It's time to review episodes 13-16 of 'Mr. Sunshine'! This week we're talking about a new and unexpected way that flashbacks in K dramas can effectively make us feel sad, a mountain that is definitely haunted, and the best morally gray character we've ever seen. Leave a comment or sign up for our newsletter on our website ( playonk.com ), give us a hey by email ( playonkpodcast@gmail.com ) or on Twitter (@playonk) or Instagram (@playonkpodcast), or leave a rating and review on iTunes to get a sh...
Mar 02, 2021•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 138
It's time for episodes 9-12 of 'Mr. Sunshine'! This week we celebrate the begrudging birth of a beautiful bromance, lament the abandonment of adult decisions, and worry about every character's well-being because now we're attached and we want to keep them all forever. Leave a comment or sign up for our newsletter on our website ( playonk.com ), give us a hey by email ( playonkpodcast@gmail.com ) or on Twitter (@playonk) or Instagram (@playonkpodcast), or leave a rating and review on iTunes to ge...
Feb 23, 2021•58 min•Ep. 137
This week we are back to review episodes 5-8 of 'Mr. Sunshine'! It's early in the drama, but we're feeling pretty confident that this is one of the best K dramas we've ever watched. Join us here as we discuss poetry that isn't poetry, the origin of the word "wierdo", and the development of every single person because there is no such thing as a one-off character. Leave a comment or sign up for our newsletter on our website ( playonk.com ), give us a hey by email ( playonkpodcast@gmail.com ) or o...
Feb 16, 2021•53 min•Ep. 136
We've started a new drama! This week we watched episodes 1-4 of 'Mr. Sunshine', where an American military officer returns to his homeland of Korea in the early 1900's and becomes entangled with a young noble woman who is fighting to free Korea from the powers attempting to colonize the nation. Join us this week as we review our first ever historical drama, fail to accurately learn any of the real history, and mostly just try to wrap our heads around anything that is happening in this beautiful ...
Feb 09, 2021•57 min•Ep. 135
It's time for our bonus review of 'Tale of the Nine-Tailed'! This week we give our overview of the show, talk about actors talking about acting, Emily shares some surprisingly intense folk lore, and we send some fashion to the thrift store. Leave a comment or sign up for our newsletter on our website ( playonk.com ), give us a hey by email ( playonkpodcast@gmail.com ) or on Twitter (@playonk) or Instagram (@playonkpodcast), or leave a rating and review on iTunes to get a shoutout on the podcast!...
Feb 02, 2021•50 min•Ep. 134
We've watched the final four episodes of 'Tale of the Nine-Tailed' and we're back to talk about Lee Rang...and other finale stuff too, if it happens to come up! Join us here as we talk about letting the world die for one person, Deep Cut Granny, and our favorite fox brother. Leave a comment or sign up for our newsletter on our website ( playonk.com ), give us a hey by email ( playonkpodcast@gmail.com ) or on Twitter (@playonk) or Instagram (@playonkpodcast), or leave a rating and review on iTune...
Jan 26, 2021•42 min•Ep. 133
It's our third week of reviewing 'Tale of the Nine-Tailed'! We've got a lot to talk about, so catch us here as we lament watching characters make the same mistakes twice, rewrite the whole drama as a one-woman-show, and delight in continuity errors. Leave a comment or sign up for our newsletter on our website ( playonk.com ), give us a hey by email ( playonkpodcast@gmail.com ) or on Twitter (@playonk) or Instagram (@playonkpodcast), or leave a rating and review on iTunes to get a shoutout on the...
Jan 19, 2021•57 min•Ep. 132
We're back for our second week of 'Tale of the Nine-Tailed' and actually we really go off in this one. For real, this episode contains one planned rant and three or so additional and completely unplanned rants. Prepare yourself accordingly and then listen here as we discuss unfortunate age gaps, reincarnation frustration, and our big hopes for a couple of brothers to work out their problems and become best friends. Join our fan chat forum on Discord, leave a comment or sign up for our newsletter...
Jan 12, 2021•59 min•Ep. 131
This week we start a new K drama! We watched episodes 1-4 of 'Tale of the Nine-Tailed' and we're here to review them. Go start this drama and then listen here as we talk about fantasy genre tropes, solve a several-hundred-year-old mystery, and analyze effective spook tactics. Join our fan chat forum on Discord, leave a comment or sign up for our newsletter on our website (playonk.com), give us a hey by email (playonkpodcast@gmail.com) or on Twitter (@playonk), or leave a rating and review on iTu...
Jan 05, 2021•58 min•Ep. 130
We've finished our holiday celebrations, we're back for one last bonus review of 'It's Okay to Not Be Okay' and we have so many nice things to say! Join us here as we provide a list of life lessons, discuss how many Subways are too many Subways, and talk about what we would do with $900/month. Join our fan chat forum on Discord, leave a comment or sign up for our newsletter on our website ( playonk.com ), give us a hey by email ( playonkpodcast@gmail.com ) or on Twitter (@playonk), or leave a ra...
