I've never really noticed how many dramas are airing/will be airing, so thanks for posting this up ^^

There are some I like, some I did like til I got bored after a while, and some I'm not so sure about.

I LOLed at Six months... thet like it because of it's cliched plot, yet because of the cliched plot also disliked it XD

It's so sad that Iljimae is ending... we dont always get dramas that are really that good all the time... like a rare catch. This month, alot of the dramas were enjoying seems to be ending, and now were gonna get a new wave of dramas :O

I'm a little bit sad that none of these dramas interest me at all. My tastes haven't been matching Kdramas at all in the past year or so. Boys before flowers didn't do much for me either. I guess I'll wait for the next season of dramas!
Thanks for summarizing everything in one neat little post.

after bbf, i will take a break. I was too addict.

next serie in mind, maybe CITY HALL [시티 홀], SBS.

triple?

Thanks so much for the round-up of what's on and what's next. It's definitely very handy to keep track of them all. Do you miss Triple? It's not on the list

For those that you refer to as long-running, are they in the 50+ episodes?

Looking forward to your write up for Queen of Housewives

QUEEN OF HOUSEWIVES is a funny drama..i like it....

@ 4 - LOL was thinking the same thing. Where is Triple?!

Hmm at present am still watching 'Return of Iljimae' (very nice) and want to catch 'Job Well Done'. And of course would check out any series that Javabeans recaps!

BTW am I the only one who is suffering PTBBFS (Post Traumatic Boys Before Flowers Syndrome)? It's gotten so bad I've rewatched certain eps AND the Hwangbo cuts of WGM this week. Am I totally insane? Anyone got a cure? LOL

Thanks for this post! I needed help getting my head round current and upcoming dramas.

Im looking forward to Cinderella Man, it looks like fun and Im hoping it wont disappoint.
I have a tendency to always look forward to KSW's newest dramas and then they end up being a big letdown.

Apart from that, there's not much that catches my eye except Iris and Triple.

Probably will give Return of Iljimae a try at some point, although I dont understand WHY ratings have dropped so drastically when most online reviews have been gushing about it....
What could be such a turnoff about it from a perspective of someone who does like it???

Still kinda going through a bbf withdraw... still haven't found anything else to watch..

Javabeans, I know you adore Return of Iljimae, but after the first two ep. it just felt like a historical documentary... probably due to all the narration.. It felt like I was back in high school and should be taking notes or something.. couldn't continued.
Does the narration ever go away?

After all the melodrama of East of Eden, I'm afraid to start Cain & Abel. Nothing airing now seems interesting. But the ones later this year; Triple, Swallow of the Sun, Friend, IRIS, & Invisible War (love Lee JunKi).. I can't wait for.. 2 more months to wait.

Thanks for the summary!!!

I'm currently at a loss right now because I have to no idea what to watch with Boys Overs Fowers ending and Return of Iljimae ending soon. Like Javabeans, I am looking forward to Triple. If the awesomeness of the PD and writer of Coffee Prince hasn't worn off I am sure that Triple will be good. Major plus, plus for me is Yoon Kye-sang.

@GreenFreak
Lol, I know what you mean. Im curious about Cain & Abel but I dont want to put myself through another East of Eden type drama. If only C&A aired before EOE, I might've been more willing to give it a try.

Forgot Queen Seon Deok too among the "airing later" series. But you're forgiven cuz of that nice article on the script reading. Thanks!

thnx javabeans for sharing what's gonna be up next & what's next after a drama ends -- after BBF i was really wondering what to watch next that would really be interesting and you got some good lists here i think!
I like Kwon Sang Woo but I don't think his curly hair looks good on him - it looked good on Lee Min Ho though! :D

For someone who's not watching the drama, you're Cain and Abel write-up was pretty spot-on. Everytime I think about giving up on it, I remind myself how long I've waited for So Ji Sub's comeback. I've started to multi-task while I'm watching an episode. Saves me a lot of time and I don't really miss much if I do my homework during all the scenes without SJS.

