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Halo! This month I decided to finally get started on my solo podcasting career and recorded a hella long episode all on my own. Feedback would be highly appreciated! (Time stamps below.)

Okay, so dive in. I'm pretty happy (although not terribly excited) by the drama fare we have right now. My one hot take is about Key to the Phoenix Heart.

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Let me know your thoughts on my livestream recording plans or join the discord discussion about renaming this podcast via links below!

There is an extended video version for members up on Patreon.

TIME STAMPS:

00:00:00 Podcast housekeeping and pre-recording jitters.

00:08:50 Drama talk starts here!

00:13:55 Spooky in Love

00:21:26 Blossoms of Power

00:36:54 See You At Work Tomorrow

00:51:24 Key to the Phoenix Heart

01:09:14 Dream To You

01:20:10 Love For You

01:27:23 Apartment Job

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Anisa and Paroma and diving into almost three months worth of drama watching. Brace yourselves!

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Discord for overthinking drama fans: https://discord.com/invite/4xPe8jnJWw

Pursuit of Jade ending video: https://youtu.be/ivhTBv3POEc?si=GIlaw4r6agXx1JU6

Perfect Crown ending video: https://youtu.be/3LSQ7BJ2gMs?si=rDRR3YG0GJhlqV0p

Yumi's Cells 3 ending: https://youtu.be/XWGbjaMTdvk?si=DgojvExUuU4ltJ-w

Teach You A Lesson (Hana from Korea): https://youtu.be/CSZE-I4FOCw?si=ZUPeQQK1Rv7k2eTv

Dramas Mentioned:

Reborn Rookie

Dazzling

Blossom

Sold out on you

My Royal Nemesis

Perfect Crown

Yumis cells 3

Filing for love

Wonderfools

Pursuit of Jade

Zhan Zhao adventures

The First Jasmine

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Anisa convinces Paroma to watch Heart Pairing - a reality dating show with real, normal people, with some extremely sweet and romantic story line (restored Anisa's faith in romance!). She also contextualizes why Heart Pairing is better than a lot of other dating reality shows in the market. (Low on toxicity.)

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Heart Pairing, Singles Inferno, Heart Signal, Love Is Blind.

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This August, after 9 years, Dramas Over Flowers will be - as Khadija would like us to call it - reincarnating.

We love you all very much.

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Anisa and Paroma recorded this episode as Ramadan was starting in February. So you will get some dated references. (Like them wondering if IU and Byeon Woo-seok will have any chemistry in the upcoming modern day prince drama (Yes, yes they do!))

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TIMESTAMPS:

00:58 No Tail To Tell (spoilers till ep 2)

21:06 Undercover Miss Hong (spoilers till ep 1)

36:55 Idol I (full review)

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Korean-Japanese crossover dramas are a phenomenon that's building steam for a few years. Taking a look at the shows we have till now with Frabby (from crabbyfordramas.wordpress.com).

(Paroma recorded this livestream for her YouTube Channel: The Drama Notes)

TIMESTAMPS:

Dramas as they first come up in the discussion:

00:00 Intro 06:00 First Love (2022) 08:45 Eye Love You (2024) 10:12 What Comes After Love (2024) 15:13 Romantics Anonymous (2025) 16:57 Kimbap and Onigiri (2026) 23:10 Winter Sonata (2002) 26:13 Marry My Husband Japan (2025) 30:30 Can This Love Be Translated? (2026) 32:40 Will You Be My Manager? (2025) 45:53 Unnatural (2018) 46:17 Full time wife escapist (2016) 47:55 Learning to Love (2025) 54:24 Orange Days (2004) 1:01:04 Friends (2002) 1:04:35 Soul Mate (2026)

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Frabby's blog that convinced me to like the AMNESIA trope (not the childhood romance got that wrong): https://share.google/rwGc8VvKtOJEv8sct

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In Part 2 of our 2025 wrap-up, we talk about major Dramaland news stories, and each of our favorite (and not-so-favorite) K-dramas of the year.

