#when the camellia blooms

[kdramaxoxo]

Kdrama men that have ken-ergy

Kenergy K-drama Men:

and also funnily enough...

#kdrama #kenergy #run on #shopping king louie #extraordinary attorney woo #extraordinary you #when the camellia blooms #the flower boy next door #strong woman do bong soon #i love a list #kdramas

[xiaolanhua]

When the Camellia Blooms 동백꽃 필 무렵 (2019) Dir. by Kang Min Kyung & Cha Young Hoon – Episode 6

#when the camellia blooms #kdrama #kdramaedit #gong hyo jin #kang ha neul #kdramanetwork #userdramas #useryd #haeyeongs #udeokmis #roserayne #samblr #tuseralexa #userkveom #tvedit #dailytvfilmgifs #kdramadaily #my gifs #* #tvandfilm

[sab-teraa]

It’s 2023 … I need k dramas to stop with the murder mysteries in rom coms! WRAP IT UP!!

#crash course in romance #summer strike #k drama #when the camellia blooms

[murderousthighs]

So they turned my soft healing slice of life romance drama into a murder mystery for reasons. If I had a nickel for every time this has happened you’d be shocked at my pile of nickels really.

#summer strike #when the camellia blooms #you are my spring #kdrama #murderousthighs watches dramas and has thoughts

[13elieve]

Happy mother's day to the best moms in k-drama

#crash course in romance #broker #hospital playlist #when the camellia blooms #pachinko #under the queen's umbrella #k drama

[miss-bujenny]

“Miracles don’t exist. It’s just little heroes inside us working together. The small acts of kindness done by kind people. It’s just the result of all the good deeds you’ve done. You just think it’s a miracle.”

#when the camellia blooms #kdrama #kdrama quotes #korean #korean drama

[applehairchim]

Huwaina's Kdrama Recs

i loveee dramas that just makes you want to wrap yourself in a blanket and not leave you on the edge of your seat. if you know me, then youll know i hate (LOATHE) thriller/ psychological dramas UNLESS theyre mixed rom-com, feel good, slice of life, coming of age etc 😌

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Crash Course in Romance

Alchemy of Souls Part 1

Navillera

When the Camellia Blooms

Weightlifting Fairy Kim Bok Joo

Do you Like Brahms

Move to Heaven

Love to Hate You (love the start and the concept and plot but towards the end things escalated quickly so that was disappointing to me :/ and some scenes were questionable but alas it is 10 eps)

Recipe for Farewell

Attorney Woo

Hospital Playlist

Strong Woman Do Bong Soon

Dr Cha

When the Weather is Fine

Celebrity (NOT AT ALL rom com but ahhhh its too good not to recommend i legit stayed up just to finish 8eps in 4 hrs dysjbshsb)

Castaway Diva (mentions of abuse, so I skipped those parts but other than that they have my heart <3)

Tell Me That You Love Me (the cutest🥺🥺🥺 that kind of slowburn, innocent but careful kind of love when you both mutally respect one another)

** also if youve watched any of my recs, feel free to inbox me so that we can fangirl together!!

#kdrama #kdrama recs #kdrama recommendations #x #i know theres tons more but i cant remember 😵‍💫 #if we are on the same page pls rec me some too!! #thirty nine #hospital playlist #crash course in romance #weightlifting fairy kim bok joo #navillera #when the camellia blooms #recipe for farewell #dr cha #Castaway diva #tell me that you love me kdrama #tell me that you love me #updated 30 dec 23!

[aylinaliens]

Top five angst-with-a-happy-ending K-dramas!

angst with a happy ending is my FAVORITE i love it when a drama emotionally breaks me and then give me cute fluff at the end 🥰

1. Come and Hug Me

this drama truly has one of the most messed up plots out there. the FLs parents/brother were murdered by the MLs parents. i know what you’re thinking: how could this ever be a happy ending? well, there is. these two characters who went through literal hell together gets their happy ending and it’s WELL deserved. the journey is long and difficult and angsty. despite all of that the bond between the leads is actually the the sweetest thing ever. na mu and na moo were dealt the worst cards out there but they remained kind, loving, sweet, and caring. watching come & hug me felt like being punched and hugged at the same time.

2. Flower of Evil

this d r a m a. it’s so angsty and painful and intense. the FL and ML are already married & parents so the angst it delivers hits way harder. the FL is a homicide detective who, unbeknownst to her, marries a man with a dark dark past. she starts to investigate a string of murders that took place 15 years ago and starts to think that maybe her husband was the killer. the ML acts like perfect husband and father (his relationship with his daughter is so wholesome) but…is it real? or is it all pretend? flower of evil is full of pain and betrayal but it still manages to have a happy ending.

3. When the Camellia Blooms

the angst that WTCB gave us was unreal and so bittersweet but the ending was *chefs kiss*. dongbaek is a single mother who honestly is just trying to survive in a small town. she has to deal with prejudice and judgement at every turn. she ends up meeting youngshik, a police officer, who immediately falls head over heels. he’s so enchanted and amazed by dongbaek & is willing to raise her son. youngshik is a literal golden retriever so when things get angsty it HURTS. be aware that this does have a big side plot about a serial killer. it takes a lot of fighting and work for these two (three if you count her son). some of the side characters were infuriating but these two were cuties.

4. Just Between Lovers

yet another drama that feels like a punch to the face and a hug at the same time. this drama deals heavily with trauma and grief and survivors guilt. the FL and ML were both there as teens when the accident happened and lost people they loved. years later they cross paths and have to learn to navigate their feelings and trauma together. it’s angsty and a tearjerker but it’s also so sweet.

