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They have surprised me a bunch of times, where they didn't go the cliche route with KY and YI, so I hope they will do it again and HaeMi gets therapy for her entitlement.

The two KDramas I loved the most last year were Dali and the Cocky Prince, and the daily drama "The love in your eyes" which is the perfect candy before bed in length and wholesomeness. Other than that I leaned heavily into CDramas.

So tell me, which vibe are you looking for?

Wow, thanks for this list. I find Thai dramas are hit and miss for me, unless someone recommends something I always forget to look them up for new shows. I put some of them on my list now!

Okay, I only watched the parts with Ji-Won and John... Do I put it on my watched list? There should be a skipped through list... I was intrigued by the setting, since I love romance reality shows, but yeah, only that couple held my interest longterm.

This was so hard for me to rate. 10/10 for chemistry, but the plot was a mess. I felt like even the editor found it a bit much, hence the sudden jump cuts from the middle onwards.

I found the relationships in Coup de Fudre and Sweet Teeth were realistic and not toxic as well.

Don't know how I ended up watching this soap opera of a drama, but apart from skipping some makjang parts, I am enjoying it. It is a really nice evening after work drama, nothing super annoying or exciting happens, the romance is slow burn, but cute.

I can't speak for everyone, but yes, I find that CDramas make me think about them more and thus I also want to discuss them more. I personally find KDramas rather formulaic a lot of the time, not matter the genre, they have a predictable formula, so there is not usually a "OMG, what will happen next? How will it end?", while notoriously in (historical and fantasy) CDramas people might die until the last episode. They also never shy away from an anti-hero/hero with questionable actions. I am not quite certain what it is, since I do love me some KDramas, but I often find the characters in CDramas more intriguing and richer, so I also want to discuss them and their moral values more.

Oh wow, thankyou, you are a true ambassador of J-Dramas. I will check them out once I am back at my laptop on Monday.

Recency Bias, it's a phenomenon where you will remember something you experienced recently as better/worse than anything you experienced before. They did not give a definition, so everyone could make it what they wanted.

Also I have some personal favourites, that I would probably not enter into BOTB, because while I love them I am aware of poor production or cheesy, clichéd storyline. Objectively meh, subjectively sooo good. Secretary Kim would be one of those.

Actually yes, I would say the same thing about the Kawaii factor. I don't know if Japanese women complain about the Kawaii factor as well, but if they do, they are allowed to criticise the media they consume for becoming a bit stale. On the other hand, if they enjoy the Kawaii factor, because it in turn leads to decisive, protective ML and that gives an audience of women who are stressed out with decision making a warm, fuzzy feeling, that is perfectly understandable too.

Just like I understand escapist media geared towards men being full of women who want nothing more than to be ordered around and cute for a man. Gives them a reprieve from RL, where nobody easily does what they wish for.

You don't need to claim a draft, just post your idea in the thread below and wait for permission. https://kisskh.at/discussions/community-tasks/29624-mdl-writers-article-ideas-discussion?page=139#p2414099

Recommendation please! I am not into crime and thriller, but everything else I will gladly give a try.

I admit to not being able to handle more than one J-Drama at a time, partly because of the Kawaii, which is annoying to me, but mostly because I can't with the overly innocent FL. Like they are always completely uninformed and helpless, and I particularly hate when there is a kissing or kissing+ scene, the girl just stands or lies there looking frightened. That is not hot to me, and the overly aggressive ML not acknowledging this situations and take it slow... dunno. I have never been in Japan, so maybe that is just how Japanese women are around men IRL, but if it's a trope, I don't like it.

One has to see stories as carthartic or escapism for their audience. Most of these dramas are watched by women, and most productions are in it for the money, so what gets watched gets reproduced. The more women (most likely housewives, depending on what time the drama is aired) watch these dramas about women cheating and leaving their stale/abusive marriages, the more shows of a similar ilk get made. Dramas are not moral education, usually.

If you wanted to write an article on this topic I would read it. I hate this double standard as well, though assault is often played as romantic either way, especially in Thai dramas... why that is, would be a whole other topic.
But I stopped watching Cute Programmer, because it was done so intentionally there, not just a drunk dude and a sober girl hooking up, which is iffy enough with either gender.

I didn't see where to vote on this, otherwise Word of Honor would have had three votes or "Dear Missy" would have gotten one.

But it is really hard to decide what the BOTB really is, often I fall into a recency bias. Like I recently rewatched parts of a drama that I thought was be BOTB for years, but on second viewing it was great in parts and not so great in others, making it a cute drama, but not top tier.

I think opening it up on Twitter or Instagram would have gotten more votes and maybe one could have divided it by category. I apply very different measurements to a cute rom-com than I do a more universal topic drama, or historicals and contemporary.

I think a part of that is that K-Dramas get distributed on Netflix a lot, for C-Dramas you have to be quite into it to find the speciality apps they are shown on. I mean a bunch of them show up on YT as well.
If you really have to be into something to find it, you will talk and vote on it more. Hence also the much more heavily discussed BL dramas, than regular dramas.

Sooo, not that I am not going to watch it anyway, but spoiler me: Is there romance in this and what percentage of the plot? Just so I know which mood I am throwing myself into.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHQnH-lIrVQ&t=180s