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LINKS MENTIONED:

Kim Soo-hyun press conference clip about Kim Yoo-jung

DOF's favorite OSTs of 2025

Oneus Kpop Demon Hunters covers: Golden, Your Idol, Soda Pop

Sam Sanders' interview with a songwriter on Kpop Demon Hunters

Video essay on the heroine's journey: Why Women Need Their Own Myth

TIMESTAMPS:

00:01:59 News

00:36:34 Our Year in Dramas

01:48:11 Dramaland things that made us mad

01:59:45 Special interest corner

Shows mentioned in order of first appearance: The Great Shaman Ga Doo Shim, The Moon Embracing the Sun, Can You Hear My Heart, The Queen’s Classroom, Kiss Sixth Sense, Signal, Culinary Class Wars, Genie, Make a Wish, The Price of Confession, You and Everything Else, Queen Mantis, Love Scout, Study Group, Unmasked, Nine Puzzle, Law in the City, Spring of Youth, Undercover High School, Spirit Fingers, Pro Bono, Smile You, Mobius, Marry My Husband Japan, A Dream Within a Dream, Resident Playbook, The Winning Try, When Destiny Brings the Demon, The Potato Lab, Romantics Anonymous, Moon River, The Best Thing, Love in the Clouds, Our Unwritten Seoul, Ms Incognito, The Witch, Nice to Not Meet You, Doubt

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Dramaland changes every year and 2025 was no different. Let's talk trends in productions, biggest hits and misses, and what we have been doing and watching outside K-dramas. We'll be back with Part 2 really soon, where we get into our most memorable dramas of the year.

[This was live recorded for patreon in December. We have split and edited the episodes down for our podcast feed. You can still find the entire recording with video and audio chat on our patreon page.]

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TIMESTAMPS:

00:00:00 Catching up

00:20:54 Trends in dramaland

00:52:45 K-Variety

Dramas mentioned in this episode (in order): Would you marry me?, Perfect Marriage Revenge, Marry My Husband, The First Night with the Duke, Spirit Fingers, Study Group, Dear X, When the stars gossip, Genie make a wish, Hwarang, Unmasked, Trigger, Squid Game, Descendants of the Sun, Faith, Legend, Healer, Crash Landing on You, Lovely Runner, My Youth, Moon River, The Devil’s Plan, My Sibling’s Romance, Better Late than Single, Single’s Inferno, Mind the Noona Gap, Terrace House, Run Jin (Jonathan episode), Culinary Class Wars, Are Your Sure?, Keon’s Bizarre BnB, Jae friends, IU’s Pallette, My Little Old Boy (ep 471).

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Anisa and Paroma yak for a long time about all the dramas we've been watching - mostly K-dramas but also a few C-dramas. Plus we discuss the state of streaming, and the return of mid-budget dramas and old school tropes.

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And don't forget to join us Sunday, December 21 at 11am ET for a live Year-End Yak! LINK

TIMESTAMPS:

00:04:47 Dear X

00:12:10 You and Everything Else

00:22:28 Would You Marry Me

00:41:31 Last Summer

00:53:24 Dynamite Kiss

01:20:25 Bon Appetit Your Majesty

01:44:50 Love in the Clouds

01:52:19 Fated Hearts

01:57:29 Love's Ambition

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Our November Yak covers a bunch of dramas we just started and one drama we needed to talk in depth about - Kim Eun-suk's Genie, Make a Wish. Join Paroma and Anisa as we get back into talking at you for 90 minutes again.

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Paroma's video on Make a Wish Genie.

TIMESTAMPS:

00:00 Hello!

01:20 Ms Incognito

10:30 My Troublesome Star

18:10 Romantics Anonymous

33:25 Typhoon Family

35:09 Oh My Ghost Client

43:26 Make a Wish, Genie

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We talk about Anisa's grand theory of murder rom-coms - why they exist, when they work and when they don't, and what their rise means for K-drama trends.

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Anisa's article for MENT Magazine: The Rise of the Murder Rom-Com

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Halo! We are back with a new yak after a break. Anisa and Paroma catch you up on what we have been watching lately; some recommendations and some stay-aways! We also unnecessarily add to the hype around Kpop demon hunters with our own admiring words.

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LINKS MENTIONED:

1. "Keeping you obsessed": Netflix's demons vs. hunters movie captures the mystical allure of KPop [Link]
2. Korean food deast: From kimbap to ramyeon, but hold the kimchi [Link]
3. Jinu's seriously derpy tiger origin story [Link]
4. Paroma's video on the two versions of Marry My Husband [Link]
5. Interview with the writer and director of First Night with the Duke [Link]
6. Explanation of some Korean in KPop Demon Hunters [Link]

TIMESTAMPS:

00:00:54 KPop Demon Hunters

00:32:08 Law and the City

00:49:23 Head Over Heels

01:00:26 First Night with the Duke

01:27:16 Marry My Husband (Japan)

01:43:29 Second Shot at Love

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Part 2 of our year end yak is finally here! This is the episode where we go over the annual listener survey we do to find out what your drama year has been like. Which genres did you enjoy the most, what new dramas did you try out, what new difficulties have you faced accessing your favourite show? We talk about all of that with pie charts and laughter.

