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SB Chat Box #7: The current drama landscape

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Written by On December 1, 2011

We’re switching it up this week. Young-ji and I discuss:

  • A Thousand Days’ Promise (1:01)

  • Kim Rae-won (5:15)

  • City Hunter (10:00)

  • The ditzy, funny, nice heroine (15:35)

  • Flower Boy Ramyun Shop (19:12)

  • Product placement and financial wealth (21:05)

  • Augmented K-drama reality (23:40)

  • The K-drama formula (30:40)

  • K-dramas have no depth?? (33:10)

  • American TV vs. Korean TV (35:10)

  • Not enough international components in K-dramas (44:50)

  • Protect the Boss (51:15)

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Shouts to Hanakim_jYpnation for getting all the songs correctly from last time. The songs are a little harder this week, especially for those who don’t watch dramas regularly, but give us your best guesses!

Feel free to listen to our past chat boxes, and let us know if there’s anything you want to hear from us in the future.

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  • http://twitter.com/PhanTheHotness Jenny

    i find flower boy ramyun shop very fun to watch. yes, simplistic, but fun.
    i also think you’re missing out on the metaphors and meanings behind the sayings
    there’s a lot of that and if you the type to just watch for fun, you won’t be able to catch it
    also, there is a mistranslation between Eng and Korea if you watch subs and you won’t understand
    the meaning behind the words either.

    i really find the drama witty and fun to watch. 

  • Giovanni

    dude u guys didnt talk about scent of a woman? one of the best dramas of 2011!

    • Giovanni

      ok ok my bad, u mention it haha

    • http://twitter.com/chinche09 Cincinn

      That had me in tears. That was the only kdrama that made me cry so much. The acting was great.

  • Julianne Jimenez

    I just remembered nigahiga’s Asian Dramas video

    • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_L3QTAJBP6QBZVM4RR6ZYPEO6UY hna

      haha…I saw it too… funny nigahiga

  • http://twitter.com/missyu8shi Yushi Wang

    aw what happened to subi? LOL. 

    • http://twitter.com/miss_subi Subashiny

      My dear, I haven’t slept in three days, eating nothing but cheese fries and bacon. YUM. 

  • lay

    hmm … am i the only person who finds the characters in Flower Boy Ramyun annoying? especially the girl … i.just.can’t.stand.her.exaggerated.expressions!! i couldn’t even finish one episode.

  • http://twitter.com/polinchka polinchka

    All the great dramas came out at roughly the same time this year. I was spending more time watching shows than I should have a week (like 10 episodes a week) and that was during my final quarter at college >_<

    Also, I find the limited episodes of kdramas refreshing versus American shows. I stopped watching almost all american television because the shows never end. The conflicts are overplayed in America and made to seem more serious than they are. The constant changing stories in kdramas are nice. I watch a mix of both fluff and serious shows and almost every show you talked about, I've seen/watch.

    I like Flower Boy Ramyun Shop. It's crack. Like, oh my god crack. It's different enough that it's nice. Yeah, typical and she totally overacts (which I find annoying) but the eyecandy is well worth it and the comedy was (the first few eps) well done. I watch a lot of jdramas too. The subs are getting a lot slower these days for both k and j dramas so it's sad. And apparently I watch a lot of kdramas because I know where every song comes from but not speaking Korean, I don't know what the songs are called. Except the That Woman from Secret Garden but that's because I memorized it word for word, I was so in love with it. XD and of course I still have You are so Beautiful on my playlist. <3 Junsu so much.

    I have managed to even make my white non-kpop/non-kdrama watching friends to gasp at Jaejoong. They don't even like Asian people *grins* That boy is fine.

    • Anonymous

      JAEJOONG IS TOO BEAUTIFUL TO NOT LOVE!!! He’s like the Korean version of the Greek gods, if you know what I mean.

      You’re right about some Western television! They just go on and on and on. Good for the first few seasons, but after the seasons go past that 3 or 4 mark, they start to get bad. I’ve noticed this in anime, too! Anime just never ends! One of the reasons why I stopped watching Naruto is because it just goes on and on and on and on….

