OK, noted that. I'm not sure how much commenting I'll do. It has of course to be interesting and friendly.

I've been taking it easy today, with an itchy throat and a propensity to fall asleep. I will have to get some reading done while I can.

The good thing about having few good shows airing is that there seems to be more time to read. :)

@ Snickers?

OK, thanks for the info. Then I will not watch it.

Are you going in to drama watching by the actor or actress you might like to watch in another show?

Anyone else come to mind?

I seem to choose shows as blindly as possible, and more based on the story outline. Then I watch to see if I regret it. :)

I might sort of like to choose a show, say, for Seo In Guk, who is up and coming and can be interesting in the various roles he's played. But if the next story he is in does not sound like something I'd like, I might still give it a miss.

4. People acting like they lack basic common sense when they should have known better as a set up to whatever insults the viewers' intelligence ??? When it is -10°C outside, you are cold and you are wearing a long scarf, cover up your head! Anyone who lives through real winter every year should know about 30% of the body heat escapes from the head. And, exposed skin under such condition would suffer frost bites before the person becomes hypothermic.

A doctor revealing confidential information with without the patient’s consent should be severely disciplined.

Yes there is brief mention of it in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latter_Day_Saints_in_popular_culture

I am not bothered too much about past societies' prejudices. Every group, even those in the majority, have suffered various forms of mild to extreme mistreatment, both in reality and in fiction. Things generally improve. As long as continuous improvement is being achieved and people don't hold onto false "good ol' days" mindset, it's good enough.

I've had that happen to me every time if in YouTube I don't bother to stop a video when it finishes. I always took it that all the videos lined up on the right frame were somehow there because of date or some ad hoc listing order and that one video just followed on another endlessly.

If they are filed or listed according to some indexed terms, then if people put in rubbish tags like those # tags that have no relevance to the subject, they just get included in the list of videos that use those tags. I have not examined the videos/tags/details or cared to, therefore this is just my lay person's guess.

I am considering Flower Boy Ramyun Shop. I like Jung Il Woo.

I'm wondering what happened to Jung Il Woo. He was wonderful in The Return of Iljimae and then mediocre... and now he does crap like that last saeguk he was in.

@ Snickers?

Friendly advice: Next time you marathon, force yourself to get up every half hour and walk around. Better for back and neck!!! If I get one of them stiff necks they last for days. I tend to keep changing my seating positions too.... legs down, or up or body sometimes sideways, just to keep the muscles from freezing up. I also drink a lot of wather so that I have to get up to use the bathroom if nothing else!!! :D

Nope. The first time I watch a drama I want good video quality. Once The Merchant is done, I'll pay viki to stream in HD. Also, maybe I'll watch LJK's Iljimae on viki too.

The Merchant is only ep3 86% and ep4 71% English subbed at the present on viki.

Nah... it's a mistake... Ep 1 is only airing tomorrow. That's just the preview. Looks interesting.

Thanks @ Susan,

I like Jackie Chan but I've never been able to sit through a Happy Together episode. I'll probably break it up into little bits.

I'm not touching a 50-episode drama with a 50-ft pole ?

Here is DramaFire's response on FB.
https://www.facebook.com/dramafire

I had some difficulties distinguishing new burnt areas from older ones. The smoke caused many satellite images to look red making identification quite tricky to a novice like me.

I love the comment where one of the companies says they're working with the military to put out the forest fires. Can we make that into a Kdrama? Sort of Misaeng + Dday where everyone in the office is brought fire-fighting gear one day and told to go out to the front lines and join the military in battling out of control fires.

Thanks @Snickers?

I still think it's terribly risky committing a show to start in a few weeks, when hardly anything has been filmed yet!!!

Will you watch the Chinese drama or the cat drama?

I may only out of curiosity but more likely the cat drama than the other, simply because I seldom watch the Chinese. I may not have been paying much attention, but I'm not particularly blown away by Yoo Seung Ho. He just seemed more like a pretty face.

Ummmm..... why?

Yes, I noticed. Back again to telling us our comments are accepted and the ratings.

viki already has The Merchant on HD. It's more cost effective for me to wait until the drama is over, buy a month of viki membership then watch it in HD.

Not watching Six Flying Dragons.

Making dinner.

And scratching myself. A couple bug bites and irritation from plants because I worked in the backyard jungle wearing a t-shirt.

Clicking on the map and on the note paper icon give us a breakdown of who's online by country!


stripped or not stripped


@ Snickers? Feel free to see if you agree with any of these.

Yeah, those questions on chemistry of couples in shows... as usual I started by asking why it was that I saw little or nothing and others were flailing excited at the chemistry they could see. My first thoughts will generally run ... I'm missing something here.... or is it a matter of interpretation .... is there a right / wrong answer as in there is or there isn't chemistry or no such thing as only one answer??? Hence my questions on whether it is subjective and what people say chemistry is to them. I should also look it up online to see if there's much written about it.

My conclusions at the moment....
*Chemistry is undefinable or hard to fully define... it is based on how right we feel a couple are for each other, how we interpret what they 'feel' for each other, whether they look compatible, whether even after a show is over we want them to be together even in RL and every combination of these aspects.

