Dramas Over Flowers

In this episode, we talk about how K-dramas became a highly profitable export long before the entry of streaming platforms in the mid 2010s. This is a story of a nation's economic crisis, the creation of a unique opportunity, and a two decade long struggle for air wave supremacy in East Asia. Leave us your thoughts in a voice note here: <Recording Page> TIMELINE OF DRAMAS MENTIONED: 1997 IMF crisis 1997 What is love all about (NBC) 2000 Autumn In My Heart (KBS) 2002 Winter Sonata (KBS) 2007 The Legend (MBC) 2013 My Love From the Star (SBS) 2016 Descendants of the Sun (KBS) 2016 Signal (tvN) 2016 Hwayugi (Korean Odyssey) (tvN) 2016 THAAD missile crisis/China bans K-ent LINKS MENTIONED: CedarBough Saeji's twitter thread on why South Korean academics rarely contribute to international journals. Living document of sources here. LIGHT READING 😌: Korean Dramas Adopt Pre-Produced Format to Mixed Results (article) The Reason SBS Missed Out on "Descendants of the Sun" and "Signal" (article) Romantic blockbusters: the co-commissioning of Korean network-developed K-dramas as ‘Netflix originals’ (journal) TIMESTAMP: 04:41 - How Kdramas came into existence 11:18 - How dramas used to be made 21:54 - Start of the digital age and entry of iQiyi 27:40 - Dramas begin to get expensive 31:32 - Watershed: Descendants of the Sun 34:40 - China bans Korean entertainment over THAAD 36:51 - Economics of terrestrial vs cable channels 47:12 - Netflix knocks (cliffhanger) LEAVE US A REVIEW: Apple podcasts | Spotify | Audible! MORE EPISODES YOU'LL LIKE: Episode 170: A Long Yak on Doctor Slump, Marry My Husband, and Like Flowers In Sand NEWSLETTER: Join our email list for the monthly newsletter with podcast announcements and special episodes! PATRONS: SPECIAL THANK YOU to our beloved patrons for another year of helping us light the lanterns to sail our ship! Join it...

We are back with a long yak on three dramas we started 2024 with: Doctor Slump, Marry My Husband, and Like Flowers In Sand. This episode was recorded on 11th February. Our feelings on these dramas have stayed the same (with Doctor Slump getting special love for staying so reliably warm till the end). Leave us your thoughts in a voice note here: <Recording Page> LINKS MENTIONED: Paroma's Doctor Slump post. Support Gaza through the Palestine Children's Relief Fund here. TIMESTAMP: 00:01:50 - Doctor Slump 00:45:57 - Like Flowers In Sand 01:06:15 - Marry My Husband LEAVE US A REVIEW: Apple podcasts | Spotify | Audible! MORE EPISODES YOU'LL LIKE: Episode 166: Our last long yak Episode 165: Our spoiled yak on Perfect Marriage Revenge NEWSLETTER: Join our email list for the monthly newsletter with podcast announcements and special episodes! PATRONS: SPECIAL THANK YOU to our beloved patrons for another year of helping us light the lanterns to sail our ship! Join it here! ❤︎ You can MAJORLY support us by leaving a review on your podcast app, or sharing the episode with friends! ❤︎ SOCIAL: Follow us on Twitter @dramasoverflow and Instagram @dramasoverflowers_. Email us at dramasoverflowers@gmail.com. CREDITS: This episode was edited by Paroma

