Wow its nearing November which means it's been a year since I am on #Mastodon! I want to still say I am the happiest I have ever been on #SocialMedia - I have met so many wonderful people from around the world, especially from the #Malaysia#CDrama and #KDrama world.
Lovely people who just want to spread fun and positivity. It just never felt that way on #Twitter. It felt very competitive & angry there. Here I can just carefully filter my feed to avoid it. Thank you for existing, #Fediverse!
Oh man this is literally so amazing. Thanks to the #ActivityPub WP.com integration, my #CDrama#KDrama blog dramatea now has its own Mastodon profile. This is all kinds of cool. Theoretically I can literally use my blog as a #Fediverse instance. I wonder how this will change the Fediverse? How big will it grow? 🤔
You can check it out & follow me here @dramatea88.wordpress.com@dramatea88.wordpress.com
"One of this year's biggest hits, The Glory, was about a woman taking revenge against her bullies, and the hugely popular Extraordinary Attorney Woo featured an autistic female lawyer.
Women's roles in K-drama weren't always this interesting. Traditionally made to be watched by the whole family, nowadays shows even have the odd sex scene - and taboos like bisexual relationships and older people having love lives are being broken."
Watching a Korean drama years ago playing in modern times, an installation in a coffee- bar intrigued me . It appeared to be a way of coffee-making used on Dutch trade-ships in 17th C. to Asia. Called "Dutch Coffee". Ice-brewed coffee taking hours . Still popular in Asia, very few know it in Holland. ( Although a certain coffee-chain sells "cold brew).
Looking on the net, S.Korea and Japan pop up most for using it.
I'm pretty happy that my brain has decided to cool off with the #geopolitics obsession and veer towards #CDramas & #Kdramas instead. Yipee! Much healthier and way more fun.
As per my usual modus operandi when I get obsessive, I've created a #Kdrama & #Cdrama blog, Youtube channel & podcast. To be fair, I've blogged about shows off and on, but thought it was best to consolidate it to one space to not confuse people who visit my personal site.
Blog: https://dramatea88.wordpress.com/
I'm helping someone I met elsewhere connect with us here. They want to find others who are also keen on K and C drama and made an account on Firefish for this @pseudo
(pseudo: follow these hashtags like you would an account #KDrama#CDrama
#3goodthings forgot to post yesterday
Amazing home-made Korean double-fried chicken and tofu
My home-made sweet, sour, spicy sauce
Rewatching a slow, sweet #kdrama during a thunderstorm.
NOODLE EYE
Han Yeo Jin (Bae Doo Na) letting Hwang Shi Mok (Cho Seung Woo) know that she's keeping a eye (or two) on him in Stranger (2017). #KDrama#BaeDoona#Stranger
Short and sweet, but packs a whole lot of punch, this Korean drama is about a mystical bar where people can find help to solve their "grudges" and the mysterious people who run it.
You can now follow my #Cdrama & #Kdrama blog, DramaTea from the #Fediverse. Just click on this link 👉 @dramatea88.wordpress.com@dramatea88.wordpress.com
And "follow".
I'll still be using the appropriate hashtags, and boosting the posts, but I'll be sharing my blog posts purely through that account from now on, so do follow it :)
Heyhey!
New instance, new #introduction :ablobcatheartsqueeze:
My name is Rini, she her pronouns. I'm from the land of the Moomin aka Finland 🇫🇮 but I live in Sweden 🇸🇪
I love anything with horror, fantasy and sci-fi genre.
I'm autistic and I have ADHD and Hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome.
Destined With You is that K drama that just too good for only 16 episodes. There's the right amount of sweet, sarcasm, pettiness, and mystery to keep people tuned in. But honestly all the characters are fun and even the slow parts didn't feel like a chore.
So a Discord group I am part of asked - what 12 dramas will I recommend people?
So this is a list of my favourite #CDramas and #KDramas. Have you seen any of them?
I need a #kdrama or #cdrama recommendation where the romance has a happy ending, please? I cannot afford to have my heart shredded by fiction currently.
And my brain doesn’t seem to be able to deal with words currently so I’m not reading.
Sad to hear about the passing of Lee Sun-kyun [이선균], so young too.
I understand he was due to film season two of Apple TV's Dr Brain [Dr.브레인] and a movie called The Land of Happiness [행복의 나라]. He is best known for his role in Parasite [기생충].
If a foreign show you like was delayed because of, say, sports: it is normal; you don't have to call them “lazy” or “unfair to their International fans”.
It got delayed because there is a far more important program they have to air at the same time slot. If the TV/Cable network cannot air it, no licensed/official OTT or streaming service can release the latest episode.
For example, the #AsianGames is ongoing and some #Kdrama episodes did not air because the TV/Cable network chose to air a live broadcast of the Asian Games.
Sadly, there are a lot of International fans whining about it. Even sharing information that it will hurt the show's ratings and the actors won't get new projects because of it.
Like it or not, especially in Korea:
1: #Sports is bigger. It guarantees a huge chunk of viewership.
2: If it's an exclusive live broadcast + guaranteed viewership = more money.
Here in Asia-Pacific, exclusive sports channels are not a thing, or not popular. So local TV/Cable networks still compete for exclusive live broadcast and content.
Learn to wait. Believe it or not, audiences outside a show's production country don't matter at all. Even in North America, only the local audiences (US and Canada) matter in ratings, revenue, ROI, etc.
In short, show some respect. (And most of you are watching from illegal streaming sites anyway.)
For those of you not aware, there is a whole genre of Korean historical fiction about the invention of Hangeul, the Korean alphabet, because the real-life story behind the invention of Hangeul is “an incredibly sophisticated and super-secret linguistics project carried out centuries before the field of linguistics was actually invented.”
It was also revolutionary in that it made literacy accessible to commoners who didn’t have the resources to learn Chinese.