Screencap of lifewithdramas (May 2013)
Ok, this is brilliant.
I was stalking following my stalkers followers** (as a sign of gratitude, y’know) when I came upon this empty blog called Life With Dramas. There’s nothing on it except the site title and the subtitle:
What happens when there are dramas to watch…
Now I know why the blog is empty. And I must say I wholeheartedly agree!
** Only the kdrama-related ones. Not the internet marketing and scam blogs!
Mad as a hen right now. Maybe madder since hens don’t really get mad… do they?
I refuse to post anything new until SBS trots out my Jae Hee!
Ok, I’m just kidding. 
Been down for the past month with gastritis, biliary reflux, esophagitis, and lots of good stuff. I’m on the mend now and eager to jump back to drama-land and blogging… if only they will give me my Jae Hee fix.
Please, Drama Gods, let Jae Hee be in a drama that any one of my blogging friends recaps!**
** I’m always on the lookout for kdrama blogs to follow so if you know of any, or if you own one, please leave your link in the comments area. Thank you ever so much!
Reblogged from The Drama Corner:
Marriage of convenience means a marriage that is based on mutual understanding towards personal gains and benefits, and does not involve liking, love, relationship or family as the goals for the matrimony. It is one of the most widely used themes in novels, movies and TV shows and I love it. In today's world, when everyone has the right to choose his/ her partner and in that scenario, if they are thrown into an unwanted relationship, and then the slow building of love and care: it really is enjoyable to watch.
An act governing the establishment, ownership, and infrastructure of Kdrama Corporations.
(This law has preempted the promised Out of Town Trip Law due to recent events at dramabeans. The OTTL will come out next week instead. 
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Section 1. Whereas a Kdrama Corporation is an artificial entity created by kdrama writers to drive the plot and/or provide a setting for the OTP to interact.
Section 2. Application Requirements
Whereas, Kdrama Corporations, to be considered valid, must provide proof of the ability to do or have done the following:
(a) Sabotage the press conference or product launch of a rival corporation.
(b) Steal ideas, concepts, prototypes, patents, and other intellectual property of a rival corporation.
(c) Dump waste irresponsibly or utilize any production process that endangers the health of people or destroys the environment.
(d) Bribe government officials, prosecutors, inspectors, and other people capable of exposing the Corporation’s misdeeds.
(e) Demolish a housing unit/units occupied by orphans, old people, sick people, single mothers, and any other person which can be considered helpless and unable to fight back.
(f) Monopolize the industry by driving small, earnest businesses to the ground or bullying kdrama blogs who recap the dramas they air using DMCA notices.
In kdramaland, the actual meetings are done in elevators and bathrooms. Not desks and conference rooms.
Section 3. Stocks and Ownership
Whereas, Kdrama Corporation must follow strict guidelines regarding ownership and stocks:
(a) It must be headed by a no-nonsense matriarch or patriarch who either (i) built the whole company from scratch or (ii) usurped a succesful company from a very close friend who then died and left behind a child or two to carry out revenge.
(b) The day-to-day operations must be run by a capable but illegitimate relative or unrelated AND under-appreciated, ticking time-bomb-of-betrayal manager.
(c) The successor must be a wastrel in accordance with the Reluctant Heir Law.
(d) 49% of the stocks must be owned by a group A within the company, the other 49% must be owned by an opposing group B within the company, and the last 2% must be owned by an eccentric third party who needs to be appeased or sucked up to right before a Stockholder’s meeting.
(e) The corporation must have at least one (1) CEO, manager, Vice President, or someone in a position of power who is too greedy, too stupid, and too evil to stop doing damning things and turn the ship around.
All the important characters in one screenshot: Eun Gi, Jae Hee, Lawyer Ahn, and Maru’s sexy back.
Section 4. Infrastructure
Whereas, Kdrama Corporations must provide a conducive environment for the exchange of ideas and communication between its employees by complying with the following:
(a) An adequate number of bathrooms for chance encounters and overhearing juicy gossip.
(b) A rooftop, stairwell, hallway, or garden for relocating right after “Let’s talk.” *wrist grab*
(c) Two or more elevators also for chance encounters, suspenseful will-they-or-won’t-they-finally-meet sequences, and “The closing elevator doors of heartbreak-edness”.
(d) A storage room, conference room, or any other closed space that can be locked from the outside so the OTP will be forced to spend an awkward night together.
I watched 20eps of Baby-faced Beauty because of this scene.
Section 5. Effectivity
Whereas, the activities described in Section 2 of this act can be effective up until the final episode only. After which the kdrama writer must manipulate the story such that the evil corporations are punished and everything is right again in Drama Land.
(End of law.)
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(Still) Wanted: Professor Jung Myung Hwan from What’s Up.
My sister says it’s Sung Shi Kyung from 1N2D but I said “THAT’S IMPOSSIBLE.” Right?
An act prohibiting kdrama citizens from recognizing important people such as parents, children, siblings, first loves, etc. after a separation or time-jump.
More importantly, who is *that* lady you’re manhandling. (Tree With Deep Roots, episode 5.)
Section 1. Whereas, recognition is the ability of normal people to recall another person based on appearance and/or past interactions or encounters.
Section 2. Whereas, recognition presents a common threat to kdramas, as it has been known to sap the tension from a search for a lost love or missing family, OR a revenge mission by someone who has been wronged in the past.
Marimar did it first. (If you got that reference, you’re old.)
Section 3. Whereas, to protect the anticipation for the big reveal and prolong the suffering of The Audience, kdrama characters are hereby prohibited by law from immediately recognizing an important character in their midst.
Section 4. Whereas, to enforce Section 3 of this act, kdramas are authorized by law to use any tool necessary to prevent recognition such as, but not limited to:
(a) Amnesia or any form of memory loss
(b) A condition that prevents someone from attaching a face to an identity (ie blindness, prosopagnosia, etc)
(c) Insanity or mental instability
(d) Superpowers
(e) A time-jump which, in kdramas, is enough to render a person totally unrecognizable even by his/her mother
(f) Presumption of death (ie “She looks exactly like my first love WHO I THOUGHT WAS DEAD so it can’t possibly be her, right? RIGHT?!”)
Insanity? Check! Amnesia? Check!
Section 6. Exceptions
The following people, entities, or situations are exempt from the Instant Recognition Ban:
(a) Kdrama villains, PROVIDED they will use said knowledge of real identity to blackmail the lead and make him/her suffer instead of outing the secret immediately.
(b) Second Leads who will rejoice at finding the lost love first and help him/her hide from the other leg of the love triangle.
(c) The OTP, PROVIDED they cannot act on said knowledge without risking the other person’s life.
(End of Law)
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Still searching for this guy (Prof Jung Myung Hwan of What’s Up)
If anyone knows his whereabouts kindly contact the kdramalaws authorities in the comments section.
Thank you.
