Thanks ladies for the fix! Giggles for the end of my WE.

Thankyou! I wish i could listen but EXAMS omg. they'll be the death of me ><

sigh. have to wait a whole week before i have time to listen ==" gahhhhhh

HAHA yes i would want Han Ga-in's husband <3
I just listened to this podcast's first part yesterday and this is such a blessing!! Thank you :D I love your laughter!

Thank s a lot JB and GF, you guys are awesome, off to listen :)

Ive listend to the first podcast and let me tell u ! U r waaaaay over fame and I think if I heard one of u guys ill totally recognize u ! Pls give ur self some credit ! I dont like my idols not knowing how great they are ! Hehehehehim overboard I know ! But ! Pat ur self on the sholder for mw ! U r super guys !

i always looking for u when i miiss u everyday, ohhh...i have to time here & dramas korean :) so amazing

"So I forgot the question, but the answer is yes."

......HAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHA XD

Javabeans sounded really drunk in this with hiccup and all kekekeke....

Guuuuuuuuuuuuyyyyyyssssss please do more of these, I LOVE these.

Moar moar moar

oh thanks!! right on time!! i just listened to part 1 an hour ago. had no idea 2wud be up today!!

Wow. Thank you for answering so many of our questions!

Hot pic you've got posted. The wine looks darn good, what year was that? =:P

Love,love ur podcasts.

I wish i didnt get so lost with the name u drop:(

Little let down that you stayed quiet on park Shi hoo. You girls are always honest so even a little bit would have been nice. I mean the evidence is clear enough . Either way, I enjoyed the podcast.

Three of the questions could have been shortened to: If someone asks you to go on a blind date and offers to take you out for Soju, will you answer the email?

BTW, if you got drunk twice, then 17 part 2 technically should be 18. The naming and reference for naming should be based on whether it was a continuation of the wine bottle

Yay! Off to listen.

I never read recaps before I watch a show but I will glance at the intro commentary and scan a few lines of the last paragraph of the ending commentary on first episode recaps to get an idea on whether a show will be worth my time. Most times if my drama doesnt have my interest with the promos, premise, actors, etc. then I won't be watching. I remember seeing the raves over Gaksital (and most recently Monstar) and I decided to check it out and I'm SOOOO glad I did. I also use the year-end reviews and drama ratings as indicators for when I want to marathon. It's one thing to realize you've wasted your time at the end of an on-air show than to try trug through a completed show hoping that it'll get better.

When Revenge aired, I was wondering if you guys were watching. I really liked the first season and my interested waned dramatically throughout the second. It shouldn't be a multi-season show, which is one of the reasons I like the general kdrama format of having one season series.

I love the honesty and the slurring (and random cat lol). I hope you guys continue to find that you genuinely enjoy what youre doing on DB and that one day youll be duly compensated with generous pay, over-educated and adequately paid sounds nice :).

As I see dramabeans articles are getting fewer I always check on my kdrama kstar whaever they call it hopefully more not less will come. Iam really dissapointed that there is so little blogs for korean celebrity news I wish theres like 10 allkpop on the web

First off, thanks for the podcast! I love hearing about your opinions on dramas, as well as on stories and pop culture in general. Plus you guys are hilarious when you're drunk, and it's fun because you're such great friends.

Second off, I asked the ballad question, and... well. I'm really sorry for sounding judgmental and rude about it. I could have definitely asked it in a more neutral way that you could have talked about more.

Don't get me wrong, cheesy ballads will not scare me off of k-dramas, but I do think about them. Here is some background of what I was thinking at the time. It's not even necessarily just ballads, but music use in general, which I think ties into the director leg of the Drama Gold Trifecta. As an example, at the time, I had Gu Family Book in my head. I liked the drama (except for the last few eps which I haven't watched yet), but in the first couple of episodes, it seemed like the Grand Love Ballad would cue up to a giant crescendo 3 times in as many minutes. It would pull me out of the emotion of the scene, so I was feeling peeved about it. I've realized through this, though, that ballads are fine for me so long as they're parceled out once or twice an episode.

To clarify further, I think the first thing that set Japanese and Korean dramas apart in my head was the use of music. To be honest, my first k-drama was Boys Before Flowers because of my Hana Yori Dango gateway, so you can imagine how that first impression might taint future k-drama viewings. (I liked BOF okay, though it wasn't my favorite, but Almost Paaaaaaradiiiiiiiiise, and the fact it was used so often, nearly broke me).

Anyway, contrast Almost Paradiiiiiise in BOF with Japanese HYD, which had a title theme and an in-drama theme for each season. The in-drama theme would come in at the climax of the episode, but it seemed to support rather than overshadow the action. In other j-dramas, if there is a cheesy main theme sung by whichever idol, it's generally over the credits unless it fits in with a crazy crack drama, like with Hana Kimi. Proposal Daisakusen (Japanese Operation Proposal), being somewhat of a time travel drama, had an older punk rock type song that characterized the drama and fit what was happening in the scene. Anyway, I'm probably comparing apples to oranges here, pairing the nostalgic best j-dramas in my head with the weakest-scored k-dramas, and I was definitely unfair in how I asked the question.

At any rate, these issues probably come back to individual directors rather than country-wide generalizations, since dramas like Sungkyunkwan Scandal and most especially Coffee Prince are much more deft with the use of music. I also remember liking that Arang didn't have a sweeping love ballad in the first couple of episodes, but I think that changed as, y'know, they fell in love. Still, I think there was a greater variety of music there that was used better than in many other dramas.

Anyway, thanks for answering the question, loaded as it was. Can't wait for the next podcast!

Thanks for the podcast,

Will you do another answer question series? If so I was wondering what were your thoughts on the decrease in the ratings of primetime dramas. Is it because the audience is bored with the shows being produced? Or are people watching other places like online, etc?

Saying something like "The only reason this site is still alive is because we took it one day at a time" EXACTLY, and in more ways than one..this site benefits from a clean layout and quality writing, but most of all, the raw, unique, witty perspective of over-educated Americans who were raised on not only KDramas but a bunch of other media forms and have something to say about it.

There is a lack of well organized high level English intellectual discussion for Korean media; Dramabeans is the best on the internet at it..especially when drunk! PLEASE KEEP DOING PODCASTS

finally... just listened to your podcast.. and that hiccups. lol.. this podcast really made my day.

thank you javabeans and girlfriday... :-)

speaking of dream guys and dream girls.

I would totally want to marry javabeans!
Her blog got me into Korean dramas, her voice is so awesome and her way of thinking, recapping and analysis is wonderful. I think she is the cerebral/analytical personality trait that breaks everything down (I think that's "blue"). Could talk to her for hours!

Guys, are you with me? :)