The Certified Noonas: Kdrama, Kpop, and More

Happy New Year! It feels fitting that the first episode of the year is an episode all about what we watched last year. A list of all the dramas we talked about, time codes, and more can be found on our blog post: https://bit.ly/3pMYMLR Tell us what you’re watching on our Discord . We'd love to hear from you! Send us a message certifiednoonas@gmail.com or on our socials @CertifiedNoonas. Send your...

It’s time for the Noona Awards, an award show we did the first year of this podcast, and haven’t returned to till now. Part awards, part discussion on our top dramas and music. Listen as we discuss our individual favorites. For time codes, and links to the playlists of all the stuff we talk about and more can be found on our blog: https://bit.ly/Certified2021 We'd love to hear from you! Send us a...

As a Christmas treat, the murder sub-unit (name pending, we'll figure it out), Natalia and Jessie are back with a special spoiler episode about the kdrama that took the International world by storm, Squid Game. Note: Heavy spoilers throughout the episode. While we do give a synopsis, we don’t move in a linear path on our discussion so it might be confusing for people who haven’t watched the drama....

With the year almost at an end, we decided to take some time to look back at some of the big stories and events that happened this past year. Time codes can be found on our blog post: https://bit.ly/Certified_Retrospective We'd love to hear from you! Send us a message certifiednoonas@gmail.com or on our socials @CertifiedNoonas. Send your questions that we’ll answer during our livestream to askano...

This week we are diving into the world of OSTs and talking about what makes them unique, and discussing some of our favorites that include the top OSTs of this year. For time codes and links check out our blog post: https://bit.ly/Certified_OST We'd love to hear from you! Send us a message certifiednoonas@gmail.com or on our socials! Send your questions that we’ll answer during our livestream to a...

A tiny mid-week episode about all the things we've been listening to. A playlist of the songs mentioned and more can be found on our blog: https://bit.ly/3lKuBT8 We'd love to hear from you! Send us a message certifiednoonas@gmail.com or on our socials @CertifiedNoonas. Send your questions that we’ll answer during our livestream to askanoona@gmail.com. Like our content and want access to some fun e...

It's time for the last look at what we've been watching for the year. Natalia and Jessie gush about their favorite drama of the year, we try to discuss what's going on with Jirisan, and much more. Time codes, a list of all the dramas mentioned, and more can be found on our blog post: https://bit.ly/31nZHsN We'd love to hear from you! Send us a message certifiednoonas@gmail.com or on our socials @C...

Have you been logging in to vote for your favorites for the MAMA Awards and saw Lee Mu Jin’s name pop up in some of the categories and wonder who he is? Fear not, we decided to dedicate an episode to this up and coming solo artist who we think you should be checking out. Links and a playlist of all the things we talked about can be found on our blog post: https://bit.ly/Certified_Lee_Mujin  We'd l...

The murder/cult/zombie sub-unit is back, and in this special spoiler episode, they are talking all about the new kdrama on Netflix, Hellbound. Listen as Natalia and Jessie talk about the drama and discuss what worked - and what didn't. Note: this is a full spoiler episode Check out the blog post with time codes and other information on our website: https://bit.ly/CertifiedHellbound We'd love to he...

With The Silent Sea coming up and the internet's resurgence of love for Gong Yoo, we felt that it was the right time to dedicate a full episode to him. So whether you are new to him or a lover from the beginning, join us as we discuss or feelings about him as a person and an entertainer, and go over his filmography. *There is a trigger warning for child abuse during our Silenced talk, starting at...

On this edition of the Newsnas we're talking (and ranting) about a lot of news stories that have came out including remakes of dramas and movies, NFTs in kpop, and company mergers (and much more!). For a list of all the news we mentioned and their time codes, as well as some links check out our blog post: https://bit.ly/CertifiedNewsnasRemakes We'd love to hear from you! Send us a message certifie...

For time codes and playlist for all the music we mentioned, check out our blog post: https://bit.ly/3D1bhaM We'd love to hear from you! Send us a message certifiednoonas@gmail.com or on our socials @CertifiedNoonas. Send your questions that we’ll answer during our livestream to askanoona@gmail.com. Like our content and want access to some fun extras? Consider becoming a member of our Found Family...

