Javabeans,

I found your blog not too long ago and simply love it. The recaps are so good and I enjoyed reading it after watching the episodes.

Good job! Hope you can continue to blog. You're simply awesome!

*Two thumbs up*

I love you site.. I know very little Korean so I usually have to wait for the sub.. but now I'm just watching the raws and reading your reviews... I think I have a better understanding of the Korean culture and language through this.. Thanks for posting.

i have watched not that much of K dramas but im so into it i like full house, coffee prince, goong and the latest is playful kiss,, luv all the stories how far it is from real life,, all are like fairytale ,,,aftr watching it i feel alive and happy...thanks to u i can still dig on it more,,,more power and God bless...wemake our own failrytales and mine i based it on korean dramas,,, the best!

can't wait for 2010 year end review! it'll be fun with gf's review added to the list. hwaiting! <3

I'm searching for some articles about Gu Hye Sun's Tango and I found you!

Actually I'm not a Korean Dramas fan but this blog is really amazing.

I'm a fan from now. XD

can som1 can tell me wer i can find the song and lyrics of rudolph the red nosed reindeer in korean version or send on my fb [email protected] thank you bc0s i really like dis version

I super love your witty recaps and definitely comes back to this site several times a day to check on your latest posts. It has the ability to relieve me from my stress and just enjoy reading all about Korean culture. Aja!

Hi Javabeans and girlfriday!

I really love your site. Thank you so much!
I've been addict in kdrama (romcom) since last year.
And reading your recaps made me enjoyed kdrama more.
Your blog and kdramas are my medicine to my boring life.

Again thank yo sooooo much!

Love this site so much it allows me to hear other peoples opinions on things on the k dramas i watch!! i love how you guys are so opinionated and i love your writing style keep up the good work!! i will continue to use this site to fill in all my blanks on my k dramas :)

well i'm thankful that i have known someone like...call it addict to k-dramas and everything....i'm glad that i have found your site which can help me communicating my passion in watching k-dramas....i'm from the philippines and i have seen some of your dramas beeing shown here in our country and i admit that it's worth watching...i really really admire your craft in making quality dramas...and your artists are great...they're beautiful and handsome...i've been watching k-dramas in some sites and i can say that there are some dramas which are really nice but it haven't got the chance to be aired here in the philippines...i'm hooked to k-dramas that i even dreamed of going to korea to learn about your country as well as your culture as it has been shown in some movies and dramas...finally i have found a site which can be an outlet for me to express my appreciation and how much i wanted to watch k-dramas...i even panned of creating a tv network which would show k-dramas dubbed in our language...all the shows will be all about k-dramas...i hope that it will be realized in the future....i'm really glad that i have found your site..it is really helpful to me...

I love your site!! Found it when i try to find Mary (it means i just found urs..) Love it cause... all the reason written above.. Since the day, the first site i browse through is always dramabeans.. Thank yu for providing us a great recaps and reviews... I hope u could done it forever... Hahahaha...

you've been on kdramas since 1992? :O im not even born yet... i hope i'll be like you, stay on for kdramas for more than 15years!

I think you are my savior. I really enjoy your site more than I enjoy my Facebook, you know I visit your site more often than my yahoo mail. I guess I've found someone who can understand and talk to bout kdramas. please continue updating us, your the only one I look forward to everyday.

Hi, thank you so much for this blog. Im from Dominican Republic and I just L.O.V.E to watch korean dramas. There's not a lot of people here in my country that know about these dramas but I've found a couple of friends in my university that share this guilty pleasure!!!

You are the one who relieves us in moments that we dont get the chance to watch any episode of Kdramas.

Hugs from DR
Cristal.-

i really like the way you right,... I am a Filipino and I really love korean dramas,... Even my mother and my aunts are kdrama fanatics.... i really have fun reading your reviews/summary about kdrama episodes,... you're a really good writer.... you are superb!!!!! Kudos for you!!!! Thank you,....

Hi!!!

I just wanted to say I loooove dramabeans. I really like korean dramas but sadly I can't watch them because they use too much internet broadband so your site is a real lifesaver! Your recaps are indepth, insightful and downright funny so THANK YOU for your dedication ^^

Keep up the fab work!

I was speechless when I saw this blog/website . Why ? Because I love reading as much as I love k-dramas . And to find a blog/website that kinda fuses both of my greatest passion is 'W.O.W' *sigh* Alas ; I can't put my happiness into words . Heh . I love how you comment putting stuff like * Drink ! * and * Swoon *. Some of these made me laugh more than the drama itself. So thank you , very much . Heh . I feel that I have a bestfriend that 'gets' me and I can interact with just a simple click on the internet . Heh . Go2 Javabeans and Girlfriday ! Supporting you always I promise you that ( :

I began to like (sorry no obess over(lol)) the k-drama world after reading one of your recaps. You gals are so funny and understand the dramas really well!

hello i'm a new reader of this site.i started watching dramas since october 2010 and i'm addicted , and very thankfull to you , cause i can enjoy the recaps and ur opinion on dramas , it became a habit to come here to read the recaps and comments even if sometimes it 's somehow hard about actors but it's so funny may be as a new addicted to korean dramas i don't know a lot about their skills in acting so i m interested in the story more than acting .
sorry if my english is somehow weak i'm algerian the secobd lg is french!!!!

