Yayyyy @pm3 ! Thank you for hosting this drama on BoD without our petition. @cleo cara where you at !

@Fern, @agdr03 and others I hope you’ll join us here !

@packmule3, @Arihsi, @Cleopatra, @Snowflower, I’ll be watching. It may be my only K-drama to watch live in March.

@Snowflower I had to think back to the 2ML in CLOY!

Hi everyone, Right now I’m hooked on Doctor Slump. I find it to be a serious take on mental illness. They are looking at depression and PTSD in a visceral way and unlike some of what I’ve seen on American TV, they are not sensationalizing it. I like our two leads a lot.

I’ll definitely be watching “Queen of Tears” now that I know it’s on Netflix. I am happy it isn’t on Disney+ because it would probably be on Hulu here(a marketing ploy to get you to buy the bundle). I also want to see Snowstorm. I already watched An Incurable Vase of Live. I had read about it a while back and I enjoyed it.

I have Viki and I just went through my feed to see what I want to watch. There is so much that I missed that I’ll be busy for the foreseeable future. There’s also a lot on Amazon too. Having watched Marry My Husband(that I am still rewatching for detail) I am finding another treasure tro of dramas to watch. This should be my worst problem(LOL).

On a personal note, my husband just completed chemo. I am praying that this will give him years and a good quality of life. My job now is to provide him with tadty food so that he can build his strength from here. He deserves good given what he’s been through. Thank you BODers for your kindness and support. This site has been a refuge for me and I am grateful for the wonderful posters on it.

I have QUEEN of TEARS on my list 😀

Post AJTL (A JOURNEY TO LOVE) I am besotted with ML Liu Yu Ning and the veteran FL Liu Shi Shi AND the ENTIRE Ensemble Cast; ESPECIAL Shout Out to He Lan Dou as Princess Yang Ying.
Therefore I went to check out :

BE YOUR OWN LIGHT – ah the taste of things mature and adult and funny, yet slice of life. Will be watching that.

Awaiting (salivating) the release of :

LEGEND of JEWELRY (yup you guessed it Liu Yu Ning)

Then there was :

FAKE IT TILL YOU MAKE IT – even more slice of life .. if there was a more real feel adult romance and its development arc, this makes it to the TOP…
THUS my discovery of a set of talented ML (Elvis Han) and FL (Elvira Cai) who I not seen before, led me to short list :

MR and MRS CHEN

and looking out for Elvira Cai

But this weekend I started AaSoL (Amidst a Storm of Love)
The storm is yet to hit (me)
It’s still a beautiful, sunny, cool, breezy, golden, picnic of a day from my set of lenses. ;-D

Gimme a thunder .. and a sudden cold gust .. one nimbus and a shard of lightning ASAP LOL

Is Hel Helsinki? .. The language looks Finnish.

The Impossible Heir is the one I am looking forward to. Unfortunately it is on Disney – which means it may not be possible to stream until it has fully aired in Korea unless Hulu airs it at the same time (always a mystery). Impossible Heir stars two actors I find incredibly talented: Lee Jae-wook and Lee Jun-young. Disney spent a TON of money on the production.

Wedding Impossible is also on my list. Funny how “Queen” and “Impossible” are in the title of more than one drama airing at the same time.

Thank you @pm3,@agdr03!

@welmaris ? Knock knock @welmaris ? Knock knock @welmaris ? Knock knock

Sheldon Cooper (BBT) style e-knocking to understand if she’ll be joining us !

I’ll pass on “queen of tears”.
And anyway, even something I like, I don’t think I’ll have time.
I keep that in mind:
– The Impossible Heir (with the actor of alchemy of soul)
– Pyramid Game (nice pitch)
– Chicken Nugget (crazy pitch!!)

