A Long Yak on Doctor Slump, Marry My Husband, and Like Flowers In Sand
03/16/24 • 112 min
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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).
Leave us your thoughts in a voice note here: <Recording Page>
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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Episode 166: Our last long yak
Episode 165: Our spoiled yak on Perfect Marriage Revenge
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This episode was edited by Paroma
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).
Leave us your thoughts in a voice note here: <Recording Page>
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
LEAVE US A REVIEW:
Apple podcasts | Spotify | Audible!
MORE EPISODES YOU'LL LIKE:
Episode 166: Our last long yak
Episode 165: Our spoiled yak on Perfect Marriage Revenge
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 [email protected].
CREDITS:
This episode was edited by Paroma
Previous Episode
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.)
Leave us your thoughts in a voice note here: <Recording Page>
TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 Overall thoughts
20:39 Spoilers
LEAVE US A REVIEW:
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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:
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 [email protected].
CREDITS:
This episode was edited by Anisa. Music: Pretty without You (Instrumental Version) by Vicky Vox
Next Episode
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: <Recording Page>
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)
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 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 [email protected].
CREDITS:
This episode was produced and edited by Paroma
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