The train home is hot and full of people, so instead of doing any of the things I brought with me for entertainment, I’m… picking Beyond Evil back up? Okay then!

Rewatched the last episode I saw, almost three years ago (no. 11), and the characters are coming back to me even if the full plot is taking its time. I ought to dig out my old watch thread from the birdsite.

Every time Lee Dong Sik comes onscreen, I feel torn between, “good grief, that man is magnetic,” and, “er, this character is the same age as me? Am I… old now?”

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Actually, I seem to remember my old watch thread was just “Chief Nam Sang Bae is so cool” repeated a dozen times or so.

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Aaaaaaaah that arrest?!?

(Hitting us with that right after demonstrating that Lee Dong Sik can in fact clean up mighty well? My limbic system is going to take a while to recover.)

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Btw if anyone wants to link me their preferred source on Korean romanisation systems and naming conventions, I’ll be grateful. I know you nerds are good for it. 

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@villainousfriend For naming conventions, this post https://koreanlocal.com/how-korean-names-work/ and the name generator made by the same person https://koreanlocal.com/tools/korean-name-generator/ are okay. The generator is more finicky than it has to be; entering the English name seems largely decorative (I got "Su-a" and "Min-gyeong" at different times for "Patty" and "female name") and whether a name reads as male, female, or neutral is a little too fluid and nuanced for software and non-native speakers to reliably determine. "Su-a" and "Min-gyeong" are almost exclusively female, it's true, but "Eun-seong" which the generator gave me as a male name could also be a woman's name, especially a younger one's.

Basically if you need Korean names, generate or make some up and @ me to get my opinion if you want it. Or we could just brainstorm names together, I love names.

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