Looking forward to Six Months, Triple, Friend, and IRIS. Cinderella Man looks stupider everytime I read about it, but if you start watching it and enjoying I may have to give it a try.

Appreciate the roundup!

My head is still spinning from BOF...I had no idea what else was on! lol.

Based on this, I'm not sure how many dramas I'm going to be watching this year. Six
Months sounds right up my alley, and I'll give City Hall a shot, but the rest all are kind of hum drum. Except Triple. I hate figure skating with a passion, but Coffee Prince + Awesome handsome cast? YUM.

I must have missed it- where's Romance Zero?

javabeans, thanks a lot for posting this. Never really watched drama while it's airing in Korea before BBF. These list will help to overview the dramas.

i have noticed that K-dramas nowadays are not as engaging as in the past...
with foreign shows more accessible to the Koreans, guess the Koreans themselves are getting tired of their plots and clichéd storylines. imagine so many of us are not watching that much dramas nowadays...and i must admit that after General Hospital 2, i have not been watching a K-drama eversince...that i ended up watching more movies and US series.

or maybe i am just getting older and that my taste for storyline has changed.

even in my country K-dramas are not as popular as 3 years ago...they used to get primetime slots, but now are only fillers to time slots where there are hardly people watching...like in the early afternoon and late morning.

1/ IRIS
2/ Swallow the Sun
3/ Triple

Those are the dramas I'm looking forward to most, in that order. As for currently airing dramas....none really. Well perhaps Queen of Housewives, but alas, it's not subbed :(

I'm currently watching "Cain & Abel," and I surprisingly like it a whole lot. Even though the plot is predictable and played out, there's just something about it aside from SJS that makes me want to tune in. Maybe I just miss dramas with an action plot?

And, "The Return of Iljimae" is one of the best dramas I've seen. I love everything about it! Great casting. Beautiful cinematography. Wonderful storyline. Awesome music. It makes me feel pretty just watching it. =P

Thanks for this javabeans (:
I had only focused on Boys Before Flowers.
Gonna try watching Queen of Housewives.
And Six Months reminds me of Full House..

I come to your site often but usually do not comment, but I wanted to say thank you for this wonderful post - this is just what I needed :)

yay! you're gonna do QOH! I don't get why not a lot of people watch it it is so funny and cute. Not to mention i'm in love with Oh Ji Ho (not his character, a little too wimpy for me), the OST

p.s. did i mention funny??

SPOILER

the funeral scene when JH sat down next to DS and just started staring... haha his expression was hilarious i didn't know whether to feel sorry for him or laugh.

Return of Iljimae - "You might dislike it because: I don’t know. If you hate this drama I may have to disavow all knowledge of you. (I kid. It may not be your taste, but really, it’s good.)"

ROFL.... I heart you, Sarah! ;)
Thanks for the write-up!
Even though Job Well Done is a long weekend series, I'm really enjoying it. Uhm Ki Joon is great!

@#10 GreenFreak - The narration is annoying at first, but you get used to it...and it also lessens a bit, but it really does help in the overall flow of the storytelling.
The first episode is chaotic because it's an overview, so you really have to watch more to get the full effect of AWESOMENESS that is Return of Iljimae. :D

Thanks for the roundup. But what does "makjang" means?

I love Queen Of Housewives ! It's really entertaining , you can love or hate the characters but doesn't stop you from loving the drama. Every couple is diff which is really nice. Comedy is portrayed in a diff manner in this series (comparing to rom com) it's a more natural look at comedy in daily married lives. Its cute !
I also love R o I, the pace is really nice but too bad not enough buzz about it >...<
but I am looking forward to Cinderella man ! and Glorious Inheritance ....I might try City Hall as Kim Sun ah & Cha seung seem like a cute couple

but really good things comin up....although too much romance imo, not much real 'makjang' now huh? lollll

ty dramabeans,like everyone else,after BOF i ask myself what other dramas out there is worth watching....comes back blank..thank you for the synopsis ... may check out cinderella man when its out..mean time i may take a look at"hate you but lets try again" cos i like choi.

