Today, we’ll be doing our final review of Queen of Tears, the hit K Drama on Netflix starring Kim Ji-won as Hong Hae-in, Kim Soo-hyun as Baek Hyun-woo, Park Sung-hoon as Yoon Eun-Seong, Kwak Dong-Yeon as Hong Soo-cheol, and Lee Joo-bin as Cheon Da-Hye. Ernabel Demillo is back to help us analyze this amazing show! We recap the entire show and then we discuss: The song we featured during the recap: Way Home, sung by Kim Soo Hyun. How we rewatched the first few episodes and realized a few things, e...
May 10, 2024•1 hr 54 min•Season 7Ep. 9
Today, we’ll be discussing Episodes 15 and 16 of Queen of Tears, the hit K Drama on Netflix starring Kim Ji-won as Hong Hae-in, Kim Soo-hyun as Baek Hyun-woo, Park Sung-hoon as Yoon Eun-Seong, Kwak Dong-Yeon as Hong Soo-cheol, and Lee Joo-bin as Cheon Da-Hye. Ernabel Demillo is back to help us analyze episodes 15 and 16! We discuss: The songs we feature during the recap: More Than Enough by Kim Tae Rae Heart Flutter by dori How crazy it was that David Yoon got to claim that he was Hae-in’s fianc...
May 03, 2024•2 hr 15 min•Season 7Ep. 8
Today, we’ll be discussing Episodes 13 and 14 of Queen of Tears, the hit K Drama on Netflix starring starring Kim Ji-won as Hong Hae-in, Kim Soo-hyun as Baek Hyun-woo, Park Sung-hoon as Yoon Eun-Seong, Kwak Dong-Yeon as Hong Soo-cheol, and Lee Joo-bin as Cheon Da-Hye. We discuss: The songs we feature during the recap: Promise by Choi Yu Ree Last Chance by So Soo bin How our predictions about the secret fund didn’t pan out. The most obvious thing actually happened: David Yoon and Moh Sul hee foun...
Apr 26, 2024•1 hr 18 min•Season 7Ep. 7
Today, we’ll be discussing Episode 11 and 12 of Queen of Tears, the hit K Drama on Netflix starring Kim Ji-won as Hong Hae-in, Kim Soo-hyun as Baek Hyun-woo, Park Sung-hoon as Yoon Eun-Seong, Kwak Dong-Yeon as Hong Soo-cheol, and Lee Joo-bin as Cheon Da-Hye. We discuss: The songs we feature during the recap: Can’t get over you by Paul Kim From bottom of my heart by Kim Na Young Some recent comments from listeners and mistakes from last week’s episode. Hae-in’s mother’s regret now that she knows ...
Apr 19, 2024•2 hr 6 min•Season 7Ep. 6
Today, we’ll be discussing Episodes 9 and 10 of Queen of Tears, the hit K Drama on Netflix starring Kim Ji-won as Hong Hae-in, Kim Soo-hyun as Baek Hyun-woo, Park Sung-hoon as Yoon Eun-Seong, Kwak Dong-Yeon as Hong Soo-cheol, and Lee Joo-bin as Cheon Da-Hye. We are joined by Ernabel Demillo, a frequent guest on K Drama Chat and Department Chair of the Communication and Media Culture Department at Saint Peter's University and host of the Emmy-award winning " Asian American Life " show on CUNY-TV....
Apr 12, 2024•1 hr 51 min•Season 7Ep. 5
Today, we’ll be discussing Episodes 7 and 8 of Queen of Tears, the hit K Drama on Netflix starring Kim Ji-won as Hong Hae-in, Kim Soo-hyun as Baek Hyun-woo, Park Sung-hoon as Yoon Eun-Seong, Kwak Dong-Yeon as Hong Soo-cheol, Lee Joo-bin as Cheon Da-Hye. We discuss: The song we feature during the recap: Love You With All My Heart by Crush. Soo Cheol calls Hyun-Woo “maehyeong” 매형, which means older sister’s husband. How Hae-in loses her will to live when Hyun-woo admits that he wanted a divorce. H...
