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Currently Watching "Cafe Minamdang"

I was running out of ideas for this blog. It's either Donbrothers , like Beast Morphers , has become my "I'm watching it so I can bash it but the yellow rangers save it!" guilty pleasure. I wanted to watch some suspense thrillers but I felt recent stress might make watching something else better. I watched Netflix's documentary series Web of Lies along with other criminal documentaries. Now, I decided to watch the ongoing series Cafe Minamdang . Okay, I've got a dumb reason with Oh Yeon Seo. Meanwhile, I wanted to watch the psychological thriller Hometown but I think I need to ease my mind. Some telenovelas can be too deep and can make you want to do some self-study. I ended up reading some criminology sites while watching the K-Drama Justice  on KissAsian fansubs.  The plot in itself seems to mix what I'm trying to get - romance, crime drama, and maybe some comic relief. The staff of AsianWiki spells the plot out as: Nam Han-Jun (Seo In-Guk) is a former ...

Seven Reasons Why I Also Enjoy Korean Legal Dramas

I remembered one time when I wasn't exactly too keen on K-Drama. Well, maybe except for that one stupid moment in my college life when I secretly wanted to marry Kim Tae Hee (who was five years older than me) for her beauty . Though that crush wasn't as open as other crazy fanboy moments. I decided to try and do a bit of a throwback post to write why I even watched Korean legal dramas. Some of them have sci-fi elements (not much of my type) while others are rooted in realism. These are the types where I'd treat it like reading a good book for a college book report. What made me like them?  No eye candy is needed - it's all about the plot and acting! I was watching Pride and Prejudice to get this noticed. Sure, my first immersion into it was either Love Story in Harvard (and that's when I wanted to marry the lead actress) and got more into it with Kill It . However, Pride and Prejudice doesn't contain much eye candy for the men (Baek Jin Hee isn't pretty) and...