Beanie level: Loan shark with a heart of gold

drama gods are bullies!!!! they put Joo Won and Ki Woong in the same drama but not the same scenes why you… like tangling candy in ur face but not letting you have it.

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Guys, I found a LOT of dramas with priests and churches and gods etc If I remember I will post some eithe r on open thread or my wall tomorrow (the file is in work computer).

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we take on religion & spirituality in the next Korean Culture Club, so plz give me some references to dramas with: 1. god(s), also ancient 2. lord of underworld 3. priests 4. shamans 5. buddhist monks

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    Maybe The Guest?
    I only watched the beginning of the first episode but it seems quite related to the theme you are treating.

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    The Moon Embracing The Sun comes to mind right away for shaman.
    Behind Your Touch This also has a fair amount of shamanism peppered throughout it.
    Bride of Haebak – warning, a very bad drama, deals with God and stones and some such nonsense, but you might find it helpful.
    Attorney Woo Has a great episode on Buddhist monks.

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    Heavenly Idol … but attempt to make sense of its take on gods and religion at your own risk 😂

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    There’s a brief but great appearance of a monk in episode 1 of Faith. I recommend that episode anyway for anyone who hasn’t seen it, even if they don’t plan to watch the rest of the series.

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    Cafe Minamdang – Seo In-guk pretends to be a shaman but all his predictions are based on his training as a profiler and good old fashioned snooping.
    Don’t think Fiery Priest or Vincenzo can be considered.

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    Island would meet your requirements perhaps but watch it at your own risk!

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    The Cursed and Revenant has shamanism.
    Arang and the Magistrate – has gods

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    Lovers of The Red Sky has gods featured heavily in it, and Tail of The Nine Tailed 1 & 2 has lot of gods/spirits/folklore references!

    Goblin even maybe?? It’s not heavy on the gods thing but Samshin is a significant player in the plot.

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there R also “Dramas that I deliberately renamed bc of a different association” like Destined With You” being “Voodoo Girl Cheating On He Gumiho With A Wooden Doll”

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The “Alternative descriptions of drama titles bc I forgot what the hell they were called” thread. Um “Romantic refrigerator corpse restaurant” & “Inguk with a red fan”

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    I can’t figure out the first one but the second one must be Cafe Minimdang (or something like that). I haven’t seen it but I have seen enough previews on Netflix to recognize the description 😂

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    “The Other Spring Drama”
    “The Other Memory Drama”
    “The Show that Starts With a B”
    “The something Detective”

    (The last two because I actually watched the wrong show because of the name)

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      “The Show that Starts with a B” 😂 I can see how you ended up watching the wrong show. Was it at least good?!

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        I started Bossam thinking I’m watching Bulgasal. I actually liked it, so I’m not mad, but it was funny because I didn’t know the meaning of either word, just remembered the first letter.

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          I can totally see the confusion! I’ve not seen either one of them and I wouldn’t have known the difference with the name either! So funny how things like that happen.

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    Double-Amnesia Sadgeuk
    Time-Traveling Fasion Designer Show
    Split Personality Fashion Designer Show
    The Koreans Finally Found an Invader They Can Beat Show
    The Don’t Mess With the Kids Show (aka Watch Out When She Takes Off Her Glasses)
    The Holy Crap Yu-na Stole the Show

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    “Not That Saguek, but the Other One”
    “Zombies but in High School”
    “The Cheerleader Show, but Not That One”

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    1)”The island was a metaphor and really, she is drowning in her own feeling of being lost” show.
    2) “Meteor Garden but with a lot more violence”
    3) The “Throuples would be better” show.
    4) “The Great Time-travelling Cook-Off; queerer than ever ” show
    5) “The Rumpelstilzskinny Magic Guy Comes for Your Soul (or Heart?)” show
    6) “The OTP are so beautiful it hurts but his friend says his smile is scary like that of the joker and he is not all wrong … including a mental institution and nightmares for children” show.

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ok as u wish, @reply1988 @bomibeans @minniegupta1 @leetennant thread for Dramas beanies enjoyed but we didnt bonfire. I have lentil chips & rose lemonade. Mine: Our beloved summer, Moving, Vincenzo

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    also, Alchemy of Souls. Extraordinary Attorney Woo. Misaeng.

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    I love this topic whenever it comes up because I always lead with… Just Between Lovers.
    Shock and horror ensues.

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    I’ll only mention dramas I finished:

    _ One drama I didn’t like at all: Perfect Marriage Revenge.