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Episode 184 Our Personal Goguma Awards

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Anisa and Paroma pop in before our next installment of the Year-End Yak to chat about currently airing dramas, including pretty much a full Spoiled Yak about Love Scout, which we ADORED. Paroma convinces Anisa to watch My Dearest Nemesis, Anisa laments the wasted potential of Melo Movie, and more.

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TIMESTAMPS:

00:03:11 Love Scout

00:11:59 Love Scout SPOILERS

00:46:52 The Potato Lab

00:56:36 My Dearest Nemesis

01:12:17 Melo Movie

01:36:49 The Trauma Code: Heroes on Call

01:47:40 The First Frost

02:15:37 Fireworks of My Heart

02:21:27 Filter

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In Part 1 of our (extremely belated) Year-End Yak for 2024, we talk Personal Gogumas - the awards the three of us want to give to the dramas we loved in 2024.

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Dramas Over Flowers' playlist of favorite 2024 OSTs as curated by Anisa

TIME STAMPS:

(These are questions we asked each other)

0:07:36 What’s a drama that surprised you?

0:46:20 A drama I'll remember 2024 for

0:54:15 An OST that stayed with us

1:03:21 Last minute watch that was totally worth it

1:07:00 A drama that got some wrong headed critique?

1:16:33 Mid or low budget drama you loved

1:22:43 Actors you want to highlight from 2024

1:35:45 A character that stayed with you all year/since you watched them

1:51:10 Most long-awaited comeback

1:59:46 Favorite couple/favorite romance

2:05:05 Actor that did the MOST in 2024

2:07:55 It started so well

2:11:49 Well that ended better than I expected

2:13:54 Two dramas you’ll recommend to your co-hosts?

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Anisa and Paroma yak about dramas they finished recently.

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Tell us about your drama year in our annual survey! Vote in the Goguma Awards (deadline: Jan 18th)

And while you vote, listen to this playlist of our favorite OSTs of 2024.

TIMESTAMPS:

00:02:46 Face Me (final thoughts)

00:20:31 Dongjae, the Good or the Bastard (final thoughts)

00:27:27 When the Phone Rings (midway thoughts)

00:36:10 The Trunk (final thoughts)

01:05:57 Jeongnyeon: The Star Is Born (midway thoughts)

01:13:20 Brewing Love (final thoughts)

01:27:52 A Virtuous Business (midway thoughts)

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Anisa and Paroma have a little yak about some new dramas we've sampled, and others we've just barely tasted.

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TIMESTAMPS:

00:02:04 Love Your Enemy

00:16:39 Mr Plankton

00:21:22 When the Phone Rings

00:34:37 Face Me

00:49:29 Tell Me that You Love Me

00:58:01 The Trunk speculation

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Music is "Feels Like Summer" by Staffan Carlen and "Fast Forward, Pause" by Rebecca Mardal.

We are bringing back What's Up In Dramaland as bi-weekly youtube live streams. A newsy episode that covers Korean entertainment including casting news, upcoming dramas, catching up on industry conversations. (This is a one time livestream audio upload. Please check our youtube channel for future WUID episodes!)

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TIME STAMPS:

00:00:00 lengthy intro

00:06:05 episode begins

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What's Up In Dramaland on our YouTube Channel

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Anisa and Paroma discuss their final thoughts on recently ended romcoms Love Next Door, No Gain No Love and Serendipity's Embrace, plus some first impressions of the Korean adaptation of Go Ahead and wacky romance DNA Lover.

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Family by Choice Episodes 1-2 Review

Paroma fights Anisa(?) about Love Next Door

TIMESTAMPS:

00:10:38 Family by Choice

00:21:30 Love Next Door

00:35:19 No Gain No Love

01:15:35 DNA Lover

01:31:58 Serendipity's Embrace

01:48:59 Culinary Class Wars

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In this episode we discuss the many popular re-unions of famous romantic and non-romantic actor couples. We ask why these re-unions happen, do they ever achieve the popularity of the original project, and why is there often a distinct shift in genres? (You can watch the video version of this episode at the link below).

