We are bringing back What's Up In Dramaland as bi-weekly youtube live streams. A newsy episode that covers Korean entertainment including casting news, upcoming dramas, catching up on industry conversations. (This is a one time livestream audio upload. Please check our youtube channel for future WUID episodes!) Leave us your COMMENTS here. TIME STAMPS: 00:00:00 lengthy intro 00:06:05 episode begins LINKS MENTIONED: What's Up In Dramaland on our YouTube Channel LEAVE US A REVIEW: Apple...

Anisa and Paroma discuss their final thoughts on recently ended romcoms Love Next Door, No Gain No Love and Serendipity's Embrace, plus some first impressions of the Korean adaptation of Go Ahead and wacky romance DNA Lover. LEAVE A COMMENT HERE. LINKS MENTIONED: Family by Choice Episodes 1-2 Review Paroma fights Anisa(?) about Love Next Door TIMESTAMPS: 00:10:38 Family by Choice 00:21:30 Love Next Door 00:35:19 No Gain No Love 01:15:35 DNA Lover 01:31:58 Serendipity's Embrace 01:48:59...

In this episode we discuss the many popular re-unions of famous romantic and non-romantic actor couples. We ask why these re-unions happen, do they ever achieve the popularity of the original project, and why is there often a distinct shift in genres? (You can watch the video version of this episode at the link below). Leave us your thoughts in a voice note here: LINKS MENTIONED: Watch the livestream on YouTube HERE. LEAVE US A REVIEW: Apple podcasts | Spotify | Audible! MORE EPISODES YOU'LL...

Paroma is joined by Deepanjana in a mission to express their deep feelings about No Gain No Love without spoiling every single scene in the drama. It was a challenge. This episode was recorded after the first 6 out of 12 episodes had aired. You can hunt down today's guest @/dpanjana on Threads and Instagram. Leave us your thoughts in a voice note here: TIMESTAMP: 9:45 - Actual discussion starts 51:22 - Warning for spoilers LEAVE US A REVIEW: Apple podcasts | Spotify | Audible! MORE EPISODES...

Saya and Anisa have a quick yak about our first impressions of two currently airing dramas, and then Anisa confesses to having seen some Run BTS. Leave us your thoughts in a voice note here: LINKS MENTIONED: Part 2 of our throwback 2014 dramas livestream TIMESTAMPS: 02:19 Cinderella at 2am 15:22 Love Next Door 31:56 Run BTS (a sampling) LEAVE US A REVIEW: Apple podcasts | Spotify | Audible! NEWSLETTER: Join our email list for the monthly newsletter with podcast announcements and special...

Hi, we come back to you (pretty soon for us) with another long yak! Yes, Anisa is in this one. 😄 Leave us your thoughts in a voice note here: TIMESTAMP: 00:01:24 Bad-memory eraser 00:17:47 My sweet mobster 00:42:57 The auditors 01:04:02 Dreaming of a freaking fairy-tale 01:14:57 Miss night and day LEAVE US A REVIEW: Apple podcasts | Spotify | Audible! MORE EPISODES YOU'LL LIKE: Episode 173: Growing out of fandoms Episode 175: Art of convincing Saya to watch dramas NEWSLETTER: Join our email...

Saya takes Paroma on an epic journey through her recent watchlist. Leave us your thoughts in a voice note here: LINKS MENTIONED: "Silenced Beauty" video essay on Seolhyun in Running Man. TIMESTAMP: 00:00:00 Jinny's Kitchen 00:19:22 Top Management 00:27:25 Good Day To Be a Dog 00:34:00 Miraculous Brothers 00:39:53 Moving (ending spoilers beware!) 00:49:15 Begins =/= Youth 00:58:51 MYSTERY DRAMA no okay just kidding - Ripe Town LEAVE US A REVIEW: Apple podcasts | Spotify | Audible! MORE...

Here are our final thoughts and theories on the one drama all three of us watched with equal fervour. Joining us for this final journey into the world of Piggyback Sunjae and Run are friends of the podcast, Hanah and Sarah. Leave us your thoughts in a voice note here: LINKS MENTIONED: Paroma's video on time traveling Im Sol: Link TIMESTAMP: 0:05:14 - Audience response 0:08:35 - Production budget 0:12:25 - Heart eyes for the drama 0:14:19 - Taesung vs the serial killer 0:18:31 - Sunjae...

