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Replying to ztravs88 Jan 11, 2026
Two things for me with this... First, it absolutely does not need a body swap. In fact, the story is already so…
you guys here are worrying me, you are exactly the new kind of global audience that falls for microdramas.
RELAX and enjoy this drama. It is ART. It is not some circus fast ride.
Replying to Han Jan 11, 2026
I wish they released all the ep at once 😭the slow burn n complicated relationships killing me softly 😭
Please resist. Bc .... if everything is released NOW, then what are we gonna do the next 6 weeks? If you think we should have a new drama every day then it is going to be some cheap sh#t
On To My Beloved Thief Jan 11, 2026
I love the communication between ML and FL, e.g. start of ep 3. Everything is said, and it is said in a ... polite and sophisticated way, to the point. They are both smart and observant

This drama started so fluffy, flounting the good looks of ML, but it turned into ... well.. how to call it? psychological melodrama or psychological thriller is not the right word ... there is no sticky feeling in this drama... ... This drama has a HEALTHY vibe ....

This drama is about ppl communicating honestly, using the communication to learn something about the other and about themselves! being self observant and realizing how they feel and think, and saying it and acting on it

it turned into an extremely deep drama about how people communicate and grow

I love ep 3 it is so meaningful and so deep, the script is great, and acting is stellar.
Replying to joetoca Jan 11, 2026
just a thought ........ ujins liver transplant fails , so he decides to give his heart to the man his sister loves…
or his father can die
On Our Golden Days Jan 11, 2026
This looks so good - but will likely turn super bad..
SBS content to be broadcast over Sinclair TV, a super conservative american network. https://news.mydramalist.com/article/sbs-content-to-be-broadcast-over-u-s-terrestrial-television

Now the real issue is that kdramas are based on audience feedback, and western audience was trained for years to watch Hollywood cesspool.... so ... kdramas are going down, fast.

Ppl are already complaining that the kdrama quality is not the same. IF kdramas become Kollywood, then kdramas are gonna lose, why watch that when we all escaped from Hollywood to watch the better stuff - kdramas OF THE PAST.

Hollywod cesspool is hopeless, always evil winning, OR totally rosey lottery-winning getting permanently happy overnight by luck, and main characters are always some strange non-ordinary ppl like ... gangsters, prostitutes, addicts, etc . THere is nothing positive, real, inspiring, uplifting, or USEFUL to daily life. The cesspool is toxic poisoning of the mind and heart and soul, an equivalent of drinking a bottle of heavy liquor. It makes you feel SICK.

I dropped watching western stuff years and years ago (40 years ago? when I was a teenager and for the first time in my life, really "Saw" a Disney cartoon that we watched every night on tv before the evening news - that cartoon was TRASH TRASH TRASH TRASH. I realized in an instant. I have never ever watched tv after that. I stayed away from youtube, movies, etc etc etc etc. It was all trash.

I did not watch practically ANYTHING until I discovered kdramas during the covid pandemic in 2020 when I was stuck alone at home without having anything to do... . I then went through a very hard period and spent a lot of time watching as a form of self help .... LOL

BUT I am totally ready to quit kdramas too if they turn into trash. I will not blink even once.

I watched a few short verticals to check out what it is, and I never watched short verticals ever since bc they are TRASH.
I am not into dopamine but into art. Short verticals totally lack art.
But many ppl ARE into dopamine and they get addicted to short verticals. I am worried about that.

Kdramas work on audience feedback... So... now kdramas are getting trashy to appease the westerners...
Korans and Chinese are both chasing $$$ so I already noticed since 2020 that dramas are becoming more and more westernized - For example: Actor's faces with tons of white powder, plastic surgery to make western eyes, thick lips, hair bleached to brown, all-western looking homes and habits (fried chicken, christianity, beds, bread, pasta, sweets, now even whiskey, sleeping and antidepressant pills -even drugs, psychotherapy, car chases, more s.x skinship, dramas where all characters are bad and there is no character growth or hope for better, etc etc etc etc etc .

https://youtu.be/p1_j6izmEX4?si=5gb7OWUlJ71p-sYJ is a great discussion on what foreigners did to water down kdramas...
and this is a great talk on short verticals ... "Microdrama pandemic in China" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7QRfK6-lIg
and now scripts are written with AI ....