Dec 29, 2020•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 129
We've finished 'It's Okay to Not Be Okay' and we are here to review the final four episodes! Listen here as we talk about a new kind of parent trap, the different types of sadness K dramas use to hurt us, and fashion (because we avoided talking about it for far too long and it's time). Join our fan chat forum on Discord, leave a comment or sign up for our newsletter on our website ( playonk.com ), give us a hey by email ( playonkpodcast@gmail.com ) or on Twitter (@playonk), or leave a rating and...
Dec 22, 2020•50 min•Ep. 128
This week we are reviewing episodes 9-12 of 'It's Okay to Not Be Okay'! Listen here as we talk about characters that are really turning it around (but we're still grudging against their flaws), the intersection of K dramas and Telenovelas, and who we would fire if we were in charge of who gets to work in this very fictional psychiatric hospital. Join our fan chat forum on Discord, leave a comment or sign up for our newsletter on our website ( playonk.com ), give us a hey by email ( playonkpodcas...
Dec 15, 2020•56 min•Ep. 127
We're back to review (and deeply love) episodes 5-8 of 'It's Okay to Not Be Okay'! This week we talk about the realest friends coming in with the hardest truths, the Pain Olympics, and the viability of seeking help with security issues. Join our fan chat forum on Discord, leave a comment or sign up for our newsletter on our website ( playonk.com ), give us a hey by email ( playonkpodcast@gmail.com ) or on Twitter (@playonk), or leave a rating and review on iTunes (Play on K) to get a shoutout on...
Dec 08, 2020•58 min•Ep. 126
It's time for a new K Drama! This week we watched episodes 1-4 of 'It's Okay to Not Be Okay' and we finally understand the hype in a big way. This show is so good it's unreal. Go start this good good drama and then listen here as we talk about how to be petty about pettiness, mental health stuff we're unqualified to discuss, and stunning media switches the creators have pulled off. Join our fan chat forum on Discord, leave a comment or sign up for our newsletter on our website ( playonk.com ), g...
Dec 01, 2020•57 min•Ep. 125
We're back for one last week with 'Flower of Evil' for our bonus episode! This week is even more of a bonus because we have Kaitlin and Jill from the Oh K Drama podcast on our show! Listen here as the four of us talk about near death experiences, the high stakes of marriage, and children who are cute enough to be in K dramas and have modeling careers. Join our fan chat forum on Discord, leave a comment or sign up for our newsletter on our website ( playonk.com ), give us a hey by email ( playonk...
Nov 24, 2020•58 min•Ep. 124
We finished the final four episodes of 'Flower of Evil' and we are here to review them! This week we kick off the episode with a big exciting announcement! Join us here for that good good news, and then listen to us repeatedly edit out an entire episode of the show for our mental comfort, call out problematic K-Drama-Land behavior, and discuss the big conclusion (sans the episode we're ignoring). Join our fan chat forum on Discord, leave a comment or sign up for our newsletter on our website ( p...
Nov 17, 2020•53 min•Ep. 123
So it turns out 'Flower of Evil' is just extremely intense, but honestly we are loving it. This week we review episodes 9-12 where we describe basics on how to not get murdered by people you suspect of murder, deals that seem mutually beneficial but might be mutual hostage situations, and how to be a more involved parent and spouse. Join our fan chat forum on Discord, leave a comment or sign up for our newsletter on our website ( playonk.com ), give us a hey by email ( playonkpodcast@gmail.com )...
Nov 10, 2020•45 min•Ep. 122
We're back for a second week of reviewing and chatting about 'Flower of Evil'! We cannot even begin to predict what is going to happen in this show, but we certainly give it our best effort. Listen here as we talk about psychology stuff we are for sure not qualified to talk about and suspect everyone of murder. Join our fan chat forum on Discord, leave a comment or sign up for our newsletter on our website ( playonk.com ), give us a hey by email ( playonkpodcast@gmail.com ) or on Twitter (@playo...
Nov 03, 2020•44 min•Ep. 121
It's a new week and time for a new K drama! We decided to get a little spooky and started watching 'Flower of Evil' episodes 1-4. Join us here as we get a dark with our humor, speculate wildly about who done what, and forcefully push ships out to sea, whether or not they have any business being there. Join our fan chat forum on Discord, leave a comment or sign up for our newsletter on our website ( playonk.com ), give us a hey by email ( playonkpodcast@gmail.com ) or on Twitter (@playonk), or le...
Oct 27, 2020•47 min•Ep. 120
We're back for one last week with 'Spring Turns to Spring'! Join us for this bonus episode where we reiterate how to throw the best divorce party for one, romances we wanted to see, and womances you love to see. Join our fan chat forum on Discord, leave a comment or sign up for our newsletter on our website ( playonk.com ), give us a hey by email ( playonkpodcast@gmail.com ) or on Twitter (@playonk), or leave a rating and review on iTunes (Play on K) to get a shoutout on the podcast!...