Apr 05, 2024•1 hr 22 min•Season 7Ep. 4
Today, we’ll be discussing episodes 5 and 6 of Queen of Tears, the hit K Drama on Netflix starring Kim Ji-won as Hong Hae-in, Kim Soo-hyun as Baek Hyun-woo, Park Sung-hoon as Yoon Eun-Seong, Kwak Dong-Yeon as Hong Soo-cheol, Lee Joo-bin as Cheon Da-Hye. We recap the episodes and then we discuss: How some Korean families have a pattern where the children share one syllable of their name. An example would be: Baek Hyun-woo and Baek Hyun-tae. This helps us keep the characters straight and know who ...
Mar 29, 2024•1 hr 24 min•Season 7Ep. 3
Today, we’ll be discussing Episodes 3 and 4 of Queen of Tears, the hit K Drama on Netflix starring starring Kim Ji-won as Hong Hae-in, Kim Soo-hyun as Baek Hyun-woo, Park Sung-hoon as Yoon Eun-Seong, Kwak Dong-Yeon as Hong Soo-cheol, Lee Joo-bin as Cheon Da-Hye. We discuss: The three versions of the song Tell Me It’s Not a Dream by 10cm. Why the show is called Queen of Tears. How our leads seem not to care about each other much BUT they defend the other to anyone who criticizes them and Hyun-woo...
Mar 22, 2024•1 hr 18 min•Season 7Ep. 2
Today, we’ll be discussing Episodes 1 and 2 of Queen of Tears, the hit K Drama on Netflix starring Kim Ji-won as Hong Hae-in, Kim Soo-hyun as Baek Hyun-woo, Park Sung-hoon as Yoon Eun-Seong, Kwak Dong-Yeon as Hong Soo-cheol, Lee Joo-bin as Cheon Da-Hye. We discuss: The song we featured during the recap, The Reason of my Smiles by BSS. We introduce the characters of this show and stumble over their Korean names. How there appear to be five main leads, which seems to be common in K Dramas. The sho...
Mar 15, 2024•1 hr 8 min•Season 7Ep. 1
Today, we’ll be discussing Episode 10, the finale of Gyeongseong Creature, the hit K Drama on Netflix starring Park Seo-joon as Jang Tae-sang, Han So-hee as Yoon Chae-ok, Wi Ha-jun as Kwon Jun-taek, Kim Soo-hyun as Lady Maeda, Ji Woo as Myeong-ja, Jo Han-chul as Yoon Joong-won, and Kim Hae-sook as Nawol daek. We discuss: The song we feature during the recap: Forever, instrumental version, by SUHO How Yoon Chae-ok is nowhere to be found until Beom-oh says he knows where she is. Mrs. Nawol and Mr....
Mar 14, 2024•1 hr 5 min•Season 6Ep. 10
Today, we’ll be discussing Episode 9 of Gyeongseong Creature, the hit K Drama on Netflix starring Park Seo-joon as Jang Tae-sang, Han So-hee as Yoon Chae-ok, Wi Ha-jun as Kwon Jun-taek, Kim Soo-hyun as Lady Maeda, Ji Woo as Myeong-ja, Jo Han-chul as Yoon Joong-won, and Kim Hae-sook as Nawol daek. We discuss: How Jang Tae-sang and Yoon Chae-ok are reunited and they manage to sneak a few moments of joy together. How Yoon Chae-ok doesn’t want to be forgotten and she makes Jang Tae-sang promise that...
Mar 08, 2024•57 min•Season 6Ep. 9
Today, we’ll be discussing Episode 8 of Gyeongseong Creature, the hit K Drama on Netflix starring Park Seo-joon as Jang Tae-sang, Han So-hee as Yoon Chae-ok, Wi Ha-hun as Kwon Jun-taek, Kim Soo-hyun as Lady Maeda, Ji Woo as Myeong-ja, Jo Han-chul as Yoon Joon-won, and Kim Hae-sook as Nawol daek. We discuss: How Jang Tae-sang was able to escape from Ongseong Hospital by getting the better of the Japanese soldier and holding up Lady Maeda to let him leave with her out of the hospital. Lady Maeda’s...