Well - my dear ones - maybe we will not see each other here if the nice shows we enjoyED get killed :)

There are better things to do :) Since I did not find new kdramas to watch that I like, and new cdramas I tried are all trashy, I just watched belly dance videos. I am gonna invest more time to practice THAT and overall, will be better for me. Check this playlist :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2q_unXyKvk&list=RDl2q_unXyKvk&start_radio=1 AI generated that list and picked some excellent videos I have never seen, I lucked out. Other AI generated lists were bad
On A Graceful Liar Jan 11, 2026
Title A Graceful Liar Spoiler
This looks so good - but will likely turn super bad..
SBS content to be broadcast over Sinclair TV, a super conservative american network. https://news.mydramalist.com/article/sbs-content-to-be-broadcast-over-u-s-terrestrial-television

Now the real issue is that kdramas are based on audience feedback, and western audience was trained for years to watch Hollywood cesspool.... so ... kdramas are going down, fast.

Ppl are already complaining that the kdrama quality is not the same. IF kdramas become Kollywood, then kdramas are gonna lose, why watch that when we all escaped from Hollywood to watch the better stuff - kdramas OF THE PAST.

Hollywod cesspool is hopeless, always evil winning, OR totally rosey lottery-winning getting permanently happy overnight by luck, and main characters are always some strange non-ordinary ppl like ... gangsters, prostitutes, addicts, etc . THere is nothing positive, real, inspiring, uplifting, or USEFUL to daily life. The cesspool is toxic poisoning of the mind and heart and soul, an equivalent of drinking a bottle of heavy liquor. It makes you feel SICK.

I dropped watching western stuff years and years ago (40 years ago? when I was a teenager and for the first time in my life, really "Saw" a Disney cartoon that we watched every night on tv before the evening news - that cartoon was TRASH TRASH TRASH TRASH. I realized in an instant. I have never ever watched tv after that. I stayed away from youtube, movies, etc etc etc etc. It was all trash.

I did not watch practically ANYTHING until I discovered kdramas during the covid pandemic in 2020 when I was stuck alone at home without having anything to do... . I then went through a very hard period and spent a lot of time watching as a form of self help .... LOL

BUT I am totally ready to quit kdramas too if they turn into trash. I will not blink even once.

I watched a few short verticals to check out what it is, and I never watched short verticals ever since bc they are TRASH.
I am not into dopamine but into art. Short verticals totally lack art.
But many ppl ARE into dopamine and they get addicted to short verticals. I am worried about that.

Kdramas work on audience feedback... So... now kdramas are getting trashy to appease the westerners...
Korans and Chinese are both chasing $$$ so I already noticed since 2020 that dramas are becoming more and more westernized - For example: Actor's faces with tons of white powder, plastic surgery to make western eyes, thick lips, hair bleached to brown, all-western looking homes and habits (fried chicken, christianity, beds, bread, pasta, sweets, now even whiskey, sleeping and antidepressant pills -even drugs, psychotherapy, car chases, more s.x skinship, dramas where all characters are bad and there is no character growth or hope for better, etc etc etc etc etc .

https://youtu.be/p1_j6izmEX4?si=5gb7OWUlJ71p-sYJ is a great discussion on what foreigners did to water down kdramas...
and this is a great talk on short verticals ... "Microdrama pandemic in China" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7QRfK6-lIg
and now scripts are written with AI ....

Well - my dear ones - maybe we will not see each other here if the nice shows we enjoyED get killed :)

There are better things to do :) Since I did not find new kdramas to watch that I like, and new cdramas I tried are all trashy, I just watched belly dance videos. I am gonna invest more time to practice THAT and overall, will be better for me. Check this playlist :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2q_unXyKvk&list=RDl2q_unXyKvk&start_radio=1 AI generated that list and picked some excellent videos I have never seen, I lucked out. Other AI generated lists were bad
Replying to scarfie Jan 11, 2026
Best character in this drama: Kong Nan Suk !
That actress was in kdrama First Love back then, it had like 65% viewership
Replying to misheru77 Jan 11, 2026
I love Gong Nan Suk everything about her from her clothes to her attitude LOVE HER!
That actress was in First Love drama back then, with like 65% viewership
Lily Alice Jan 11, 2026
Wow, https://news.mydramalist.com/article/sbs-content-to-be-broadcast-over-u-s-terrestrial-television SBS content to be broadcast over Sinclair TV, a super conservative american network. Now the real issue is that kdramas are based on audience feedback, and western audience was trained for years to watch Hollywood cesspool.... so ... kdramas are going down, fast.

