Great idea, I look forward to reading these! I only know that I've become a lot harder to please, and that I always come back to Jumong and my first love: sageuks. ?

Jae Hee! I never lost my taste for him, but Dramaland refuses to satisfy my craving (with anything other than dailies *sob*).

Looking forward to reading these posts a lot! And hopefully contributing this time :)

I wish my taste of drama is like what it is used to be. Sigh. I'm practically more sinister, pickier, darker, and bitter in choosing a drama ? I give meaner comment about drama. And I become disloyal too: Try to insult me, drop; lazy writing, drop; inconsistent character development, drop. Lol. Is it what growing up supposed to be like? ?

I've pretty much just kept with romcoms lol so I'm excited to read these submissions!
Also can I just add how much I'm loving this theme of the month series! It's so fun to read about everyone else's drama experiences hehe

Short answer? My tastes have changed because I now get my drama suggestions from other drama beanies. (Thank you to everyone who has suggested dramas.)

Sounds like a fun feature! But does it mean that there will be no beans of wisdom and spill the beans??

Even though it was an awesome series of posts, I'm kind of glad the catnip theme is over. I knew there were many things that kept luring me to k-dramaland, but I hadn't realized there were that many. It's rather sobering, like "this is your brain on drugs dramas".

My viewing tastes have changed some over the years-- it'll be interesting to compare notes with everyone.

My tastes have changed so much. I've practically treated my k-dramas as my social science term papers. I've become more analytical, intolerant, cynic, and realist.

Sageuk is still my fav genre although these days sageuk focus too much on romance. I noticed myself is no longer love romance drama as much as I did in the past. 2000s was the golden days of melodrama, but if you give me the same drama these days, I may not watching it except if they casted someone I like.

Anyway, looking forward to read these posts.. :)

So I think I'm skipping this month's theme. My prefrences hasn't changed much. I still love what I've always loved <3

I saw that pict then I clicked.
OMG when did I watch Witch Yoo Hee? at my high school period that kind of cheesy drama always be my favorite, until I graduated and went on college I realized that crime and mystery is more appealing. I've had enough of pinky-romance dramas.
But actor and actress are still being my ultimate reason to watch it or drop it tho.

Taste definitely change over the year. I was rewatching City Hunter (I loved it back then! This secured my love for Lee Min Ho more than BOF) but watching it now, I grow frustrated by the alpha-male-lead character who has a hard time in being honest about his feeling. He likes a girl? Well let's make him do all jerky things to her face, she will def fall in love this way!

(Also it's hard to take him seriously when he goes to work in singlets.)

Over the past five years I've become an anti-romantic and I no longer feel the need to complete shows. It's such a satisfying feeling to drop shows

Wow! I can't wait. Now to get thinking on what I'm going to write. I do wonder though @javabeans I sent in my entry for last month's catnip before the deadline closed but mine wasn't posted :( was wondering if maybe the mail wasn't received or if there was meant to be some sort of notification confirming receipt of mail or something.

Yes to this new theme , recently I tried for the first time to watch Flower boy next door and I can't finish it while knowing that if I had watched it a few years ago , I would have totally loved it.
Is it how adults begin to drink coffee despite the bitterness ? I'm still not on that level ^^'

Off course, My taste in drama start to change overtime. My enjoyment start from only enjoying character journey whom played by my favourite actor in a drama, to wanting enjoying drama/movie as the whole package. From watching drama only to entertain, to watching a drama and look at it as an art and start to appreciate the effort behind the camera.

When the first time I watch a movie or tv series, I'm not that bothered by dubious acting by actor, well because I hardly even noticed a bad actor in the first place. If I started to notice, then their acting must be very bad LOL. And now Just like that, After watching countless drama and movie, you start to notice the quality acting of the actor. I'm not that expert to judge it though.

Oooh new theme!!
Can't wait to see all the articles.
I want to send something too but I was thinking maybe this time I'll send something worth publishing & not too crappy, so maybe I'll read a few articles to understand how to do it.

So I won't be hasty this time & try to send a proper article written by a grown up lol

Should I admit this or not? Here goes...When I first started watching kdramas, the language barrier helped to conceal the bad acting. I could tolerate pretty much any level of acting but now I'm so much more discerning. I could not stomach My Secret Romance this year, but would have loved it circa 2010.

I am fiercely loyal to actors I like, so it's hard to get me to watch a show even though it may be popular. The only change so far is I watched Fated to Love You two weeks ago, and discovered Jang Hyuk. I have never watched a single drama of his, but was smitten after the drama.

I guess my taste of dramas has changed from romcom to all kind of genres because I practically watch all kind of dramas now.

I remember you saying something regarding this in the recent podcast, JB. When you guys talked about father is strange and I thought I should check it out. But, no time. Its only been a year since i started watching kdramas. I am not sure if my preferences have changed just that I find it easier to drop shows. Before, I couldn't imagine not finishing a show but now if I can't connect to the characters of the show after a few episodes, I drop it.

