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Great article! I love Aaron Yan the mostest, :-) but I also love love love Marcus Chang, (and every one of us who does needs to go and give him a heart on his page...)
I also love Jasper, Chris Wu (Wu Kang Ren), Bruce He, Greg Han, Sam Lin, Fandy Fan, Derek Chang, Wayne Song, etc...

No one is forcing you to watch them, but if you did, you would see that the way you're characterizing this drama is not at all how it actually plays out...

This should be required viewing for all teenagers, and probably everybody else who needs to learn stuff about sex and relationships!

You'll need to edit your comment with a spoiler tag - I can't do it. (Thanks.)

Spoiler?

I loved The Package and think more folks should see it. Hopefully this new drama will be good too. :-)

I love Cha Seung Won!! Excited for this!

YES!!,

And I love that the same screenwriter who wrote Life wrote Stranger 1 and 2!

I love the image of a drama being like a good book that you hold close. ❤️

I forgot to mention in my earlier comment, however, that I prefer J-dramas to K-dramas right now as well, so we definitely have that in common. :-)

Let me think about it and get back to you. In the meantime feel free to visit my profile and look at my lists for favorite Japanese dramas - there might be one that jumps out at you there.

Feel free to look at my profile for a list of my favorite J-dramas

Other Japanese dramas or Korean makjang drama?

Actually I read these opinions on lots of other places besides this article, and I don’t think there’s any shortage of negativity written on MDL around her and her dramas, including on her profile page.
I didn’t say I love everything she’s done, and I haven’t seen all of her dramas (and won’t) but I would have rather read even more about the writers you do like rather than just piling on KES.

This comment section is quickly turning into "let's all bash Kim Eun Sook"and it seems to have become very fashionable on MDL to hate Goblin as well. I don't share that opinion - at all - and I also thought that both City Hall and Mr. Sunshine were very well-written. People complain that Kim doesn't write women well, but I'm not sure how much more of a badass Go Ae Shin could have been (Mr. Sunshine). (Also, characters die in historical dramas - that's kind of their thing.)

I agree, however, that Lee Woo Jung is a great writer, and Reply 1988 is brilliant, (and I love Hospital Playlist as well.) And she writes really emotional dramas, which I personally love. But I've got to strongly disagree with this statement here: "You can't win the audience by showing a smart criminal detective story." Stranger and Stranger 2 are two dramas that pretty convincingly say otherwise. Lee Soo Yeon wrote two absolutely brilliant dramas with characters that get stuck in your heart and take up residence there. (She also wrote Life, which wasn't as good as Stranger, but has one of my favorite scenes in all of dramaland in it.)

I'm glad you mentioned Nogi Akiko, because her Nigeru wa Haji da ga Yaku ni Tatsu was a breath of fresh air and just enjoyable and sweet all the way around. Other Japanese writers I've loved are Kuramitsu Yasuko who co-wrote Alice in Borderland, Tourist, and Koi suru Hong Kong, and
Tsubota Fumi, who wrote Colorful Love: Genderless Danshi ni Aisareteimasu, and Ojisan wa Kawaii Mono ga Osuki.

Lastly, Chi Feng Chien wrote Someday or One Day, which is a frickin' masterpiece,

MDL commenters: I hate multiple seasons! It's the reason I watch K-dramas, because they don't have more than one season!
Also MDL commenters: I am so excited for the third season of Dr. Romantic!!

LOL.

I fit squarely into the second category, and am thrilled to pieces about this third season possibly coming. Multiple seasons give us more time with the characters and allow them to grow and development and face obstacles while learning how to overcome them. I loved the second season of Dr. Romantic, maybe even more then the first one, (and I liked that one a lot.)
And I really want to see Yang Se Jong back in the hospital again!

Thank you!

During the first episode where Keiko Mizukawa's character says to Haruma's character: "[The Thai people} believe in an endless cycle of birth, death, and rebirth. Therefore death isn't a sad thing" I almost had to the turn the whole thing off, it was just too much. But I consoled myself by thinking that then maybe we'll be able to see Haruma again one day in some other place, in some other form, where he's been reborn.

Coming here to say just this!! :-)