The OT comes up later than usual now a days.
TRIP TO KOREA
Wasn't someone here mentioned visiting south korea during end of 2016? I wonder how did the trip turn out.

Has anyone tried korean beauty products? are they really much more effective than let's say regular big brands? Any to suggest? face products work best ;)

PSYCHOLOGY OF STARDOM
Q: Do these celebrities mature more quickly? I think back to when I was 19/20 and then these idols or even young actors like suzy.. they are so much more mature amidst this insane stardom... and i couldn't manage attention of morning roll calls..

Q: How taxing is it emotionally.. like doing these close scenes with every other actor.. everyone is prettier than the next person in line...i wonder how parents and families deal with it.
When does manager become everything over mom and dad..

Q: fans whom you butter up all through your professional life are as fickle as they come
they won't take 2 seconds before moving on to the next eye candy or sensation.

Q: Do we/audience psychologically try to balance out the positives of this insane wealth and populairty
by restricting private lives of the celebs? Or are we just lusting after the seemingly perfect lives
Stardom is unhealthy for so many stakeholders

Was reading up on Cinderella Syndrome.. how it has become a mass reality for women and their
expectations off the man
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Watched hapi mari..
So unlike most of the Japanese drama that have a whacky sense of humour.

And then anime seems even better.

1. Any other suggestions on good japanese/ or any other language drama (barring old school, i think liar games was really nicely done)?
started we married as a job but 2 episodes down not feeling it..dropped it

2. Any other good romantic drama? or even completed mangas?

3. Any new variety? although yay for JJY being back and RM last two episodes are so so
much better.

4. Umm.. did anyone follow the CIIT manga post the drama? How did the story end there?
Really curious abt this one

NOt watching anything at the moment.. suddenly after a year of being on one's toe.. this weel was so
devoid of drama enthusiasm.. not one series managed to grip my attention as yet

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Park hyung shik fever is so so so real. not sure how to survive till 24th and once that series gets over
20 more episodes of him and then wait worth a year or two
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So finallycaught up with tomorrow with you.
Shin minah - she is a perfect combo of sexy, cute, beautiful, pretty.. just so perfect
and acts so cute..

I love the color tone and directorial style..

although my only question? Why is the male lead so celebrated here.
Priori to this i saw him in signal.. where he was ok.. and in these two episodes also
he didn't exactly shine..he is ok..

riding on signal's laurels or is there other stuff worth the reference?

Hi everyone,Its weird before they started I planned to watch Saimdang and Missing 9 on WED-THURS but for some reason I didn’t watch them,today out of nowhere I decided to watch chief Kim and I like it lol its just so funny and weird.First time seeing NamGoong Min as a non villainous character and he just nails it what a funny watch am on episode 3 now am gonna binge watch it and then suffer the wait…lol

Happy Friday everyone!!!

By the way, does anyone know OST for "Solomon's Perjury"? Been looking for them anywhere but I could not find them... my favorite one is the song played by the end of final episode. Thanks!!!

Happy Friday! Even though I don't have a crack drama at the moment, I am happy with shows offered to us currently. And I can't wait for next episodes(7,8) of Defendant. Production team said even staffs were flabbergasted at shocking twists and it would surely give satisfaction to the viewers. PD also said Ji Sung was skipping meals to create believable image of death-row inmate. He is simply amazing.
Another thing is that I am sad there will be no more child Gildong. PD of Rebels said the show is especially popular among female viewers in their 20-30's, and they think that it is due to child Gildong actor Lee Ro-woon.heh. He is amazing when his acting experience includes only one show 'Everything will be ok' last year.