      • http://twitter.com/polinchka polinchka

        And that is why I started reading Naruto XD It’s so much easier to read it to get the story and so much less time spent doing it.

    • http://twitter.com/chinche09 Cincinn

      I thought I was the only one who has stopped watching American shows. I find kdramas a refreshing choice, they are totally different and brings romance to the viewer. I am a romantic at heart and I totally love kdama’s, I alternate between comedy, romance and historical drama’s. And as for Jaejoong all I can say is Ahhhhhhhh!!!

    • AnnaJ.

      Aw I actually some of the shows that America has, I don’t know if they are considered dramas thou cause they have like 5-7 seasons but I still love them ^_^. I mean SUITS, House, The Office, Chuck, Psych and etc are in my opinion fresh and entertaining! lol But I like me some Kdrama too, like recently Ojakgyo Brothers!! <333 I loved Protect the Boss too! Jaejoong is indeed a fine young man. 

  • http://twitter.com/doramachan Mara

    Watch MGY in Painter of Wind. Amazing perf.

  • http://twitter.com/PheonixiaJJ Echo

    Mewonim was awesome!  And I love my Chacha and Namu couple ^^
    Btw lol the Namu kissing fantasy scene of Nayoon gained half a million views on youtube alone kekekeke
    I LOVED the grandma….and the mothers…..I love how they were always scolded and told what to do ^^

    And I love how it ended with all the parents having to do volunteering work together

  • http://twitter.com/hunnynut12 Terry

    SONGS! :D

    Personal Preference: Can’t Believe It by Younha
    Pasta: Listen to You by Kyuhyun
    Boys Over Flowers: Because I’m Stupid (Acoustic Ver.) by Kim Hyun Joong
    Secret Garden: That Man by Baek Ji Young
    Scent of a Woman: You Are So Beautiful by Kim Junsu

  • Sakuraloli

    SNOW QUEEN!!!!!!!!!! That’s a rich girl, poor boy drama, and personally, I really like it!!! It has Hyun Bin too!!! It’s a 2006 drama.

  • Sakuraloli

    Okay…I have a second comment: I think the reason it’s poor girl, rich guy is because the viewers are mostly 20-year-old GIRLS and WOMEN who want to have someone they can relate to ergo, a poorer, middle class girl. All most women around that age group like to dream about marrying a wealthy man, and they like to see their dreams fulfilled on screen. But that’s just my opinion.  

  • http://twitter.com/chinche09 Cincinn

    Also in kdrama’s the poor sleep on the floor, eat sitting on the floor were as the chaebol’s sleep in a regular bed, eat at the dining room table.

    • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_L3QTAJBP6QBZVM4RR6ZYPEO6UY hna

      yeah its annoying rite.. like why k-drama can’t produce something like poor with poor. or everyone eats in the table with food that more than just rice n kimchi…
      why mostly k-drama must based on cinderella…

  • http://twitter.com/chinche09 Cincinn

    Also in kdrama’s the poor sleep on the floor, eat sitting on the floor were as the chaebol’s sleep in a regular bed, eat at the dining room table.

  • http://twitter.com/chinche09 Cincinn

    Also the poor character parents suck, abandoned, died, drunk.

  • arp_2411

    The download link is for an earlier podcast.

    • http://evacuatewithstyle.org/blog Amy

      Nope, it’s for the right podcast from this week.

  • http://twitter.com/KimcheeSushi フェィシア

    Scent of a woman… yeah. I was so prepared to cry for her to die too. I agree with Youngji. I dislike ambiguous endings too :P 

    erm.. 
    Kim Hyun Joong in BOF Because I’m Stupid Acoustic ver
    That man from Secret Garden… by … uhm… 
    You are so beautiful by Junsu :]

    OH GOSH. the english speaking people are basically white people. nobody cares if english speakers can’t necessarily understand them 

    lol youngji :D i guess.. welcome to the fandom? hehee