Don't worry, this is NOT a stealth goodbye podcast! In this episode, we talk about why we fall out of love with fandoms that we once loved so much, and what makes some stick for life. (You could call it the date, marry, kill episode? Spoiler alert, we marry K-dramas.) Leave us your thoughts in a voice note here: LEAVE US A REVIEW: Apple podcasts | Spotify | Audible! MORE EPISODES YOU'LL LIKE: Episode 171: A Short History of K-dramas Before Netflix Episode 165: Perfect Marriage Revenge...

Anisa and Paroma gush about the first half of currently airing time-travel romance K-drama Lovely Runner, which we are LOVING. The first 40 minutes are free of major spoilers! Tell us what you think of Lovely Runner in a voice note here: LINKS MENTIONED: Anisa's Queen of Tears first impressions review TIMESTAMP: 00:40:27 Spoilers LEAVE US A REVIEW: Apple podcasts | Spotify | Audible! MORE EPISODES YOU'LL LIKE: Episode 162: Someday or One Day Review Episode 170: A long yak on Doctor Slump,...

In this episode, we talk about how K-dramas became a highly profitable export long before the entry of streaming platforms in the mid 2010s. This is a story of a nation's economic crisis, the creation of a unique opportunity, and a two decade long struggle for air wave supremacy in East Asia. Leave us your thoughts in a voice note here: TIMELINE OF DRAMAS MENTIONED: 1997 IMF crisis 1997 What is love all about (NBC) 2000 Autumn In My Heart (KBS) 2002 Winter Sonata (KBS) 2007 The Legend...

We are back with a long yak on three dramas we started 2024 with: Doctor Slump, Marry My Husband, and Like Flowers In Sand. This episode was recorded on 11th February. Our feelings on these dramas have stayed the same (with Doctor Slump getting special love for staying so reliably warm till the end). Leave us your thoughts in a voice note here: LINKS MENTIONED: Paroma's Doctor Slump post. Support Gaza through the Palestine Children's Relief Fund here. TIMESTAMP: 00:01:50 - Doctor...

Awards season is the perfect time for us to share our review of Past Lives, our favorite film of last year. Saya, Anisa and our friend Yunah talk about why this movie's meditations on grief, love, diaspora and selfhood spoke to us so deeply. (We recorded this at the end of last year.) Leave us your thoughts in a voice note here: TIMESTAMPS: 00:00 Overall thoughts 20:39 Spoilers LEAVE US A REVIEW: Apple podcasts | Spotify | Audible! MORE EPISODES YOU'LL LIKE: Episode 89: Our review of Minari,...

The 5th Annual Goguma Awards have landed! Your votes have been tallied and the results range from unexpected to unsurprising, all of which we dissect with glee. Get your tea and biscuits, it's long! Leave us your thoughts in a voice note here: LINKS MENTIONED: Actor Jin: The Handsome Hotelier TIMESTAMP: 00:00:00 - Introducing the Goguma Awards 00:02:46 - The Classic Gogumas 00:17:47 - Your Top 3 Dramas of 2023 00:25:27 - The Wild Gogumas 01:11:15 - Create Your Own: Listener Awards! 01:49:36...

The Year-End Yak is here! Or Part 1 anyway, where we talk about what K-dramas did this year, and how we felt about them. Goguma Awards coming in Part 2! Leave us your thoughts in a voice note here: LINKS MENTIONED: Paroma's excellent 2023 Wrap for Film Companion Paroma's My Demon Halfway Review (Spoilers) K-drama Research Institute's video essay We Need to Talk About Netflix K-dramas Saya and Paroma's new BTS YouTube Channel Jae-Ha Kim's article Rest in Peace, Lee...

