Happy New Year!

Happy 2024! Here’s to a new year filled with… kdramas by screenwriters and actors we like, cdramas with less than 24 episodes, doramas with leavening content, understanding friends, caring family members, loving spouses, good health, good fortune, gpod times, memorable trips, happy reunions, spiritual renaissance, sunlight and moonlight, chocolate and seafood, our favorite things, peace […]

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Merry Christmas!

Have a blessed Christmas, everyone! The Birth of Jesus. In those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that the whole world should be enrolled. This was the first enrollment, when Quirinius was governor of Syria. So all went to be enrolled, each to his own town. And Joseph too went up from Galilee […]

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Unexpected Business in California: Open Thread

Ignore me. This is my bookmark. I must remind myself that my favorite PD Yu HoJin filmed this variety show in Monterey, California. His usual stars, Jo InSung and Cha TaeHyun, were with him to manage a small Korean store. It’s on kshow123.tv. I wish Viki would carry it, though. Here’s PD Yu being interviewed […]

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Happy Birthday, FGB4877!

To the “baby” brother of the blog, Feliz cumpleanos!! You can’t buy happiness but you can buy cervezas 🍻 and ceviche de camarones 🍤🍤. They’re pretty much the same thing. 🙂 Enjoy the day! Your noonas on the blog

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Happy Birthday, America!

In my travels, I’m often struck by how young the United States of America is relative to other nations. Here are some of the oldest civilizations according to the World Population Review: Iran (3200 BC), Egypt (3100 BC), Vietnam (2879 BC), Armenia (2492 BC), Korea (2333 BC), China (2070 BC), India (2000 BC), Israel (1300 […]

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All Of Us Are Dead: Open Thread

I don’t expect you to watch this. It’s a zombie show. However, I’m curious to see whether this screenwriter has evolved in his moral arguments after that junk science-fiction, “L.U.C.A.” and how he stacks up against the screenwriter of “Happiness,” the zombie show I watched last month (was it just last month???). All 12 episodes […]

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