I loved Bongseok's character so much! I wish he had someone to teach him how to control his powers.

On another note, having watched Ryu Seong Ryong's (Heesoo's dad) previous movie Extreme Job, where he also opened a fried chicken shop and had the reputation of being "unkillable", I feel this series is like the continuation or prequel of that! Lol

I waited to watch this until every episode was out. Currently at around ep 10 I think, just after the balcony kiss. It's been a while since I blushed so hard at an onscreen kiss and this was already pretty tame! Loved the parents' backstories! I don't like the boss, but had to give him credit for playing the matchmaker.

I was tearing up when Bongseok revealed that his dreams were actual memories of him spending time with his dad when he was young. Imagine being bored on a plane and looking out the window, to witnessing a father-son lovely bonding time among the clouds lol.

Came for the badass superheroes theme, didn't expect to be hit in the feels about the lengths parents would go to protect their children.

I'm a little late to see your post as well.

I watched Business Proposal when it was airing and followed some of the discussions on Reddit's Kdrama sub. It was one of the more popular dramas that gets talked about often, even now. Where do you normally see convos about Kdramas? Because I see this drama mentioned often on MyDramaList and comments on Soompi as well, when anything related to romcom genre and/or the actors pops up.

I was a little bored with the drama at the beginning, but after a few episodes I was hooked with the development of the second couple. They have so much more chemistry than the first couple and just so fun to watch them together. I agree the ending was a little weak. If I'm not wrong, I read a comment that the drama was originally supposed to be longer but they decided to cut it down to 12 episodes, hence the somewhat abrupt ending. I just couldn't believe they planned for a longer series since there was barely any materials left after both couples got together.

Overall, I enjoyed it and got me interested enough to watch the actors interact with each other on interviews and games after the drama ended.

Glad to see you back! Yea accessing this community from another instance would give a different view/posts.

Lol fair enough. I was just trying to understand why KTL's scene barely did anything to me (even when it was pretty hot leading up to it), while I blushed so hard at the 19th Life's scene. I probably just prefer it when the FL participated more in the kiss.

I know right!! It's just so weird when everyone else seems to retain all their memories but ONLY her who had the memory erased. It would make more sense to have everyone else, except maybe Seoha, to forget her, so they could start to know each other again from the new beginning. Feels like a lazy ending by the writer/director.

Have you watched the ending of SYIM19L? What do you think of it?

KTL is just pure fluff. I think we're on the crisis introduction part of the series now.

I agree with your first paragraph. I think the story about her first life was introduced pretty late in the series. We spent close to 9 out 12 episodes focusing only on her 18th life, with a little introduction here and there about her other lives, but not much (if at all) of her first. Then suddenly the focus shifted to her first life, because it was supposedly the most important one that started all this. Yea that's not going to work well in an already shorter drama.

As for your second part, I'm probably biased because I absolutely love Shin Hye Sun, but personally I don't think acting is the issue here. I see pacing as the main problem with this series (e.g. overuse of the pool and accident flashbacks). They are trying to fit too much materials into a shorter drama and had trouble with story/focus placements throughout.

I'm usually very forgiving in regards to acting, because I think it's unfair when actors and actresses get the criticism even when they are acting as directed and followed the script well.

One thing I want to say though. But first, SPOILER!! for those who haven't watched the series in full, because I still don't know how spoiler tag works here lol. I'm SO glad Seoha's dad turned out to be a fairly decent person! I was worried he was the mastermind behind the accident and somehow had something to do with his wife's death as well, but I'm glad that he was just a protective father and loved his son in his own way. I'm still not sure what was the reasoning behind the accident. I know the plan was just to scare them and it went overboard. But to scare them for what?

Anyway, I'm interested in the webtoon as well now. Where do you find them?

I don't know how fast you normally go through a drama, but this drama is ending next weekend anyway so you may be able to start watching soon. I'm dreading for it to end, but also very curious at the ending at the same time.

We're going to get another Shin Hye Sun's drama later this year! I'm quite excited for that one, especially since it involves romance with Ji Chang Wook.

Ha, true! Accessibility is important. I'm contemplating whether or not to watch Bloodhound. Have you seen it? Heard the bromance is pretty good there

Hello! I was hoping we could move over to lemmy.ml's kdrama community to combine our users. But it looks like we're all still quite comfortable over here somehow lol.

I'm watching both too, but enjoying 19th Life a bit more. I do think KTL feels easier to watch, and loved seeing the prince's character and those other drama references lol.

What kind of dramas do you normally watch?

For some reason, I didn't think that was a big deal until I saw it being mentioned everywhere hahah.

Ok so I want to analyse the two kisses we got last week from the two dramas. Weird I know 😅, but I'm keen to hear your thoughts on this!

