KDrama Addicts Anonymous (thread 3)

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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…

(I am conflicted re: work though.)

I have had a lot snow days this week but have been skiing on them hence being behind!!
Have now got to catch up on P&P, finish Kingdom (phone too small for large scale zombie wars), and start Secret or have a Choi Jin-Hyuk spiral. He is so coming down the pub for our night out by the way! I imagine him silently propping up the bar.

I guess I ought to do some work too 🤨

Oh yes. Im desperate for the snow to come so I can snuggle in for a long weekend with lots of tea and K-dramas

😂😂😂😂... P&P... David dickenson / Ian mcshane!... 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Just started!...

How exciting! We are all watching the same thing, although at slightly different pace.

Ooh, nearing the end of ep 14 and it is getting murkier by the minute. I feel like I need the kdrama equivalent of an AIBU parking diagram.

Right I have finished Kingdom. So frustrating, just as the action ramps up it bloody finishes!!! Only 6 episodes and really only gets going by ep 6 and then it's a cliffhanger!
Don't let that put you off though if you like zombies/sageuk/Bae Doona/handsome men with swords/devious queens. It looks fabulous it's just Netflix sucking you in and leaving you hanging. This is one of the reasons why I really like kdrama, 16 eps or so and you're all done, no waiting around for a 2nd season.

Ivalue Healer is perfect for a snow day binge as it is shot in Winter and there is lovely knitwear and snowy kiss scenes

Right back on mission now with P&P. They've really missed a trick with the shameless puppy as there is now a cute kid in the mix.

Daebak!! What an episode twisty cliffhanger! Bea and Betty - you are in for a treat.

Hahahaha. The “burning lips” bit in the team meeting. Brilliant. 😂

Ep 1 done! Its good!! I like everyone so far and for me that's a must!!
Good to see Handsome W Bodyguard!... And yes! Weasley guy from FFMW!... Though can't stop giggling at Ian Mcshane! 😂

Just rewatching an ep of Suspicious Partner... Whilst waiting for Dh to join me to watch The Guardians (there's something I never thought would happen!!)... GRR JCW At his lip biting best! 💋😍😘❤️

Oh Betty that has made my day can’t wait to start it. Fingers crossed the snow gets heavier.

Just started snowing here.. 😉

I value... You're in for such a treat... Comedy... Romance... Thriller... Action... Healer deffo has it all!! 👍😊

Not to mention the very very fine knitwear!!

I keep falling asleep & having to run the video back. Time for bed!

Bea - no cramming and overtaking me, okay?

I’m not sure we’ve had enough snow here for the local schools to close, but it often comes down to how many of the teachers can get in. There’s been heavier snow in outlying areas. 🤞

No snow here!.. No fear of overtaking!

Thanks Bea. I got my snow day and about to settle in to watch Healer so excited 😆

Loving Healer and JCW 😍

Mmmm Healer!! Enjoy GrrJCW

I just made a biiiiig mistake! I thought, I'll just give The Last Empress (Viki) the 10 minute test as it has Choi Jin-Hyuk in as a bodyguard & I got sucked in immediately! And it hasn't even finished airing!! Aaaaaaargh! It's a bonkers melodrama about the fictional Korean Royal Family with an evil dowager empress and conniving mistress & general palace shenanigans.

So I need to get on with P&P & Secret and hopefully time it so that when I finish them I can gloriously binge The Last Empress when it finishes.

Oh no Betty how torturing. However at least you won’t be up all night binge watching. I’m terrible for that but feel that’s how I’m going to spend the next few days watching Healer 😂

Ivalue!!.... Oi! Get in line!! 😍❤️

The schools round here opened so no kdrama binge for me. 😞

I swear I spotted JCW first