@OAL So happy your husband has completed chemo; it took me many months to overcome its side effects but am still experiencing the optimum effect—no cancer since 2010!!!
I, too, enjoy Lee Jae Wook a lot so will watch The Impossible Heir. Also planning to watch Queen of Tears for KSH who was very good in it’s Okay to not be Okay. Will stick with Dr Slump although I was underwhelmed with first two episodes.
Going back to my decision to discover good, older Kdramas I’m watching and enjoying Beethoven Virus. It’s reminding of Korean appreciation of Classical music.
Must say that March is not coming in like a lion in my neck of the woods as temps will be in the low 60’s much of this week. This is pretty much unheard of for Northeast US. Not complaining LOL

Bosuji,

Yes Hel or Hull is Helsinki.

Hello My Dear @FGB,
We have missed having you on our threads. I’m sorry to know that your Internet is slow. I applaud you for your patience! I am too busy now to do much watching of anything. I am not sure if I have any more comments on our Jiruba thread but I’ll be sure to go back to read if you post anything there.

At the moment my family and I are dealing with a mixture of flu and covid. Nothing serious and am praying that all remains okay and does not get worse.

Do drop us a line now and then. You know where to find me!

I do hope you all we will be feeling better Unnie! <3

Sorry for the off-topic, but Happy Leap Day!!! 😀

Just enjoyed some cocoa tea 😉 .

Also watched Episode 9 of “Sono Onna, Jitterbug (2021)”. It is a wonderful and upbeat watch that I can recommend, rife of great messages about how life expands and even if opportunities are not served in a silver platter like in our youth, if we watch closely changes for the better are still there (with the benefit of insight and experience).

Dear Ladies (and dear Bro @WEnchanteur), I started watching Asian media using Anime as a my trampoline back when I was still a child, so Dramas are just the natural evolution. Is it OK for me to recommend some Anime now and then?.

@Growing Beautifully, Sending get well wishes to you and your family. I hope you have someone to care for you too.

Am looking forward to new dramas but right now I’m enjoying Dr. Slump. I am also rewatching parts of Marry My Husband.

Thank you for the good wishes for my husband. He is going for follow ups soon with VST scans and blood tests. I hope that there’s no evidence of cancer. The good news is that he’s keeping weight on. His chemo regimen was brutal.

I’ll wait to see how he’s doing and then will deal with my hip.

After watching Marry My Husband, TVN got me hooked again with Wedding Impossible! 😃

The 2 episodes were great. I will rewatch the second episode because the drunk scene was funny. 😂 I liked how Ah Jung’s real life situation is seen by JiHan and not her 15 years bestie, DoHan.

I like that she’s feisty and knows pretty much everything an actress needs to do ‘incase’. 😄

I agree @Good Twin! The dialogues are so fast but they deliver and deliver it well. 😃

I haven’t seen the main leads of this drama except for DoHan (forgot the actor’s name but I like him too). Actually most of the cast are from shows I’ve seen before so that’s a bonus too.

The taxi scene was hilarious. 😂

I can’t wait when they fall inlove. ☺️

@OAL I’m re-watching parts of MMH too ! It’d be cool if we can chat on already existing threads ! Let me know 💗

I’ll keep (visually) chewing on MMH till I find something safe and coherent again because clearly, as a very adventurous adult, I’m great at trying new things.

Hip ? Although you don’t mention the issue, it must be painful 😣

Hi @Fern and @Arishi, I think both of you will like this too. Please give it a go and see how you go. 😃

The first couple of episodes are solid. The FL can see through the ML so I’m willing to bet he’d fall in love with her first. ☺️ ML really wants to push her away from his hyung so he’s doing everything.

There’s scenes that’s quirky especially because it refers to dramas in real life but because the FL’s job is an actress, she outright says what should happen. Sigh, I can’t explain it properly. 😂 You’ll know what I mean.

The last scene made me feel for FL. 😊

PS. @Arishi, the height of our ML is very noticeable too. 😉

Discovered Tan Jian Ci

In a DRAMA that I just finished : NEVER GONE (2018)

Had gone to check out Elvis Han Drama post watching him do a tailored fit role Fake It Till You Make It.