Mar 01, 2024•59 min•Season 6Ep. 8
Today, we’ll be discussing Episode 7 of Gyeongseong Creature, the hit K Drama on Netflix starring Park Seo-joon as Jang Tae-sang, Han So-hee as Yoon Chae-ok, Wi Ha-jun as Kwon Jun-taek, Kim Soo-hyun as Lady Maeda, Ji Woo as Myeong-ja, Jo Han-chul as Yoon Joon-won, and Kim Hae-sook as Nawol daek. We also talk about Wi Ha-jun, the actor who plays Kwon Jun-taek. We discuss: The song we feature during the recap: Forever (instrumental version) by SUHO. The growing feelings between Jang Tae-sang and Y...
Feb 23, 2024•48 min•Season 6Ep. 7
Today, we’ll be discussing Episode 6 of Gyeongseong Creature, the hit K Drama on Netflix starring Park Seo-joon as Jang Tae-sang, Han So-hee as Yoon Chae-ok, Wi Ha-hun as Kwon Jun-taek, Kim Soo-hyun as Lady Maeda, Ji Woo as Myeong-ja, Jo Han-chul as Yoon Joon-won, and Kim Hae-sook as Nawol daek. We discuss: The song we featured during the recap: Time by Baek-a. Our upcoming, fun-filled weekend with Ernabel in New York; follow along with our adventures on Instagram @kdramachat. What we think of J...
Feb 18, 2024•53 min•Season 6Ep. 6
Today, we’ll be discussing Episode 5 of Gyeongseong Creature, the hit K Drama on Netflix starring Park Seo-joon as Jang Tae-sang, Han So-hee as Yoon Chae-ok, Wi Ha-hun as Kwon Jun-taek, Kim Soo-hyun as Lady Maeda, Ji Woo as Myeong-ja, Jo Han-chul as Yoon Joon-won, and Kim Hae-sook as Nawol daek. We discuss: The song we featured during the recap: Forever by SUHO, instrumental version. Kwon Jun-taek’s background, motivations and relationship with Jang Tae-sang. Kwon Jun -taek’s father now knows th...
Feb 09, 2024•1 hr 2 min•Season 6Ep. 5
Today, we’ll be discussing Episode 4 of Gyeongseong Creature, the hit K Drama on Netflix starring Park Seo-joon as Jang Tae-sang, Han So-hee as Yoon Chae-ok, Wi Ha-jun as Kwon Jun-taek, Kim Soo-hyun as Lady Maeda, Ji Woo as Myeong-ja, Jo Han-chul as Yoon Joon-won, and Kim Hae-sook as Nawol daek. We discuss: The song that we feature during the recap: Time, electric version, by LEAFY. We thank listeners who recently commented on the website. We now know what Jang Tae-sang was really doing when he ...
Feb 02, 2024•56 min•Season 6Ep. 4
Today, we’ll be discussing Episode 3 of Gyeongseong Creature, the hit K Drama on Netflix starring Park Seo-joon as Jang Tae-sang, Han So-hee as Yoon Chae-ok, Wi Ha-jun as Kwon Jun-taek, Kim Soo-hyun as Lady Maeda, Jo Han-chul as Yoon Joon-won, Ji Woo as Myeong-ja, Jo Han-chul as Yoon Joon-won, and Kim Hae-sook as Nawol daek. We discuss: The song we feature during the recap: Time by Baek A, the acoustic version Whether or not we think Jang Tae-sang had an affair with Lady Maeda Jang Tae-sang’s pl...
Jan 26, 2024•53 min•Season 6Ep. 3
Today, we’ll be discussing Episode 2 of Gyeongseong Creature, the hit K Drama on Netflix starring Park Seo-joon as Jang Tae-sang, Han So-hee as Yoon Chae-ok, Wi Ha-hun as Kwon Jun-taek, Kim Soo-hyun as Lady Maeda, Ji Woo as Myeong-ja, Jo Han-chul as Yoon Joon-won, and Kim Hae-sook as Nawol daek. We discuss: How we are grateful to our listeners! We have listeners all over the world and our audience is growing! The song we feature in the recap: Forever by SUHO. How the Japanese and Korean characte...
