Beanie level: Noble idiot

You may remember “Bad Guys” with Kim Sang-joong & Park Hae-jin all very dashing, well I’m watching the Thai version of Bad Guys – 12 episodes with violence on steroids! Ouff!

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Rewatching Cinderella and The Four Knights. And still cannot stand Hye-ji. The character just gets on my nerves – she needs a break from il boyfriend and acceptance from Ji-woon!

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Watching Good Doctor – Joo Won does a stellar role as a young doctor with Savant syndrome. A real feel-good series, it will make you cry, it will make you laugh. You come away feeling happy.

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    I love this show!!

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    An oldie but goodie!

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      Yes, it was made in 2013. Since I am late to Kdrama and all things Korean/South Korean, many things are all new to me. Fortunately, it’s on Netflix. Never get tired of watching Kdramas.

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    Joo Won 💕

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      Wasn’t he brilliant in My Sassy Girl? He was one poor, hen-pecked boy! From his mother to that interfering sister to the princess…..

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      And Baker King Kim Tak Goo with Yoon Shi Yoon too! Where is Joo Won these days?

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        It was not easy for anyone to stand before the tour de force performance of Yoon Shi-yoon in Baking King but Joo Won not only went toe-to-toe against Yoon Shi-yoon in what was his (Joo Won’s) first TV drama (he had only done musical theater before that) but managed to hold on his own, … more or less. 🤣 He even got the girl. 😉

        I loved Joo Won in everything I have seen him in Yong-pal, Alice, Stealer: The Treasure Keeper, even the greatly reviled Netflix film, Carter. He is literally the best part of everything he has been in.

        From time-to-time I like to see his YT videos of his performance in Ghost The Musical. Perhaps you would like to check it out. 😃

        https://youtu.be/qZ6u7r1YpNo

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          Unchained Melody, that’s just wild. I am very picky about musicals, they’re generally not my style, but Joo Won! He and BoA dated at one time, I thought they made a cool couple …

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          Looking for YSY to star in a good drama again, too!

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            I hope we don’t have to wait for too long… He presented his last movie (Birth) in the Busan Festival in October.
            Meanwhile, I’m watching Mirror of the Witch and I still have to watch Grand Prince.

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          I loved Joo Won so much when I began watching Kdramas! He was my first Oppa (before KNG came and BB came). I just think he was the best part of many not so good projects. 😅 I was more impressed with his earlier projects (Good Doctor, Bridal Mask, Baker King, Yong Pal) than the later ones (My Sassy Girl 2, Alice). I haven’t seen Stealer, but from what I gathered here it might be worth a watch.

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            Ooh! Stealer is a hoot and a half. A “superhero” who’s really a goof. I do hope you watch it.

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            Oh I just remembered another one which I loved him in so much! The weekender Ojakgyo Brothers! Not sure if it’s so dated to watch now, but his storyline with UEE deserves a story of its own. Such brilliant acting from both (and then they were just rookies!)

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        Dare I mention Level 7 Civil Servant? (Say that 5 times in a row)

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          Haha! I did or at least attempted to. Good tongue twister that!

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    My very first kdrama!!! 🥺🥺

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    One of his most brilliant projects. Another one I’d recommend is Bridal Mask, though I also personally love him in a political-medical drama Yong Pal.

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After some health problems I’m back as Arnie says! Strong Girl Nam-soon can’t be over too soon! Disappointment on Steroids. I wanted to love it – really I did but……. Even schmaltz is better!

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    Good to have you back and hopefully you are feeling better and can find something decent to watch.

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      Thank you Reply 1988. I watched Hotel Del Luna for the umpteenth time. Love that series.

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        So pleased to hear it brought you joy. This year when I was feeling very under the weather I started to do rewatches for the first time just to see if I could re experience the positive vibe. So far I have not been disappointed and I am currently watching The Producers and loving it.

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    Good to see you back. I am a SWSBS (2017) fan. I didn’t start the spin-off.

