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[Changing Tastes] How I became a feminist through dramas
by Guest Beanie
Six Flying Dragons By @redfox When I first started watching dramas, I was all about the male leads. Whether it be the flower boys with facial features that looked like...
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[Changing Tastes] The more the merrier
by TeriYaki
The Return of Iljimae My introduction to K-dramas was pretty typical and included romantic comedies such as You’re Beautiful, Coffee Prince, and Boys Over Flowers. Part of the fun...
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[Changing Tastes] From a hater to a lover
by Guest Beanie
White Christmas By @sleepypie1212 When I started watching K-dramas, I was a college senior, hardheaded and practical and such a snob. I was an intellectual, damnit, and I knew that...
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[Changing Tastes] Understanding that things get complicated
by Guest Beanie
Goong By @since2006 When I was a teenager I was a bit rigid—a wet blanket, a stick in the mud, a know-it-all, Hermione from the first half of the...
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[Changing Tastes] Real life is sometimes more bizarre than makjang dramas
by Guest Beanie
Birth Secret [Editor's Note: The term makjang gets tossed around a lot and has become shorthand for a certain type of storytelling---the kind with over-the-top plot twists, often designed to...
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[Changing Tastes] I came for the cultural differences and stayed for the commonalities
by Guest Beanie
Worlds Within By @pickwick The first Korean drama I ever saw was Full House. I remember sitting down to watch it with absolutely no expectations and no preconceived ideas of...
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[Changing Tastes] From the whole nine yards to the rom-com dreamboat
by Guest Beanie
Secret Garden By @zgs1994 I started my dramaland journey with Heirs back in 2013. It was new and shiny and I remember during that one particular scene where Lee Min-ho slumps...
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[Changing Tastes] When your feelings have feelings
by Guest Beanie
Healer By anonymous I’m not one of those drama watchers who has a big, dramatic “When First I Discovered Dramas” moment. I’d watched City Hunter on the recommendation...
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[Changing Tastes] Rom-coms without the rose-colored glasses
by odilettante
Witch's Romance Rom-coms are dramaland's bread'n'butter and it's impossible to imagine life without them. That's what originally made me a drama addict, thanks to a love of shoujo stories that...
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[Changing Tastes] From someone who doesn’t like change
by HeadsNo2
Forest of Secrets I’m approaching this theme with a lot more trepidation than I originally thought I’d have, if only because the big question on my mind was, “...
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