KDrama Addicts Anonymous (part 6)

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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 there other sources, including Dramabus and AmazonPrime.

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

Thread 5 (previous threads linked from OP of each preceding thread)

There are suggestions for shows that we’ve enjoyed - those marked with asterisk(s) are more uniformly loved or admired. Cautionary note: in categorising series, its important to note most Korean dramas have multiple strands - e.g. romance and thriller; supernatural, romance and a thriller, crime series with blossoming relationship aspects. Genre-busting mash-ups are normal. Series that are tagged as dark may also have moments of comedy or the absurd, likewise fluff can have heavier elements. View the categories below as approximate & ask if you need guidance, eg for younger teens.

Comedy (with a side order of absurd)
I picked up a celebrity on the street (Viki)
My Fellow Citizens (Viki)

Crime/Thriller
Healer (Netflix)*
Heartless City (Viki)
He is Psychometric (Viki)
I Hear Your Voice (Netflix /Viki)
Life on Mars (classy remake of BBC series, Dramafast)
Live (Netflix)
Pride & Prejudice (Netflix)*
Prison Playbook (Netflix)*
Suspicious Partner (Netflix)*

Romance - lighter & fluffier
Beating Again (Netflix)
Coffee Prince (Netflix)
Don’t Dare to Dream (Netflix, or as Jealousy Incarnate on Viki)*
Happy Once Again (Netflix)
Her Private Life (Viki)*
His Master’s Sun (Netflix)
Love from a Star (Netflix)*
Pinocchio (Netflix)
Romance is the Bonus Book (Netflix)**
She Was Pretty (Dramabus/Netflix)*
The Beauty Inside (Viki/Netflix)
The Last Empress (Viki)
Thirty Not Seventeen (Viki)
Weightlifting Fairy Kim Bok Joo (Netflix/Viki)
What’s Up With Secretary Kim (Viki)**
You are my Destiny (Netflix)

Romance - heavier weight/more grown up
Because This Is My First Life (Viki)*
Chicago Typewriter (Viki)*
Fight For My Way (Viki/Drama bus)*
Just Between Lovers (Viki)**
Mr Sunshine (Netflix)
My Strange Hero (Viki)
Red Carpet - film (Netflix, very adult content)
Something in the Rain (Netflix)
The Package (Viki)

Supernatural/fantasy/sci-fi - fluffier
Goblin (Viki)*
I am not a Robot (Netflix)
Legend of the Blue Sea (Viki/Netflix)
While You Were Sleeping (Viki)*

Supernatural/fantasy/sci-fi - darker
Black (Netflix)*
The Guest (Dramafast)
W (Viki & Netflix)*

Zombies
Kingdom (Netflix)*
Train to Busan - film (Amazon Prime)

Mad as a box of frogs/uncategorisable
Strong Girl Bong Soon (Netflix)

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. (Although its possible we have scared them all away since our early threads with the incessant fangirling. If you’re still reading, please say hi.)

If you want to know your oppas from your unnis and other Korean terms of address and honorifics, there are good resources online.

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

We have a few frequently used acronyms:
FL/2FL = female lead/2nd female lead
ML/2ML = male lead/2nd male lead
SLS = Second Lead Syndrome (where the FL/MLis too thick to realise how much better the 2ML/2FL is)

We also abbreviate titles if they’re long, but usually only after using the full title & acronym together. Some of the regular favourite actors have been abbreviated too for speed/efficiency, although “him off Black” seems to have stuck for Song Seung-Heon. Don’t be afraid to ask for help/clues if we’re not making sense or have descended into acronym soup.

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…

Damnit. I forgot to go through bolding the headings.

No worries it is a very comprehensive list 😉. I should’ve said to put The Last Empress in the Mad as a box of frogs category though 🤣🤣

We can move things around in thread 7. Editing the boilerplate now. 😆

One thing I'd forgotten about Asian Drama is that a lot of it tends to be quite tame for lack of a better word- less gore and violence, sexual aspects are downplayed etc. Pretty good as I can actually watch it during the day as it doesn't matter if the kid glances at it.

Although its possible we have scared them all away since our early threads with the incessant fangirling. If you’re still reading, please say hi
yes please drop by again! Where have you gone Heechulmyoppa, seadays and the rest?

Cheshire this is true, the amount of big screens you can see through the windows on the streets round here where they are watching tv and it lurches into graphic sex or violence, it's quite unnerving and not what i want to see writ large on someones wall

I agree Cheshire, but it does throw curveballs. I commented on earlier threads about the casual approach to student suicides/cutting in high school dramas rated as ‘teen’, which shocked me because it was treated with a shrug and “it happens”/inevitability attitude.

Unfortunately, both South Korea and Japan have insanely high suicide rates amongst high schooler, they're educational system has a lot to answer for IMO.

Anyone else think Bea is either a) so stratospherically happy after the gig she’s too ‘high’ to post or b) stuck a horrendous queue at the Tube station?

I’m still puzzling over the miraculous power source on Mr Oh’s mountain that powers all the nifty lighting at his backwoods cabin. No sign of PV panels on the wood shingle roof.