Ppl are already complaining that the kdrama quality is not the same. IF kdramas become Kollywood, then kdramas are gonna lose, why watch that when we all escaped from Hollywood to watch the better stuff - kdramas OF THE PAST.

Hollywod cesspool is always hopeless, always evil winning, OR totally rosey lottery-winning getting permanently happy overnight by luck, and main characters are always some strange non-ordinary ppl like ... gangsters, prostitutes, addicts, etc . THere is nothing positive, real, inspiring, uplifting, or USEFUL to daily life. The cesspool is toxic poisoning of the mind and heart and soul, an equivalent of drinking a bottle of heavy liquor. It makes you feel SICK.

I dropped watching western stuff years and years ago and did not watch ANYTHING until I discovered kdramas during the covid pandemic in 2020 when I was stuck alone at home without having anything to do... . I then went through a very hard period and spent a lot of time watching as a form of self help .... LOL

BUT I am totally ready to quit kdramas too if they turn into trash. I will not blink even once.

I watched a few short verticals to check out what it is, and I never watched short verticals ever since bc they are TRASH.
I am not into dopamine but into art. Short verticals totally lack art.
But many ppl ARE into dopamine and they get addicted to short verticals. I am worried about that.

Kdramas work on audience feedback... So... now kdramas are getting trashy to appease the westerners...
Korans and Chinese are both chasing $$$ so I already noticed since 2020 that dramas are becoming more and more westernized - For example: Actor's faces with tons of white powder, plastic surgery to make western eyes, thick lips, hair bleached to brown, all-western looking homes and habits (fried chicken, christianity, beds, bread, pasta, sweets, now even whiskey, sleeping and antidepressant pills -even drugs, psychotherapy, car chases, more s.x skinship, dramas where all characters are bad and there is no character growth or hope for better, etc etc etc etc etc .

https://youtu.be/p1_j6izmEX4?si=5gb7OWUlJ71p-sYJ is a great discussion on what foreigners did to water down kdramas...
and this is a great talk on short verticals ... "Microdrama pandemic in China" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7QRfK6-lIg
and now scripts are written with AI ....

Well - my dear ones - maybe we will not see each other here if the nice shows we enjoyED get killed :)

There are better things to do :) Since I did not find new kdramas to watch that I like, and new cdramas I tried are all trashy, I just watched belly dance videos. I am gonna invest more time to practice THAT and overall, will be better for me. Check this playlist :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2q_unXyKvk&list=RDl2q_unXyKvk&start_radio=1 AI generated that list and picked some excellent videos I have never seen, I lucked out. Other AI generated lists were bad
Replying to JIEUN Jan 11, 2026
if it means we can access kdramas easier then great but they better not americanise shows to suit the western…
They already did... For example: Actor's faces with tons of white powder, plastic surgery to make western eyes, thick lips, hair bleached to brown, all-western looking homes and habits (fried chicken, christianity, beds, bread, pasta, sweets, now even whiskey, sleeping and antidepressant pills -even drugs, psychotherapy, car chases, more s.x skinship, dramas where all characters are bad and there is no character growth or hope for better, etc etc etc etc etc .
Replying to DutchAjumma_APD Jan 11, 2026
Bad decision. It will ruin Kdrama even more.Watch this video where it is explained and the commentary —https://youtu.be/p1_j6izmEX4?si=5gb7OWUlJ71p-sYJ
Thank you for posting https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1_j6izmEX4 He did not speak about westernization of kdramas to make them more palatable to western audiences . For example: Actor's faces with tons of white powder, plastic surgery to make western eyes, thick lips, hair bleached to brown, all-western looking homes and habits (fried chicken, christianity, beds, bread, pasta, sweets, now even whiskey, sleeping and antidepressant pills -even drugs, psychotherapy, car chases, more s.x skinship, dramas where all characters are bad and there is no character growth or hope for better, etc etc etc etc etc .
On The Judge Returns Jan 10, 2026
I love his uncombed hair sticking out and his mischief attitude as he works super smart and hard to solve these problems and also has fun. He is super cute

