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…

Oh no no no no not Director Jang? 😱😱

Lol any excuse to show cutie cop without his shirt on! Morgue exam my eye!!
Hasn't quite developed the physique from WYWS or Prison Playbook yet

Boatyard... In a nutshell... What's money flower about?...

Revenge, money and power - and sidelining/bumping off anyone that might be a threat to the desired succession line. Seeing as none of the senior males in this chaebol family can keep it in their trousers, there is an awful lot of tidying up to do. Mostly its a question of whether your mum/grandfather/uncle/cousin etc will knife you in the front or the back.

Did I mention already that the ML gives great smouldering rage?

I've got visitors at the moment and the drama watching and bts manic dancing is sorely lacking in the house at the moment! I think I'm getting withdrawal symptoms f😭😱

I’ve got twitchy new thread finger, but I don’t feel right about starting it until we hit p40. Not long now....

By the way, it makes me sad now when Pil-Ju starts kicking the shit out of the baddies or pinning errant pregnant mistresses to the wall by their throats because it makes it hard to root for him. He’s a hard character to like, because he keeps crossing a line.

Message 959 here!
We're almost there Boatyard!
Thread 4 here we come!

I’m set to 25 per page. Not much longer now.

Lol I’m so old fashioned it’s just one long page for me as I’m viewing in Classic MN 🤣

In Blood? have they actually said what the Chairmans hereditary disease is?

I like the slow building romance but 20 eps is possibly a bit long

The chairman story.. Have to admit.. I was OK with really not paying attention...
I think it could have been done in 16... But.. Still worth watching and there are some really lovely moments which made me go... 😍😍

OK, FL has finally located her backbone. I think things are about to get interesting.

On ep 16 now & have to confess to ffwding the bits with the vice director but enjoy the scooby gang v much.
FL shoes are awful though, big clompy things that make her walk funny

I noticed the mahoosive shoes too!... Yes! Love the scooby gang too!!
The morgue scene! I hooted! 😂😍

I cracked. Thread 4