Slice of Life Kdramas for Your Watchlist

S2 E24 / Christina from YA Girls Kdrama Podcast, teacher and passionate Kdrama fan, joins me for a slice of life genre celebration! If you love the daily rhythms, cozy feelings, and relatable conflicts found in slice of life Korean dramas, this chat is for you. Are we rebranding “slice of life” into “warm hug dramas?” Yes, we totally are!

🫶 We talk about what slice of life means for Kdrama fans—why we love these dramas, what makes them unique, and how they give us hope and comfort.  We talk about the feelings these dramas evoke and how they often reflect real life with warmth, sincerity, and optimism.

🌿We list our favorite slice of life Kdramas and Jdramas by theme, hitting the broad categories of workplace, romance, found family, creative (music/books), and healing. Our recommendations range from iconic shows like Hospital Playlist and My Mister to under-the-radar gems!

⚠️ Light spoiler warning! Our conversation touches on a few spoiler-y things about some of the shows.   

⏰ Timestamps: 

00:00:25 Meet Christina

00:02:17 Currently Watching

• Love Take Two
• Tale of Lady Ok
• My Youth
• The Murky Stream
• Bon Appétit, Your Majesty
• Learning to Love

00:08:51 What is a Slice of Life Kdrama?

00:14:24 Workplace Slice of Life

00:25:15 Romance Slice of Life

00:39:14 Family/Found Family Slice of Life

00:52:27 Creative creative (Music/Books) Slice of Life

00:59:25 Healing Slice of Life 

🔗 Links

YA Girl’s podcast: https://pod.link/1630700998

YA Girl’s IG: https://www.instagram.com/yagirl_kdramapod/?hl=en

Discord: https://discord.com/invite/Aa9kGxNPx9

YA Girls Kdrama Podcast on Favorite Dramas, Tropes, and Ramyeon Scenes: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2435348/episodes/17814816

Transcript

SPEAKER_00 0:07

This is the How I Met My K-Drama podcast, and it's all about K-drama origin stories and recommendations. I'm Sarah Rosette, and today Christina from Y'all Girls Podcast is here, and we're doing Slice of Live episode. We're both so excited.

unknown 0:21

So excited.

Meet Christina

SPEAKER_00 0:22

We're like the two people in the whole world that are just like dancing over slice of life.

SPEAKER_02 0:26

We are dancing. Hi guys, I'm Christina.

SPEAKER_00 0:30

So Christina and her pod sisters from the podcast were on a previous episode, and I'll link to that so y'all can meet all of them if you haven't. But in case you haven't listened to that yet, just give a short little introduction of who you are and maybe your first K-drama.

SPEAKER_02 0:44

Oh great. Hi guys, I'm Christina. I am one of the three hosts of Ya Girls K-drama podcast. There's myself, there's Maddie and Elle, and we review K-dramas. We do all sorts of things on that podcast. I've been watching K-dramas since about 2018. My very first K-drama, which people are gonna roll their eyes at, it's something in the rain.

unknown 1:12

It's my first one.

SPEAKER_02 1:16

It's a classic. It's a classic. I have such a soft spot for it. But yeah, I we've been doing the podcast since 2022, and it's a real good time. So if you ever want to go listen, listen to that as well. You are in for a real treat.

SPEAKER_00 1:31

Yes, y'all's podcast is so much fun because each one of you have a different perspective and things you like. And so you kind of figure out, oh, I like this person's suggestions. This one I like sometimes. I can try some of those things, and it just kind of gives you a really good variety.

SPEAKER_02 1:46

Yeah, we're a collectic mix. Like it's very, we're all just all over the place. And Maddie usually is the one that meets us in the middle, Ellen I. Because Ellen I have our favorite K drama is Hometown Cha Cha Cha. She, her and I love that. Um, but you know, um, it's harder to come by between what we like in in terms of K dramas. So yeah, but it's still great. But I love that about the three of us.

SPEAKER_00 2:10

I whenever I listen to y'all, I feel like I'm just listening in on a conversation with friends, and it's it's so much fun.

Currently Watching

SPEAKER_02 2:16

Yeah, thank you, thank you.

SPEAKER_00 2:18

Okay, so let's talk about what we're currently watching. What are you watching right now? Do you have anything?

SPEAKER_02 2:23

Yes, so I am watching, I'm going slow on some of these dramas. Like I'm still watching Love Take Two. I that is on um Vicky, and it's about a mother and daughter duo that moved to like a farming town, and something happens with the daughter and she has health issues, but the it's it's very slight, slice of life-y, so I'm really enjoying it. I'm on episode, what is it, seven? But um, that is what's been well, I've it's been slow because I just finished The Tale of Lady Oak. Have you seen that? No, I have not. Okay, you sound like you loved it. Stop everything, leave this right now. Good on pause, go pause this, go watch that drama. It's a Joseph drama. Maddie and I finished it in a week and it was wow, it was amazing. It was absolutely amazing. I we just finished it. So that was what I just finished. And then what else? I am on episode three of my youth, and I'm still trying to figure out how I feel about it. I don't know yet. I don't know yet. And then I am on episode one, right before Cump jumping on. I'm watching or I'm starting the murky stream with Raon. Okay. I know y'all were excited about that one. Looking forward to that one. I know. We're doing a row show. We call that's what we call when we review Raon dramas. That's how Maddie and I became friends. We bonded over Rawoon. That's so fun.

SPEAKER_00 3:55

Um, I am watching, as you would say, Knife Knife, Born of the King Your Majesty.

SPEAKER_02 4:00

Yes, knife knife. It's a better name, I'm telling you.

SPEAKER_00 4:04

It was so much more interesting. Yeah. But um, so I've been watching that and I've kind of I'm I don't kind of dropped off. You know how like your interest peaks and valleys. I really liked the beginning of it. I thought it was a lot of fun. And yes, there were some things that really made me laugh. But yeah, I'm kind of tired of the cooking competitions. And so that's what I'm hearing. Yeah, I'm like seven episodes in, so maybe I'll just fast forward through because there's not that many left.

SPEAKER_02 4:29

Is there more cooking than romance? Is that what is happening?

SPEAKER_00 4:35

Yeah. Yeah. I mean, yes. And and it is interesting, it kind of makes me think it's like um the Alton Brown cooking show plus a little romance. Because they do kind of go into the science of how things cook, which is interesting. And I I like that she's so competent and does really well in her cooking, but yeah, I'm not real. You're like, oh and they set him up as a really bad guy in the beginning, and so I don't know how they're gonna redeem him. And it may be one of those things that maybe history has been not so accurate with him, maybe. Okay, so but I don't know. So yeah, I kind of have some reservations about that one, but I'll probably finish that one out. And then I'm also watching my youth, and just like you, I feel like it's not quite hitting like I expected it to.

SPEAKER_02 5:21

I really want to like it. Me too, because it has great actors, and I feel like some of my favorites, yeah. And I think the premise, it seems it. I mean, for on paper, it sounded great. And I think I don't know, I don't know if they're executing it well. I don't know. I just I'm feeling very lukewarm about it right now.

SPEAKER_00 5:40

Yes, me too. Yeah, like I'll watch it, but I'm yeah, if something else comes along and attracts my attention, I may not be that compelled to watch it.

SPEAKER_02 5:49

Yes, it's like a squirrel. Okay, it's on something else.

SPEAKER_00 5:53

Yeah, I really wanted to like it. And when I read the thing and just the the look of it, I was like, oh, this looks like something that I would like.