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Looking for name of series, a sageuk, Jung Yun-seok? stars as child version of a Prince whose mother was murdered. When alive, they walked barefoot when raining! Court lady comforts him lets him cry.

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    I’m pretty sure it was moonlight drawn by clouds (or something to that effect), he was young Bo gum. I hope i’m right, hehe.

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      I went n watched ep 3&4 & now i miss bogum’s acting. He’s so good at playing multi faceted characters -i want to see him in a new work soon!

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Sungkyunkwan Scandal Is one of my all time favourites, from Song Joong Ki to the delightful Park Min-young, it is the tale of a Sungkyunkwan Scholar who is not all he should be. Cross dressing back in those days? Not very Confucius like!
An engaging tale of Kim Yoo Shik whose three room mates find out at various times Kim’s secret and go into protection mode!

The handsome School President whose perfect looks have you drooling, his acting was meticulous -sadly he passed away some years ago – to the quirky goings on of our “Three Musketeers” to the engaging story line and beautiful costumes, this is a light hearted drama which doesn’t lose lace and never has a dull moment.
It is only available on YouTube in my area, the visuals are good with no ad breaks.

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Remarriage & Desires, Jeong Eu-Gene & Cha Ji-yeon are perfect femmes fatales & make this series so enjoyable They overshadow Ms Nice & the two good men! Revenge betrayal murder suicide! It’s all here

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Who here is watching Destined With You? Rowoon isn’t quite his usual loveable self (loved him in Tomorrow) he plays an arrogant chap so different from his other roles. Still love him though!

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    Thank you for the pics. My personal fav is the last one for obvious reason.😄

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      Thank you, Cay_sbtgoG, there are so many pics available it isn’t easy deciding!

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After having endured four painful episodes of “Behind Your Touch” and the beginnings of yet another even more painful one (episode 5) I threw in the towel, spat the dummy and walked away in disgust! I am so annoyed with myself for letting myself be sucked in and wasting four and a half hours of my life!

The synopsis sounded funny and I’m thinking this sounds great, different, I’ll enjoy this one! I tell ya, you’d see more action and have more fun with a room full of stiffs in a funeral parlour! Ohh, it was pathetic (yes I know, not very professional but I’m not a journalist so the gloves are off!).

The lead actress, Han Ji-Min drove me up the wall with her pathetic, narcissistic thinking about HER wants not giving a fig for the poor idiot of a detective – surely crimes are more important than sniffing an animal’s backside and trotting off to find the owner!

Lee Min Ki is our leading man, usually I really like and enjoy his roles but not this one.

Han Ji-min comes across as thoughtless and a sandwich short of a picnic. Had the role of vet been played by a different actress, it might have been so much better. If you haven’t yet watched it, you’re not missing out on anything!

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    Haha, don’t force yourself to watch something you don’t like!!! Comedy is extremely subjective, and those of us who enjoy it are having way too much of a blast, but it’s not for everyone! Hope your next drama works out for you!

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      If comedy is subjective, then the one who wrote this and deemed it a comedy should be punished for lying! Shows, jokes, sayings etc are funnier to some than others, this wasn’t just unfunny, it was bad, really bad. It wasn’t a good anything. A crime has been committed against my aural and visual senses.

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    Same, the premise sounded really bizarre, but I still watched for Lee Min Ki, but gave up after 1.5 episodes, I might watch it if I have nothing else, but for now it is off my list

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    I lasted until ep 1. I don’t know why someone wrote this premise. Should have been called ‘Touch your Butt’

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Mask Girl – I do love a good murder, but struggled with this. Forty minutes into ep 2 was my limit. I just couldn’t sit through the rubbish and waste my life. I love Kdrama but this isn’t one of them!

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    Wow! I only managed until 20 min of first episode. There’s just too many things that didn’t sir well with me.

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      I am surprised I lasted as long as I did. I did try ..but no salada.

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Netflix has really mucked up the pleasure of watching KDrama! Previously, audio was Korean, subtitle was English, that was fine, I became used to this, tending to the softly spoken language – that is how it was to my ears a very pleasant sound. Unlike listening to Chinese dramas which I simply cannot stand because listening to it was an assault on my ears – very harsh and gutteral.

