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Licensing is REGIONAL, it isn't global. That is why I can watch a specific drama on Viki (a global company) in the US and then visit Europe and it isn't always available. My original post was about not being able to find it licensed. I meant in the US market. There are many other websites which operate legally in other nations and can only serve specific markets at this time.
Netflix is the one company that has Global licensing but only on the dramas they produce, otherwise they have to buy the license for every market they wish to show a drama in.

Ok so DramaPassion is legal but only in a few EU nations:


Who are we?


Dramapassion.com is the first French-language site of Korean series ("dramas coréens" for connoisseurs) and offers a streaming service and temporary download entirely legal for French-speaking Europeans.
Dramapassion.com allows all Korean series followers to follow the most recent Korean series in original version subtitled in French (vostfr) by professional translators. Our catalog already includes more than 200 titles and more than 4000 hours of videos. The series on Dramapassion.com are provided directly by the main Korean channels KBS, MBC and SBS, as well as cable channels such as tvN and jTBC.
Dramapassion.com offers a free service accessible to all as well as premium offers for a high quality viewing comfort. The service is currently available in France, Belgium, Switzerland, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom.
Use of this site is subject to the Terms of Use and Sale and this includes our Privacy Policy .
Legal mentions:
- Name of the publishing company: Vlexhan Distribution SPRL
- Head office: Av. Louise 391, Bte 4, 1050 Brussels, Belgium
- Contact: http://www.dramapassion.com/contact-nous/
- undertaking: VAT BE 0810.081.939
- Monitoring body of the publisher:
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T. +32 2 349 5880
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W. www.csa.be

VIU is only in:
Hong Kong
Singapore Thailand Philippines
United Arab Emirates
Bahrain
Egypt
Indonesia
India
Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan
Kuwait Malaysia Oman
Qatar Saudi Arabia

Netflix made a deal this year with JTCB. We will see more of their new dramas on the site int he future. Drama Passion is not legal as far as I know. If the are licensed it wouldn't be in the US market.

WOW...Neither Viki nor Drama Fever have it... TVN seems to be holding out on licensing all of a sudden....Criminal Minds, Live Up To Your Name and now Argon are unavailable in the North America other than pirated sites. It makes me wonder if they will pull a move like Kocowa and the big three networks just did.

Usually when it is this long it is watched like a soap...they air 5 days a week over 3-4 months.

Iit's the way it is written in the script and how the director is asking her to portray the Soah. Her tears and heaviness reveal the wounds she has incurred after being abandoned as a child by her father and later as an adult with her alcoholic mother....A lot of times we see leads who are more colorful and manic when dealing with past issues, but she's suppose to comes across as depressed and untrusting. It's not her acting, it's the part.

I watched goblin but never fully loved it. Aspects of it were good...other things ehhh... IDK once was enough. The ending left me frustrated
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True...the other leads manifested a type manic behavior when dealing with past trauma, where Soah on the other hand played as a suppressed/depressed personality born out of years of unresolved hurt and pain after being neglected and later abandoned as a child by both her parents. Her character's coping mechanisms for having a lasting relationship has pretty much shut down, thus she is always self-protecting her emotions/heart...she dreams of escaping her misery ... fleeing Korea..running from her day to day her life. Soooo ...Yes it can be less colorful than a manic character, to watch her journey....but I don't find it less meaningful. I guess part of it is the fact that I work with people who are dealing with unresolved trauma so I find either side of the spectrum interesting... no two people process what life hands them the same way.

I may have odd taste too. I like this drama too... but I also like a lot of dramas where people complain about not liking the lead actress.

I love this drama...maybe my taste is less popular... I also loved My Shy Boss, Radiant Office and My Sassy Girl..all of which people dropped almost at the start because they couldn't handle the lead actress acting crazy, wild, or emotionally challenged. These are the personalities I find become the most endearing transformation through love stories...There is a beauty in the process of the leads seeing one another for who they really are despite their weaknesses or past... and then a maturing process happens a door to sincere friendship, loyalty and lasting love is opened. Habeak may not be the best drama I have seen this year, but it is one of the ones I'm happy I started and look forward to seeing it through to the end.

The romance is more realistic. It's in the way the leads learn to see one another for who they really are beyond the surface level flaws...they both grow and mature into compatibility.. The CEO admires the her fighting spirit, he isn't a rule breaker but for her he finds himself bending them. The romance is in the the glances, the acts of thoughtfulness... WHICH Is appropriate, since he is her boss and she is a low level empLoyee....they build a friendship-as a foundation...I could have watched this story for a bit longer..Its one I will watch again. The cast was amazing...The leads were touching and funny... One of my favorite dramas to date.

It has romance though out it but it comes through the communications. It's a deeper more realistic love story, one that in real life would last over time.

Just some thoughts...

Ceo Shin and Bi Ryum are 1/2 brothers
Ceo Shin killed the body guards twin in the past. So we know he has the power to kill a god in him, also possesses a power seal lodged just under his skin that belongs to a god.


I was reading today someone commented they thought Nakbin was possibly seduced by the Sky God and could be CEO Shin's mother, since he the CEO is 1/2 human and we know she did something to betray the Water God. Interesting theory....we have no idea at this point who his mother actually is...

I don't think this is perfect but I like this drama a lot.

Kissasian doesn't sub themselves, they take them from other websites. Most of the non-licensed sites do. Kissasian is also loaded with viruses and spyware.
If you are not going to watch it on a licensed site use Dramalike.tv or Dramafire.com, so far I have found them to be safe.

I have to disagree with those who say it is boring. I look forward to watching it all week. It did take a few episodes to fully get into it.

kissasian is loaded with viruses. i wont use it. I watch it on viki (through a European IP address), which is better. Sometimes I will find it with different subs on dramafire.com or dramalike.tv,

I am really enjoying this drama. I like the whole cast and the story... I will say the subbing could be a lot better on DramaFever, there is way to much lost in translation...which sucks the life out of the story.

The story is completely out of the box but an enjoyable journey...the last few episodes even made me tear up a bit... It's sweet, funny, heart touching at moments...I loved a good portion of the soundtrack too.