    _ Some dramas I can’t say I hate but I didn’t like so much: Strong Woman Do Bong Soon, One Spring Night, Another Miss Oh, Angel Last Mission, Run On, Mad for each other.

    _ Some dramas I liked, but probably less than the rest of the world (outside DB too): Our beloved summer, Unlock my boss, Vincenzo, Call it love, Crash Landing on You (because of the ending), Alchemy of Souls, When the Camellia blooms, It’s ok, that’s love.

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      Thank you Run on was only worth the watch because of the second couple romance for me, I liked the second female lead being a strong woman who acted her mind.

      One Spring night him turning up at her work place and she was still in a relationship meant an instant drop so sorry not able to complete.

      Strong woman the mix of rom com and horrific kidnapping/murder case made no sense so although completed it was not enjoyable at all. I loved the rom com element.

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    There are a lot of them but the recent one for me is Twinkling Watermelon.

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    These should be termed as “Overhyped or overrated dramas” 🤣🤣🤣

    My pick: You from another star

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    My three big ones I watched when I didn’t know how to drop and kept waiting for the big turnaround that would make me love it:

    Fated to love you
    Goblin
    Coffee Prince

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      All 3 of these are in my list and I forgot to add them! 🤣 Why!!

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      Hometown Cha Cha Cha is the leader in this category for me. I kept waiting and waiting and waiting for it to become something I liked, and at the end I realized I’d hate-watched the whole thing.

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        Oh gosh, I walked in the first episode and kept thinking I had judged it harshly because everyone else was singing its praises. I felt like I should try again but I just haven’t got round to it yet.

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    Wow, is it safe here?? Can I really say it??

    All of these are shows I finished, even rewatched some to make sure.

    Some of the shows I HATED:

    Biscuit Teacher & Star Candy
    Mischievous Kiss
    I Remember You
    Heart to Heart
    Fight My Way
    One Spring Night
    etc.

    Some shows I found extremely boring:

    Alone in Love
    Weightlifting Fairy
    While You Were Sleeping
    Mystic Popup Bar
    Strong Woman Do Bong Soon
    Call it Love
    Heartbeat (I sneaked this one in. Dropped at ep 11)
    etc.

    Some shows I disliked:

    You From another Star
    School 2013
    Queen InHyun’s Man
    It’s Ok It’s Love
    Signal
    I’m Not a Robot
    Chicago Typewriter
    My Mister
    When thd Camellia Blooms
    Touch Your Heart
    Crash Landing On You
    Beyond Evil
    Just Between Lovers
    The Kidnapping Day
    When the Weather is Fine
    etc.

    I’m leaving the shows that I just liked less than others completely out, because at this rate I might get locked out of DB.

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      Adding

      Fated to love you to the extremely boring list,

      Goblin to the HATED list,

      Coffee Prince to the disliked list.

      I will probably be reminded of more soon😆

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      You will never be locked out because there will be beanies to join you in each of your categories. Also the list of shows you did like and love will have a strong fan club too so you are safe. I love how long your list is, I know I have missed some off mine. As i type this I have suddenly remembered the show that had me raging at the screen.
      👇🏾
      SOMETHING IN THE RAIN. This show upset me because it started so well then went down hill in such a steep decline that it needs the meme from Prison Playbook when he described his quality of life in prison compared to his previous life, to provide the perfect visual representation.

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    Ok, I’m going to whisper it here, because this is a safe thread… I think I’m the only Beanie who strongly disliked Because this Is My First Life (*runs and hides).

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      I dropped this at first ep. I might have joined you if I had finished it, but I didn’t.

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        Ok yay! 😅 I was really bothered, all the way through, that the relationship between the ML and FL was always transactional, and never developed further toward unconditional love. To me, it seemed like the main reason they chose to stay together was convenience, so those two elements really bothered me.

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      I put that drama in the overrated/overhyped category but I think I need to run and hide in another country as I don’t relate to the actor playing the male lead in the show at all.

      While I am planning my exile I might as well say I also don’t relate to one of the other popular actors on here Sohn Seokgu so whenever he plays a lead I don’t connect at all. I think it’s from his role as the adulterous partner in Matrimonial Chaos. I have issues with those kinds of roles so often have a hard time moving on when I see an actor in that type of role. I just about tolerated him in Be Melodramatic because of the role he played in the life of a female character I liked a lot.

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        Don’t run, stay here with us! 🤗 I agree with you about overhyped actors… I definitely don’t like either of them to the extent that most Beanies seem to 😂 And I agree – it’s hard for me to shake the image of a role I really disliked when seeing an actor in something else.