Korean is different, it sounds harmonious and restful (except maybe when Jang Young-nam throws one of her magnificent tantrums!
Jang Young-nam is an absolutely brilliant actress and she handles these roles marvellously, you only have to watch her as the Queen Dowager in The Crowned Clown!)

Anyway, getting back to my point, Netflix have gone and stuffed it all up! Now, when watching Korean dramas, they’re (the actors) voices have been dubbed by hideous voices with strong American accents. Had they used Australians giving strong Australian accents, I would be equally cheesed off. It’s horrible, simply horrible.

Some Kdramas haven’t been interfered with as yet, but the ones that are! Mein Gott it is so annoying!

Please Netflix, hands off Kdrama!

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    God, they haven’t done that to any I’ve watched here in NZ… I would hate it. I really love hearing the actors speak their own language, sounds so beautiful and flowing and natural. And I like being able to hear in just a very small learner’s way, where the English subtitles aren’t actually translating what’s said, eg when the subtitles will use the actual person’s name but the actor is actually saying “sonbae” or “hyeung” or “ajhumma”. I guess it’s because there isn’t an idiomatic English translation. But dubbing…no no no.

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      I haven’t noticed it either (also in NZ, hello!) so hopefully it’s something just playing with the settings will fix.

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        Howdy, fellow Kiwi!
        I’ve looked at a range of kdramas on my Netflix feed, from 2007 to 2023, and some have more audio and subtitle options than others, but at a minimum all have Korean original audio, and and subtitle options of English or off.

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      Hello Kas61,
      Greetings from across the ditch! If it hasn’t happened over there then you are lucky. I too like learning in some small way various words and about family hierarchy. Hyung, sunbae, abajae.
      The latest two series I’ve been watching, I have to alter the audio every episode for one of them.

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        Hello Netsuke! Incredibly irritating. I’m sure most kdrama watchers will not appreciate dubbing… it would ruin the experience for me. Makes you wonder who is making these decisions.

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    Can you choose to have the original audio, even if it defaults to dubbing?

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      Hello Beffels, yes you can. With some series though, I have to go to audio/subtitles each episode.

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    I thought I’m the only one on earth who can’t enjoy the way they speak. I’ve been avoiding Cdramas for the same reason. That’s too bad! I, too won’t be able to watch Kdrama if they were dubbed. Besides, isn’t it just a waste of money?

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      Ooohh i used to avoid cdramas for the same reason too! But i guess i’ve built up my tolerance bit by bit, in part thanks to my love for a good looking face 🤭

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        I haven’t found a cure yet for this. Lucky you, at least tou have somewhere else to go to when you’re in a kdrama slump.

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    In Spain some k-dramas (the Netflix originals ones) are dubbed in European Spanish and some other dramas are dubbed in American Spanish.
    But I always watch all the shows in Korean with English or Spanish subtitles.
    You can change the Audio and Subs for each drama, so don’t panic 😉

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      Yes you can change the audio/language but some series it has to be done at the beginning of every episode. That is a real pain. I’m watching the series about the psychic vet and the detective.

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    To change the audio back to Korean, you only have to adjust the audio settings within the subtitles menu, choosing “Original Korean” with English subtitles.

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Fascinated with See You in My 19th Life: Ji-eum’s 1st life has had too little exposure, it is more fascinating than her current life. Waiting for the truth Min Gi mysteriously holds the truth.

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Hello and Good Evening to youall in Kdrama land, I trust this finds youall well and full of beans! Pun intended.

Having a brief look at the dramas you’re covering on the front page, I haven’t seen any of those. Either they aren’t out streaming and screaming in Netflix land Downunder, or I’ve fallen down a rabbit hole again in the Dark Forest near the Kingdom and landed upside down under a Ginkgo tree in Joseon!

Joseon is my favourite time in the Land of Morning Calm. I would so loved to have lived then but have come to realise it would only have been lovely and fun and well…nice! if you were a member of the Aristocracy – the Yangban class.

