Aaaahhh how is it 2021 already?

I sincerely hope everyone is doing as well as possible, staying safe and looking after each other. It’s really been a year, hasn’t it?

Even aside from pandemic concerns, it was a year full of change and difficulties for me on the personal front, but I have taken joy in the friends I have here, and I hope I’ve been able to send back a little of that joy to your days, too, at least on the K-drama front, even if it’s not here on Dramabeans.

I’ve been keeping busy with the podcast – I (finally) learned how to edit audio earlier this year, and after a lot of aborted attempts at the whole process, finally FULLY produced an episode with the Forest of Secrets 2 special. I’m proud of me, I thought I’d never get there!! *pats self*

We had a lot of milestone moments in 2020 with Dramas Over Flowers, from producing some groundbreaking episodes, getting a proper website, doing weekly coverage on airing shows, and welcoming guest writers, to doing our first livestream, meeting fellow fans face-to-face (well, as face-to-face as pandemic living allows!), and joining a podcast network.

I have no idea what this year will bring – does anyone!! – but I hope and pray that you find peace and security in these challenging days of our lives, and also are able to appreciate the many daily blessings that remain to us despite our hardships.

And finally, let me leave you with our end-of-year opus, The Year-End Yak, which is THE LONGEST YAK (ever?), but I hope you’ll have as much fun listening to it as we did producing it. We’re particularly excited about our own end-of-year awards, the Goguma Awards, and there’s some good stuff inside, if I do say so myself! (I don’t want to spoil it for you, but honestly, Lee Joon-hyuk…)

Love and finger-hearts to you all 💙💙💙

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    And listen out for some beanie voices in there! We had some really wonderful listener notes, thank you 💙💙

    @cloggie @saner @leetennant @greenfields @rueffie (hope I tagged you right!)

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    PS @eazal, check out the Good Detective love, I agree that it hasn’t got the recognition it deserved 😢

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      Oh! I will check this the minute I arrive home!!!
      I can’t say enough times how good this drama is!!!

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      I finally got the time to listen to the podcast!!!
      Thanks so much for such a heartfelt defense of one of the best dramas this 2020 has given us.
      I liked what you said about liking it better than Forest of Secrets 2, mainly because the FoS2 experience was a collective one, and I totally concur. Discussing it in the fan wall and on every recap was really helpful to notice those little details that I skipped, and I loved all the discussion it brought on so many issues. But watching The Good Detective I was on my own: my doubts, my rage, my frustration was just mine, so I think that’s why I feel so close to it.
      You put on words my exact feelings about it!!!

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    Congrats on all those exciting achievements and milestones!❤️

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      thank you!! we didn’t get there alone – it was because of everyone’s support and love, so it’s a collective achievement really!

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    I’m excited to listen!

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