That’s a good rating system for a show. The more frustrating, the lesser of your desk remains!
I’m 2/12 episode in and not really much has happened to make it a bad show, but that’s the problem, it’s so in the middle it’s no wonder you can’t remember much of it. Sung Hoon’s character has just decided to rescue Joybuster so things may change. Hope it’ll get worse to get better!
Might not work for me, I think my desk has an all wood 3,5 cm thick plate, so … Might need to count dentist appointments 
60 X 45 minute episodes. Yikes! that’s a fair amount of work. It is available in my region. How about this as a word of encouragement, when you’re suffering through the show, know that you are not alone, I will watch every episode too. Deal? Come on! FIGHTING!
Oh yes, it does. And it’s also notable for the things that DON’T happen. Like chemistry, romance, character development and stuff like that.
Hahaah thanks 
I’ll chop up the project up and do the episodes bit by bit 
Some other titles:
Eccentric Chef Moon Sadly, it was a very bad career choice for both the star actors. They were both much better in all their other dramas I’ve seen them in. I loved her in Perfume and I loved him in … everything I’ve seen him in. Here they were both mediocre and boring, and I know it’s not their fault!
The story was old-fashioned and stale (if it weren’t for smartphones and such you would easily think that it’s a drama from 2000), chock-full of tired clichés: at every step we knew what was going to happen next. The initial misunderstandings, the amnesia, you name it, every trope in the book is there!
And the characters were so lazily written, they never came alive. We were told that Chef Moon is “eccentric”, but he’s just a regular guy, talented in cooking and warm-hearted, but with no particular personality. All the others are also cardboard “types”, seen a zillion times: the evil businessman, his obedient laquey, the spoiled chaebol lady, the chatty, warm-hearted, gossipy villagers for comic relief, the fat comic friend, the air-headed wannabe model, the “adorable” but smart child…
Sigh. The writer and director should never work in k-dramaland again.
I had missed Eric Mun so much that I endured this while cursing myself for wasting my time like this. I’m also someone who very rarely drops something when I have started it. But I kept it for the end of the day, just before bedtime, as it worked better than belladonna in making my eyes close by themselves.
Manhole (2017) Not nearly as good as “Operation Proposal”. The plot was more infuriating than interesting: It had no heart, no soul. Just mechanical comedy and stupidity. Good-looking male lead Kim Jae-Joong was over-the-top, he played for belly laughs. As for the Uee she looked so sick and undernourished and ugly, not to mention unlikeable as a character, that you couldn’t really root for the two of them. Jang Mi-Kwan was good but he shouldn’t have accepted to play such a role again. Jung Hye-Seong and Baro are good in their portrayal of snake-like friends. I wouldn’t recommend watching the drama because it has too many of the things I dislike.
Cinderella and Four Knights (2016) The less we say about it, the better. Still beating myself up for watching it until the end. The acting was very indifferent (I’ve seen all of them better in other dramas, so it must be the director’s fault) and the story was so predictable that you wanted to cry - seemed written by a teenager. By ep.5, you knew who was going to end up with whom, so the interest was lost - because the tired plot devices like past trauma etc. weren’t in the least capable of holding our attention. Generally, there are no surprises whatsoever.
The two main leads are super-handsome and sweet, but looking at them isn’t enough to engage the viewer. The female lead not only is plainer than plain, and with a masculine hairstyle that makes her no favors, but also has no charm whatsoever, and treats everyone as buddies. In no way was it believable that four good-looking men all fall for her. Yes, she is kind, good-hearted, but if someone has a good heart they can become a good friend, you don’t necessarily fall madly in love for them. In real life they would never think she’s girlfriend material.
Meloholic (2017) The writing was all over the place and especially towards the end, in the last two episodes, I couldn’t believe my eyes and ears.
The Starry Night, The Starry Sea Chinese drama. My bad for choosing to watch it when I know how bad most Chinese actors are, but it was because of the merman theme. The plot made no sense, the dialogues were trite and the acting so bad (either wooden, like the main lead, or super-blubbly cringey, like the female lead). Including a visibly gay actor cast as a Casanova. I don’t care a dime about what each person does in their own bed, but on screen you have to convince me you are your character. To top it all, the lame story ended with a needlessly tragic finale.
The Liar and his lover (2017) Interesting that we get to see the behind the scenes of idol factories. But it was poorly executed, both in writing and in acting. No chemistry between the two leads and not much acting either from either of them. The female lead has a very good voice, though.
The main lead’s attitude and character change for the better and the main couple’s love line is completed quite a few episodes before the end. After that, there is essentially nothing else for them to do and the show drags. Since the two leads have sorted out things and acknowledged that they like each other, becoming a couple, it seems that their relationship has nowhere else to go and nothing happens on that front. They act as good friends, that’s all. No passion, no longing, no flirting, nothing. I think that the so-called “bicycle kiss” is a strong contender for one of the worst kisses in k-drama. It even rivals the finale of Heartstrings in my opinion. Yet… The bland final episode left at least two stories unfinished.