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          It’s so funny I literally talk to myself to remember they were only acting😆. Poor Yoon Park took three dramas to be cleansed before I could look at him without raging as his role in Forecasting love and weather really upset me.

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        ARE YOU ME??? (On both cases!)

        The only time I liked SSG was in Designated Survivor.

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          To clarify, my aversion to neither of them stemmed from a particular role.

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        I might as well say I also don’t relate to one of the other popular actors

        We all have a list like that and we can have a thread for this, but some beanie or anonymous commenter might take offense and start defending which might turn ugly.

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        Sohn Seokgu, Na-In-Woo and Ahn Bo Hyun: despite their popularity, I have a very hard time looking at them as main leads. I think it’s taking away from my pleasure of watching Marry My Husband and has kept me away from some well known Bo Hyun projects (I gave Flex Cop a try and I do have it in my mind to watch it but feel no compulsion as him and I don’t agree lol!)

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      I didnt hate BTIMFL it but I dont remember a single thing. if no scene starts playing in my head it is a dead drama

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      You have company! I danced over to catch it after the butt show and was so sorely disappointed.

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      No, I tried it twice and couldn’t get past 4 episodes.

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    Disclaimer: personal views, please let me take them off my chest and still allow me to keep my organs intact
    I won’t say it was overrated here, but everywhere else it was (Baeksang “Arts” Awards included.. I still don’t get how it added to the “arts”). Let’s say it had a very niche audience here. And it will be defended as it was once when I used a one word qualifier to describe it. Yeah, I know, my bad. I won’t repeat that mistake again *whispers* misogynist. What? I didn’t say that 🤔. You heard it wrong 🙉. I was only saying that it was a critically acclaimed series appreciated globally for objectifying, slut shaming and reducing women to caricatures. What? You are hearing things again, obviously 🙉.

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      Oh I forgot to name the acclaimed series.. It was called The… something… Oh, I can’t recall the word.. only it started with a “G” and ended with a “Y” 🤔.

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      @Anne18, I honestly cannot tell what show you’re talking about. It must be one I haven’t seen. What is the real title? I promise to leave all your organs intact! 😸

      I never get attached enough to any show to have hard feelings toward the people who didn’t like it. We all have different tastes! There is at least one beanie – I won’t name names – who has hated every show I’ve ever liked, and seems to like only shows I wouldn’t watch if you paid me, but I still enjoy seeing their comments and considering what they have to say about dramas.

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        The GLORY (I think it describes itself without the “L” in the title… I wanted to strike it through… but I can’t).

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        I’m more interested in who your beanie is than what @Anne18‘s show is. 😂

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    Crash Landing tops my list.
    King The Land
    Strong Woman Nam whatever (even the cameo couldn’t save it)
    Encounter (this one almost made me never watch another K-drama again. It took me four years to understand it was the wrong drama to start K-drama journey.)
    Moving (I will never understand what other beanies saw that I didn’t 🙁 and I love HYJ)

    Others: I don’t hate but if given a choice I would have stayed away:
    Because this is my first life (after a point it got so preachy that it felt like I was listening to sermons)
    Run On (I survived it only because of the second leads)
    Vincenzo
    Perfect Marriage Revenge

    Those that failed four episodes test:
    Alchemy of Souls
    Miseang
    Goblin
    Forecasting love and weather
    Forbidden Marriage

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    I must say, I dropped some dramas too fast to even form an opinion I guess if they drag and there is no energy and especiallu if I forget the name of the drama in less than a week.
    like, I have forgotten the name of the refrigerator corpse drama. …what was it… romantic murder something? but I did manage to learn the korean word for refrigerator.
    and that curse drama with voodoo..

    I should also make an Alternative description drama titles” thread

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      The alternative names for dramas that meant nothing to us would be very funny!

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      I don’t even count shows I have dropped too early in my list.

      Some of the shows I have listed here I have even rewatched a few times! Am I a masochist?? Not really, it is just that there was a time I had a too limited access to new dramas.

      I don’t rewatch shows I hate anymore, unless it is to fast-forward through the leads’ scenes to only watch Bae In Hyuk’s scenes…

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      Link: Eat, Love, Kill?

