49 Days: The Third Teardrop
Beautiful Mind: All the World’s a Mimicry
Big: Love Under the Spell of Spring, Miracle Keepers
Cantabile Tomorrow / Naeil’s Cantabile: Gymnopédie No. 1, Liszt’s Liebesträume No. 3, The Promise of Classical Music
Cheese in the Trap: The Meeting of the Face and the Gaze
Couple or Trouble / Fantasy Couple: 64 Minds
Delightful Chun-Hyang: More Than Paper Chase
Dream High: Slow Leaps, Fast Dance
Fated to Love You {Korea}: The Art of Fate
Flower Boys Next Door: A Handshake in Thought, Chasing Light, Fairy Tale: Bread and Butter Version, The Flower that Morphs into a Sun
Hanzawa Naoki: Simoleon Physiology
Hello Monster / I Remember You: Ad Meliora, Clockwork Destinies, False Hope and False Hopelessness, Fermat’s Last Theorem—It All Starts With a Little Confession, The Dream Logician Spiriting Away Stairways
High School King of Savvy: Faking It Till You Make It; Innocent Soul, Treacherous World; The Rules of Rule-Breaking
Hyde Jekyll, Me: A Beautiful Tumor; An Inaudible Chorus of Howls; If There is Another Me Inside Me, I Hope it is a Better Me; The Sketch of an Eternity Through the Arts
I Hear Your Voice: Quotidian Magic, The Presumption of Innocence
In Time With You {Taiwan}: The Scent of a Mature Woman
Les Gouttes de Dieu (Kami no Shizuku): Her Many Faces, The Maiden Under the Apple Tree, Whispering Volumes
Lucky Romance: Witchcrafting Programmers
Mama {Korea}: Mystical Quintet
Mask: A Chest You Can Cry On; Becoming the Mask; The World, Created for Dust and Ashes
Midnight Diner / Late Night Restaurant {Korea}: Lost Heroines
Misaeng: Badukisms, Desertocracy, The Invisible Path to Liberty, The Office Narrative
My Daughter Seo-Young: Smoke and Mirrors
My Love from the Star: Another Superpower, Otherworldly Propositions, Upwards
My Lovely Sam-Soon: Finding Momo
Never Let Me Go (Watashi wo Hanasanaide): The Dark Sides of Education
Nightmare High: Deep Down Inside, Beneath the Clothes of Culture
Nine: Nine Time Travels: Romancing the Butterfly Effect, Who am “I”?
Orange Marmalade: Back to Heaven, Human Rights for Nonhumans
Oshin: A Doll’s-Eye View of Japanese Aesthetics
Palace of Desire (Daming Gong Ci): Devotion
Page Turner: Beethoven is a Blanket
Please Come Back, Mister: A Geopolitical Reading of Knulp
Pinocchio: Germinating Truths, Merciful Lies, Pinocchio, The Truth as a Candy Wrapper
Princess Hours (Goong): Reaching Out to the Realm of Unconsciousness
Rooftop Prince: The Lady and the Peonies
Scarlet Heart / Startling by Each Step (Bubu Jingxin): Encounters, Sugar-Coated Haws and Hibiscus Cake
Secret Door: The Other Secret Door
Secret Garden {Korea}: Love as Machine and Machine as Love, Somewhere
She Was Pretty / Puzzled Lovers: Monte Carlo Fallacy, Moondust in Her Hair, Of Sky Waltzes and Rain Dancers, The “Was” in She Was Pretty
Six Flying Dragons / Roots of the Throne: A Soldier Wearing a Ball and Chain, Heaven in the Voices, Strange Waters
Splish Splash Love: Jordanian Inspiration, Joseon Incarnation; Necessity and Sufficiency
The Girl Who Sees Smells: Inside a Sensory Labyrinth, Scentillations
The Great Queen Seondeok: Romance of the Blue Bird and Plum Blossoms
The Legend / The Great King and Four Guardian Gods: Ardently Cowardly
The Little Nyonya: Weaving Poetry, Beauty and Meaning
The Moon Embracing the Sun: The Inquirer, The Moonlight in the Well
The Producers: Ensconced, Let There Be Light
ToGetHer: Tagorean Victory
Tree With Deep Roots: When Mathematics Meets Politics in a Lunchbox
Twenty Again: Candle in the Wind, Citrus Rhapsody, Fly Away, Skylark!
War and Beauty: A Headful of Mountain Flowers
Wind Chimes in a Bakery: Icing on the Bytes
Exclusives on External Network (For Institutional Partners)
Age of Youth / Hello, My Twenties!: The Misapprehended Beasts Called Norms
Chicago Typewriter: Pathological Virtuousness as an Ideological Umbrella for Shallow Popular Culture
Circle: Biopolitics Intertwined With Meme Survival
Drinking Solo: In Defense of Golden Agers in Healthcare Rationing
Galileo: Disinterestedness—An Essential Recipe for Serendipity?
Goblin / Guardian – The Lonely and Great God: An Earth Without Eavesdropping Butterflies, Rembrandt’s Misshapen Pearl
Love Me, If You Dare: The Problem With Personifying Artificial Intelligence
My Voice for You: Montmartre in a Cup of Hokkaido Buckwheat Tea
Prison Playbook: I’m Your Hikaru
Solomon’s Perjury: Depressive Realism and the Humanities
Strongest Deliveryman: The One-Percenter Who Would Rather Be a Dirt Spoon
Suits {Korea}: The Weight of Attempts at Attempts
Two Lights: Relúmĭno [Short film]: Photography Club for the Visually Impaired
W – Two Worlds Apart: The Limits of Fiction
The A-Philosopher's Chair 
Hi, I’m glad that I found your blog. I love k-dramas especially the ones that give me something to ponder, reflect myself and change my perception on certain things. Like ‘My Daughter Seo Young for example. There was one quote in the drama: “Everyone has their own mirror to see things, they forget that it can perceived in different angle from other people’s mirror” that really changed the way I see other people. Looking forward to read more of your posts! 🙂
Thanks for your comment! It’s always heartwarming to meet like-minded bloggers, and that was indeed a fabulous quote from My Daughter Seo-Young. Perhaps I should feature it in a post one day. Lee Bo-young’s subsequent drama, I Hear Your Voice, was rather thought-provoking too. The same goes for Pinocchio, which, as you may know, was produced by the same director and writer behind I Hear Your Voice. In fact, one can probably write a whole website on the numerous topics covered by Pinocchio. The maturity of the relationships between the primary and, I would argue, secondary couples also offers much food for thought. I’m sad that I’m limiting myself to four posts, at least for the time being.
This blog is a really great piece of work. I’m absolutely glad I found this!!! I also want to recommend 2 kdramas. 1) Woman of Dignity
2) The Great Seducer
I’m looking forward to further posts!!
Thank you so much for your warm comment. It would have been lovely to discuss the spectacular use of Gustave Klimt’s The Kiss in Woman of Dignity‘s commentary on social mobility, but this admin is already spending too much time away from a technology-related project that seeks to boost gender equality in STEM disciplines. The Great Seducer, like many non-hybrid romance dramas nowadays, is not quite my cup of tea. If you are interested, though, you can read this thread by a sociologist that compares the drama with the original novel Les Liaisons dangereuses and other adaptations: https://twitter.com/sel3nette/status/966626746048004097
You may also like to check out this moving short film about the visually impaired, which I have recently completed an article on, if you have not already watched it:
Again, thanks for your support of this site. Happy drama watching!