#Come and hug me

[kdramaxoxo]

I need someone to do some research about how many times there's a scene in a k-drama featuring the lead couple riding a carousel AND wearing animal ear headbands.

I'm guessing 57

[lurkingshan]

The Asian Drama Generational Trauma Challenge List 

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As @waitmyturtles has been making her way through her OGMMTVC I have been continuing to watch way too many dramas and thinking about the ones I want her to watch when she’s done with that project. And because I know Turtles, it’s always the dramas that feature themes around intergenerational trauma, filial piety, and lots of emotionally fraught interactions between parents and children that ping my “Turtles needs to watch this” radar. As I was mentioning the shows I wanted her to watch, Turtles joked that maybe I should make her a new challenge list that is focused on intergenerational trauma.

And if y’all haven’t learned this about me yet, you should know that I have no chill and absolutely will embark on a whole project because you make a stray comment in my direction. So here we are!

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I wanted this list to be inclusive of a broad range of Asian dramas, exploring how it shows up in different Asian countries and through both het and queer lenses, so I consulted quite a few friends. Shoutout to @wen-kexing-apologist, @so-much-yet-to-learn, @bengiyo, @shortpplfedup, @ginnymoonbeam, and @emotionallychargedtowel for helping me refine this list. We landed on the following criteria:

Modern dramas only—not necessarily current but set in a time period recent enough that we don’t have a whole additional set of social mores to layer on top

The drama explores intergenerational trauma, not just intergenerational dynamics (so shows like Reply 1988 that are very much about family but not necessarily trauma are not on the list)

Intergenerational trauma is a primary focus and a major theme of the drama, not a background theme, a surprise reveal, or just part of a character’s backstory to engender sympathy (waves goodbye to most chaebol romcoms)

We are using the word trauma in a broad sense here–a lot of the complex trauma featured in these shows would not meet the formal DSM diagnostic criteria as a Traumatic Event

We did apply a quality filter–the execution of the story needs to be good enough that the intergenerational trauma themes stay intact, even if the drama overall is not a total slam dunk

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Note also that this list is not chronological and there is no suggested watch order. I also do not recommend binging all of these dramas one after the other. Some of these shows are heavy and you’ll want to space them out. This is a challenge to complete over time!

I decided to share this on tumblr in case others are similarly weird and wanted to undertake this challenge with us. If any of you see this and decide to watch some of these, please tag me with your progress and thoughts! I have also linked each show’s MDL page so you can see the synopsis and general warning tags, but if you want specific content warnings for any of these shows, feel free to comment or message me.

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So after a lot of preamble…

Generational Trauma Challenge List

10 Years Ticket (Thailand, YouTube)

180 Degrees Longitude Passes Through Us (Thailand, Gagaoolala)

About Youth (Taiwan, Gagaoolala)

Bad Buddy (Thailand, YouTube)

Come and Hug Me (S Korea, Viki)

Flower of Evil (S Korea, Netflix or Viki)

GAP (Thailand, YouTube)

Go Ahead (China, Viki)

It’s Okay to Not Be Okay (S Korea, Netflix)

Khun Chai (Thailand, YouTube)

My Mister (S Korea, Netflix)

Our Dining Table (Japan, Gagaoolala)

SKY Castle (S Korea, Netflix or Viki)

Something in the Rain (S Korea, Netflix or Viki)

Until We Meet Again (Thailand, Viki or YouTube)

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Good luck, happy crying, stay hydrated, and please pace yourselves!

(Tagging friends @neuroticbookworm, @kyr-kun-chan, and @chickenstrangers who I have already discussed this with.)

[youknowihavenochingu]

Men in uniform kdrama edition 🔥🪖

Woo Do Hwan- The King Eternal Monarch

Ahn Bo Hyun- Military Prosecutor Doberman

Hyun Bin- Crash Landing On You

Kang Daniel- Rookie Cops

Lee Min Ho- Legend Of The Blue Sea

Jung Jinyoung- Police University

Jung Hae In- D.P

Song Joong Ki- Descendants Of The Sun

Jang Ki Yong- Come And Hug Me

Kim Seon Ho- Catch The Ghost

[dailyasiandramas]

[alihi]

You need to share your burdens, to lighten them - Hae Soo ( Moon Lovers: Scarlet Heart Ryeo)

Friday (February 10th) romance is a bonus book 🔖

a set inspired by your favourite quote or lyric [optional: from your favourite kdrama or original soundtrack]

[yourann]