Anyway there were more interviews with casts of finished shows.
Seo Eun-soo(22) who played Pyo Na-ri's young step mother in JI, and Yeon-hwa in Romantic doctor had an interview.[Star News] She just debuted in 2016, so she was happy to be in two popular shows. About Romantic doctor, Seo said she hoped the show never finish. "The set atmosphere was so nice that everybody said there would be no other set like this one. I started filming feeling happy and ended happily, and I didn't want it to end. I thought many times I didn't want to part from these people and ended up getting emotional. I teared up even when I was shooting a happy scene, and as soon as I finish my last scene, I was overwhelmed with emotions. It is really precious project for me. I don't think I can ever forget this."

Seo said she wants to be like Seo Hyun-jin(OHYA). "Seo Hyun-jin sunbae-nim is great actress with excellent concentration and ability to immerse herself on the set. Watching her, I felt "Oh this is how the beauty of acting perfect looks like." She is an actress who proves what is the most beautiful and shines. After the light turned off, she did consistently well to staffs and actors, and I realized how great sunbae-nim was. I'd like to be like her someday, I'd like to be remembered as great sun-bae even on personality-wise like Seo sunbae-nim. I tried hard to file her in my memory throughout the shooting."

Seo had one-sided crush on Yoo Yeon-suk in the show. "I should've worked better in scenes with Yoo Yeon-suk sunbae. I felt disappointed. I could understand Yeon-hwa's feeling in the show because I had same experience. Since I knew what 'love at first sight' was like , I could relate to how she felt. But I don't think I portrayed as I wanted. Yoo Yeon-suk sunbae-nim was considerate for a clumsy person like me many times. When he found me being nervous he played jokes on me, so I was grateful. He is not a person who tells you what to do, but a person who worry with you when you tell him your concern."

I am totally busy but somehow manage to binge watch
Rakuen - Jdrama
It's weird because I find it too slow but also intriguing. I like the core story is not about revealing big murder and return justice but more of a journey to find an answer.
I really like how we have people that are supportive, support only few character and it feels that the character are real people.
Hitoshi's mom, the husband (both from the younger sister and the female protagonist just very supportive), the good lawyer who know how the ethics and others that behave as they have lives outside of helping the main story. Like they could care less if the mystery unfold, they are affected but not suffer more if it still uncovered.
This is a weird things that even if the stor is a puzzled, I can symphathise with the characters.

Plan to starts
Three Lives Three Worlds, Ten Miles of Peach Blossoms - Cdrama

Yoo Yeon-suk(33) who played doctor Kang Dong-joo in Romantic Doctor also had an interview. [Star News]
He came back from the reward trip recently. "Yesterday exchanging greetings with staffs, I felt very sad thinking it would be hard to see these people again. It is not easy all staffs and actors doing shooting laughing. Shooting itself was not easy, but it left good memories so I feel sad rather than feeling relieved." He had feedbacks like his project of life changed to this show from Reply 1994. "I feel hesitant to say my role-of-life is changed. I just think I gained another character to be remembered by people, and Chilbong-yi in Reply 1994 was not real me Yoon Yeon-suk. I think it is fortunate that I gained another character loved by people."

About Kim Hye-soo who played Kim Sabu's first love Lee Young-jo, Yoo said "I have never met Kim Hye-soo sunbae-nim in person, so I was curious, and all staffs had high expectation. She said she watched all episodes. She said it was very nice she could play with us, and she was worried appearing in last part of the drama which had been good but had fun. We were grateful. For the scene she was with Han Suk-kyu sunbae-nim, I felt like it was a scene from a movie. It had different feel. I thought the power an actor gives out could be so much different. I was also shocked when I acted with her because she came thoroughly prepared for medical terms and surgery scenes."

Yoo was happy getting a couple awards with Seo Hyun-jin in the year-end awards ceremony. "We talked about it before the ceremony. I was asked if I could get only one of acting award or couple award, which one I'd like to have, and I said I hoped to get a couple award since we worked together. So I was very happy and grateful. Our show was not melo, so we couldn't expect it much and I think that is why I wanted even more. Even though we didn't have many scenes, I think we showed good chemistry."

