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Women characters no longer wait to be chosen in K-dramas - The Korea Times Forget damsels in distress and a focus on love interests. The women dominating K-dramas today are choosing themselves. Bechdel Day 2025 is a festiv...

Women characters no longer wait to be chosen in K-dramas
This year's Bechdel Choice 10 drama series reflect a trend for female characters defined not by their relationships with men, but by their own ambitions, relationships and agency.

LOW EXPECTATIONS ARE GOOD PROTECTION

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Lotus flowers at the Kenilworth aquatic Gardens

#OurUnwrittenSeoul #kdrama ep.11: Wow. Also it’s possible the moms are my favorite characters

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Breaking: Another Beloved Restaurant Announces Upcoming Closure Due to “challenges of food costs, Initiative 82 and the economic climate in the city…” - PoPville 805 V Street, NW, Haikan just before opening back in 2016 Thanks to all who passed on to us the sad news from Haikan: "After almost 10 years in Shaw, we’ve made the difficult decision to close our bel...

So sad about this www.popville.com/2025/04/haik...

It's all winter here, even in August
My heart is running on time, alone on the Snowpiercer
I want to go to the other side of the Earth, holding your hand to put an end to this winter
How much should my longings fall like snow
Before the days of spring return, friend?

- Spring Day

Follow-up to earlier hopeful post on #WhenTheStarsGossip #kdrama - agree with others it ended up a garbage fire - something definitely happened with the script/post-production. Actors did what little they could with sorely lacking character development.

#LoveScout really nailed the 12-episode #kdrama - pacing was tight. Especially appreciated the amount of time allotted for each storyline’s wrap-up in ep.12.

ep 1-2 of #WhentheStarsGossip as a clever and funny send-up of the oh-so-self-important space travel/adventure genre, who’s with me? #kdrama

#EYDC2024 Day 31: Favorite Drama of 2024 - Although one week short of completion I’m going with #WhenThePhoneRings as the best all around in evoking the classic #kdrama that first got me hooked… #LovelyRunner and #NoGainNoLove runners up

#EYDV2024 Day 30: Was 2024 a good drama year for me? I’d say it had some definite high points but more disappointments than expected #kdrama

#EYDC2024 Day 29: A 2025 drama that you’re excited for - I’m on teams #LoveScout #StarsWhoGossip #MotelCalifornia -surely one of them will deliver

#EYDC2024 - Day 28 - something I want to see more of in dramas - more non-straight female lead characters #kdrama

Hulu in the US! Which usually means Disney+ in Asia but not sure about elsewhere

Day 27: A 2024 drama too few people watched - Not sure about this but #FlexXCop was unexpectedly satisfying and I didn’t see much buzz about it #kdrama

#EYDC2024 Day 26: Most disappointing drama of 2024 - Agree with others about #LoveNextDoor but #ImpossibleHeir gets the prize for supreme waste of talented actors (Lee Jae-wook and Lee Jun-young) #kdrama

#EYDC2024 Day 25: Favorite Romance of 2024 - #LovelyRunner was most consistent but #QueenOfTears and #LoveNextDoor had some outstanding scenes mostly thanks to the actors…

#EYDC2024 Day 24:
Favourite costumes of 2024 - #QueenOfTears - all the snazzy suits! On both of the leads!

EYDC2024: Day 23: An Innovative Drama you watched in 2024 - I’m going with #NoGainNoLove which gave refreshing agency to the female characters #kdrama

#EYDC2024 Day 22 - a drama that live up to the hype - I’m jumping on the #LovelyRunner bandwagon

#EYDC2024 Day 21: A drama I will rewatch in the future - Probably #LoveNextDoor and #LovelyRunner … ?

#EYDC2024 Day 20: A 2024 drama that made me cry - #QueenOfTears had some surprisingly wrenching moments #kdrama

#EYDC2024 Day 19: A Drama That Made You Laugh - agree with others on here about #MySweetMobster! I think #LoveNextDoor had some good moments too #kdrama

Day 18 #EYDC2024 - Most watched #KDrama genre - I suppose it was the romcoms but with a chaser of police procedural thrown in? I am not good at keeping track … but also is time slip its own genre?

#EYDC2024 Day 17: Best actor - Has to go to Kim Soo-hyun in #QueenOfTears not least because the writing was… a bit of a challenge and yet he was so impressive #kdrama

#EYDC2024 Day 16: Best actress of 2024:
Park Min-young in #MarryMyHusband - amazing job - best of the performances I watched this year! I bet Kim Tae-Ri will knock my socks off as usual when I get my stamina up for #Jeongnyeon #kdrama

#EYDC2024 Day 15: A drama that grew on me - I’m going with #AtypicalFamily - first episode really did not work for me but it picked up! #kdrama

Now 6 episodes and going strong #WhenThePhoneRings
#kdrama