Thanks for talking about Wonderful Season! It's my drama crack at the moment, even though I thought I would never watch a weekend family drama. Totally agree with your comments about Taecyeon, though.

Yay! I have been waiting for another podcast!
Thanks :)

I'm a little disappointed that you guys didn't mention "Bride of the Century." If you guys are following it, I would love to hear your wrap-up on it when it ends ;)

I listened DB podcast only once (DB Podcast #19) since want to know JB and GF voices. I'm a girl and it's weird that think I had girl crush on JB's voice, just for some secs, after listening. Never imagine you have that cheerful and full of spirit, and I dont know your age but you have one young girl voice. And GF, she has the mature voice.

Girlfriday, your frustration with Dong-hee with the whole 'I-cry-for-what-should-have-been-there-instead-of-what-is-there' is super funny. Just listening to the podcast, I can feel your frustration from continents away.

Thanks for the podcast, ladies.

Yay! Love your podcasts!

Thank you for your discussion of God's Gift! It's my drama crack this season!

I agree with all the praise heaped on JSW!! He is such an amazing actor! Thanks for shedding some light on JSW's popularity in Korea, since it's hard to gauge that kind of stuff from the States and not being korean myself! And I definitely agree that this drama has put him on the radar of a lot of international fans and why not, he's soooo very very very very good!

Glad to see y'all are shipping the romance between DC and SH also! :D

Totally agree on emergency couple. Like i mean i've seen episodes with Jin hee subtly hinting to the chief that she likes him ( acting all girly and stuff when she said she saw his message , asking him if he likes someone who is familiar etc etc ). All of the sudden after the death of Changmin's father , she falls for Changmin and doesn't even bother Chief Gook anymore (?) Like not even a scene of her trying to decide between the two. It's Changmin straight for the win.

I will totally listen to this after I will get a few hours of sleep. Yay for the JSW/GG love, can't wait to hear your comments. I was just thinking the other day that I would do the Snoopy dance just to have a new podcast released soon and there it is.

You from another star was so popular that my mom, aunts and uncles, and my mom's friends in Hong Kong were all talking about the drama even though they never watched kdramas.

Yeay a new podcast and yeay Jo Seung Woo! I'm so happy that I decided to give God's Gift a chance. Not only because it's my drama crack this season (and it's been a while since I had a drama crack), but it also allows me to "discover" Jo Seung Woo. I LOVE him as Dong Chan. He can be awesome without having to work for it. It's just like a natural coolness. And his comic timing is just perfect. He made me go back and watch almost all of his movies (subbed and even unsubbed) and also his musical clips. The man is just wonderful - and he can play guitar too! *squeee* His youtube playlist serenades me to sleep every night :D *rave over*

In other news, I'm only watching 3 days alongside God's Gift this season, and even though it doesn't have the same level of intensity and the same emotional stake as God's Gift, I really like Park Ha Sun and Yoochun there. I just hope they will have less round table discussion and more actions. Your comment about the awkward split screen had me cracked up. I know I feel a bit iffy about those, but I can't quite put my finger on it. Now that you point it out, I don't think I will ever look at it the same way again :D

Yay, a podcast! Had a blast listening to it. Pretty much agreed on a lot of the things you ladies said. Just want to put out a few thoughts in response:

1. Kdramas, particularly in TvN, are trying out slice-of-life type of storytelling which excites me because I always loved that when I used to read shoujo manga. Something about the way a romance plays out in the little moments makes me giddy. However, it's way too slow in Kdramas (as seen in Reply 1994 and Let's Eat). Things barely progress for ages and I think that's because there's the other agenda/focus that takes away from how slice-of-life actually works. I mean, in Let's Eat, there was so much focus on the food porn and Reply 1994, there was the focus on the mystery husband. So I do wish that Kdramas continue to experiment and finally find a way to share a slice-of-life story full of emotional beats that keep the audience connected to it rather than feeling detached.

