Hiya! I decided to add another thing to my blog: Drama Reviews.

Although I’ve been watching Asian drama series since I started college in 2011, it was in 2017 that I suddenly realized I’d watched a lot of shows that I remembered nothing about. I suddenly came up with the idea to write reviews to record my feelings and thoughts after finishing a show, so that’s what I started doing, using this blog that I’d been neglected for quite some time.
If you read my reviews chronologically, you’ll find that I’ve improved my writing considerably throughout the years, adding structure to them and even adding cast comments at the end. It has ended up becoming kind of a hobby in itself where I take writing reviews quite seriously and put a lot of thought into which parts I want to cover and how to go about it.

Having said that, please be aware that I’m writing these reviews mainly for myself, to keep a record of series I’ve watched. I even occasionally read back my own past reviews. Of course this blog is online and open to whoever finds it, and I really appreciate positive comments and feedback. In fact, I’ve been getting a lot of very lovely comments in the past years. It’s cool to know that people sometimes stumble upon my blog and find my reviews enjoyable and helpful to read.
To the occasional Debbie Downers, I just want to say this:
Please keep in mind that these reviews contain my personal thoughts and feelings. If you don’t agree with my insights and/or ratings, that just means we have different opinions, not that one of us is “wrong”. There is no reason to get snappy or hateful, so if you choose to leave a comment, please try to remain kind and constructive.
I’d prefer to create a friendly discussion platform rather than deal with unnecessary “your review sucks” comments. To each their own opinion. I put a lot of time and energy in these reviews, so please bear that in mind. Personally, if I come across a review that I don’t agree with, I just think to myself “Hm, I disagree” and I move on. It’s really not that hard.

Just to give you a heads-up on what to expect before you click on any of the below links:
– as I’ve been watching dramas for at least seven years before I started writing reviews, following my own stream of thought there will be a lot of references to previous shows I’ve watched. If I make references to shows that I’ve also reviewed, I’ve added links to those reviews, but there will also be a lot of references to shows I haven’t reviewed. I don’t know if I’ll ever get to rewatch anything, but at least that’s to explain why some drama titles I drop are links and some aren’t.
– I tend to be quite lengthy, that’s just how I write. I go into detail about things they may not mean anything to others, I take detours, I associate stuff with personal experiences regarding certain topics and characters. It might take me some time to get to my point, but I just want to record every single thing that came to my mind as I was watching the show. If you’re up for reading it all the way, be my guest, but you have been warned now.
– one of the main reasons I decided to embark on this creative writing journey was to become more critical in voicing my opinions. It’s happened several times already that I’ve had an unpopular opinion towards certain shows. Even when I get disappointed by a drama despite it being super hyped for example, I always try to remain as constructive and open-minded as possible, and to get my points across without being disrespectful or sour towards any of the shows or actors that appear in it.

For whoever’s interested, from 2021 on I started making My Year in Asian Dramas videos to sum up all the shows I’ve watched in a year, including my MyDramaList ratings. If you click on one of the years down below, you’ll be forwarded to each respective video.

Also, if you’re curious to see my to-watch list and keep up with what I’m watching at the moment, feel free to check out my MDL account. I don’t share my reviews on there, but it is my go-to site to find and pin new dramas and rate them. You can see what I’ve already watched and what’s still on my to-watchlist. I’m not revealing the order in which I’m watching stuff, though, that little secret is in the hands of my Spin-the-Wheel app. I like to maintain an element of surprise, even for myself.

Maybe no-one reads this, and that’s completely fine, but this does include all my ground rules for my blog, which is really just an outlet for me to voice my passion for dramas.

