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…

ML looks so much better with his floppy hair tied back.

CJH also rocks the bubblegum pink suit. There’s no end to his talents.

I’m going, I’m going. 🥾🍑

Dammit it sucked me in ( & I need to catch up with CJHs wardrobe) 🥾🍑

Arghnghhh! Devilish twist ahead, Betty. Kicking myself for watching 10 min over breakfast, as I’m now in work all day and weekend guests so it’ll be tricky to get through this bit to see how it resolves. 😩

Please don’t tell me she’s his sister that would be awkward

CJH is very fine in this ❤️

Well! I am truly flippin' gone!

Going to Wembley in June to enlist in the Army!
BTS!!!!

I hang my 40 odd year old head in shame!!!!!

Woo-hoo!!!! 👌👏👏
Am v jealous 🤣

Please report back Bea.

Betty - I have a sneaking suspicion the ballerina is the sister, but its still not clear. I’m at the start of ep 12. Agree it would be tricky to have flirted so much with a long lost sister. They are great together. Love CJH so much right now I am as embarrassed as Bea is about her BTS tickets.

I bet that BTS concert sold out withon minutes.

Oh I am with you on the CJH love I am just glued to the screen when he is on 🥰

I am at work this afternoon and just want to go home and binge binge binge. I may have to take some screen grabs ye gods I even like his dyed tousled hair

I’m only on ep 6 so not much flirting yet but I am reminded of another kdrama where the ML was searching for his long-lost sister ( heavens they seem to be careless) but it was an ‘orphanage’ sister ie not actually related

The dastardly half brother is the lawyer from P&P who fell for the office girl

Bts tickets!... It was infuriating! I was offered great tickets within first 10 mins then it crashed! Then another 45 mins waiting and got some but right at the back!... However! It is going to be a sight to behold and I think the atmosphere will be lit!... As the yoof say! 😂😂😂😱

Bea - I properly guffawed when I saw your BTS tickets post at lunchtime and then had to apologise for startling my colleague.

Boatyard... What did your colleague think! I'm sooo embarressed at how excited I am and yet am filled with 😂😁... I properly gave a screech when I got the confirmation! You cannot believe how fangirly I feel! My teenage children have thrown their hands up in despair! My dd 12 has said her friends want me to take them... She is very disparaging!
Squeeeeeeel!!

I didn’t tell her why I was laughing. I might out myself at work.

Ahhh! Keeping up the guise of a sensible mature grown up adult!... I know it well!

If only they could see the state of me at 2am,... Simultaneously laughing, shouting, crying and gasping at whatever drama I'm watching!! 😱😁😂🤣☹️😯😱

Just read Toasty LJS off to military on 8th March! 😭... 2 years!... It's sooo long!... Do you think we'll be on Thread 100 by then? Or do you think this crazy kdrama fascination might have passed by then!?... At the moment it feels like I'll never watch English speaking telly again!! Hopefully I should be fluent in korean by the time Toasty finishes! 😱🤣

I know I was properly 😱😱at 8th March and they’ll cut all his hair off!!! 😭

But on the plus side Grrr JCW will be coming out and also the ML from You from The Stars

Ooo! Alien boy is returning? Hmmm! And of course Grrr JCW...
But Toasty!... He's just toooo lovely! And endearing!... These kdrama actors... Esp LJS and JCW... have a talent for being sooo soft fluffy and endearing and yummy then can turn to complete filth! It's quite jarring and I get into a complete fluster!! BTS are masters of this too!! I innocent and naive to... Yoiks! FIRE! 😈

❤️😍

Could do without the cigarette though! 😱

Just read Toasty LJS off to military on 8th March! 😭... 2 years!

See, much as like his stuff, I feel LJS is in danger of becoming ubiquitous. I think a 2 year break will do him good. He has a huge back catalogue for the fans. I think he may get a chance of more meaty, substantial roles if he has a break from rom coms & melodramas.

Boatyard... As ever speaks sense!... Yes! There's plenty to watch whilst he's away! But.... His hair! His hair!! 😱😱😱😭

What the......,,where did you find that Bea 😮😮😮

Oof is it hot in here??