhin. Chances are that if there aren’t any English translations yet, the comic isn’t popular or its very new. Might be weird, but I personally like to read raws (aka manga, manhwa, etc. in their native language, that I can’t understand) even if I don’t understand what they are saying. but like I said most of the time a webtoon does have a couple of English translations out there whether it’s on legal platforms or not.

        If you want to start reading more webtoons, I recommend starting with the app Webtoons. It’s very easy to navigate through and has lots of different webtoons to binge through! I hope I answered your question well! If you have anymore questions feel free to ask!

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          Just re-read through my long ass comment, and just wanted to add a couple details to make it a bit clearer. When I search up something like kdrama/webtoon Sixth Sense, “식스센스 mangaupdates”, if you scroll down on the website it has a sections where it says latest release. That section will show how many english chapters that have been translated. Looking at Sixth Sense, there seems to no chapters translated into english yet.

          WAAIITT, actually I’ve been looking at the wrong sixth sense lol. There is a Six Sense, and then there’s also a Sixth Sense Kiss webtoon. Little mix up and did not notice the slight difference in spelling because of the similar names, but I hope you got a sense of what I mean. Here’s a link to the mangaupdates “Sixth Sense Kiss” https://www.mangaupdates.com/series/kd2zt5b/sixth-sense-kiss and the link to “Six Sense” https://www.mangaupdates.com/series/yexkwed/six-sense if you want a comparison. By looking at Six Sense, it says it has 27 chapters published in its original country, but there’s a N/A in Latest release. In that situation there’s nothing us readers can do but wait for it to be translated. Alternatively, if you look at the Sixth Sense Kiss mangaupdates page, it shows that Webtoon is currently one of the official translators for the webtoon and it has 55 english chapters out.

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            Thank you this is amazing! I have Tapas, Webtoons and Pocket comics. Sorry just realised the drama I watched the first two episodes of was called Kiss Sixth Sense but I preferred the webtoon story which I found the English version of on Webtoons.

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        Not sure if you know this, but it seems like Webtoon and SpoToon officially picked up “Love and Leashes” and started translating it! (https://www.mangaupdates.com/series/1c5vz3n/love-and-leashes) I also really appreciate the fan based translations, because translations take so much effort and time.

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      I’m not sure if I reached the episode in which Maeum sends reference photos to Daelyug, but I will definitely get back to you about it! I hope we can both find our answers! 🙂
      Do you mean you tried to screenshot a image from the drama and when you pasted it on dramabeans it showed up as blank? Cause I also screenshotted an image from “Today’s Webtoon” and it showed up before, but now its gone. Since I wanted to show the comparison between the webtoon in the drama, and Eleceed.

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        It’s episode 5 approx 25 mins 50 seconds in she sends him a message and he scrolls through a webtoon with some key text so references.

        I think since my iOS was upgraded they have added something to apps to stop screen capture of film footage as I googled it and it said it was being blocked by the platforms to prevent copyright material being captured.

        On the Dramabeans site sometimes pictures appears as small squares on our posts and its only when you click on it they show up as the original picture. I have also heard that sometimes posts go missing. I saw the pictures you posted when I first replied to your post I just checked now and they have disappeared.

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          I just took a quick look at episode 5, and I’m sorry but it’s not a webtoon I recognize. And yeah a lot of platforms are cracking down on taking screenshots of shows.

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Since College is on break because of the Covid-19 outbreaks, I’m finally free to watch dramas again! (Well for now!) Pls give me some good drama recs! ♥♥ Stay safe beanies 🙂

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    Prison Playbook if you haven’t already watched it.
    From the last few months, try “Black Dog”– it’s a slice of teacher’s life.
    Also from the currently airing I’m enjoying “I’ll go to you when the weather is nice”, “Hospital plahlist” & “Hi Bye Mama”

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Chicago Typewriter episode 11 (Long post incoming)

First of all I’d like to say this drama is really jabbing me right in the feels. That talk Yul had with Bang Jin’s mom was straightforward and honestly something Yul had to hear. It’s heartbreaking but it’s absolutely true. He’s a ghost who in the end doesn’t belong together with humans. I still want him to reveal himself to Seol, although I’m afraid that after his conversation with BJ’s mom he’ll decide not to. ☹ I’m also glad that Yul has never attempted to lead BJ on and has been consistently telling her he’s already interested in someone else, even if said person already likes Se Ju. Also, I feel like they’ve been severely neglecting the storyline which involves Yul trying to find out how he died. I cannot imagine him betraying past Se Ju, so it’s really stumping me on figuring out the mystery of his death and how it’s connected to what happened in the past. My final words on Yul’s character, is that I hate how that they made such a loveable second lead who has absolutely no chance to get w/ the girl he loves. I think this is the worst case of second lead syndrome I’ve seen. Since from the start we all knew that he’d have no chance, but it still didn’t stop us from loving him. T-T Perhaps it won’t be with the girl he loves, but I hope he finds his own sort of happiness by the end of the series.

