JillThe #EndOfYearDramaChallenge #EYDC2025 has been announced!
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End of Year Drama Challenge Day 1: Which country's dramas have you watched the most of in 2025?
China and South Korea are tied! Of the 49 dramas I've completed so far this year, 19 were cdramas and 19 were kdramas.
However! I also watched the most jdramas ever this year at a whopping SEVEN. ๐
Some friends here say jdramas are their favorite, so I made it a point to watch more of them.
#kdrama #cdrama #jdrama
#EndOfYearDramaChallenge #EYDC2025
End of Year Drama Challenge Day 2: Favorite actress discovered in 2025
Zhao Li Ying. I loved her in both #TheStoryOfMingLan and #TheLegendOfShenLi
I think I rewatched Minglan 3 times in a row, it was so good.
End of the Year Drama Challenge Day 3: favorite actor discovered in 2025
Tan Jianci.
Now, technically, I first tried watching him in "Go East" last year, but I ended up dropping it. Seeing him in his minor part in #WinterBegonia and then intriguing main role in #LostYouForever this year won me over. I'm now currently watching him in #UnderTheSkin where he plays a genius forensic artist who helps solve crimes.
#cdrama #EYDC2025 #EndOfYearDramaChallenge
End of the Year Drama Challenge Day 4: favorite original song from a 2025 drama
*stares into the camera*
If I picked any song other than this one, I would not be me. And with over 4 million views, I'm not the only one who loved it. It's placement in the drama was *chef kiss* as well.
[์ธ์ ๊ฐ๋ ์ฌ๊ธฐ๋ก์ธ ์ ๊ณต์์ํ (Resident Playbook) OST Part 6] ๋๊ฒฝ์ (D.O.) - ์์ํด (FOREVER) MV
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nq_SJPKO_G0
#kdrama #kpop #EYDC2025 #EndOfYearDramaChallenge #DohKyungsoo #๋๊ฒฝ์ #๋์ค #ResidentPlaybook
[์ธ์ ๊ฐ๋ ์ฌ๊ธฐ๋ก์ธ ์ ๊ณต์์ํ (Resident Playbook) OST Part 6] ๋๊ฒฝ์ (D.O.) - ์์ํด (FOREVER) MV
End of the Year Drama Challenge Day 5: a visually beautiful 2025 Drama
This was a hard choice for me as I didn't watch a ton of dramas from 2025. Some gorgeous ones from 2024, though.
So I decided this 2025 movie must count. It uses a lot of the same locations as it's prequel #KillBokSoon that are just eye-catching and well-framed.
Mantis | Official Trailer | Netflix [ENG SUB]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PItlVyrf15U
#kdrama #Mantis #EYDC2025 #EndOfYearDramaChallenge
Mantis | Official Trailer | Netflix [ENG SUB]
End of the Year Drama Challenge Day 6: a drama you dropped in 2025
The #cdrama #Mobius that was too cop-heavy for me. I understand from other watchers that it was on purpose, possibly parody-like, but it was too much for me.
#EYDC2025 #EndOfYearDramaChallenge
Trailer: Five rewinds, fate remade. Warped timeโtruth? | ไธ็ ๆฅ Mobius | iQIYI
Trailer: Five rewinds, fate remade. Warped timeโtruth? | ไธ็ ๆฅ Mobius | iQIYI | Stay tuned
End of the Year Drama Challenge Day 7: favorite character of 2025
Jung Geum Ja from the 2020 #kdrama #Hyena
Every single one of her outfits was bold and on fire. She's fierce and flawed and a force to be reckoned with. And Kim Hye Soo at age 50 is smokin' hot.
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End of the Year Drama Challenge Day 8: standout secondary character of 2025
Li Leyan, played by Zhao Lusi, from the 2021 #cdrama #TheLongBallad
The female lead dresses up as a man and strives to be the best at traditionally masculine activities. In contrast, her younger sister, Leyan, is strong and perseveres in a very feminine way. She cares, she gives, she loves, she adapts, she survives. I *love* that.
#EYDC2025 #EndOfYearDramaChallenge
End of the Year Drama Challenge Day 9: did you watch older dramas in 2025
YES. @hanktank61 convinced me to watch one of his favorite #kdrama, 2009's #TheGreatQueenSeondeok and it is 62 hour-long episodes that never get dull. Fighting and magic and languages and Science and politics and romance and History and snarky clapbacks! It is now one of my favorites ever.
