Dramas Over Flowers

Saya, Anisa, and Paroma
Dramas Over Flowers Podcast

Destined friends and professional fans Saya, Anisa and Paroma yak—at length—about Korean dramas. Expect a healthy mix of subjective critique and objective fangirling.

  1. Lovely Runner One Last Time (Spoiled Yak)

    JUL 16

    Lovely Runner One Last Time (Spoiled Yak)

    Here are our final thoughts and theories on the one drama all three of us watched with equal fervour. Joining us for this final journey into the world of Piggyback Sunjae and Run are friends of the podcast, Hanah and Sarah. Leave us your thoughts in a voice note here: LINKS MENTIONED: Paroma's video on time traveling Im Sol: Link TIMESTAMP: 0:05:14 - Audience response 0:08:35 - Production budget 0:12:25 - Heart eyes for the drama 0:14:19 - Taesung vs the serial killer 0:18:31 - Sunjae remembering the alternate timelines 0:27:41 - Sol driving the story action 0:37:00 - On how Sunjae died in timeline 1 0:42:15 - Sol’s brother & best friend 0:45:29 - Erasing Sol’s disability struggles 0:50:22 - Fate demands a life 0:59:05 - 33yo Sol falling for a teen 1:10:54 - Only one Im Sol got a happy ending 1:22:43 - Grandma has the best line about memories 1:26:51 - Sunjae’s choice & final thoughts Running list of dramas mentioned: W: Two worlds Her Private Life Familiar wife Hometown CCC Will Love In Spring (CDrama) Marry My Husband Nine: Nine Times Travel Someday Or One Day Go Back Spouses Rooftop Prince Dark (German thriller) Goblin LEAVE US A REVIEW: Apple podcasts | Spotify | Audible! MORE EPISODES YOU'LL LIKE: Episode 172: Lovely Runner halfway discussion Episode 173: Growing out of fandoms NEWSLETTER: Join our email list for the monthly newsletter with podcast announcements and special episodes! PATRONS: SPECIAL THANK YOU to our beloved patrons for another year of helping us light the lanterns to sail our ship! Join it here! ❤︎ You can MAJORLY support us by leaving a review on your podcast app, or sharing the episode with friends! ❤︎ SOCIAL: Follow us on Twitter @dramasoverflow and Instagram @dramasoverflowers_. Email us at dramasoverflowers@gmail.com. CREDITS: This episode was edited by _____

    1h 31m
  2. A Short History Of the K-Drama Industry Before Netflix

    APR 4

    A Short History Of the K-Drama Industry Before Netflix

    In this episode, we talk about how K-dramas became a highly profitable export long before the entry of streaming platforms in the mid 2010s. This is a story of a nation's economic crisis, the creation of a unique opportunity, and a two decade long struggle for air wave supremacy in East Asia. Leave us your thoughts in a voice note here: TIMELINE OF DRAMAS MENTIONED: 1997 IMF crisis 1997 What is love all about (NBC) 2000 Autumn In My Heart (KBS) 2002 Winter Sonata (KBS) 2007 The Legend (MBC) 2013 My Love From the Star (SBS) 2016 Descendants of the Sun (KBS) 2016 Signal (tvN) 2016 Hwayugi (Korean Odyssey) (tvN) 2016 THAAD missile crisis/China bans K-ent LINKS MENTIONED: CedarBough Saeji's twitter thread on why South Korean academics rarely contribute to international journals. Living document of sources here. LIGHT READING 😌: Korean Dramas Adopt Pre-Produced Format to Mixed Results (article) The Reason SBS Missed Out on "Descendants of the Sun" and "Signal" (article) Romantic blockbusters: the co-commissioning of Korean network-developed K-dramas as ‘Netflix originals’ (journal) TIMESTAMP: 04:41 - How Kdramas came into existence 11:18 - How dramas used to be made 21:54 - Start of the digital age and entry of iQiyi 27:40 - Dramas begin to get expensive 31:32 - Watershed: Descendants of the Sun 34:40 - China bans Korean entertainment over THAAD 36:51 - Economics of terrestrial vs cable channels 47:12 - Netflix knocks (cliffhanger) LEAVE US A REVIEW: Apple podcasts | Spotify | Audible! MORE EPISODES YOU'LL LIKE: Episode 170: A Long Yak on Doctor Slump, Marry My Husband, and Like Flowers In Sand NEWSLETTER: Join our email list for the monthly newsletter with podcast announcements and special episodes! PATRONS: SPECIAL THANK YOU to our beloved patrons for another year of helping us light the lanterns to sail our ship! Join it...

    52 min

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Destined friends and professional fans Saya, Anisa and Paroma yak—at length—about Korean dramas. Expect a healthy mix of subjective critique and objective fangirling.

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