#sunbae don't put on that lipstick

[liveasbutterflies]

@kdramaspace​​ December 26: Dramaland “Unwrapped”  Dramas with your favorite soundtracks/OSTs of 2021

[youknowihavenochingu]

Noona romance (part 2)

She Would Never Know

Run On

When The Camellia Blooms

My Lovely Sam Soon

Now We Are Breaking Up

I Can Hear Your Voice

Temperature Of Love

Wok Of Love

When I Was The Most Beautiful

Reply 1988

[nattawins]

Ha-eun is very wise for her age. I'm worried if I set her standards too high.

[baijingting]

Rowoon as Chae Hyun Seong

She Would Never Know dir. Lee Dong Yoon (2021) — EP01

[starfire-s]

here's a list of the best, mediocre and worst kdramas i watched in 2021

back by popular demand (shoutout to the one person who asked me to do this) it's my 2021 best, mediocre and worst kdrama list! just letting you all know i did not watch many kdramas this year so this list is going to look a little sad and empty (in other words many dramas will be missing because i did not watch them) lmao but i had fun making this list so that's what actually matters! anyways as always all opinions are my own so just sit back and enjoy... or don't up to you really!

THE BEST KDRAMAS -

run on - they dropped this show early on in the year and i don't think any kdrama came close to how good this one actually was! run on set the bar too high too early and it was all kinda downhill from there in terms of good kdramas! the main leads and second leads in this show were such good characters and so unique! like honestly shoutout to ki seon gyeom (my beloved) for being the best male lead to ever grace my tv screen in my kdrama journey! just a fun and chaotic kdrama (with no love triangles!!!) like i am so glad this aired at the same time as true beauty because the serotonin true beauty took away from me run on would give back and for that i am grateful! 10/10

doom at your service - before i watched this kdrama i never understood the hype about seo in guk and then i watched this kdrama and i was a changed person forever! his acting as myul mang (kim saram) in this kdrama was sooo good i cannot praise him enough! also the chemistry between seo in guk and park bo young still makes me insane! i think we can all agree the "love me to the point you want to destroy the world for me" line ended us all on sight we were not ready but it's all about the romance, the line delivery, the chemistry, the chaoticness of that scene! also i still find it funny that the writers gave the love triangle to the second leads in this show and just let them do their own thing on the side which was fine i guess because the leads were just saying and doing romance and being chaotic 24/7 while the second leads were caught in the love triangle (which i ignored tbh even though the love triangle had some of my fave actors in it) lmao anyways myul mang x dong kyung 4ever and ever!! 9/10 (i know you all won't agree but this is my kdrama list and i had fun watching this so... lol)

navillera - song kang's range like wow can't believe he gave me this kdrama and nevertheless in the same year! i loved this little show about a grandpa and young ballet dancer just finding each other and growing together in their own way! the way chae rok gained a family through the grandpa and the grandpa was able to fulfil his lifelong dream of doing ballet it was so sweet! no show on this list made me cry like this one like truly every week i would be in tears! on another note song kang in ballet clothes wow what a look lmao 8/10

squid game - the urge to say "i watched kdramas before squid game" is always so strong also "i knew wi ha joon before squid game and when he played a baseball uncle in 18 again" lmao i think this show was very interesting i think it highlighted many of the things which are prevalent in today's world e.g. capitalism and rich people being vile and all... you know the fun stuff! overall a good show i am just very happy to see kdramas getting the hype but then i also want to be all THIS IS MY NICHE INTEREST!!!!! lol 7.5/10

so i married an anti fan - this show was actually a 2017 show which was released in 2021 but i had so much fun watching it!! it had the essence of why i started watching kdramas in the first place like i always love me a good stupid rom com and this show was exactly that! the villain or second lead(?) idk what to call him was so annoying i hated him the second female lead was also very annoying and i did not care about them at all! i also found it funny that the male lead was playing the character of a very famous kpop idol and we only really saw him singing one song over and over again which still makes me laugh like yes king give us nothing 😭 overall a 7/10 and yes i gave squid game a 7.5 and this show a 7... cry about it lol

THE MEDIOCRE KDRAMAS -

the king's affection - confession time i dropped this kdrama after episode 11! there was no particular reason why i dropped the show it's just i missed one episode while it was airing and then just never got the urge to catch up?? however, let me say this show was good i enjoyed seeing rowoon being a himbo! also loved that his character accepted his feelings towards "the king" and wasn't weird about it the way most kdramas do it like he truly was a bicon in this drama!!! park eun bin also played the role of "the prince/king" so well and i really loved seeing her on my screen on a weekly basis! and we all love a good height difference between the leads so 6/10

my roommate is a gumiho - this show started off very good and it was so funny especially with the whole "you have my marble!" and then half way through it kinda lost it's way... lol idk what happened maybe it was the red thread of fate storyline that pissed me off because then the second lead kept getting dragged into the mess with the leads against his own will which i did not enjoy watching at all?? also it annoyed me when woo yeo became a professor at the university lee dam was at... because why add the student-professor romance aspect when it wasn't needed?? so by this point i guess i was only watching for hye sun and jae jin because they were also very very cute! overall a cute show but could have been better if they executed the second half of the storyline better 5/10

THE WORST KDRAMAS -

sunbae don't put on that lipstick - so firstly everyone was baited with a noona romance and the show wasn't any of that! secondly what was the plot does anyone actually know because up until this day i do not understand what this show was about? maybe it was about the sunbae not putting on the lipstick... maybe it was about something else so i feel like this is something WE will never know (did y'all see what i did there lmao) rowoon looked very good every single episode like his office clothes made him look even taller ahsjsj but other than that i cannot say one good thing about this kdrama because i actually don't know what i watched during those 16 episodes i did watch a solid 3.5/10 because rowoon looked hot so congrats to rowoon!