Awards season is the perfect time for us to share our review of Past Lives, our favorite film of last year. Saya, Anisa and our friend Yunah talk about why this movie's meditations on grief, love, diaspora and selfhood spoke to us so deeply. (We recorded this at the end of last year.) Leave us your thoughts in a voice note here: <Recording Page> TIMESTAMPS: 00:00 Overall thoughts 20:39 Spoilers LEAVE US A REVIEW: Apple podcasts | Spotify | Audible! MORE EPISODES YOU'LL LIKE: Episode 89: Our review of Minari, also with Yunah Episode 153: Crash Landing on You and the unbearable sadness of partition NEWSLETTER: Join our email list for the monthly newsletter with podcast announcements and special episodes! PATRONS: SPECIAL THANK YOU to our beloved patrons for another year of helping us light the lanterns to sail our ship! Join it here! ❤︎ You can MAJORLY support us by leaving a review on your podcast app, or sharing the episode with friends! ❤︎ SOCIAL: Follow us on Twitter @dramasoverflow and Instagram @dramasoverflowers_. Email us at dramasoverflowers@gmail.com. CREDITS: This episode was edited by Anisa. Music: Pretty without You (Instrumental Version) by Vicky Vox

The 5th Annual Goguma Awards have landed! Your votes have been tallied and the results range from unexpected to unsurprising, all of which we dissect with glee. Get your tea and biscuits, it's long! Leave us your thoughts in a voice note here: <Recording Page> LINKS MENTIONED: Actor Jin: The Handsome Hotelier TIMESTAMP: 00:00:00 - Introducing the Goguma Awards 00:02:46 - The Classic Gogumas 00:17:47 - Your Top 3 Dramas of 2023 00:25:27 - The Wild Gogumas 01:11:15 - Create Your Own: Listener Awards! 01:49:36 - Patreon Roll Call of Love and Appreciation 💗 01:55:08 - Love note to all our listeners 💕 02:00:46 - Predictions for 2024 LEAVE US A REVIEW: Apple podcasts | Spotify | Audible! MORE EPISODES YOU'LL LIKE: Episode 167: 2023 in Dramaland: Year-End Yak Part 1 (Trends + Our Year in Dramas) Episode 160: Six Years Of Podcasting About K-dramas! Opening your mailbag ✨ NEWSLETTER: Join our email list for the monthly newsletter with podcast announcements and special episodes! PATRONS: SPECIAL THANK YOU to our beloved patrons for another year of helping us light the lanterns to sail our ship! Join it here! ❤︎ You can MAJORLY support us by leaving a review on your podcast app, or sharing the episode with friends! ❤︎ SOCIAL: Follow us on Twitter @dramasoverflow and Instagram @dramasoverflowers_. Email us at dramasoverflowers@gmail.com. CREDITS: This episode was edited by Saya. Music: "Carry You Home" by Duplex Heart

The Year-End Yak is here! Or Part 1 anyway, where we talk about what K-dramas did this year, and how we felt about them. Goguma Awards coming in Part 2! Leave us your thoughts in a voice note here: <Recording Page> LINKS MENTIONED: Paroma's excellent 2023 Wrap for Film Companion Paroma's My Demon Halfway Review (Spoilers) K-drama Research Institute's video essay We Need to Talk About Netflix K-dramas Saya and Paroma's new BTS YouTube Channel Jae-Ha Kim's article Rest in Peace, Lee Sun-kyun TIMESTAMP: 00:04:17 2023 K-drama trends 00:50:07 Saya, Anisa and Paroma's personal year in dramas 01:25:16 Notable podcast moments! 1:37:06 And some heartbreak. LEAVE US A REVIEW: Apple podcasts | Spotify | Audible! MORE EPISODES YOU'LL LIKE: 2022 in Dramaland: The Year-End Yak, Part 1 (Trends + Gogumas) Perfect Marriage Revenge Spoiler Review NEWSLETTER: Join our email list for the monthly newsletter with podcast announcements and special episodes! PATRONS: SPECIAL THANK YOU to our beloved patrons for another year of helping us light the lanterns to sail our ship! Join it here! ❤︎ You can MAJORLY support us by leaving a review on your podcast app, or sharing the episode with friends! ❤︎ SOCIAL: Follow us on Twitter @dramasoverflow and Instagram @dramasoverflowers_. Email us at dramasoverflowers@gmail.com. CREDITS: This episode was edited by Anisa and Paroma. Music: "La Sortie Francaise" by Smartface and "Woke Up" by Cushy