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Paroma is joined by Deepanjana in a mission to express their deep feelings about No Gain No Love without spoiling every single scene in the drama. It was a challenge. This episode was recorded after the first 6 out of 12 episodes had aired.

You can hunt down today's guest @/dpanjana on Threads and Instagram.

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TIMESTAMP:

9:45 - Actual discussion starts

51:22 - Warning for spoilers

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Saya and Anisa have a quick yak about our first impressions of two currently airing dramas, and then Anisa confesses to having seen some Run BTS.

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Part 2 of our throwback 2014 dramas livestream

TIMESTAMPS:

02:19 Cinderella at 2am

15:22 Love Next Door

31:56 Run BTS (a sampling)

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Hi, we come back to you (pretty soon for us) with another long yak! Yes, Anisa is in this one. 😄

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TIMESTAMP:

00:01:24 Bad-memory eraser

00:17:47 My sweet mobster

00:42:57 The auditors

01:04:02 Dreaming of a freaking fairy-tale

01:14:57 Miss night and day

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Saya takes Paroma on an epic journey through her recent watchlist.

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"Silenced Beauty" video essay on Seolhyun in Running Man.

TIMESTAMP:

00:00:00 Jinny's Kitchen

00:19:22 Top Management

00:27:25 Good Day To Be a Dog

00:34:00 Miraculous Brothers

00:39:53 Moving (ending spoilers beware!)

00:49:15 Begins =/= Youth

00:58:51 MYSTERY DRAMA no okay just kidding - Ripe Town

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Episode 174: Lovely Runner spoiled yak

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Here are our final thoughts and theories on the one drama all three of us watched with equal fervour.

Joining us for this final journey into the world of Piggyback Sunjae and Run are friends of the podcast, Hanah and Sarah.

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LINKS MENTIONED:

Paroma's video on time traveling Im Sol: Link

TIMESTAMP:

0:05:14 - Audience response

0:08:35 - Production budget

0:12:25 - Heart eyes for the drama

0:14:19 - Taesung vs the serial killer

0:18:31 - Sunjae remembering the alternate timelines

0:27:41 - Sol driving the story action

0:37:00 - On how Sunjae died in timeline 1

0:42:15 - Sol’s brother & best friend

0:45:29 - Erasing Sol’s disability struggles

0:50:22 - Fate demands a life

0:59:05 - 33yo Sol falling for a teen

1:10:54 - Only one Im Sol got a happy ending

1:22:43 - Grandma has the best line about memories

1:26:51 - Sunjae’s choice & final thoughts

Running list of dramas mentioned:

W: Two worlds

Her Private Life

Familiar wife

Hometown CCC

Will Love In Spring (CDrama)

Marry My Husband

Nine: Nine Times Travel

Someday Or One Day

Go Back Spouses

Rooftop Prince

Dark (German thriller)

Goblin

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Don't worry, this is NOT a stealth goodbye podcast! In this episode, we talk about why we fall out of love with fandoms that we once loved so much, and what makes some stick for life. (You could call it the date, marry, kill episode? Spoiler alert, we marry K-dramas.)

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Music: "I'm Still in Love with You" (Instrumental) by Jake $ing

Anisa and Paroma gush about the first half of currently airing time-travel romance K-drama Lovely Runner, which we are LOVING. The first 40 minutes are free of major spoilers!

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LINKS MENTIONED:

Anisa's Queen of Tears first impressions review

TIMESTAMP:

00:40:27 Spoilers

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Music: "Dear My Ocean" (Instrumental) by Adelyn Paik and "Woke Up" by Cushy

In this episode, we talk about how K-dramas became a highly profitable export long before the entry of streaming platforms in the mid 2010s. This is a story of a nation's economic crisis, the creation of a unique opportunity, and a two decade long struggle for air wave supremacy in East Asia.

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TIMELINE OF DRAMAS MENTIONED:

1997 IMF crisis

1997 What is love all about (NBC)

2000 Autumn In My Heart (KBS)

2002 Winter Sonata (KBS)

2007 The Legend (MBC)

2013 My Love From the Star (SBS)

2016 Descendants of the Sun (KBS)

2016 Signal (tvN)

2016 Hwayugi (Korean Odyssey) (tvN)

2016 THAAD missile crisis/China bans K-ent

LINKS MENTIONED:

CedarBough Saeji's twitter thread on why South Korean academics rarely contribute to international journals.

