Whoaaaa... i managed to enter the site while it's on maintenance mode. am i supposed to?

So last week I watched New journey to the west cause I wanted to see Lee Seung Gi, and he was pretty much perfect.
Which brings me to my NJtTW crush : Ahn Jae Hyun, who said "He's too perfect for our group " :P
Now in continuing to watch season 2, I fell in like with AJH. He's clumsy, sort of dumb and can be used only for walking.
But on the other hand he's a bada$$ that can openly say he adores his girlfriend/wife on public tv. He said more than once that a job is only a job, and not his life. He did not care much when they told him his fans would probably throw tomatoes at him in China. When Ji won told him to fix his voice for variety , he was like "Yeah, I get a lot of criticism about that".
In other words he's my best celebrity.

So now he joins my list of taken and very happy oppas :
Ji Sung (he and his wife are amazing), Joo Won (he accepted his relationship out of nowhere, and even BoA made a joke about it in produce 101) and Jung Kyung Ho (he's so great with his girlfriend).
Now if only Kang Dong Won would find someone, that would be great.

Honestly I don't get why there is hate when your fave gets in a relationship, like that ugly thing about Lee Jong Gi's girlfriend on the internet. So sad they broke up.

Well, moving forward with NJtTW season 3 then. Since I saw season 4 first :D

Hi everyone!

Manhole 5 and 6: Does a soul in a suit count as having a job? I didn’t exactly mean for Bong Pil to be in a coma when I asked that he please stop flailing around in the sand and frantically filling and tossing barrels or water. So extreme. But Sook Tae and his father are the best body swappers unawares ever! This kdrama is outrageously exasperating enough to keep me watching.

Hyori’s Bed and Breakfast: What in the world is IU doing as the maid? I thought it was a look-alike, I really did. But Lee Ji Eun is our darling IU (songwriter, singer, and performer extraordinaire) who sleeps in the staff quarters and washes dishes. Such a mismatch with Hyori. I don’t get it. Please give that girl some more chocolate!

Night Goblin: Comedians and idols sitting on a rooftop all night after taking a taxi each to an undeveloped town and waiting for a local donut shop to open, The shop opened. They ate a donut. Yep that’s the summary. No more, no less.

My Father is Strange – 52 episodes wrap up this weekend, wah! Who would have thought that a lifetime of living a dead friend’s identity because you were framed and imprisoned for manslaughter as a young man who went on to marry and have four children who became pretty awesome adults that came to understand their parents’ lies and fraud against them and went on to root for a retrial to prove their father’s innocence, setting aside their own hurt and repercussions and working through the injustices and misunderstandings of twisted relationship conflicts that take on lives of their own, could be so endearing? Recaps at http://www.cimiart.wordpress.com

Still 90s here in total eclipse land. Have a good weekend! \/

How fun to be on OT so "early" because of the maintenance delay. Now I can interact with Beanies as they comment!

How is the kocowa/Viki combo working out for people? Is it smooth sailing, are the subs all there?

Hi Beanies !

I don't like dramas with too much cheese but Secret Garden is my guilty pleasure. So what is your guilty pleasure ? The drama you know everyone finds it bad but can't help loving it.

Happy Friday :D

Happy Friday, Beanies! I've been commenting in OT but haven't posted in a couple of weeks because I was derailed by School 2017 recaps ^^;

I'm down to just one drama now that my semester has begun. Was buddy watching Strongest Deliveryman with my mum but we stopped after the first two episodes. It was a bit early to drop it, but we were hoping more for a slice-of-life approach, and it didn't look like it was going to be that way because of the accident with Kangsoo's friend + the impending takeover of the alley by the chaebol food company. I'm still keeping tabs on the recaps, and may return to watch it alone if it's getting good reviews.

Also, something cool I wanted to share with Beanies! I'm taking Korean 5 this semester and my teacher is piloting an online resource by working with a tech company and Viki. Basically, it's a supplementary platform for us to learn vocabulary and see how it's applied through... *drumrolls*... DRAMA CLIPS. My teacher: "If you click a link, you can see the full drama. But don't get distracted!" ?

By the way, I secretly think my teacher is Wonder Woman. I first met her 3 years ago in Korean 1 when I was an undergrad. Back then, she was teaching 2 modules a semester and doing her PhD, and she has two young sons. She graduated together with me, and now she's continuing cool research by developing this Kdrama learning platform. So amazing (∩´ω`∩)

Thanks to beanies watching The King Loves, I am marathoning it now.

I've only watched Si Wan in Misaeng so I didn't really know what to expect for this drama. The posters didn't do him or the cast any favors because a lot of nuances are shown only when you watch. As much as I like Won-Rin and Hong Jong Hyun is making my heart ache, Si Wan is the one who's adding all the layers to his character.

