The Certified Noonas: Kdrama, Kpop, and More
Jul 6, 2026 · 57 min · 10 segments
This week the Noonas are going back in time a decade to talk about some of their favourite drama gems of 2016. A wildly great year for dramas, they think you should check out a few KDramas you might…
we're gonna start and uh we're gonna go in the order that currently in this uh recording studio screen that we're in because that's just easy and normally i would say by like who arrived here first which was me but then my there was a technical thing technically last so we're gonna go amanda first and then sky and then myself so amanda what is your serious not serious but you
you mean and and i feel like anybody who is around in the kdrama watching world in 2016 and the years immediately following um would probably agree with me on this one it is weightlifting fairy kim bok juu That was on my list.
That was on my list.
One of the dramas off of my list that has, like, 10 out of 10 rating because I just loved it start to finish.
I loved everything about it.
I mean, okay.
Do I love our girl? What's her? I'm trying to remember.
Mm-hmm.
Do I love people calling her fat? Which is clearly not.
Now, here's the thing.
This is a story about a college athlete who is a weightlifter.
And it is based on a true story of a weightlifter in Korea who went on to the Olympics.
I didn't know it was based on a
true story.
I'm learning new things today.
Yeah.
Loosely based.
Yeah, I mean...
Loosely based, shall we say.
You know...
There once was a girl who went to an athletic college and then went to the Olympics for weightlifting.
You know? So...
I mean, there is romance in this story.
we're gonna start and uh we're gonna go in the order that currently in this uh recording studio screen that we're in because that's just easy and normally i would say by like who arrived here first which was me but then my there was a technical thing technically last so we're gonna go amanda first and then sky and then myself so amanda what is your serious not serious but you
you mean and and i feel like anybody who is around in the kdrama watching world in 2016 and the years immediately following um would probably agree with me on this one it is weightlifting fairy kim bok juu That was on my list.
That was on my list.
One of the dramas off of my list that has, like, 10 out of 10 rating because I just loved it start to finish.
I loved everything about it.
I mean, okay.
Do I love our girl? What's her? I'm trying to remember.
Mm-hmm.
Do I love people calling her fat? Which is clearly not.
Now, here's the thing.
This is a story about a college athlete who is a weightlifter.
And it is based on a true story of a weightlifter in Korea who went on to the Olympics.
I didn't know it was based on a
true story.
I'm learning new things today.
Yeah.
Loosely based.
Yeah, I mean...
Loosely based, shall we say.
You know...
There once was a girl who went to an athletic college and then went to the Olympics for weightlifting.
You know? So...
I mean, there is romance in this story.
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