Living document of sources here.

LIGHT READING 😌:

Korean Dramas Adopt Pre-Produced Format to Mixed Results (article)

The Reason SBS Missed Out on "Descendants of the Sun" and "Signal" (article)

Romantic blockbusters: the co-commissioning of Korean network-developed K-dramas as ‘Netflix originals’ (journal)

TIMESTAMP:

04:41 - How Kdramas came into existence

11:18 - How dramas used to be made

21:54 - Start of the digital age and entry of iQiyi

27:40 - Dramas begin to get expensive

31:32 - Watershed: Descendants of the Sun

34:40 - China bans Korean entertainment over THAAD

36:51 - Economics of terrestrial vs cable channels

47:12 - Netflix knocks (cliffhanger)

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We are back with a long yak on three dramas we started 2024 with: Doctor Slump, Marry My Husband, and Like Flowers In Sand.

This episode was recorded on 11th February. Our feelings on these dramas have stayed the same (with Doctor Slump getting special love for staying so reliably warm till the end).

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Paroma's Doctor Slump post.

Support Gaza through the Palestine Children's Relief Fund here.

TIMESTAMP:

00:01:50 - Doctor Slump

00:45:57 - Like Flowers In Sand

01:06:15 - Marry My Husband

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Awards season is the perfect time for us to share our review of Past Lives, our favorite film of last year. Saya, Anisa and our friend Yunah talk about why this movie's meditations on grief, love, diaspora and selfhood spoke to us so deeply. (We recorded this at the end of last year.)

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TIMESTAMPS:

00:00 Overall thoughts

20:39 Spoilers

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The 5th Annual Goguma Awards have landed! Your votes have been tallied and the results range from unexpected to unsurprising, all of which we dissect with glee. Get your tea and biscuits, it's long!

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LINKS MENTIONED:

Actor Jin: The Handsome Hotelier

TIMESTAMP:

00:00:00 - Introducing the Goguma Awards

00:02:46 - The Classic Gogumas

00:17:47 - Your Top 3 Dramas of 2023

00:25:27 - The Wild Gogumas

01:11:15 - Create Your Own: Listener Awards!

01:49:36 - Patreon Roll Call of Love and Appreciation 💗

01:55:08 - Love note to all our listeners 💕

02:00:46 - Predictions for 2024

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Music: "Carry You Home" by Duplex Heart

The Year-End Yak is here! Or Part 1 anyway, where we talk about what K-dramas did this year, and how we felt about them. Goguma Awards coming in Part 2!

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LINKS MENTIONED:

Paroma's excellent 2023 Wrap for Film Companion

Paroma's My Demon Halfway Review (Spoilers)

K-drama Research Institute's video essay We Need to Talk About Netflix K-dramas

Saya and Paroma's new BTS YouTube Channel

Jae-Ha Kim's article Rest in Peace, Lee Sun-kyun

TIMESTAMP:

00:04:17 2023 K-drama trends

00:50:07 Saya, Anisa and Paroma's personal year in dramas

01:25:16 Notable podcast moments!

1:37:06 And some heartbreak.

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Music: "La Sortie Francaise" by Smartface and "Woke Up" by Cushy

Just Saya popping in to share her thoughts on an assortment of dramas: a mixture of bright and dark, exquisite and questionable, therapeutic and aggravating. The tl;dl (?) being: My Demon is darkbright and exquisite, Death's Game is just dark, Park's Marriage Contract is bright and aggravating, and Welcome to Samdal-ri is therapeutic, bright, and funnier than it should be.

Content warning for discussion of suicide in Death's Game and Welcome to Samdal-ri. Take care and skip if needed by using the timestamps below.

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LINKS MENTIONED:

An interview with a haenyeo female diver

Women of the Sea: Diving with the Haenyeo of Jeju

Paroma's latest video essays:

Twinkling Watermelon never explains its time travel & here's why we don't care

Bonus: My Demon Halfway Review (Spoilers): Hey! Song Kang can do romance!

TIMESTAMP:

00:00:29 My Demon 1-4

00:19:57 Death's Game Part 1

00:32:28 Death's Game Spoiler section

00:35:33 The Story of Park's Marriage Contract 1-8 (bit spoilery but who cares)

00:49:00 Welcome to Samdal-ri 1-6

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Perfect Marriage Revenge is a drama that kept all its promises: revenge! marriage! perfect! We revel in how the drama revels in its story, with special props to writer Im Seo-ra for some of the best writing in dramaland this year.

