Dramas Over Flowers

Hello, good listeners! For this episode, we decided to reminisce about how we got into Korean Dramas and what kept us watching these stories. We talk about our KDrama gateways and what this industry does that's so unique in storytelling. We also just ramble a lot. So, no time stamps for this episode.

Don't forget to let us know what got YOU into dramas @akdramapodcast.

Welcome to PART 2 of our 6th Long Yak! We continue our discussion of currently airing dramas, but in the Chinese Dramaworld, and then we talk about What's Wrong With Secretary Kim, and other shows we just finished watching.

TIME STAMPS:

CURRENTLY AIRING CHINESE:

00:01:12 - LEGEND OF FUYAO

00:05:03 - METEOR GARDEN

COMPLETED DRAMAS:

00:18:17 - THE UNDATEABLES

00:22:19 - LAWLESS LAWYER

00:26:16 - SKETCH

00:27:49 - ARGON

00:32:19 - WOK OF LOVE

00:37:48 - WHATS WRONG WITH SECRETARY KIM?

UPCOMING DRAMAS:

01:04:20 - FAMILIAR WIFE

01:06:47 - VOICE 2

01:08:35 - LOVELY HORRIBLY

01:10:02 - GHOST DETECTIVE

01:14:15 - QUESTION OF THE YAK

01:34:48 - Penguin joke

TWITTER: @dramasoverflow

EMAIL: [email protected]

Hello people! We've been away for a bit, so this Long Yak ran longer than usual. Our solution was to split it in two. This is Part 1. Enjoy!

TIME STAMP

K-DRAMA NEWS:

00:02:56 - News 1 - Kim Hyun-joong casting for Time-travel Fantasy

00:04:36 - News 2 - Jang Geun-seok

00:09:13 - News 3 - Lee Jun-ki blacklisted by previous govt

00:13:40 - News 4 - Korea bought Netflix stock

00:31:50 - News 5 - 2nd season of Kingdom

00:40:23 - News 6 - White Boys form K-pop band [article: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/43px7g/the-worlds-first-non-korean-k-pop-group]

CURRENTLY AIRING:

00:49:09 - MR SUNSHINE

01:04:20 - YOUR HOUSEHELPER

01:07:20 - THIRTY BUT SEVENTEEN

01:14:31 - TIME

01:19:48 - LIFE ON MARS

01:26:36 - YOUR HONOR

01:31:11 - More harassment shown in dramas

TWITTER: @akdramapodcast

EMAIL: [email protected]

Sometimes we go off topic so hard that it takes a while to veer back to the main conversation. These are the outtakes we put up a few days after the episode goes up.

In this outtake, Paroma unapologetically spoils a few older dramas (and Harry Potter #6), then somehow we end up discussing Dumbledore's sexuality.

Enjoy!

Back with our fifth long yak, your talkative trio do their best to cover a large chunk of currently airing and upcoming dramas. Stay tuned for entertainment news and an unexpectedly long playlist full of the gang's favourite drama OSTs coming your way.

TIME STAMP:

---CURRENTLY AIRING:

00:01:00 - What's Wrong With Secretary Kim?

00:15:20 - Spoiler Warning: Skip ahead 2mins 25 seconds!

00:24:00 - Wok of Love/Greasy Melo

00:29:39 - Are You Human Too? (Link to Sarah Rees Brennan's twitter thread below)

00:38:14 - Sketch

---PREVIOUSLY AIRED:

00:43:40 - Suits

00:44:49 - Because This is My First Life

01:00:29 - We Married As A Job (Japanese)

---K-ENTERTAINMENT NEWS:

01:05:27 - Item 1: Yoon Kyun-sang's casting in Clean With Passion For Now confirmed

01:08:15 - Item 2: Kim Hee-ae movie about comfort women

01:14:29 - Item 3: Jo Jung-seok and Gummy getting married

01:16:33 - Item 4: Lee Je-hoon & Chae Soo-bin pairing up for Fox Bride Star

01:18:30 - Item 5: Crossdressing sageuk, Mung Bean

01:20:18 - Item 6: BBC shows being remade in Korean

---UPCOMING DRAMAS:

01:23:38 - HouseHelper

01:25:24 - Mr Sunshine

01:28:52 - Let's Eat 3

01:30:00 - LIFE

01:32:00 - About Her

01:32:36 - My ID is Gangnam Beauty

01:34:16 - Risky Romance

01:35:57 - Thirty but Seventeen

01:39:23 - Time

---QUESTION OF THE YAK!