Yeah most of us would not be working as hard as him but he is MOTIVATED bc he just came back from death. All of us could live like that if we chose to. After all, you live only once, why spend it dozing off supposedly safe and cushy in some corner, but really just soul DEAD, without any mission and dream in life and GOING FOR IT ... WHY NOT JUST GO FOR IT? In a smart informed way :) Do not jump off cliffs :) Honor some laws of the Universe LOL Have fun!
Replying to Nahlabee4 Jan 10, 2026
You don’t have to watch something you don’t like just because of your favourite actors, you are actually doing…
Everyone has the right to say their opinion. Even a dedicated watcher can vent out their frustrations. And if someone is leaving, it is good to hear WHY.

So please dont shut up ppl from giving their genuine and CONSTRUCTIVE feedback.

If this person said trashy things then yeah silence her, but she did not. She provided very specific and valuable feedback.

In response, I would say that this drama is not totally realistic but on the other hand it is, this dude came back from death and does not care. ALL OF US COULD BE LIVING LIKE THAT :) but we do not :) bc we are lazy cowards. This dude is *** MOTIVATED ***

and, I love his uncombed hair and mischief attitude as he works super smart and hard to solve these problems. He is super cute
Replying to Kami-sama222 Jan 10, 2026
If someone's hesitant to watch this because of the low ratings trust me and go for it. The recent episodes were…
Do NOT trust the ratings as it is some kind of teenagers / young adults / rom com adjumas that give high ratings to trashy violence like Weak Hero and nasty evil macho sexist rom com Dynamite Kiss.

If something has a high rating on mdl, actually, be suspicious
Replying to InspectorMegre Jan 10, 2026
I just started watching, but it is clear FL is addicted to alcohol and pills and using ML as a crutch. Yeah if…
I have no intentions of "understanding" an addict to alcohol and pills. However she got there, she IS there, killing herself, and has to GET OUT of it or else.

Tough love buddy. No excuses.

If she is better now great but if she is just soberISH then she is not well yet and gotta step on it hard asap

FYI there is something called "dry alcoholic" someone who stopped the addiction but has not changed inside and is still unrully bitter egoistical old self

There is this talk that addictions even to drugs are disease, that ppl medicate themselves with it etc etc etc. Heck - regardless of what it is, it is something that kills the person, so it is th addict's duty to their own life to save themselves from it, in a positive, productive, sustainable way

and it is always a good lifestyle without sugar and grease and with good veggies, protein, sunlight, walking out in Nature, sweating exercise, yoga, meditation, and inner cleanup and healing, hanging out with good ppl and saints...

Everyone is at their own level of development and starts where they are at, AND GOTTA MOVE THEIR AS@ TO A BETTER INNER AND OUTER PLACE

In other words, IF YOU HAVE PROBLEMS, WORK YOUR AS@ OFF TO SOLVE THEM POSITIVELY ASAP.

This is a lot more than you asked for :) but it is important to shake you out of feeling fake pity for others so that you can pardon yourself for doing the same. Get off your high horse and be responsible - towards yourself first.
Replying to 8eez Jan 10, 2026
So what ? They should be sad for him ? You are saying that they should not fight evil with evil and i understand…
hm your thinking is so limited b/w
So if you do not hate someone, you automatically are sad for them??
Wow you - and 5 others - failed logic.

i already said what I had to say, so read it again, think about it, and if you have something SMART to say in response, then speak up, otherwise, stop bothering me.
Replying to SaurabhPatil Jan 10, 2026
You like criminals? Maybe you're one of them
hm your thinking is so limited b/w
So if you do not hate someone, you automatically like them??
Wow you failed logic.

i alreadu said what I had to say, so read it again, think about it, and if you have something SMART to say in response, then speak up, otherwise, stop bothering me.
Replying to vidalme01 Jan 9, 2026
if this is an actual time travel , he should start getting evidence against his in-law to use in the future.
yesssss