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Hi, do you have any good noona romance recommendations? For reference, I've watched and loved What's up fox, Once Again (Gahee × Hyoshin), Pretty Noona, A Witch's Love. I'm craving a good, old- fashioned noona romance with a cute young man and a happy ending. Thanks!!

I LOVE a noona romance and it's been so long since I've made a list!

Witch's Love was super cute so I have to add it to this of course ;-)

Cute Noona Romances

Witch’s Romance: A totally cute noona romance between a successful 39 year old reporter and a 25 year old jack-of-all-trades (played by Park Seo Joon!). Their chemistry is off the chain you guys, and their first kiss is iconic to me. 

Search: WWW: I always say that if you want to watch powerful women in suits having noona romances, this is YOUR drama. It's true that some of the workplace stuff is a little over the top but I mean, it's a k-drama! It features my favorite lady of all time (Scarlett - my wife my love) and the couples are GORGEOUS.

Run On: This drama is where I started stanning Kang Tae Oh. He is legit my dream man archetype in this drama (bisexual artist!) and he falls for an older woman though he is part of the secondary couple. But also it's just a super amazing, very cute slice of life drama.

Reunited Worlds: I’m very aware that this drama is not popular and was not well received (due to the acting chops of the second lead) but I loved it. A high school teen (Yeo Jin Goo) is killed and through k-drama ghost magic nonsense, comes back 12 years later and finds his first love, now much older than him. This is an unusual noona romance because the leading lady is NOT successful in her work when they start their romance. It was a very beautiful love story though (oh Yeo Jin Goo how do you DO IT!), and I enjoyed the melo moments mixed with total cuteness. I laughed, I cried :) 

Crash Course In Romance: An uptight Math professor falls in love with an older women who runs a banchan shop. Really amazing characters! I think it falls off track a little toward the end (as most kdramas do lol) but it's still very much worth watching for the main couple.

Romance Is a Bonus Book: A pretty easy and cute drama about a woman who works at a book publishing company who falls for a younger guy that has liked her since childhood. The issue with this drama honestly is that the second lead is SO AMAZING. But whatever, it's a simple watch.

Forecasting Love and Weather: If I'm honest, I can't remember a ton about this drama and I do remember it not being amazing overall. But if you want a workplace slice of life with really lovely and mature romance in the beginning (I don’t mean mature like “sexy times” but like, this couple is soft and communicates and it's definately a noona romance!) you might really enjoy this drama. How it ends though? It's left my brain yall!

Encounter / Boyfriend: A heartfelt and gorgeously filmed romance between a sucessful but emotionally damaged hotel CEO and a soft boy she met in Cuba. Their relationship is not perfect but you’ll fight for them because of how dang soft they are. 

One Spring Night: If you enjoyed Pretty Noona Who Buys Me Food but wish it was a little less depressing, I present One Spring Night. A romance between a single dad and a girl who comes into his pharmacy. It’s one of those more realistic toned dramas and has a very specific slower moving pace. I'm not sure if they say it's a noona romance but the leads have an irl age gap.

Below is one of my favorite Noona Romances. I can't say this one has a "happy ending" but it's an interesting ending and 100% worth watching if you can handle the stress ;-) Awarded Most Passionate Noona Romance by me!

Secret Love Affair: There really is no other k-drama like this one: A dark and serious  love story between an older women working in a music univerity, and a gifted pianist. The chemistry between Yoo ah In and Kim Hae ae is really intense and unique. This is the moment that I fell for Yoo Ah In as an actor (I’d seen him in other things but this one was the clincher). It’s a very stressful drama with a slow pace and and a very distinctive soundtrack. It wasn’t my jam but I’m glad I saw it!

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Last song: Oxygen by Lacuna Coil

Last book: I'm on a non-fiction binge lately; Radical Technologies by Adam Greenfield. The topic of how algorithmic data can be used to surveil the state and its citizens has been piquing my interest as of late (i.e. surveillance capitalism & networked digital information technology).

It tries to answer the broad question of how the radical technologies we're familiar with, but we know little of, actually works. Where did they come from? How do they accomplish their work? Why do they appear to us in the way we do?

Understanding their framework allows us to critically evaluate if said technologies are truly 'disruptive' as they are advertised to be, and to pick apart their false claims.

This is truly important to understand because I feel like we have a responsibility to think about the ethical consequences of this new tech and take back control of our agency.

Last movie: I watched Mulholland Drive & American Psycho back to back with my film bro friends, it was great. I was on a Signalis itch during that time, so this movie was perfect hahaha.