01:40:49 - Which Drama OSTs have stayed with you long after the story ended?

Twitter: @akdramapodcast

Email: [email protected]

LINKS:

Sarah Rees Berman's hilarious thread about I Am Human Too: https://twitter.com/sarahreesbrenna/status/1007017611048218626

Our Favorite Kdrama OSTs Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLdylX_UWjYvBJ4wjHZq42G4yHl9lp4-Gr

Stars in My Pocket: A K-Drama Podcast is also available at:

YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXAKERzXeFhlsSrVL_qU–w),

RSS (http://feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundcloud:users:429481275/sounds.rss),

and iTunes (https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/stars-in-my-pocket-a-k-drama-podcast/id1270514773?mt=2)

Anisa and Paroma go deep into last year's best family drama with LollyPip (long-time recapper of korean dramas at Dramabeans). All three had much to say (and there were many, MANY characters to talk about) so this episode runs to just over 100 minutes. Pace yourselves. And use the Time Stamps below to find the segments where your favourite Byung/Lee family member (or their better half) was discussed!

Follow us on Twitter: @dramasoverflow/ And find LollyPip @LollyPipKD

TIME STAMP:

00:01:36 - Overall thoughts on the drama (Spoiler alert: WE LOVED IT)

00:04:59 - Maknae Ra-young, her robotic but sweet soccer player, and how she grew on Anisa

00:06:49 - Lee Joon as self-involved but adorable Ahn Joong-hee

00:12:58 - Our thoughts on the central identity theft plot. Were the parents justified in their lie? Do we hate them on Joong-hee's behalf?

00:25:03 - Mom and Dad taking the moral high ground when their children messed up. Hypocrital? Or good role models?

00:29:44 - Lee Yu-ri as Byun Hye-young and how everything she was amazing/badass

00:39:50 - Kim Yoo-joo (Lee Mi-do) as the bully sister-in-law, and her surprisingly effective redemption

00:47:45 - The fauxcest between Joong-hee and Mi-young. Did it go on too long?

01:04:35 - Fairytale endings for all the characters. Did we buy it?

01:18:32 - How the family treated the eldest brother.

01:24:52 - How fake news about Lee Joon in real life mirrored the paparazzi's behaviour around Joong-hee in the drama

01:33:30 - We love the writing, and the writer’s other works (You’re All Surrounded, Ojakkyo Brothers, Be Strong Geum Soon)

01:39:17 - The recapping life, and making career choices that surprise your parents.

Music:

Coffee Stains - Riot https://youtu.be/sz7To0GgAgM

My Heart - Kim Hyung-joong (Father is Strange OST)

We love talking to each other, so we digress a lot. This is one of the many segments Paroma edited out of our last Long Yak. We talk about living with our families, which Jane Austen heroine we identify with (and Anisa hates), and how relevant Austen's fiction still is in modern-day Pakistan.

In this Long Yak we cover some K-Entertainment news, our impressions of upcoming dramas, and our struggles and hopes for currently airing ones! We also give our final thoughts on Pretty Noona Who Buys Me Food and A Poem A Day. One of them was rainbows and sunshine and puppy kisses. The other...was not.

As always, check out the shownotes below to find your catnip, and tell us what you thought of these dramas on twitter (@akdramapodcast) or by email ([email protected]).

SHOWNOTES:

00:01:27 News Item #1 - Lee Seo-won charged for sexual assault

00:07:58 News Item #2 - Sequel to Signal in the works!

00:08:56 News Item #3 - Lead Hunting For Clean With Passion For Now

00:12:10 News Item #4 - Seo In-guk back from Army and cast in Hundred Million Stars From the Sky

00:16:06 UPCOMING JUNE DRAMAS: Are You Human Too?

00:20:00 What's wrong with Secretary Kim?