just three weeks ago, i was in seoul. absolutely thrilled at the country.where i came from it was so humid and hot but it was cooling there and it even snowed on one of the days... {^..^}

wow ^^ that was so helpful. i've been really confused because so many dramas are ending and so many trailers have come out for all of the dramas. that was so organized :D thanks

lots of people, including me, are wondering what's life after BOF? Thanx for the extremely well-detailed list, jb^^....excellent job!!!

really, really wanted to see "Story of a Man" but don't like PSY *sigh*....awww, I miss BOF, the craziness, the hilarity, EVERYTHING!!! usually at this time, I'd be pumped, eagerly waiting for Monday to see the next ep. ......but now, I just feel an emptiness :(

hope you've had a good weekend, jb

ACK, you shouldn't have done this to me. Now I'm *tempted* to add more dramas to my to-watch list. *hangs head in shame*

And I think I might give Cinderella man a try for reals. I've just finished (and I mean literally 3 minutes ago) Who are you? and I'm SO very impressed with Yoon Kye Sang's performance. Now I'm curious how other actors can pull the dual identity thing off and if they can, how well. YKS is going to be my point of reference (Heh!)...not that I haven't watched the dual identity thing before, but YKS was just too awesome for words, imho

Also? Tripleeeeee! The more I think about it, the more eager I am to watch this. Is it June yet?

I've loved every Hyun Bin drama- MNKSS, Snow Queen, Worlds Within- so I'm looking forward to Friend. I'm also excited about Iris, Triple, and Cinderella Man. None of the dramas current airing peek my interest, sigh...

Thanks for writing this topic... I was feeling kinda lost and nothing to look forward to. Sad, I know.. ;p

Thanks for the heads-up!

i do miss the great community discussion that surrounded BOF. since that is my first K drama, i wasn't sure where to go next. luckily due to some great suggestions, i'm in the middle of Soulmate. oh my gosh this is great! i hope that Hollywood never gets it's hands on it to remake it in any sense, cause they would just ruin it. Do they and where they sell the DVDs of these dramas with English subtitles, cause i would be interested in purchasing BOF and maybe Soulmate at somepoint in the future to rewatch?

In "Job Well Done" isn't the little girl her little sister?
I don't think that she has a daughter right?
but, then again, I've only watched 2 episodes(I couldn't stand Chae Rim's brother's "fiancee") Her english was atrocious.

-edit-
@ 36:
You can get DVDs from yesasia.com ... or you could just watch those at dramafever.com ;]

each year there is one of these so called 'mega hits', be it flowers or coffee prince, other dramas often slip through the gaps and do not get the coverage due to them

I'm just counting the days until Triple because Coffee Prince is definitely one of the best shows I've watched in a while (in any language) and I am going to marry Lee Seon-Kyun one day very soon. Does anyone know if he speaks English... on second though, with a voice like his, it doesn't matter.

Oh javabeans, you think Kim Sun Ah and Cha Seung Won just might make a really sexy pair? I think so too!
Let's just keep our fingers crossed for the plot...........................

Thanks so much for doing this Javabeans. Since BOF has finished, I was just about to do some researching myself to see what could I could possibly start watching. This helps so much, thank you!

Thanks java! I think we've all been experiencing a BOF withdrawal.
but thanks to your list, i can keep an eye on some dramas although none really pique my interest =/
but thank you nevertheless!

Thanks mighty one! Just what I needed. Although I must admit, after that BBF rage, I feel really burnt out! I still check the internet like crazy for any news of our beloved BBF actors, though. Although cliched, I'm looking forward to Six Months and Triple.

Tell me why I don't want Cinderella Man to do well? People need jobs, income... Why do I harbor ill intent for this show?

All I can sing is TRIPLE TRIPLE TRIPLE....( I think we all know why:)
I do look forward to City Hall and I watched the first 2 eps of Queen of Housewives but didn't really want to stick around for the whole season. So I am so glad that there is going to be a write up about it! I can't wait!

And seriously, there's nothing I wouldn't like about Return of Iljimae? Interesting...

thanks so much for this roundup! u read my mind... probs gonna watch Return of Iljimae... i'll take ur word for it.