SPEAKER_02 6:01

Yes, so yeah, so the jury's out on that one. I know. I don't know either, and like him being, you know, a child actor and then having like a plant shop, like it just seems so cute and warm and fuzzy, but I don't I'm not gonna I got a couple episodes in and I was like, there is so much going on in this plot.

SPEAKER_00 6:18

Like he was a child actor, you got the reunion, maybe you have his whole backstory with all these horrible things that happened to him. And I feel like if this were a book, they would say, Okay, we're gonna lose these three plot lines, and it would be fine. Yes, you know. So I feel like there's just a lot going on, but anyway, I mean, I'm watching that one. And then I just started, I I made myself wait. Um, there's a it's this is on Netflix, it's called Learning to Love, and it's a J drama. And with the new ones, they drop them one episode a week, which is so painful. That is painful because and they're only 45 minutes, and so I made myself, I heard this, I heard some people talking about this thing was really good. And I was like, do not watch this, do not watch this. So I think it's all out or almost all out. Great, so now I can start it, but um, yes, it's about a woman who's a teacher, and uh she is a human. So she's a teacher and she is having a hard time at work, and one of her students goes to this host club, like this is acting out, and she goes to like get her out of this situation, and she meets a man who works there, and she realizes at the end of episode one, it's not a big spoiler. She realizes that he can't write very well. And I think writing in I mean, it's much more it's complicated.

SPEAKER_02 7:34

Yes, yes, yes, it's so much more complicated, complicated.

SPEAKER_00 7:36

Yeah, so I think she's going to help him, and we're not sure yet what his motivations are, if they're above board or not. So, but anyway, I just wrote it down.

SPEAKER_02 7:46

I just wrote it down. I'm gonna walk, I'm gonna see it because I know you love J dramas.

SPEAKER_00 7:50

I do. I want to and I have quite a few J dramas to add to our list today.

unknown 7:55

Yay!

SPEAKER_02 7:56

Okay, and then I will I will definitely want to start be being a J drama girly. I want to. I'm ready. I'm ready.

SPEAKER_00 8:03

They're they're fast watches, really, most of the time. Because if they're out, you can, you know, most of them are eight to ten episodes and only 45 minutes. And I'm like, I can do this in a weekend. This is easy. Oh my gosh, I love it.

SPEAKER_02 8:15

That is awesome. No, I'm gonna watch them. I'm gonna watch them. That's great. Yes, and especially when you want something fast that can consume your time, but then be done quicker.

SPEAKER_00 8:25

So then you know, you're not I feel like a lot of them don't have the lag, the the the saggy middle that sometimes you get with a 16 episode where you're like, this would have been great if we didn't have this detour at episode 14 or 12.

SPEAKER_02 8:40

Yes, when like the whole story wraps up, and then K dramas will do like random side plots, and you're like, okay, but everything else.

SPEAKER_01 8:48

Yeah.

What is a Slice of Life Kdrama?

SPEAKER_00 8:49

You're like so. That's what we're watching. So what we're really here to talk about is slice of life dramas. So let's talk about slice of life, just what that means to you. When you think of a slice of life drama, what is what do you think of? What's your definition?

SPEAKER_02 9:04

I feel like for me, since I've loved, I think I've loved anything slice of life type things since I was young. But I feel like it's basically, you know, day to day day-to-day life and what just probably and I think a lot of people maybe don't give them a chance because on the outside they seem so boring. But I feel like with uh these dramas, their day-to-day uh life and simple things, realistic experiences, and like and when it comes down to it, I think of like uh the something that these characters go through that you can relate to. That's basically how I interpret them, you know. And I and I think especially with these dramas, like, and that's why I love K-dramas. I'm very, very big on how a drama makes me feel when I watch it. And if I can relate to a character, you know, it means even more to me. And me constantly thinking about that character. I want people to give them more of a chance because some of them probably don't have romance, and I know a lot of people watch them watch K-dramas for the romance, which I do too. I love a good romance, you know. Um, but they just they just make us feel that we're not alone in this world and that, you know, we all struggle with the same things. Does that make sense?

SPEAKER_00 10:26

Yes, yeah, yeah, I agree. It's there's a like mundane to them. You're and I think they're not very flashy compared to some other genres.

unknown 10:36

Yes.

SPEAKER_00 10:37

It's that like kind of daily, this is what we're going through. But I think it lets us look at certain things in society and our personal lives and maybe figure things out or explore issues that maybe we wouldn't think about. Um yeah, I just I love them. And I think that I don't think that there's a whole lot of slice of life dramas or TV shows in the West. And so I feel like I get them, I get my slice of life fix from K-Drop.

SPEAKER_02 11:07

Yes, and it was so funny because I was thinking of like things that I grew up watching that my mom, because my mom loved that's where it comes from. That's where it stems from, is my mom. And so she loved all of these. And growing up, I'm the oldest of four kids, and so I was the one that watched some of these shows with her, and you know, and I was trying to write down some shows like that were you know, Western shows that maybe kind of would go into that draw genre, but um, I think that's what it stems from too, because then I'm also like that when I read books, that's why I love reading so much too. So I don't know, but I think with K-dramas and they just do such a beautiful job with explaining and showing how things are in such a simple way, but it's so deep and it's on this other level that you can't even like explain. Like it's just giving me chills right now.

SPEAKER_00 12:01

Like, I'm like, oh my god, I just I love that. And I think part of it is there's a couple of K-dramas that talk about sincerity. And I feel like there really is like the people who make them, the actors, the writers. I feel like there is this. We're going to make maybe whether it's a fun rom-com or a mystery or slice of life, we're gonna make this show, we're gonna make it entertaining, but we're all we're going to really give our all to it or something. I don't really know how to describe it, but I feel like there's a a realness and authenticity, authenticity that comes through that maybe we don't have so much in Hollywood productions. I don't know if that's the way to say it, but that's what I feel. That's how I feel.

SPEAKER_02 12:44

I think I I think that's why we ever a lot of people that watch K dramas gravitate towards that too, if they like this type of um genre of shows, because that's how I feel the same. I feel the same too. And I feel like too, with these, if you label like slice of life, people sometimes are turned off by them. But I feel like, and I was looking at it, there is slice of life elements in pretty much every single K drama because that's how we can relate to these characters, it's how we can we feel and we get immersed in the story because we can relate and we feel good while watching them too. I feel like there's always that little element.

SPEAKER_00 13:24

Yeah, and there's a big theme of healing, I think, in a lot of these. That even though in a lot of them, the situations are terrible, but then you do see there's hope. I guess that's the thing. Maybe not beat the viewer over the head with it, but that you know, it it uh is all gonna be okay, and you can your life can get better. And I feel like a lot of people want that, they want the that hopefulness.

SPEAKER_02 13:51

And that's why I love them too. I love that part to feel hopeful and to just feel like you're not alone. And that's really, I feel like what it comes down to. And everyone in some capacity can feel that way and relate to what's going on, yeah. Depending on the drama, you know? Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 14:11

We can feel seen in a way.

SPEAKER_02 14:12

It's just a warm hug. It's a warm hug.

SPEAKER_00 14:15

That's what we'll start calling them warm hug dramas.

SPEAKER_02 14:17

Maybe people won't like them better. We need to change the name. We gotta change the name. Yep, yep.

SPEAKER_00 14:24

Okay, so um, we decided we'd break this out just by themes and talk about four or five different types of slice of life dramas. So the first one I put down was workplace dramas. Why don't you go first and give us a couple of your favorites in that category?

