From observation, no emmm confession of K drama addict 😜, K drama fans pick their drama to watch more base on their favorite genres and tropes than other people recommendation or even thing named rating. After pooling dramas from their favorite genres, they mostly will consider other people opinion, well other K drama fans more likely, on those dramas and then tada they come up with their last choice. There're probably argument on fans' site about which drama is better and which deserves or doesn't deserve their rating. But the drama rating itself won't affect much on them picking the next drama to watch, well at least for me.
There is of course exclusion, a drama that is received good review from many K drama fans even when the drama itself is not in their favorite genre. It is rare, maybe one drama a year, I can name few (Signal, Secret Forest, Misaeng). Even when its conventional rating from AGB Nielsen or TNmS is not as high as it deserves, usually this kind of drama making riffles in K drama universe, and K drama fans may check the drama regardless its genre. But... as I said it before, it is not the 1st consideration when K drama fans choose a drama to watch. And you know what the other factor that propel K drama fans based on their choices in watching certain drama.... It is the actor starring in the drama. It may sound superficial, but it is what it is.
There're factors to be considerated when drama fans picking what drama to watch next. It is completely different with many aspects how a person, especially drama fans, can finish whole 16 or even hundred drama episodes. It is more complicated because it involves whole lot of investment from the most precious thing called Time and also emotion. This is why we got so mad when a writer ruins a drama when it is almost halfway to the end. Because we have already invested too much then it comes to nothing. I know there's freedom of a writer to take whatever she/he wants the plot going but still...
And the last the reason behind one's favorite drama and drama genre. This is another whole different game which I can write long flowy essay over it. LOL. I'll keep it short here. What drama and what genre that become one's favorite can reflect the inner turmoil of that person, someone's personality or what values one person hold dear. Perhaps it reflects someone's life aspiration. You probably know what kind of person I am and even know what I do in my real life even before I tell you what it is based on my favorite drama genre or my comment over certain dramas.
Before my memory gives up on me. Lets make this list. It probably changes over the year but what you have up loaded in www will remain, LOL. Be Careful, Stay Cautious.
My Top Ten dramas (will be up dated over the years):
1. Alone in Love
2. Secret Forest season 1
3. A Wife's Credential
4. Hotaru No Hikari season 1 and 2
5. Signal
6. Answer Me 1997
7. Deserter Pursuit
8. Cruel City
9. In Time With You
10. Ten Miles of Peach Blossoms
You can guess my favorite genre. I love Friend-Turn-To-Lover trope, it is my comfort drama. I like romance story that's not taking the center stage. Couple reunion theme also is my favorite. I like conflicted relationship but the irony I like the part of comfortable relationship from friend-turn-to-lover trope. I like thriller and mysteries with heart and love to jazz it up. I don't like rom com but LOVE dark comedy with social commentary. Life is sometimes like a really bad joke. It often forces me to laugh even if I don't want to. It is full of irony, paradox, and the real dark comedy, I don't need a rom com to make me laugh. It is what Life taught me. Ha, ha, ha.
So, I may make up something about myself unconsciously, but I'm always true about my favorite drama genres, tropes and my favorite dramas. 😄 I can't give you a good recommendation on rom com drama because it is not my favorite genre. The same is with school drama or medical drama, I tend to avoid them so. It will feel like I'm lying. LOL. For some many times people come with the question: Hey give me the recommendation drama with time travel theme, or friend-turn-to-lover drama or drama with this trope and that trope. Those tropes might induce eye rolls but we love what we love.