2. The more I watch of God's Gift, the less enthused I feel about it because it started out with such a bang and felt so perfect that anything short of it bothers me a lot. All these little flaws keep cropping up and they nag me with their presence in the corner of my mind. Feels like Mirae's Choice all over again: so much promise but things like the time-travelling and disconnect towards Ajhumma Mirae kept bothering me to the point that I couldn't enjoy the story and always irritably pointed out the flaws like a broken record. I see that happening with God's Gift particularly in the way Soohyun and Saet Byul do the stupidest things ever. *sigh*

3. I have a thing against weekend dramas. Like you ladies said, they start out so wonderfully promising for about ten episodes or so and then dwindle down to such a terrible mess that they become unbearable. Which is why I'm constantly on the edge while watching Wonderful Season because it's so good right now but I fear it will become blegh later. Still, I watch anyways. I guess the only thing I'm really interested in is Seo-jin's character finally reconciling with the whole family and sharing a very lovely and heartwarming bond. My heart just clenches whenever they clash. I'm not interested in the heroine....her younger self was much more interesting but right now, even though I get her moroseness, I actually prefer the younger version. There was such a spark in her eyes. As for the kids, omg, I can't wait until the tables turn when current uncle and nephew switch places with just one birth secret revelation. That will crack me up. I suspect the child aunt who will become neice will get a good treatment whereas the uncle will be avenged and schooled, hahahaha. But yeah, totally spot in what you guys said about this drama. It's great...but too bad about Taecyon (which I have been pronouncing as Tie-cee-own all this time, lmao).

Hahaha, the split screen awkwardness being mentioned. I actually looked up the PD for three days (and there are two). The only one I saw out of both their works is TWDR and that was so awesome, so I'm just going to go limb and say the other PD is probably the one that sucks.

Definitely agree that last year had no great dramas. 2009 was actually one of those awesome years that had so many great and memorable ones - even if the quality wasn't awesome, I was definitely addicted to quite a few. Christmas, You're Beautiful, Boys Over Flowers, Shining Inheritance, City Hall, Smile You... Yea, I'll stop lol.

I was hoping you guys would talk about the lack of romance in the upcoming dramas :P They're all so action packed and Kdramas aren't really good at those vs heart sweeping romance. I miss Sageuks too, but Joseon Gunman should be on soon.

Hey ladies, love these podcasts.

In regards to how our star couple managed to reteam for YFAS, in an interview, KSH said that he and JJH at first were exchanging texts as simple greetings and updating each other on how life was going(KSH likes to keep in touch with his colleagues/costars via texting). Both were discussing which projects they should take on next, and JJH revealed she was offered the role in YFAS, as was KSH. Both thought it would be a good idea to do another collab. Naturally, both came to the conclusion that they should work together on YFAS -- a team effort, despite reports of KSH asking his noona accept the role as a favor and vice versa. JJH seems to be going in a pattern of re-teaming with past costars in her new projects too, so KSH was probably a big factor for her to accept.
They're so adorable -- KSH supposedly visited her during her Bazaar photoshoot after shooting a CF since he was in the area (he did the same for costar nam ji hyun during her angel eyes shooting since he was filming in the same area for YFAS, despite his hectic schedule).
JJH also recommends him restaurants in Taiwan when he was in taipei for his fanmeeting. When asked what he wanted to try in taiwan, he said pineapple pastries, because his ji hyun noona brought some for him to eat on set and he thought it was deliciousss.
Anywho, April 18 the two will be meeting up again for the launching of Samsung galaxy S5 -- the two will be filming (i presume, multiple) CFs together for Samsung electronics for China.
eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeek. Is my love for this noona-dongsaeng relationship showing? I just wrote a novel detailing their cute friendship.

I also love the influx of married actresses recently gracing our screens in leading roles and doing well in them:
Lee Bo Young(gods gift), Jun Ji Hyun(yfas), Lee Min Jung(csl), Han Ji Hye(full sun), Kim Hee Sun(wonderful days), Kim Hee Ae (secret love affair)
Slowly but surely, k-ent is changing. Now, i just have to wait for the day where rumors are called rumors and not "scandals".

I love how you girls mentioned the whole actors in film vs actors in drama. I tend to admire actors in film and really appreciate their artistic craft, but for some that's where it ends. Then when you put them in dramas, you really see them in a different light. You fall in love. You see MORE of them as you follow them on a weekly basis. The joys, sorrows, laughter. You feel it all. That's why i liked JJH in il mare/sassy/thieves/berlin but then came to LOVE her after yfas.

I think Jin hee never really liked the chief, I think she was kinda curious about what kind of person he likes since they included her in that conversation. She probably felt flattered and happy that the chief recognizes her and thinks of her highly as to send her a message.

Thank You!!
I thought now that odds and ends are here there wont be more podcast......
Gotta Listen!!!

Just wait until ep 41 of Gold Rainbow....you''ll hate it so much you would gladly play "Russian Roulette" to escape the pain of it, wink. Better to imagine your own happy ending than to lament to 50 hours you wasted!

thanks for the podcast. I was one that found 'sweet potato' laughably perfect. really didn't care for any of the characters exc sung Joon's and his, as you pointed out was completely unbelievable.