Just Saya popping in to share her thoughts on an assortment of dramas: a mixture of bright and dark, exquisite and questionable, therapeutic and aggravating. The tl;dl (?) being: My Demon is darkbright and exquisite, Death's Game is just dark, Park's Marriage Contract is bright and aggravating, and Welcome to Samdal-ri is therapeutic, bright, and funnier than it should be. Content warning for discussion of suicide in Death's Game and Welcome to Samdal-ri. Take care and skip if needed by using the timestamps below. Leave us your thoughts in a voice note here: <Recording Page> LINKS MENTIONED: An interview with a haenyeo female diver Women of the Sea: Diving with the Haenyeo of Jeju Paroma's latest video essays: Twinkling Watermelon never explains its time travel & here's why we don't care Bonus: My Demon Halfway Review (Spoilers): Hey! Song Kang can do romance! TIMESTAMP: 00:00:29 My Demon 1-4 00:19:57 Death's Game Part 1 00:32:28 Death's Game Spoiler section 00:35:33 The Story of Park's Marriage Contract 1-8 (bit spoilery but who cares) 00:49:00 Welcome to Samdal-ri 1-6 LEAVE US A REVIEW: Apple podcasts | Spotify | Audible! MORE EPISODES YOU'LL LIKE: Episode 165: Perfect Marriage Revenge is a dish served SPICY HOT and DELICIOUSLY POETIC (Spoiled Yak) Episode 146: 2022 in Dramaland: Our Year In Dramas (Year-End Yak) - enjoy a throwback while we work on the new one! NEWSLETTER: Join our email list for the monthly newsletter with podcast announcements and special episodes! PATRONS: SPECIAL THANK YOU to our beloved patrons for another year of helping us light the lanterns to sail our ship! Join it here! ❤︎ You can MAJORLY support us by leaving a review on your podcast app, or sharing the episode with friends! ❤︎ SOCIAL: Follow us on Twitter @dramasoverflow and Instagram @dramasoverflowers_. Email us at...

Perfect Marriage Revenge is a drama that kept all its promises: revenge! marriage! perfect! We revel in how the drama revels in its story, with special props to writer Im Seo-ra for some of the best writing in dramaland this year. SPOILERS EVERYWHERE, BEWARE BEWARE! Feat. beloved and returning guest, Zaynab, who does not want to be found. Leave us your thoughts in a voice note here: <Recording Page> LINKS MENTIONED: Our new youtube channel, Bangtan Over Flowers. LEAVE US A REVIEW: Apple podcasts | Spotify | Audible! MORE EPISODES YOU'LL LIKE: Episode 164: A Long Yak on Castaway Diva, Perfect Marriage Revenge, Twinkling Watermelon, and many more Episode 149: K-Drama Screenwriting (Part 1): The Value of Tropes & Why Second Halves Plummet NEWSLETTER: Join our email list for the monthly newsletter with podcast announcements and special episodes! PATRONS: SPECIAL THANK YOU to our beloved patrons for another year of helping us light the lanterns to sail our ship! Join it here! ❤︎ You can MAJORLY support us by leaving a review on your podcast app, or sharing the episode with friends! ❤︎ SOCIAL: Follow us on Twitter @dramasoverflow and Instagram @dramasoverflowers_. Email us at dramasoverflowers@gmail.com. CREDITS: This episode was edited by Saya.