Because team was so amazing, he hopes for season 2. "People were talking about it around the time the drama ended. I thought even if it is not a medical drama, it would be great if we could work together. I think (Kang Eun-kyung) writer-nim must had difficulties. It was more like writing 2-3 times. She examined scripts with consultation from medical professionals, modified, and came and checked with doctors on the set before doing shoots, so the whole process went through extra steps which required more time and attention than regular dramas. But there was not even once the script came out late. We always had scripts a week ahead before we actually filmed. If script comes out late with a medical drama, it would be very difficult, but she gave us scripts early and I thought scripts were amazingly tight. If writer-nim does season 2, I am willing to do it."

Lee Ji-hoon (29) who played Lee Min-ho's step brother Heo Chi-hyun in 'Legend of Blue sea' had an interview. [Star News]
He felt embarrassed about the comment he had his presence known in the show. "I am glad and happy to hear that I had screen presence in the show. I asked for help from PD-nim and did lots of thoughts about the part I was lacking in acting. More than burden I felt by playing an evil role, I feel my responsibility is increased on my next project."

He praised the chemistry among actors. "The set atmosphere was very good. I thought Jun Ji-hyun noona and Lee Min-ho hyung were hard to approach being Hallyu stars, but I was wrong. They were down-to-earth and laughed a lot and playful. I played jokes on them prepared to get scolded, but they told me I was like vitamin. I felt good because they said they laughed a lot when they filmed with me."

He has ChaDoNam(cold city man) image, but he said he was not like that. "Actually my personality is friendly and talkative. Especially I play cute to my male friends. At home, I am a son like a daughter. I can say it is the best condition living as an actor." He debuted in 'school 2013' in 2012, and played in 'You are the best,Lee Soon-shin', 'Golden rainbow','Blood', 'Six flying dragons', 'Goho's night', 'Legend of blue sea', and 'Mirror of the witch'. "After I got out of army duty, I worked part time in a cafe in Yeoeuido. I worked on my dream taking KBS tour. And by accident I did audition for 'School 2013', and PD-nim told me I smell Jjannae (image of being pitiful, having hard-life, like Han Ye-ri character from AoY). That was when I stepped in the acting world and it has been already 5 years. I have special relationship with Yeom Jung-ah(Hong Joo in Mirror) sunbae and Kim Sang-joong(Amogae in Rebels) sunbae. Ever since finishing the Mirror I visits Jung-ah noona at home, or eat meal with Kim sunbae once a month. And I still keep in touch with SFD team and exchange pictures."

Lee said SFD where he played the minister Heo Gang made him grow the most acting-wise. "Shooting Six Flying Dragons, There was a lot to learn in acting. There are times I feel intimidated while shooting, and one time I realized I can't keep acting if I keep feeling intimidated at such moment. I thought I had to think and prepare more to be able to keep acting. And because we had actors in similar age, many fun things happened. One day I went to eat meal with (Byun) Yo-han hyung and (Yoo) Ah-in hyung, and I sat with my beard on because I still had make-up on, and elders thought I was similar age of Jun Gook-hwan(played general Choi Young) sunbad-nim. Elders told me "You got old. We enjoy watching TV." so we all laughed out loud."

Happy Friday!!

Was wondering if anyone followed Taiwanese dramas?!?

I randomly decided to watch The King of Romance and I love it soo freaking much. It has 8 episodes out now (which I thought was fine) but I caught up so quickly and now I have to wait for the slow 1 episode a week update.

It stars Lego Li - who I first watched in In a Good Way (which I also love!). I've seen a lot of Taiwanese dramas - but haven't been as enthralled by the recent ones. Anyone have a recent (like in the last year or so) Taiwanese drama to recommend?

Also, after watching Oh My Ghostess, I thought Cho Jung-Seok looked very similar to Lego Li! Does anyone else see it??

