Once again you've written a great article - thanks!
Some additional schools to be thankful we didn't attend: The Age of Rebellion (TW-drama - this school seemed truly bad) Never Let Me Go (awful for different reasons) Kamen Rider Fourze (too many monsters showing up) Inakunare Gunjo Yamada kun to 7 nin no Majo The Disastrous Life of Saiki K (again with the monsters) Another Hyouka: Forbidden Secrets
Honorable Mention: HiGH&LOW THE WORST (Even if we never see the school itself, it can't be good with these characters in it -hahaha) Hajimete Koi wo Shita Hi ni Yomu Hanashi (it's portrayed as the school for people who could only manage to spell their names correctly on their papers) :-)
Can someone be honest? Is there alot of drinking where they’d basically be alcoholics in real life? Binge drinking…
I had this question as well. I don't mind folks drinking in dramas, of course, (they're adults!) but I know how dangerous and damaging alcoholism can be. I drink some too, so I'm not a teetotaler by any means, but every once in awhile I get a wee bit worried about how much - and how often - Koreans seem to love to drink.... But you've made a compelling case why we should watch this drama, so thanks.
I loved your article! I've seen many of these dramas and fondly remember the Ummies in each one. I also loved the Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head sequence in The Divorce Lawyer in Love where the FL danced through the rain with her orange umbrella to meet the ML, who had a blue one. (It was a very cute scene.)
Shi Shi's music is straight up amazing, especially the song from Behind Your Smile. This list is missing Aaron Yan though! He's contributed to multiple Taiwanese OSTs over the years. Also, Marcus Chang has contributed to several dramas' OSTs as well...
Thanks to this list, I've started My Fated Boy and I'm really liking it so far! I've watched a couple other dramas on here but really disliked Love O2O, (so much so that I dropped it.) Thanks for this list!
She is preggo he said it on a letter so is a shotgun wedding.
I'm not sure you can say it was a shotgun wedding when they've been dating for four years already. Maybe they planned to have a baby and then get married, who knows? Point is, it's not our business and we should just congratulate them and let it be.
Meh, so so actor...only gets by because he is cute and has dimples =/
He was phenomenal in You Drive Me Crazy, which was before he got really famous. You're certainly allowed your opinion, but I'm not really sure how someone could get that many roles (and that amount of critical success) only because of their dimples. I mean, I have dimples too but I don't get leads in dramas like he does....LOL.
Some additional schools to be thankful we didn't attend:
The Age of Rebellion (TW-drama - this school seemed truly bad)
Never Let Me Go (awful for different reasons)
Kamen Rider Fourze (too many monsters showing up)
Inakunare Gunjo
Yamada kun to 7 nin no Majo
The Disastrous Life of Saiki K (again with the monsters)
Another
Hyouka: Forbidden Secrets
Honorable Mention:
HiGH&LOW THE WORST (Even if we never see the school itself, it can't be good with these characters in it -hahaha)
Hajimete Koi wo Shita Hi ni Yomu Hanashi (it's portrayed as the school for people who could only manage to spell their names correctly on their papers) :-)
But you've made a compelling case why we should watch this drama, so thanks.
https://www.indiewire.com/gallery/best-movies-of-the-year-2021/drive-my-car-2/
This list is missing Aaron Yan though! He's contributed to multiple Taiwanese OSTs over the years.
Also, Marcus Chang has contributed to several dramas' OSTs as well...
You're certainly allowed your opinion, but I'm not really sure how someone could get that many roles (and that amount of critical success) only because of their dimples. I mean, I have dimples too but I don't get leads in dramas like he does....LOL.