I was going to write a manifesto but I’m already on my third glass of red wine sooo 🤷♀️ (shrugs).
This will have to do instead: The Declaration of the Universal Rights of Kdrama Addicts.
We have the following rights and privileges.
1. the Right to appropriate Korean words and use them liberally in conversations with non-Korean friends. Like this, “Yaa! Unnie! Mianhe but I cannot kaja to study hall with you because it’s bulgeum (TGIF), guerrigo oppa and I are eating chi-maek at the pojangmacha.”
2. the Right to high speed Internet. LTE or 4G.
3. the Right to binge-watch a drama until 5am on a workday.
4. the Right to ship ourselves with the leading man. Who the heck is Jun Ji-Hyun? This is us asking our sweetie a serious question:
5. the Right to curse out, blacklist, and hunt down the stupid writer(s) of stupid makjang plots and stupid open-endings. (Can’t you tell how traumatized I am?)
6. the Right to fast-forward through boring scenes, pause kissing scenes, and/or repeat our favorite scene a thousand times.
#pert
gif credit: jischangwook’s tumblr
7. the Right to discuss and obsess over the minutiae of kdrama with fellow kdrama fans.
8. the Right to watch kdrama in private while riding public transportation without fear of censure or opprobrium from fellow passengers.
9. the Right to fast and free subs. (Pfffffttt to you two, Dramafever and Viki.)
When are the subs up??!!
10. the Right to visit the land of fairy tales, Seoul, South Korea, to follow the footsteps of our favorite characters, and to search for our own Prince Charming.
Any other rights I’ve forgotten?
hahaha this is genius
You’re here!!!!
I kept on logging on at soompi yesterday trying to see if you replied to my PM.
What drama are you watching now?
This list is Jjang!😹👍 been doin all these particularly #1 #4 and #6 😝
Hi there, chinggu!
Have you eaten dinner? Bae-go-bah?
Or are you going to sleep soon? Well, then… jal-ja.
😀
#6 is the reason I can watch an hour long episode in 10 minutes. I just fast forward to the couple scenes and skip the rest of the mini-stories.
It’s kinda like how I treat my hamburgers. I eat it on a plate with a fork and knife. I eat the lettuce, tomatoes, mushrooms, onions, pickle (my veggies) and burger (my protein) but I skip the bun. 😂
and waiting your post about our favorite kdrama is another excitement for me. lol. glad you have your own blog now. :p
its better for you to write something on twitter too! to make ppl come to ur blog, with hastag!
example:
title of your post, hastag, and direct link.
“cotton candy metaphor on hwayugi, read more here:http://bitchesoverdramas.com/2018/01/24/hwayugi-love-triangle/
#hwayugi #akoreanodissey #leeseunggi #ohyeonseo #chaseungwon “
The problem is I’m such an oldie. I don’t feel comfortable with twitter and tweeting (and I lost my password again) so I’ve only tweeted in reply to you and mslee. lol.
I guess I’m not “hip” enough for twitter world. Like who would read my tweets anyway??
its like to promote ur blog, so ppl will click the link u’ve shared.
all hwayugi fan, if u tweet about hwayugi. :p or kdrama u like..
🤦♀️I’m such a dumb blonde! So that’s the whole point of the hashtags! 🙄 Duh, packmule3! Okay, I’ll write my first tweet.
But I need to drink my morning coffee. Coffee = my liquid brains
Is there a popular hashtag I should use for kdrama addicts? Like #dramaqueens?
no, i think its better to tweet something related with your post, u should include main otp and the popular character who usually stick on second lead lol and drama title.
…but won’t that be an open invitation for crazy fangirls of LSG to come over here, lovebangwon, if I hashtag his name?
(Does he have batshit…errr… apeshit fangirls?)
I like the idea that this is an under-the-radar, exclusive bitch club.
I guess, looking on the bright side, if the crazies come, then I’ll have a legit excuse to drink more champagne to keep me bubbly. hahaha.
yes, and happy to be here
still on Just Between Lovers atm, love it although it’s finale week and after enduring a great dose of sadness already, might still need point 5. JBL is about healing and resilience, but might need some healing and resilience from the show itself lol 😀
Claiming my right for 10
’10. the Right to visit the land of fairy tales, Seoul, South Korea, to follow the footsteps of our favorite characters, and to search for our own Prince Charming.’
How to find one of those? <3 😉
I do this too haha
so you don’t like bun, you think it’s an unnecessary filling for your stomach? 😂
JBL is on my list of to watch shows.
If you’re young, I guess a “study abroad” program is the best — and legit option — to stay in Seoul. If you’re older, I guess one of those “teaching English” programs will have to do.