Saya and Anisa talk about 8(!) dramas, including writer Park Hre-ryun's newest Castaway Diva, gorgeous romance melodrama Call it Love, and the actually perfect Perfect Marriage Revenge. Lots of time travel, revenge and contract relationships in this one, so you know we're both happy campers. Leave us your thoughts in a voice note here: <Recording Page> TIMESTAMPS: 00:01:00 Castaway Diva 00:12:24 Spoilers for Castaway 1-4 00:21:38 Daily Dose of Sunshine 00:31:09 Twinkling Watermelon 00:46:39 Vigilante 00:56:59 Call it Love 01:11:06 Nine: Nine Times Time Travel 01:20:43 A very long Park Hyung-shik detour 01:26:46 The Real has Come 01:35:16 Perfect Marriage Revenge LEAVE US A REVIEW: Apple podcasts | Spotify | Audible! MORE EPISODES YOU'LL LIKE: Episode 163: A Long Yak on Destined with You, My Lovely Liar and Titanic Episode 160: 6th Anniversary Mailbag Special NEWSLETTER: Join our email list for the monthly newsletter with podcast announcements and special episodes! PATRONS: SPECIAL THANK YOU to our beloved patrons for another year of helping us light the lanterns to sail our ship! Join it here! ❤︎ You can MAJORLY support us by leaving a review on your podcast app, or sharing the episode with friends! ❤︎ SOCIAL: Follow us on Twitter @dramasoverflow and Instagram @dramasoverflowers_. Email us at dramasoverflowers@gmail.com. CREDITS: This episode was edited by Anisa.

Kick back with us on a diatribe filled episode where we talk about women written by men, unearned forgiveness, and the ethics of love potions. Tell us your thoughts in a voice note here: <Recording Page> LINK: Listen to the trailer of The Broadside (new podcast hosted by Anisa) TIMESTAMP: 00:09:00 - Titanic (Spoilers) 00:19:00 - Women written by men (and also, Dev Anand's C.I.D.) 00:28:00 - My Lovely Liar (Spoilers) 01:14:00 - Destined With You (Spoilers up to episode 6) MORE EPISODES YOU'LL LIKE: Episode 159: Listen to our first impressions of My Lovely Liar here Episode 160: ICYMI listen to our anniversary mailbag episode NEWSLETTER: Join our email list for the monthly newsletter with podcast announcements and special episodes! PATRONS: SPECIAL THANK YOU to our beloved patrons for another year of helping us light the lanterns to sail our ship! Join our Patreon here! ❤︎ You can also support us by leaving a review on your podcast app, or sharing the episode with friends! ❤︎ SOCIAL: Follow us on Twitter @dramasoverflow and Instagram @dramasoverflowers_. Email us at dramasoverflowers@gmail.com. CREDITS: This episode was edited by Paroma

We are joined by kfangurl on an ultimate fan trip episode where we deep dive into a cult classic time slip romance that set new standards in storytelling for all of us. This drama has also been recently remade into the Korean, A Time Called You, which we discussed in episode 161. Tell us your thoughts about either drama in a voice note here: <Recording Page> LINKS MENTIONED: Paroma's twitter post on face blurring <link> the fangirl verdict blog <link> TIMESTAMP: 00:01:52 - Introducing Someday or One Day: plot, characters and cast 00:15:11 - How is Someday or One Day quintessentially Taiwanese? 00:31:09 - How did you feel towards Yunru? 00:44:25 - Were Yu Xuan and Zi Wei too happy/too perfect? 00:49:50 - Would you change any plot points? 01:01:45 - The 2022 film 01:11:34 - The drama's ending 01:21:57 - Speculating on the K-drama remake, A Time Called You MORE EPISODES YOU'LL LIKE: Episode 161: A Time Called You Episode 96: Kfangurl interview NEWSLETTER: Join our email list for the monthly newsletter with podcast announcements and special episodes! PATRONS: SPECIAL THANK YOU to our beloved patrons for another year of helping us light the lanterns to sail our ship! Join our Patreon here! ❤︎ You can also support us by leaving a review on your podcast app, or sharing the episode with friends! ❤︎ SOCIAL: Follow us on Twitter @dramasoverflow and Instagram @dramasoverflowers_. Email us at dramasoverflowers@gmail.com. CREDITS: This episode was edited by Saya