Too high to post coherently! Will post tomorrow with keyboard! Needless to say it was the most epic night! I have danced and jumped around like a loon for 2 and a half hours! Amazing! And those boys work sooo hard! Woo hoo oooo!! 😂 😂 😂 Squeeel!

Leave you with this... 💜💜💜

Oh my! Bea - you are so close to the front. You must have had an amazing night.

Amazing!! Feel rather proud that one of us MsLattes was there! 👌💜😊

Ladies Ladies Ladies.... what can I say? It was flippin' Marvellous! Absolutely joyous and I was absolutely SHAMELESS! I shouted away to my hearts content.... jumped up and down like a complete loon and told Kim Taehyung off for being rude! (I told him I would tell his Mother!)

I was on the floor and within touching distance! It was as close I could ever hope to be .... however! I'm just too short and couldn't see a flippin thing, luckily there were big screens... i caught glimpses... i jumped up and down... i was at the end of the aisle so I could sneakily step out now and again... and if I held my phone up to video the view was amazing! Unfortunately I didn't want to watch the whole concert via my phone screen! [

Organisation was good but we did get there ridiculously early and got my bomb pronto and paired within seconds... seats were amazing as i said... wembley is huge... noise was deafening!
Weather was gorgeous!

BTS are amazing and now I love them even more... I think I will change my name to MsBLatte!

Songs were epic... staging was awesome... noise was deafening! Glitter cannons / water cannons / confetti / bubbles !!!!

Really touching moments (i know I'm a sucker) .... Army sang Young Forever as a surprise for the boys before the last song (they didn't know it was coming! It was announced to the crowd on the big screens beforehand)... cue lots of shocked faces from the boys and ugly crying!...

only sad thing is now there's a little unseemly argument on twitter from French Army as they said BigHit had said they could do this for BTS as a surprise and say that BigHit took their surprise and gave it to Wembley (UK Army being accused of stealing the idea! - nuffin to do with us guv! BigHit just told us to do it... and we do as were told! )...I understand their annoyance... but BTS loved it and isn't that all that matters? Sigh! Army are Barmy!

All in all I would go again in a heartbeat... I have never felt so much joy/euphoria and gay abandon!

I LOVE YOU BTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thank you my lovely friend who had to put up with me... she's off to see Michael Buble in Leeds tonight! Ha! She said she had a brilliant time... not sure if they're on her playlist but she appreciated the awesomeness of it all and she says ARMY are definitely a Cult!

Glad you had an amazing time! Lol at the outrage from the French Army - tant pis!! 🤣🤣
Well done for your sterling work representing all the MsLattes on here & out there 👏👏💜💜

😂 😂 😂 I do think I was really the oldest fan there without a child! It was hilarious! Some of the parents looked well fed up! 😂 😂 😂 I'm skipping about at the moment!... I'm currently feeling like PMY in HPL... as I've been getting all my pics together and organising them... (into fair... OK... Crap!) unfortunately I didn't have a tele foto lens and a step ladder! That would have been brilliant! 😂 😂

Photo credit to the Buble Fan! 😱😂😂👍💜💜

Hi all. Wonderful photos Bea. So glad you had a good experience.

Long day here. Will post more later when I have defragged.

Dh is helping dd with her A Level Maths... They keep saying
.. "V equals?...".... I'm resisting the urge to shout... "KIM TAEHYUNG!!"... "💜😳😍

🤣🤣🤣

Betty - Mr Oh makes it out of bumpkin attire at the end of ep14/in ep 15. Sadly, he falls out of hillbilly rags into the most horrendous fat pinstripe double-breasted suit. I am currentl undecided as to whether he’s wearing the suit or its wearing him.

Still on BTS high! Arrrgghhhh! 💜

Caught up with Private Life Secretary... Want to get to the end now!.. It's getting frustrating in the nicest possible way! (Bettys! ML is in Dday - viki... The disaster upon disaster kdrama! Its relentless! 😩)

Still haven't caught up on HPL as well... I'm going for delayed gratification! 😂 😂

Much better 3 piece suit at 48:34 in ep 15. Phew!

Bea are you smiling foolishly at your photos of BTS like PMY in HPL and have you created a shelf for your accessories? Then you are a true fangirl

I have caught up with Secret Life of Secretary now and while ML is increasingly adorable & Veronica Park is a hoot the story is a little stuck.

Have started Mr Oh but it feels weirdly dated even though it is 2018 and the Netflix subs make me a bit grumpy.

Abyss I am just ffwarding to the Park Bo Young/Ahn Ho Syop bits as the rest is boring, I think it's the serial killer that is the drag in the story, and the baddie prosecutor is strangely uninteresting too.

Has anyone watch Arthdal Chronicles on Netflix yet? It looks bonkers but not necessarily in a good way...think it may be one to leave then binge. Or it may be like Memories of Alhambra that started strong then I just forgot about and never went back to.

And has anyone tried Angel's Last Mission Love on Viki yet?

Need a replacement for HPL while waiting for When The Devil Calls You Name (JKH)