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        yes that´s it! well I do think Romantic Murder Restaurant is a better title

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    Oh, this is fun! These are not ones that I actively disliked, but all of them are ones that I’m happy to leave behind and don’t really feel the need to revisit ever. With the possible exception of a couple of scenes from EAW.
    Dramas I thought were just okay while other folks loved them:
    Because This is Our First Life
    Oh Hae-young Again
    Extraordinary Attorney Woo
    Tracer
    Love to Hate You
    The Glory
    Doctor Cha
    Coffee Prince

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    Healer 😁

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    Goblin

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    Don’t dislike, but don’t get the hype:
    Coffee Prince
    Rookie Historian
    I Hear Your Voice
    My Love From Another Star
    Forest of Secrets
    The Red Sleeve
    Be Melodramatic

    Dropped early:
    One Spring Night
    King The Land

    Had a bad feeling and never started:
    Vincenzo
    Extraordinary Attorney Woo

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    one more for me: Good Manager. don´t get the hype.

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Watching old drama Oh! My Lady! That I used to love a LOT . And bc of the chemistry and seeing new angles and though a bit cliché, it still has a uniqueness to it that even hold up today.. But really the best is how Siwon is a good actor when he just plays the character being kinda selfish, manipulative, immature, yet self-aware, and he also excels the “top star who is a bad actor” part and he does it so well that its cringe but also brilliant. That’s kinda hard to pull off, and it was one of his early dramas. And I don’t think he ever really gets the recognition he deserves.

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    Yes, I like Oh My Lady for firstly Chae Rim and thought then Choi Siwon was a talent to watch out despite being an idol singer. I was worried about the age gap but their relation develop so organically.

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    I LOVE Oh My Lady! 😍

    It also has a special place in my heart because it was the first recap I saw the first time I opened Dramabeans! Jazz hands!

    Choi Siwon is truly underrated. I also love his drama My Fellow Citizens.

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      he has a sort of theatric flare but it works so well with certain characters and dramas, and My Fellow Citizens was exactly the right genre where it worked excellent. but for example, cannot very well imagine Siwon in a melo or a revenge drama.

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    🥳 Congrats on your levelling up. Sorry for the random comment here but I am not sure when you finally got off the rooftop.

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      what? I am freed from the rooftop room? But… just now when Park Hyung Sik moved in? wait…
      I think it was the one little comment today that did the trick

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amai, brooding with 5 pairs of bras on the background and doesnt even notice. #DoctorSlump

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Doctor slump: yeah that test is familiar but is this a fresh or generic approach not sure. is it just a good background check or will they really delve deep into the very bumpy way to recovery

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Honey Lee, Honey Lee, please marry me. My gosh, I love this woman and this character so much. I even feel guilty to MacGyver, Mulder and Zorro like boys, you still matter but a new hero is in town

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crazy woman calls library 11 times asking me 2 install security chamber for her & bring a suitcase \”for her files & photos\” because the police wants 2 drag her away. Loans dep says she calls daily

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    Wow, your week is off to a big start! 😳 Is it a full moon?

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      I dont think so. that was last week (or when Taemin was sending HD pictures of abs in Bubble…)

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      the funny thing is I only worked 4 hours today! bc of the teachers strike last week!!! and in THAT time, I answered not just her, but around 40 calls, FORTY!!! and of that, she wasted 12 minutes of my time!!!

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    At least there’s comfort in knowing that you’re not alone in this experience?? 🥹

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Starting Knight Flower. Quite entertainin. Reminds me of Zorro.

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ok im thoroughly confused what episode is next for My Demon? is it 13 or 11

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Taemin is insane. he did all dat while having a bad knee???

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https://mydramalist.com/736975-uncle-samsik and Song Kang Ho + Byun Yo Han in a drama???? we gonna have a great year exploring the untouched era of 1950ies-60ies a lot too

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https://mydramalist.com/727253-taereung-zombie-village oh my gowd Taecyeon and zombies? yes please tell me it is a comedy and we see javelin & weightlifting zombies

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So now #LetTaeminPerformGuilty & #TaeminGuiltyYearEndStage are trending on Twitter, because the award shows and entertainment industry are sneakily trying to cancel him and steal his glory and aura for rookies. Doing a Guilty COVER just 2 months after he released it and worked so hard on it is not fair. Taemin is not in the army or hiatus he is at top physical shape and creatively flourishing so just because he turned 30 he now gets way less chances to show what he can do? ughhh. 

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Day 2 and I am still hoping it was fake news, a prank, or a drama / movie promo. Because it does not make any sense.

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    Same redfox. It may make sense but I can’t make sense of it.

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someone tell me it is a bad joke???? the news? LSK? for real? what, how, why, wae.

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My Demon, what happened? its like life juice fizzled out of it. golden rule for dramas: stick to the things that work. and Gyungseong creature is already like dry fruit… I wont bother

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