2018

Andante (2017) (Korean)

Just Between Lovers (2017) (Korean)

Good Morning Call -Our Campus Days- (2017) (Japanese)

Duel (2017) (Korean)

My Girlfriend’s Boyfriend (2017) (Chinese)

Valid Love (2014) (Korean)

Love til the End of Summer (2017) (Chinese)

Todome no Kiss (2018) (Japanese)

Manhole (2017) (Korean)

Quartet (2017) (Japanese)

Temperature of Love (2017) (Korean)

Another Oh Hae Young (2016) (Korean)

She Was Pretty (2015) (Korean)

The Package (2017) (Korean)

Go Back Couple (2017) (Korean)

Because This is My First Life (2017) (Korean)

Meteor Garden (2018) (Chinese)

Wife I Know (2018) (Korean)

Last Minute Romance (2017) (Korean)

20th Century Boy and Girl (2017) (Korean)

I’m Not a Robot (2017) (Korean)

2019

Erased (2017) (Japanese)

A Love So Beautiful (2017) (Chinese)

Kill Me, Heal Me (2015) (Korean)

Jugglers (2017) (Korean)

Radio Romance (2018) (Korean)

Switched (2018) (Japanese)

With You (2016) (Chinese)

My First First Love Season 1 (2019) (Korean)

Short (2018) (Korean)

Individualist Ms. Ji Young (2017) (Korean)

Thirty But Seventeen (2018) (Korean)

Minami-kun no Koibito (2015) (Japanese)

Kimi ha Petto (2003) (Japanese)

That Man Oh Soo (2018) (Korean)

My Mister (2018) (Korean)

Are You Human Too? (2018) (Korean)

Clean With Passion For Now (2018) (Korean)

100 Day Husband (2018) (Korean)

About Time (2018) (Korean)

My First First Love Season 2 (2019) (Korean)

Sungkyunkwan Scandal (2010) (Korean)

Accidentally in Love (2018) (Chinese)

Hotel Del Luna (2019) (Korean)

Gyeryong Fairytale (2018) (Korean)

2020

Hana Nochi Hare (2018) (Japanese)

Love Rerun (2018) (Japanese)

Repeat (2018) (Japanese)

Love’s Lies (2018) (Chinese) – Part I

My ID is Gangnam Beauty (2018) (Korean)

Go Go Waikiki (2018) (Korean)

Haru ga Kita (2018) (Japanese)

The Great Seducer (2018) (Korean)

High Society (2015) (Korean)

The Master’s Sun (2013) (Korean)

What’s Wrong with Secretary Kim? (2018) (Korean)

Unnatural (2018) (Japanese)

Tree in the River (2018) (Taiwanese)

Touch Your Heart (2019) (Korean)

Big (2012) (Korean)

Romance is a Bonus Book (2019) (Korean)

2021

Love O2O (2016) (Chinese)

Dying Eye (2019) (Japanese)

Crash Landing on You (2019) (Korean)

Sweet Combat (2018) (Chinese)

The King: Eternal Monarch (2020) (Korean)

Itaewon Class (2020) (Korean)

It’s Okay to Not Be Okay (2020) (Korean)

Somehow 18 (2017) (Korean)

The Third Charm (2018) (Korean)

The Beauty Inside (2018) (Korean)

Nee Sensei, Shiranai no? (2019) (Japanese)

Encounter (2018) (Korean)

Lovestruck in the City (2020) (Korean)

Drama Special: What Is The Ghost Doing? (2015) (Korean)

Start-Up (2020) (Korean)

Perfect World (2019) (Japanese)

Run On (2020) (Korean)

Move to Heaven (2021) (Korean)

Master Devil Do Not Kiss Me Season 1 & 2 (2017) (Chinese)

Rookie Historian Goo Hae Ryung (2019) (Korean)

Come and Hug Me (2018) (Korean)

2022

Melting Me Softly (2019) (Korean)

My Absolute Boyfriend (2019) (Korean)

Room No. 9 (2018) (Korean)

Boku no Hatsukoi wo Kimi ni Sasagu (2019) (Japanese)

Abyss (2019) (Korean)

Arthdal Chronicles Season 1 (2019) (Korean)

Drama Special: If We Were a Season (2017) (Korean)

Love Alarm Season 1 & 2 (2019/2021) (Korean)

A Business Proposal (2022) (Korean)

Hometown Cha-Cha-Cha (2021) (Korean)

Our Beloved Summer (2021) (Korean)

Backstreet Rookie (2020) (Korean)

The Light in Your Eyes (2019) (Korean)

Something in the Rain (2018) (Korean)

Drunk in Good Taste (2018) (Korean)

Extraordinary Attorney Woo (2022) (Korean)

Fates and Furies (2018) (Korean)