Friend-turn-to-lover (Represent everything I can not have. Hah! How honest!):
1. 9 End 2 Outs
2. Answer Me 1997
3. Unfamiliar Family
4. In times with You
5. 20th Century Boy and Girl
6. I Need A Romance 2
7. You Drive Me Crazy
8. Happiness
Couple Reunion (Because there's someone whom I also wish returning)
1. Winter Sonata
2. Alone in Love
3. I have A Lover
4. Can’t Lose
5. Traces of Loves
6. Emergency Couple
7. Paradise Ranch
8. My Beloved Summer
Marriage contract (The best way to start a relationship)
1. Sweet 18/Little Bride
2. Marriage Contract
3. Goong/ Princess Hours
4. Full House
5. Bride of the Century
6. Because This is My First Life
Forced cohabitation (There're always ways to stay together)
1. Full House
2. Last Scandal of My Life
3. My Girl
4. Oh My Ghostess
5. Oh My Lady
6. Personal Taste
7. Wish Upon a Star/Stars Falling From the Sky
Physiological drama (A way to breach therapist - patient relationship)
1. It's Okay, It's Love
2. Heart to Heart
3. Dr. Frost
4 Mad For Each Other
50 and more episodes drama (To tear your eyeballs out and rolling)
1. I Have A Lover
2. All that Glitters
3. Giants
4. Once Again
5. Ohjakgyo Brothers
Sageuk (The best way to learn Korean history)
1. Jewel in The Palace
2. Princess' Man
3. Kingdom season 1/2
4. Sungkyunkwan Scandal
5. Joseon X files
6. The Red Sleeves
7. Bossam
Book lover theme (A way to integrate the 2 hobbies):
1. Coffee House
2. Chicago Typewriter
3. The Tale of Bookworm
4. All That Glitters
5. Tree with Deep Root
Time travel/Parallels universe/Time-bending device (How to cheat time and space continuum):
1. Signal (walkie talkie)
2. Kairo (mobile phone)
3. Tomorrow with you (train)
4. Nine: Nine Time Travels (incense)
5. Train (train)
6. Tunnel (tunnel)
Thriller (Catch Me If You Can):
1. Signal
2. Tunnel
3. Sweet Home
4. Ten season 1 / 2
5. Nine: Nine Times Time Travel
6. Vampire Prosecutor season 1 / 2
7. Juvenile Justice
Friendship (I don't know how other people do it or to keep one is my reason to watch.):
1. Answer Me 1997/1994/1988
2. Sungkyungkwan scandal
3. Hospital Playlist
4. Age of Youth season 1/2
5. Weightlifting Fairy Kim Bok-joo
6. You Are Beautiful
7. Drink Now, Work Later
Family drama (The better it gets, the more the unfamily woman in me want a family for herself):
1. Once Again
2. Unfamiliar Family
3. Ohjakgyo Brothers
4. 18 Again
5. Wish Upon a Star/Stars Falling From the Sky
Melodrama (Melo is my nature):
1. Will It Snow For Christmas?
2. Autumn in My Heart
3. Can You Hear My Heart?
4. It's Okay, It's Love
5. That winter, The Wind Blows
Office drama (Fun to watch, avoid like a plague IRL):
1. Misaeng
2. Argon
3. The Good Wife
4. Diary of a Prosecutor
5. Money Game
6. On The Verge of Insanity
Solitude/City Life (A friend for our lonely heart):
1. Alone in Love
2. Drinking Solo
3. Lets Eat 1/2
4. Individualist Ms. Ji-young
5. The Man Who Can't Get Married
Drama with specific profession that I just got to know (The grass is always greener on the other side):
1. My Ahjussi (Civil engineer)
2. Start Up (Start Up Investor)
3. Your House Helper (House Helper)
4. Discovery of Love (Sound director)
5. Be Melodramatic (Marketing agent responsible for PPL in drama. LOL)
6. On The Verge of Insanity (Home electronic appliances development engineer)
Makjang For The Win:
1. A World of Married
2. I Have A lover
3. Woman of Dignity
4. Misty
5. Thorn Bird
6. Love Ft Marriage and Divorce
Food porn (Stay hungry, keep watching dramas)
1. Lets Eat
2. Drinking Solo
3. Jewel in the palace
4. Sweet Munchies
5. Warm and Cozy
6. Wok of Love
AI (Wish it available for general public with all my capitalist heart):
1. My Holo Love (AI glasses)
2. A Piece of your Mind (AI sound recorder)
3. Memory of Alhambra (AI virtual reality game)
4. Start Up (AI speaker and app for the blind)
Rom-com (Dramas are not made to be believable):
1. Can We Get Married
2. Coffee Prince
3. Marriage, Not Dating
4. Full House
5. Secret Garden
6. Descendant of The Sun
7. Crash Landing on You
Rivalry (The best plan to take down our worst best enemy):
1. Cinderella's Sister
2. All about Eve
3. Woman of Dignity
4. All That Glitters
5. Bride of the Century
Coming of Age (The pain of growing up):
1. Extracellular
2. Page Turner
3. Weightlifting Fairy Kim Bok-joo
4. Age of Youth
Growing old up:
1. Dal Ja's Spring
2. Second to The Last Love
3. Twenty Again/Second Time Twenty Years Old
4. 18 Again
5. My Ajusshi
The 5 stars dramas (Perhaps not my fave because it does not belong to my favorite genre but it should be given a medal or something.):
1. Signal
2. Misaeng
3. My Ahjussi
4. Forest of Secrets season 1
5. Kingdom season 1/2
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