SPOILERS EVERYWHERE, BEWARE BEWARE!

Feat. beloved and returning guest, Zaynab, who does not want to be found.

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Our new youtube channel, Bangtan Over Flowers.

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Saya and Anisa talk about 8(!) dramas, including writer Park Hre-ryun's newest Castaway Diva, gorgeous romance melodrama Call it Love, and the actually perfect Perfect Marriage Revenge. Lots of time travel, revenge and contract relationships in this one, so you know we're both happy campers.

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TIMESTAMPS:

00:01:00 Castaway Diva

00:12:24 Spoilers for Castaway 1-4

00:21:38 Daily Dose of Sunshine

00:31:09 Twinkling Watermelon

00:46:39 Vigilante

00:56:59 Call it Love

01:11:06 Nine: Nine Times Time Travel

01:20:43 A very long Park Hyung-shik detour

01:26:46 The Real has Come

01:35:16 Perfect Marriage Revenge

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Episode 160: 6th Anniversary Mailbag Special

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Kick back with us on a diatribe filled episode where we talk about women written by men, unearned forgiveness, and the ethics of love potions.

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LINK:

Listen to the trailer of The Broadside (new podcast hosted by Anisa)

TIMESTAMP:

00:09:00 - Titanic (Spoilers)

00:19:00 - Women written by men (and also, Dev Anand's C.I.D.)

00:28:00 - My Lovely Liar (Spoilers)

01:14:00 - Destined With You (Spoilers up to episode 6)

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Episode 160: ICYMI listen to our anniversary mailbag episode

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We are joined by kfangurl on an ultimate fan trip episode where we deep dive into a cult classic time slip romance that set new standards in storytelling for all of us. This drama has also been recently remade into the Korean, A Time Called You, which we discussed in episode 161.

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LINKS MENTIONED:

Paroma's twitter post on face blurring <link>

the fangirl verdict blog <link>

TIMESTAMP:

00:01:52 - Introducing Someday or One Day: plot, characters and cast

00:15:11 - How is Someday or One Day quintessentially Taiwanese?

00:31:09 - How did you feel towards Yunru?

00:44:25 - Were Yu Xuan and Zi Wei too happy/too perfect?

00:49:50 - Would you change any plot points?

01:01:45 - The 2022 film

01:11:34 - The drama's ending

01:21:57 - Speculating on the K-drama remake, A Time Called You

MORE EPISODES YOU'LL LIKE:

Episode 161: A Time Called You

Episode 96: Kfangurl interview

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Anisa, Paroma and Anisa's sister Zaynab talk about A Time Called You, remake of hit Taiwanese drama Someday or One Day, how it compares to the original, and the eternal question of the adaptation: why?

Catch our spoiler review of Someday or One Day next week!

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TIMESTAMP:

0:00 General thoughts on A Time Called You

31:00 SPOILERS for both the original and the remake

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Welcome to another anniversary Mailbag episode! We asked for your thoughts on dramas, on us, anything at all, and you gave us a lot to talk about!

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LINKS MENTIONED:

The Hollywood writers’ strike: Vox explains

LA Times article about Netflix's affect on Korea Entertainment Industry

Burn it Down excerpt

RELATED EPISODES YOU'LL LIKE:

The burning sun special, episode 37

On representation, episodes 65 and episode 66.

TIMESTAMP:

00:00:43 - Our emotional safe space

00:09:00 - What does it mean to be podcasting for 6 years?

Your messages:

00:24:00 - Movie directors flocking to dramas now that they're prestige

00:55:00 - Objectifying child actors and young K-pop trainees

01:13:00 - A listener recommendation: Not Others

00:16:00 - What tropes do we want to see explored more in dramaland?

01:28:00 - How have we lasted 6 years?

01:37:00 - How seasonal shows differ from single season K-dramas?

01:45:00 - Did the Burning Sun incident change our view of the K-drama industry?

01:57:00 - Our auto-watch actors?

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We bring you another long yak this months where we talk about two new dramas and final thoughts on three completed ones.

