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odyle
Okay. We're going to do this in an absolutely awful and incoherent list format. Because! I'm also going to cut it because holy crap.
01 | (awesome) faily dude
Did I ever tell you what my favorite OTP archetype is? It's Pegging Major/Faily Dude. We'll get to Pegging Majors later this month, but Faily Dudes are right in the kdrama wheelhouse. A real faily dude is an arrogant dick, basically, who fucks shit up because arrogance and dickishness and has to be rescued by the fantastic lady he's lucky enough to be around. So, like 95% of dudes in media with heteroromantic components!
You know how in historical romance novels, the main dude is usually a duke or a knight or an illegitimate prince or the earl's second son or whatever? But he's always ~noble~ and usually nobility (and haaaaaaaandsome). And a huge arrogant dick. He's that dude in kdramas too! A lot of the time, he's the son who's being groomed to run the whole giant multinational corporation (they're called chaebol, btw), or he's working REALLY HARD to be a BUSINESS MAN, or he's a pop star (OH MY GOD REMIND ME ABOUT OSKA LATER) or some other top-of-his-game profession. He's a dick when the show starts, almost always. Super cute, suuuuuuper up himself, super addicted to tight suits and terrible sunglasses. When he first meets the girl, he's such an arrogant shit that she can't take it. He's fascinated by her. Can't get enough! And slowly but surely he melts and reveals that idiotic marshmallow under the spangly tracksuits and sneers and always grabbing people by the wrist to pull them out of rooms into hallways and cars and YELLING BECAUSE HE CARES SO MUCH and it's so dumb and I DIE.
I DIE.
02 | coffee prince
So the first kdrama I watched was Coffee Prince, which is made of charm and whimsy and mistaken-for-a-boy and fake gay dating and Gong Yoo. Shirtless Gong Yoo. Playboy Gong Yoo. And YOON EUN-HYE, who is probably the cutest girl in the entire world ever. EVER. Gong Yoo is the wastrel scion of a chaebol family who comes home to ... well, who cares. He comes home, he goes out drinking, all the ladies want to trap him into marriage or at least a night of crazy dirty sex, and one tries harder than the others and fakes like she's naked in his bed because fucking and not so-drunk-pass-out, and then he meets Eun-hye, who is delivering his jjajangmyeon and who he thinks is a boy and HE HIRES HER TO PRETEND TO BE GAY WITH HIM SO HIS GRANDMA WILL GET OFF HIS BACK ABOUT GETTING MARRIED. And then he takes over a coffee shop and Eun-hye works there and they fall in love and then he finds out she's a girl. I mean. Come on. Right? RIGHT.
Everyone else in it is THE BEST. And the secondary couple is a pair of star-crossed lovers, one of whom is Gong Yoo's cousin and also a composer and he has this amazing dog, and you're going to die. We're all going to die, but we're especially going to die of HOW GREAT THIS SHOW IS.
Okay, and it has the hottest kiss in any kdrama ever. I just. Yes. More of that.
God, I could seriously talk forever about that show. Go watch it. Then tell me about it so I can watch it again and then we can talk forever about it.
ETA I FOUND OUT DRAMAFEVER HAS AN APP AND I'M WATCHING COFFEE PRINCE ON MY PHONE WHEN I SHOULD BE WORKING BEST (TERRIBLE) DAY EVER
03 | my name is kim sam soon
HELLO THIS SHOW IS ABOUT A GIRL WHO THINKS SHE'S TOO FAT AND UGLY AND HATES HER NAME AND PRETENDS TO HAVE A DIFFERENT, ~MORE GLAMOROUS~ NAME AND IS IN THIS SPITE BATTLE WITH THE CHAEBOL HEIR DUDE WHO OWNS THE RESTAURANT SHE WANTS TO WORK IN AND HE IS SO AWFUL. IT'S FUCKING GLORIOUS. It's Bridget Jones, basically. Except Colin Firth doesn't exist and she winds up with the Daniel, who is ~~~~~heartbroken~~~~~ over a horrible car accident that killed his brother and crippled him for a while and also over a lost love who has a terrible secret and is also the one-sided crush object of DOCTOR DANIEL HENNEY. Guys. GUYS. IT IS THE DUMBEST. YOU WILL LOVE IT. You will LOVE IT.
