We are bringing back What's Up In Dramaland as bi-weekly youtube live streams. A newsy episode that covers Korean entertainment including casting news, upcoming dramas, catching up on industry conversations. (This is a one time livestream audio upload. Please check our youtube channel for future WUID episodes!)

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TIME STAMPS:

00:00:00 lengthy intro

00:06:05 episode begins

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Anisa and Paroma discuss their final thoughts on recently ended romcoms Love Next Door, No Gain No Love and Serendipity's Embrace, plus some first impressions of the Korean adaptation of Go Ahead and wacky romance DNA Lover.

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TIMESTAMPS:

00:10:38 Family by Choice

00:21:30 Love Next Door

00:35:19 No Gain No Love

01:15:35 DNA Lover

01:31:58 Serendipity's Embrace

01:48:59 Culinary Class Wars

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This episode was edited by Anisa. Music is Welcome Vault Dweller (Instrumental Version) by Victor Lundberg.

In this episode we discuss the many popular re-unions of famous romantic and non-romantic actor couples. We ask why these re-unions happen, do they ever achieve the popularity of the original project, and why is there often a distinct shift in genres? (You can watch the video version of this episode at the link below).

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Paroma is joined by Deepanjana in a mission to express their deep feelings about No Gain No Love without spoiling every single scene in the drama. It was a challenge. This episode was recorded after the first 6 out of 12 episodes had aired.

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TIMESTAMP:

9:45 - Actual discussion starts

51:22 - Warning for spoilers

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Saya and Anisa have a quick yak about our first impressions of two currently airing dramas, and then Anisa confesses to having seen some Run BTS.

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TIMESTAMPS:

02:19 Cinderella at 2am

15:22 Love Next Door

31:56 Run BTS (a sampling)

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This episode was edited by Anisa. Music: "Feels Like Summer" by Staffan Carlén.

Hi, we come back to you (pretty soon for us) with another long yak! Yes, Anisa is in this one. 😄

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TIMESTAMP:

00:01:24 Bad-memory eraser

00:17:47 My sweet mobster

00:42:57 The auditors

01:04:02 Dreaming of a freaking fairy-tale

01:14:57 Miss night and day

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Saya takes Paroma on an epic journey through her recent watchlist.

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TIMESTAMP:

00:00:00 Jinny's Kitchen

00:19:22 Top Management

00:27:25 Good Day To Be a Dog

00:34:00 Miraculous Brothers

00:39:53 Moving (ending spoilers beware!)

00:49:15 Begins =/= Youth

00:58:51 MYSTERY DRAMA no okay just kidding - Ripe Town

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Episode 174: Lovely Runner spoiled yak

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Here are our final thoughts and theories on the one drama all three of us watched with equal fervour.

Joining us for this final journey into the world of Piggyback Sunjae and Run are friends of the podcast, Hanah and Sarah.

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TIMESTAMP:

0:05:14 - Audience response

0:08:35 - Production budget

0:12:25 - Heart eyes for the drama

0:14:19 - Taesung vs the serial killer

0:18:31 - Sunjae remembering the alternate timelines

0:27:41 - Sol driving the story action

0:37:00 - On how Sunjae died in timeline 1

0:42:15 - Sol’s brother & best friend

0:45:29 - Erasing Sol’s disability struggles

0:50:22 - Fate demands a life

0:59:05 - 33yo Sol falling for a teen

1:10:54 - Only one Im Sol got a happy ending

1:22:43 - Grandma has the best line about memories

1:26:51 - Sunjae’s choice & final thoughts

Running list of dramas mentioned:

W: Two worlds

Her Private Life

Familiar wife

Hometown CCC

Will Love In Spring (CDrama)

Marry My Husband

Nine: Nine Times Travel

Someday Or One Day

Go Back Spouses

Rooftop Prince

Dark (German thriller)

Goblin

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Don't worry, this is NOT a stealth goodbye podcast! In this episode, we talk about why we fall out of love with fandoms that we once loved so much, and what makes some stick for life. (You could call it the date, marry, kill episode? Spoiler alert, we marry K-dramas.)

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Music: "I'm Still in Love with You" (Instrumental) by Jake $ing

Anisa and Paroma gush about the first half of currently airing time-travel romance K-drama Lovely Runner, which we are LOVING. The first 40 minutes are free of major spoilers!

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TIMESTAMP:

00:40:27 Spoilers

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Music: "Dear My Ocean" (Instrumental) by Adelyn Paik and "Woke Up" by Cushy

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.

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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

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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)

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