Hajimete Koi wo Shita Hi ni Yomu Hanashi (2019) (Japanese)

Her Private Life (2019) (Korean)

The Silent Sea (2021) (Korean)

The Sound of Magic (2022) (Korean)

3-nen A-gumi (2019) (Japanese)

Put Your Head on My Shoulder (2019) (Chinese)

Koi wa Tsuzuku yo Dokomademo (2020) (Japanese)

Dali and the Cocky Prince (2021) (Korean)

2023

True Beauty Season 1 (2020) (Korean)

First Love: Hatsukoi (2022) (Japanese)

Somebody (2022) (Korean)

He is Psychometric (2019) (Korean)

Our Blues (2022) (Korean)

The Big Boss Season 1 & 2 (2017) (Chinese)

So I Married an Anti-Fan (2021) (Korean)

The Makanai: Cooking for the Maiko House (2023) (Japanese)

Crash Course in Romance (2023) (Korean)

My Liberation Notes (2022) (Korean)

Twenty-Five Twenty-One (2022) (Korean)

Copycat Killer (2023) (Taiwanese)

The One and Only (2021) (Korean)

Konya, Katte ni Dakishimetemo Ii Desu Ka? (2018) (Japanese)

Flipped (2018) (Chinese)

Summer Strike (2022) (Korean)

Once Upon a Small Town (2022) (Korean)

Gisou Furin (2019) (Japanese)

The School Nurse Files (2020) (Korean)

Nevertheless, (2021) (Korean)

Extraordinary You (2019) (Korean)

Ito-kun A to E (2017/2018) (Japanese)

Saiai (2021) (Japanese)

Wok of Love (2018) (Korean)

Crush (2021) (Chinese)

Birth of a Beauty (2014) (Korean)

Mask Girl (2023) (Korean)

Doona! (2023) (Korean)

SF8 (2020) (Korean)

2024

Alchemy of Souls Season 1 & 2 (2022) (Korean)

Watashi, Teiji de Kaerimasu (2019) (Japanese)

Love Under the Moon (2019) (Chinese)

Café Minamdang (2022) (Korean)

The Secret Life of My Secretary (2019) (Korean)

Sashidashinin wa, Dare desu ka? (2022) (Japanese)

Douse Mou Nigerarenai (2021) (Japanese)

Yonder (2022) (Korean)

Emperor or Boss (2021) (Chinese)

Seishun Cinderella (2022) (Japanese)

Perfect and Casual (2020) (Chinese)

My Demon (2023) (Korean)

Road to Rebirth (2021) (Chinese)

Oh! Master (2021) (Korean)

The King Loves (2017) (Korean)

Shards of Her (2022) (Taiwanese)

A Little Thing Called First Love (2019) (Chinese)

2025

Juuhan Shuttai! (2016) (Japanese)

When Time Stopped (2018) (Korean)

365: Repeat the Year (2020) (Korean)

The Best Hit (2017) (Korean)

Love of Summer Night (2020) (Chinese)

Search: WWW (2019) (Korean)

Welcome 2 Life (2019) (Korean)

Forecasting Love and Weather (2022) (Korean)

Kanojo no Inai Jikan (2024) (Japanese)

Yumi’s Cells Season 1 & 2 (2021/2022) (Korean)

Missing: The Other Side (S1) (2020) (Korean)

Missing: The Other Side (S2) (2022) (Korean)

Girl From Nowhere Season 1 & 2 (2018/2021) (Thai)

Lucky’s First Love (2019) (Chinese)

The Tale of Nok Du (2019) (Korean)

Summer Guys (2021) (Korean)

Strangers Again (2023) (Korean)

Love Me Like I Do (2023) (Chinese)

Soft Memory (2019) (Chinese)

Romantics Anonymous (2025) (Japanese)

2026

Yuugure ni, Te wo Tsunagu (2023) (Japanese)

Gibo to Musume no Blues (2018) (Japanese)

Mr. Insomnia Waiting For Love (2023) (Chinese)

Gyeongseong Creature Season 1 & 2 (2023/2024) (Korean)

Bubblegum (2015) (Korean)

Yumi’s Cells Season 3 (2026) (Korean)