I laughed out loud at your review of let's eat. I was one of those who loved the drama and I didn't feel that the food was product placement. but the reaction I got from listening to you talking about let's eat us the same
reaction I get watching it!

and then gF's take in GR really cracked me up. I HAD to skip about 3 episodes maybe more coz it just got sooooooo awful AND boring with all that ridiculous scheming. also secret love affair came along and is so mind blowingly awesome that I just couldn't take the bad anymore. I watched the last episode gouge with lots of ff and am
glad I skipped some episodes and used that time to rewatch SLA repeatedly!! :p

Yay! New podcast! Teeeehannnks!

I have not watch yet most of these show cause I'm just watching Bride of the Century, Full Sun and Secret Love Affair. But I'll still listen.

I thought javabeans is watching Full Sun and would mention Yoon Kye Sang....

Oh well that's okay! Thanks again!

...no Secret Love Affair? :/ It's one of the best dramas this year by far. I don't know why DB's ignoring it, especially when it's doing so well.

Even though I understand why nobody is capping Empress Ki (so many episodes), I was hoping someone would mention it since I think it is so good. I haven't been bored with any episode yet, and I get bored easily unless I find at least one story that is compelling. (which doesn't explain the crazy Wang's family addiction). I am liking Wonderful Season, and the type of things that are happening in this family are very much like things that happen in Southern US families with everyone pretending it never happened.

I think they kinda giving us an explanation for the wormhole thing way back when the lawyer read an article about 2 comets coming to earth and one disappeared. Wish they spent a tiny bit more time on that point to give us a stronger connection and a better answer.

My explanation for why Songyi and Yihwa are doppelgangers is that there's only so many faces the universe/cosmo human face-designer can come up with therefore our faces get reused every few hundred or so years.

Jo Seung Woo is just so great. Wonder who will win the daesang? Jo Seung Woo or Jeon Ji Hyun. The YFAS's fans will obviously choose Jeon Ji Hyun. As a fan of both dramas, YFAS and God's gift, i would prefer Jo Seung Woo since he does not just have a great acting but also deliver meaningful message.

I Need Romance 3 was well worth it just for Sung Joon as Sweet Potato (aka Joo Wan), the adorable giraffe, and the french music and tone. The parallelism of the actions and feelings displayed and expressed by Shin Joo-Yeon and Sweet Potato was different and a nice twist.

I adore Let's Eat and I definitely agree that it's best to avoid watching on an empty stomach. Let's Eat delivered each and every episode with the cast of characters, the slice of life feel, the comedy, the antics of Barassi, and the food porn. The food did not come across to me as Product Placement. If anything, it provided a peak into Korean food (cultural diffusion) and reignited an appreciation of and passion for eating great food while dining with friends and loved ones.

I applaud TVN for trying something different in terms of scheduling with this drama. I loved that it only aired once a week on Thursdays from November 28, 2013 - March 13, 2014. It didn't feel like four months because time flew by and you could count on Let's Eat once a week to humor you with the writing and comedy. :)

It's a must see for all the gastronomes, gourmets, connoisseurs, epicureans, and foodies as well.

Emergency Couple - Enjoying the cast but I recognize that the writing sometimes has a tendancy for character development/actions to fluctuate.

You From Another Star :)

Age of Feeling :(

Wow.. recap, db, podcast.. it's my very first time.. going to download it! Thank you! ^^

I'm loving Emergency Couple, and I can probably fill in what's missing.

Why Chang-min has a huge revelation falling in love with Jin-hee again?

I think, ever since their "stuck in the elevator patient trauma" Chang-min revives his romance for Jin-hee slowly. There are so many subtle moments between them as interns which awaken their romantic nostalgia back in college days. That's why we get it how doctors marry doctors in the real world. They can share so many precious moments together from interning in the hospital to being practitioners. Makes sense. And, I can't help but roll my eyes when Chang-min goes back being the caveman when another man goes in for "your woman" (past or present) do you realize you may lose her forever to shoot some blitz courage to get her back. Lazy pig(s).

Why the Chief back down from being a heated love rival?

One reason, OTP's married yet divorced lingering feelings. He declared not backing down before OTP revealed their fated connection being a divorced couple. Since the unveiling, the Chief opens up his dysfunctional emotions towards his divorced parents, which I love seeing his sensitivity. He's conflicted in that sense. He's such a big man for standing in the sidelines waiting for Jin-hee to choose the right man for her.

Why are the podcasts not downloading from itunes. Did it move? I'm able to download other one's but not this one.