If you missed our callout for votes for the 5th Annual Goguma Awards, or if you simply haven't had a chance to vote yet, we've extended the deadline! Vote here for the dramas you loved and hated, the OTPs that made you swoon, the actors who blew you away with their talent in 2023. See you in the Year-End Yak! ❤

Just Saya popping in to share her thoughts on an assortment of dramas: a mixture of bright and dark, exquisite and questionable, therapeutic and aggravating. The tl;dl (?) being: My Demon is darkbright and exquisite, Death's Game is just dark, Park's Marriage Contract is bright and aggravating, and Welcome to Samdal-ri is therapeutic, bright, and funnier than it should be. Content warning for discussion of suicide in Death's Game and Welcome to Samdal-ri. Take care and skip if needed by using...

Perfect Marriage Revenge is a drama that kept all its promises: revenge! marriage! perfect! We revel in how the drama revels in its story, with special props to writer Im Seo-ra for some of the best writing in dramaland this year. SPOILERS EVERYWHERE, BEWARE BEWARE! Feat. beloved and returning guest, Zaynab, who does not want to be found. Leave us your thoughts in a voice note here: LINKS MENTIONED: Our new youtube channel, Bangtan Over Flowers. LEAVE US A REVIEW: Apple podcasts | Spotify |...

Saya and Anisa talk about 8(!) dramas, including writer Park Hre-ryun's newest Castaway Diva, gorgeous romance melodrama Call it Love, and the actually perfect Perfect Marriage Revenge. Lots of time travel, revenge and contract relationships in this one, so you know we're both happy campers. Leave us your thoughts in a voice note here: TIMESTAMPS: 00:01:00 Castaway Diva 00:12:24 Spoilers for Castaway 1-4 00:21:38 Daily Dose of Sunshine 00:31:09 Twinkling Watermelon 00:46:39...

Kick back with us on a diatribe filled episode where we talk about women written by men, unearned forgiveness, and the ethics of love potions. Tell us your thoughts in a voice note here: LINK: Listen to the trailer of The Broadside (new podcast hosted by Anisa) TIMESTAMP: 00:09:00 - Titanic (Spoilers) 00:19:00 - Women written by men (and also, Dev Anand's C.I.D.) 00:28:00 - My Lovely Liar (Spoilers) 01:14:00 - Destined With You (Spoilers up to episode 6) MORE EPISODES YOU'LL LIKE: Episode...

We are joined by kfangurl on an ultimate fan trip episode where we deep dive into a cult classic time slip romance that set new standards in storytelling for all of us. This drama has also been recently remade into the Korean, A Time Called You, which we discussed in episode 161. Tell us your thoughts about either drama in a voice note here: LINKS MENTIONED: Paroma's twitter post on face blurring the fangirl verdict blog TIMESTAMP: 00:01:52 - Introducing Someday or One Day: plot,...

Anisa, Paroma and Anisa's sister Zaynab talk about A Time Called You, remake of hit Taiwanese drama Someday or One Day, how it compares to the original, and the eternal question of the adaptation: why? Catch our spoiler review of Someday or One Day next week! Tell us your thoughts in a voice note here: TIMESTAMP: 0:00 General thoughts on A Time Called You 31:00 SPOILERS for both the original and the remake MORE EPISODES YOU'LL LIKE: Episode 135: Extraordinary Attorney Woo Spoiled...

Welcome to another anniversary Mailbag episode! We asked for your thoughts on dramas, on us, anything at all, and you gave us a lot to talk about! Also, let us know if you liked, loved, or FF'd this episode in a voice note here: LINKS MENTIONED: The Hollywood writers’ strike: Vox explains LA Times article about Netflix's affect on Korea Entertainment Industry Burn it Down excerpt RELATED EPISODES YOU'LL LIKE: The burning sun special, episode 37 On representation, episodes 65 and episode...

We bring you another long yak this months where we talk about two new dramas and final thoughts on three completed ones. Tell us your thoughts in a voice note here: LINKS MENTIONED: The anime Paroma mentioned: How A Realist Hero Rebuilt the Kingdom (on Netflix) TIMESTAMP: (No spoilers = NS) 00:00:40 - My Lovely Liar (NS) 00:21:08 - Behind Your Touch (Ep 1 Spoilers) 00:42:08 - Maturity of social discussion 00:46:06 - See You In My 19th Life (Final Thoughts/NS) 01:08:54 - ... 19th Life...