(Hey yamcat we watched Nice Guys & The Count of Monte Christo when I visited you!! haha)

Last TV show: Beyond Evil... duh. I've been dragging multiple of my friends to watch that masterpiece of a show. So I've watched this show 3 times over with 2 different friends? Shin Ha Kyun's performance as Lee Dong Sik and Yeo Jin Goo's as Han Joo Won are forever iconic in my brain. I swear to you I've never had favourite actors before, until now.

Next TV show, though... Severance!

Last thing I searched: "michael schumacher life bio" I forgot what led to this 😂 I think I was watching a couple of youtubers interviewing Carlos Sainz and they mentioned Schumacher I guess??

Favorite color: Depends for what. For clothes & interior design, I love earthy and neutral colours. In graphic & packaging design, I fucking love the Ferrari Red

Sweet/Savory/Spicy: Savoury Spicy! I'm not a sweet tooth.

Relationship status: married to a ferrari car (soon) (joking I'm going through heartbreak bcs of someone actually lol)

Looking forward to: Reading the rest of Radical Technologies! Finishing my to do list for this week! I'm organising meet-ups and parties for different friend groups this month because I'll be saying goodbye to them for now! Truly taking care of myself because I've been Han Joo Won-ing through life right now.

Current obsessions:

My fucking miniature Mercedes F1 car figurine I have on my desk. That little car brings me so much dopamine whenever I look at it, my god. It's like I'm 10 with my hotwheels collection again. I think the mercedes f1 car has the coolest & sleekest design on the grid.

F1 F1 F1 I LOVE F1................ Look man yesterday I watched a youtube video of Carlos testing his new Williams and the inner kid in me was like 'FUCK THAT'S SO COOL FUUUCKKKK' ........... anyways I love Ferrari and I love motorsports and I love cars

Beyond Evil

Shin Ha Kyun. He is my favourite middle aged man

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K-Dramas recommendations & short reviews

Because I've watched way too many to not make a list. Warning: I like romance and fantasy a bit too much.

These shows made me cry. 10/10. Five stars. Recommend to anyone. They live in my mind rent-free:

Extraordinary Attorney Woo (2022) - Attorney Woo is such a wonderful person, I love her character. I can't say much about the representation, but I like that it opens up the conversation around autism & neurodivergence, discrimination and prejudice, particularly in work environments. I rarely like shows about law or lawyers but I was surprisingly engaged with the cases and the story. It deserves a second season. (The only thing I don't like about this show is they're pushing for a MinWoo and Choi Su-Yeon ship. Which huh--disrespectful.)

Hotel Del Luna (2019) - A great place to start with k-dramas if you like paranormal fantasy. This show has such a special place in my heart. I wanted a different ending but I am okay with it because it was a tight narrative. The main character is iconic (Man-Wol please step on me). The show has amazing sets, AMAZING costumes, an amazing OST, amazing and heartbreaking performance by Yeo Jin Goo. The main couple is so soft; like they're such good friends and coworkers and gentle with each other (eventually). It's enemies to reluctant friends to lovers. It's perfect for asexual viewers who want more than physicality in their romance shows. Cons: the secondary characters' goodbyes and backstories left a little to be desired. A few other nitpicks like Chang-Seong is the one to suggest the main character a new hobby instead of her just discovering it by herself.

It's Okay to Not Be Okay (2020) - Also a good place to start with k-dramas. This show is a lesson in good narrative; this has perfect writing & storytelling. The cast is so good. The female lead is an icon. The character work I excellent. The mental health issues are so well addressed and it taught me a lot about mental health I wasn't aware of. Each small minor character plays a very important thematic role. (The villain isn't the best thing ever but she serves her role in the themes and plot.) The production and the storytelling with the children's book animations are just *heart eyes*. The OST is so good too. You need to watch this to understand how good a k-dramas can be. A must-watch.

Goblin: The Lonely and Great God (2016) - This is the most iconic fantasy/paranormal k-drama ever. A lot of current tropes were started here I think (including the weird k drama last-episode time jump separation of the main couple). This show broke me. You will cry. The bromance and comedy are amazing here too. Gong Yoo and Dong Wook Lee have great chemistry. Main female lead is so cute and her character is so heartwarming. The ending felt a bit rushed. The death, existential related stuff with the grim reapers and such is so good tho.

Business Proposal (2022) - Best rom-com ever! (Well, it could be gayer tbh.) It's my new comfort show. I already watched it twice. It's campy, hilarious, chaotic, iconic and messy in a way that feels like real life (but obviously played up for drama and comedy). Excellent character work. The love interest is definitely written by a woman. Gorgeous cast (Sejeon omg I have a crush, but also the others). It was too short! I would have loved another episode, and more of Grandpa and Ha-Ri. Warning: this has the weird kdrama last-episode time jump couple separation.

