K-Drama My Eyes Out

In this week's episode, Judy and Linda talk about episodes 7-8 of "Weightlifting Fairy Kim Bok Joo" (역도요정 김복주), starring Lee SungKyung and Nam JooHyuk. Thankfully, there's just one digression this week, in which Linda gives a brief review of the Laneige Two Tone Lip Bar (41:06-42:51). This is not a sponsorship; we're too lazy for that.  Linda is staunchly unforgiving of Shiho (Kyung SooJin)...

This week, Judy and Linda may have had some wine while they discuss episodes 5 and 6 of "Weightlifting Fairy Kim Bok Joo" (역도요정 김복주), starring Lee SungKyung and Nam JooHyuk.   There are some digressions (more than usual): 1) 8:17-10:19 - Judy and Linda are crotchety about what the young people are doing to their jeans nowadays. 2) 11:37-14:05 - Judy and Linda talk about their favourite bird...

This week, Judy and Linda find the darkness in episodes 3 and 4 of "Weightlifting Fairy Kim Bok Joo" (역도요정 김복주), starring Lee SungKyung and Nam JooHyuk. For a show that's touted as a lighthearted romantic comedy, it surprised us by touching on deeper subjects that affect more than just the main characters. The theme of this week's episode is "unrealistic expectations". The drama portrays th...

This week, Judy and Linda continue to annoy everyone with their indecisiveness by talking about the second episodes of two MBC K-Drama series: "Weightlifting Fairy Kim Bok Joo" (역도요정 김복주) and "Missing Nine". Linda gives her first impressions of Lee SungKyung and Nam JooHyuk as the lead characters in "Weightlifting Fairy". Judy desperately wants to eat Korean barbecue. We want to commend the...

Now that Goblin is over, Judy and Linda had to make some important decisions about what K-drama to watch next for the podcast. This week, we watched the first episodes of 4 new dramas that started in January/February of 2017. To start off, we talk about "Saimdang: Light's Diary (Herstory)" (사임당, 빛의 일기), the new SBS drama starring Lee YoungAe and Song SeungHun. This was a huge disappointment...

In this episode, Judy and Linda finally get to talk about episodes 15 and 16 of "Goblin: The Lonely and Great God" (쓸쓸하고 찬란하신 도깨비), starring Gong Yoo, Kim GoEun, Lee DongWook and Yoo InNa. Brace yourselves for some rants.  Robert contributes another multilingual pun. Judy and Linda can't figure out how Euntak (Kim GoEun) regains her memories. Judy wants to reiterate the importance of kn...

You get two KDMEO episodes this week! Today's episode covers episodes 13 and 14 of "Goblin: The Lonely and Great God" (쓸쓸하고 찬란하신 도깨비), starring Gong Yoo, Kim GoEun, Lee DongWook and Yoo Inna. Judy and Linda think it's poor strategy for Kim Shin (Gong Yoo) to use Euntak (Kim GoEun) as bait for Eyeball Professor. Judy goes a bit mad, when Robert sneaks up on the recording with a multiling...

Hey guys! Last Friday, Linda and I recorded our thoughts on episodes 13-14 of "Goblin: The Lonely and Great God" (쓸쓸하고 찬란하신 도깨비). However, when I listened to the playback, we sounded like Transformers with bronchitis. So, many apologies to my co-host, Linda, and to you, our listeners.  This week, Robert was our special guest and we talked about the first episode of "Weightlifting Fairy...

This week, Judy and Linda talk about episodes 11 and 12 of "Goblin: The Lonely and Great God" (쓸쓸하고 찬란하신 도깨비), starring Gong Yoo, Kim GoEun, Lee DongWook and Yoo Inna. Judy gets quite frustrated with Euntak (Kim GoEun) and her lack of self-preservation. It's like watching the Animaniacs segment featuring Buttons and Mindy. Linda was scared of Park Joongheon (aka Eyeball Professor) and h...

In this week's podcast, Judy and Linda talk about episodes 9 and 10 of "Goblin: The Lonely and Great God" (쓸쓸하고 찬란하신 도깨비), starring Gong Yoo (aka Dinosaur Face with the nice voice), Kim GoEun and Lee DongWook. There were many illogical situations posed by these two episodes. 1) Kim Shin (Gong Yoo) tells Euntak (Kim GoEun) to pull out the sword and kill him. She refuses and says that if...

  In episode 16 of KDMEO, Judy and Linda drink wine and discuss episodes 7 and 8 of "Goblin: The Lonely and Great God" (쓸쓸하고 찬란하신 도깨비), starring Gong Yoo, Kim GoEun and Lee DongWook. Judy finds Euntak (Kim GoEun)'s new love interest, Taehee (Jung HaeIn), boring. Is he supposed to be an actual rival to Kim Shin (Gong Yoo)? The show gives him practically no screentime. Linda loves the Gri...

Happy New Year! We're at episode 15! To start 2017, Judy and Linda talk about episodes 5-6 of "Goblin: The Lonely and Great God" (쓸쓸하고 찬란하신 도깨비), starring Gong Yoo, KimGoEun and LeeDongWook. In this episode, Judy was skeptical that Euntak (Kim GoEun), a high school senior, can't interpret the Chinese characters in Kim Shin (Gong Yoo)'s diary. Isn't she a high school senior, who's so sma...

