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Annyeonghaseyo! We’re three best selling American novelists who explore the wonderfully wacky world of K-Romance through a writer’s lens. We fangirl over our favorite characters, debate our...

Inspired by BTS's music video for 2.0, we finally scratched a task off our Kdrama bucket list: Watch Oldboy. Did we enjoy it? Debatable. Do...

It's time for another episode 1 recap! Today, Amy and Megan take on the highly anticipated Byeon Woo-Seok and IU drama, Perfect Crown. We lo...

It's another Uncensored, and today we're talking about two topics that make us mad: What Kdramas we think other people have to watch, and wh...

We were shocked--actually shocked--to self-identify that we've never done a podcast on bromances in K-dramas. Reaper! Goblin! We've failed y...

Are you just getting started on your K-Drama journey? Or maybe you've been here for a while, but you're ready to step out of your comfort zo...

Piggybacking on last week's episode, this week we're talking about our favorite couples with goosebump-inducing chemistry. Who did we choose...

What is chemistry? A formula? A feeling? Something you can't fake? Lia, Megan, and Amy dig into the spark that makes or breaks connection —...

We're booting ourselves out of the drama slump and diving into three new dramas! Will we stick with them? We'll check back in a couple of we...

Okay, so we're a few days late for February's Uncensored, but better late than never! In this episode, we talk about aphantasia, revisit our...

Singles Inferno 5 uncensored. The audacity. The hat fights. The pageant queens. The tug-of-war. We're talking about it. Ready to download yo...

Your noonas have been at this podcasting thing for over five years now, and that means we have a lot of anecdotes, jokes, and even patron-cr...

Like a TV show and wish there was a Kdrama like it? (Because you know, Kdramas do it better.) Well today, we hope we help you out with that,...

This week we're diving into the delicious details—our favorite microtropes in K-drama! We've covered the big ones (enemies to lovers, marria...

It's back! It's back! SINGLES INFERNO IS BACK, and your noonas are all in on season 5 so far. We are turning up the heat and sharing our siz...

We're back with another Trope Talk and this time we're talking about the toxic bad boys (and girls) who shaped our childhoods and why we're...

2026 might be just beginning, but your Afternoona's are looking at endings. In particular endings that didn't quite land for us so we took a...

Happy New Year, everyone! Today, we're taking a look back at 2025 to see (for us) which K-Dramas were hits, which were misses, and what scen...

Get in Babes, We're Going to the Cottage. Amy, Lia, and Megan take a departure from Seoul and dive headfirst in Canada to talk about our new...

What makes us fall in love with a character in the first five minutes? Amy, Megan, and Lia explain "Save the Cat" moments—the scenes that in...

In today's episode, Megan and Sarah (from AfterNoona Asks) discuss Black Out, an unforgettable 2024 drama with more twists than a pretzel. J...

There's an unspoken hierarchy in TV here where romance is tolerated as a subplot but rarely trusted to carry a series. Why do you think Amer...

For this month's uncensored, Lia put together a few winter themed K-drama games for the group to play. Join us for some "Hear me out..." sno...

Lia and Megan go full English class today as we discuss the parallels between Guillermo Del Toro's Frankenstein and the 2023 Kdrama Mask Gir...

This week Lia, Megan and Amy get into The Bechdel Test in Korean dramas. How does a piece of media pass The Bechdel Test? It has to meet thr...

This week Amy and Megan unpack why quiet, low stakes dramas are just what they need right now. We discuss the comfort of predictability, the...

In today's episode, we chat about what we're currently watching, and how we grapple with navigating fandom spaces when faced with moral dile...

It's almost October 31st so join your Afternoonas Megan, Amy and Lia for a conversation on all that frights and delights with Korean Dramas....

This week we're framing our Uncensored episode around the ideas of escape and comfort. What dramas help us escape? What dramas bring us comf...

In this week's episode, we discuss time travel in all its forms, from our experiences writing it, to our enjoyment of watching it in Kdramas...

Before Parasite made him a household name, Bong Joon-ho crafted a haunting masterpiece. Memories of Murder (released in 2003) tells the stor...

To celebrate this week's release of a NEW Taylor Swift album, Lia and Megan indulged their Swiftie, Amy, in a fun little exercise. The game?...

This week, we discuss a hotly debated topic in both romance novels and Kdramas: The Third Act Breakup. We get into what we love about it, wh...

This uncensored was a doozie! Today we reflect on our K-Drama watching tastes and how they've changed in the almost FOUR YEARS of the Aftern...

Piggybacking off an earlier episode about sexual tension, this week Megan and Lia delve into attraction in Kdramas. What makes a character a...

It's just two of your noonas this week. Amy and Megan are here to discuss the Amazon Prime drama, Head Over Heels. This drama has some of ou...

We pull from our romance writer roots in today's episode, and discuss everything from writing sexual tension in our own books to some of our...

It's finally time to share our thoughts on the wildly popular Korean dating show, Better Late Than Single. We loved the concept and thought...

It's been a while since we reviewed a drama where we all don't agree, so thanks Dear Hongrang, for making Lia and Amy want to fight Megan. J...

Join Lia Riley and her guest Un as they reflect on their summer journeys through Korea, sharing the quiet moments and unexpected discoveries...

The Squid Games are finished, and we're here to unpack it all with you -- the baby, the VIPs, the ending, and everything in between. Ready t...

Lia, Megan and Amy reunite after Lia's trip to Seoul (stand-alone trip pod forthcoming). You won't get erudite travel scholarship but she do...

The AfterNoonas discuss the viral Kpop Demon Hunters, why it resonated with us, how it inspires us, and what we think about a sequel. Ready...

Amy and Megan chat about the 2024 movie Love in the Big City while eating Korean snacks. We discuss why Kim Go Eun remains a top actress and...

Today we're tackling Emotional Intelligence (EQ or EI) in K-Dramas. What does that mean? Well, Amy and Megan weren't so sure until Lia led t...

Megan and Lia make the case for Let Free the Curse of Taekwondo, a Korean BL drama that launched its way to the top of our favorites lists w...

Your noonas have rewritten an ending or two, but that's not what today is about. For this episode, we get to the heart of the matter and tal...

It's that time again...another episode of Afternoona Delight Uncensored: unedited, unvarnished, unhinged? Join Amy, Lia and Megan as we have...

Mentors, heralds, allies, shapeshifters--today we explore secondary character archetypes, how a side character can be integral to the main c...

Today, the Noonas discuss cliffhangers in Kdramas--what we like, what we don't, and what we are always eager to see more of. Warning, there...

This week on the pod: Lia, Megan and Amy share their spicy K-drama takes! Tune in for some friendly arguments, strong opinions, and maybe a...