SPEAKER_02 14:39

Okay, so for me, um again, with slice of life, I feel like under the slice of life umbrella, there are different tiers. And I feel like with the dramas that I named, there are elements of slice of life, not necessarily not necessarily like, oh my gosh, people would see that drama and be like, no, that's not a slice of life. But I feel like with the events that happen in the story, like, oh, that's a slice of life. That is something that could be relatable, you know. So I did um I did hospital playlist. I love, I love hospital playlists. It's about two, um, two, it's about five best friends that are all surgeons and they work under the same hospital, and then in their free time, they are a band. They're so cool. So, and they all have different, they all are under different departments, but they all come together, but each one has a different story, and it is it's one of my favorites.

SPEAKER_00 15:43

Yeah. When I first saw that, when I first started watching K-dramas, I was like, hospital playlist. And I kept seeing the image with the instruments, and I was like, okay, I just don't understand this show. What is the concept here?

SPEAKER_02 15:57

Yes, it took me a while too, because especially because um it's like a cleaner version of Gray's Anatomy, right? I feel like that's what it really is. But um, in the beginning, you know, it's hard to hear all the medical jargon in the beginning, but once you kind of get past that and you kind of get to know the characters, you're like, oh my gosh, this is so great. And I know not a lot of people like it or maybe not give it a chance, which is totally fine. But I would highly recommend it. It's a such a wonderful show. It has everything, it has romance, it has like just emotion. And me, I don't shy away from any dramas that make me cry. Sometimes I welcome it even more.

SPEAKER_00 16:43

So, you know, what about um? So I put down um May um Me Sang. I don't know if you've seen that. Oh, I've never seen that. Yeah, so it's very much an office drama. It's set in an office, and I kept when I watched it, I kept thinking, are we gonna have romance in this? Um, not that I had to have that, but it really doesn't have romance. It's all about their the people who work there, they're um they're like first year employees, and basically they're seeing if they have what it takes to become a permanent employee. So there's a competition among like the I guess you call them the interns, sort of, although that's a full-time job. But then they become a little found family, and there's all kinds of stuff going on with their boss, and they work in different departments, and there's competition, but you know, they work together, and yeah, so it was really good. And it it really, some of it I was like, Oh, I don't know. I I was so tense about oh no, are they going to make their quota or whatever you know they know how to you were fully immersed, you were fully immersed. I was into it, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 17:54

Yeah, another one in the workplace drama. Um, I I love I love this, I love this drama. I don't know if a lot of people do, but I don't know. I've always loved it. Yumi Cells, have you ever seen that? I haven't seen that one yet. That one that one's a little different just because they have these little cells. So basically, she's going, um, our main character, Yumi, she's going through her daily life, but it's so but her brain, everyone has these cells, and so it's like basically kind of what is it that Pixar movie Inside Out, yeah, kind of a little bit. So there's these like different characters, but they're all Korean, right? And so then all these little cute little cartoon characters are little cells that help her throughout her life. And I don't know, I didn't think that I would like it, but I really did. It was, you know, there was some romance, but that wasn't the main focus. It was basically it was her just dealing with just mundane things every day. And these little cells just it was it, it I think it's a not a graphic novel. That is a that's a student term. Hold on.

SPEAKER_01 19:02

Um, a what is what uh uh mango, what is it?

SPEAKER_02 19:06

Yeah, that yes, or what's it called? Uh um uh a digital comic. I don't oh webtoon. There you go. There we go. After school, it's a Friday night after school. My brain is completely fried. So forgive me. You're doing great though. You're doing great.

SPEAKER_00 19:23

Yeah, I've heard about that one and I was saving it because I heard people say that it it's got a season three coming. Oh, and so I heard some people saying they were holding off because they didn't want to, and so I think I'll do I'll do it all at once so I can just so I don't have to wait too long.

SPEAKER_02 19:39

Yeah, great. Have you seen also Romance as a bonus book? Did I start that one? I think maybe I started that one.

SPEAKER_00 19:48

Yeah, I think it's on.

SPEAKER_02 19:50

That's okay. It's a hit or miss too. But I was trying to find dramas that might be either popular or maybe some people haven't heard of them. But yes, that's another one of um, it's about a woman who is going back to work after being a stay-home mom, and then she goes and tries to work in the novel industry, and then her little her best friend who's younger, it's like a new neuromance, but they work together.

SPEAKER_00 20:16

Well, let's see. I also put down, I put down some that are kind of like top of mind, I guess you'd say, because this is my first life. And even though that has a whole lot of romance in it as well, and some of these, you know, they don't fit neatly into one category.

SPEAKER_02 20:31

I put that one in romance, second category.

SPEAKER_00 20:34

Yeah, but part of it is, you know, about her work and trying to achieve her goals. But I think it did it is more romance. And then I also put down, I had another one, oh, why dress up for love? And that's a J drama.

SPEAKER_03 20:48

Ooh, J drama.

SPEAKER_00 20:49

Yeah, and it's about a woman that she works in marketing, and um she's very focused on social media. Her job is social media, and she meets a guy who doesn't have a phone, and it's kind of like they kind of their paths keep crossing, it's very cute, and then they end up in a house share, and so then they're together all the time, and it but it's more about like the whole, it's not just her and her story and his story, it's like their friends and work and it all it all interacts together. So that was a good one, too. Do you have any more on your workplace?

SPEAKER_02 21:25

I had um, I had like, well, I feel like this would they had little elements of slice of life with her private life. I felt like with the whole family part with the male lead and all of that and that trauma that happened. I was like, that is completely slice of lifey. And I put also attorney woo.

SPEAKER_00 21:48

Oh, yeah, yeah. That's a favorite of mine. That was my very first K drama.

SPEAKER_02 21:51

So my gosh, what a great first K drama!

SPEAKER_00 21:54

I know, I know it was so good. Completely hooked after that, yeah. And then I I also put down my mister because so much of that has to do with work. Yes.

SPEAKER_02 22:05

Yes. That is what I put down. I did, but I put that for found family and healing. Oh yeah. Yeah. And so um My Mister is my number one favorite K drama of all time.

SPEAKER_00 22:16

I really liked My Mister. I put off watching it for so long because I kept thinking, oh, it's gonna be so sad. But man, it was really good. I really liked it.

SPEAKER_02 22:24

Beautiful. And it's so um, I I'm a teacher and I work in a community with a lot of Korean families. And so years and years ago, um, I had one family, and the my student's mother recommended my mister to me. And so I have a lot of recommendations from um Korean families, and so she recommended that. And I oh my gosh, amazing. She's like, you just have to keep going. Some of the parts are really hard to watch. They were you have to, yeah, oh my gosh, because the ending and everything with the grandma and oh my gosh, and then walking him walking up the stairs, like if you know, you know, but uh-huh, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 23:08

And I loved her character because she, even though her life was so difficult, she was so determined to get through it. And it was survival, yeah, yeah, yeah. She was incredible. I loved that character, and I'd never seen IU. And I watched that and I'm like, okay, I understand now why everybody loves IU.

SPEAKER_02 23:28

Loves her. I just love her so much. No, it's so funny because I watched that back in 2018 when I got it when it was recommended to me, and then I've been an IU fan since then, and so I listened to her music even before um me getting into BTS. And I'm thankful that I got to see her in concert. She is absolutely a powerhouse, so sweet, so humble, and she's just like a Korean gem. Like she is amazing. Chef's kiss.