Anisa, Paroma and Anisa's sister Zaynab talk about A Time Called You, remake of hit Taiwanese drama Someday or One Day, how it compares to the original, and the eternal question of the adaptation: why? Catch our spoiler review of Someday or One Day next week! Tell us your thoughts in a voice note here: <Recording Page> TIMESTAMP: 0:00 General thoughts on A Time Called You 31:00 SPOILERS for both the original and the remake MORE EPISODES YOU'LL LIKE: Episode 135: Extraordinary Attorney Woo Spoiled Yak NEWSLETTER: Join our email list for the monthly newsletter with podcast announcements and special episodes! PATRONS: SPECIAL THANK YOU to our beloved patrons for another year of helping us light the lanterns to sail our ship! Join our Patreon here! ❤︎ You can also support us by leaving a review on your podcast app, or sharing the episode with friends! ❤︎ SOCIAL: Follow us on Twitter @dramasoverflow and Instagram @dramasoverflowers_. Email us at dramasoverflowers@gmail.com. CREDITS: This episode was edited by Anisa.

Welcome to another anniversary Mailbag episode! We asked for your thoughts on dramas, on us, anything at all, and you gave us a lot to talk about! Also, let us know if you liked, loved, or FF'd this episode in a voice note here: <Recording Page> LINKS MENTIONED: The Hollywood writers’ strike: Vox explains LA Times article about Netflix's affect on Korea Entertainment Industry Burn it Down excerpt RELATED EPISODES YOU'LL LIKE: The burning sun special, episode 37 On representation, episodes 65 and episode 66. TIMESTAMP: 00:00:43 - Our emotional safe space 00:09:00 - What does it mean to be podcasting for 6 years? Your messages: 00:24:00 - Movie directors flocking to dramas now that they're prestige 00:55:00 - Objectifying child actors and young K-pop trainees 01:13:00 - A listener recommendation: Not Others 00:16:00 - What tropes do we want to see explored more in dramaland? 01:28:00 - How have we lasted 6 years? 01:37:00 - How seasonal shows differ from single season K-dramas? 01:45:00 - Did the Burning Sun incident change our view of the K-drama industry? 01:57:00 - Our auto-watch actors? NEWSLETTER: Join our email list for the monthly newsletter with podcast announcements and special episodes! PATRONS: SPECIAL THANK YOU to our beloved patrons for another year of helping us light the lanterns to sail our ship! Join our Patreon here! ❤︎ You can also support us by leaving a review on your podcast app, or sharing the episode with friends! ❤︎ SOCIAL: Follow us on Twitter @dramasoverflow and Instagram @dramasoverflowers_. Email us at dramasoverflowers@gmail.com. CREDITS: This episode was edited by Anisa

We bring you another long yak this months where we talk about two new dramas and final thoughts on three completed ones. Tell us your thoughts in a voice note here: <Recording Page> LINKS MENTIONED: The anime Paroma mentioned: How A Realist Hero Rebuilt the Kingdom (on Netflix) TIMESTAMP: (No spoilers = NS) 00:00:40 - My Lovely Liar (NS) 00:21:08 - Behind Your Touch (Ep 1 Spoilers) 00:42:08 - Maturity of social discussion 00:46:06 - See You In My 19th Life (Final Thoughts/NS) 01:08:54 - ... 19th Life (Ending Spoilers) 01:22:15 - Little Women (NS) 01:35:13 - Fruits Baskets (NS) & Final Patter MORE EPISODES YOU'LL LIKE: Episode X: LINK Episode Y: LINK NEWSLETTER: Join our email list for the monthly newsletter with podcast announcements and special episodes! PATRONS: SPECIAL THANK YOU to our beloved patrons for another year of helping us light the lanterns to sail our ship! Join our Patreon here! ❤︎ You can also support us by leaving a review on your podcast app, or sharing the episode with friends! ❤︎ SOCIAL: Follow us on Twitter @dramasoverflow and Instagram @dramasoverflowers_. Email us at dramasoverflowers@gmail.com. CREDITS: This episode was edited by Paroma Dramas Over Flowers is part of the Frolic Podcast Network.

