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…

Phwoar!!
And more phwoar!!

Bettys! 😂😂😂

BTS fan but Newcomer to K Drama over here joining you

Just watched Last Train to Busan on Amazon Prime and absolutely loved it.

Off to look for the other ones recommended on this thread, thanks!

I’m having trouble working out whether the warehouse oppa in Weightlifting Fairy is Ji Soo. Yes or no, ladies?

Yes!!! Hence the joke where he says he is better than her boyfriend. They are mates in RL.

ie Jisoo & Nam Joo-Hyuk are mates in RL.

Hello alwayslearning789 ! Do join in with your thoughts & views, I loved Last Train to Busan too!

Thanks Betty.

Bea is that the musical Grr JCW has been appearing in as part of his military service?

Yep! Though it does seem a bit odd... Your military service includes being in a musical!!
Yes! It's ji soo! Boatyardblues!

Welcome Alwayslearning... Are you sure you know what you're getting yourself into!... Loads of recs earlier on this thread! BOATYARDBLUES is very good at the admin! Bettys and I squeal over the handsome leads... Boatyardblues seems more discerning! 😂😂😂😂
Look! It's barely midnight have watched ep 3 of the k2!... None of the characters seem remotely likable except Grrr JCW...
and ep 3 of Pinnochio... Enjoying it so far but still waiting for LJS to get a handsome haircut! 😍😂😊

Don't worry he gets the handsome haircut! And later demonstrates the sauciest way to eat toast!

Ooooo! Saucy!! Am on ep 4!... How long will I have to wait!?... Haircut? Saucy Toast?... Don't want to skippitydoodah!... But now veery tempted!.... 😂... I'm so shallow!... I apologise! 😩😩😩😔

Think I'll go to bed now! Dreaming of LJS and saucy ways of eating toast! 😴😉

Boatyardblues seems more discerning!

I’m not sure. When Ji Sub is properly attired I so would, but his pop video outfits (which he probably gets a freer hand in choosing) leave a lot to be desired. He is very sexy in Oh My Venus though.

Arghhh. So much for being good. 😩

Thank you so much for the welcome Bettys and Bea

'Am I sure I know what I am getting myself into?'......If the Army I experienced when I went to the O2 is anything to go by, I am right where I need to be

Looking at this thread you guys are experts! [bows in admiration]

I have a lot to catch up on, will keep you posted!

... You will never sleep again!!..... 😂😴

You will never sleep again!!

Never truer words posted.

On ep 15 of Weighlifting Fairy. Was the delivery girl that uncle starts swooning over the ghost girl from Oh My Ghost with her hair straightened?

I really like Nam Joo Hyuk in this. I need to see him in something else before I make a definitive decision, but he comes across well and I think he would be good company in the pub.

Nam Joo-Hyuk is also good in Cheese in the Trap , Scarlet Heart Ryeo and Bride of Habaek (had a bit of a spiral). New series coming v soon.

Dunno about ghost girl, well spotted if so!

Bea posted a clip of him & Jisoo sonewhere in a road trip they look like they’d be great fun down the pub!

Have finished Introverted Boss which I thought would be just fluff but like a lot of kdramas also features some more serious stuff such as self-harm, social anxiety & self- worth.

Just started My ID is Gangnam Beauty

And am already slightly uncomfortable about the beauty issues

It was definitely ghost girl - more obvious in subsequent scenes.

I’m now off to check the closing credits on my Viki app to check Netflix didn’t crip an olympic win. For some reason its not showing up on the Viki app on our AppleTV so I’ve been flitting between Viki and Netflix, depending on where I’m watching. I felt Chubs (NF) was a gentler nickname than Fatty (Viki).