SPEAKER_00 24:03

Oh, okay. Do you have any more workplace or do you want to go on to Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 24:08

Well, um, I just had um, I know some of these have like magical elements, but I had her workplace, I had Hotel de Luna. Yeah, I haven't seen that. That's on my list though. That one is really sweet. That's a very, I feel like it's not as traditional, but I think with the things that these fans, so basically, she I you is a hotel owner and of people that are not going to the afterlife yet. And so they are kind of it's kind of like their purgatory and they have like unfinished business.

unknown 24:38

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 24:39

They don't have peace yet with like what's happening and how they died and everything. So they have to make peace with it before they can move on. So she's kind of like the mediator, you know, and the part, you know, and then there's the hotel uh manager too. So they but that magic part isn't really obviously slice of life, but the well relationships and all of that so great.

SPEAKER_00 25:06

Well, I mean, K dramas are good at blending genres and kind of crossing boundaries, and you just go with it. I think I just go with it now.

Romance Slice of Life

SPEAKER_02 25:14

Love it.

SPEAKER_00 25:15

Okay, so then let's do romance. Um, so romance. This one's there. Do you have a lot for this?

SPEAKER_02 25:24

No, I don't have that many because I feel like all of the other ones double dip in other ones. One of my favorite dramas of all time, I have to say it. I mean, 2521. Yeah. It's not real, it's a romance, but then it's like it's not, it's just basically, and this is a spoiler. I mean, the two leads don't end up together, but there is just much more happening. And I think it's it's I really think it's about honestly about daily life and things that happen and the struggles that these characters are facing, especially the male lead and how they both were just there for each other when no one else wasn't. Like that is just something I feel like we all can relate to in some capacity. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 26:09

So yeah, yeah, that's a good one. That is a good one. Well, I put down Our Beloved Summer because I just watched that.

SPEAKER_01 26:17

And what did you think? What did you think?

SPEAKER_00 26:20

I loved it, yeah. I loved it, of course. And it just the daily life, and but I mean, and it was like these extraordinary circumstances because you know, yes, very rarely do people have movies made and documentaries made about them, but just like as they're going through life trying to figure things out and trying to figure out what they want to do. I loved it. Yeah, I loved it. And it was more, and there was some office stuff and like career things. Yeah, but I feel like it was more, it was romance and it was about their relationship. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 26:52

And I loved it.

SPEAKER_00 26:54

Go ahead. I'd saved it because I wanted to watch it during the summer and I kept hearing people talk about it. So I finally watched it this summer. So I loved it.

SPEAKER_02 27:01

Oh, you're so good.

unknown 27:02

So cute.

SPEAKER_02 27:03

It's so funny how um like because it says our beloved summer, but I associate that drama like with a fall type feel to it. Yeah, it's there was a lot of autumn scenery too. Yes, and I and I love it too because yes, he was the male lead was this famous, you know, artist, but he was just a Joe Schmo from Kokomo. Like he literally at like, and it's I mean, I don't know how else to put it. Like he just was just this guy living a normal life after him being famous, and he's just wanting, you know, he doesn't want a lot of fluff in his life. He just he's just trying to live.

SPEAKER_00 27:45

He's just so easygoing and yes, yeah, and yeah, I love that one too. That was one of my favorites.

SPEAKER_02 27:51

It was so good. And then with this whole family, when we find out that backstory and his parents, you just want to give him like a double hug. They are just the sweetest little family. That's a great one. Yeah, that is a great one. That's one of my favorites now. What about you? I'm sure I'm sure you're I have to, I have to say, I have to say, um, something in the rain. I have to. I think for that one, yes, I did not like the mother. Yes, the ending was, but the records were happening. And it's crazy, yes, seriously. And it was my first K drama. So, like when like episode 16, no, 13, 14, 15, 16 was going on, I'm like, what is this? Like, what is happening? And then this time jump. I was like, I was so confused, and I'm like, what is this type of ending? But I think I was maybe it's just by me being biased since it was my first one, but I think I really resonated with our female lead in that one. Yeah. Um, at the time when I watched it, it was um I was in the middle of getting my master's degree and I had to live at home. And I was I was like in my late 20s, almost 30 years old. And I remember, but I lived at home so I can save money because I was you know paying for grad school, and but I was just like, oh, and I just really resonated with her and how she wasn't strong and how she became strong through her boyfriend that they secretly have this relationship, this Nuna romance, right? But I just I their chemistry and the romance was he gave her the strength that she just she needed in her life because she was just going through the motions, she wasn't even she just was living life, but not really, and she wasn't like speaking up. And I just that's part of it.

SPEAKER_00 29:43

A lot of slice of life is it's like people they're going through life, kind of muted, and then they gradually meet somebody who they go to a small town or something, and then they kind of come alive and yes, reach their full potential, or you can see them uh they have the ability now to do it, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 30:00

Yes, and I think and I think with that director too, um, and how he would, you know, direct it, it was very just m about mundane life. You would see them walking on the streets like there, like there's no camera, like it it didn't seem it just seems so natural, yeah. That you know, with the directing and how they did that. I just I don't know, maybe just I love it. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 30:26

Um, I also put down Go Back Couple. I don't know if you've seen that one. I don't know that one. That's one that it's um it's got time um kind of time travel element to it. This this couple, they're they're married and things are just life is stressful and they're not in a good place. And they end up going back to high school or no college. They go back to college where they met each other and like they are determined not to be together because and but then of course, you know, they really do you they really do love each other. It's it's on Vicky, it's really okay.

SPEAKER_02 31:00

It's on Vicky. Is it a K drama or a J drama? It's a K drama, yeah. Okay, good. I have not oh my gosh, I love it's so funny because like last week I was looking through Vicky, I was looking through Netflix, and I'm like, I've seen all these, I've seen all these. I'm like trying to find other shows to watch. So this is great. Thank you. Wow, you're welcome. You're welcome. And another one I have, which is under the same umbrella as something in the rain, three, two, one, one spring night.

SPEAKER_00 31:25

I was wondering if that was gonna be on it.

SPEAKER_02 31:30

Do you know me or do you know me? I do not like I yeah, not pulling punches here. I just love I know I love it so much. No, that's another one that's but that one I think the female lead, she's very strong. And in that one, they deal with a lot of stereotypes. In that one, she is single in her mid-30s. Um, the guy is a single dad, you know, his his son lives with the grandparents, he is, you know, a pharmacist. Like it there, and then there's just all this, all these things are happening, but it is kind of the same in terms of just daily life, and they're walking around the street. Like, I feel like that director just would they would just do the direct, they would do the filming like in the middle of the night because most of the scenes are in the street.

SPEAKER_00 32:20

Yeah, and probably not have a whole lot of extras and stuff. This is just the way it is. Like, we'll just we'll just record, just keep walking, just ignore us.

SPEAKER_02 32:28

You just yeah, ignore us.

SPEAKER_00 32:31

Oh let's see. I have so I have two more, and these are both J dramas. One is called First Love, and it is it's very angsty, it's a little too angsty for me, but if you like angst, it's and it is very much a daily life. This is two people that they met in high school, and it's got the dual timeline, it's got present day, and you see them in high school at the same time, yeah. And so, like you and like each story informs the other, and I mean, and it's just there's so many little symbolism things that run throughout it, and it was really good. And then um the other one is called Turn to Me Mukai Kun, which that's uh that's the main character's name. And this one is about a guy who turns 33, and he it's like kind of like he wakes up and goes, Wow, I'm 33, I'm not married. If I want to get married, I have to find somebody. So it's his search for love, basically. And it's and it's great. It's got like his relationship with his sister, and he meets this woman who is kind of like the dating whisperer. He'll meet her after they they go to the same restaurant all the time.

SPEAKER_02 33:42

This is cute.