W: Two Worlds (2016) - A young resident medic accidentally finds her way inside the webcomic her father created. Like, that premise is killer. We have Lee Jong Suk at his finest here; the character fits him so well. He was born to play a lead. This show has amazing meta-commentary on writing, authorship, and existential crisis. The confrontation between the webcomic character Kang Cheol and the author is insane! The main couple is an epic pair. Would rewatch. High wump value. Cons: The second part could have been more swoony with the romance, Kang Cheol kind of became a bit cold. (A warning: this show also has the k drama weird last-episode time jump couple separation.)

Would recommend with popcorn, I rate them 8/10:

Crash Landing on You (2019) - Really good. The main couple has the best chemistry I've ever seen. It's not that much of a personal fave show, but still pretty awesome and will tug at your heart. It got a bit overly dramatic in the last episodes and again, has that k-drama last episode weird time jump couple separation, but here it actually makes sense. And sort of mirrors the separation and eventual unification of the Korean Peninsula. It was very interesting to see the contrast between North and South Korea.

Shooting Stars (2022) - Aside from the terrible, horrible, insulting Africa storyline (where the male lead goes to 'help' African kids with water scarcity, not even a country name is called, he just goes to *gestures vaguely* Africa to help goddammit he's such a beautiful soul! /s) There's a weird creepy sugar mommy wannabe side storyline and it's weird and out of nowhere. But the rest of it is good and campy and the main characters are so cute. All the couples are cute. The male lead is a cute disaster. Female lead is also a capable cutey but a disaster when it comes to romance. It's hilarious. I love all characters. It's fun. It's great. It shows a very interesting side of the entertainment industry.

While You Were Sleeping (2017) - A man and a woman who don't know each other have precognition powers and after they meet, they use them to take down a corrupt lawyer. The show isn't very heavy on the romance, tough the pair work pretty well together. I liked the main actress. Lee Jong Suk has chemistry with anyone. The male role was not exactly a good fit for Jong Suk. He's so much more naturally charming than the character. It's a fun show to pass the time. The found family is nice and all the characters work great together. The mom is great.

The King's Affection (2021) - I'm going to be honest, I didn't finish watching this. Ups. I got bored after episode 15. It's a very slow show but what I watched was quite good. It was just not a show for me. Having a bisexual male lead was awesome, I appreciate that he falls for the main character while he thinks she's a man. (Could be gayer tho, just saying.) Pretty good discussions and reversals of gender cliches. It has complicated parent-child relationships that are very well written which gives a lot of heart and heartbreak to this story. The political stuff gets very convoluted. I really wish the queer part was bigger though, and not limited to the main couple. We could even have poly representation! I still have half a mind to finish this but I don't know There are so many other shows I'd rather watch instead. (Boy, I really need to get into the actually queer side of k-dramas because the side I'm currently on is giving me crumbs.)

Lovers of the Red Sky (2021) - The premise was so cool. This has so much lore I like and the setting is beautiful and rich, but it also has so much lost potential. The plot is very weak in the second half and could be restructured. I loved the atmosphere, costumes and the actors and their characters: the blind cursed scholar nobleman, the female genius cheeky painter and her friend trio and the prince are all great characters. Ahn Hyo Seop is pretty good in it and looks very pretty indeed in historical costume (but the design of the villain creature he's possessed/cursed with is so, so bad omg). Great premise failed execution. Good first half but it went over the rails quickly. Still entertaining if you like historical fantasy.

Romance is a Bonus Book (2019) - It's a bit slow and could have done so much more with the female lead and her child. She's a bit underwhelming and her daughter is barely in the story. The second female character played by Jeong Eu-Gene was awesome, I love this actress now. Lee Jung Suk is always looking hot and being an excellent actor with what he's given; he's very charming here. He could have chemistry with a piece of wood and yet I wasn't that fan of the romance. Maybe it's just because friends to lovers isn't my cup of tea. There's a weird out-of-nowhere backstory between the male leads. The commentary of ageism in the workplace is a bit surface level (it's not that big of a deal for the company if you're overqualified for a job, the point should be that is an issue for you and your career, who is too good for the company). You can tell the writers really care about books; it's definitely a love letter to editors and an interesting window into the world of book publishing; you can feel the love editors put into making books. Bonus: the founding members of the publishing company have very funny moments.

Do no recommend:

King: Eternal Monarch - Couldn't even finish this. I was so, so confused. The dialogue, narrative and backstory make no sense! Everything is so unnecessarily confusing. There's no chemistry between the main couple. The king and the bodyguard had more chemistry. Lee Jung-Jin (playing the villain Lee Lim) & Woo Do-Hwan (the bodyguard) carried this show and are pretty much the only thing good about it. The female lead is sidelined. It had an intriguing premise but failed execution.

