When we watch a drama, we're often so focused on the OTP (or the second lead syndrome!) that we forget how much the stories are also about families — and in...
Secret Garden
Getting into K-dramas is like jumping into the deep end of a swimming pool. You don't know exactly what you're in for — and suddenly you're over your head....
In dramaland, as in life, sometimes bad things happen to good people. In fact, there wouldn’t be much of a story if this wasn’t the case. Stories rely...
Age serves an important role in the way characters relate to each other in K-dramas, and in romances especially so. Dramaland is particularly interested in the idea of a younger...
Strong Woman Do Bong-soon
There’s something about this concept of dramaland catnip that really appeals to me—the tropes or elements of a drama that lure me back in...
So, we’ve got another new drama in the works, this time over on MBC. According to reports, the previously empty slot following upcoming Ruler–Master of the Mask has...
Award-winning PD Jo Soo-won (Pinocchio, I Hear Your Voice) will be returning this summer with a new project called Dog or Witch. He’s collaborating with a rookie writer Yoo...
javabeans: Happy New Year, happy tenth anniversary, happy 2017, happy everything-that-will-be-better-than-2016!
girlfriday: Yay, I’ve never been happier for a new year to start! I still can’t believe Dramabeans is...
HA. These are the kinds of cameos that I love -- I Hear Your Voice alum Jung Woong-in (Endless Love) stopped by the set of Pinocchio to shoot a cameo...
One of SBS's biggest weekday hits last year was the strange but crackling combination of supernatural, law, serial-killer, and noona-killer drama that was I Hear Your Voice, so it's no...
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Five drama recommendations… for when you miss your mom
by DB Staff
When we watch a drama, we're often so focused on the OTP (or the second lead syndrome!) that we forget how much the stories are also about families — and in...
Tags: Answer Me 1988, Drama recommendations, featured2, Go Back Spouses, Hi Bye Mama, I Hear Your Voice, While You Were Sleeping
Actors in dramaland: Overcoming a bad first impression
by missvictrix
Secret Garden Getting into K-dramas is like jumping into the deep end of a swimming pool. You don't know exactly what you're in for — and suddenly you're over your head....
Tags: Boys Before Flowers, Crash Landing on You, Extraordinary You, Flower Boy Ramyun Shop, I Hear Your Voice, Love Alarm, Marriage Not Dating, Memories of the Alhambra, Misaeng, My Girl, My ID Is Gangnam Beauty, My Name Is Kim Sam-soon, Nice Guy, Run On, Secret Garden, Shut Up: Flower Boy Band, Summer Scent, When My Love Blooms, You're Beautiful
Dramaland justice: Compensation
by missvictrix
In dramaland, as in life, sometimes bad things happen to good people. In fact, there wouldn’t be much of a story if this wasn’t the case. Stories rely...
Tags: I Hear Your Voice, That Psychometric Guy, While You Were Sleeping
Behind the noona romance
by missvictrix
Age serves an important role in the way characters relate to each other in K-dramas, and in romances especially so. Dramaland is particularly interested in the idea of a younger...
Tags: Dal Ja's Spring, High School King of Savvy, I Hear Your Voice, Pretty Noona Who Buys Me Food, Temperature of Love, The Woman Who Still Wants to Marry, Witch's Romance
[Dramaland Catnip] When the hero falls first
by girlfriday
Strong Woman Do Bong-soon There’s something about this concept of dramaland catnip that really appeals to me—the tropes or elements of a drama that lure me back in...
Tags: Answer Me 1997, I Hear Your Voice, Jealousy Incarnate, Plus Nine Boys, Propose, Romantic Doctor Teacher Kim, Strong Woman Do Bong-soon, Theme of the Month, Twenty Again, Weightlifting Fairy Kim Bok-ju
Producers of Heartless City, I Hear Your Voice prep new drama for MBC
by tipsymocha
So, we’ve got another new drama in the works, this time over on MBC. According to reports, the previously empty slot following upcoming Ruler–Master of the Mask has...
Tags: Heartless City, I Hear Your Voice, Man Who Dies to Live, Queen of Housewives
Blind heiresses and puppy love in Pinocchio PD’s new project
by tineybeanie
Award-winning PD Jo Soo-won (Pinocchio, I Hear Your Voice) will be returning this summer with a new project called Dog or Witch. He’s collaborating with a rookie writer Yoo...
Tags: I Hear Your Voice, Pinocchio
Top 10 gateway dramas to hook your friends on
by DB Staff
javabeans: Happy New Year, happy tenth anniversary, happy 2017, happy everything-that-will-be-better-than-2016! girlfriday: Yay, I’ve never been happier for a new year to start! I still can’t believe Dramabeans is...
Tags: 1 show to rule them all, Answer Me 1997, Boys Before Flowers, City Hunter, Coffee Prince, Descended From the Sun, Dramabeans Top 10, featured, I Hear Your Voice, lists, My Name Is Kim Sam-soon, Nice Guy, Nine: Nine Time Travels, Sungkyunkwan Scandal
Jung Woong-in reprises serial killer role in Pinocchio cameo
by girlfriday
HA. These are the kinds of cameos that I love -- I Hear Your Voice alum Jung Woong-in (Endless Love) stopped by the set of Pinocchio to shoot a cameo...
Tags: I Hear Your Voice, Jung Woong-in, Pinocchio
I Hear Your Voice writer and PD reunite for fall drama
by girlfriday
One of SBS's biggest weekday hits last year was the strange but crackling combination of supernatural, law, serial-killer, and noona-killer drama that was I Hear Your Voice, so it's no...
Tags: drama production, I Hear Your Voice