Under the Oak Tree 상수리나무 아래 is a very popular Korean webnovel, well, apparently it is a very FAMOUS novel which I just found out, LOL… I have never heard of it until today after I came across the OST, and then checking out the novel! It is an on-going serialized novel beginning in 2017 written by Sooji Kim 김수지 and it has been adapted into webtoon since August 31, 2020. The English version of the webtoon is available since the beginning of this year.
Paint with Love ใส่รักป้ายสี (Thai title translated literally as Put Label on Love) is a new 8-episode Thai BL series that premiered on November 26, 2021. This is the second series on air at the moment with Singto Prachaya (SOTUS, SOTUS S, He’s Coming to Me) as one of the main leads, his other series being broadcast currently is Baker Boys. I’ve watched the first episode and I really enjoyed it. Also happy to see another familiar face, Maengmum Tanshi Bumrungkit (Yiwha from Together with Me) appearing in this series!
Single All the Way is a new Christmas holiday web movie that premiered on December 2, 2021.
Now, We Are Breaking Up 지금, 헤어지는 중입니다, or its Chinese title 現正分手中, is a new 16-episode South Korean drama that premiered on November 12, 2021. Apparently it is one of the hottest Korean dramas airing at the moment. I chanced upon it after Sony Music Taiwan re-uploaded two songs from the OST with Chinese subtitles, as they don’t usually bothered doubling up official MVs with specific Chinese subtitles unless the drama has become very popular with Chinese viewers… I checked the official Korean MVs for this series, and they have already put out about 6 MVs currently with more to come… I really like the songs, so here they are…
Just came across this manhua drama of Drunk in Love, or also translated as Years of Intoxication 一醉經年 (one of the 188 series), hmmm, very surprised indeed! I knew the novel has been serialised into manhua since the beginning of this year, but it looks like they have turned it into something called manju now… Manju is a new term meaning a combination of manhua + video + drama, so it is still slightly different to dongman or donghua.
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Light the Night 華燈初上 is a new Taiwanese webdrama that premiered on November 26, 2021. It will consist of 3 seasons of 8 episodes each, so a total of 24 episodes. The first season of 8 episodes are now all available to stream online, the premiere date of the subsequent two seasons are yet to be confirmed.
The drama is set in the 1980s in Taiwan, so the OST has some cover songs from that era which was originally made famous by the very popular Taiwanese singer, Teresa Teng 鄧麗君. One of her signature songs very well-known throughout the Chinese community around the world, The Moon Represents My Heart 月亮代表我的心, is now covered by Ashin 阿信 (vocalist of Mayday 五月天) as the opening theme song for the soundtrack!
Snackmasters is a new cooking competition show that will premiere on Monday, November 29, 2021 on Channel 9 at 7:30pm. It was supposed to premiere a week earlier but a last-minute move was made by the channel to delay the premiere by a week in order to avoid crashing with the finale of Celebrity MasterChef Australia on Channel 10, which in turns moved the finale a day later from Sunday November 21, 2021 to Monday, November 22, 2021 last week. Ahhh, another day, another cat-and-mouse scheduling of TV shows in Australia, LOL…
The Memory Garden 如果花知道 is a new 40-episode Taiwanese TV series that will premiere on December 20, 2021. The two male leads in this new series are Ray Chang 張睿家 and Shih Chih-Tian 石知田 who were both in the WBL series from earlier this year. The theme song has just been released so here it is…
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Baker Boys รักของผม…ขนมของคุณ (Thai name translated literally as My Love…Your Snacks) is a new 12-episode Thai series that will premiere on November 24, 2021. It is based on the Japanese manga series Antique Bakery 西洋骨董洋菓子店 by Yoshinaga Fumi よしなが ふみ. The manga has already been adapted into a live-action Japanese TV series in 2001 and also an Japanese anime series in 2008. A Korean film adaptation, Antique 서양골동양과자점 앤티크 was also released in 2008. This is not a BL series but it does have a gay character as a main protagonist.
Gold Leaf 茶金 is a new 12-episode Taiwanese drama series that premiered on November 13, 2021. It is the story of the tea industry in Taiwan in the 1950s. It’s a mutli-dialect/multi-language drama and also the first Taiwanese drama to use Hailu Hakka 海陸腔客語 dialect as the main dialogue, while Mandarin, Hokkien, English, Japanese, and Shanghainese are also being used in the drama.
Corner Café 