This is the first time I watched a show and SO DEEPLY missed having the non-OTP as the MAIN Leads LOL

Tan Jian Ci is what finally drew me to the end of the Drama.

I have HUGE gripe with the drama team for hashing up the novel (I suspect).

Anyway I was struck by Logorrhoea and ended up writing a LOOOOOONG spiel on the drama there ;-p

Now I need to go find something else ..

OK I am enjoying some rewatches still. Saves me the stress of worrying about wasting my time or using the time I have to watch something I am unhappy with and then being disappointed.

Recently I rewatched My Lovely Kim Sam Soon and Secret Garden, then Crash Landing on you. Cloy was one of my earlier watches and I really enjoyed noticing so much I had missed the first time like recognizing all the cameo actors.

MM and TW still high on my list to watch.

Others are:

Wonderland of Love
Impossible Heir
Impossible Wedding
Love of Jewelry(agree with Bosuji here)
Captivating the sound
Queen of Tears like so many others
Be your own light
Swing Kids Past Lives both movies
Like Flowers in Sand (sounds like a gem) I was not at all interested initially
Salmdari
Here comes Trouble

What Happens to My Family older family drama with Park Hyung Sik

all the interesting ones on Apple and Disney some day.

There are 3 I have not seen mentioned here:

Eye to Eye Japan I love the premise. The female lead can read others’ thoughts and that has made it difficult for her to have relationships. Nothing too new. The twist is that the male lead is korean(the male lead from Castaway) and thinks in Korean so the FL who is Japanese cannot read his thoughts.

Beauty and Mr Romantic with Ji Hyun Woo and unfortunately Im Soo Hyang. What to do ?It is 50 episodes -a weekender? I love him and am biased against her(not her fault Woo Ri the Virgin was such a bust.). I am getting snide here. She and Cha Eun Woo were well matched in My ID is Gangnam Beauty.

There is another Cha Eun Woo show coming up and the synopsis interests me although children dying makes me less interested and it is on Disney-Wonderful World is the name of the drama.

This reads more like a wish list than a plan!

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On a later note, happy to read good news on your front, dear @OAL!!!. Having a patient in the family is never easy, especially for the caretakers and the person under treatment. Most success cases are the ones were the whole family is in for the changes.

Dear @Stacy, I haven’t really checked out Taiwanese nor Chinese Dramas, but I have heard that the later are finally achieving maturity.

@monmor, I love Tamra The Island! Such a sweet little sageuk. FL and ML are so likeable. I still remember the scene when the FL is saying goodbye to ML while he is crying silently inside the house.
I am rewatching Alchemy of Souls Part 2 to get my LJW fix. When I watched it for the first time, I was paying more attention to him. Now I think Go Yoon Jung is simply luminous. LJW is still great, of course.

Errata: I wanted to say “Seinen”, not Shonen. 🙁

Correction, the Japanese Korean drama I referred to above. Is eye love you not eye to eye.

I spotted Nam In Woo as the younger version of a lead in “my love eun dong” a retro hallyu from 2015 I think.

Just noticed Lui Yuning in something else new- title Eternal Brotherhood or something like that.

@snowflower you are jogging my memory I remember now the touching scenes on this theme.

I watched My Happy Marriage (movie) on YouTube and liked it. I did not understand all details of the world building, but enjoyed the dynamic between FL and ML.

I am starting “Eye love you” today 5 EPISODES and they all dropped today on Netflix. A Japanese(I think) production STARRING Korean Chae Jong hyeop of Castaway Diva. This is a romance fantasy where both Korean and Japanese are spoken.

“eye love you” Is cute, Funny, With some s**y. The male lead is Very different from how he was in castaway diva.

It has the Japanese esthetic which I can’t really define.But it is very different from korean dramas.