Oct 20, 2020•42 min•Ep. 119
We finished the last 8 episodes of 'Spring Turns to Spring' and we are back to review them! This week we talk about bad guys who turned out not so bad, bad guys who turned out super bad, and characters we were just grateful to have in the car with us on the way to the airport. Join our fan chat forum on Discord, leave a comment or sign up for our newsletter on our website ( playonk.com ), give us a hey by email ( playonkpodcast@gmail.com ) or on Twitter (@playonk), or leave a rating and review o...
Oct 16, 2020•36 min•Ep. 117
The drama has gotten real real in 'Spring Turns to Spring'. This week we watched episodes 17-24 and we are reviewing them here! We talk about crumbling relationships, crumbling personalities, and how ballistic missiles changed the ways we view K dramas. Join our fan chat forum on Discord, leave a comment or sign up for our newsletter on our website ( playonk.com ), give us a hey by email ( playonkpodcast@gmail.com ) or on Twitter (@playonk), or leave a rating and review on iTunes (Play on K) to ...
Oct 06, 2020•44 min•Ep. 117
This week we watched episodes 9-16 of 'Spring Turns to Spring' and we're back again to review it. Once you catch up on the episodes you can catch us here where we talk about irredeemable characters, Two Broke Girls, following teenage dreams/boys, and the CIA. Join our fan chat forum on Discord, leave a comment or sign up for our newsletter on our website ( playonk.com ), give us a hey by email ( playonkpodcast@gmail.com ) or on Twitter (@playonk), or leave a rating and review on iTunes (Play on ...
Sep 29, 2020•45 min•Ep. 116
It's time for another new K Drama! This week we started watching 'Spring Turns to Spring' episodes 1-8 (the first 4 hours)! In this episode of Play on K we talk about mad science, Wife Swap, and we plot our own K drama murder most foul. Join our fan chat forum on Discord, leave a comment or sign up for our newsletter on our website ( playonk.com ), give us a hey by email ( playonkpodcast@gmail.com ) or on Twitter (@playonk), or leave a rating and review on iTunes (Play on K) to get a shoutout on...
Sep 23, 2020•37 min•Ep. 113
We’re back for one last good talk about ‘Good Casting’! Join us in this bonus episode as we talk about people we’ve seen before, what those people were wearing, interviews with those people, and what we thought about them being cast in this good good show. Join our fan chat forum through Patreon to let us know what you’re watching, leave a comment or sign up for our newsletter on our website ( playonk.com ), give us a hey by email ( playonkpodcast@gmail.com ) or on Twitter (@playonk), or leave a...
Sep 17, 2020•44 min•Ep. 114
We've made it to the finale of 'Good Casting'! We finished up the final 4 episodes this week and we're here to talk about conclusions we loved, conclusions (and relationships) we hated, and then made a couple hundred puns about the casting of this show. Join our fan chat forum through Patreon to let us know what you’re watching, leave a comment or sign up for our newsletter on our website ( playonk.com ), give us a hey by email ( playonkpodcast@gmail.com ) or on Twitter (@playonk), or leave a ra...
Sep 08, 2020•47 min•Ep. 113
Round 3 of ‘Good Casting’ is a go! This week cover episodes 9-12 of wherein we go full prediction corner on who could possibly be Michael (everyone is a suspect!) and bring back fashion talk in a big big way. Join our fan chat forum through Patreon to let us know what you’re watching, leave a comment or sign up for our newsletter on our website ( playonk.com ), give us a hey by email ( playonkpodcast@gmail.com ) or on Twitter (@playonk), or leave a rating and review on iTunes (Play on K) to get ...
Sep 01, 2020•52 min•Ep. 112
This week we watched ‘Good Casting’ episodes 5-8! Join us as we throw shade at the very silly antics in this show (but with so much love), fly off the rails about kidnapping babies, and reference so many things we definitely don’t know enough about to reference. Join our fan chat forum through Patreon to let us know what you’re watching, leave a comment or sign up for our newsletter on our website ( playonk.com ), give us a hey by email ( playonkpodcast@gmail.com ) or on Twitter (@playonk), or l...
Aug 25, 2020•46 min•Ep. 111
It's time for a new K drama! This week we've started watching Good Casting, a drama that follows a team of undercover NIS spies as they attempt to weed out the tech company contact to a man responsible for killing government agents. We talk episodes 1-4 where we get really stoked on the hijinks in this silly action-comedy, and talk about the new business fashion sensation we hope will sweep the world. Join our fan chat forum on Discord, leave a comment or sign up for our newsletter on our websit...
Aug 18, 2020•45 min•Ep. 110
This week we recap ‘Uncontrollably Fond’, share some fun and fun-adjacent facts, and discuss listener comments about this sad and beautiful show. Our voices are extra scratchy thanks to the wonders of summertime allergies, so sorry about that. Here’s the article Raquel referenced: https://en.yna.co.kr/view/AEN20160729008100315?section=search “(News Focus) 'Uncontrollably Fond' shows limits of early filming system” by Lee Haye-ah, Youn Go-eun, Yonhap News Agency, July 2016. If you have any fun fa...
Aug 11, 2020•54 min•Ep. 109
