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  • Comfort Food

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    Comfort Food is a reprinting of a post I wrote for Dramabeans last year as part of their Food theme.

  • Trapped: A story of HIStory 3

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    This year’s HIStory series, Trapped, is sexy and sweet and fun as a romance but struggles as an action drama.

  • I kill pot plants

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    Korean dramas (as well as many of their Taiwanese and Chinese counterparts) have a woman problem. A big one.

  • Very very happy if you died

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    They’ve adapted the wonderful manwha Happy If You Died and I’d be happy to die if I could go back in time and stop them.

  • Always the second male lead

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    My Name is Jisoo and I am worthy of love. I wrote that on a post-it note on my mirror and look at it everyday If I read it often enough, maybe I’ll believe it’s true. I am deserving of love! I don’t mean it in a creepy Incel way, of course. I’m not angry…

  • My Year in KDrama: 2018

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    It was January. Summer. A blinding hot summer. The sweat dripped down my unexpectedly-designer outfits as I walked to the bus stop. I was suffering from a small bout of amnesia caused by my trauma over the ending of a show called Black. Had it finished in 2017? 2018? I couldn’t remember. It was a…

  • I’m Not a Pot Plant

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    Earlier in the year I was watching Shut Up Flower Boy Band. In the middle of an argument between the male lead and the second male lead about the female lead’s living arrangements, I realised their argument would still work if they substituted the word ‘Pot Plant’ for her name. “Why is my Pot Plant…

  • Scene Stealers: Bleeding Flowers

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    Those who know, know. Those who don’t know, should watch. Right now. Some performances steal a scene. Some an episode. Some steal an entire damn show. And in this particular month on this particular site, there’s only one scene stealer I could possibly write about. And you already know who it is. I can’t say…

  • Epilogue of a relationship

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    An unpublished Theme of the Month post submitted to Dramabeans for the prompt, Epilogues Korean dramas are full of romance. Even shows with psycho killers and kidnapping plots have a One True Pairing – the cornerstone of 90 per cent of Korean television. But I know I’m not alone in imagining what happens to that…

  • Completing the Circle

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    This is a slightly-edited version of a unpublished piece I wrote for Dramabeans on the topic of Epilogues Last year I watched Circle while I was on holidays. I came back from my morning swim, had breakfast and then decided to start the first episode of Circle. It was about 10am so I made myself a…