Jan 19, 2024•59 min•Season 6Ep. 2
Welcome to Season 6 of K Drama Chat! In this season, we will recap and analyze Gyeongseong Creature! Today, we’ll be discussing Episode 1 of Gyeongseong Creature, the hit K Drama on Netflix starring Park Seo-joon as Jang Tae-sang, Han So-hee as Yoon Chae-ok, Wi Ha-jun as Kwon Jun-taek, Kim Soo-hyun as Lady Maeda, Ji Woo as Myeong-ja, Jo Han-chul as Yoon Joon-won, and Kim Hae-sook as Nawol daek. Gyeongseong Creature was written by Kang Eun-kyung, directed by Chung Dong-yoon and Roh Young-sub. The...
Jan 12, 2024•47 min•Season 6Ep. 1
Today, we’re doing a special recap and review of Mr. Queen with Professor Ernabel Demillo. For those of you who don’t know Ernabel, or Ernie as we call her, she is Department Chair of the Communication and Media Culture Department at Saint Peter's University and host of the Emmy-award winning "Asian American Life" show on CUNY-TV. We discuss: Why we chose Mr. Queen in the first place for Season 5 Our favorite scenes from the entire season The scenes we found the funniest, all of them involving S...
Jan 05, 2024•1 hr 17 min•Season 5Ep. 21
Today, we’ll be discussing Episode 20 of Mr. Queen, the hit K Drama on Netflix starring Shin Hye-sun as Kim So-yong, Kim Jung-hyun as King Cheoljong, Seol In-ah as Jo Hwa-jin, Na In-woo as Kim Byeong-in, and Choi Jin-hyuk as Jang Bong-hwan. We also reveal the show that we will recap and analyze in Season 6 of K Drama Chat. We discuss: Our thoughts on this final episode of Mr. Queen: it was thrilling, satisfying and touching. How the king and queen managed to enter the palace, get all dressed up,...
Dec 30, 2023•1 hr 6 min•Season 5Ep. 20
Listeners, we apologize for some of the issues with Joanna’s audio. We didn’t have time to record because of the holidays! Thanks for your grace! Today, we’ll be discussing Episode 19 of Mr. Queen, the hit K Drama on Netflix starring Shin Hye-sun as Kim So-yong, Kim Jung-hyun as King Cheoljong, Seol In-ah as Jo Hwa-jin, Na In-woo as Kim Byeong-in, and Choi Jin-hyuk as Jang Bong-hwan. We also talk about the shows we’re watching now and a couple more shows we’re considering for Season 6 of Drama C...
Dec 24, 2023•1 hr 2 min•Season 5Ep. 19
Today, we’ll be discussing Episode 18 of Mr. Queen, the hit K Drama on Netflix starring Shin Hye-sun as Kim So-yong, Kim Jyung-hun as King Cheoljong, Seol In-ah as Jo Hwa-jin, Na In-woo as Kim Byeong-in, and Choi Jin-hyuk as Jang Bong-hwan. We discuss: The songs we feature during the recap: Here I Am by Jo Hyun-ah and Conspiracy by Kim Deuk-su. How the episode starts and ends at the cliff and both the king and queen are pursued by Kim Byeong-in. How the king has an epic fight with Kim Byeong-in,...
Dec 15, 2023•51 min•Season 5Ep. 18
Today, we’ll be discussing Episode 17 of Mr. Queen, the hit K Drama on Netflix starring Shin Hye-sun as Kim So-yong, Kim Jyung-hun as King Cheoljong, Seol In-ah as Jo Hwa-jin, Na In-woo as Kim Byeong-in, and Choi Jin-hyuk as Jang Bong-hwan. We also talk about the different hats worn by the nobles and court officials during the Joseon Dynasty. We discuss: The songs featured in the recap: Like a Star by Jang Han-byul and Rebellion by Kim Deuk-su How we got whiplash from this episode because it sta...
