What is her drama you’re watching? If you want to see her in revenge mode, Heaven’s Promise and Yellow Boots are recommended!

To think from my perspective (who lives in a tropical country), my worry is the shorts rather than the colour!!!

Is that a chain? We have at least two of those in Northern Virginia.

I am in the SLC area! I’ve tried all the ones closer to downtown except Ejo, but I recently realized they have black bean noodles and so I gotta. Fingers crossed Go Kyung‑pyo will deliver them to me.

HAHAHAHA! The subs I watched also said Amazoness – like what?!!?!

maybe it was a reference to Wonder Woman who comes from the Amazonian race who doesn’t really have any experience with men, especially human men…from the little I know about Wonder Woman origins anyway, don’t quote me on that as I’m pretty ignorant to her story.

It won’t play the episodes for me. Brings them up and stalls, at least on the app. Le sigh.

If Kocowa wants subscribers they should try to actually be better than the other streaming services instead of hogging all the shows to force people to sign up. I’m hoping that Kocowa will fail miserably and things will be back to normal by the next show cycle.

Kocowa sounds more and more like trying to discourage kdrama watching instead of encouraging it.

I thought my phone was acting up! No screenshots on your phone is insane. It makes no sense. Where is our KOCOWA petition for all these weird policies.

Loved that moment HAHA I always think “How can I learn to speak like her without going to law school ?”

So I just learned about kocowa. Still feeling pissy and grumpy. Should get some sleep.

Exactly!

Yikes! 😦😮😱

It has happened to me a few times, I make sure to clear my cookies and browser history after it happens and it seems to prolong the time until happens again

Bear with me here. I am not talking about Cancer Dramas, where the cancer is built into the premise and you know what you are getting into from the get-go ala Uncontrollably Fond or Marriage Contract. I am talking about when you are watching something else entirely, say a happy fluffy rom-com, when things suddenly take a sharp left turn and one of your main characters gets cancer. So be warned — there will be major spoilers below.

After reading Lollypip’s entry on Marriage Before Dating, a known catnip of mine, I looked up and watched Wonderful Life, the only show she mentioned that I hadn’t already watched and loved. I was watching it in bits and pieces, an episode here and an episode there, in between my live watches. And very much enjoying it. And then the baby got leukemia. And suddenly I had watched 5 episodes in a row, and it was 4am and I needed to be at work in only a few short hours.

Now, I’ve been a drama addict for a few years now, and I’ve got it mostly under control now. (Shut up! I said mostly!) I’ve figured out the secret to avoiding all night marathons, and this no longer happens to me. So I was caught by surprise when I wasn’t able to put Wonderful Life down. Which got me to thinking about the last time this had happened.

Single Dad in Love. You’ve probably never heard of it since this is an old and not particularly good show. I found it while browsing through DC and liked the title (single dads being a favorite trope of mine). Read the summary — titular Single Dad falls for Heroine, whose stepmother happens to be his ex — and decided I had to see how they were going to navigate that mess. Cause you know Koreans are not just going to shrug and say, “Well, this is going to make family dinners awkward.” So I started watching it, and it was cute. Nothing to write home about, but cute. And then the hero discovered the family connection. And then the kid got cancer. Since apparently “my baby-mama is my potential mother-in-law” does not provide enough angst. So I kept watching late into the night to see if the kid got saved. He did. Yay! But then the hero got cancer too. I kept plowing through, waiting for them to clear up the cancer so they could get around to sorting out the family stuff. But no. Apparently the writer decided to take the easy way out and ended the drama right before the hero went in for brain surgery to remove the tumor. Gah!!!!

It was the exact same thing both times that had suckered me into pulling an all nighter watching dramas. I tried to think if this had happened before, mentally going through my list of dramas to see if these two shows were flukes, or if I had been sucked in by this before. And I remembered Bad Couple. This one I watched early in my drama-watching career, when all-nighters were not such a rarity.

But yes, when the heroine suddenly got cancer, I got sucked in even deeper. (I am saying even deeper because I was already in love with Bad Couple well before the cancer. I recognize that it is not the best show out there, but I loved it. It was my first Favorite KDrama that I watched multiple times. I still look back on it fondly. And still have a bit of a lingering crush on Ryu Soo-young left over from that show.)

Anyway, that is what I meant when I say I discovered a Stealth Catnip. I don’t go out looking for dramas with a cancer plot-twist. As a matter of fact, I find it to be manipulative and lazy writing. If I know about it beforehand, I will avoid it. But, dagnabbit, it works. At least on me. Blindside me with cancer and I will be glued to your drama late into the night and biting my nails to the end.

The time travel plot is the universe’s way of getting Hyun-jae to mend his selfish ways, and lets him see how his choices and actions affect those around him, a la It’s a Wonderful Life or A Christmas Carol. It takes a while for the message to get through, as he is very very self centered. Once it does, though, he is allowed to return to 1993. This time around, when Bo-hee tells him she is pregnant, instead of doing a runner, he marries her and they become a Hallyu power couple.

Kwang-jae never needs to be Bo-hee’s Knight in Shining Armor, so he never falls for her, and does not spend the next 20 odd years pining uselessly. Therefore, when Bo-hee’s stylist’s husband walks out on her, he is heart-free to rescue this damsel. He is a stabilizing influence on Woo-seung’s mother, and she is a freeing influence on him, and together they create a stable, loving home life for Woo-seung. Also lots of dongsaengs.

Hyun-jae lets Young-jae know how much he appreciates him and needs him, so Young-jae’s inferiority complex is not allowed to take root and he no longer feels the need to prove himself to everyone at all times. Once their idol days are over, Young-jae, Hyun-jae, and Kwang-jae together form J3, a successful and principled talent agency where they help MC Drill overcome his stage fright, and occasionally let Hye-ri eat.

Ji-hoon has a leg up when it comes to following his dreams, thanks to his famous parents. They still made him go to college before pursuing the stage, but are fully supportive of his music career. He and Woo-seung still grew up together and were still childhood friends, but this time around Ji-hoon has the confidence to confess his changing feelings early on. Woo-seung still writes songs, and she and Ji-hoon make great collaborators.

Everyone lives happily and healthily ever after. The end.

I have a dress with the same cut in the upper part. but with strawberries.

I like the style but too pink for me.

It wouldn’t have mattered honestly.. Aera abeoji had had added 2 and 2 and made his mind about the conclusion before knocking on the door lol

Where did you watch with subs? Could you please share? *puppyeyes*

re. gif-ing: Photoshop. And online tutorials hehe. That’s how I learnt. Although I’m still terrible at it.