Saya and Paroma pick apart Our Blooming Youth and pore over its bests and not-so-best things. Bests include: Park Hyung-shik and Jeon So-nee. Dissatisfactions include: plot lapses, villains with unconvincing motives. Erratum: Saya's first Park Hyung-shik drama was Nine (2013). Tell us your thoughts in a voice note here: <Recording Page> TIMESTAMP: 00:01:52 When fandom doesn't feel the way you do 00:07:43 Character development vs. plot 00:14:20 Unwinding the villains 00:23:56 Heir vs. King vs. Court 00:32:58 A Crown Prince needs his besties. ALL of them. And we need Myung-jin. 00:41:49 The writing of Jae-yi 00:52:51 Born to rule? 01:02:09 Other tortured crown prince dramas MORE EPISODES YOU'LL LIKE: Episode 151: Our Blooming Youth is bringing back memories of Park Hyung-sik in Hwarang (Spoiler-free first impressions) Episode 138: The Red Sleeve: A king's favourite concubine who belonged to herself NEWSLETTER: Join our email list for the monthly newsletter with podcast announcements and special episodes! PATRONS: SPECIAL THANK YOU to our beloved patrons for another year of helping us light the lanterns to sail our ship! Join our Patreon here! ❤︎ You can also support us by leaving a review on your podcast app, or sharing the episode with friends! ❤︎ SOCIAL: Follow us on Twitter @dramasoverflow and Instagram @dramasoverflowers_. Email us at dramasoverflowers@gmail.com. CREDITS: This episode was edited by Saya.

We are back with a long yak after a very long while. Settle in as we discuss two new romances and one completed romcom with a side serving of murder! Tell us your thoughts in a voice note here: <Recording Page> LINKS MENTIONED: Paroma's video about kdramas badly solving classism [here] Jun-ho and Yoon-ah's 'Senorita' at MBC's music festival [here] TIMESTAMP: 00:00:38 - King The Land (first 6 episode overview) 00:34:21 - See You In My 19th Life (first 7 episode overview) 00:52:45 - Crash Course In Romance (complete drama spoiler discussion) 01:32:58 - While You Were Sleeping (briefly convincing Anisa to watch it) MORE EPISODES YOU'LL LIKE: Episode 156: Doctor Cha Episode 153: Crash Landing On You NEWSLETTER: Join our email list for the monthly newsletter with podcast announcements and special episodes! PATRONS: SPECIAL THANK YOU to our beloved patrons for another year of helping us light the lanterns to sail our ship! Join our Patreon here! ❤︎ You can also support us by leaving a review on your podcast app, or sharing the episode with friends! ❤︎ SOCIAL: Follow us on Twitter @dramasoverflow and Instagram @dramasoverflowers_. Email us at dramasoverflowers@gmail.com. CREDITS: This episode was edited by Paroma

In this Spoiled Yak, Anisa and Paroma review Dr. Cha and talk about why dramas about a middle-aged woman getting a new lease on life are so enjoyable - and mention some other favorites in this genre. Tell us your thoughts in a voice note here: <Recording Page> TIME STAMPS: 00:00:00 Dr. Cha Spoiler Review 01:03:40 A wild Kwon Min-woo appears! (Yes, this is an Extraordinary Attorney Woo reference) 01:14:40 Other dramas in this genre we loved! 01:15:24 Twenty Again 01:19:00 Mystery Queen 01:22:42 SKY Castle 01:24:35 18 Again 01:25:54 And a lightning round: Romance is a Bonus Book, Perfume, Hello, Me!, Search: WWW, Mine, Go Back Couple, Familiar Wife MORE EPISODES YOU'LL LIKE: Episode 155: Bora! Deborah Spoiled Yak Episode 148: Love to Hate You Spoiler Review NEWSLETTER: Join our email list for the monthly newsletter with podcast announcements and special episodes! PATRONS: SPECIAL THANK YOU to our beloved patrons for another year of helping us light the lanterns to sail our ship! Join our Patreon here! ❤︎ You can also support us by leaving a review on your podcast app, or sharing the episode with friends! ❤︎ SOCIAL: Follow us on Twitter @dramasoverflow and Instagram @dramasoverflowers_. Email us at dramasoverflowers@gmail.com. CREDITS: This episode was edited by Anisa. Dramas Over Flowers is part of the Frolic Podcast Network.