* Show producers put in effort to give viewers characters that will have chemistry... they can tell if there is or isn't chemistry regardless of who the actors are, usually during the casting process. They also can and do ensure the right mood music, lighting, camera angles etc etc to augment the chemistry for viewing.

* Actors are supposed to work at creating chemistry. Whether they have it or not with their fellow actors, their job is to do their best to convince viewers that they have it for that other actor.

* Viewers will be viewers. They can interpret chemistry any way they like. For them it can be a mixture of subjective 'feels' and the recognition of the technical aspects that went into making the chemistry happen or it can just be purely subjective. Hence the remarkable occurrences of people saying there was so much chemistry among couples where I see none.

* There is also the element of whether a show has generated positive vibes of viewers for the characters. It is possible that what viewers think is chemistry between characters, may in fact be more that they feel positive towards those characters, than that the characters are full of chemistry with each other. IE we just like those characters (and see them as people) and we want them to be 'happy' and not lonely. We might then impute a lot more to any interactions of characters based on how we feel about them.

I'm not sure if there's more to add to this summary of conclusions but I'll see what emerges if and when I think some more or sleep over it. :)

You can still get rid of the dust, at least for a little while.

Yes, I may watch it not because of him but because it's short and I try stuff. Does not mean I'll watch the whole lot just because it is short, but it's more likely I will.

As for Remember, maybe because is has thriller in it, I may try. I am curious about having too much memory and losing it.

After watching the 3rd episode of Dazzling Temptation, I'm still not sure if I'll continue, but it was not too bad. The melo part is kicking in though... I tread warily with melo. Too much and I decamp... requires the investment of too much emotional capital. Of course that's the reason why many people who like melo, do like melo. At the end of it all there's supposed to be emotional pay-off for all the weeks of investment. But I am not sure I want to be upset for virtual people for weeks on end. I like the kids in the backstory. That's keeping me on for the time being.

The way I see the difference:

You use google's google app to google stuff.

You can add google capability to your website with google API to google stuff.

I did a little search of my own..... :-)

API: Application Programming Interface. Just means a 'search' that is specific to a specific application. Which, of course, you may be able to embed in another application.

What's been happening? With just 1 show that did not air, the whole pace of drama watching seems to have been upset! I guess it's time to scare myself with some Cheo Yong 2, however the subbing was really not good for the latest episode. It looks like the experienced subbers have either left or are overworked.

The subs for Village: the Legend of Achiara are even worse. They look as if they were Google translated with minimal or no editing to help us make sense of the phrases. Fortunately it is recapped here and the story was clear enough to figure out and a minute familiarity with Korean helped too.

@ Snickers?

I see some may link back to edX.

I'll need both time and energy. Late afternoon/early evening and I'm flagging already.

I think I may have to watch bits of WBDS. I may not last out the 30 episodes but I'd like to see some good action.

I loved The Return of Iljimae!!

My experience is mainly as a viewer. I don't really have great insight to this matter.

1. Seggers and subbers are different. A segger's job is to "cut" speeches into appropriate lengths- starting right when a person speaks, making sure the segment length is not too short/long... Certain monosyllabic words are not segged. Sometimes lyrics are segged and sometimes not. A seggers don't need to know the language. They just need to have very good timing and apply the rules well.

2. viki's "official" subbers must first pass segging training. No clue what is exactly involved in the subbing training. Obviously a subber should know how to seg just in case a segger who doesn't know the language cut a long sentence in the wrong place.

3. If you are bilingual/multilingual, take a look at a spoken language you know that is subbed in another language you know and see how well or not subtleties are translated. People who are trained as interpreters would do a much better job than your average bilingual/multilingual people.

⌀⌀Example: There is a two-word phrase in Korean that starts with the word "dog." It's often translated into English as "nonsense." But for some reason I think it is closer to English 🐂💩 in spirit.

4. I've watched same dramas several times on viki and dramafever. Occasionally, the same spoken sentence are subbed to convey different meanings.
⌀⌀Example: Healer ep. 6. CYS told PBS over the phone that she feels that they are like sisters. JB and viki both used "sisters" while DF used "siblings."

5. I'm watching Return of Iljimae on DF. Apparently, the sub is official MBC sub. I can tell more are said than subbed. There is an unintentionally hilarious subtitle in ep. 12??????????
Looks like the official MBC subbers didn't know how to translate what was said ? Based on this and

⌀⌀• kdramas generally are not made with international audience as the main focus
⌀⌀• live shoots

I don't think writers collaborate with translators/interpreters.

That was me a year ago ?

???????? with your 📖

Must have been a lot of obsessive comment reading to encounter your email address in the threads. Or was it a referral?

Hope this person is kosher, not some kind of new generation spambot. I heard people are working on such algorithms.

Oh! Those are the BEST roles!! A great villain role can make an international career. See: Benedict Cumberbatch and Star Trek. I am confident Lee Jun Ki can make the most of it. He's so great, it would be wonderful to see him transition Andy Liau style to an international audience.