KDrama Addicts Anonymous (thread 3)

[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.

Previous Threads, with discussion of what we’ve enjoyed and what to avoid:

First thread

Thread 2

Here are some suggestions for shows that we’ve enjoyed - those marked with an asterisk are more uniformly loved:

Because This Is My First Life (Viki)*
Black (Netflix)*
Chicago Typewriter (Viki)*
Don’t Dare to Dream (Netflix, or as Jealousy Incarnate on Viki)*
Fight For My Way (Drama bus)*
Healer (Netflix)*
His Master’s Sun (Netflix)
I Hear Your Voice (Netflix /Viki)
Last Train to Busan - film (Amazon Prime)
Live (Netflix)
Love from a Star (netflix)*
Pinocchio (netflix)
Prison Playbook (Netflix)*
Goblin (Viki)
She Was Pretty (Dramabus/Netflix)
Something in the Rain (Netflix)
Strong Girl Bong Soon (Netflix)
Suspicious Partner (netflix)*
W (Viki & Netflix)*
What’s Up With Secretary Kim (Viki)*
While You Were Sleeping (viki)

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

If you want to know your oppas from your unnis try this helpful guide to Korean terms of address and honorifics.

We are generally fans of all things Korean, so equally happy to talk about Korean cookery, film 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, welcome! Pull up a chair, say goodbye to early nights and get stuck in…

Aaaargh I wasn’t gonna watch it cos
1: I don’t like the leads (2nd leads from Goblin)
2: The premise is silly - but wtf this is dramaland after all
3: There’s only 4 eps up so far

but I have to say I am thoroughly enjoying Touch Your Heart (Viki)

Bonkers fluffiness . And it has Yong-Gae from Rebel in it as her agent!

When you say 2nd lead, do you mean the Reaper from Goblin, Betty. I really didn’t like that guy in Life & stopped watching it because of him, but I revised mu opinion after Goblin.

Yeah him!
She’s very funny in this, he hasn’t had much to so yet. Funnily enough I also stopped watching Life because of him even though I really really like the other ML who is also theML in Stranger (name momentarily escapes me due to white wine)

I recommended Kingdom to a friend off the back of Betty’s recommendation. He texted me earlier to say it was really good. Tried watching it just now. About 4 min I was so startled (servant boy getting grabbed) I threw a cup of tea all over myself & am now sitting here in soggy pyjamas. For some reason, I can’t watch zombie stuff without getting massively creeped out. I may try again during daylight hours...

Look! Lovely WYWS Police Officer sent Toasty a coffee truck!! 😂😍❤️

I’m not sure how I feel about this whole coffee truck thing. If you’re going to do it, do it on the downlow instead of making a big thing of it. It’s all a bit show-off gifting for my liking...

Betty - Did you end up feeling sorry for CEO Kim in Temperature of Love? I have. Poor bastard.

Correction - CEO Park.

Oh yes boatyard, at first I was cross he seemed so deluded and persevered but I did feel sorry for him.

Bea those coffee trucks seem so tongue in cheek!

Woo! Away on holiday!... Holiday house had got netflix! I'm... 😂😍... Dh is 😭😱

Any holiday house with wifi works for me - I streamed kdrama aplenty on holiday abroad last year. I 💜 streaming services.

And I'd already downloaded 10 eps of The Rebel on my phone!! 😂

How long are you away for, Bea? Only 10 hours of kdrama sounds like poor planning, unless you are only away on a mini break.

Still not loving Radiant (Viki) although Son Ho Joon is fab.
Still enjoying Touch Your Heart (Viki)
Am going to give 30 but 17 (Viki) a go tonight - it has the young ML from Temperature of Love

Might check out CJH in I need Romance on Netflix. He’s also in Ms Panda & Mr Hedgehog on Netflix but not ML.

Apparently CJH is v good in Fated to Love with Jang Nara but suffers from SLS (second lead syndrome)
I will have to track it down.
Waiting for Last Empress finale although am sure it will be pissy

10 hours of Rebel ? Always handy to have kdrama for those WiFi less spots

Both In Need of Romance and Panda & Hedgehog have a cheesy vibe which puts me in mind of bad 80s shows like Falcon Crest, but it may just be that they are cheap productions or old. Certainly less polished than more recent kdramas.

^ These assessments are based on a 10 min shuffle. They may hit their stride shortly after.

V short break! So 10 is plenty! However... Think I might have a break as I've neglected family!.. And sleep!! Listening to dd reading at mo and rest are watching Holy Grail! 😂

Ha! That’s not so bad then.

I thought I do 10 mins of Coffee Prince before bed to get a flavour of it. Gong Yoo’s shameless towel scene was

Hahahaha. I paused to post that. ^ There’s more. Utterly shameless! 😂

It’s a classic must watch. Like reading at least one Jilly Cooper book (but one of the early ones)

Sorry wasn't clear, as in one of those things everyone should have tried at least once.

Am actually rather enjoying 30 but 17 - not top 10 but rather nice.

I am about to get stuck in for the evening & keep thinking I should finish Last Empress, but what Betty posted makes me think it would give me the rage. I’m kind of struggling to understand what made me watch so much of it so fast at the time. It’s like my body was hijacked. Now I’ve gone cold turkey, I’m not sure I want to go back.

I’m going to cop some more Gong Yoo in his shameless towel. 😂

He does some proper snogging later 😉

He’s such a goof it’s hard to take the whole playboy persona seriously.