Funny that all actors go to awards shows want best couple awards

I am currently going through a k-drama drought, for some reason, I have not been able to watch anything new past Kim Bok Joo diligently. I started a couple of things and dropped them for some weird reason. Word of advice needed from fellow beanies, do I start Defendent, Chief Kim and Tomorrow With You right away or should I wait a bit and binge watch later.
Oh, and the only thing I watched recently was, the first from the 3 color fantasy series from MBC.
I was skeptical but my instagram got flooded with the short videos of episodes so I gave in. Had no idea and I loved the first one. "The Star of the Universe" was a good short drama. Nothing to dramatic, too experimental but I felt really happy and sad but was overall very very satisfied with this one. I didn't expect much from Suho but he was good, may not be the greatest but he did very very well. Is this his first time on a drama as a lead?? I am impressed. But the main star was Ji Woo, the girl's apparently 19 and she is so good with emoting, dialogues and her skills. I am in awe, I cried buckets and smiled at the same time thanks to her. I hope to see her in more dramas. I don't know, lesser known faces get ignored so much in casting but I do hope this girl gets he due because she is insanely talented. I do hope and really pray to see her headlining her own drama soon in any network whatsoever.

Hi, all! I'm late to the drama game. I started watching about 5 years but have watched so enthusiastically and become such an ambassador that I decided to write a Kdrama-inspired play for an actual theater. Can you believe that? I'm also in talks to lead a class around kdramas in the context of Asian American studies and am compiling a possible booklist. Anyone have any leads on books and resources? Of course, on my radar already is the Dramabeans' Why Do They Do That? book and The Birth of Korean Cool. Links to books, sites, academic studies, or even pop culture to provide context would be much appreciated.

Recommendation(s) Request:

Hi Everyone,

1) Easy fluffy dramas. I finished watching Weightlifting Fairy Kim Bok Jo and the feels are still very real. Does anyone know of any more simple, straightforward, almost sugary sweet dramas to follow up with? I'm a huge fan of 9 Innings, 2 Outs.

2) Remake suggestions. 2017 marks the 10th anniversary of Coffee Prince, of which, I'm a huge fan. It got me to thinking what would a remake of this classic look like. Thailand seems to be in business of making some really good Korean drama remakes (Full House, Kiss Me (Thai version of Playful Kiss). Could anyone suggest any Korean remakes? I recently finished 1% of Something and it was okay. REALLY COULD NOT make it through Fated to Love You and The Time We Were Not in Love.

3) Repeat pairings. I'm a long time K-drama fan and plan to remain so but I have started watching dramas from other Asian countries. One difference I've noticed is that in Taiwanese and Thai dramas there's a lot more re-pairing of actors and actresses. Could anyone suggest some repeat OTPs in K-dramas? The only couple that readily comes to mind is Park Shin-Hye and Jung Yong Hwa but even they would get an asterisk. (They were OTP in Heartstrings but not in You're Beautiful.)

Please and thank you for your thoughts.

Been pretty depressed with everything having to do with politics.. my go to pick me up is always dramas. Glad there are some good ones rn!

Missing 9 is just great and I love it...just not watching it tho..reading the recaps because of all the suspense kills me.

Rebel HGD ? this one I am watching. I love it. Omg. Can't wait for my questions to be answered...there are dozens. Aha.

Chief Kim is my light one. I enjoy its wackiness.

Hwarang I like, but could do away with the otp. I don't care for them and kinda wish their romance took a back seat...for the rest of the show..

Introverted Boss has gotten a bit odd for me now that they are trying to make revisions. I actually liked the show before..and now feel like the lead girl is more annoying because she is trying to be sweet.? I liked her crazy personality and how normalish she seemed when not in crazy mode. Honestly was confused that ppl didn't like that it was so out there and not realistic at all...I thought that was the point? Meh. Who knows. I liked it but that's only one opinion. :)

And that's about it. I do watch variety shows as well, tho mainly just knowing bros. ?