KDrama Addicts Anonymous (thread 2)

[boatyardblues]

A quiet corner of MN for serious addicts of Kdrama, or the Kdrama-curious. Most of our viewing is drawn from Netflix and Viki, but the more seriously addicted have other sources, including dramabus. To our surprise, we managed to fill a whole thread, which is full of recommendations (and ones to swerve): www.mumsnet.com/Talk/streamed_tv/3337309-K-Drama-recommendations?pg=1

We have some recommendations for newbies:

My (current) top 5 – all Netflix
Live
Prison Playbook
Don’t Dare to Dream
Black
His Master’s Sun

Betty’s top 5
Black (Netflix)
Fight For My Way (Drama bus)
What’s Up With Secretary Kim (Viki)
I Hear Your Voice (Netflix /Viki)
Don’t Dare To Dream (Netflix / Viki)

Bea’s top 5
Strong Girl Bong Soon (netflix)
What's Wrong With Secretary kim (Viki)
She Was Pretty (dramabus)
Healer (netflix)

Our lovely occasional posters who have lived in Korea, are Korean or have Korean partners/family members pop up to provide the context for some of the more baffling cultural references.

We love a good kdrama bingo card to mark off the regular tropes – white truck of doom, drunk/med evac piggybacks, stalkers, rooftop apartments etc

We also stray into Korean cookery and kpop when the mood takes us. To get to grips with the lingo, try dramaloveaddicts.proboards.com/thread/24/korean-word-day?page=1

If you want to join us down the kdrama rabbit hole, pull up a chair, say goodbye to early nights and get stuck in…

That bingo card is missing the wrist grab

Another lost weekend. This time Oh My Venus. At this precise moment in time, I would definitely run away with So Ji-sub if he asked me to. Sorry, not sorry DH.

It's actually a crap bingo card. No piggy back, no white truck of doom. I was rushing to get the new thread up before the old one filled up. We'll find a better one for thread 3.

Ooh I havent started Oh my Venus yet, its next on my list..hopefully starting netflix night for one, soo I'm running away til I've caught up!
I'll be back in a few days

Oi you missed one of my five!!...

Fight for my way (dramabus)

Thanks Boatyardblues!!... A whole thread filled!!.

That is a lot of late nights!!

Bingo is missing Soju, bibimbap, kimchi love triangle and a kiddy park to name a few lol

Sorry Bea. We need to start drafting the new header when we hit p39 in future.

Surely we might have gotten over it by then?? 😭😂

Excellent well done boatyard blues!

NoTeaNoShadeNoPinkLemonade We are obviously going to have to make our own bingo card but in the meantime here is a starter pack and a card with some of the ones you mentioned were missing.

I am enjoying Sassy Go Go in a Saturday night while Strictly is on sort of way

Just shoot me now...

Aaaaaarrrrgghhh! Been ensnared by weightlifting fairy (viki)... EP 5... And it's 1am!!...
I had such good intentions!.. 😭😭😭😭😭

I only have 30 min of Oh My Venus left.

Oh god! I could watch Spring Day Bts all night!.. It's just soooo beautifully shot! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

I really enjoyed Oh My Venus, though I’m suffering for it this morning. One thing I found problematic is that “Oh My Venus” with a Korean accent sounds like “Oh My Penis.” One of the core buddy group (Harry Lau) is actually Canadian and spoke excellent American-accented English, with the other core characters all speaking nice clear English at various points. It made me wonder if they were doing it on a dare for the lols.

Haha I hope they were that would be so funny! Did you spot that the cute boxer was the guy in Noble My Love?

Boatyard... 😂😂😂....

I'm up! I'm up!.... I promised I wouldn't get sucked in!! 😭😭😭

Heeeellllpppppp!!

Mince pies need to be made and presents need wrapping!....

Good to see president Park (sec Kim) in his other job at the chicken cafe in weightlifting fairy!

Enjoying the So Ji Sub playlist on Spotify on way into town to do my Christmas shopping. 👌 So far so dancey. If there are videos on YouTube I think we can safely rule out the Christmas cards going out this year.

A question for seasoned Spotify users: does it drop random tracks into playlists to test your taste/patience? I’m on the free version and the most syruppy female vocalist ballad has just dropped in unannounced.

Sometimes at the end of your playlist it will go on to Spotify Radio ie suggest similar tracks. I’ve come across some random interesting artists that way

Is that So Ji-sub ‘s own playlist or the OST from Oh MY VEnus ? I’ve read he likes to rap . He was also a model at the same time as Song Seung Heon for Storm so they are great mates

His own playlist. I’ve favourited a load of them.

Just watched BTS’ Spring Day and DNA videos on YouTube on Bea and DS2’s recommendation. The clothes mountain in the spring day video is very much like the ironing pile in our spare room.

Ugh! Spring Day just gets me... I think it's just so ooooo gorgeous!! And beautifully shot and I just feel like crying!! Never thought I'd say it but this BTS song would make it on my desert island!...

Have a look at Not Today! The choreography and again... Cinematography is gorgeous! As an ex film student... I just think it's WOWSER!

and its a banging tune! As the yoof say! The choreography is lit!!... Usually play it in my car on top volume!!

Not Today... Think they've found Healers home!