(Hyun Bin plays the Daniel and he has the world's largest head. I'm not even kidding. ENTIRE PLANETARY SYSTEMS ORBIT IT. It's ENORMOUS. You'll not even notice it anymore after a couple of episodes, until he turns up again later in the list, when you have to get used to it all over again.)
04 | golden bride
DO NOT WATCH THIS. IT'S TERRIBLE AND FOREVER LONG AND KIM HEECHUL IS SO ADORABLE AND THE MAIN GUY IS BASICALLY GRIEF-STRICKEN AND BED-RIDDEN FOR YEARS BECAUSE HE KISSED A GIRL WHO DIDN'T WANT TO KISS HIM?????????????? No, that's not a joke. That's for real. His mom and his aunt go to Vietnam (?????) to get him a wife because he'll never get one in Korea (??????????????) and everyone has a secret and everyone spends half of every episode scoffing at things and making sad faces and the Vietnamese girl is SO IRRITATING but not half as irritating as the girl who didn't want to kiss the main guy years ago, who spends almost all of her time shrieking at people? It's amazing. DO NOT WATCH IT. I love it. I want to rewatch it immediately. I wish I were kidding. There are like nine thousand people in the cast. You will kill everything around you if you watch it. Kim Heechul spends basically the whole time trying to get into his girlfriend's pants so hard he doesn't even notice there's this huge family meltdown happening around him. Amazing. DO NOT WATCH IT.
05 | lie to me
I literally can't be coherent about this because I'm rewatching it right now and it's so ridiculous. Yoon Eun-hye from Coffee Prince is in this as a government clerk who lies to her nemesis that she's married and then—because SHENANIGANS—the rumor spreads that she's secretly married to this arrogant hotel president she meets one night when she's BLASTED and she hates him? Because obviously. And he's trying to tell everyone it's a lie, and she's like, okay I will totally help quash this rumor so you don't sue me!, and then she accidentally(??????) makes the lie even bigger? BECAUSE THE UNIVERSE LOVES US AND WANTS US TO BE HAPPY. God, it is the fucking worst. It's on Netflix. Start watching it right now, before you even finish this sentence.
06 | secret garden
Hyun Bin's back! His head is E N O R M O U S. I can't even talk about this because: A) FAKE DATING and B) FAKE DATING and C) BODYSWAP. Jesus Christ. WATCH IT IMMEDIATELY. Ha Ji-won is SO GREAT. She's a STUNTWOMAN. A STUNTWOMAN. They don't magically smooth over all the problems his family has with accepting her! She makes faces like this!
I'm sorry for bringing pictures into this all of a sudden but I have to because THIS KDRAMA HAS OSKA.
OSKA.
I can't. Kacey asked me a hundred years ago if this was any good and I did this in response. I REGRET NOTHING.
07 | &c
Here are some other kdramas that will RUIN YOUR LIFE:
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odyleOkay. We're going to do this in an absolutely awful and incoherent list format. Because! I'm also going to cut it because holy crap.
01 | (awesome) faily dude
Did I ever tell you what my favorite OTP archetype is? It's Pegging Major/Faily Dude. We'll get to Pegging Majors later this month, but Faily Dudes are right in the kdrama wheelhouse. A real faily dude is an arrogant dick, basically, who fucks shit up because arrogance and dickishness and has to be rescued by the fantastic lady he's lucky enough to be around. So, like 95% of dudes in media with heteroromantic components!