End of the Year Drama Challenge Day 10: did you rewatch dramas in 2025
Yes. I first watched the #cdrama #FindYourself in 2025 and then rewatched it a couple of times. I just enjoyed the characters and the story SO MUCH. A commentary on different expectations of men vs women for career, dating, marriage, aging, friendship... And so smart and funny!
End of the Year Drama Challenge Day 11: a drama that taught you something new
It had never occurred to me that dyslexia could also exist in character-based languages like Japanese. Seeing some of the strategies to help a person with dyslexia learn how to read Japanese was interesting to me.
End of Year Drama Challenge Day 12: a platonic relationship you loved
Does it count that the web novel was a bl and the adapted drama was platonic?
2020 #cdrama #WinterBegonia was phenomenal and the unlikely friendship between opera singer Shang Xi Rui and business mogul Cheng Fengtai was so good!
#EYDC2025 #EndOfYearDramaChallenge
End of the Year Drama Challenge Day 16: best actress of 2025
Hsieh Ying Xuan in the #TWdrama #ForgetYouNot where she plays a 40-something woman who does stand-up comedy and also takes care of her aging father. I laughed and cried SO HARD while watching this show. I felt it was truly full of heart and humility.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULsQBgUQ_Zs
#EYDC2025 #EndOfYearDramaChallenge
Forget You Not | Official Teaser | Netflix
End of the Year Drama Challenge Day 17: best actor of 2025
Yoon Kye Sang in the #kdrama #TheWinningTry as the fall-from-grace national rugby hero who got caught in a doping scandal and gets hired as a coach for a ragtag underdog high school rugby team. He was dorky, and silly, and full of heart, and love and pride for his players.
Trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAd-AjZLkbI
#EYDC2025 #EndOfYearDramaChallenge
The Winning Try | Official Clip | Netflix
End of the Year Drama Challenge Day 18: most watched genre
Romance. More than half (possibly even close to 80%) include the "Romance" tag on MDL.
#EYDC2025 #EndOfYearDramaChallenge
End of the Year Drama Challenge Day 19: Drama that made you laugh
The 2024 #cdrama #LaterILaughed was hilarious and at times too real. A woman decides to try stand-up comedy to get her frustrations with life out. I think this was one of my favorites all year.
Trailer:
https://youtu.be/2qw-5SJ0IFQ
#EYDC2025 #EndOfYearDramaChallenge
ๅฟไธไบไธ็น็้ขๅ๏ผ้ๆพ็ๆ๏ผไธ่ขซๅฎไน ใไธ่ฎจๅฅฝ็ๅๆฐ Later, I Laughedใ
End of Year Drama Challenge Day 20: a drama that made you cry
The Taiwanese drama "Forget You Not" had me ugly crying. And laughing! But the challenging relationship she has with her dad as he ages and starts having health problems, while she is just barely holding her life together? Big cathartic tears over here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULsQBgUQ_Zs
#TWdrama #ForgetYouNot #EYDC2025 #EndOfYearDramaChallenge
Forget You Not | Official Teaser | Netflix
End of the Year Drama Challenge Day 21: a drama that surprised you
The #kdrama movie #SecretUntoldMelody . I expected it to just be a cute, warm fuzzy love story, but then ... it wasn't just that. ๐ณ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJgpnZAsKts
#DohKyungsoo #๋๊ฒฝ์ #EYDC2025 #EndOfYearDramaChallenge
SECRET: Untold Melody - Official Trailer
End of the Year Drama Challenge Day 22: a drama that lives up to the hype
The #kdrama #StudyGroup. It was very entertaining (and violent!) and full of heart? I felt hope in humanity after watching it, which I did not expect.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bx0piV_Uf4E
#EYDC2025 #EndOfYearDramaChallenge
Study Group | Official Trailer | CJ ENM
End of the Year Drama Challenge Day 23: a drama that made you think
The #kdrama #TheGreatQueenSeondeok about the first female monarch in Silla, had me think a lot about not only what limitations women have in leadership, but also practical economics of a country. If you have fixed amount of labor and supplies, you must choose what to put it towards. In times of peace: farm tools and health for citizens. In times of war: weapons.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m99ZJQEDszo
#EYDC2025 #EndOfYearDramaChallenge
The Great Queen Seondeok โ Trailer [MBC]
End of the Year Drama Challenge Day 24: favorite costumes
The weekly themed costumes from the #kdrama #SpiritFingers. Every week, the drawing group picked a theme to dress up as and then had their drawing get-together in a themed room, too. Very fun!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srB0ng9mPXE
#EYDC2025 #EndOfYearDramaChallenge
SPIRIT FINGERS (2025) Korean Drama | Official Trailer | Park Ji Hu | Cho Jun Young | Park Yoo Na
End of the Year Drama Challenge Day 25: sweetest romance
It must be the young romance between Batay and Wen Xiu from the 2024 #cdrama #ToTheWonder, set in remote northern China between Kazakhstan and Mongolia. Young folks learning to live and love as the landscape and livelihoods of their families changes in front of their eyes.
Trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-Bvn5QbF8k
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Trailer: Ma Yili, Zhou Yiran and Yu Shiโs wilderness life! | To the Wonder ๆ็้ฟๅๆณฐ | iQIYI
End of the Year Drama Challenge Day 26: most disappointing Drama
The #kdrama #TheManipulated was most disappointing to ME, personally, because it was so violent. They took all the gross stereotypes of prison and put it on TV in the extreme. I wanted to support my favorite actor, Doh Kyungsoo, but I just don't have enough emotional fortitude often enough to complete this show yet.
Trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXPDFkuLfhs
#EYDC2025 #EndOfYearDramaChallenge
The Manipulated | Official Trailer | Disney+ Singapore
hanktank61@JillsJoy 1/2 You remember my postings about LMM and PEI ? , " Anne" ?
Part of interest is the society is very simular with where I live. Dairy-farms and fishing.
I learned much more about that from my museum- colleagues who grew up here.
In both ways-of-life, by custom the males are out in the fields or on sea. Females are at home. Tending the household, the family, fermenting, etc. Male can get drunk in the weekends, act macho, but it are the females who run the place. Very powerful.
Part of interest is the society is very simular with where I live. Dairy-farms and fishing.
I learned much more about that from my museum- colleagues who grew up here.
In both ways-of-life, by custom the males are out in the fields or on sea. Females are at home. Tending the household, the family, fermenting, etc. Male can get drunk in the weekends, act macho, but it are the females who run the place. Very powerful.
@JillsJoy 2/2
Think the Rachel Lyndes in Avonlea.
It is everywhere in societies like that.
The farm- families here grew big "thanks colonisation " . Many connections with Michigan and other states in the North of US.
One of my colleagues is active in Soroptimist organisation too. The males "fight " on the front , farm or fish. The females run the Palaces . Also are the base for the churches.
" Feminism" is hypothetical for them , they laugh about that
"Joseon" - kdramas portray that well ๐
@hanktank61 yes, it is really interesting to see parallels between the stories and our lives or histories. I never thought about how Anne of Green Gables might give insight to life in the Netherlands!
Fanua ๐@JillsJoy Yoon Kye Sang was great, top performance. His rugby techniques were pretty solid, too.
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Interesting. I found that one quite difficult to watch and his unshaven face bugged me more than it should have. He portrayed his character well.
Interesting. I found that one quite difficult to watch and his unshaven face bugged me more than it should have. He portrayed his character well.
Poisonous Mushroom@carm_kuryakin @JillsJoy
The site I use is the last remaining as far as I can see, that has it, with English subs. *)
But it might be elsewhere too..
Not sure if that site is legal
Something with "Kiss".
( Have your adblocker on guard !)
@carm_kuryakin @hanktank61 I watched this on Viki. Is it not there anymore? ๐
@JillsJoy @carm_kuryakin
I could download it from the site I suggested.
There is more there, but not with subs for newer dramas.
I could download it from the site I suggested.
There is more there, but not with subs for newer dramas.
It is! I found it but it's geo locked. I'm gonna try with my new VPN powers and see if that works, if not ๐ดโโ ๏ธ
Jenni S@JillsJoy @hanktank61 Oh I really need to watch this.
Forestofglory@JillsJoy Leyan! I love her so much!
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