Bora! Deborah was mostly frustrating yet sometimes joyous to watch. So we do a needlessly long deep dive into why it gripped us so hard. Tell us your thoughts in a voice note here: <Recording Page> LINKS MENTIONED: Mattie Kahn's excellent Vox piece on Viktor Frankl [here] (the real source of Bora's "getting pretty" quote) My own short piece on why using such an anecdote without context is harmful [here] TIMESTAMP: 00:01:54 - Yoo In-na made us watch it 00:16:00 - Episode 1 00:26:25 - Yeon Bora 00:33:11 - Episode 3 00:37:59 - The great breakup 00:42:11 - Yu-jung & Ji-woo 00:51:41 - Exploring grief 01:00:43 - Episode 4 01:08:29 - Episode 5-7 01:11:57 - Lee Su-hyuk 01:24:04 - Episode 8 01:31:04 - Episode 9 01:41:32 - Sang-jin & Uri 01:51:09 - Episode 10-12 02:05:15 - Episode 13-14 02:18:33 - Jin-ho & Bomi 02:38:54 - Closing MORE EPISODES YOU'LL LIKE: Episode153: Crash Landing On You and the unbearable sadness of partition NEWSLETTER: Join our email list for the monthly newsletter with podcast announcements and special episodes! PATRONS: SPECIAL THANK YOU to our beloved patrons for another year of helping us light the lanterns to sail our ship! Join our Patreon here! ❤︎ You can also support us by leaving a review on your podcast app, or sharing the episode with friends! ❤︎ SOCIAL: Follow us on Twitter @dramasoverflow and Instagram @dramasoverflowers_. Email us at dramasoverflowers@gmail.com. CREDITS: This episode was edited by Paroma Dramas Over Flowers is part of the Frolic Podcast Network.

Saya and Paroma went to see BTS's concert film, Yet to Come in Cinemas, which took place in Busan on 23 October 2022 and released in cinemas worldwide in February 2023. We talk about the boys, the music, the fans, and our good and bad experiences at the cinema. Check out the official trailer here. Tell us your thoughts in a voice note here: <Recording Page> LINKS MENTIONED: ScreenX trailers: Run BTS version, Dynamite version One of our favourite performances: Mic Drop & Run BTS Stage CAM @ BTS “Yet To Come” in BUSAN. Yet To Come (The Most Beautiful Moment) Official MV TIMESTAMPS: 00:02:42 Why did BTS put on a free concert? 00:08:07 Comparing the different cinema release formats: ScreenX vs 4DX. 00:31:24 How a good crowd makes a concert (ft. 'Yoongi Marry Me!'), and Everybody Hates Teenage Girls. 00:40:28 BTS eats the stage with our favourite songs; lifting the spectre of enlistment, and winning the struggle to be acknowledged as artists. 00:53:35 Seriously, a good crowd makes a concert. 00:59:10 Reflecting on our BTS journey. Comparing the different ways we engage in (and with) fandom. MORE EPISODES YOU'LL LIKE: Episode 139: BTS: The Cost of Authenticity Episode 140: Youth MT: The Reality of Korean Variety (Ft. In the Soop: Friendcation). In the Soop: Friendcation is where it all started, tipping Saya down the bangtan waterslide, into the mikrokosmos. NEWSLETTER: Join our email list for the monthly newsletter with podcast announcements and special episodes! PATRONS: SPECIAL THANK YOU to our beloved patrons for another year of helping us light the lanterns to sail our ship! Join our Patreon here! ❤︎ You can also support us by leaving a review on your podcast app, or sharing the episode with friends! ❤︎ SOCIAL: Follow us on Twitter @dramasoverflow and Instagram @dramasoverflowers_. Email us at dramasoverflowers@gmail.com. CREDITS: This episode was edited by Saya. Dramas Over Flowers is part of the Frolic Podcast Network.