You know how in historical romance novels, the main dude is usually a duke or a knight or an illegitimate prince or the earl's second son or whatever? But he's always ~noble~ and usually nobility (and haaaaaaaandsome). And a huge arrogant dick. He's that dude in kdramas too! A lot of the time, he's the son who's being groomed to run the whole giant multinational corporation (they're called chaebol, btw), or he's working REALLY HARD to be a BUSINESS MAN, or he's a pop star (OH MY GOD REMIND ME ABOUT OSKA LATER) or some other top-of-his-game profession. He's a dick when the show starts, almost always. Super cute, suuuuuuper up himself, super addicted to tight suits and terrible sunglasses. When he first meets the girl, he's such an arrogant shit that she can't take it. He's fascinated by her. Can't get enough! And slowly but surely he melts and reveals that idiotic marshmallow under the spangly tracksuits and sneers and always grabbing people by the wrist to pull them out of rooms into hallways and cars and YELLING BECAUSE HE CARES SO MUCH and it's so dumb and I DIE.
I DIE.
02 | coffee prince
So the first kdrama I watched was Coffee Prince, which is made of charm and whimsy and mistaken-for-a-boy and fake gay dating and Gong Yoo. Shirtless Gong Yoo. Playboy Gong Yoo. And YOON EUN-HYE, who is probably the cutest girl in the entire world ever. EVER. Gong Yoo is the wastrel scion of a chaebol family who comes home to ... well, who cares. He comes home, he goes out drinking, all the ladies want to trap him into marriage or at least a night of crazy dirty sex, and one tries harder than the others and fakes like she's naked in his bed because fucking and not so-drunk-pass-out, and then he meets Eun-hye, who is delivering his jjajangmyeon and who he thinks is a boy and HE HIRES HER TO PRETEND TO BE GAY WITH HIM SO HIS GRANDMA WILL GET OFF HIS BACK ABOUT GETTING MARRIED. And then he takes over a coffee shop and Eun-hye works there and they fall in love and then he finds out she's a girl. I mean. Come on. Right? RIGHT.
Everyone else in it is THE BEST. And the secondary couple is a pair of star-crossed lovers, one of whom is Gong Yoo's cousin and also a composer and he has this amazing dog, and you're going to die. We're all going to die, but we're especially going to die of HOW GREAT THIS SHOW IS.
Okay, and it has the hottest kiss in any kdrama ever. I just. Yes. More of that.
God, I could seriously talk forever about that show. Go watch it. Then tell me about it so I can watch it again and then we can talk forever about it.
ETA I FOUND OUT DRAMAFEVER HAS AN APP AND I'M WATCHING COFFEE PRINCE ON MY PHONE WHEN I SHOULD BE WORKING BEST (TERRIBLE) DAY EVER
03 | my name is kim sam soon
HELLO THIS SHOW IS ABOUT A GIRL WHO THINKS SHE'S TOO FAT AND UGLY AND HATES HER NAME AND PRETENDS TO HAVE A DIFFERENT, ~MORE GLAMOROUS~ NAME AND IS IN THIS SPITE BATTLE WITH THE CHAEBOL HEIR DUDE WHO OWNS THE RESTAURANT SHE WANTS TO WORK IN AND HE IS SO AWFUL. IT'S FUCKING GLORIOUS. It's Bridget Jones, basically. Except Colin Firth doesn't exist and she winds up with the Daniel, who is ~~~~~heartbroken~~~~~ over a horrible car accident that killed his brother and crippled him for a while and also over a lost love who has a terrible secret and is also the one-sided crush object of DOCTOR DANIEL HENNEY. Guys. GUYS. IT IS THE DUMBEST. YOU WILL LOVE IT. You will LOVE IT.
(Hyun Bin plays the Daniel and he has the world's largest head. I'm not even kidding. ENTIRE PLANETARY SYSTEMS ORBIT IT. It's ENORMOUS. You'll not even notice it anymore after a couple of episodes, until he turns up again later in the list, when you have to get used to it all over again.)