KDrama lines that made me go "🥲 and 😆" pt. 1| very long post ahead

if you haven't watch any of them, go ahead and check them out! :D

Homemade Love Story (2020) | 오! 삼광빌라! Death's Game Part 2 (2024) | 이재, 곧 죽습니다 파트2 Here's My Plan (2021) | 목표가 생겼다 Hit the Spot (2022) | 판타G스팟 XX (2020) | 엑스엑스 Mermaid Prince (2020) | 인어왕자 Twinkling Watermelon (2023) | 반짝이는 워터멜론 Castaway Diva (2023) | 무인도의 디바 Moving (2023) | 무빙 Come and Hug Me (2018) | 이리와 안아줘 W (2016) | 더블유 A Good Day to be a Dog (2023) | 오늘도 사랑스럽개 Adult Trainee (2021) | 어른연습생 Soundtrack #1 (2022) | 사운드트랙#1

[dangermousie]

Found this amazing Come and Hug Me.

Aaaaa!!!

I have posted about this drama when I first watched it but it brought me back to kdramas after years of not really watching them. It’s a rare piece of fiction that feels tailored specifically narrative preferences the way stories made by other people rarely are (it’s not unique - Novoland Eagle Flag is another one or Flower of Evil actually or The Myth or Mawang or Love Shuffle or The Outsiders twdrama and others - but it’s rare.)

If I had to sum it up in one sentence it would be “it’s as if someone put Flower of Evil and Missing You in a blender.”

Also, clearly a ML whose father is a serial killer is catnip to yours truly between this and FoE. Is it the severe trauma turning him into one woman man? The knowledge that you won’t need to attend family dinners with the father in law rotting in jail or six feet under? Who knows. But I can’t wait for Bastard with Park Ji Hoon because as the saying goes “goood things come in threes.” 😝

[tenderlywicked]

Maybe not as good as Beyond Evil and Flower of Evil, but still good, at least so far (I'm on the fifth episode). Featuring a serial killer and his family, survivor's guilt, victim blaming, and overall heartache.

[kactors-kpop-kdrama]

[whumpily-ever-after]

Whumptober2022 Day 9

No. 9: The Very Noisy Night: Tossing and Turning

✨Bangkok Love Story Plead episode 10

✨Come and Hug Me episode 17

✨Cupid's Last Wish episode 6

✨Hello Dear Ancestors episode 18

✨Killer and Healer episode 26

✨Let's Fight Ghost episode 5

✨Lovers of the Red Sky episode 3

✨Moorim School episode 9

✨Not Me episode 4

✨The Eclipse episode 7

✨The King's Affection episode 8

[kdramaxoxo]

Nam Da Reum is Baaaaaack!

Everyone's favorite younger version is back from the military! I can't wait to see him as a lead in a a bunch of dramas, cause you KNOW that's what's gonna happen - our babyboy is all grown up :D

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[a2whump]

🟠 Come and Hug Me (2018) - Whump List

Yoon Na Moo/Chae Do Jin

Played by: Jang Ki Yong

Episode 1:

Na Moo

Talking to the police. Crying. Shaking.

Do Jin

People afraid/espetikal of him at a job interview.

Cries in the train station.

Episode 3:

Na Moo

Protects Han Jae Yi and her dog (not really a whump, but yeah, he's kind of scared)

Cuts his hand.

Emotional talking about his mother.

Threatened by his father. Scared.

Episode 5:

Na Moo

Apologized on behalf of his brother. Nearly slapped.

Lets Soh Jin and his stepmother go. Crying. Left alone with his dad.

Do Jin

Wakes up crying.

Hurts his wrist training.

Episode 6:

Do jin

Reading his father book brought back memories. Suddenly opens his eyes. Drops the book. Scared.

Na Moo

Hit and pushed. Scared. Threatened. Visible cuts on his face.

Covered in blood. In shock. Crying.

Episode 7:

Na Moo

Pale. Concerned for Jae Yi. Attracts the attention of all the reporters.

Confronts his father to save Jae Yi.

Do Jin

Concerned for Jae Yi.

Angry.

Worried. Almost run by a cars.

Episode 8:

Do Jin

Starts getting looks and avoided by his peers.

Splashes his face with water to clear his mind/calm down.

Hallucinating. Punches a mirror.

Out of himself. More hallucinations.

Bloody bandage.

Na Moo

Covered in blood. In shock. Crying.

Episode 9:

Na Moo

Testifies in court.

Episode 10:

Do Jin

Gets eggs thrown at him. Shocked. Manhandled. Pushed. Scratch on his face.

Difficulty walking. Grabs his abdomen in pain. Heavy breathing. Crying.

Punched. Face bruised.

Angry.

Crying. More like, sobbing.

Covered in blood. Stumbling. Grabbing his abdomen. Bleeding out. Sweating. Difficulty breathing.

Episode 11:

Do Jin

Sweating.

Asleep. Wakes up exalted.