Even though KTL's kiss was hotter because of Junho, I found Yoona's body language during it a little off putting. Like she was too perfectly posed with her tummy tucked in and her arms strategically placed on him, it just looked a little unnatural. I kept getting the sense like she was holding back still, not sure because of the script/direction or she's just not very good at kiss scenes.

On the other hand, 19th Life's kiss had SHS leaned her whole body into ABH, drawing him in, and looked as if she was really into it. Like what Junho did with Yoona. ABH's response was also a little lukewarm somehow, but it could be he was indeed still holding back because his feeling for her was still a little unsure. If only they could switch partners, then we'll get explosive (but possibly censored) kiss lol!

What do you think of this?

英語で大丈夫ですか？https://www.soompi.com/ is the most reliable one.

I've mostly been watching currently airing dramas these days.

• See You in My 19th Life (8/12) The pacing is pretty quick on this one since it's shorter. Things have started to unravel and I can't believe it will end next week!

• King The Land (8/16) I'm sure by now everyone has gone crazy over that last scene on ep 8 lol! Consent is sexy indeed. Also, I really don't understand the hate Anupam Tripathi gets from this. His character was so adorable! I saw a comment on MDL that says his instagram was flooded with hate messages. The poor guy.

• Numbers (4/16?) Haven't caught up with the latest 2 eps yet. Somehow I'm not really feeling this drama.

• Dr Park's Clinic (8/12) Comedy and heartwarming drama on the life of Dr Park, an internal medicine doctor who just opened his own clinic. It's a good drama that I'm just watching very slowly these days.

We know now who Hanna was, but from the flashbacks Min Gi looks to be someone from her past as well.

My guess, he was someone who was in love with her but she was in love with the past Seoha as well. Then she died, maybe related to Seoha, and Min Gi somehow had/has the power to keep them both reincarnated and remembering their pasts in the hope that they rekindle their relationship in the next live. But Jowon/Ji Eun kept going back to Seoha. I don't know how Seoha's mum got to do with this though.

You've read the webtoon. Has the story in the drama changed much from the webtoon?

Hahah to be fair, I also thought the makeup/styling could've gone better for her in this drama. She was beautiful in the other dramas I've seen of her.

Yea I thought this was the 16 episodes drama and King The Land was 12 for the first couple weeks, then realised it's the opposite. The reaction I've seen so far has been that this drama started off strong but it stagnated soon after. On the other hand, KTL keeps a good pacing and has good star power. I still like this drama better than KTL, but can understand why people loves KTL more.

I wish I have your wisdom before I started both. They are both about hotel chaebols and have some sort of mystery involving their mothers. I forget which chaebol has what specific trauma/incident sometimes. But yea maybe that's just me lol

I KNOW RIGHT!!! Shin Hye Sun never disappoints, including her kisses!! I'm still remembering the ones in Mr Queen. Ah~~

I can't wait to see Driver Ha and Chowon's kisses next! His gaze for her has been so intense that I feel I should look away sometimes. If that's an indication how their kisses will be like, then oof... I will need a cold shower!

Eps 7 and 8 are really one revelation after another! Can't believe we're more than halfway there already, and that this drama will end next week! Sobs

Oh you're right! I didn't realise he only called up to her.

Before I watched the latest 2 eps, I thought Hanna (the singer/dancer) was also another shaman. Like there was a group of them roaming about to warn/catch those reincarnated people to keep them in line or something. But yea, that was way off! Lol

So this is how it looks from my end on [email protected] community.

Yea I thought we could at least see the same posts across the fediverse, including those on mastodon, but apparently not yet. I'm still learning about fediverse, particularly lemmy, but I can see why people gets put off with it since it's not as easy to use as Reddit.

Hopefully you can see my comment - I'm still learning about Lemmy. Adding my recommendations below.

Cute and chill dramas with heart melting scenes:

• Strong Woman Do Bong Soon
• Weightlifting Fairy Kim Bok Joo
• Love To Hate You
• Hospital Playlist
• Coffee Prince

Thriller with fucked up plot:

• Crime Puzzle
• Through The Darkness
• Tell Me What You Saw
• The Glory
• Bad Guys
• The Veil
• Mouse
• My Name
• D.P. (Season 2 is coming out July 28th)
• Big Mouth (I haven't seen this, but many people liked it until right at the last episode)

Heart melting chill dramas with not at all fucked up slightly thrilling plot:

• Missing: The Other Side
• Prison Playbook (same director as Hospital Playlist)

Generally Kdramas are less intense compared to their movie counterpart, due to broadcasting rules. Squid Game came out on Netflix, so it wasn't bound by their usual broadcasting rules due to it being on a streaming platform.

Hopefully that's a good list to get you started with. Let me know if you need more specific recommendations later.

PS: Squid Game 2 is coming out next year. They've announced the casts recently and have done some preliminary script reading. Likely to go into production soon.