5. Thirty but Seventeen

Miss Shin Hyesun is the queen of angst with a happy ending trope (for the most part idk what happened with mr. queen). 30 but 17 is criminally underrated. when the FL is 17 she gets into an accident and is in a coma. the ML feels responsible for it so he closes himself off emotionally. 13 years later, the FL wakes up and crosses paths with the ML. neither remember each other though which leads to ✨angst✨. this drama is so heartwarming but also sad. it’s not as painful as the others but it certainly hurts. not only is it angsty but it also uses the cohabitation trope. it’s so cute GO WATCH THIS DRAMA EVERYONE.

Ask me my TOP FIVE anything

#kay answers #drama recs #giving recs is my favorite thing to do 💙🥰 #come and hug me #flower of evil #when the camellia blooms #just between lovers #thirty but seventeen #kdrama #kdrama recommendations

[gracie2023]

some of my fav tropes in kdramas: (P1)

“we’re both in pain, so i guess let’s suffer together” - My Liberation Notes, Our Blues, Twenty Five Twenty One, It’s Okay to Not Be Okay

“childhood crush, first love, but also friends to lovers” - Chocolate, Reply 1988, Cinderella and the Four Knights, Itaewon Class, My First First Love

“girl has a glow up, but the guy liked her before and after” - My ID is Gangnam Beauty, A Little Thing Called First Love

“I like them, but they don’t like me (or so it seems)” - Wait My Youth, Unrequited Love, A Love So Beautiful

“girly girl meets serious boy, practically a gloomy boy + sunshine girl” - Touch My Heart

“older, shyer girl meets younger, bolder boy + he mends her broken heart” - When the Camellia Blooms, Romance is a Bonus Book, Search WWW

#when the camellia blooms #it’s okay to not be okay #25 21 #chocolate #reply 1988 #my id is gangnam beauty #chinese drama #korean drama #kdrama #asian drama #kdramaedit #i love this drama #kdramanetwork #touch my heart

[jaehund]

how can everyone talk about green flag boys in kdrama but not include hwang yongsik in it?

#when the camellia blooms

[kactors-kpop-kdrama]

#yeon hye ran #when the camellia blooms

[xiaolanhua]

When the Camellia Blooms 동백꽃 필 무렵 (2019) Dir. by Kang Min Kyung & Cha Young Hoon – Episode 9

#when the camellia blooms #kdrama #gong hyo jin #kang ha neul #kdramaedit #tvedit #tvandfilm #useryd #haeyeongs #udeokmis #roserayne #samblr #tuseralexa #userkveom #usergooseras #my gifs #* #userdramas #kdramanetwork

[meherya]

The only good dramas with decent male leads are the dramas where the men could never be CEOs

#when the camellia blooms #live up to your name #are the top 2 that come to mind #both dudes are dumb (affectionate) and could not be capitalists like that #i mean heo im was obsessed with hoarding money at one point but that's explored p well

[mymiliblog]

November ...

2022

#curtain call #reborn rich #tv series #south korea #2022 #when the camellia blooms #2019 #season 1 #alchemy of souls #season 2 #2022 tv series #netflix

[boonlieng]

#kang ha neul #강하늘 #カンハヌル #คังฮานึล #when the camellia blooms #kbs2 #동백꽃필무렵 #KBS Drama Awards (2019) #황용식 #ฮวังยงชิก #คุมฮานึลได้รางวัลขวัญใจขาวเน็ต สปัชองค์ยงชิกเข้าสิง สิงเสร็จเป็นคุณนึลหน้าเป็นทะเล้น

[absolutebl]

This is a BL adjacent question, so no pressure to answer if it's too off topic! But I was watching "Because This is My First Life" last night and it dawned on me that the main pairing seems very tsundere/sunshine. Is that even a thing in het pairings? I know we often complain about the seme/uke dynamic being problematic in the heterosexual assumptions...which made me wonder -- Do het pairings in Asian dramas have the same tropes?

Do Het Kdramas & BLs Use the Same Tropes & Archetypes 

Sure do. 

Due to benevolent sexism (another thing I complain about all the time) some pairings are much less common in het than BL (sunshine m + tsundere f) but they still happen (see: Happiness, Decedents of the Sun, When the Camellia Blooms. 

Grumpy(tsundere) m + sunshine f is super common (Gogh, Secretary Kim, Business Proposal). Probubly the most common, because it plays into traditional stereotypes: the man is reserved, closed-off, and stern, the woman is warm, loving, and cheerful (also endearingly clumsy). 

Honestly, clumsy-bunny trope might be working it's way around to being one of my least favorites. (I gotta stop watching Cdramas). 

One of the reasons I like noona romances so much is because the woman is given a... how to put this?... more masculine form of agency and autonomy, for a Kdrama.

Kdrama's also really love the suffering plucky heroine (which we see less often in BL) although I feel like My Ride served us this. So like Heirs, Run-On, Camellia. I kinda like this archetype but it's more common in older Japanese stuff. And also can lean into bullying and the whipping boy/girl trope pretty quickly. That’s a bit old fashioned for most modern audiences. So again, only really Japan these days. With the exception of Boys Over Flowers, I suppose. 

There ARE certain visual tropes that seem to mostly belong to BL but never completely, so far as I can tell. But we got: clear umbrellas (the hets got the colored ones), peeling shrimp, pink milk, engineering gears & smocks, and a few other things you’ll see tumblr joke about in terms of “cute boy summoning circles.”  

Generally speaking any heterosexually dysmorphic tropes we see visually represented in BL (seme forehead kisses uke but uke cheek kisses seme) come from het Asian romance drama tropes. Or at the very least are intimately tied together. 

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#kdramas #kdramas vs kbl #kbl #korena bls #korean dramas #japanese bl #japanese dramas #noona romances #When the Camellia Blooms #Decedents of the Sun #what's wrong with secretary kim #Run-On #boys over flowers #Business Proposal