A controversial post, Lee Min-ki, and a behind-the-scenes confession
we bring you a fresh issue of the Dramas Over Flowers Newsletter
Dear Fandom,
August has been interesting. Let’s catch you up.
On the ✨podcast✨
We published an episode completely dedicated to Lee Min-ki’s magic. There was a lot to discuss since the actor has been starring in films and dramas for almost 20 years now!
Have you been watching Extraordinary Attorney Woo?
Then you’ll find this interview with the Writer Moon Ji-won and Director Yoo In-shik extremely enlightening. It was originally published in Korean on Naver, and later translated for our website by Anisa Khalifa (otherwise, known as the Anisa of Saya-Anisa-Paroma 😄).
Paroma thinks Woo Young-woo’s mother’s choice not to have a child in college should not be villainised.
And her blog post on this topic has stirred up support and anger. People mainly seem to dislike that her assertion that Woo Young-woo’s father has made imperfect choices too. Take a read and let us know what you think!
Saya is STILL insisting that all fans of Hwarang and/or bromance in general need to catch this show!
She asks you to quickly go and watch In the Soop: Friendcation for a genuinely warm reality show (just 4 episodes long!) which follows real life friends Park Seo-joon, Park Hyung-shik, Kim Tae-hyung (aka V from BTS—these three were all in Hwarang together), Choi Woo-shik and Peakboy on a relaxed vacation.
And finally,
we bring you a little behind-the-scenes confession about the major kdrama recap website where all three of us worked at one point.
All of us stopped writing for Dramabeans at different times, for different reasons—this one is Saya’s story.
The link will take you to Saya’s ‘fanwall’ on Dramabeans where she also talks about the challenges of working as a senior writer under different editorial regimes and the perplexing decisions taken by the new administration once the original founders left the site.
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