It’s been five years since we started sharing our love for K-dramas through this blog. Half a decade of expressing our thoughts – good and bad – and writing love letters to our lifesavers. But my relationship with K-dramas has long started even before we decided to create a home for our thoughts. Different K-dramas…
Continue reading ➞ Five Lifesavers: Comforting K-dramas in Different Life Stages
At a time when the whole world is on quarantine, I can't help but think of one notorious K-drama trope that's been with us since the beginning. Whatever generation you may associate yourself with, you can always think of one specific drama that tackled this one - cohabitation. Whether it's forced or not, it's a…
Continue reading ➞ Love in Lockdown: Top Cohabitation K-dramas
As a celebration of our three years of blogging and sharing our love for K-dramas, we now introduce you to this new blog segment that we’ll call The Curious Ahjumma. This will be our commentary-like section about any topics involving K-dramas. Be it tropes, actors, writers, production team/themes. Anything and everything! As our first installment,…
Continue reading ➞ The Curious Ahjumma: Finding a Home in Cohabitation
Three is never a crowd…especially in K-dramas. There’s something about watching three different characters be bonded by their similarities and tested by their differences. This magic number somehow work; bringing us with a dynamic and complex relationship we always enjoy to watch. As part of our 3rd anniversary specials, we bring you some of our…
A few days ago, we finally entered a new decade and left the 2010s behind. It left us with memories we treasured and moments that mold us into who we are today. And I, a self-confessed fangirl, would always look back to these ten years as the years of my best fangirling days. Korean dramas…
Continue reading ➞ Best of the Decade: Maknae’s Favorite K-dramas (2010-2019)
Have you ever watched a drama and felt like something seems too familiar? You'll grow restless for a while and dig deep into your memory thinking that you've seen it somewhere before. You may even believe that it's déjà vu, but chances are you've been lured by the K-Drama genies in their maze of filming…
Continue reading ➞ Tipsy Findings: Top 10 Locations Used by Different Dramas
This may be tragically funny to hear, but Korean dramas have managed to fill a void in my life which was created by having no romantic partner for a long time. The romantic stories let me experience the heart-fluttering moments you’d get during your first date, your first holding hands and your first kiss as…
We are all guilty of pretending we know it all. In high school, we scoff at freshmen who are excited about campus activities. In college, we shun juniors who dreaded their thesis proposals. And when we are already the sunbae at work, we roll our eyes to the enthusiasm of the newbies. All because we…
Continue reading ➞ Because This is My First Life | Series Review
As an only child, I grew up being surrounded by dogs and cats all my life that's why it irks me to the core whenever I hear someone says, "It's just a dog (or a cat)." For me, that's one of the meanest things one could ever say. The same goes with K-Dramas. I hate…
Nugu (누구) - this term literally means "who" in Korean but is often used to describe those who are unpopular or unknown. Let's list down our Top 10 Oppas who escaped nugudom this year. Though some of them may be familiar or a bit known to us, their popularity reached new heights this 2017. Jung…
Continue reading ➞ Escaping Nugudom: Top 10 Rising Oppas of 2017
I have a confession to make: I'm guilty of thinking that in my mid-20s, I'll have a career, a car, my own house, a namja-chingu, and an awesome squad, who'll be there for all the travelling I'd do. But no one told me that in my mid-20s, I'll be crying along with K-drama characters who…
Finally, it's the year end! It's been a tough year for me, but good thing my dramas never left me hanging. It's fairly a dry year for K-dramaland this 2017, and I believe we have more misses than hits in terms of ratings. There were really good ones, but most are honestly forgettable. 2016 was…
Trending actor Kim Min-gyu (Because This Is My First Life) is confirmed to join the cast of the upcoming JTBC drama Just Between Lovers. Just Between Lovers tells the story of a sheltered orphan whose dream was to be a professional football player, but after losing his legs to a fatal accident, he lost hope. Main cast are idol-turned-actor Junho (Chief…
Continue reading ➞ Kim Min-gyu joins upcoming JTBC drama Just Between Lovers
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