I think a video is a proper success when half my viewers run off to watch the #kdrama 5 minutes into me talking excitedly about it. 🤣 Here's my video on why you should ALSO be watching #SpiritFingers! youtu.be/q5RRT9-IX38

This scene in Would You Marry Me takes men's feminist solidarity back 10-20 years. Why is a random guy pushing aside a doctor MID CPR and telling her to cover up instead of publicly shaming the pervert filming her? No beating him up in secret later does nothing.

Making people believe that their one vote is the only power they have is the biggest political scam. Your power is in dissent, agitation, vocal questioning, vigilance against corruption. There is no passive participation in a democracy.

My friend @anisa.bsky.social wrote this excellent piece on the presence of serial killers in romantic K-dramas for MENT magazine a while back, and then we recorded a pod talking more about it: I'll link the article in the post below. Here's our podcast: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

Would you marry me, so far, has been such a nice revisit to 2017s romcom kdrama era. Minus the unnecessary stress. Our male lead is a grumpy teddy bear with sense and sensitivity. Our female lead is mildly bumbling but not a fool. Every time she stands up for herself she leaves a mile long burn.

A commenter asked if a sweet male lead's stalking counts as stalking, and so I did some legal research. Turns out that while different rules apply for fiction and reality, the logic underpinning both is the same. youtu.be/uiS5eocM70s?...

An additional question I have is why all Jinns get their own names except Song Hye-kyo, who is only referred to as Jiniya ('female Jinn' acc to the drama). No name. Like why? Anyway, here's a video on a show that confused me frequently. youtu.be/Lev6N7aUwt8

Genie, Make a Wish! (A first impressions thread) 4 minutes in. Holy info dump. Even in the lovely voice of Kim Woobin that was a lot. Did I really need to know my hero's entire motivation before the story even starts?

Good friends on the internet have been recommending a k-drama to me for the last month. And it does seem like the perfect thing. Except for the ML being played by a dude who SA'd his friend (got acquitted then lost the defamation case ag the woman cause judge ruled she didn't lie). I don't want to+

I told you I would keep you updated about the #BurningSun creeps so you can make conscious decisions about who and what to support: One of the perpetrators in the Burning Sun incident and former YG Ent. employee, #HeoHyun, has been appointed as the CBO of Muse M, in charge of the China branch.

So ymmv but I don't care at all about cheating scandals unless there's some kind of abusive behavior involved. This is one of those big cultural disconnects for me, I'll never get over how cheating can nuke a person's career in Asia. #jdrama

See this is what takes me from liking a drama to suddenly loving it. 'When Destiny Brings the Demon' was chugging along just fine being cute and funny and dealing with immortal cannibalism... ☠️👀 UNTIL! (cont) #Whendestinybringsthedemon #cdrama

What do you mean it's not high brow? 😄 It's funny as heck and follows logic in its plot mechanisms. Yes people be flying everywhere but at least their motives are consistent and you're not trying to strangle characters through screen out of frustration! I call that high art.

I know two people who are planning podcasts/videos comparing Marry My Husband Korea and Japan. I love that I'm not the only person intrigued by all the differences. And by intrigued I mean it's my new obsession 😅 I've been all over my socials hyping the new version 👇 #Kdrama #Jdrama

There's a 2001 Jang Hyuk movie called Volcano High that I found on Internet Archive & omg what a crack watch. It's like a live action manga with lots of wire work & very funny. Shin Min Ah is the FL & Gong Hyo Jin is in it too. Download the ISO file If you want to watch because it has subs #kdrama

Anyone watching Haunted Palace on my tl?

I'm so late to this party, but the Apothecary Diaries is the best thing on my watchlist right now. You've got an FMC who's part chemist, part doctor, and all poison enthusiast trying to survive palace intrigues without getting beheaded. Maomao is my standard for historical heroines now.

Hearing about performers taking their lives has become white noise for us #kdrama fans. Each time, we say, it's a situation unique to the person. It's not an industry wide problem all of us need to worry about. Anywho. This was a sad but lovely read: crabbyfordramas.wordpress.com/2025/02/24/k...

Watch Fireworks Of My Heart they said. It's a cute Yang Yang romance they said. So why am I depressed 10 episodes in over career ending injuries and the thanklessness of rescue work? 🙈 Don't mind me. I love #cdramas like this. But I'm ready for that com in the romcom now.

