#Jin Ki Joo

[no-where-new-hero]

From now on, showtime! is legitimately the most underrated show I've seen so far on my kdrama journeys. Despite being a fan of fantasy shows and looking out for genre recommendations of all types, I'd never have even heard of it if I weren't determined to watch everything PHJ was in, and he's not even the best thing about it. He's barely in the top three best parts about this show. It's a fabulous ensemble comedy, it's a meaningful but not overblown past-life second-chance love story (it's what TOTNT was doing between Yeon and Jiah but more realistic), it's about forgiveness and trying again and true personal growth and sassy ghosts and letting the intrusive thoughts win sometimes, all with a very passable script, good direction (the lighting director deserved an award), and a kind of like...classic feel to it? It reminds me of older dramas somehow, in its sly and humorous approach to recognizable tropes. Anyway, if you have any interest at all in speculative kdramas (especially if you want something less epic than the Love from the Star/Goblin/Tale of the Nine Tailed/My Demon brand) i really recommend it.

[fiftytwoeightythree]

❝ It's not the time to worry about others. Told you to forget about those shoes and not go there. There's nothing you can do about it now. You can't hear my voice and the warning lights. What else do you have left to do? You can only die. ❞

미드나이트 MIDNIGHT (2021, dir. Kwon Oh Seung)

[junkobato]

Upcoming Kdrama May 2023 🧡

1/5: Run Into You with Kim Dong Wook, Jin Ki Joo. 16 episodes; sci-fi, romance, mystery. Trailer

5/5: All That We Loved with Oh Sehun, Jo Joon Young, Song Jae Rim. 8 episodes; romance, youth. Trailer

6/5: Tale of the Nine Tailed 1938 with Lee Dong Wook, Kim Bum, Kim So Yeon, Ryu Kyung Soo. 12 episodes; historical, romance, fantasy. Trailer

10/5: Race with Lee Yun Hee, Jung Yoon Ho, Hong Jung Hyun. 12 episodes; business, melodrama. Trailer

12/5: Black Knight with Kim Woo Bin, Esom, Song Seung Heon. 6 episodes; sci-fi, action, adventure. Trailer

15/5: Oh! Young Shim with Song Ha Yoon, Lee Dong Hae, Lee Min Jae. 10 episodes; rom-com. Trailer

24/5: One Day Off with Lee Na Young. 8 episodes; food, life. Trailer

29/5: Delightfully Deceitful with Kim Dong Wook, Chun Woo Hee, Yoon Park. 16 episodes; drama. Trailer

31/5: Happiness Battle with Lee El, Cha Ye Ryun, Jin Seo Yun. 16 episodes; thriller, mystery. Trailer

So many new shows to watch!!!

*REBLOG FOR UPDATES*

[aboutdoramas]

[marymekpop]

⟢ highlight of the hour: my perfect stranger [8/16] ⟣

home away from home

[alderaans]

Moon Lovers: Scarlet Heart Ryeo (2016) – Episode 1

[luckypluckychair]

리틀 포레스트 / Little Forest | 2018

Director: Soon-rye Yim

Production designer: Yoon Na-ra

[moonlightsdream]

JIN KI JOO 진기주 → The Neighbor | July (2023)

[neviayue]

a hug post | By Nevi Ayu E.

그냥 잠깐 안아줄까요 우리? 너무 많은 일들이 있었잖아요, 오늘. 그러니까 그냥...

Should we just hug each other for a bit? There were too many things that happened today, so let's just...

Hug! This is a hug post for you. You have worked hard living and surviving up until today!

This drama has a lot of 데칼코마니 decalcomanie (k-tweets use this term, so I'm just gonna use it too haha) scenes and dialogues, which I love love love, parallel scenes where they do stuff that resemble each other, say similar things, and ask and answer, on different scenes. And on this scene, Haejun kind of responded to Yoonyoung's words on a much previous scene, where she said: If we can't go back to before we know each other, then there's no such thing as square one. To which, Haejun "answered" after this hug: 모르는 사이가 되는건 원치 않으니까 Because I don't want us to become strangers.

Dialogues taken from Korean drama My Perfect Stranger (2023), written by Baek Soyeon.

[drmics]

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[kdramaaaaa]

Are you ok?

The first time Yoon Young have ever asked this question to her father😭

[labyrinth25]

[destiny-in-the-universe]

This is a joke but I feel like I’ll have to carry this particular fandom’s back. Do any of you still exist?

We’ve got a grand total of three fics, two of which are mine, and the other is an author who I’ve not seen trace of in a while. I’m writing the fourth and will continue but uh, did anyone ever watch a K-Drama called From Now On, Showtime?

Like, did we just never get a fandom? Please. I’m on my hands and knees. Look at my state right now lmao. I’m fixating again on K-Dramas and seemingly this series has all but two people in its fandom.

I will still yap about it but I’m curious.

[toastinthegrass]

- Impressive. - I know.

[aboutdoramas]

Jin Ki Joo as Baek Yoon Young in My Perfect Stranger (2023)

[marymekpop]

⟢ highlight of the hour: my perfect stranger [1/16] ⟣

If I could go back to the past, I would go way back. So that Mom wouldn’t have to love you or me. She wouldn’t need to live with people who make her lonely all her life and fool her. I’ll make her live happily all her life by herself. I’ll make sure she lives.