KDMEO Episode 163 - K-Dramas we swore we would never watch

Published: Jan. 6, 2021, 5 a.m.

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MY GOD, MY GOD WHAT HAVE WE DONE? Well, we finally did it, folks. We watched the three dramas we swore we would never watch, and we did it for you! [through gritted teeth] HAPPY NEW YEAR.

Digressions:

5:29 - New Patreon donors and Listener E-mails! Our listener, Liz, sent us a link to the Youtube video of the K-Pop Festival. Check it out!

10:08 - Judy snobbily watched the first season of "Bridgerton", the hot new Shondaland drama

16:12 - Linda is watching "Start-Up" (\\uc2a4\\ud0c0\\ud2b8-\\uc5c5)!

18:13 - "How Are You Bread" (\\ud558\\uc640\\uc720\\ube0c\\ub808\\ub4dc) is a 2020 web drama starring Suho (EXO) and Lee SeYoung. It\'s so utterly cookie-cutter (see what I did there?) and bad, but we finally know how they chose the baffling title!

35:57 - "My ID is Gangnam Beauty" (\\ub0b4 \\uc544\\uc774\\ub514\\ub294 \\uac15\\ub0a8\\ubbf8\\uc778) is a 2018 JTBC drama starring Im SooHyang and Cha EunWoo (ASTRO). Judy is mad at literally everything in this drama, but Linda suggests that that might be the actual intention of this awful drama.l

47:33 - "Cool Guys, Hot Ramen" (\\uaf43\\ubbf8\\ub0a8 \\ub77c\\uba74\\uac00\\uac8c) is a 2011 TVN drama starring Jung IlWoo and Lee ChungAh based on a web novel. It\'s so patently trying to be "Boys Over Flowers", but it\'s even more boring and problematic. The goofy title sadly does not pay off.

For our Winter 2021 First Impressions, we\'ll be watching "Run On" (\\ub7f0\\uc628), "Lovestruck in the City" (\\ub3c4\\uc2dc\\ub0a8\\ub140\\uc758 \\uc0ac\\ub791\\ubc95), "The Penthouse" (\\ud39c\\ud2b8\\ud558\\uc6b0\\uc2a4) and "True Beauty" (\\uc5ec\\uc2e0\\uac15\\ub9bc). Should be...interesting?

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Some Korean terms:

\\ub5a1 \\uc7a5\\uc778: [ddeok-jang-in] rice cake artisan.

\\uc870\\uc120: [jo-seon] Korean dynasty from 1392 to 1897

\\ub3c4\\ub828\\ub2d8: [do-ryeon-nim] old Korean address for "young master".

\\ud55c\\uc625: [han-ok] traditional Korean house.

\\uba38\\uc2b4: [meo-seum] male servant in olden times.

\\uc548\\ubd80: [an-boo] greeting.

\\uc288\\ud37c\\ub9c8\\ucf13: [shu-peo-ma-ket] Koreanization of "supermarket"; closer to a corner store than a big grocery store"

\\uc5b4\\ud559\\uc5f0\\uc218: [eo-hak-yeon-soo] language training.

\\uc5bc\\uad74\\ucc9c\\uc7ac: [eol-gool-cheon-jeh] literally "face genius"; a good-looking person.

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Audio credits:

Jerry Goldsmith - "Mulan (1998) - "Short Hair"

Seinfeld S9E3 - "The Serenity Now"

Shin HyeSung - "You Are"

Mozart - "Requiem" - "Confutatis"

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