true beauty - lets all take a moment and give a shoutout to hwang in yeop (thank you for your service and for giving me sls this year as well king 🤡) okay now that we're all done appreciating hwang in yeop lets get to the reviewing part! i mean i didn't go into this show thinking it was going to be groundbreaking or anything like that but it was actually so stupid?? suho (eunwoo deserved better) stans close your eyes... but he was such a one dimensional male lead like he was rude to ju kyung for no reason and literally bullied her when he found out her "secret" and then after they started dating he left to america which understandable his father was sick but then he broke up with ju kyung via a phone call then showed up 3 years later acting like nothing had happened and then went ahead and stalked ju kyung??? and the writers actually want me to believe that seo jun just hung around ju kyung for 3 years and didn't confess and only confessed when suho came back... stupid!!! if i could use one word to describe this show it would be stupid because that's what it was!!! (this show also said no ❤️ to female friendships) however there were some parts i liked about this show and that was when suho and seo jun became friends again after clearing their misunderstandings (after that dramatic car accident scene which still makes me laugh) but other than that i have nothing good to say so i will stop 3/10 because one point each for hwang in yeop, moon ga young and cha eunwoo!!

nevertheless - so before i watched the kdrama i read the webtoon (which i paid $10 to read rip to that money i will never get back you are truly missed) but somehow the kdrama was worse than the webtoon which is so funny to me like how do you make something terrible even more terrible??? i just think everything about this show was not good... as i said before i know han so hee and song kang can act but throughout this show it's like they forgot everything about acting? also yes we all knew park "do you want to see my butterflies" jae eon was a red flag and we all could clearly see it but nabi really said "red is my favourite colour hehe" and chose jae eon over potato boy (i was only really watching for him in the end) like she is so dumb? can't believe i sat down and watched this show until the end however, i did not watch the last episode because i saw spoilers before that so i just went on netflix gave the show a thumbs down and removed it from my currently watching list! 0/10 for wasting my precious time which i did not have time to waste during my busy year (i mean its kinda on me for wanting to see f*ckboy song kang but ashdjd i am a simple woman really i will learn from my mistakes for next time)

SOME HONOURABLE MENTIONS BECAUSE MY MUTUALS SAID THESE WERE GOOD KDRAMAS BUT I DID NOT WATCH THEM (my mutuals are mostly never wrong so y'all can trust them) -

vincenzo, beyond evil, the devil judge, happiness, law school, my name, sell your haunted house, and the witch's diner (maybe one day i will watch these shows too!)

anyways thank you for reading! i got clowned a lot this year because every show i decided to watch mostly led to disappointing me! so here's to hoping i watch more kdramas next year and get clowned a lot less! but it's alright we're always in this together… i'm looking forward to 2022 and all the kdramas we will be watching again next year! take care! 🥰

[yesdramas]

Don't worry, I won't haunt you for this. But there's a risk though. You might just fall for me ↳ SHE WOULD NEVER KNOW | 1.04

[kateknowsdramas]

Rowoon being adorable with his 'niece'~ She Would Never Know behind the scenes.

[sf9]

Chae Hyunseung → She Would Never Know Ep.01

[seokwoosmole]

Ok I just realized why Rowoon's acting in TKA is far superior than his acting in his previous projects. Aside from the fact that this plot is much more emotional and dramatic, therefore requiring actors to be capable of portraying a greater range and volume of emotions, AND besides the fact that the romantic part of the plot was much more complex than that of his other roles, what truly made this role different from his others was THAT HE HAD PARENTS!?!?

This literally occurred to me for the first time today while watching the scene where Ji-un's dad dies in his arms (which totally wrecked me btw but I'll get back to that later). In Extra-ordinary You, Haru had no family whatsoever, since he was a background character in a comic, therefore he was written without relationships in his life. And in She Would Never Know/Sunbae, Don't Put On That Lipstick (which was strictly an office romance – not many other aspects to that plot), his character had parents but were never shown on-screen and were not important at all to his character. The King's Affection is literally the first drama where Rowoon has parents💀 (at least ones that are relevant to his character and the plot). And WOW were they relevant. Maybe not so much his mother, but I think some of Rowoon's best acting scenes from TKA are the ones involving Ji-un's father. It's such a complex relationship and the way Rowoon acted was just sooo perfect. It'd be easy to play a son that loved his father or a son that hated his father, but Ji-un's relationship with his dad is so beautifully messy and complicated. He's angry with his father and he hates his father's actions and choices, but it's still clear that despite everything, a part of Ji-un still loves him. And that is what Rowoon portrayed so beautifully – almost every time Ji-un had intense scenes with his father, the emotion his face carried was not just anger, but sadness and disappointment. And disappointment comes from being let down by people we care about and that's exactly what made their bond so interesting. Ji-un's relationship with his father first fell apart after he killed that court maid so ruthlessly, which heavily scarred him but also disappointed him, because this was not the father Ji-un knew him to be.

[in-yeop]

She Would Never Know (Episode 9)

[authortist]

Let's see how many kdramas I can finish in one day.

[liveasbutterflies]

you're not my senior right now

[coupsnim]

he’ll be the death of me

[nattawins]

I'm not your senior for nothing. Hey now. You're not my senior right now. You're my girlfriend.

[baijingting]

Rowoon as Chae Hyun Seong

She Would Never Know dir. Lee Dong Yoon (2021) — EP02

[captainjoongki]

rowoon and won jin ah behind the scenes of sunbae don’t put on that lipstick’s poster photoshoot