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Dramas Over Flowers Saya, Anisa, and Paroma
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4.7 • 66 Ratings
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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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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.
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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)
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MORE EPISODES YOU'LL LIKE:
Episode 170: A Long Yak on Doctor Slump, Marry My Husband, and Like Flowers In Sand
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A Long Yak on Doctor Slump, Marry My Husband, and Like Flowers In Sand
We are back with a long yak on three dramas we started 2024 with: Doctor Slump, Marry My Husband, and Like Flowers In Sand.
This episode was recorded on 11th February. Our feelings on these dramas have stayed the same (with Doctor Slump getting special love for staying so reliably warm till the end).
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LINKS MENTIONED:
Paroma's Doctor Slump post.
Support Gaza through the Palestine Children's Relief Fund here.
TIMESTAMP:
00:01:50 - Doctor Slump
00:45:57 - Like Flowers In Sand
01:06:15 - Marry My Husband
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MORE EPISODES YOU'LL LIKE:
Episode 166: Our last long yak
Episode 165: Our spoiled yak on Perfect Marriage Revenge
NEWSLETTER:
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PATRONS:
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SOCIAL:
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CREDITS:
This episode was edited by Paroma -
Past Lives is a gorgeous meditation on love and regret | Spoiled Yak
Awards season is the perfect time for us to share our review of Past Lives, our favorite film of last year. Saya, Anisa and our friend Yunah talk about why this movie's meditations on grief, love, diaspora and selfhood spoke to us so deeply. (We recorded this at the end of last year.)
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TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 Overall thoughts
20:39 Spoilers
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MORE EPISODES YOU'LL LIKE:
Episode 89: Our review of Minari, also with Yunah
Episode 153: Crash Landing on You and the unbearable sadness of partition
NEWSLETTER:
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PATRONS:
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SOCIAL:
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Email us at dramasoverflowers@gmail.com.
CREDITS:
This episode was edited by Anisa. Music: Pretty without You (Instrumental Version) by Vicky Vox -
2023 in Dramaland: Year-End Yak Part 2 (Goguma Awards)
The 5th Annual Goguma Awards have landed! Your votes have been tallied and the results range from unexpected to unsurprising, all of which we dissect with glee. Get your tea and biscuits, it's long!
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LINKS MENTIONED:
Actor Jin: The Handsome Hotelier
TIMESTAMP:
00:00:00 - Introducing the Goguma Awards
00:02:46 - The Classic Gogumas
00:17:47 - Your Top 3 Dramas of 2023
00:25:27 - The Wild Gogumas
01:11:15 - Create Your Own: Listener Awards!
01:49:36 - Patreon Roll Call of Love and Appreciation 💗
01:55:08 - Love note to all our listeners 💕
02:00:46 - Predictions for 2024
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MORE EPISODES YOU'LL LIKE:
Episode 167: 2023 in Dramaland: Year-End Yak Part 1 (Trends + Our Year in Dramas)
Episode 160: Six Years Of Podcasting About K-dramas! Opening your mailbag ✨
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 Saya.
Music: "Carry You Home" by Duplex Heart -
2023 in Dramaland: Year-End Yak Part 1 (Trends + Our Year in Dramas)
The Year-End Yak is here! Or Part 1 anyway, where we talk about what K-dramas did this year, and how we felt about them. Goguma Awards coming in Part 2!
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LINKS MENTIONED:
Paroma's excellent 2023 Wrap for Film Companion
Paroma's My Demon Halfway Review (Spoilers)
K-drama Research Institute's video essay We Need to Talk About Netflix K-dramas
Saya and Paroma's new BTS YouTube Channel
Jae-Ha Kim's article Rest in Peace, Lee Sun-kyun
TIMESTAMP:
00:04:17 2023 K-drama trends
00:50:07 Saya, Anisa and Paroma's personal year in dramas
01:25:16 Notable podcast moments!
1:37:06 And some heartbreak.
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MORE EPISODES YOU'LL LIKE:
2022 in Dramaland: The Year-End Yak, Part 1 (Trends + Gogumas)
Perfect Marriage Revenge Spoiler Review
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 Anisa and Paroma.
Music: "La Sortie Francaise" by Smartface and "Woke Up" by Cushy -
A Long Yak on My Demon, Death's Game, Welcome to Samdal-ri & The Story of Park's Marriage Contract
Just Saya popping in to share her thoughts on an assortment of dramas: a mixture of bright and dark, exquisite and questionable, therapeutic and aggravating. The tl;dl (?) being: My Demon is darkbright and exquisite, Death's Game is just dark, Park's Marriage Contract is bright and aggravating, and Welcome to Samdal-ri is therapeutic, bright, and funnier than it should be.
Content warning for discussion of suicide in Death's Game and Welcome to Samdal-ri. Take care and skip if needed by using the timestamps below.
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LINKS MENTIONED:
An interview with a haenyeo female diver
Women of the Sea: Diving with the Haenyeo of Jeju
Paroma's latest video essays:
Twinkling Watermelon never explains its time travel & here's why we don't care
Bonus: My Demon Halfway Review (Spoilers): Hey! Song Kang can do romance!
TIMESTAMP:
00:00:29 My Demon 1-4
00:19:57 Death's Game Part 1
00:32:28 Death's Game Spoiler section
00:35:33 The Story of Park's Marriage Contract 1-8 (bit spoilery but who cares)
00:49:00 Welcome to Samdal-ri 1-6
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MORE EPISODES YOU'LL LIKE:
Episode 165: Perfect Marriage Revenge is a dish served SPICY HOT and DELICIOUSLY POETIC (Spoiled Yak)
Episode 146: 2022 in Dramaland: Our Year In Dramas (Year-End Yak) - enjoy a throwback while we work on the new one!
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_.
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Customer Reviews
really enjoying 😊
I have really been enjoying this podcast, especially the analyses of all of the hosts. you can tell they care about the work and effort they put into this podcast.
Wonderful Podcast
This podcast got me through the pandemic. Their analyses are ALWAYS thought provoking and sometimes hilarious. I particularly love Paroma’s insights and wit! Saya is intelligent and loves darker fare while Anisa has knowledge of the Korean language. I also adore their BTS appreciation.
Always insightful, but sometimes hard to understand titles
Just listened to your 2023 review which is incredibly insightful but there were more than usual moments where you mentioned dramas where you said the title so quickly I couldn't understand it. When you recommend dramas in a throw-away manner, perhaps you could list the titles in the episode notes? Because I'm always interested in knowing what these older dramas are since I didn't start watching K dramas until 2021 & have gradually come to realize that the ones I prefer were all made in prior years. Thank you!
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