SPEAKER_00 33:43

And he'll say, you know, oh, I couldn't believe this happened. And she's like, Oh, well, she was never that into you anyway, you know, and things like that. And she'll kind of help him. And so it's the story of their friendship and like all the mistakes he makes. It starts out really funny, and then as it goes on, it gets a little more serious. And but then the J dramas always have these questions about like, what is marriage and why do we get married? And you know, stuff like that. So it's like he's thinking about all that and trying to figure things out. Um, I just loved it. I thought it was really good, and um, just and the fashion in this one, what the one of the characters has beautiful clothes. I was like, these are gorgeous. Like she works in an office and it's just beautiful clothes that like I'm like, I I I need to upgrade my wardrobe game after watching this.

SPEAKER_02 34:28

So funny, it's so funny you mentioned that because um this past April I was in Japan and I I was just so blown away away by all of their clothes there. They all just looked so amazing and so put together, but the clothes were just so everyone looked adorable. Like everyone just was like fashion forward, but then also like comfort, and they had you know, like boots on, but then you know, tennis shoes, but they were cute. I was like, I do I need to change my wardrobe.

SPEAKER_00 35:05

Not in a not a whole lot of what what is it, athleisure that we wear absolutely not, no, ever.

SPEAKER_02 35:11

And there was girl women and just like heel, like it was everything. It was cool because everyone had their own like fashion sense, and I really got a feel when I was there. So I was like, oh wow, that is cool. So great. So that's why I also have been interested in J dramas because when I was there, I was just so fascinated just by how everyone is and just how they are respectful. It's just a whole different colorful, right?

SPEAKER_00 35:39

Yes, you know, it's like when I started watching those, this turned to me Mu Kai Kun was I think the second one I watched, and um I was just fascinated. I was like, oh, this is different from K dramas, and you know, obviously they have different religious practices and different family relationship dynamics and stuff.

SPEAKER_02 35:56

So anyway, so it was cool. I love and um what is that drama? Because I seen it. Um, the one with the actress from the red sleeve, she was what she speaks Japanese, and it was like, Do you know which one I'm talking about? Is that the one it's uh what's it called? Do you know what I'm talking about? First love because because of what comes after love.

SPEAKER_01 36:16

That one there it is. Okay. Thank you. I was like, darn it.

SPEAKER_02 36:23

So have you watched that one? What comes after love? Yeah, have you seen what comes after love? No, I haven't seen that one. Okay, so I think you should. It is it's oh, I think it's only 10 episodes. I did watch that last year, and it is it's beautiful, like the cinematography, the directing. It is just it literally, I'm you're looking at a book, and I feel like you would especially appreciate it. It's about a woman who's Korean, right? And she goes and studies and lives in Japan and she meets this Japanese man. Yes, I do remember seeing this one.

SPEAKER_00 36:57

Like I didn't see it, but I remember when it came out, and I okay, cool.

SPEAKER_02 37:02

I don't know, it's all and it's actually short, it's six episodes, but I feel like it um is I don't know. I really I thought it was beautiful. Like it was, yeah, it's not it was very simple, but it was it was very meaningful. I don't know. I so I would recommend it. Well, it's on my list. I got it.

unknown 37:23

It's on your list.

SPEAKER_00 37:24

I got it. I got it.

SPEAKER_02 37:27

All right. So do you have any more for romance? Um, I just have, well, I feel like this would be like a college drama, but I love um, what is it? Weightlifting fairy, Kimbukju. Oh, okay. And so that one, um, that one's a little older. There is funny, sweet little elements, but there is also the serious side of her like not feeling like comfortable with who she is, and she needs to take like a leave of absence because it's a like it's a like a sports school. So everyone that goes to that school, she does weightlifting and then and she just feels just lost, and so and then the male lead to he has you know problems too of you know family stuff, but then I don't know. I just that part of it I thought was so deep and beautiful. I know a lot of people talk about like, oh my gosh, it was so cute, you know, Namji Hook is in it, she's great, it's hilarious, like which I love.

SPEAKER_01 38:29

I love that part too, right?

SPEAKER_02 38:31

But you know me, I love when they get deep and they make me cry. Like, yeah, that move that show made me cry too.

SPEAKER_00 38:38

Okay, so I've not watched that one because I kept thinking weightlifting, I don't know.

SPEAKER_02 38:43

Yeah, it's it's me. Like, there's there's some silly parts, and I think it and it's it's silly. There is silly parts, and so um, like Elle loves it, Maddie loves it too. And I I I and I thoroughly enjoy it as well. I thought it was wonderful. So it was a good one. All right. Well, I got it on my list.

SPEAKER_00 39:03

Of course, this is my list is so long right now, anyway.

SPEAKER_02 39:07

We'll get to it someday. You're like 10 years later. Hey, Christina, I finally finished it.

SPEAKER_00 39:14

So let's go on to family slash found family kind of theme. So I my list on this one's kind of short, so you go first. Okay, okay. So I have our blues. Oh, yeah, yeah. I haven't watched that one yet. No.

SPEAKER_02 39:27

Oh my goodness, you have to, I think that needs to be bumped up. Okay, you would have really appreciated it. Uh uh, disclaimer though, and I think a lot of people dropped it because the first two episodes. So basically, the show is about a community in Jet on Jeju Island, and they all are just close-knit, and the first two episodes um involves the woman who's like the mother of the town, and you've seen this actress, she's wonderful. But you have to see they they have those two episodes to see how she is, and it's like it's sad, but that's not the story. So every couple episodes, they focus on a different family in the show, and so like the you know how in the intros they have their intro, but this intro, you see the intro, and there's like a record player, and it's a different picture or a different family, so then and then they put it on the record player and then they focus on that certain family. Oh, I love that. It's beautiful, it's beautiful, okay. But but disclaimer first two episodes, a lot of people have dropped it because they're not the greatest, but you have to if you stick with it, you need to stick with it, you see the whole picture, yes, right? Okay, yes, and that one's long. I think it's about 20 episodes, but it is it's an ensemble cast, but it is a slice of oh my gosh, it's a slice of life through and through. Okay, it's a good one. Cool, okay, cool, it's a butte.

SPEAKER_00 41:02

Okay, well, I have down um this one. I don't think a lot of people have watched, and I I don't know if it came out when something else was really popular, but it's called My Unfamiliar Family. Have you seen this one or this one? So it's a K drama, and it's um it's about this family that there's a mom and dad and three children, two daughters and a son, and the daughters are a little bit older. The son, I think, is still in school, maybe, maybe college. But the parents are at a very difficult time where they're just not getting along. Everything is an argument, it's very tense. The dad, like I think it's in the first episode, the dad has an accident and he loses his memory. So it's an amnesia story, but it's like a serious amnesia story, it's not jokey. And he thinks it's like that all that all those years of stress and strain in their marriage, he doesn't remember that. He just remembers being in love with his wife at the beginning when they fell in love and he treats her that way. And then and she's like, Stop, you know, she doesn't want that because she's kind of made up her mind that things aren't going well. So it's kind of like they they kind of rebuild their relationship. But then you also get the storylines of the kids and the different things they're going through. And I just, I just loved it. I thought it was so good, and it would have a storyline that I think, oh, you know, we're gonna go this way, you know, like we're going up here and take a right-hand turn. But no, we're gonna appear and we take a left hand turn, and we're in a different place than I expected. So it surprised me, but in a good way. So I love that one. And uh to me, I just feel like it was a really good, it had some humor, but it had some really, you know, heartfelt moments too. So so that's put that one on your list.

SPEAKER_02 42:44

You'll love that one. Okay, I will. Okay, I'm gonna watch that.

SPEAKER_00 42:47

I think it's on, I think it's on Vicky.

