kdrama junkie since 2010 | winner - inner circle | canada
First kdrama I watched: Goong / Princess Hours
The drama that solidified my love for kdramas: You're Beautiful
Favourite Genres: Rom Com, Law, Slice of Life, Mystery
Least Fave Genres: Sageuk, Makjang / Heavy Melodrama
Kdrama Top Picks:
Reply 1997 | I Hear Your Voice | 30 But 17 | Hospital Playlist | Extraordinary Attorney Woo
Go-To / Trusted K-actors and actresses (also my faves):
Kim Woo-bin | Lee Jong-suk | Jo Jung-seok | Park Eun-bin | Park Bo-young | Shin Hye-sun
C-drama / J-drama Top Picks:
A Love So Beautiful | Love Me if You Dare | Nodame Cantabile | Kahogo no Kahoko
Just a quick FYI on how I rate things on MDL:
10 - perfect drama, developed deep connections with characters & their growth, A+ in acting and directing, amazing and highly recommend
9.5 - near perfection!, willing to overlook minor flaws because of how much I adore it
9 - some plot points could've been developed better but not a big deal. the characters were lovely / overall it's still great
8.5 - still good!, most of the time it is fun but it's not a favourite
8 - good drama objectively, could've a lot of fillers midway, didn't develop a huge connection to it
7.5 - ok drama, fun at times but forced myself to finish it on some, might have put on hold midway because it wasn't as engaging and only watched it just to say I finished it
7 - kinda bad, characters were probably noble idiots or older dramas were kind of cheesy when I looked back on it, very dragging
6.5 - please avoid... bland and boring, no other redeeming quality except for nostalgia
6 & 5 - idek why I watched these dramas, frustrating plot, script was all over the place, too much nonsense and stupidity
If I finished a drama, I will rate it higher than 5 automatically! :)
On-hold dramas: these are some dramas I genuinely liked but personal reasons caused me to put it on hold and not finish it, I rarely pick on hold dramas and finish it afterwards so it could be considered "dropped" but not really in a way
Dropped dramas: oh boy, these dramas really frustrated and annoyed me, leads weren't worth rooting for, plot points were simply ridiculous or there's too much power imbalance
- I consider 0.5 ratings as an actual level of rating (e.g. there's a big difference between a 7 and an 8 for me)
- The lists I created vary from time to time if I watched a drama and loved the actors on it!!
That's all!