My bugbear about actors is overuse of stock expressions. Having watch kdramas for years, I've collected the whole lot and can even predict what a particular actor would do next if a scene calls for shock, anger, sadness etc, if I have observed that actor long enough. I don't see it in Si Wan. It's not just him of course. I've noticed recently more actors are also nuanced and natural. Perhaps this is a shift from the acceptable and even favored kdrama acting?

Hi Everyone!

Currently watching :
FIGHT MY WAY My heartt can't take it !
Can I confess my sin? so many romcom had I dropped for the past 5years. I usually drop dead them at ep 12-16, Suspicious Partner, Best Hit couldn't make it either. But Dong Man & Ae Ra? I watch this without skipping anything finish at 16 ! Woho !

Dong Man is the best puppy ever! And Park Seo Joon? I stalk him all the way to his 2D1N eps, might change my username soon^^
Btw why his real personality is so alike like Dong Man?? Anyone agree?

Hey everyone! I have to confess I caved in. A few days ago I went on a trip with some friends and all the PPL finally got to me. Yes, I tried Subway. But the guy working there was kinda rude and the sandwich wasn't to my liking at all...

I like Reunited Worlds but I can't stop imagining how much more I would have liked it if it had Young In as the main character. So the drama would basically be: one day the death brother of the main lead comes back to life and helps her and her siblings reconnect and become a family again. But what will happen when she falls for the son of his brother's murderer? (the answer being Young In helps Tae Hoon overcome the fact that his father is a murderer and no stupid separation) Basically I just want more of Tae Hoon, Soo Ji, Hae Cheol&daughter and Young Joon and less of Jung Won and Min Joon. It's not that I don't like them, I do, but they're not really the ones making me tune in each episode. Also not having a love line would make me feel more at ease with Hae Sung living eventually. I can't enjoy the romance if I know he's gonna suddenly disappear someday! It just makes me sad.

That said, I actually didn't manage to watch this week's episodes yet because I'm having so much fun binge watching Solomon's Perjury! I'm 10 episodes in and I don't want it to end. But oh well, I have plenty of other shows on my to watch list, including White Christmas, Tunnel and yes, Signal.

My Korean studies have taken a slump as I have lost motivation to do pretty much everything lately, but I signed up for TOPIK 2 last week and what else to motivate me more than the fear of failing an exam. So I'm in the middle of gathering study resources and I'm ready to learn again!

This is not good. Age of Youth 2 is not on Dramafever nor Viki. I guess that jtbc deal with Netflix is affecting new dramas as well. All I can do is wait then. No bueno.

Hi beanies! Basically, life, or rather dramaland, was good to me this week ?

Woman Of Dignity: ❤️????
So Bok-ja really died and somehow I'm still very satisfied with everything? Amazing.

School 2017: ?????
Wow, I've died and gone to heaven.

Falsify: ?????
Ladies, ladies, gimme all the ladies so we can get things done.

The King Loves: ??????
Everything in the palace is terrible and Rin and San need to run.

Rescue Me: ⛪️????
Everything in the town is horrible, somebody protect my babies Sang-mi and Dong-chul!

Criminal Minds: ??????
My heart got broken in such a good way this week, I bawled, and I kind of wish the children's case were its own drama, except then it'd be as grim as Rescue Me and I'd be the only one watching and I'd dieee.

I want to make my own webtoon like Ra Eunho but I can't gather my plot bunnies yet. They keep bouncing all over the place and I don't know which one should I start to catch. It is so hard for sure.

Hi Everyone!

I hope you are all doing well today. ..... I think we made it out to the other side of maintenance mode! ...... Oooo, I think I see a new icon!

This week:

Falsify - I've watched up to episode 3 and finding this show quite interesting with all the baddies in the mix.

Live Up to Your Name - Thanks to the recommendations of fellow Beanies, I was able to find and start watching this drama! Thank you Beanies!! ....... I've watched 3 episodes so far and it's been great. You don't see Kim Nam-gil being funny too often and it's been great seeing him hilariously get acquainted with his brand new surroundings.

That's all for now. ...... Take care everyone and have a great Friday and weekend!

Age of Youth 2 premiers today!!!! Thank you again dramagods for this bday gift. heh. Also I guess the DMV felt like delivering my new drivers license today too, but I am sour that they still don't know what to do with my car registration issue, so I won't thank them.