Dec 08, 2023•1 hr 2 min•Season 5Ep. 17
Today, we’ll be discussing Episode 16 of Mr. Queen, the hit K Drama on Netflix starring Shin Hye-sun as Kim So-yong, Kim Jyung-hun as King Cheoljong, Seol In-ah as Jo Hwa-jin, Na In-woo as Kim Byeong-in, and Choi Jin-hyuk as Jang Bong-hwan. We also talk about the Donghak Rebels. We discuss: The songs we feature in this episode: Palace by Howl and Bong Hwan-a by Norajo. Why we think the queen hasn’t admitted to the king that she is the girl who saved him from the well eight years ago. How the que...
Dec 01, 2023•1 hr 3 min•Season 5Ep. 16
Today, we’ll be discussing Episode 15 of Mr. Queen, the hit K Drama on Netflix starring Shin Hye-sun as Kim So-yong, Kim Jyung-hun as King Cheoljong, Seol In-ah as Jo Hwa-jin, Na In-woo as Kim Byeong-in, and Choi Jin-hyuk as Jang Bong-hwan. We discuss: The songs we featured during the recap: Toy Soldier by Kim Deuk-su and Keep Going by DINDIN. How this was a laugh out loud episode; the queen is showing everyone who’s boss! How Dam-hyang is safe and the king planned it all! As a result, the queen...
Nov 24, 2023•55 min•Season 5Ep. 15
Today, we’ll be discussing Episode 14 of Mr. Queen, the hit K Drama on Netflix starring Shin Hye-sun as Kim So-yong, Kim Jyung-hun as King Cheoljong, Seol In-ah as Jo Hwa-jin, Na In-woo as Kim Byeong-in, and Choi Jin-hyuk as Jang Bong-hwan. We discuss: The songs we feature during the recap: To My One and Only You by Xiumin and Lost Memory by Howl. How the queen is so confused about her feelings toward the king and the night they spent together. How the king is confused because the queen saved th...
Nov 17, 2023•58 min•Season 5Ep. 14
Today, we’ll be discussing Episode 13 of Mr. Queen, the hit K Drama on Netflix starring Shin Hye-sun as Kim So-yong, Kim Jyung-hun as King Cheoljong, Seol In-ah as Jo Hwa-jin, Na In-woo as Kim Byeong-in, and Choi Jin-hyuk as Jang Bong-hwan. We also talk about poison and assassination by poison during the Joseon dynasty. We discuss: The songs we featured during the recap: Conspiracy by Kim Deuk-su and Other World by Howl. How this episode is so dark when compared with previous episodes. How the a...
Nov 10, 2023•1 hr 5 min•Season 5Ep. 13
Today, we’ll be discussing Episode 12 of Mr. Queen, the hit K Drama on Netflix starring Shin Hye-sun as Kim So-yong, Kim Jyung-hun as King Cheoljong, Seol In-ah as Jo Hwa-jin, Na In-woo as Kim Byeong-in, and Choi Jin-hyuk as Jang Bong-hwan. We discuss: The songs we feature during the recap: Toy Soldier by Kim Deuk-so and The Great Recipe by sEODo. How this episode started with danger, then both the king and queen are safe, then it gets funny, then the king is beaten by Kim Jwa-geun, then it ends...
Nov 03, 2023•56 min•Season 5Ep. 12
Today, we’ll be discussing Episode 11 of Mr. Queen, the hit K Drama on Netflix starring Shin Hye-sun as Kim So-yong, Kim Jyung-hun as King Cheoljong, Seol In-ah as Jo Hwa-jin, Na In-woo as Kim Byeong-in, and Choi Jin-hyuk as Jang Bong-hwan. Ernabel Demillo guests on this episode! We discuss: The songs we feature during the recap: Like the first snow by Kim Jung-hyun and Rebellion by Kim Deuk-su. We finally know what is in the ledger, but we wonder why the queen’s father recorded all of his corru...
Oct 27, 2023•1 hr 26 min•Season 5Ep. 11