In this week's episode, Judy and Linda talk about episodes 3-4 of "Goblin: The Lonely and Great God" (쓸쓸하고 찬란하신 도깨비) from TVN. It stars Gong Yoo, Kim GoEun and Lee DongWook. Because it was originally intended to be released as part of last week's podcast, you'll notice it's slightly shorter than our normal ramblings. To be quite hone st, not much happened in e pisodes 3 and 4 that was w...

Linda and Judy are starting a new series this week, "Goblin: The Lonely and Great God" (쓸쓸하고 찬란하신 도깨비) from TVN. It stars Gong Yoo, Kim GoEun and Lee DongWook.  We had a lot of questions. How did Kim Shin (Gong Yoo) travel from Korea to Canada in the 11th century with his mortal servant? Why must this drama have a romance between a 19 year-old Ji Euntak (Kim GoEun) and a 939 year-old? W...

In this week's episode, Judy and Linda talk about episodes 7 and 8 of the SBS drama, "Legend of the Blue Sea", starring Lee Minho and Jun Jihyun. We were really hopeful after last week's events, but we can't seem to find a foothold in this drama. As talented as the main actors are, the plot is so bloated with events and characters that are barely explained, let alone likable. Rather than continue...

Whew! After much discussion, Judy and Linda have decided to continue watching "The Legend of the Blue Sea", starring Lee Minho and Jun Jihyun. It was getting a bit dicey there. This week, they are discussing episodes 5-6, which they found so much more enjoyable than previous episodes.    Judy goes on a rant about how no one is actually doing anything helpful during the code on Simcheong in the eme...

This week, Linda and Judy discuss episodes 3-4 of the SBS d rama, "Legend of the Blue Sea" (푸른 바다의 전설), starring Lee Minho and Jun Jihyun. We are having a rather difficult time with this drama. The weird pacing means the show has too much time to kill, which it attempts and fails to fill up with miserable side characters that we care nothing about. Jun Jihyun, as always, is a delight. Sadly...

Ah, we finally have a new drama to start watching and it's "The Legend of the Blue Sea"! It's on SBS and stars Lee Minho and Jun Jihyun. Special drop-in guest, Robert, joined us for about 5 minutes near the end of the episode.  What is up with the ridiculous retconning of mermaids in this drama? Why do they have so many powers? Is Shimcheong (Jun Jihyun) a mermaid who also travelled through space...

This week, Judy and Linda watched "A Werewolf Boy" (2012), starring Linda's favourite actor, Song Joongki, and Park Boyoung. They are joined by a special guest, Robert, who inadvertently watched the second half of the movie. Let's face it though, he didn't miss much in the first half. We were...confused. Is this a romantic movie? Judy was convinced it was supposed to be a romance that didn't quite...

Oh noes! "Moonlight Drawn by Clouds" (구르미 그린 달빛) is over. Judy and Linda discuss the final four episodes of the KBS2 drama starring Park Bogum, Kim Yoojung and Jinyoung (from B1A4).  The ending left us feeling strangely unfulfilled. Episodes 15 and 16 felt like the showrunners were killing time until they had to wrap everything up in episodes 17 and 18 with a neat little bow.  Some clarific...

Hi guys! Judy is currently on vacation in Korea, so we had to record this ahead of time. This means that we won't be able to discuss the final four episodes of Moonlight Drawn by Clouds until end of October. Instead, we watched the first episodes of various K-Dramas, like Scarlet Heart:Ryeo, Reply 1988, Tomorrow Cantabile, I Remember You (aka Hello Monster), Descendants of the Sun and Doctors.  Ko...

In our 6th episode, Judy and Linda discuss episodes 13 and 14 of the KBS2 drama, Moonlight Drawn by Clouds (구르미 그린 달빛), starring Kim Yoojung, Park Bogum and Jinyoung (B1A4). This week left us emotionally exhausted from the heartbreak portrayed by the Crown Prince, Samnom (now Raon, we guess?), Yoonsung and Hayun. Judy cried. A lot. Linda was bloodthirsty and claimed to be so, for "good reas...

This week, Judy and Linda discuss episodes 11 and 12 of the KBS2 drama, Moonlight Drawn by Clouds (구르미 그린 달빛), starring Kim Yoojung, Park Bogum and Jinyoung (B1A4). There were many exciting moments in these two episodes. We see Yoonsung's dark side again (hooray!) and the cool fight scene helps break up the cheesy romance scenes. Judy and Linda reveal their not-so-secret crush on Captain Am...

We have a confession to make. We were rather disappointed by episode 9 of Moonlight Drawn by Clouds (구르미 그린 달빛). The acting, especially that of Park Bogum, is still superb, but we found the quick jumps between all the side plots very tedious to follow. Come on, guys, we know why we watch this show and it's not for the nonsensical rebellion storyline. And where was Yoonsung (Jinyoung from B1...

It's our third episode! Judy thought she would have to tear her hair out after another issue with her external hard drive, but it's fixed now. You may hear some weird changes in sound between the 44-45 minute mark. Sorry. But we have audio clips from the drama embedded in the podcast now. We're so fancy! In this episode of K-Drama My Eyes Out, we discuss episodes 7 and 8 of Moonlight Drawn by Clou...