SPEAKER_02 42:49

Okay, I'll love. Oh my gosh, I'm excited. Look at all of these records. I'm so excited. I will be texting you. I'll be like, Sarah, do it. Thank you. I love it. Um, okay, let's see. For another one, I did I had some of these obviously are popular, but I had to. I had to report in 1988. Yes, yeah. Had to, yeah, had to. That is that's a classic. It's gotta be on the list, right? It has to be on the list. Yeah. So if you love this one, I feel like I mean, it is it's about a little community and they all are neighbors, and you just see them grow up. And it the episodes, there's 20 episodes, and each episode's about two hours. So, like, if you really want to commit, commit because and I will be honest, just plan for it. Yes, plan for it. But I will be honest. Um, it took me four tries to get to like to watch the first two episodes. Like, it took me a while.

SPEAKER_00 43:51

Okay, but then you loved it once you got going.

SPEAKER_02 43:53

Then I loved it.

SPEAKER_00 43:55

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 43:56

So even though I mean there was yes.

SPEAKER_00 43:58

Have you seen it? I haven't. Seen it. I haven't gone down the reply because there's several. And I haven't thought once I go down that rabbit hole, I'm afraid I'm gonna be doing it for months.

SPEAKER_01 44:09

No, I yes.

SPEAKER_00 44:10

But do you feel like reply 1988 is the best one?

SPEAKER_02 44:14

Yeah, because I I actually haven't watched the other ones. I know reply 1997 is on my list as well, but the I the first one is reply 1988. So that's where I should start then. You should start there, yes. Okay, cool.

SPEAKER_00 44:30

Cool. Okay, and then let's see. What else do I have on my list? I put down um our unwritten soul, which is fairly new, but don't you feel like that's very much is it on really? I should mention that to you. I recommended that to you.

SPEAKER_02 44:45

You did, thank you. Wasn't that wasn't that so sweet, Sarah?

SPEAKER_00 44:50

Yes, it was a really good show, and it was it you get like the slice of life, you get the romance, you get some work aspects, office culture in there. Yeah, it was really good, and it was and you know, my favorite part of it, I think, was his mom, the relationship. You know, that was just so sweet. I mean, I enjoyed all of it, yes, but yeah.

SPEAKER_02 45:13

I think she like when I reflect on favorites of the year, her character is probably my favorite so far right now.

SPEAKER_00 45:23

That was yeah, beautiful. I'm gonna look up her name because I can never remember it. But I really is, and and I should know her name because she's in so much stuff.

SPEAKER_02 45:35

And she was in Reply 1988, and she's my favorite mom in that one. Oh, she's beautiful in that one. Oh my gosh, so good.

SPEAKER_00 45:42

Yeah, I think that's my favorite uh role that I've seen her in. Oh, she's impeccable. Yeah, just because she was so sweet and so yes, understated.

SPEAKER_02 45:53

That's probably in the running for my favorite drama of the year so far. So far. I could see that. Okay, so it's um Kim Kim Sun Young. Yes, Kim Sun Young. We love her, yeah. We love her here, she's amazing.

SPEAKER_00 46:08

Yeah, and if and if I have a drama that I tune into and she's in it, I'm like, oh, she's in she's in reply 1988.

SPEAKER_02 46:16

Okay, all right. She's also in Love Take Two, and I mean she's in everything, she's in so many dramas, but yes, yeah. Um, another one I have, so I feel like this isn't a quote unquote slice of life, but I feel like it has slice of life elements. And after uh, well, it's e Taiwan class. Have you seen that? I haven't seen that one. Oh, I wrote I oh, it's so good.

SPEAKER_00 46:44

I may revive. There's a lot of people that really, really love it. Some people it's like their favorite, but it's one of my favorites too.

SPEAKER_02 46:50

Yeah, I would I would put that on high on the list too. There, and I won't say a lot actually, so because you haven't seen it, but if you guys, if any of you are listening, have seen it, there is something that happens when they're setting up the story at the first episode. He is very close to his dad. Something actually, this is probably not a spoiler. I mean, he his dad has always taught him, you know, to live with integrity, to always do the right thing. And this this uh Park so Park So-Joon is the male lead. He sees this one bully bullying someone and he stands up for him. And so the person that is the bully is the chairman's son. Okay. And so the chairman's son, uh well, Park So-Joon gets in trouble, and he's like, and then the chairman is like, You need to apologize to my son. And he's like, I'm sorry, but I did nothing wrong. Your son was being, you know, a butthead kind of thing. And so then the dad comes, they have to bring the dad in, and the dad also agrees with his son, and he stands next to his son.

SPEAKER_03 47:55

Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_02 47:57

And then and his the dad works under the chairman, it's like under the same company, and then the then the dad ends up quitting because he's like, my son, I've taught him to do the right thing if he is doing the right thing right now. Because obviously the other guy it it's and I gotta tell you, it's that's the start of it. So the whole like theme of it is about doing good, it's like good versus evil, but it's and you know, he has a restaurant in e Taiwan, and I'm not gonna say any more, but I highly recommend it, huh? Okay, it's a beautiful drama. Okay, cool. I would like, and it's so funny because I know um Maddie does not like Pucks, like she just doesn't like you know, some people have their actors that they like and they don't like. She just has she's like, I don't find him attractive, which is teach his own, right? Anyway, but I'm like, you would love the story if you gave it a chance. But I do recommend that because that part of it and that like whole theme of it gives me like um slice of life type feels, and and he is such a compassionate, he is my favorite. This character, Puxo Jun, who is um, he's Puxeri, I Seroi in the show. He is my number one favorite male character of all time. Oh wow, okay. It's he is just and he employs people that are like sometimes outcasts or he accepts people no matter what. And it's just like he, you know, and so I just I couldn't, I can't recommend it more. Love it so much.

unknown 49:37

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 49:39

These are like our all-time favorites. We recommend all of these. I recommend all of them, you know, and so yeah, but other than that, I have um hometown cha-cha-cha on this. Oh, yeah. Um, I just I have to. It's a it's a fan favorite, but also it is a warm hug. It's such found family in that. Such found family. Beautiful.

SPEAKER_00 49:59

Yes, yes. I love that one too. That was one of my favorites. Uh, the other one I put down for this one is um uh just between lovers or what's it called? Rain or shine. And that one, it's I've never seen that. So, oh, I think you would like it. I think you would like it. It's very it's like kind of like um our beloved summer take has like these kind of extraordinary circumstances around the people, like the documentary is not something that happens to people every day. This one is about the two people that were in their lives affected by the the collapse of the building.

SPEAKER_02 50:33

The collapse, is that the one? Okay, yes, I know I've heard of that one. Yes, okay.

SPEAKER_00 50:37

And there's some part there were a couple storylines that I wasn't as interested in, but like the main storyline and then about the building collapse itself and how people dealt with it and the trauma, and just like it's basically about trauma and moving on from trauma and learning to live and heal, and you know, and of course, it's two people that they meet, and as they go through their lives together, they keep running into each other and they eventually fall in love. But I mean, it's just sounds like a drama right up my alley. It's so good, and I loved it. I mean, and I remember when it first came out, like I was in the first episode, and there's a scene where the guy comes out, it's um Ichun Ho is the main character, the guy.

SPEAKER_01 51:20

Oh, yes, from the sleeve.

SPEAKER_00 51:21

Yeah, yeah. He comes out and he's rubbing his leg and he goes over to a vendor and he buys an umbrella, and he says to someone, it's gonna rain later today. And I just loved it because it was show, not tell. It was like, he hasn't injured. But like the relationships he has with other people, and he learns to trust other people, and I mean, it's and to take care of himself. That's the other like big lesson. It's very good. So highly recommend that one.