Slashed with a knife. Covered in blood. Stumbling. Pale. Sweating.

Admitts himself to the hospital. Falls asleep/unconscious.

Episode 12:

Do Jin

Wakes up in a hospital bed. Sweating. Stumbles trying to get up. Falls asleep.

Walking around the hospital with an IV. Grabs his abdomen. In pain. Sweating. Pale.

In shock. Distressed looking for Jae Yi. Grabbing his abdomen. In pain. Worried.

Hit with a stretcher. Fell down.

In pain. Supporting himself with a pillar. Bleeding out. Sweating. Heavy breathing.

Tearing up.

Peers concerned for him. Gets taken care of.

Asks his mom for a hug. Crying in his mom's arms.

Episode 13:

Na Moo

Throwing up. Pale. Nose bleeding.

Shaking. Tearing up.

Crying.

Cuts on his face. Pinned against the wall.

Do Jin

In pain. Difficulty standing.

Having traumatic flashbacks upon seeing a picture.

Urge someone to stab him.

Hand bandaged.

Episode 14:

Do Jin

Kinda jealous (not whump, but it was cute).

Concerned for Jae Yi.

Tearing up.

Shaking. Emotional.

Episode 15:

Do Jin

Worried for Jae Yi. Distressed. Crying.

Pale looking. Seems emotionally tired, probably for the way his trauma was brought up.

Sleeping. Waked up startled. Trying to hold his tears, but couldn't.

Emotional. Crying.

Na Moo

Begging his father not to hurt Jae Yi. Hit in the head by him.

Episode 16:

Do Jin

Received a call from his brother. Angry.

His brother tries to hit him with a hammer. Defends himself.

Episode 17:

Do Jin

Fights with his brother while trying to defend himself and Jae Yi. Sweating. Crying.

Stabbed. Weak. Bleeding out. Collapsed. Difficulty breathing.

Losing consciousness.

In surgery. Bleeding out. Falshback/dream: getting hit in the head by his father.

Unconscious in a hospital bed.

Waking up. Weak. Falling asleep again.

Running a fever. Sweating. Heavy breathing. Troubled.

Na Moo

Hit in the head by his father.

Episode 18:

Do Jin

Sleeping in a hospital bed.

Hand scratched.

Emotional while talking with his mom. Tearing up.

Angry.

Walking with an IV. Struggling. Heavy breathing. Supports himself with a door.

Tearing up while talking with Jae Yi.

Episode 19:

Do Jin

Still in the hospital. Tearing up while talking with Jae Yi.

Getting up while still injured. Grabbing his abdomen. Taking his IV out.

Heavy breathing. Supporting himself with the door frame. Pale. Sweating.

Walking around with his IV.

Episode 20:

Do Jin

Nervous. Thisty.

Worried for Jae Yi.

Episode 21:

Na Moo

Heavy breathing. Blood on his face.

Do Jin

Worried.

Episode 22:

Do Jin

Zoning out. Traumatic memories upon inspecting a crime scene.

Worried. Running towards Jae Yi to hug her. Anxious. Pacing around her house to check it.

Someone came at him with a hammer. Fought.

Episode 23:

Do Jin

Someone came at him with a hammer. Fought.

Hit in the shoulder with a hammer. Stumbling. Pretending to be fine.

Wincing. Hiding the pain. Saying he's ok.

Episode 24:

Do Jin

Annoyed. Jealous.

Concerned.

Na Mo

Tries to stop his father. Scared.

Episode 25:

Do Jin

Traumatic flashbacks. Zoning out. In shock. Tearing up.

Na Moo

Scared. Trying to protect Jae Yi. Kinda threatened.

[goawaywithjae]

This is not nearly as controversial as the Airbnb discourse or the thread about asking wedding guests to pre-pay for their meals at the reception...but here goes. Contrary to popular belief, I don't love everything I watch, and the same holds for KDramas. I'm fairly picky about what I watch. That said, here are 10 shows that tested my patience... Not even Gong Yoo could save "BIG" for me.

[psalm40speakstome]

many series/characters are good.

Some are absolute time in a bottle own a piece of your soul magic.

[yourann]

KDrama lines that made me go “🥲 and 😆” pt. 2

if you haven’t watch any of them, go ahead and check them out! :D

Come and Hug Me (2018) | 이리와 안아줘 Summer Strike (2022) | 아무것도 하고 싶지 않아 Welcome to Samdal-ri (2023) | 웰컴투 삼달리 My Dearest (2023) | 연인 The One and Only (2021) | 한 사람만 Celebrity (2023) | 셀러브리티 A Good Day to be a Dog (2023) | 오늘도 사랑스럽개

[namjhyun]

Chae Jong Hyeop for DAZED Korea October 2022