00:25:12 Life on Mars

00:33:24 Grandpa's over flowers

00:35:20 RECENTLY FINISHED WATCHING: Pretty Noona Who Buys Me Food

00:48:52 A Poem a Day

01:02:09 Age of Youth 2

01:04:17 CURRENTLY AIRING: About Time

01:08:13 Wok of Love/Greasy Melo

01:15:42 Lawless Lawyer

01:19:38 Suits

01:23:00 Sketch

01:26:38 Rich Man Poor Woman

01:36:45 Question of the YAK: What scene have you watched on repeat?

LINKS (coming up)

Blog: akdramapodcast,wordpress.com

Twitter: @akdramapodcast

Email: [email protected]

We give you our first impressions of the initial 4 episodes of the breakout weekend drama, Pretty Noona Who Buys Me Food, also known as Something in the Rain.

Podcast Hosts ► Saya, Anisa, Paroma

Blog: akdramapodcast.wordpress.com

twitter: @akdramapodcast

Anisa discusses instances of private and workplace harassment in Korean Entertainment with Odessa Jones and Pogo, and they unpack the public's reaction to the rise of the #metoo movement in South Korea. They also talk about toxic tropes, why we love to watch them play out, and how storytelling is changing in recent years. (The final segment has some really great recs for anyone looking for swoony heroes without jerk-syndrome!)

BLOG: akdramapodcast.wordpress.com

TWITTER: @dramasoverflow

SHOWNOTES:

00:00 Intro

02:50 Director Kim Ki-duk and Actor Jo Jae-hyun (admitted to sexual assault charges)

03:20 Actor Jo Min-ki (committed suicide after news of student harassment surfaced)

08:45 Anisa talks about English language reporting on Korean Entertainment news

10:00 How Actor Park Shi-hoo's career was rehabilitated despite the rape charges

11:50 Pogo briefly refers to the 2012 case in Delhi that triggered a wave of news coverage on sexual assaults in India.

12:50 Anisa talks about the ineffectiveness of laws against workplace harassment in the US

17:45 Pogo speculates about a KBS's investment in Park Shi-hoo's career.

19:25 Why weekend dramas? Most Ajummas don't care about feminism.

25:05 The Kim Hyun-joong case

29:30 Can art be separated from the artist?

43:50 Men Behaving Badly in Dramas

53:50 In fiction, the "hero's journey" for women has always been romance.

60:40 Rise of the Beta Heroes! (AKA Second Lead as First Lead)

1:02:99 Writer Kim Eun-sook (Secret Garden, City Hall, Descendants of the Sun, Goblin)

1:21:20 Writer Jung Sung-joo (Secret Love Affair, Heard it Through the Grapevine)

1:23:00 Writer Kwon Ki-young (Protect the Boss, All About My Romance, Hello Monster)

1:24:55 Writer Ha Myung-hee (High Society, Doctors, Temperature of Love, One Warm Word)

1:26:20 Writer Park Yeon-sun (Alone in Love, White Christmas, Wild Romance, Age of Youth 1 & 2)

1:30:00 How many dramas tackled corruption and the legal system after former Prime Minister Park Geun-hye's arrest, and whether we think the same thing will happen with #MeToo

Links:

Allegations against Kim Ki-duk and Jo Jae-hyun - https://www.screendaily.com/news/kim-ki-duk-cho-jae-hyun-accused-of-multiple-sexual-assaults/5127278.article

Jo Min-ki - https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/mar/09/jo-min-ki-south-korea

The Park Shi-hoo rape case - https://www.soompi.com/2013/02/20/park-shi-hoos-alleged-victim-was-carried-into-his-home-other-updates/

His comeback with Neighborhood Hero, and a lawsuit against netizens - https://www.soompi.com/2016/02/01/actor-park-shi-hoo-takes-legal-action-against-netizens-leaving-malicious-comments/

Delhi 2012 rape case - https://www.ndtv.com/delhi-news/nirbhaya-gangrape-case-supreme-court-decision-on-appeal-of-4-convicts-today-1689807

Odessa Jones' piece about men crying in k-dramas - http://www.koreandrama.today/watch/k-drama-man-tears/

PM Park Geun-hye's sentencing - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/apr/06/former-south-korea-president-park-geun-hye-guilty-of-corruption