The main problem, however, was the lackluster directing and the casting of all the young people. We’ve seen other non-stellar screenplays on fire when there is a solid cast and directing.
Bride of the Water God (2017) The story dragged on and on, more or less nothing happened, there was no poetry, no real romance, the actors were all very bad (except for the half-villain, a very pitiful character by an outstanding actor) and the plot was confusing, not well explained. The fantasy was minimal, since the god had lost his powers while on earth. The amount of frustration and dissatisfaction was directly proportional to the amount of eager anticipation one had before the drama started because the writer was the one who had written Misaeng!!!
Love With Flaws (2019) (I watched 4 episodes16)
Cardboard, cliché characters and situations (except the interesting note of the gay bartender, put there because it’s the trend now). If you’ve watched enough k-dramas, you know them, you’ve met them over and over. Cliché over cliché. The initial hate, the misunderstandings, the kind and gentle second lead, the best friend who has a good heart and humors the rude first lead, the chaebol grandmother, the chaebol daughter-in-law, the love which starts as a bet but will turn out to be otherwise (more misunderstandings are waiting when all this will be found out).
The only “original” thing is that the illness of the male lead is not a romantic, mysterious and rare thing like amnesia, prosopagnosia (although that one is hardly rare nowadays, at least in k-drama) and so on, but a very embarrassing and disgusting one, uncontrollable diarrhoea which almost makes him sh*t his pants a number of times and at least once succeeds. How are we going to be convinced of the guy being a romantic lead after seeing what we saw of him in the first few episodes?
That takes me to the humour. Gross humour (of the Waikiki kind, or of the three village idiots in Mama Fairy style). Exaggerated, over-the-top acting with rolling eyes, mouths twisted, twitching or open agape, distorted faces, hands clutching one’s behind to keep the excrement from blurting out, disgusting diarrhoea sound effects, this sort of definitely un-subtle thing.
The director and cameraman add to it by taking super-close head shots which make everybody’s faces look blown-up and grotesque. Everyone’s lipstick smeared beyond the natural lips to make them look even more like clowns. (WHY?)
The role of the main lead… okay, somebody must have hated the actor quite a lot to give him such a ridiculous, humiliating part to play (did his ex-wife pay the writer/director?). While also giving him the worst helmet haircut and the shiniest fuchsia lipstick on a flour-white puffy face with small slits for eyes, his whole forehead concealed by the bangs of the outdated coiffure, all carefully studied to make him look as bad as possible, while ironically every other character exclaims on how good-looking he is! Ahn Jae Hyun actually is a quite handsome man, judging from his other dramas like “Cinderella” and “Birth of a Beauty”. So it’s really puzzling. Why would they cut the branch off their feet by sabotaging their star? The only explanation is that they made him look his worst and gave him a ridiculous role on purpose, to humiliate him and ruin his career. I can find no other explanation. I am not getting into his acting because I don’t want to be unkind.
Rich Man Poor Woman:
I think I saw one episode and then I stopped. Conventional, sappy, cliché, old-fashioned, meh overacting. It could be understandable if the date was 2008 but no, it was 2018.
Welcome to Waikiki n.2
Couldn’t even finish a full episode. Gross slapstick of the worst kind. Grimacing, eye-rolling, eating with open mouth and spitting food out on people’s face, that sort of comedy. No thanks. My time is more valuable than that.
I’m laughing at your descriptions
I think I was on the segmenting team for 1 or 2 of these dramas, and I didn’t feel like watching the drama based on the parts I did see.
Others I’ve avoided on my own and some I have seen like Manhole. Sometimes the drama was okay, but it quickly reminded you how bad the directing? / writing? / acting? was.
Cinderella and the Four Knights I saw a a filler drama between two very emotional dramas, so it was a good cleanser 
Very blah and predictable.
Meloholic was painful to watch 
Indeed, all over the place. I wonder if their script was like that from the start or if they had to edit as they went along.
The Starry Night, The Starry Sea - I viewed this as a comedy I laughed at so many plot points. My husband walked passed and he said: “Please tell me this is not the bird again.” (Reference to Ice Fantasy - same actor).
Haha, am I the only one who liked it? Don’t get me wrong, the drama goes through a learning curve (the last few episodes, minus the ending are much better than the starting episodes, but they were trying to build the world up first) and was trying to tell a story that I haven’t seen from a Korean show.
Have no idea how similar it is to GOT, because I haven’t watched that either. And yeah, they were supposed to start filming the second season in October I think, but that’s getting delayed now too.
Good cleanser, exactly described, me too. Although I will admit watching and finishing in order to gaze the perfect, manly form of Choi Min. 