On one of my trips to SK, I brought my son with me. I noticed that he’d get the “looks” everywhere we went. As a matter of fact, the few times we got separated (ex. I stopped to look at trinkets or scarves, and he kept on walking), a group of girls would talk to him. Like, they asked for directions (which was obviously flirtation to me because he was a foreigner for heavens sake!) or they chatted with him to get him to sign a petition for comfort women or simply asked him if he was an American.
As a mom, I don’t see my sons as Princes Charming because I still remember changing their diapers and wiping off their drool. But to these girls, my son who’s 6’3 mind you, lol, must look like Brad Pitt, but younger, friendly, and approachable.
It’s funny what our standards of Prince Charming is.
On a different note, one of my colleagues has a daughter in high school who is in SK right now on a study abroad/exchange student program. She’s having a blast because as a foreigner, everybody wants to practice their English with her and to claim her as a friend. I was thrilled (vicariously of course) when I learned that she also got herself a boyfriend.
But my friend and I expect this to be a short-term romance. Once the daughter finishes the program, she’ll have to come back and continue on with her studies here. A Korean wedding and an international or cross-cultural marriage aren’t in the cards … right now. Ahhh! Young love. ❤️
Ricerascal, we eat the burger in a civilized way.
Have you seen the gourmet burgers at Red Robin, for instance? Our mouths would have to be as big as the Chunnel to take a bite. Not only that, the burger is guaranteed to explode and disintegrate the second your teeth clamp on those buns, with the patty going one way, and the lettuce and tomatoes going another.
I don’t like the bread because it becomes soggy and limp when it soaks up all the grease. Or because it often tastes like cardboard. And because, as you said, it’s carbs. 😀
lovebangwon, I texted my very first tweet!!!!!! I did as you taught me how. Thanks!
Please give Just Between Lovers a try, this show is so incredibly touching, it’s a melodrama which gives so much heartbreak, but also so much warmth and rays of hope of the most beautiful kind.
As for the search for prince charming lol well english program should do for me, I’m in my twenties but it’s been a long time since I’ve finished high school 😉
Lovely story you have to tell about your son, with all those characteristics
– tall (6’3 is so tall though), handsome from what I guess haha (Brad-Pitt look-alike woah), exotic looks (from the korean perspective of course) –
I can so sense the proud mom here packmule3, you’re so cute 😉
haha he sure must have had lots of success over there, plus with a cool and fun mum like you and since asian culture is very family-oriented, you would be the potential ideal mother in law ;)))
Well with all that said, of course all these korean actors are very attractive and so dreamy, in every drama I find myself falling for a new talented young lad, that’s just pure drama magic!
What I love most in the characters depicted is their sense of respect and the depth of their feelings, not always demonstrated through big gestures but you always feel that there is so much love.
Also these characters are not only good to their SO, but also good people in general, to their friends, acquaintances, colleagues, family.
Gems like that can be found in Korea, but also in unexpected places all over the world right?
still I really wanna visit South Korea, the land that brought us many outstanding dramas, someday 😉
<3
Agree it’s a much easier and more ‘logistical’ way to eat burgers. Otherwise you can never really look elegant and composed eating a burger lol
Yes, Seoul is fun, I must admit. It’s more fun if you travel alone. 😉
One time I was there during their Independence Day. I took time off to be just by myself, and to take pictures of their parade and festivities. I think I told other people about this already… I had my picture taken with a group of Joseon “guards” who were part of the parade. hahahaha. It was surreal, I knew they were just dressed up, but in my mind, I was thinking “Whoa! This is just so like a sageuk. Starring me as lead actress.” I wondered what would have happened if a time portal just opened up and I was transported back in time with those guys. lol.
Anyway, it was fun posing with those Joseon guards. But I was old enough to be their mom so that whole photo-op was wasted on me. I swear: if I had a daughter, I would have matched her up with one of those guys with the snap of my fingers….just for the heck of it.
Then, on another trip, I again took a few hours to be by myself without my usual staff, and I found myself in this courtyard with rows and rows of kimchee pots (or onggis). That was another out-of-this-world feeling. I felt like a kid in a candy store — or kimchee field. I wanted to rub the bellies of those big vats to see if a genie would come out and grant me three wishes. But I was also a bit worried too that should I trip and twist an ankle (like in a kdrama, lol) in the middle of the onggis, there was no way I could pinpoint where I was. You can really play hide-and-seek in there.
I like South Korea because its ways and customs are STILL alien to me as a Westerner, but at the same, it’s familiar because of what I’ve watched on tv and grown to love over the past years.
😀 My sons are alright. I’d be a weird parent if I wasn’t proud of them. The son who went with me to Seoul is a bit of a charmer, though. There are always girls hanging around him. And even his exes are still good friends with him (and EACH OTHER, can you believe that?) and call him when they need help.
