First Impressions and Unfiltered Thoughts: Do Do Sol Sol La La Sol

What’s more fun than trying out a new drama? Trying out a new drama with your Kbesties, of course! After a month-long delay, due to COVID, Do Do Sol Sol La La Sol finally premiered, and several of the Fangirls couldn’t wait to try it out! Was it worth the wait? Read on to see if this heart-fluttering drama should be an addition to your watchlist!

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First Impressions and Unfiltered Thoughts- 365: Repeat the Year

It’s a good week for dramas fans – SO many new shows have just begun! And in a rather reckless move (mostly to circumvent my indecisiveness), I decided to try them all at once. Unexpectedly, it was the new drama 365: Repeat the Year, that sucked me in for a fast and furious thrill ride! Come find out why I couldn’t stop watching this time-travel mystery.

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First Impressions and Unfiltered Thoughts: Love With Flaws

We here at Dramas With a Side of Kimchi usually give new shows the good ol’ two-episode/two-hour try when trying to decide if a freshly premiered drama is one we want to pursue. However, I felt I had to make an exception for the MBC drama Love With Flaws. I thought the premise sounded promising. BUT initially, I found myself getting hung up on a certain plot device. Join Karie the Maknae and I to see whether this new Kdrama made the cut for us!

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Podcast #53 – What the Fangirls are Watching -January 2019 Edition

Kdrama Jen swears that the secret question kdrama fans use to identify each other in the wild is, “What are you watching?” With the new crop of dramas, The Fangirls have done the unthinkable — they’re actually watching DIFFERENT dramas! Come listen to what we’re watching, let us know what YOU are watching, and we’ll all eat kimchi together. Or something.

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Shopping King Louie Episode 16 (Finale) – A Viewer’s Fond Farewell

1a45I am slightly devastated that Shopping King Louie is over.  It has been a bright, comedic light in an otherwise very melo drama season.  How am I supposed to go on without my weekly dose of Louie and Bok Sil?  I guess I will have to satisfy myself with falling down the Louie youtube black hole (seriously, there are some great things out there…. check out the below Louie English FMV.)  But for now, let us do one more recap and find out how our story ends. Continue reading

Shopping King Louie Episode 15: Louie’s Way

a1The title of this episode “My Way” refers to one of the legendary Frank Sinatra’s most famous songs. (Not my favorite, and not his either from what I’ve heard.) But the first line of the song is so fitting for the show. “And now the end is near. And so I face the final curtain.” It’s almost midnight everyone. Our Shopping Cinderella is about to head home. Louie’s way was sweet while it lasted. Continue reading

Shopping King Louie Episode 14 – It’s all fun and games til someone gets abducted.

a2We had an hour of filler this week. I have a feeling we will be seeing a lot of that in the last three episodes, now that the plot is wrapping up.  But when characters (and I do mean all the characters) are so likable, it is hard to really be mad about it.  So come join me as I discuss incompetent bad guys, cute male rivalries, and enough happy feels to gag a unicorn. Continue reading