@irmar Your complete lists are also on my Dropped or Suffered-Through K-Dramas lists. Might I also add to the Worst Drama Suggestions:
All three, so much potential lost, so much ridiculousness achieved.
Well that was a big nothing burger. Watching episode after episode count down with not a hope in hell of it breaking free of the over stretched business strategy dialogue scenes, leaving very little air time for everything you mentioned being missing.
I reckon if Ahn Dante confided in his pet turtle in the same dry ‘genius but emotionless’ mono toned voice all the time, the turtle couldn’t welcome the cold embrace of death fast enough. (who’s eventual death stirred up more emotion than the rest of the show)
Now I’ve hit a bit of a dilemma. Some of the listing you provided are flat out unavailable in my region. (What’s With Money. Princess Hapyung’s Weight Loss and Star:Radiant Lover)
I’ve only subscribed for a Viki Basic pass but the other shows, The Facetale: Cinderia, Traces Of The Hand and The Miracle all require that I upgrade to a Viki Standard pass in order to gain access to them.
Should I deliberately pay more to watch something less? 
Love With Flaws not licensed in my region. I actually phew’ed at seeing that message after reading your notes.
I like what you did with the Welcome To Waikiki S2 link. Dive right into Ep1, no nonsense with landing on the synopsis page first to give pause to changing their minds.
@ [ninjas_with_onions]
If the purpose of upgrading is to gain the privilege of watching The Facetale: Cinderia, Traces Of The Hand and The Miracle, save the money! I was, unfortunately, Chief Editor on all of these less-than-memorable series and the experience taught me a general principle to stay away from web dramas unless they star some idol whom I absolutely must see no matter what comes out of his mouth as dialogue. Also stay away from Fortuneteller’s Secret and 28 Faces of the Moon, other webdramas I also worked on. My most common expression at the conclusion was “huh?” – I had no idea what the theme of the drama was but I worked diligently to ensure good subtitling in English. If you look at the viewer’s ratings you will see most viewers gave them less than an 8.
In my opinion, of the web dramas I worked on, the ones worth watching were Splash Splash Love and The Page Turner. Imaginary Cat was decent.
Ha Ha, do they have a WWWise Owl badge, usually gained by veteran volunteers wising up to stay away from working on web dramas. Let the newbies fall into the trap, it’s the only way they’ll learn.
Fortuneteller’s Secret Recipe (6.9 
) is another upgrade to watch show, a lot of them also Viki originals. Patterns? . I see the main lead Ryu Hwa Young is also in another viki original web drama Gilr’s War 7.9 poor girl’s going to get a reputation! There they change tactics and give you the first four 10 min episode for free then upgrade to watch the other 10 episodes
28 Faces of the Moon is not licensed for my region, that’s a shame it garnered a 5.6 rating too, with such a low rating I would have gone to rubber neck that train wreck!
The Page Turner I initially clicked on for favourite actress but enjoyed it enough to add to favourites list.
I thought my daughter would have liked Imaginary Cat with its talking cat concept, but thought better of it with the ending as she didn’t take the movie Hatchi well, and she’s a cat person! I enjoyed it at least.
Egg on face. Blush Blush. I own up to being editor for Girl’s War too. See how well I remember it? I seem to remember Ryu Hwa Young and her sister were members of a famous girl group in which one or more members left and Ryu Hwa Young was somehow part of the controversy. These experiences have taught me when I am asked to be chief editor to consider in advance whether I would like to watch the series if I didn’t spend hours on the subtitles for each hour of the drama.
I don’t know how it happened, but I know that we were “talking” about Don’t Hesitate here and now this drama is on the first page of most popular dramas all time here at Viki. How could that be?
Hands down, one of the worst ever. God of War, Zhao Yun. It spends ALL ITS TIME and it’s very long about YOONA AND NOT THE HERO. That’s right. We watch this girl do a lot of boring stuff rather than the GENERAL played by a pretty good actor.
I finished it. I was…determined. It’s horrible.
You have hope when she DIES BUT NO THEY RESURRECT HER AS ANOTHER CHARACTER.
there is no escape.
The A.I. must have got tricked when it figured it must have been a hit with the viewers if they even gave the characters pet names.
I admire your sheer tenacity to have seen it through to the end!
It would have been interesting to watch with forewarned knowledge that it was edited with a heavy bias towards Yoona, and to give her two parts, that’s hilarious! Could have turned it into a drinking game.
Unfortunate then that it’s not (or no longer) licensed for my region. Ironically, looking at the cover page this C-drama was licensed Worldwide except China and Taiwan, maybe they wouldn’t let this legacy destroying abomination back into the country after it got chased out of town by historians.
It’s likely it caused rotation of more than one Tiger General in his grave…sigh.
I agree, I Picked Up a Celebrity On the Street was not a great movie for him at all.
I’m currently trying to make it through some bad acting in Personal Taste. Pray for me…