What's Wrong With Secretary Kim - Skimmed most of the second half. It's a mess. The love interest CEO is such a narcissist and asshole he wouldn't be able to keep a working, healthy relationship with his partner without some serious therapy first. The female lead seems to be repulsed by him most of the time even when together and even looks scared when they get intimate. There's an unnecessarily convoluted plotline about the main lead's brother and a kidnapping in their past. It has tonal issues and it's cringy rather than funny. The secondary characters are just a lot of useless filler. The female lead sacrifices her independence and dreams to be with the main guy. Just go watch Business Proposal instead.

Moon Lovers: Scarlet Heart Ryeo - The only pro of this show is IU. The romance went the undeveloped route. Cheap-looking production, with too many episodes, melodramatic, characters pivot in place instead of naturally developing; it's definitely a telenovela. The point that the female lead is from the future doesn't even matter for the story (should have made her a Goryeo historian instead of a random cosmetologist). Pass!

Tomorrow - Could not finish watching. Please, please don't watch it if you're dealing with depression, bullying or suicidal thoughts. Please don't. By episode 2 I was just screaming at the screen. Problematic? This show invented the word problematic. The supernatural task force that's supposed to save people with suicide risk is terrible at therapy and suicide prevention. They tell the person trying to commit suicide, literally on the edge of a building about to jump, that they should do it, that they're weak, they should just jump, go ahead! Like ... what????

Mystic Pop Up Bar - Didn't capture me by episode 2. Got bored. Some say this is better than Hotel Del Luna but I don't agree.

Abyss - It's a weird tonal mix. Would have preferred if it leaned further into the absurd (go all in with the humour or don't at all), the sci-fi or the murder mystery. Instead of just revealing by episode 3 who the murderer is, quickly changing the plot into a chase after the villain, even though he's so lame. But also he is keeps killing people and it gets dark. And then we cut to the main couple being silly and cute. It's so jarring. The leads have a great dynamic and Ahn Hyo Seop knows how to differentiate his characters really well, give them their own flavour., but in the end it's just a cool premise, failed execution. Very average.

Currently watching:

The Crowned Clown - Very interesting concept and gorgeous, gorgeous visuals. Plot drags a little. Has some tonal problems and oversimplification of politics. The best part is when Yeo Jin-Goo acts with himself haha. He's such a talented actor.

The Uncanny Counter - Get's a bit melodramatic sometimes but all four main actors are insanely good.

Tale of the Nine-Tailed - The main romantic relationship needs a lot more development, but the entire show is worth watching just for Dong Wook Lee and Kim Bum as brothers.

Alchemy of Souls - 6/10 so far. Currently watching season 2/part 2. Aside from the prince, I don't particularly care for any of the characters. Unpopular opinion but the main romantic pair have no chemistry. Mu-Deok has more chemistry with Yul and the prince, and the prince has more chemistry with Jang-Uk. The lore is confusing and inconsistent: it breaks its own rules. (Two souls in one body what?? when was this established as a thing?) There's not enough foreshadowing and setting up the rules of magic in this world (the Ice Stone comes up as a deux ex mahcina big plot point in the last second). It also drags; the episodes are too long. There's a lot of saying and ultimately the show doesn't deliver. The narrative structure is straight out of a fantasy Wattpad. The set and costumes are fun and cool for a fantasy world, and the first episode was great.  

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Im Jinah (Nana)

better known as Nana, is a multi-talented star in the South Korean entertainment scene. She first made waves as a member of After School and the quirky sub-unit Orange Caramel, but her shift to acting is where she’s really found her groove.

Recognized for her stunning visuals—often landing on TC Candler's "100 Most Beautiful Faces" list—Nana’s beauty is undeniable, but it’s her on-screen charisma that’s truly captivating. She’s proven her acting chops in hit dramas like The Good Wife, Justice, and Into the Ring, where she’s shown she can take on both fun and serious roles with ease.

Nana’s rise from idol to actress feels effortless, and her laid-back elegance shines through whether she’s on a magazine cover or delivering a powerful performance. She’s become a true style icon, and her ability to switch gears between modeling, singing, and acting has made her one of the most versatile stars in the industry.

Nana's Filmography

Dramas:

1. The Good Wife (2016) – as Kim Dan

2. Kill It (2019) – as Do Hyun-jin

3. Justice (2019) – as Seo Yeon-ah

4. Into the Ring (2020) – as Goo Se-ra

5. Oh My Ladylord (2021) – as Oh Joo-in

6. Glitch (2022) – as Heo Bora

7. Mask Girl (2023) – as Kim Mo-mi

Films:

1. Fashion King (2014) – as Kim Hae-na

2. Confession (2022) - as Kim Se-hee

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