I love your websites and the recap. Thank you for all the efforts you've been putting into this site. Keep up the good works!!!

I found this site when I was looking about Lee Seon Kyun. (Just watched Pasta & madly fell for him :-D )

I'm amazed with your witty writings. So I'll be sure to check out your site often to find news about good kdramas.

Love reading your blog javabeans. Great writer! Keep it up! :)

Hello, JB and GF! ^_^

This is Laya from the Philippines. I love your site! You've helped me to discover a lot of good K-dramas (and propelled me into full-blown addiction, hehe). We do get to watch K-dramas subbed in Filipino here, on free broadcast TV, after they've finished in Korea [that's how I discovered Full House, Shining Inheritance, and sageuks]. It's interesting that these dramas have generated an interest in Korean history and culture in my country... I've heard some kids discuss Baekje, Shilla and Goguryeo as they learned it from sageuks while they don't even know the different regions of their own country (facepalm!). Of course, Jumong, Jang Geum, Seon Deok, Mishil and Bidam are practically household words. "Jumong" has kind of evolved into a synonym for cool action combos among kids playing network games at internet cafes.

Anyway, Dramabeans has also cleared up for me some of the stuff that I was ignorant of in Korean culture, stuff that needed cultural backgrounders, like your definition of oppa, and the piggyback ride (which always generated huge question marks in my mind whenever I watched a K-drama). Thanks for that! ^_^

I recently noticed you mentioned that some k-drama titles match the names of their lead characters. That was when I learned that Mi-nyeo (You're Beautiful), for instance, meant "beauty" (amirite?)-- had to google that because I wasn't sure, and using Google translate when you can't understand hangul is really impossible. Anyway, so Jan-di (Boys Over Flowers) is "grass lawn" and I think I read somewhere that Bi-dam (Queen Seon Deok) is "sad story" (Bi meaning rain, right?). So I wanted to ask you if there's any chance you could elaborate more on these Korean names because they're really very beautiful and I'd like to know more what they mean.

Thanks!

hi...i'm a full time working mother with an 8-hour job that demands all my mental energy. watching asian dramas (a label i attached to korean, japanese and taiwanese drama series) since 2002 has somehow made all my end-of-working days worth anticipating with a high sense of excitement. thank you for putting up this blog because i am now updated on new dramas, their OSTs and of course, the recaps. i loved the songs, most of all, though i don't know a bit of the language. after 9 years, i have started learning about the languages, culture and traditions, and nuances of the asian culture represented by the dramas. now who wouldn't want to watch asian dramas? kudos to you and the team of recappers... God bless

Friday girl ;-)
love your dramabeans .... i fall in love with korean ever since ... thank you for giving more info on korean culture, not just the drama... hope you get the best ehmmm, curious question...do you get cash for this site? (hehehehe... I am curious, on getting cash for our hobbies)

keep writing cause i will keep reading :-)

jb and girlfriday, you guys rock!

just dropping by to say.. I ABSOLUTELY LOVE YOUR RECAPS!

they have saved me in times of painfully slow internet connection *no downloading files bigger than 5MB is possible!*, which could trigger sleepless nights due to endless hours of curiosity on what would happen next on the kdrama.
please continue on writing recaps! :)

love ur site and the writing is too fun, i lol when i read ur recaps and other news u post, i am not korean, and dont know anyone who is either, yet and there is no one beside me who love korean dramas and movies, i felt alone until i found this site, so you should know i am really really greatfull,

Thank you so much ^^

Ambreen Iqbal

Love from Oslo, Norway

hi guys,

i'm indeed very grateful to come accross with dramabeans and everyday without fails i'll read your recaps and news about korean actors/acctress espcially when i got stuck with one drama and will love to know what other peoples think about it.

and your recaps rocks!

keep on writing and tq zillion for the efforts!

my favourite site for having the very best recap and analysis of korean drama. many thanks

its a good thing that I have found this site....with this, i am much updated with the kpop world...i am much grateful guys...i just want to ask if you will be recapping the upcoming drama pecial "the Hair Show" which Lee Seung Hyo is the cast. I am much awaiting this, so I hope you can recap this...many thanks and more pore!fighting!

