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…

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Oooo! Look a drunken LJS! 😍😂

I’m enjoying Ian McShane with his hand drawn organogram of all the senior prosecutors trying to work out who is trying to stitch him up and why. 😄 I should spend some time doing a bit of this at work.

(Ep 9)

Bea I am currently feeling like LJS looks in that clip having been out and imbibed a strange mix of drinks!

Boatyardblues on the subject of height I am a shortarse (5ft 2in) so don’t mind the shorter men as am always smaller but must also confess a liking for tall men (DH v tall also)

I am taller than the average British and Korean chap. I found pregnancy books very annoying with their assumption that you could ‘size up’ into your husband’s clothes as your pregnancy progressed. 🙄 DH is always on at me not to stretch boob bumps into his jumpers. Mine are comfier anyway.

.Somehow she seems less tiny because her character is so bolshy and fearless,

Note to self: must strive for similar bolshy height image increase

Daegu! Oh FFS!

^ That is all I am prepared to say for now, for Betty’s sake.

Dear lord! Just been on Tumblr and the amount of 😍 grr JCW vids on there!... How can a man go from looking embarressed/meek and mild to downright GRRRRR!👌👌👌♥️🔥
Almost finished High Society... It's worth a watch!... The romance is quite cute and heartbreaking (altho rather silly in that rich vs poor thing) and there's enough characters to love and root for! Plus... PHS being heartbroken and angsty (whilst being vair handsome) makes me want to take him home! 😭😭😭😭
And The Guardians still good! The intrigue and twists are making me slightly confused now though!... What the flip is going on and who's good and who's bad??!.., 😩🤔🤔

Bettys!..!... On a school night?!? 😯😁

Sorry not Tumblr!... Instagram! (in case you were frantically searching!) 😁

Bea, you should join us over on P&P.

All Netflix
Secret
Heirs
Secret garden
memories of alhambra (not complete yet)

Hello ivalue. I should have included Secret Garden - Betty & Bea raved about it a while ago, but I couldn't get into it. How far down the rabbit hole are you?

Hello boatyard
I’ve watched quite a few but would definitely recommend Secret. If you haven’t already seen it. It’s a little bit darker but well worth a watch.

It’s great to see new faces about the place & to have new recommendations. Hope you’ll stick around.

I am away at the mo 😉

Daegu???? Is that a place or a saying?

Hi Ivalue I’ve just looked up Secret and see that it has Ji Sung in it who is in Kill Me Heal Me (Netflix, v good) so I will be giving that a go. Thanks for the recommendation and do join in with the chat!

Korea’s fourth largest city, Betty.

So it that a plot twist in P&P?

I will not be drawn any further on this point.

Aaaargh!!! So infuriating 😡

I could PM you, but it would constitute a spoiler...

Boatyardblues.... Bettys a skipper! If she skips! Bet she's up for spoiling too! 😁😂😂😂

Betty I hope you enjoy.

It’s nice to be able to talk to others whom enjoy k-dramas. I don’t know much about SK but would love to explore. I kind of stumbled onto k-dramas after watching lots of Chinese dramas. I’m so glad I did what is Healer like? It looks interesting and is going be my next choice after I’ve finished ID Gangnam.