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‘Cafe Minamdang’ Season 1, Episode 2 Recap – A Decent Follow-Up Chapter
After finding himself stunned by a shoe when pursuing Jae-hui, Han-joon swears he will catch the person he knows as “Looney.” Meanwhile, the detectives get...
‘Cafe Minamdang’ Season 1, Episode 1 Recap – The Premiere Explained
We begin with a flashy entrance into the MK Noble Hotel from the suave shaman, Nam Han-joon, who seems plenty in demand. He’s a sharp...
‘Alchemy of Souls’ Season 1, Episode 4 Recap – The Story Remains Engaging
Beginning with a flashback that centres around Jang Uk’s birth, as well as the idea that the child must have the energy of the King’s...
‘Alchemy of Souls’ Season 1, Episode 3 Recap – Excellent Character-Building
After a look back at Park Jin’s initial shock over the potential lack of legitimacy, Jang Uk has a child, which ends up so extreme...
‘Money Heist: Korea – Joint Economic Area’ Season 1, Episode 6 Recap – Dropping Many Bombs of the Story
As usual, Money Heist leaves us at a crossroads full of twists and anticipation. This is the ending of part 1, but there’s much more...
‘Money Heist: Korea – Joint Economic Area’ Season 1, Episode 5 Recap – Assassination Attempt
The story is intensifying. The penultimate chapter produces a knife-edge as the heist team gets desperate while the police work with conflicting plans. Money Heist...
‘Money Heist: Korea – Joint Economic Area’ Season 1, Episode 4 Recap – The Trojan Horse
There’s something romantic behind the story of Money Heist. There’s a determination to tell a story between characters with different intentions and motives. And I...
‘Money Heist: Korea – Joint Economic Area’ Season 1, Episode 3 Recap – The Attempted Coup
If you are familiar with this story, it’s well-known that The Professor (Yoo Ji-tae) is a perfectionist. He devises a perfect plan on paper, but...
‘Money Heist: Korea – Joint Economic Area’ Season 1, Episode 2 Recap – The Escape Plan
So far, it appears that this Money Heist remake is following similar plot lines as the original. Character backgrounds are different, and the way The...
‘Money Heist: Korea – Joint Economic Area’ Season 1, Episode 1 Recap – The Premiere Explained
If you watched the Spanish version of Money Heist, labeled the original, then none of this story will feel unfamiliar. However, K-Drama has a knack...
‘Money Heist: Korea – Joint Economic Area’ Season 1, Part 1 Review – A Satisfying Korean Remake
There’s something romantic about the story of Money Heist. It understands storytelling at a human level, heightening the importance of character development and entwined with...
‘Alchemy of Souls’ Season 1, Episode 2 Recap – The Role of the Protagonists
We begin 20 years ago with a crowd of people weeping over the dead body of Do-hwa, which allows for the capture of her child....
‘Alchemy of Souls’ Season 1, Episode 1 Recap – The Premiere Explained
Episode 1 starts with a woman walking through a village, trying her hardest to avoid eye contact with anyone she passes by. While doing so,...
‘Our Blues’ Season 1 Ending Explained
The finale starts by watching Seon-a working and planning her trip to Jeju, while Dong-seok continues to drive Ok-dong around in search of the reservoir....
‘Our Blues’ Season 1, Episode 19 Recap – “Ok-dong and Dong-seok 2”
Episode 19 picks up where we left off, with Ok-dong and Chun-hee following Dong-seok so they can eat their requested breakfast. When he tries to...
‘Our Blues’ Season 1, Episode 18 Recap – “Ok-dong and Dong-seok 1”
After watching Dong-seok go about his usual busy routine, we see him excitedly text Seon-a about how a surprise visit to Seoul may make her...
‘Our Blues’ Season 1, Episode 17 Recap – “Chun-hui and Eun-gi 2”
After a day of work, Dong-seok is asked to take his mother to Mokpo, something he angrily refuses to do until it’s insisted upon. Elsewhere,...
‘Our Blues’ Season 1, Episode 16 Recap – “Chun-hui and Eun-gi 1”
We start with Ok-dong gathering old belongings to burn, completely unbothered by Eun-hui’s attempts to stop her. But the doting market salesman does notice something:...
‘My Liberation Notes’ Season 1 Ending Explained
It doesn’t really come as much of a surprise at this point, but of course, one of the low-key best K-dramas of the year rounds...
‘My Liberation Notes’ Season 1, Episode 15 Recap – The More Things Change…
It’s all about change, really, isn’t it? Everyone and everything changes, inevitably, but as it has progressed, My Liberation Notes has become about the speed...