Time for everyone's favorite episode when we spend a bunch of time talking about all the dramas we've been watching. Time codes and a list of all the dramas we talked about can be found on our website: https://bit.ly/3wp8RzY We'd love to hear from you! Send us a message certifiednoonas@gmail.com or on our socials @CertifiedNoonas. Send your questions that we’ll answer during our livestream to aska...

This week we are discussing the first two episodes of the new kdrama, Jirisan. Listen as we discuss the episodes and our theories about what is going on with that mountain. Warning: there will be spoilers for both episodes in this podcast, but nothing past that. More information can be found on our post: https://bit.ly/Certified_Jirisan We'd love to hear from you! Send us a message certifiednoonas...

Did dramas like Squid Game or Crash Landing On You reel you into the Asian drama world and now you don't know where to go next? We’ve compiled some of our favorite Netflix offerings to hopefully help you along your new journey. Check out our blog post with loads of information about what we talked about, along with links and time codes: https://bit.ly/Noonas101Netflix We'd love to hear from you! S...

It’s our 3rd anniversary and we really lean into the three theme by talking about favorite things in threes, make a great witchy origin drama, and talk about what we want to do together as well as what we want for the future. Thanks for spending these three years with us! Links and more information from the episode can be found on our blog: https://bit.ly/3lPX5eA We'd love to hear from you! Send u...

Today we are discussing the cdrama, Couple of Mirrors. This is a spoiler episode, so we do spend almost the entire episode discussing the plot and characters. If you are reading this on Monday, Oct 11th before 8pm EST, stop by our livestream! https://youtu.be/Z8vbvmLzL9s Time codes can be found on our website: https://bit.ly/CertifiedMirrors We'd love to hear from you! Send us a message certifiedn...

It's time for another news episode! Listen as we discuss some of the stories that came out during the past month or so. Time codes can be found on our blog post: https://bit.ly/2YpV4g1 We'd love to hear from you! Send us a message certifiednoonas@gmail.com or on our socials @CertifiedNoonas. Send your questions that we’ll answer during our livestream to askanoona@gmail.com. Like our content and wa...

Listen as we try discuss the career and filmography of the amazingly talented actress Bae Doo Na, but end up just crushing on her the entire time. All the time codes, links, and extra information can be found on our blog post: https://bit.ly/Bae_Doo_Na We'd love to hear from you! Send us a message certifiednoonas@gmail.com or on our socials @CertifiedNoonas. Send your questions that we’ll answer d...

Bonus episode for the week with all the music we've been into. Time codes and other fun things can be found on our site: https://bit.ly/Strugglecast We'd love to hear from you! Send us a message certifiednoonas@gmail.com or on our socials @CertifiedNoonas. Send your questions that we’ll answer during our livestream to askanoona@gmail.com. Like our content and want access to some fun extras? Consid...

Listen as we tell you about all the things we've been watching. For a list of all the dramas, time codes, and more check out our blog post: https://bit.ly/WhatsHisFace We'd love to hear from you! Send us a message certifiednoonas@gmail.com or on our socials @CertifiedNoonas. Send your questions that we’ll answer during our livestream to askanoona@gmail.com. Like our content and want access to some...

It's been a rough year and a half and so we decided that this week we would discuss healing dramas: what makes one, what we define them as, and our personal favorites. Time codes and more can be found on our blog: https://bit.ly/Healing_Dramas *Note: there is a portion of our discussion that mentions suicide. If you need to skip, the time code is 10:02-11:22 We'd love to hear from you! Send us a m...

This week we are celebrating Amanda's birthday and talking about her favorite member of DPR, Christian Yu. Links and extras can be found on our blog post: https://bit.ly/Certified_DPR_IAN We'd love to hear from you! Send us a message certifiednoonas@gmail.com or on our socials @CertifiedNoonas. Send your questions that we’ll answer during our livestream to askanoona@gmail.com. Like our content and...

This week we are celebrating the last few weeks of summer by taking a lovely listener suggestion and talking about the beach and how it is tied to dramas. We talk about the dramas with pivotal scenes, why we think beach scenes are important as a plot device - all of which spirals into Natalia professing her love for the “missed the last ferry/bus” trope. Check out our blog post for all the time co...

Time for a mid-week episode about all our August music favorites. For a playlist of all the songs we mention, check out our blog: https://bit.ly/3zfzrwl We'd love to hear from you! Send us a message certifiednoonas@gmail.com or on our socials @CertifiedNoonas. Send your questions that we’ll answer during our livestream to askanoona@gmail.com.