Creative creative (Music/Books) Slice of Life

SPEAKER_02 51:51

I should watch it tonight. I feel like I'm gonna watch it. Yes, yes, it's really oh my gosh, I love it. The last one I have on here is Family by Choice. Have you seen that? Uh no, I haven't seen that one yet. Oh, I think you would like that one too. That one's very good, very sweet. It was it's from a um Maddie. She her favorite Chinese drama is called Go Ahead. And this is the Korean ver remake. Yes, okay, yeah. Yes, yeah. So it's about a you know, little community and you know, all about found family. So if you're into that, right up your alley.

SPEAKER_00 52:27

Perfect. Okay. All right. So next category, I put down this creative music, books, art, things that are focused kind of on that. And um the one I put down for this one is Do You Love Brahms? Because I feel like that's very much about music, but it's very much daily, like we're going through this life and trying to figure out what we're doing with our lives, right? Yes. So that's one that that was one of my early, early K dramas. And I remember watching it and thinking, wow, this is so just interesting to see how they interweave the music with the story of the people. I I loved it. So I think you guys like this one too.

SPEAKER_02 53:08

I think I listened to the podcast on this really early on. Yes, yes, yes. I remember when um Maddie was like, You should watch this because we love park young bin Park Yumbin. And so um, yeah, I enjoyed that one. I totally forgot about that one. Yeah, um, and then for this one was hard for me. So I already had like her private life, and then I also put Run On in there. I had that one on there, and then which is so, and then I had this other one, but then I'm like, it should have probably been work balanced, but I felt like how they told the story was very artistic. Okay. So have you ever seen it? Is kind of more drama-filled and more if under like not depressing, it just is very deep and very emotional, and a lot like it's just it's not like your happy go-lucky show. Have you ever seen Call It Love?

SPEAKER_00 54:02

Okay, yeah. I have that on my list and I have not started it, or I've watched like 30 minutes and got interrupted.

SPEAKER_02 54:09

Yeah, yeah, it's it's hard, it's more like some would say it's monotone, but I thought that after watching it and seeing like the whole picture, I was like, wow, that was just such a very that was such an artistic way to tell a K drama. And so like, because one of the female lead, you know, she has her, she's just feels like her life is so miserable, you know, and it's just about her whole family. She's very close to her brother and her sister, and she's going through life, but she's just very like rough around the edges. But if you want some angst and you want just something like, I mean, not a lot of emotion is shown. Like it's it's very different, it's very different. So I you have to be in the mood for it, right? Um, and um, but it it I would recommend it.

SPEAKER_00 55:08

Okay, so this is the lead that she was also in um weightlifting fairy, weightlifting fairy and um shooting stars, right? Yes, I haven't seen that, but yes, okay. Oh, that one that's a great rom-com. Well is it caveat, caveat the first two episodes are kind of have some weird stuff in them, but then and I was like, Shooting stars, yeah, yeah, yeah. So okay, call it love because I've I really liked her in the uh shooting stars. So I was like, that one's on my list.

SPEAKER_02 55:40

I definitely have that one saying, yes, but it's very different. She barely has any emotion, it's more of like she is alone and she needs someone and she needs people because she has so much anger in her heart. It's something like it's like that, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 55:57

So it's like you have to K-dramas do like I feel like the quiet, reserved withdrawn character is not done a whole lot, but it it is in K-drama, but you don't see it a whole lot in other things, and I love that. And some people are very impatient with it, and I'm like, no, let's see what's under the surface.

SPEAKER_02 56:16

Yeah, I think you might like it. I think you would enjoy it. I think you would enjoy it. That's the one Naz from uh the swoon diaries podcast. She that's the one she recommended. So then when I watched it, she was like, Give me updates, give me updates. Do you love it? And obviously, you did, yeah. You have to like go in watching that show knowing that it's like gonna be a little different, you might not get a reaction, you know, kind of thing. So right away.

SPEAKER_00 56:41

Okay, yeah, okay. Well, I will stick with it. So let's see. I only have one more under this one, and it's a J drama called Quartet. And this one, it's about um four people who come together to form a string for quartet, and they're strangers basically. And it's they I forgot how the situation works out. Like one of them has a vacation home in the mountains, and they end up going there to practice, but then through a series of events, they end up basically living there and kind of sharing life, and it's like they're trying to figure out they're not super good musicians, and and I'm not a musical person, so I'm waiting for somebody who knows music to watch this and tell me if they're really not that great.

SPEAKER_03 57:27

That's true, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 57:28

Yeah, but it's like they're struggling if you're not excellent at music, is it okay to pursue this? And is it worth it to dedicate time to this? And and then they form friendships, and then there's a mystery subplot going on with one of the characters, and you're trying to figure out, you know, oh, what's going on with her? And it's just had all it was very unusual structure, but it was all about their friendship as they become friends, and there's some walls up at the beginning, and then they learn to trust each other. And I really loved it. It was very different from anything I've ever watched before. So I would recommend that. I think I think yeah, I think you would love it.

SPEAKER_02 58:06

Yeah, okay. I need to I need to get on this new drama train. I know. I'm trying, I'm trying, I'm doing my best. The problem is the problem. Here's the thing like I when I get into something, I go all in. So it's with anything in my life. Like that's a problem. Like, I love BTS and randomly, I love, but like I can only hone in. I could like literally, and then and that's what how it is with K drama. So I know I know once I get hooked up with J dramas, I'm a goner, Sarah. Gone.

SPEAKER_00 58:36

I know. I'm well that's that's why I have not gone down the C drama rabbit hole. Yes, because me neither. I have not watched, yes, I well, I know once I do that, and then they're a lot longer, and and there's a whole lot of them available. So at least that kind of limits me a little bit.

SPEAKER_02 58:54

Yeah, it's true, true. But they but from what I can tell though, they sound amazing.

SPEAKER_00 58:59

And there's more now, there are a lot more coming out, so yeah. So okay. So I I totally understand if you hold off on watching these though.

SPEAKER_02 59:08

I gotta watch them, but I know it's just because I know I get very intense when I like something. So me too. Yeah, it's me too. Like, oh my god.

SPEAKER_00 59:19

You don't have to explain it to me. I get it.

Healing Slice of Life

SPEAKER_02 59:23

Glad we're on the same page. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 59:25

Okay. So uh let's see. Moving on to healing dramas is like our last category, kind of the catch-all. Favorite. Yeah. So these um, I have quite a few on here. Some of them we've already mentioned, I think. Like you mentioned, run on.

SPEAKER_02 59:38

I felt like that was a very healing drama. That's a very healing drama, yes. Yeah. So what's your favorite? What do you have on there? So I have my mister, but we've already talked about that. But um, that's a number one. And then next to it, which I put slightly, like I put my mister, and then I have three on this list. So it's my mister, but one of my favorite dramas, and I probably talked about this in your last episode, but it's moved to heaven. Oh, yeah, yeah. That's a good one. Oh it's I yeah, I've seen it so many times, and it's I think it's only 10 episodes, but it is such a lot, it's a lot. You need to be in the right headspace to watch it because it is very hard to watch. But hearing about the lives of all these people that passed away and their stories, and then you see the two leads and what ends up happening with the dad, it is I I just have a soft spot for it, and it's something I always think about. It's it, and that's what it is with slice of life. These shows, if I'm thinking about it after I watch it, I know that this show did its job for me. Yes, yes, and I'm just like, oh my god, I'm thinking about it. Wow, it's making me feel something like this. Is and that's why I love these shows so much, you know.