04 | golden bride
DO NOT WATCH THIS. IT'S TERRIBLE AND FOREVER LONG AND KIM HEECHUL IS SO ADORABLE AND THE MAIN GUY IS BASICALLY GRIEF-STRICKEN AND BED-RIDDEN FOR YEARS BECAUSE HE KISSED A GIRL WHO DIDN'T WANT TO KISS HIM?????????????? No, that's not a joke. That's for real. His mom and his aunt go to Vietnam (?????) to get him a wife because he'll never get one in Korea (??????????????) and everyone has a secret and everyone spends half of every episode scoffing at things and making sad faces and the Vietnamese girl is SO IRRITATING but not half as irritating as the girl who didn't want to kiss the main guy years ago, who spends almost all of her time shrieking at people? It's amazing. DO NOT WATCH IT. I love it. I want to rewatch it immediately. I wish I were kidding. There are like nine thousand people in the cast. You will kill everything around you if you watch it. Kim Heechul spends basically the whole time trying to get into his girlfriend's pants so hard he doesn't even notice there's this huge family meltdown happening around him. Amazing. DO NOT WATCH IT.
05 | lie to me
I literally can't be coherent about this because I'm rewatching it right now and it's so ridiculous. Yoon Eun-hye from Coffee Prince is in this as a government clerk who lies to her nemesis that she's married and then—because SHENANIGANS—the rumor spreads that she's secretly married to this arrogant hotel president she meets one night when she's BLASTED and she hates him? Because obviously. And he's trying to tell everyone it's a lie, and she's like, okay I will totally help quash this rumor so you don't sue me!, and then she accidentally(??????) makes the lie even bigger? BECAUSE THE UNIVERSE LOVES US AND WANTS US TO BE HAPPY. God, it is the fucking worst. It's on Netflix. Start watching it right now, before you even finish this sentence.
06 | secret garden
Hyun Bin's back! His head is E N O R M O U S. I can't even talk about this because: A) FAKE DATING and B) FAKE DATING and C) BODYSWAP. Jesus Christ. WATCH IT IMMEDIATELY. Ha Ji-won is SO GREAT. She's a STUNTWOMAN. A STUNTWOMAN. They don't magically smooth over all the problems his family has with accepting her! She makes faces like this!
I'm sorry for bringing pictures into this all of a sudden but I have to because THIS KDRAMA HAS OSKA.
OSKA.
I can't. Kacey asked me a hundred years ago if this was any good and I did this in response. I REGRET NOTHING.
07 | &c
Here are some other kdramas that will RUIN YOUR LIFE:
- PASTA
- FULL HOUSE (IT STARS RAIN. RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAIN *shakes fist*)
- BOYS BEFORE FLOWERS
- CITY HUNTER
- MARRY HIM IF YOU DARE
- SHUT UP FLOWER BOY BAND
- MY GIRLFRIEND IS A GUMIHO
- MY PRINCESS
- PROTECT THE BOSS
- PRIME MINISTER & I (i don't think this has started airing yet but apparently there's a FAKE MARRIAGE so SIGN. ME. UP.)
- anything at all with Choi Siwon because he's unbearably attractive
- this isn't a drama but a variety/reality show thing and you should watch it and be in love with Super Junior (you should probably be in love with Super Junior first): SUPER JUNIOR FULL HOUSE
- okay that's it. Netflix has a bunch of these! Also try Viki and Dramafever and Crunchyroll and YouTube!
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Full House was my first drama. I watched it in 10 minute chunks on some pre-Youtube service. Those were the days...
Other Kdramas to ruin your life:
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I wish Full House had been my first because oh my GOD. Just thinking about Rain's wardrobe is killing me. I love it so much and it is so terrible. They're all so terrible and SO GREAT.
I've actually never had kimchi! Which is ridiculous. This guy I used to work with knew this old lady who would give it to him by the bucket, and here I am, living a kimchi-less life. (I want to watch that drama!!!)
OMG MARY STAYED OUT ALL NIGHT LOOKS SO GOOD ♥♥♥♥♥♥