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KDrama GMamas
Pat P
Apr 131 min read
We Could Learn a lot from Korea
Here are two things we could use in our restaurants…or maybe even at home! In the longer video the apparatus is boiling noodles and...
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Pat P
Apr 121 min read
I Drank the Kool-aid*
*This is expression stems from a catastrophic situation that happened in 1978. I use it here to humorously explain the following. See...
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Pat P
Apr 111 min read
Hey, Look What I Made!
Yep, I made this. It bibimbap, and I took a cooking class with the rest of my tour group to learn how to do it at The Food and Culture...
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Pat P
Apr 92 min read
Meeting Song*
When Judy and I talked about going to Korea many, many months ago, it became clear we wanted different experiences. Our original plan to...
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Pat P
Apr 82 min read
NOONA’S NOONCHI*
*or, as close as I am going to get to a celebrity here Being a Kdrama fanatic, I follow noonasnoonchi. This Instagram notable is Jeanie...
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Pat P
Apr 61 min read
The Cherry On Top!
Pat: I am so fortunate my trip to Korea coincided with cherry blossom season. How many dramas have I watched that show the romance of...
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Pat P
Apr 51 min read
The DMZ
While I’d like to make light of The DMZ and include a reference to the Kdrama Crash Landing on You, there isn’t anything funny about it. ...
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Pat P
Apr 31 min read
So…Where Are The KDrama Stars?
Day two in Korea found me looking high and low for some of my favorite actors. Shocking, but they were nowhere to be seen. As you can...
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Pat P
Apr 31 min read
First day: random thoughts
It's Pat! Yesterday we flew from Taipei to Seoul via Korean Air. It was an uneventful and unimpressive trip. The flight attendants...
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Pat P
Apr 21 min read
SUNDAE, no, not that kind of sundae.
When I’m watching a Kdrama, and someone is salivating over having ‘sundae,' my mouth starts to water in anticipation of the ice cream,...
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Pat P
Apr 11 min read
Korea or Disneyland?
You know how the saying goes: you get a windfall of kudos, recognition, notoriety, yadda yadda yadda, and you tell everyone you’re going...
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Judy T
Apr 11 min read
Nothing has changed!
I felt like I needed to remind everyone that nothing has changed for me. I'm in the middle of a 16-episode, Joseon period, Kdrama called...
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Pat P
Mar 302 min read
WHAT CAME FIRST: PEPERO OR POCKY?
Any Korean worth her kimchi knows that Pepero is a snack that can’t be beat. Coincidentally, Japanese feel exactly the same about Pocky....
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Pat P
Mar 271 min read
Closed Captions/Subtitles
Face, it, we Gmamas are getting older, and not all of our parts work that well. (Don’t worry, I not going to tell you the TMI ones.) ...
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Pat P
Mar 221 min read
SUNBAE*
Pat: I’ve noticed that when I watch a Kdrama and people are addressing others in a scene, they don’t use the name that is shown on the...
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Pat P
Mar 182 min read
The Mother of us All
Okay, I had to do a deep dive into the world of Seo Jeon-yeon for this post. This gorgeous middle age woman keeps popping up in my...
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Judy T
Mar 151 min read
I almost slipped!
Oh dear, at yoga this morning -while we were in deep relaxation mode- the instructor said 'what's the one thing you would like in your...
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Pat P
Mar 131 min read
YAWN…AND FAST FORWARD
Pat: Here’s my dirty little secret: if I’m bored with an endless crying jag or a scene where a parent is slapping a child around...
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Judy T
Mar 81 min read
Will it ever end?
At this point you're probably wondering how on earth we can continue to write about this stuff. We sometimes wonder that too. Is our...
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Pat P
Mar 51 min read
What did you say your name was? Part Two
Why is it that “supercalifragilisticexpialidocious” trips off my tongue but I can’t remember any of the actor’s names in my Kdramas? Not...
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