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LINKS MENTIONED:

The anime Paroma mentioned: How A Realist Hero Rebuilt the Kingdom (on Netflix)

TIMESTAMP:

(No spoilers = NS)

00:00:40 - My Lovely Liar (NS)

00:21:08 - Behind Your Touch (Ep 1 Spoilers)

00:42:08 - Maturity of social discussion

00:46:06 - See You In My 19th Life (Final Thoughts/NS)

01:08:54 - ... 19th Life (Ending Spoilers)

01:22:15 - Little Women (NS)

01:35:13 - Fruits Baskets (NS) & Final Patter

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Episode Y: LINK

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Saya and Paroma pick apart Our Blooming Youth and pore over its bests and not-so-best things. Bests include: Park Hyung-shik and Jeon So-nee. Dissatisfactions include: plot lapses, villains with unconvincing motives.

Erratum: Saya's first Park Hyung-shik drama was Nine (2013).

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TIMESTAMP:

00:01:52 When fandom doesn't feel the way you do

00:07:43 Character development vs. plot

00:14:20 Unwinding the villains

00:23:56 Heir vs. King vs. Court

00:32:58 A Crown Prince needs his besties. ALL of them. And we need Myung-jin.

00:41:49 The writing of Jae-yi

00:52:51 Born to rule?

01:02:09 Other tortured crown prince dramas

MORE EPISODES YOU'LL LIKE:

Episode 151: Our Blooming Youth is bringing back memories of Park Hyung-sik in Hwarang (Spoiler-free first impressions)

Episode 138: The Red Sleeve: A king's favourite concubine who belonged to herself

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We are back with a long yak after a very long while. Settle in as we discuss two new romances and one completed romcom with a side serving of murder!

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LINKS MENTIONED:

Paroma's video about kdramas badly solving classism [here]

Jun-ho and Yoon-ah's 'Senorita' at MBC's music festival [here]

TIMESTAMP:

00:00:38 - King The Land (first 6 episode overview)

00:34:21 - See You In My 19th Life (first 7 episode overview)

00:52:45 - Crash Course In Romance (complete drama spoiler discussion)

01:32:58 - While You Were Sleeping (briefly convincing Anisa to watch it)

MORE EPISODES YOU'LL LIKE:

Episode 156: Doctor Cha

Episode 153: Crash Landing On You

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In this Spoiled Yak, Anisa and Paroma review Dr. Cha and talk about why dramas about a middle-aged woman getting a new lease on life are so enjoyable - and mention some other favorites in this genre.

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TIME STAMPS:

00:00:00 Dr. Cha Spoiler Review

01:03:40 A wild Kwon Min-woo appears! (Yes, this is an Extraordinary Attorney Woo reference)

01:14:40 Other dramas in this genre we loved!

01:15:24 Twenty Again

01:19:00 Mystery Queen

01:22:42 SKY Castle

01:24:35 18 Again

01:25:54 And a lightning round: Romance is a Bonus Book, Perfume, Hello, Me!, Search: WWW, Mine, Go Back Couple, Familiar Wife

MORE EPISODES YOU'LL LIKE:

Episode 155: Bora! Deborah Spoiled Yak

Episode 148: Love to Hate You Spoiler Review

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Bora! Deborah was mostly frustrating yet sometimes joyous to watch. So we do a needlessly long deep dive into why it gripped us so hard.

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LINKS MENTIONED:

Mattie Kahn's excellent Vox piece on Viktor Frankl [here] (the real source of Bora's "getting pretty" quote)

My own short piece on why using such an anecdote without context is harmful [here]

TIMESTAMP:

00:01:54 - Yoo In-na made us watch it

00:16:00 - Episode 1

00:26:25 - Yeon Bora

00:33:11 - Episode 3

00:37:59 - The great breakup

00:42:11 - Yu-jung & Ji-woo

00:51:41 - Exploring grief

01:00:43 - Episode 4

01:08:29 - Episode 5-7

01:11:57 - Lee Su-hyuk

01:24:04 - Episode 8

01:31:04 - Episode 9

01:41:32 - Sang-jin & Uri

01:51:09 - Episode 10-12

02:05:15 - Episode 13-14

02:18:33 - Jin-ho & Bomi

02:38:54 - Closing

MORE EPISODES YOU'LL LIKE:

Episode153: Crash Landing On You and the unbearable sadness of partition

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Saya and Paroma went to see BTS's concert film, Yet to Come in Cinemas, which took place in Busan on 23 October 2022 and released in cinemas worldwide in February 2023. We talk about the boys, the music, the fans, and our good and bad experiences at the cinema. Check out the official trailer here.

