what’s your One True kDrama? the one drama to rule them all—the one you’d chose if you could only have one?

i haven’t seen tons, but i’m leaning toward Healer (or My Love from Another Star).

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    It used to be My Love from the Star for me. But now, it’s Goblin ❤

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    I love lists, so I list every kdrama I have seen and then rank them. At the moment, it is Healer. I’ve seen a number of dramas after Healer, but that still has the biggest room in my heart.

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      So neat! Haha. I should be more like you and be neat with my K-drama list, too.

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      i hope you post some of those lists from time to time! i love lists too 😁

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        I should. I can’t post my whole list of course (I’ve completed 71 dramas and 2 variety shows), but I should post my top 5 when I finish my current batch of dramas.

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          yeah! i support this ☺️

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          Haha, I have a list too. I’ve just this week reached 150 completed dramas 😯 I’m not sure if I should be proud or concerned 😕

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            150 in how many years?
            It’s taken me 7 years to watch 70 so I think 10 a year isn’t a bad average lol

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          (I’m reply to this message because I can’t reply to your other one). I only started in 2012, so that’s 150 dramas in 5 years, so averaging 30 a year. Eek, that’s a lot 😯, I’ve never calculated it like that before.

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            Wow, so when my friends think I’m bad, I’ll use you as an example to prove that there’s “worst” addicts. Lol 8P I wish I had time to be a worst addict.

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          Haha, feel free to use me as an example 😁 I will say that for a few of those years I really wasn’t doing much else with my life and it was pretty unhealthy. But even when I was working, I would get home and watch a few episodes each night and on the weekends catch up on anything I missed, so I’m not sure that I slowed down much 😊.
          Now I’m studying again, so I have time for K-dramas AND I’m doing something with my life, yay!

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            Same. The first couple of years I started kdramas I would marathon them to the point that I would be scrambling at the last possible moment to get my homework done and I hardly ever really went out.
            I definitely have had a healthier relationship with kdramas the last couple of years, although I feel like it’s getting bad again since I graduated and have “nothing else to do.”

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      I also do that… I have a mighty fine organised word doc of all my watched, currently watching, and to watch, with annotations. I’m working on a more in depth review list hehe

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        I do that, too! I give “awards” to my shows like Favorite Supporting Cast, Favorite Kiss, Favorite Couple, etc. There’s only been a handful of shows that I’ve had to give Worst awards to like Worst Boyfriend or Worst Female Protagonist.

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          Oh ok now THAT’S cool. I can think of several shows I could do that with though… hehe
          I have yet to give awards to mine… I do rate them using the old DBs system though because I think it’s a good way to rate things- how much one enjoyed them vs. how good it was objectively.

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            I update my list every once in awhile because there are some shows I love in the moment but not so much looking back and vice versa. I like that rating system too, though. I might need to start doing that.

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          Yeah there are a few shows I need to re-evaluate now that they’ve stewed in the recessed of my subconscious for a while too. There are also a few I need to go back and rewatch because I can’t critically remember what I thought of them whilst watching. *MLFTS*

          My list updates more regularly when I’m watching something, but it needs some editing right now… I haven’t rated some things I should’ve yet… O.o

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            I have so many I want to rewatch (I highlight them in yellow) but I have so many to see still. It becomes a losing battle of catch up…

            The other thing I do is list my favorite scenes by show, episode, and time. My problem is I don’t write what the scene was so I forget which is which. I should fix that…lol

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          Oh gosh you even have your favourite scenes/episodes! I just tend to remember those, because if I LOVED an episode it sticks with me, and in my head. Like Healer’s episode 14, and Moon Lover’s Episode 11.
          But I kinda wanna do that now… you’re giving me so many ideas!

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            See I’ll remember the scene or episode events, but go crazy cause I can’t remember the number of the episode. So, to keep my sanity I write it down. I don’t do so as often cause many of the stations have started posting clips on YouTube which tend to be the scenes that I love.

