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Hello Dramabeans series
Video greetings from K-actors to the Dramabeans community
Interview with Lee Chae-young
Lee Chae-young shares what she looks for in a role, non-acting interests, and more
Interview with Baek Bo-ram
Baek Bo-ram shares her fitness and happiness rituals
Interview with Jang Do-yeon
Comedian Jang Do-yeon talks de-stressing and some of her current joys in life
Interview with Ham Eun-jung
Ham Eun-jung talks about what roles she'd like to tackle and her fans
Interview with Oh Chang-seok
Oh Chang-seok talks about role prep and wisdom for budding actors
Drama Reactions & Reviews
From youth romances to mid-life melos: K-drama and storytelling perspectives
by missvictrix
Drama Casting & News
Dimples and smiles with Shin Mina, Kim Sun-ho in new promos for Hometown Cha-cha-cha
by tccolb
Drama Casting & News
Meet the two lost and dejected souls at the center of Human Disqualification
by glasshail
Almost paradise: K-dramas and their OSTs
by missvictrix
A drama's OST, or original soundtrack, is a powerful player in dramaland. It has the ability to single-handedly make or break the show's strongest and most powerful scenes. The soundtrack...
Tags: Boys Before Flowers, Extraordinary You, Healer, Memories of the Alhambra, Shut Up: Flower Boy Band, The Lonely Shining Goblin
Dramaland justice: The vigilante edition
by missvictrix
The concept of justice is one of the backbones of K-drama storytelling. We've looked at some ways dramas deploy justice — through compensating their heroes/heroines with a gift, and delivering...
Tags: City Hunter, Healer, Neighborhood Lawyer Jo Deul-ho, The Secret Life of My Secretary, Time
How fashion helps a drama tell its story
by missvictrix
Here at Dramabeans, we spend a lot of time dissecting the intricacies of K-dramas. We look at everything from the tropes and themes to the actors and settings and sweeping...
Tags: Boyfriend, Flower Boy Next Door, Healer, Memories of the Alhambra
We’ve met before… once upon a K-drama
by missvictrix
Korean dramas love interconnectedness. In fact, it's hard to find a drama that doesn't connect even the smallest, faintest of dots between its characters through their shared histories and experiences....
Tags: 20th Century Boy and Girl, Come Here and Hug Me, Healer, Hundred Million Stars From the Sky, Just Between Lovers, Kill Me Heal Me, Pretty Noona Who Buys Me Food, Shark, What's Wrong With Secretary Kim
Healer PD helms new sageuk romance project Seven Day Queen
by tineybeanie
PD Lee Jung-sub, who helmed Ji Chang-wook's action thriller Healer and Park Shin-yang's underdog legal drama Neighborhood Lawyer Jo Deul-ho, is returning with a new project called Seven Day Queen....
Tags: Baker King Kim Tak-gu, Healer, Neighborhood Lawyer Jo Deul-ho, Seven Day Queen
Top 10 favorite drama OTPs (One True Pairings)
by DB Staff
javabeans: Okay, I think we were being punished in this list for saying how easy the last one was (in picking our top 10 drama tropes), because damn if picking our...
Tags: 1 show to rule them all, 1% of Anything, Coffee Prince, Dramabeans Top 10, featured, Goong, Healer, King 2 Hearts, lists, Master's Sun, Ojakkyo Brothers, Princess's Man, Queen In-hyun's Man, You From Another Star
2015 Editors’ Picks [Year in Review, Part 11]
by javabeans
We're finally here, at the end of another Year in Review series! We warned you it'd be long this time, but hopefully you all made it through with us. We...
Tags: 1 show to rule them all, Answer Me 1988, Awl, Byun Yo-han, Choi Won-young, Editors' Picks, featured, Healer, I Remember You, Ji Sung, Jo Soo-hyang, Kim Seul-gi, Last, Oh My Ghostess, Park Bo-gum, Park Bo-young, Persevere Gu Hae-ra, Punch, Sassy Go Go, Six Flying Dragons, Warm and Cozy, year in review, year in review 2015, Yoo Yeon-seok
Sweet heroes and fierce heroines [Year in Review, Part 10]
by Saya
Looking back, 2015 has been a really generous year for me in dramaland. Thanks to the overlords' wicked sense of humor (or maybe just a belated sense of self-preservation…), the five-drama...
Tags: 1 show to rule them all, Angry Mom, featured, Healer, I Remember You, Sassy Go Go, Twenty Again, year in review, year in review 2015
Santa goes Zen [Year in Review, Part 8]
by Santa Claus
Another year, another Christmas Eve delivery completed! Not gonna lie, recent years haven't been the rosiest for Old Saint Nick, but this year, I decided to do something about it....
Tags: 1 show to rule them all, Angry Mom, Answer Me 1988, Awl, Bubblegum, D-Day, Ex-Girlfriend Club, featured, Girl Who Sees Smells, Healer, I Remember You, Imaginary Cat, Kill Me Heal Me, Let's Eat 2, Mask, Oh My Ghostess, Oh My Venus, Remember—Son's War, Sassy Go Go, Scholar Who Walks the Night, She Was Pretty, Six Flying Dragons, The Producers, The Superman Age, The Time I've Loved You, Valid Love, Village: Secret of Achiara, Warm and Cozy, year in review, year in review 2015, Yong-pal
For the responsible addict [Year in Review, Part 7]
by dramallama
Wowie, it's the end of 2015, and another eventful year of dramas has come to an end. I always enjoy awards and reviews season, since it puts the whole year in...
Tags: 1 show to rule them all, Bubblegum, featured, Healer, I Remember You, Oh My Ghostess, Twenty Again, year in review, year in review 2015