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…

oh it's not Heirs..I'm watching!!!! It's High Society!

Skippers of the world UNITE Bettys!!!!
Boatyard... you've just got more metal than we have!!!!

👊fistbumps Bea!!

Actually I am now rather enjoying Familiar Wife ‘cos I had s quick look at the end

I am facing a weekend of extreme sociability, so I’m going to be low kdrama and contact for the next couple of days. My only saving grace is that I am not seriously addicted to my current pick, so should cope with withdrawal OK. Find a good one for me over the weekend so I can get stuck in next week.

I am travelling this weekend so I have downloaded Kingdom from Netflix.
I realise I am alone in being excited about zombies in Joseon.

Is that the one set on a train, Betty?

High society good fun!,

Kingdom... It's on my list! Looks intriguing!!

Boatyardblues you’re thinking of Last Train to Busan with a very heroic Gong Yoo.

Kingdom is costume drama zombies with Bae Doo Na

Good Evening

Last Train to Busan is a brilliant movie and I have no idea how it escaped my notice for so long

Evening WhentheRabbitsWentWild !

I actually think Korean films are very underrated. I have also downloaded Tunnel to watch this weekend so will report back on that.

Boatyardblues you’re thinking of Last Train to Busan with a very heroic Gong Yoo.

Gong Yoo, you say? Excellent. I will track it down.

I'm sooo glad I found this post! Korean drama has been my dirty little secret! I downloaded viki at Christmas and been looking for recommendations!

Welcome Bunny! This is getting quite exciting now - we have the makings of a proper kdrama fangirl corner of MN. Funny how many of us have nicknames starting with B and how, given the small sample, there is such a marked prevalence of rabbits.

We have a house bunny hence the name
My DH & me are watching coffee do me a favour. It's his first episode of k drama, I watched The Miracle and another switch one on Netflix was quite dark. It was the pop up videos on Facebook that got me curious!

OK, I will say this for Devilish Joy - there is proper snogging, convincing snogging. I’m still struggling with the physical disparity between the leads - its the equivalent of an Italian greyhound with a Great Dane. I’m scared ML will accidentally crush FL like a bug, particularly when they are in a clinch. I keep thinking that if he got drunk and passed out, getting him home would be a team effort like a scene from Gullivers Travels, rather than the usual piggyback. 😂

Oooo! Bunny... Viki and Netflix!... You'll never see the light of day again!!.... Plenty of recommendations to be had!... Just holler when you need a point in the right direction!

I'm angsting away for a good Toasty LJS drama.. OR Vice Chairman PSJ...of Grrr JCW.... Park Hyung Sik has gone quiet on us!... NJH has a new one coming out... I need to find a new actor who has a large back catalogue to spiral down!!... Batman Officer is lovely but don't want to get all sad at SITRain... Sigh!... Will carry on with High Society and The Guardian....

I started watching Devilish Joy... I know what you mean! He is humongous... She's tiny (she was in Fight For My Way... A top 5!!).... Haven't progressed any further into it though! Think I'm being a bit flighty at the moment! 😭😩

I’m on ep 10. It definitely hits its stride. I’m quite enjoying it now. It’s kind of interesting to have 2 leads who have fallen from grace in their own way and how it shapes their lives now.

Last Train to Busan is on Amazon Prime

Bunny somewhere upthread I added a list of Biki recommendations...I’m currently watching Familiar Wife and My Strange Hero

Oops that should be Viki recs but I can also offer bikkie recommendations 😂🍪

I'm on episode 4 of Coffee, DH has gone to bed

Ha! Spoken like a true addict Bunny!! 😂

Ha ha! Bunnys! You didn't get a 👢🍑!!
😂😂😂

I went to bed early last night. 🤷‍♂️