Watching My Dearest Nemesis and love Moon Ga-young as the brave, competent employee who needs the job but won't take power trips from her bosses. Choi Hyun-wook though is a mix bag. His younger man, forced to hide a love of bad fashion + rock music, can't quite pull the fake stoic chaebol off 🧵1

What makes a female lead annoying to kdrama audiences? A woman being too loud, too aggressive, too independent? But I've found people loving a lot of female leads who are all of that. Ji Kang-hee seemed to hit a specific nerve though. youtu.be/uNKVvj477aE?...

24 years ago, Meteor Garden started a global phenomenon of massively successful Hana Yori Dango adaptations without which we literally would not be here. *points to handle* And that iconic show made the equally iconic Barbie Hsu beloved to millions around the world. RIP to a legend 💔

I just realised #WhentheStarsGossip is still airing! Everyone stopped talking about it so I kinda thought it was done. 😅 But it's only halfway through. #kdrama

So I finally watched both Squid Games cause I wanted to understand the context of a scene in S2. And director Hwang Dong-hyuk wasn't lying, was he? He really did do season 2 for the monies (and rightfully so). But that left us with such a sad imitation of S1. 🙈 #kdrama #netflix

Okay, Trauma Code EP 1 was an absolute banger but I'm traumatized by Netflix dramas with great first episodes that go to shit. 🤞 that it ends well @thedramanotes.bsky.social this is another reason for bad endings in dramas, investing all the $$ in EP 1 and not bothering with a coherent script.

LaShaunda's post asking screenwriters why their #kdrama endings suck got me theorizing and ended with making my favourite video to date. I love this community. 🥲

I'm going to make a prediction right now. It's going to have no explicit scenes whatsoever but the language jokes are going to be lurid and magnificent. 🤣 (Ref: The Forbidden Marriage) #TheScandalOfChunHwa

Why k-drama endings suck (quite often). Common wisdom blames the live shoot model, but I've seen enough pre-produced dramas give dud second halves to believe that's not the full answer. There's a bigger culprit. Let me explain in DEEETAIL... 😄 youtu.be/5_NMiPOLUrk?...

Friends, there is an Alica and Jasper Liu drama on the horizon. YOU DON'T EVEN UNDERSTAND MY EXCITEMENT! Preempting the ick: The drama is a romcom, so not really about cheating. More like deciding if it's worth staying and working thru a trouble marriage. Trailer: youtu.be/sQrdTdxBvDc

Breaking: South Korean authorities arrested President Yoon at 10:33 a.m.

#kdrama folks please don't interact with the "Netflix K-content" account on bluesky. It's a fake one. Not the one you're used to seeing on YouTube or instagram.

This thread is very interesting to read. Accidental exposure to the actual culture and economics of a country you've been taught to hate and what comes from it is always interesting.

He’s probably getting (and declining) a bunch of K-drama lead and support roles already. #DailySeokjin #SeokjinLove #BTS #BTS_Jin #JIN #Seokjin #KimSeokjin #WorldwideHandsome

They’re banning TikTok not because it harvests data, the same way US social media does, but because they can’t influence it’s algorithm with congressional hearings or government contracts the way they do every other tech giant. That’s it.

Aww Seohyun is stuck in a webnovel with Ok Taecyeon. 🥲

WHAT DO YOU MEAN THREE YEARS OF MARRIAGE? How did I not know about this? I've been crushed about hardly seeing either of these excellent actors on my screen since School 2013 and you mean to tell me they quietly had a cute romance and now have a baby? *Weeps in happiness for strangers*

This is what happens when you depend on Google AI to halfass your homework instead of watching the damn dramas yourself. Now this list is going to traumatize some nice man who just wanted to watch a dystopic gore fest with sentient chicken nuggets in a story about body image issues. #kdramas

SBS releases new teaser promo for upcoming kdrama #LoveScout, starring #LeeJoonHyuk and #HanJiMi.

I've been thinking a lot about how rare it is for both second leads in dramaland to get a HEA. Or to stay friends with the leads after they are rejected. So I made a video talking about Romance Is a Bonus Book, which is a drama that consciously breaks a lot of these tropes. youtu.be/Ar-G7ZGikQs

Friends, I have started Brewing Love and found what was missing in my life. A doe-eyed empath and a Kim Se-jeong. The way he looks at her is weirdly healing. Like he's grappling with his feelings but also in awe. Which, you know, Kim Sejeong. Who wouldn't be in awe? 🤣 Anywho, I'm hooked.

Nobody protests like a Korean (sound up) 🤣🤣🤣

Incredible podcasts, highly recommend these for context #kdrama

Incredible courage of South Koreans defending their parliament from President Yoon Suk Yeol's attempt to overthrow democracy.

My gods South Koreans take their role as the drama capital of the world seriously. 🙈