Anyway I am 25 today. It doesn't feel real.. like I remember so clearly the time in 1st grade when my friends and I tried to call Bloody Mary in the haunted bathroom and flooded the toilets..then got in home suspension and had to clean the toilets at home for a week.. Or the time in 3rd grade when I was going to the office to deliver something for the teacher and I collided with my crush and he helped me pick up the papers.. Or being so incredibly uncomfortable with having to change in the girls locker room in Middle School for PE... Or when I was 8 and I lost my favorite necklace at Tahoe Joes steakhouse. I was wearing my favorite white and blue summer dress for my brothers graduation.. Or when I was 5 and my family went to my uncles wedding in Santa Barbara and pulling up to the side of the road lined with palm trees, and the ocean breeze as I stepped out of our red van..
I don't know what life will bring me, but I am glad I seem to remember happy times and events. It helps when I am feeling depressed about life. :) It wasn't always this unsatisfying and it won't stay that way. I know that. Well someone said that this is my golden birthday since I was born on the 25th and am turning 25. First time I have heard of a golden birthday..

Anyone else celebrate their golden birthday? (when you are turning the age of the daydate you were born).. Happy Weekend everyone!

I've been reading JB & GF's book "Why Do Dramas Do That? Part 1.

It was pretty good. In case you are wondering, there really is some stuff in it that you won't get from just hanging around on Dramabeans for a few years.

Near the end it says they are "hard at work" on parts 2 & 3. Then they provide their very own special definition of hard at work.

They also say "Feel free to bombard us with new questions about why the heck dramas do that.

So...

What's with the magic healing powers of rivers when you fall into them?

Why do Koreans alway bump into each other and drop important things?

Why so many urgent bathroom breaks?

Why do stomachs suddenly get so noisy when they get hungry? And why is being hungry such a common excuse for an interruption?

OT week 29! Wow, time sure does fly. And managed to get on Dramabeans, though a little later than usual due to maintenance.
Will have to check the new features out later!

We had a great Goblin meeting last Saturday, and a new person joined us. An acquaintance, teacher, who is friends with another woman in the group, who apparently watches dramas during the school day during her “school prep” time. She was so excited that I think she’s going to catch up with the rest of the episodes this next month! I will never get tired of this kdrama, it’s just so well done. Le SIIIGGGHHH. I still have yet to get the blog up, having problems with the wordpress site for some reason—won’t save my blog. Any other bloggers here that could help troubleshoot?

Anyway, I finally finished Let’s Eat 2! And gave my daughter a nightmare about it apparently, landing me in the doghouse by my husband. (He was at a friend’s house watching Game of Thrones at the time, so I don’t think he has any reason to talk!) She said that the boy living on the roof was creeping her out and because we didn’t know if he actually was bad or good, she just assumed he was bad because he was in the woods sneaking around and her imagination ran away with itself. She’s like me and internalizes everything she watches—at least in the short-term. A couple of things: So the second lead got the girl WAY before the first lead. And then the OTP had one romantic scene? Only 2 weak kisses? The second lead’s kiss was much hotter—LOL! Kind of disappointed with the end. But I can totally see them doing a Let’s Eat 3 now, because I never got emotionally invested in the OTP, because they were never really together and the second lead really did treat her well. He was so sweet while they were dating—even if he was rightfully jealous and beat-up Dae Young for getting too close to Su-ji.

So I haven’t got a chance to continue with White Christmas yet—too busy, too much nice weather, and had to stop watching dramas in the living room after the whole nightmare incident.

Still loving The King Loves. Everyone should just stop what they’re doing and just watch this gorgeous drama. I’m serious, it’s THAT good. The costuming is Goryeo on crack, the cinematography is to die for, the acting is superb, the character development is next level and it’s not your typical love triangle, quadrangle(?), at all. But hubby’s ship is sinking into the oblivion, so he’s stopped watching, kind of—poor guy. I might have a fickle husband. Oh, and my mom loves this show too—but she’ll watch almost anything that’s a love story. So she and I were talking about this drama this week, rather, why she has to wait a week to watch new episodes.

(Phone rings)

Me: Hello?

Mom: Hi, daughter! Is everything ok?

Me: Yes, how are you?

Mom: I’m fine……So, I’ve watched the episodes on line and I want
to watch more. Why are they not on-line yet? Have you seen them on your TV?

Me: No,...

Happy Friday Beanies :) ,
Quick post on OT : I saw new features during the maintenance work, but I can't see them anymore.
Is the maintenance work really over ? Could we get a hint of when the next features will appear ?
Thank you DB staff & I hope everything went smoothly with the maintenance work ;)

I just finished Forest of Secrets... what a masterpiece! Waiting for season 2 to be announced *impatiently taps foot*

Hello Beanies!
Tomorrow a new K-drama dilemma will emerge: Age of Youth 2 or Chief Kim?