I loved the talk Se-Ju had with Seol throughout the episode. Seol is feeling immense guilt towards Se-Ju because she believes she killed him in the past, but Se Ju is having none of that. He tells her that while they do have a connection because of their past lives, the past doesn’t essentially dictate how they live in the present. Basically saying history isn’t going to repeat itself and reassuring her that even if she did hurt him in the past, she sure as hell is doing the opposite now. Since she has saved him on several occasions too. This talk was definitely needed since Seol was beating herself up and I’m glad Se-Ju was there to deliver it even if it was in a hospital of all places lol. Also, I’d like to note that Se-Ju has been getting smoother in each upcoming episode. Like him leading with these words, “I think I loved you in my past life. Nevertheless, I think I closed off my heart so I could date you to my heart’s content when our country was liberated. This isn’t paying for your crimes; this is an acquittal. An opportunity. So today, I’m going to do something for the sake of my homeland”, was just the right amount of being sweet and serious. He means to comfort her but also to show that he is serious about their relationship and that he’ll never turn away from her because of mistakes she might’ve made in her past life. Wow it was a cheeky line, but it was an effective one!!

Hope to see Se-Ju’s awesomely hot wig and the rest of the characters in the upcoming episodes!!!

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    Yul’s character will go back to its original purpose soon. I swear writers made him that sweet to break our heart.

    It was nice to see Se Ju being less of a drama queen and reassuring Jeon Seol as they don’t know the full story yet.

    You will definitely see more of Seo Hwi Young’s hot wig in upcoming episodes 😉

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      I’m thinking that too. Yul is such a sweet and vibrant character! And as you can probably already tell, my favorite character too!! 😁 I absolutely cannot wait to see the mystery of Yul’s death unraveled. I’m sure it’ll be shocking too!

      Lol that’s definitely the most accurate description of Se-Ju’s character! Plus he can change from being hot and cold so fast! & Looking forward to the wig!! 🤣

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    Dang. Yoo Ah In’s wig still wins kdrama best hair.

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Taking some time to share and show some love for Henry cause phew this song is amazing! 💕

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HDL is breaking my heart. First we got the tragic love story of Sanchez 😭 (gosh he needs some good in his life & thankfully Chan-sung is here for him through these tough times), & then the revelation that CM was actually w/ MW the whole time!?! It\’s pretty heartbreaking to know that he has endured being a firefly for so long just to stay with MW…who still holds immense spite for him and doesnt know the real reason he betrayed her (Hoping to find the reason why soon). Also, I really hope both MW and CM will find closure. I feel like he might be the final hurdle that MW has to face in order to move on to the afterlife. Lastly, I\’m honestly not too invested in the romance aspect of this show, but it\’ll still be super sad when/if CS has to see MW off.

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Update on Chicago Typewriter:
Yul just become so relatable when he was shown watching Produce 101 & ugly crying over kdramas 😂 And aww the trio finally took a photo together 💕
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    Lim So-jung is always on a kdrama that features Produce 101. First Chicago Typewriter and now Search WWW HAHA

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      Oof Search WWW is something I’ve yet to watch, but I’ve heard a lot of good things about it!! So I’m bound to watch it sometime in the future. Cant wait to see how Produce 101 cameos in Search WWW though!!

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        If you don’t plan to watch WWW, you can just watch the Produce x 101 cameo on ep 2! HAHAHA

        But I swear, that show (WWW) is really great HAHA

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          Haha I’ll take your word on that then and add Search WWW on my list! But I can’t guarantee that it’ll be the next drama I watch, cause currently there’s a long wait list already lol. I legit just came back from a long hiatus from dramaland and there are just sooo many new (well at least to me lol) dramas to watch! & Yeah I’ll probably watch the cameo scene soon then 😂👌

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    Oh gosh, Chicago Typewriter was SUCH a gem. That picture they took together made me feel so many feelings.