SPEAKER_00 1:00:57

So yeah, yeah, they resonate for some reason. There's they stick with us, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:01:02

Yeah, um, so I have down Summer Strike and Ooh, yes, I have that on there too.

SPEAKER_00 1:01:08

Yes, I have Summer Strike, and I had some quibbles with how that one ended, but I really loved the way she moved to this little town. So brave, yeah, in front of her. They, you know, she made friends, and there were just some really sweet moments in that that I really liked. And it it had that whole kind of almost home cha-cha, hometown cha-cha-cha feel to it. Do you think?

SPEAKER_02 1:01:33

Yeah, yes, it did. I I think it was hometown, but slower and more like slice of life-esque. And it was, but I was eating it up the whole time. I love uh he that was my favorite role of that actor from Run On. I forgot his name. He was also in Squid Game, um, season two and three. But yeah, I I loved that one as well. That one, if you just want like a comforting just drama of just it's honestly daily life, they're just walking around, just going to the library, which I love with yes, with yes, me too, me too, with their dog, which is the same dog I have. Lily, shout out. Hi, Lily. Rough, rough.

SPEAKER_00 1:02:17

I'm talking cute dog. Yes.

SPEAKER_02 1:02:19

I have a Westie as well.

unknown 1:02:21

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:02:22

So yeah, no, great show.

SPEAKER_00 1:02:24

And then um, I put down our movie that's a fairly new one, and I feel like that one's more it does have the healing aspect to it, you know, and it's very I mean, read the description and it will let you know if you want to watch it or not. Because it gives us some themes that are pretty heavy.

SPEAKER_02 1:02:46

And I'm still on episode five. Do you recommend me finishing it?

SPEAKER_00 1:02:51

Yeah, okay. And I I enjoyed it, and part of it was it was just so beautifully shot. It was like so many things were beautiful.

SPEAKER_02 1:03:00

He's beautiful, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:03:03

No complaints there at all, right? But yeah, and it it it did end in like this really hopeful way. Okay. I I enjoyed it. I know a lot of people didn't like it, but I do feel like that was a very healing drama because I I feel like the whole thing was about living well, even when you know what's going to happen, you can still live your life well. And um, yeah, so and it it kind of like I mean, it kind of matches up with Move to Heaven, which is very heavy, you know? Like it's got very heavy same type of story, but the same kind of feel to it, like it's more of a somber story, but it did have some humor in it too to kind of lighten that out. So yeah. Oh yeah, those were so good.

SPEAKER_02 1:03:46

Yes. Um, my last one on this list, this one is a fantasy, but it deals with very hard. Well, no, actually, I have two on this list. Um, okay, very hard topics. It is um, have you seen tomorrow? I've started it, yeah. Okay, it's it got a little heavy for me. So I think it's okay. So yeah, disclaimer, it's very, very heavy. It deals with like um it's basically it's fantasy. It's this company that is like heaven, and they there's all these different departments, and so the department that they're focused on, it's with Raroon and then two other actors who I adore, um, they are the suicide department. And so they have this like phone, and whenever someone is, you know, feel having those thoughts, they are there to help them go through it and try try to save their life. Yeah, and so it's it's very heavy. A lot of people can't watch it. Some people don't even like it because it's too much, and yeah, you know, but it um it's oh I still I really I really enjoyed it. But it's hard. You don't have to apologize. I know, I know. I'm just here I am like on the court. Like I'm like, oh, I have to justify. No, I don't.

SPEAKER_00 1:05:07

No. Well, I mean, it but it is good to let people know what yeah, what the themes are. Like, yeah, that's a good one for this section of the list. Yeah, I have yeah, I have one more, but what about you? Um, well, I put down, oh, you are my spring. Have you seen that one? Oh, no, I have not seen that one. Okay, so that one is I would say it's much more a healing drama, but it does have a mystery subplot to it, which is pretty prominent, but it's very, it's almost like it's two separate storylines. And I was thinking that the main characters would get involved, you know, in trying to solve the mystery and stuff, and they don't. It's pretty much two different storylines, but it's very much about healing and getting over, you know, things that have happened in your past. It starts out pretty dark, so just know that. Yeah, it does, it does have a really good um plot line to the main characters. getting over the things that happened in the past.

SPEAKER_02 1:06:04

I want to watch that one. Yeah. Is that the girl from I think that's the is that the girl from the trunk?

SPEAKER_00 1:06:11

Yes. And she was also in Another Miss O. I think was Okay. Yeah. Okay. I don't I don't know that one.

SPEAKER_02 1:06:16

Another Miss O. Okay. Yeah. That's great. All right. So you said you have an I have another one more. I just have um have you ever it's on Netflix. It's called Daily Dose of Sunshine. Oh yeah. I haven't seen that one. Yeah. That one is hard to watch. It's heavy but it's it's very, very healing. It's about a woman. It's um our what's um the the female lead in Unwritten Soul. Oh okay. Yes. And she is a nurse and she is at a mental hospital. So she helps all of these different patients and then something ends up happening to her and the roles get reversed and she ends up being a patient. Okay. So it like literally but it is it was very good. It's it's hard. Like that's why this is healing like it is a hard one to watch because she's the one taking care of everyone and she and then the roles get reversed and she becomes a patient. Yeah and sometimes that happens. Yes. Yeah. And so then then that's her like the second half of the show is her trying to get through this. And so there's so many beautiful quotes in that one. I have like a journal of just like every time something was said it was just it was just a it was a book I felt like with all like the words that they said. But yes it's a hard it's a hard watch but I highly recommend it.

SPEAKER_00 1:07:52

Okay. All right. Well we both are going to be busy for like the next five months.

SPEAKER_02 1:07:58

Yes. This weekend all K dramas I'm starting when we're done with this call.

SPEAKER_00 1:08:05

And you guys keep up with so many more currently releasing ones too.

SPEAKER_02 1:08:09

Oh my gosh. Oh my gosh.

SPEAKER_00 1:08:11

So yeah busy sometimes. This has been so much fun. Thank you so much for doing this and just sharing your recommendations. Thanks for like geeking out with me on slice of live so nerdy.

SPEAKER_02 1:08:24

We're so nerdy we're like slice of lime yeah crying yeah relatable yeah but we love it we love it.

SPEAKER_00 1:08:33

We're gonna what is the way they say let your geek flag fly so this is absolutely this is our favorite and people out there who love it too let us know. Let us know your business.

SPEAKER_02 1:08:43

Yes they'll know. So tell everybody where they can find you in your podcast and all that stuff. All right so um you can listen to us on Spotify Apple podcasts or wherever you listen to podcasts. And then we also have a Instagram and it is your girl underscore k drama pod and also we have because a lot of people don't have people like when I first started my K drama journey there I didn't have anyone to talk about K dramas with you know and so we have a Discord too. So if you're interested in that um you can go to our podcast and there's a link there too if you need someone to talk to Sarah joined she's there come join us I was so proud of you. I was like oh my god she's here we have different you know um channels and you can see it can be there's older dramas you can talk about there are you know actors that you can talk about but it is just if you need someone to talk to we got you we're there so yeah but that's about it.

SPEAKER_00 1:09:43

But yes and it's a really fun community yeah yeah it's good we have a good community there but yeah thank you so much for having me this is so much fun I had so much fun too I've had a blast anytime you anytime you want to gush about these dramas I'm your girl hit me up awesome and you know I probably will yeah please I love it all right well I will have those links in the show notes and if you enjoy this episode please take a few minutes to write a review wherever you listen to podcasts that will help people find it and I will see everybody next week