Age of Youth 2 has been marked in my diary for months now, and it has been ages since I got to watch a show live again, and yet….

I’m finally halfway my Chief Kim marathon, and I am so grateful to all the beanies that recommended it, because Namgoong Min and Junho really should get the best couple award!

Namgoong Min is amazing as Chief Kim, with his yellow shoes and dance strut whenever he is happy. I may not see it coming at times, but in the end I am never really surprised, because it is Namgoong Min.

If I sound Namgoong Min biased, then consider JunHo my biaswrecker. He manages to keep Seo Yul interesting, even when I am done with that gluttonous sociopath at the moment. I can live vicariously through Chief Kim and the cleaning lady however, who put up some hilarious resistance.

Not that I expected a dull character, I just did not expect him to be so interesting and dare I say handsome at the same time! Then there is also his crush on Ha-kyung and his marriage to food... yes I am done with him.

There are other scene stealers that I simply must mention:

Strongest Dimpleman, AKA Kim Sun-Ho as Sang-Tae: the tallest and cutest nerd I have ever seen! Rumor has it he can pull off a chaebol look as well, but I still need to check another K-drama to see it for myself ;)

Dongha, AKA Park Myung-Seok: The last nudge I needed to start the first episode. He has an amazing wardrobe and a contagious laugh that makes my day. Do not touch his mother or his Nana.

I guess I’ll see if I can watch some more Chief Kim tonight, Age Of Youth 2 will not be available here until tomorrow anyway ;)

I have question, is the little girl play as Mal Sook in Best Hit, acts as Kid-Ae Ra in Fight My Way & Yoona little girl that got kidnapped in Criminal mind? She is so cuteee

Um, is maintenance done? I'm running into an issue where I'm logged in, refreshed my page and it tells me to log back in. If I refresh the page a couple of times, it shows that I'm logged in already. I can't figure out if it's a website issue or an issue with the cookies I re-accepted and saved (I allow the cookies from here to never expire so I don't have to log in every time I open my bookmark). I deleted the old cookies with the "http://" protocol, and saved the new ones with the "https://" protocol.

hello

how are you? it is raining so hard that I am having doubts about where I am. the only thing that confirms me I am still in Estonia is that a) the price of butter rises twicefold in one week and b) I can go and chat on Instagram or Facebook with all my favorite bands and they always answer. I love how easy and matter of fact it is.

Wanted to update you about my granny. You remember the demonic care home she was supposed to go? She decided for a different one on our advice at the last minute and it had been great. She made a lot of friends and they only gave her the exact pills that my aunt wrote down on paper. Nothing weird. The system is government enables old people who need special care to spend a month at a home of their choice while only having to provide 15 % of the expenses, the state takes care of the rest. The reason why granny insisted on the other home first was because of the friends she made there last time. She didnt want a new place even if the nurses were psychoes. Glad that she relented. They even had a concert and movie night but she doesnt see much, so she skipped the movie. It confuses her. Anyway, just wanted to reassure you she wasnt abducted by alien doctors or anything, to those who read the original story.

Dramas: I like criminal minds a lot better than most folks, even if it is draggy. I can understand what their intentions are, but they should make it more visual. you can do so much with the camera when you want to go psychological and all

School 2017 - it is taking so long to catch up but I did, cause skipping something would seem disrespectful towards the kids´ struggles. I have relented about the way they are showing the teachers, it did get better and they are showing a better side of themselves. Class teacher Shim still my absolute favorite character here. He is so winning, can´t help but cheer him on. He is like a teacher from a japanese drama somehow gotten lost in a korean school, he is so idealistic and doesn´t fit in at all. Eun Ho´s dad is my other favorite. Him and Sa Rangs´ mom. Fighting!

while Dad is just cute (and does anyone else get the feeling he is a little, uh, "special"?), Soo Ji is a very well built character. She is not just about being "tough". She takes action rather than sitting around surrendering to circumstances. she is a way-finder. So many characters in the show let their conditions define them and press down their desire to act up, but she won´t. I am glad Soo Ji recognizes Young Guns´ delinquence as dissatisfaction with the "system" rather than maliciousness. I predict Young Gun will soon be joining the "squad" and be quite useful. not that I would want to say they should use her.

I also quite sympathize with Nam Joo and Sa Rang. One is completely shutting her frustrations and insecurities inside and this weighs her down. No 18-year old can be in such control of her emotions, it is not healthy. She needs to learn to rely on somebody. hope it is Dae Hwi. I...

Thank you dramabeans for securing your website!

Hiya all! Just recently joined the threads here and I'm glad I did. I've been stalking this site for a while before mustering the courage to engage. Happy weekend!