Coming back to today’s world, in Australia, I have been watching “King the Land”, and “See You in My 19th Life”, “Doom at Your Service” which I ab-so-loot-ley loved! Others I am sure are also streaming and screaming but I am (finally) watching “Poong: the Joseon Psychiatrist” after having seen “ Flower Crew: Joseon Marriage Agency” – loved that one too!

So many handsome leading men – the ladies don’t hold much appeal for me, and the glorious costumes of the Joseon Court…oh my!

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    High five from a Joseon lover here 🙌🏻. I also loved Poong season 1 and the couple overall. I hope you enjoy watching it!

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      Hello Anne18 – good to meet another Joseon lover! So far in Poong, I’m almost at the end of episode 9 and loving it! Kim Min-Jae is such a cutie with his pretty face, he looks dashing in pale turquoise silk! And yes to Lady Eun-woo, lovely girl, knows her own mind and not afraid to speak it!

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Watching Mr Sunshine episode 22. Devastated Eugene was sent to prison and dishonourably discharged. What did he do wrong? Guess he got caught getting rid of Mori Takashi?
Our three men are doomed.

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    This one is a heartbreaker.

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      My glasses fogged up from the freely flowing tears. I was impressed with Hui-seong‘s courage as he was dying. Such acting.

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    even so, i’ll rewatch this drama over and over again… it is one of the absolute best dramas i’ve ever seen.

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      Yes, it is one you can watch over and over. Even though you know what happens, the outcome is not spoiled because it has such a strong plot and our three male leads all work in harmony with each other, they bounce off each other like a perfectly choreographed ballet.

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The Good Bad Mother does not disappoint, now at episode 8, mum has just tried to hang herself, Kang Ho ups from his wheelchair & saves her and why can’t I write twelve lines here instead of just two?

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    In case that last question was for real, @netsuke, you can indeed actually post twelve lines here. You have to compose somewhere else, though, and paste it in…you can’t type it here directly.

    Moreover, you have to paste in a particular way. Here’s how @elinor so helpfully says it (thanks, E!):

    “Paste using the cursor and the toolbar – in Chrome or Safari, for example, click Edit then Paste. Keyboard shortcuts (Control-V or ⌘-V) don’t work. Don’t touch the keyboard after you paste or anything over 200 characters will disappear again.“

    After pasting, you can still add photos and YouTube links without using your text, but don’t type in the compose window otherwise.

    If you did know this already, then apologies for bean-splaining!

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      Thank you for letting me know. Next time I have more to say, I shall try this.

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    Write somewhere else (like a notes app) and copy and paste here. And don’t try to edit it here.

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      Thank you, Midnight. It’s so easy when you know how, everything falls into place!

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Reading reviews on how wonderful “The Good Bad Mother” is, less than five minutes into the series I love it already. You can feel the “feel good” theme already.

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I know it’s television, but the bratty kids on Penthouse War in Life are just so horrible I’d love for them to get what’s coming to them! They’re just vile! And the parents! Is it any wonder?

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After Sky Castle it was Remarriage & Desires, thankfully Murderous Mistress was rewarded with what she so richly deserved. Yess! Currently I’m watching Marriage Contract. Not a Uee fan.

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Rewatching Sky Castle, up to Episode 15 – poor Hye-na’s just been murdered. Good storyline, Yum Jung-ah is superb. Ooh there are some evil witches in the world. And men too.

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My Shy Boss – lightweight bit of fun easy watching good for wintry afternoons. Not the best or the worst, cute antics from our leads. Convoluted, slow, tries to do too much in small space. I like Boss

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    I loved this drama too! That bit where they all end up passed out in the same bed on the work trip (I think? it’s been a while so my memory is a little hazy) was my favourite scene 😂

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      I’d have loved for them to all wake at the same time – that would have been fun, instead our two men slunk away!

      I like how he got caught in a towel just after his shower!

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    I really enjoyed this show. So adorable.

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