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        uhm. both of you are AWESOME

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    My first love was Boys over Flower (Oh, I am so ashamed) .
    One true KDrama for me would be Queen In-hyun’s man or Healer.

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      hehe my first love was Faith, which is more shameful ☺️😇. QIM is soooo good too

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      I love Queen In-hyun’s Man. Javabeans and girlfriday didn’t like the ending, but I could have an hour long argument for why it made sense! lol

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        The cellphone didn’t make sense but i forgive them. OTP is on fire.

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          But, it did! I need to revisit it to remember my whole argument, but basically, when she bought the two cellphones she inscribed it in the same way the monk did to the original talisman. She just did so unintentionally.

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            yup that’s how i felt too. if a paper can be used as a talisman, a cell phone should be able to be used similarly.

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    I feel like mine would be Heirs. I’ve seen a whole bunch of dramas but that’s the one I always seem to go back to and the one that made a Kim Eun-sook fan. It’s also the closest to my reality, not the chaebol stuff but the relationships and my years in school. I’ve watched it a lot and I find something new to love about it with every re-watch.

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      yeah! that’s what i’m talking about–the one drama you can re-watch and find something new to love. perfect way to sum it up. 🙂

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    Mine would have to be Full House. Nothing beats this classic romcom in my list. Close second would be Princess Hours 😍

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      oooh two really excellent choices. I had forgotten about Full House, but yes. Classic.

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    God… Healer…? Yeah I think Healer

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    This is SUCH a hard question but an essential one for all K-drama addicts lovers! I’ll have to really sit down and think hard on this one because it seems like every new drama I fall deeply in love with becomes my new All Time Fave. I know, I’m so bad.

    Goblin has changed my life. I’m being dramatic, but I love it so much and it has made itself a special place in my heart forever. But if I HAD to choose one that ruled them all, one that I could ONLY choose if I could only choose ONE??? … I’ll get back to you on that. 😅

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    It’s a hard question. But if I could only have one, I will choose High Kick Through The Roof. Though I suspect Super Family will soon replace its place after it finished airing.

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    I’m too tired to trust my judgment I’m between Flower Boy Next Door & School 2013.

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    *sing songs* Healer. And I can give three essays on why haha. (For all the ones who don’t like it. *squints at @kaybee*)

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    This is such a hard choice because I don’t really think I have just ONE true kdrama! It depends on my mood and what/who I am missing the most. Also, I would feel like I am betraying one show over the other 😛

    I have re-watched many shows like Healer, My Love from the Stars, Pinocchio, I Remember You, King of High School, I Hear your Voice, Producers, Master’s Sun, Answer Me 1997 & 1988, School 2013, even Heirs & Boys over Flowers (to see what clicked the first time and why it doesn’t click anymore)… and there are many others on the list!

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    Oh man, such a difficult decision!! But for me, it would be 2004’s “Save Your Last Dance for Me” starting Ji Sung and Eugene Kim, my all-time favourite drama that I never seem to be tired of no matter how many times I go back and watch it =)

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    The Liar and his Lover. Used to be Secret Garden. 😄

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    My number 1 will always be Coffee Prince, it was my first K-drama and is first place in my heart ❤️ But I also have a whole list of close seconds, so runners up would be a seven-way tie between healer, city hunter, reply 1997, the greatest love, Pinocchio, I remember you and the master’s sun 😁

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    I think I’d have to go with I Remember You. I haven’t rewatched the entire show yet, but I hardly ever do that. Too many unseen dramas waiting lol! One day though ^^ Anyway, it just stayed in my mind as something amazing. Psychology really fascinates me and so does ambiguity and the show did both so incredibly well. It’s also coincidentally what started my SIG addiction hehe.

    Coffee Prince should probably be on the list though, since it’s what started it all – twice. Both times I got interested in Kdrama it was CP I started with and I enjoyed it equally both times. It’s such a great show and a classic.

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