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For #cdrama I’ll go with Sang Zhi because Zhao Lu Si portrays the various stages of her maturity with vulnerability. #chinguchallenge

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I am at a loss to pick one favorite character so I’ll go with Bong Soon from Strong Girl Do Bong Soon mostly because she popped up first in my head. Park Bo Young did such a good job delivering with this character. #chinguchallenge #kdrama

Boy, Taemin’s silver threads shirt at Coachella is doing some heavy lifting :)

I agree!

Love Next Door and Welcome to Samdal-ri are two that I really enjoyed that I think suffered audience-wise from trailers too intent of framing them as light fluffy romcoms. Strong Girl Do Bong Soon I’ve rewatched multiple times though now I tend to fast forward through the gang-focused bits.

The first one is from Reply 1988. The second one is from Eternal Love (Ten Miles of Peach Blossoms).

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The #kdrama I’ve rewatched the most times is probably tied between Coffee Prince and You’re Beautiful (the first and third kdramas I ever watched). While Go Ahead is the cdrama I’ve rewatched the most, Ten Miles of Peach Blossoms (aka Eternal Love) is probably 2nd. #chinguchallenge

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Rewatch: gosh, this one is hard. I rewatch stuff all the time. My most recent rewatch was A Business Proposal for #kdrama and When I Fly Towards You.Things I rewatch regularly include Reply 1988 and Go Ahead. The latter is the #cdrama I’ve rewatched the most. #chinguchallenge

All of Us Are Dead is a very stressful show.

Perusing through various ‘continue watching’ lists, I appear to have a very bad habit of getting to 4-5 episodes away from the end of a series and then just wandering off to something else.

I suspect it’s a healthy mix of both. It’s a highly diverse area.

Hahaha! I feel like a lot of kdrama stuff has ‘it’s a small world’ vibes to it (Seoul being depicted as a place where you randomly run into the same people all over the place, for example) which I’ve always chalked up to there being 51 million people in a space the size of Indiana.

I’m lucky enough to live in one of the areas of the U.S. with the highest Korean populations, so I have handy access to a whole heck of a lot of Korean food and things that show up in kdramas. :)

I wonder if it’s related to how much smaller in population SK is versus Japan or China.

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I rarely watch reality tv now but I have in the past (mostly when actively following GOT7). So my favorite Korean reality show is, hands down, Roommate. For ongoing reality shows, I’ll still watch episodes of Knowing Brothers here or there. #chinguchallenge

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Some of their early dramas are some of my favorite dramas. Not all of their dramas hit for me, but most do.

People are capable of having instant chemistry without having to have a forgotten kindergarten trauma together. :)

This speaks to me of cultural bias, especially when coupled with the real world reality of cancel culture in South Korea and how quickly people will be discarded as irredeemable before anything’s even been proven. Coming from a very individualistic culture, I find this the hardest to swallow.

The prevalence of it does imply to me that there’s something cultural behind the urge to include it. When it’s in support of an antagonistic relationship, it also shows a rather pessimistic view point (intended or not) that people are incapable of change.

I get your frustration with it. I find it annoying when it gets shoe-horned in late in the game as a retro justification for the instant connection between leads (when it’s a positive relationship).

I enjoy Hong Sisters shows typically, but I also really enjoy the distaste @unnclerobin.eurosky.social has for them. Equally entertaining. :) #kdrama

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Or I’ll rewatch a family drama like Five Enough, My Father Is Strange, or #cdrama Go Ahead. #chinguchallenge

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There’s a couple of ways to interpret the Comfort/Therapy prompt. For actual therapy related drama, I’ll name #kdrama It’s Okay, That’s Love. So very many broken people. Loved this drama. For comfort watching, I’ll rewatch dramas like Something About 1% or My Secret Romance. #chinguchallenge

And it was a totally fair expectation based on the trailers that were released.

Yes! This is my primary recent example. I really enjoyed Love Next Door and it was very clear from a big chunk of the negative commentary that people expected a very different drama than was delivered. But I thought it was a delightful family drama.

I think a lot of kdramas that get really mixed or bad audience reactions are because of the expectations set by the trailers/advertising being at odds with what they really are.

For me the worst is when they imply something like action or romcom in the way they cut the trailers but what they deliver us actually sadsacks always be sadsacking.

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Product Placement: I’m sure our favorites Subway and Kopiko will get a lot of attention, but I’m going to go with the masterclass that is Bibigo in A Business Proposal. :)
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I support this life choice!