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LINKS MENTIONED:

ScreenX trailers: Run BTS version, Dynamite version

One of our favourite performances: Mic Drop & Run BTS Stage CAM @ BTS “Yet To Come” in BUSAN.

Yet To Come (The Most Beautiful Moment) Official MV

TIMESTAMPS:

00:02:42 Why did BTS put on a free concert?

00:08:07 Comparing the different cinema release formats: ScreenX vs 4DX.

00:31:24 How a good crowd makes a concert (ft. 'Yoongi Marry Me!'), and Everybody Hates Teenage Girls.

00:40:28 BTS eats the stage with our favourite songs; lifting the spectre of enlistment, and winning the struggle to be acknowledged as artists.

00:53:35 Seriously, a good crowd makes a concert.

00:59:10 Reflecting on our BTS journey. Comparing the different ways we engage in (and with) fandom.

MORE EPISODES YOU'LL LIKE:

Episode 139: BTS: The Cost of Authenticity

Episode 140: Youth MT: The Reality of Korean Variety (Ft. In the Soop: Friendcation). In the Soop: Friendcation is where it all started, tipping Saya down the bangtan waterslide, into the mikrokosmos.

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We finally talk about why Crash Landing on You is SO GOOD. And we discuss Anisa's master's thesis on media portrayals of love across the borders created by partition - and why CLOY's depiction of that yearning is the best we've ever seen.

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LINKS:

Anisa's thesis, Visualizing the Fractured Nation: Narratives of (Un)belonging in 21st Century Indian and South Korean Media

Interview with Park Ji-eun’s co-writer Kwak Moon-wan, a North Korean defector, plus answers to more fan questions

Reunions of separated North and South Korean families

Listen to the Empire podcast's excellent episode on the Jallianwala Bagh Massacre

Watch the video that made Anisa ship Binnie & Jinnie back in 2020, before we knew they were real

TIMESTAMPS:

00:01:00 Why CLOY is one of a kind

00:28:00 Villain Oh Man-seok vs. Big Bad North Korea

00:38:00 Comparing The King: 2 Hearts and Crash Landing on You

01:02:00 How CLOY tackles the impossibility of a happy ending

01:10:00 Saya and Paroma share their favorite parts of Anisa's thesis

01:21:00 Hyun Bin and Son Ye-jin's IRL happy ending ❤︎

MORE EPISODES YOU'LL LIKE:

Episode 137: We discuss the previous generation's gateway drama, Boys Over Flowers in its many iterations

Episode 145: Our Spoiled Yak on The Interest of Love

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Here's a special sneak preview of something we've been doing on Patreon: The Lone Yak! We take a moment (or a few) to tell you what's on our minds, whether about a drama we've been watching, general K-drama thoughts, or life! This episode contains Saya talking about becoming a new version of yourself in public, Paroma talks about when we defend our faves (and don't) and why, and Anisa reviews the first half of Crash Course in Romance - and talks a little about murder rom-coms.

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MORE EPISODES YOU'LL LIKE:

Episode 151: Our Blooming Youth is bringing back memories of Park Hyung-shik in Hwarang

Episode 148: Paroma's Lone Yak on Love to Hate You

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If you've missed Park Hyung-sik in a sageuk or if you have a fondness for tortured Crown Princes, we have the drama for you.

As a pleasant surprise, you also get a capable heroine with her own heroine arc in the story. As Saya puts it, Jeon So-nee might actual be the real protagonist of this show!

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MORE EPISODES YOU'LL LIKE:

Episode 149: Screenwriting Part 1

Episode 150: Screenwriting Part 2

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In Part 2 of our discussion on K-drama screenwriting, we talk about Kim Eun-sook, whether great acting can rescue a bad script, why dramaland has so many serial killers, and much more!

Listen to Part 1 HERE.

We recorded this episode during a livestream discussion in 2022. If you here us speaking about comments, it's from the attendees of the stream. In Part 2, you can hear some of their voices in the final segment of the show as they jump in to give their own takes on drama writing.

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There is something special about the way K-dramas are written beyond the formulas and tropes. In this episode we talk about the way dialogue, story acts, and unique writing styles collide to make our favourite dramas.

We recorded this episode during a livestream discussion in 2022. If you here us speaking about comments, it's from the attendees of the stream. In Part 2, you can hear some of their voices in the final segment of the show as they jump in to give their own takes on drama writing.

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