The only consistent thing about my drama taste is that I didn't like Lee Min Ho back then and I still dislike him (and I tried to care for his characters for so many times...).

From cliched rom-com to heavy and dark crime dramas. But sometimes in the midst of heavy dark dramas, I still appreciate one or 2 funny rom-com I'm between to lighten up the atmosphere.

I used to just watch rom-coms, but now try some Sci-fi, thriller and sageuks. I think I don't mind dabbling in any genre. I still refuse to watch over-the-too melos, makjangs, anything more than 30 episodes and anything where the leads die in the end.

I think my taste in dramas hasn't changed at all, in fact, I still crave for dramas like you're beautiful, Goong, master's sun, flower boy next door, I hear your voice, my name is Kim Sam Soon, so mostly rom-com with pure heart in the story. Sadly with more time passing, it's hard to find romcoms with more depth and content these days, and most of the dramas are gone with the wind after they run the course of the show. Once in a while I go back to my favorite shows and notice, how much the recent dramas lack, most are fluff and cute, with fewer story materials. So if anything, for my taste not changing, I have no one to blame but the writers, and the challenging drama schedules that channels have to abide by.

Interesting topic, my tastes have changed in some ways and remained the same in others.

First what stayed the same:
1. I still like shows were romance is the main genre or one of the main genres, so romance/comedy (romcoms), romance/drama, or romance/suspense/thriller remain my go to shows.
2. The premise and first few episodes are still what mainly determines if I checkout and stick with a drama or not, even though actors I like do have some effect on that as well. However I won’t stick with a drama if I find it lacking, even if I like the casting.

Second, what has changed:
1. I have become a pickier and harder to please, so I require better storylines. For example, my first kdrama was “You’re Beautiful”, at the time I first watched it I thought it was so good but now it’s not even on my favorites list and I find it ridiculous and too juvenile.
2. Before I used to be tolerant of the bowl hairstyle and its variations, now I find it annoys me more and more. I keep wishing that more dramas would give the male leads better hairstyles (brushed to the back or to the side).

These are off the top of my head, if I remember more I will add.

Watching a lot of Kdramas sometimes I always make sure that the plot and casting is good. If the drama catched my attention in the first few minutes whoever who the actors/actress are I will watch it until the end unlike others who is new to korean dramas that only watch the dramas because the OPPA they like and they know are in the drama eventhough it's not good acting and plot wise.. As I watched more and more korean dramas I am now into Crime and mystery drama. I love watching fantasy dramas with a twist :D Some romcom drama are ok but i am tired of watching high school dramas as sometimes they just have the same story line

I'm getting harder to please. I also readily dump dramas, I copied someone's idea (dont remember who but definitely a beanie) about watching at least 4 before dropping. It saves me a lot of time tbh. I have no time for 'rom-com turn melo', if I wants a melo, I'll pick a melo thankyouverymuch.
I suffers kdrama fatigue more often this few years, I find nothing interest me and I left with a long list of abandoned dramas. I like that now we have so many choices of (good) crime-thriller dramas, so I quite happy. I still love sageuks and I dont mind rewatching Dae Jang Geum, Hwangjinyi or Jumong. I love that this year started on a good note as far as kdrama fan concern as we get some fresh ideas (strong consistent heroine in JeaBok, new or mash up genre like circle, good execution of plot like ) and I hope this continues.
Oh... I also limit myself on how far I'm willing to go for my fave. I'm done with self-inflicting wounds because of certain actors, I'm too old for that s&*^. lol

dropped in kdrama land cause of melos in the 2000s and now, I avoid them like a plague. A hint of sad plot, sad endings and I don't even start watching a drama.

*I am so sorry 7DQ and YWJ, I don't have the courage anymore

My taste is all the same but i am picky with drama quality and couple chemistry.

Hmmm nice topic. I think my taste has just been fine-tuned over time.

This theme just made me realise how weird I am. My taste has not changed since I saw my first Asian Drama - Meteor Garden, circa 2003. I still like the romcoms, the tsundere, the ikemen, the cinderella story, the cutesy, the cringe worthy cheesiness. I'm not one to over-analyze a plot or an actor's acting level. I can continue watching a subpar plot as long as I like what I'm seeing, ahem Cinderella and Four Knights. I'm so easy to please. I wonder why? Maybe I like being stagnant, I'm still stuck in 90s music. am i the weirdest one here? ?

I first watched a Korean drama in 2007, I was a fan of rom-com or long ass dramas because I have nothing better to do with my time at the time, but after a decade, I started to become more picker and I like fantasy, sci-fi, suspense, crime and thriller dramas with plot twists. I don't even like a drama that is focusing too much on romance anymore tbh. One thing hasn't changed is Sageuks, I will watch it if it has an awesome plot like time-travel genre and a must if Lee Joon Gi is in it.