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      I’m trying not to reveal spoilers through my posts but that photo was so bittersweet. & Yeah! I’ve certainly never watched a drama like CT before!!

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I know this is probably a basic question, but how do some people make such long posts when the limit is 200 characters?

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    Write somewhere else and paste here! (If you are using a laptop, use paste as plain text.)

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      Oh I tried doing that on Microsoft Word but it didn’t work for me which was why I was confused about the method. Hmm maybe it’s because I used ctrl-v to paste so it didn’t work for me…
      But thanks for answering!! 🙂

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    On my phone I just write it in a text message and then cut and paste.

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      Thanks for answering my question! ^^ I’ll definitely keep that text message method in mind next time I type on my phone

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Finished 2 episodes of Chicago Typewriter today and I have to say Go Kyung-Pyo is nailing his role! There’s so much mystery behind exactly who he, Jin-oh, is and tbh he’s the most compelling character

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    I loved CT! Hope you enjoy the full ride!

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      Oof this drama is going to be the end of me! I absolutely adore the casting but in the beginning I will admit I was a bit frustrated with how Seol kept invading Se-Ju’s privacy (maybe that was just me ?). Although now she’s definitely grown on me. 👍 & dont get me started on Taemin…he makes my blood boil. I mean who throws their cat?!?! He certainly has a handsome face but damn his personality is horrid. Kudos to the actor for making my creeper radar with his acting! & thanks! I’ve hit the halfway mark for the drama and I’m fully enjoying the mystery and suspenseful aura the drama has 🙂 Sorry for the long message 😅 I tend to write too much

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        hehe dont worry about it! I love reading long comments heheh. Glad you are loving it so far 😀

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    Only Yoo~

    It’s the only time I thought GKP was a very charming man! I loved Seo Hwi Young (hottest wig ever) and Jeon Seol’s relationship.

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      Oh yesss that wig can do wonders. I liked Se-Joo already in the the present but in the past when he had that wig on…wow! I didn’t even realize it was a fake at first too. Cause that’s one quality wig

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        I was confused with that wig. High quality for this wonderful drama. There’s a kiss scene which made Beanies go crazy too haha.

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          A kiss scene you say? Ohh then I can’t wait to see that scene and it might be another chance to see that hot wig haha

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          OHHHHH MY GOD I JUST REACHED SAID KISS SCENE AND DAMN THAT WAS A STEAMY KISS & THE HOT WIG WAS PRESENT 😂😍

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            Yeah! That kiss and the wig are the greatest combo!

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    Go Kyung-pyo is fantastic while Yoo Ah-in’s wig is majestic.

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      This is actually only my second time seeing Go Kyung-pyo in a drama, but still I’m really enjoying his acting in CT! & that wig is amazing 💕 It makes the already good looking Se-joo even more handsome haha. Didnt even realize it wasnt his real hair too at first.

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Just watched a couple episodes of Chicago Typewriter and I gotta say I’m wowed. I really love the cinematography as well as the fact that they have an OST in english!! Plus the plot is pretty unique

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    The wartime storyline is amazingly good. This one will always be in my top 10.

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      I haven’t really seen a drama that had a wartime story since Bridal Mask, so I’m pretty hyped for this!! Right now I’m at episode 5 & I cannot wait to see more of the storyline in the past.

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    If you’re interested, Different Dreams (Yoo Ji Tae, Lee Yo Won and Im Joo Wan) is set a few years before CT and Bridal Mask events. Just don’t watch Basketball!

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      Ohh Different Dreams looks pretty interesting!!! I’ll have to start that soon but not before I finish the countless dramas I’ve already started 😭😂 & Alright I won’t try Basketball lol. Also, I’m starting to gravitate more to period dramas now since I plan to watch The Crowned Clown & The Rebel soon (which btw do you know if they are good?). Anyways thanks for the rec! 🙂

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        Rebel is my favourite among the two. The protagonist’s father could have had his own drama. The Crowned Clown had a good start, was engaging til the first half and the story became less interesting. The cast and the production were top notch tho. The movie was better (Masquerade with Lee Byung Hun and Han Hyo Joo).

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Cannot wait for Psychopath Diary with Yoon Si-Yoon!! Just finished the Best Hit and it definitely made me a fan of his! Also brings back memories of him being Enrique on Flower Boy Next Door lol


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