@monmor and @stacy, I think part of the Japanese esthetic is that emotions are sometimes tempered. We also see things more in focus. The cinematography seems clearer
It is hard to put it into words but even the humor is not subtle.For me, J Dramas are not my go-to place. In general they leave me cold. If anyone on BOD has recommendations for viewing I would be open to trying some.

It is beyond my understanding why they are not translating the korean and only translating the japanese. At first I thought it was because the female lead does not understand korean. But this persisted for 5 episodes And I felt like I was missing out on some of his thoughts.

The noona trope comes to mind. I did find the confusion around noona and what it means to ask somebody If they have eaten yet rather amusing. These are tropes that new korean drama watchers will pass it over.

I feel offended Almost that they are not translating the korean.

Re. EYE LOVE YOU I was good with that assumption initially but part of the reason I wanted to watch this show Was about hearing and experiencing both languages and understanding them. I am not sure the spoken korean EVEN is always translated. A part of me can’t help but think that it is netflix saving money. They may have had to hire two Translators If they could not find someone who speaks both languages as well as english. I wonder if the non subbed to english version translates the korean to japanese?

Hello

Do you still watch 2D1N? Miss your review of 2D1N

I think Na In Woo is going out on a high, so he will be remembered in some big roles. I also have the feeling that with his looks, he will age well and have a long career.

On a tangent: It’s interesting that some of the BTS members, who are all serving currently, continue to release material. It is smart of their company to store some things up and release them bit by bit. It’s a pity that actors have less chance to do that.

Is anyone watching My Siblings Romance. I’m watching on VIKI in the US. They released the 4th episode today. It’s a dating reality show where sets of siblings (m/f) enter a house but can’t let others know they’re siblings and then there’s dating romance. Wow. I really found no way to type that out that didn’t sound incestuous. Anyway, I’ve found it to be equally hilarious and heartwarming.

@Arihsi, it’s almost the end of March, and I’m just now reading through this thread. Thank you for trying to get my attention, and for the Penny! Penny! Penny! allusion.

I’ve been watching dramas sporadically this month. I was in Seattle a couple of weeks, visiting my daughter and son-in-law. While there I took advantage of cultural offerings I could get to by bus: opera, symphony, and ballet. I also got together with friends in the area. I stayed busy!

Once home, I’ve been playing catch-up not only with drama watching, but household chores. I haven’t taken time to sort my thoughts about the Kdrama episodes I’ve recently watched, as sorting laundry has taken precedence.

I did finish Doctor Slump, and generally liked it. I also watched an older Kdrama (2020) entitled Dinner Mate, to tide me over while waiting for new episodes of current shows to drop. I picked it because I wanted to watch an older ML, and thought the actor, Song Seung Heon, turned in a fine performance. At the suggestion of Netflix, I watched the movie My Name is Loh Kiwan. Song Joong Ki plays a grittier role in this film than characters I’ve seen him play in TV dramas. I think he was believable as someone trying to scratch out an existence in trying circumstances.

I’m currently juggling Wedding Impossible, Queen of Tears, and The Midnight Studio. The latter is my least favorite of the three, and I may not stick with it to the end. One big gripe I have with it is the makeup and mannerisms of the ghosts: too zombie-like in my opinion. Show is also not consistent, making most, but not all, deceased look like relatives of Beetlejuice.

I have started going through Episode 1 of Queen of Tears with a fine-toothed comb, listing tropes. I’m only halfway through, and I’ve written pages!

@Old American Lady, I’m glad to read your husband is done with his chemotherapy. What an ordeal he and you have endured. Bless you both, and may your future be bright.

@Arihsi, if I remember correctly from last year, you observe Ramadan. If I’m right, then let me wish you Ramadan Mubarak. If I’m wrong, I still wish for blessings to visit you.

I just started watching lovers and the opening scene is of him fishing! I may be on a roll with my analogy!