We finally talk about why Crash Landing on You is SO GOOD. And we discuss Anisa's master's thesis on media portrayals of love across the borders created by partition - and why CLOY's depiction of that yearning is the best we've ever seen. Tell us your thoughts in a voice note here: <Recording Page> LINKS: Anisa's thesis, Visualizing the Fractured Nation: Narratives of (Un)belonging in 21st Century Indian and South Korean Media Interview with Park Ji-eun’s co-writer Kwak Moon-wan, a North Korean defector, plus answers to more fan questions Reunions of separated North and South Korean families Listen to the Empire podcast's excellent episode on the Jallianwala Bagh Massacre Watch the video that made Anisa ship Binnie & Jinnie back in 2020, before we knew they were real TIMESTAMPS: 00:01:00 Why CLOY is one of a kind 00:28:00 Villain Oh Man-seok vs. Big Bad North Korea 00:38:00 Comparing The King: 2 Hearts and Crash Landing on You 01:02:00 How CLOY tackles the impossibility of a happy ending 01:10:00 Saya and Paroma share their favorite parts of Anisa's thesis 01:21:00 Hyun Bin and Son Ye-jin's IRL happy ending ❤︎ MORE EPISODES YOU'LL LIKE: Episode 137: We discuss the previous generation's gateway drama, Boys Over Flowers in its many iterations Episode 145: Our Spoiled Yak on The Interest of Love NEWSLETTER: Join our email list for the monthly newsletter with podcast announcements and special episodes! PATRONS: SPECIAL THANK YOU to our beloved patrons for another year of helping us light the lanterns to sail our ship! Join our Patreon here! ❤︎ You can also support us by leaving a review on your podcast app, or sharing the episode with friends! ❤︎ SOCIAL: Follow us on Twitter @dramasoverflow and Instagram @dramasoverflowers_. Email us at dramasoverflowers@gmail.com. CREDITS: This episode was edited by Anisa. Dramas Over Flowers is part of the Frolic Podcast Network.

Here's a special sneak preview of something we've been doing on Patreon: The Lone Yak! We take a moment (or a few) to tell you what's on our minds, whether about a drama we've been watching, general K-drama thoughts, or life! This episode contains Saya talking about becoming a new version of yourself in public, Paroma talks about when we defend our faves (and don't) and why, and Anisa reviews the first half of Crash Course in Romance - and talks a little about murder rom-coms. Tell us your thoughts in a voice note here: <Recording Page> MORE EPISODES YOU'LL LIKE: Episode 151: Our Blooming Youth is bringing back memories of Park Hyung-shik in Hwarang Episode 148: Paroma's Lone Yak on Love to Hate You NEWSLETTER: Join our email list for the monthly newsletter with podcast announcements and special episodes! PATRONS: SPECIAL THANK YOU to our beloved patrons for another year of helping us light the lanterns to sail our ship! Join our Patreon here! ❤︎ You can also support us by leaving a review on your podcast app, or sharing the episode with friends! ❤︎ SOCIAL: Follow us on Twitter @dramasoverflow and Instagram @dramasoverflowers_. Email us at dramasoverflowers@gmail.com. CREDITS: This episode was edited by Anisa. Dramas Over Flowers is part of the Frolic Podcast Network.