/report: k-dramas!

[mklutz]

Forgive us our long and totally impromptu hiatus! But we're back (a little early, even! Sort of!) this week with Pru and Til_Midnight nattering about korean dramas. Why are they so addictive? What's the cycle of consumption on these things like? How do they get churned out so quickly? How are people with, presumably, otherwise good taste in media turning into vein-tapping smack addicts when it comes to this business? Especially with all the amnesia, convenient car accidents, and inevitable everybody dying of stupid diseases that are probably fake? Let us take you on a magical journey into Asia, drinking in tents, and the closest thing we're ever likely to get to a film version of a romance novel.

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Comments

[youkosiren]

There must be a lot of Chinese-speaking Koreans - I had the exact same experience as Pru in Seoul when my college class ordered barbecue for breakfast through primitive hand signals, and later found out we could've avoided the ordeal as the restaurant owner spoke Chinese.

Oh, Coffee Prince, I love you so much for saving me after I failed out of the Japanese Hanakimi and Yamada Tarou in a blind rage that same summer you came out. I hope /report'll eventually get to Chinese drama recs because I love comedic martial arts period dramas, but my parents (and bootleg box set procurers) prefer depressing, tearjerker 1920s-40s dramas. Bleh!