Does anyone else miss dramafev**? Those were like the good old days of kdrama
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yesto that
Their translations were mostly subpar but they sure were fast.
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I definitely do miss DF. They had a lot of great content, along with reliable sub schedule. Most of the available content at the time was covered between them and V. If you were a member of V and a member of DF you could watch almost every airing K drama, just with those 2 sites. Those were good times.
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I do know & realize its licenses and all, but gosh why do these other ones get these dramas,
and I cannot believe they "steal " these dramas
. I really am getting upset, and depressed with V here lately, and really a shame, oh yeah I am considering leaving, donāt really want to been 11 years with them,
but one thing, you go to those other sites, well some of them, have lousy interpretations!! Thatās one reason why I want to stick here. they used to have such good dramas,
but now not so much. oh, I hate to gripe and complain. āif you canāt say anything good, donāt say anything at allā an old saying way back when, but it still is a good one for the dayā¦ just wish they would/could do something. I guess I will wait and see for now.
another āwonderā maybe going out of business?
well, it started also with the creation of Kocowa, although they said they will be expanding to other countries, so far nothing happened but some dramas are shared with the Viki PlusPass meaning the Americas.
Now come other platforms who noticed the demand and started producing their own project, so the cake gets even smaller and therefore viki has now shifted to BL, more Japanese, Chinese and even Animeā¦
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Why would anyone want to limit themselves to Korean-only when there is so much more to enjoy?
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āSo much more?ā Until very recently, Chinese dramas sucked! The acting was terrible and the dubbing painfully obvious, the plots very outdated, repetitive and clichĆ©, they dragged and dragged. The characters were āstock figuresā with only one characteristic defining them: the heroines always childlike and bubbly, the heroes always cold and wooden, the best friend supportive, the gay friend a clown you laughed at. I did try watching some of them and I had to drop them like hot potatoes. Only in the last couple of years they started making some quality stuff every now and then. For instance Lighter and Princess was excellent, so was Love of Fairy and Devil. And there were a couple more I watched with pleasure: although they were not that remarkable, they were good.But they are still the exception (and āFairyā still had the child voice).
In comparison, Korean dramas (which were also like that in the 2000s) started becoming better as soon as 2016 - although you could still find the demodƩ tropes, there was more and more quality content every passing year. Nowadays some of them explore very interesting subjects in depth, and the characters are much more rounded and well-written.
And letās not mention Thai dramas - I donāt know how many years it will take for them to become watchable.
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These Chinese dramas are outstanding : Meet Yourself - The Long River - The Bond - The Last Goodbye to Mama - The Youth Memories - ā¦
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donāt forget those high-pitched voices!! and thanks for letting ME know I am not the only one!!
at first I thought those China dramas were good, but again lately some bad dramas there too. oh I am watching that fairy & swo0rd, wow thought it would be good,
but that high-pitched voice gets to me, the storyline does sound good though, maybe a mermaid instead of a fairy. I am going to finish it cause they got my curiosity up
. just wish all of them would get their act together, and the writers? should I start writing? me the frustrated writer, hehehehe the mysteries are and were good, but they lose out somehow. oh well I guess we will just have to ālive with it.ā and no I am not going to write.
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Then how do you feel about Taiwanese dramas?
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Some Korean makjangs are bad too, too many cliches and deja vue, amnesia, secret child, etc. I like some chinese historicals that are good and few modern ones. I donāt watch Japanese after i watched 2 projects and I tried Anime, and thatās probably for younger generation. I do like movies, lately Viki are holding on them tight (coming soon)ā¦ they used to have moreā¦ and BL isnāt my cup of tea. I did watch 3 good Taiwanese series, one was with Ruby Lin 
Lately, I feel, I watched too many dramas in my lifeā¦
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Youāve just been unlucky. Chinese dramas are as good and as bad as Korean dramas.
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theres about 4 I thoroughly enjoyed watching
mas4 yes i do agree, no matter, some how they are or have gotten better than the korean ones
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Oh, which ones?
sweet sweet bodyguard
the perfect match
love cousine
man from the future
now I didnt just write thezse out, I watched them!!
the first four anyway
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that was a cute sweet drama with Lego Lee and Allison Lin, I liked the cooking, the food part and the young kids. I was fortunate to write subs there. Sadly, Viki removed it also My Dear Boy with Ruby Lin is gone.
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I just have the standard membership and I noticed that some dramas that are viki plus will become standard after a few months? and I guess some that are standard become free after a while, why is that? is there any way to really know when that happens or not?
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Some but not all. I waited more than a year for a drama to do that and it didnāt.
And then, some really old dramas, Iām talking of VERY old, are behind vikipass, when newer ones are free.
So thereās no rule, or at least none that we as outsiders can guess.