Especially when the burgers are as big as your face and stacked up. Sometimes if we’re in a sit-down restaurant (as opposed to fastfood like McDonalds and Burger King), I’ll order everything on the side. Mushroom on the side, pickles on the side, onions on the side… so I can pick-and-choose what I want to eat.
hahahaha. How about lobsters? How do you eat lobster? That’s another messy thing to eat.
Everything you’ve mentioned I agree 100% and do them all the time! Let me comment more on those later, this I gotta let this out first… damn, that JCW gif is too hot, his body and butt looked sooooo god. (typo intended!)
Hahaha. The butt gif! It’s the
giftgif that keeps on giving… if you know what I mean. 🤣😍😜The Declaration of Universal Rights of Kdrama Aficionados is ridiculous, I admit.
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I sure do love your list! Everything except #10 I have exercised my rights. 🙂 I have yet to visit Seoul. Last year, I was supposed to go to the Club Jin’s Inauguration (Park Hae Jin’s Fans Club) but got sick. I dunno when I will be able to go since there are a lot of things that need to be settled on my end before I got clearance to go abroad. I would really love to take a stroll at the streets of Seoul. See the Korean Autumn because I really love looking at trees with beautiful colored leaves. Simple pleasures.
I love #7 in the list. This is the reason why I love talking to my Kdrama friends on LINE and join drama discussion there at Soompi. I love it that we talk of dramas as if we are talking about some profound book. The drama watching experience became more enriching not just because we discuss the drama’s details but we came to know bitches like us.
On eating burgers, when sitting down, I just have it as is but usually requests for them to cut into half so that it will be easy for me to cut the burger into slices, bun, veggies and meat all in one bite.
Oh dear, that was a great experience you had at Seoul especially being able to pose with those Joseon guards. What came to mind about the kimchi jars was a horror flick, no particular flick but imagining a place like that where someone could get lost without people knowing.
Your son is surely a charmer and gosh 6’3″! Wow! Kudos to him as well for maintaining a good relationship with his exes, that seldom happens unless you’ve created good memories with them till the end.
Btw, waves to all the posters here. I think I knew ricerascal from Soompi and it seems I’ve seen lovebangwon from Twitter.
Staygold is here, and phikyl, too. There’s also mslee, yourhighness, and onlysb, It’s the “Justice League” of soompi. The others are lurking (like that soompi gal from Romania and that gal from *cough cough cough* UK). I wish they’d just come out of hiding. It’s not as if I’ll ban them — like they did to some of us in soompi. We’re not vindictive bitches. Just victorious bitches.
I know that son of mine IS a ladies’ man. I used to worry about him because he changes his GFs every so often that his dad and I can’t keep up with the names. I remember going on one of my overseas business trips and buying a gift for his girlfriend (nothing fancy, just jewelry from Hong Kong). I don’t have a daughter so I missed out buying girly things.
When I arrived home, I handed him my present and told him to give to X. He told me that he had already broken up with X and asked if he could give it to Y instead because he was dating Y.
I was floored!! I was only gone for three weeks!
So I ended up giving the jewelry to Y but since X was his ex, I still gave her a replacement gift (a scarf) because I liked her. I even wrote a letter saying: thank you for not beating up my son, although he deserved it, when you were dating each other (joke).
Anyway, why am I talking about this?
Ah!
The reason I enjoy kdrama so much is that it’s absolutely different from my life. If my son’s life were a drama show, I’d be the mean kimchi/water-slapping mother who’ll pay off the girlfriend, and my son will be the tsundere, snobby, spoiled son-of-a-bitch. lol. But it isn’t like that at all in real life. The drama stays in dramaland, and reality stays real.
You’re right about the kimchi jars. The whole landscape with rows and rows of brown urn was eerie. Like what if contained kimchi demons??
I think Seoul is a lovely city because they make a conscious effort of beautifying their city and keeping their cultural heritage alive. They have pride in their history, and pride in their future. The city is relatively safe and their taxis are very reliable so you can go off on your own. I don’t know if it’s because I’m a Westerner that the people have been so accommodating and helpful. But they certainly go out of their way to make sure that my needs and my party’s needs are met…with minimum fuss.
I hope you’ll be able to visit Seoul someday soon. It’ll be really memorable for you. (Pssttt… rent the hanbok if you see a rental place.)
Hi @packmule3, it’s been quite a while since wgm and goblin threads.. Like always, I love to read your posts before so I’m sure I will find myself happy to read your blog too. Special thanks to my fellow friend to inform me of this blog existence.
P.s : this rights declaration, never knew that I needed them before in my life, daebak sageon! 🙂