I've been a fan since mid-2009 and from then on I have been faithful to your blog, I've always and will always consult your blog for sensible and witty reviews, didn't even bother to look at other blogs 'coz honestly there's nothing out there that does drama reviews like you do.....

and oh I think that Girlfriday is such a nice addition to this blog, it makes it more feisty and I just lurv it.

Continue to be awesome!

I stumbled across this site when I was on my first kdrama and I must say some posts have helped me sooo much. The explanations of Korean culture have always made me feel a lot less confused.

Love this site - don't know what I'd do without it :)

I think almost a year i find your site guys. and since that day, i never skip one day without visit your site. I Looooooveeee your site soooooooooooo much. Thanks God I found this site cause this place make may day bright every single day. Thank You Guys.......... :))

Thank you for you. I've read much (heard about this site from another k-drama lover) and it has given me much -- not just the recaps (and the oh so wonderful sarcasm and dry humor that I live and breathe) -- but also great pics (which i use for my desktop) and the music.

Continue being so. :)

Hi Javabeans, Girlfriday, and the rest of the team,
I write you today because I believe it's important to tell you how much I love your website. It's simply wonderful. I've been a silent but faithful reader of yours for a long time now.
I wanted to thank you for your hard work. You sure must spend so much time on this site, and be sure I spend a lot of my time reading you, too. I love your recaps -which are always well-written and intelligent-, love your recent podcast (your voices are cute!), love your humour and so on...You're truly amazing!
So, thank you very much....

PS: also, hum, I'm embarrassed...I'm not an english speaker (actually, I'm french), so please, forgive me for all my mistakes. Anyway, thank you again!
Kaa.

Love your blogs !

I have always loved the movies as a child – my maternal family used to own all the open air cinemas in Singapore/Johore eons ago. The magic, romance and thrill of those days remain with me for a long time. I guess a multiple-location career of over two decades in high powered finance with 3 global financial insitutions would have made jaded cynics out of most. But not a movie/drama buff.

I chanced upon k-drama by pure accident recently (with thanks to accompanying my 72 year old mother through a few shows- she is a huge fan). I have to say that I been pleasantly surprised by the quality and depth of some of the acting. I have always regarded the acting profession with awe. At its very best, it is an energetic means of expressing the human condition in a way that raises multiple levels of awareness in its audience. Actors ( I use this as a gender-neutral term) are channels for the crystallization of energies -largely fears and hopes – from the larger collective consciousness. Among the great actors I admire are the very perceptive, self-aware, totally human individuals who are able to transcend and transform their total being into the roles they play , thereby bringing the spotlight on nuances in the often overlooked situations and touch the souls of those watching. One reason k-drama is so popular is that many of these address issues that resonate with the larger audience in dire need of escape, hope. a healthy dosage of laughter (and sunshine!) and gentle reminders of what being human is really all about. [And of course we have writers who drive us nuts with "what were they thinking about? "( Don't even let me get started with Lovers in Paris... )]

I just want to say that your & Thundie blogs plus guest bloggers (such as samsooki) have certainly added a new rich, delicious and multiple textured dimension to the whole k-drama experience. Thank you!

Love your website, tqqq!

Hi I am Korean. I visited your website by accident.
I was suprised when I saw your post you seem really like Korea drama and other too.

I wonder whether you are Singaporean or not.
because I saw some Singaporean and Indian on your site and I am in Singapore.

If you are, maybe we would share more funny things.
God bless you! :)

So glad I stumbled onto this blog too!! Kdramas are my new addiction!!!;) it all started with Boys Over Flowers, then My Girl and the list goes on!!;) love it love it love it!!!

I really like ur blogs... I'm addicted to everything k..
do you write recap of japnese n taiwanese drama?
will you plzzz post recap of drunken to love you...

I ABSOLUTELY LOVE THIS WEBSITE. O_O thanks for the hours upon hours of life wasting recaps, and I mean that in the most sincerest way possible... no sarcasm or snide attitude intended.

Hi!

I'm so happy that I found your website. It is a great help for me to enjoy more Kdrama and to know more about them. Though I'm a Hungarian 17 years old girl, I'm an addict to Kdramas.
I at the first time saw the Dae Jang Geum nearly 3 years ago on our Hungarian television channel. I was hooked ever since just like you. From that on, I've already seen Queen Seon Deok, Dong Yi, Bad Guy, 49 Days, Thorn Birds, Sungkyukwan Scandal and I'm watching this time Yi San.

I love your writing in dramabeans. Thank you soo much.. ^^ Keep writing, It's a really good website for drama lovers..

hi javabeans & girlfriday :) - i've no idea if you respond to these comments, although i'm sure you read them -
just a note to say i've been following this site for the past couple years now, and that i'm always appreciative of, and grateful for the recaps and your posts, i can't imagine the time/effort it must take.
the question now - (DADADADUMM) - your recaps have particular attention to detail, i was wondering if you had a background in film/pop culture?
just something i've been curious about. answering optional ;P