The Certified Noonas: Kdrama, Kpop, and More

Certified Searching

This week we talk...gush about the first two episodes of the Korean drama Search: WWW. We also discuss what we've been watching.
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*We try to be spoiler free here, but do talk about a wide variety of dramas from time to time naturally during our discussions. We limit our reveals to things found out in the first couple of episodes of the show before there is a spoiler warning.
Time Codes
:00 Intro/What we're watching:
:33 Amanda
7:10 Jessie
12:36 Natalia
15:42 Sky
20:45 Search WWW Discussion

Certified Fantasy Stories

This week we watched the first episode of the new Netflix/tvN kdrama, Arthdal Chronicles. We talk about what we liked and what we didn't, and some more of our thoughts.
Note: We do talk about the first episode at length, and touch a bit into the second.
Remember to pick up your copy of Dragon Pearl by Yoon Ha Lee!
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Time Codes
:00 Announcements/Intro
3:23 Arthdal talk
44:29 Outro

Certified EXO

It's Natalia's birth month, and the Noonas are celebrating by talking about her ult group, EXO! Learn more about the group, our favorite songs and appearances, and which member Natalia thinks we are most like. We also talk about the music we've been listening to, and what's coming up for June.
There is a massive YouTube playlist with all the videos we mentioned (that can be found) here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TndDPS8UJ_A&list=PLU_6eUDMyE7fRZslpzaPbtXYjJXqcqWXg
And a Spotify playlist of all our favorites: https://open.spotify.com/user/slpkq12n4mo6bgavdfrv8hc9v/playlist/4DvRR8nWuOeQs3F9eEVh7L?si=1CEBtQj6RoudER4e-A51Qw
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As always we you can find us on the social medias under CertifiedNoonas or you can email us at certifiednoonas@gmail.com
Time Codes
:00 Intro
:28 What we're listening to
23:58 EXO Intro
45:02 Game
49:08 More EXO talk
1:07:54 What looking forward to

Certified Absolute Robots

The Korean version of Absolute Boyfriend came out this past week and we decided to not only discuss this version of the story, but some of the other versions and how they relate. We also talk about what we are looking forward to in June, and discuss Netflix's weird season breakdown of Asian content.
Note: We talk about the first week of the kdrama version of Absolute Boyfriend (eps 1-4), and the 1st episode of the jdrama version (Zettai Kareshi) the most, and a tiny bit about the Taiwanese and Chinese versions, but do not spoil the entire series.
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Time Codes:
:00 What We are Watching
29:25 Start of Absolute Boyfriend talk

Certified Genres: Variety

Introducing a new monthly feature where we discuss each of our favorite shows in a specific genre. This month it's variety! We also talk about what we have been watching these past couple of weeks.
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Time Codes:
:00 Intro
1:23 What we are watching
42:36 Genre game #1: Variety
1:18:00 Outro
 

Certified Wandering Earth

This week we watched the Chinese mega hit movie, The Wandering Earth and discuss what we liked about it, the odd lack of Netflix's promotion of the film, and find out a little bit about the author of the book it was adapted from.
This is a spoiler-filled episode, beware!
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Certified Trot

It's the music episode you've all been waiting for: trot! We talk about the genre, some of our favorite songs, and it's influence in Korean society/culture.
Massive playlist with almost everything we talked about in order (plus some extras) can be found here:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTV56N-EaqM&list=PLU_6eUDMyE7c0G9FGRpImkBajMNmPhhcS
Also on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/user/slpkq12n4mo6bgavdfrv8hc9v/playlist/3CVu0rqk4vEUa5odfPPNr0?si=1QCHcVIATvWa47b721o98w
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As always we you can find us on the social medias under CertifiedNoonas or you can email us at certifiednoonas@gmail.com.
Time Codes
:00 What watching/news/coming up
25:07 Game
27:52 Trot talk

Certified First Loves

This week we talk about the (hopefully) first 8 episodes of the Netflix original Korean drama, My First First Love starring our sweet mascot Jisoo! We also decided to go back in time to our childhood and play our favorite fortune telling game, MASH but Asian drama style!
*Note, we talk about the drama Because It's My First Time, but have noted the main spoiler in the time codes below.
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:20 What looking forward to in May
15:09 MASH
29:17 First First Love talk
38:12-38:41 First Time spoiler
1:17 Outro

Certified Personalities

This week we watched IU's indie/art house anthology series: Persona and dive into our feelings about each of the shorts. We also play a BTS-themed game because of course we would.
The times we talk about each of the parts are in the time codes below, but we do discuss some of the others within each of those. If you are really trying to avoid spoilers beware.
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Natalia’s fan goods can be found at: https://sojunights.threadless.com/
As always we you can find us on the social medias under CertifiedNoonas or you can email us at certifiednoonas@gmail.com.
Time Codes
:00 Intro/what we’re watching
19:11 BTS game
28:04 Persona talk
29:13 Love Shot
32:29 The Collector
40:11 Kiss Burn
45:11 Walking at Night
52:22 Wrap up randomness

Certified March Madness

Welcome to the special episode of the Certified Noonas where we discuss our First Annual Certified March Madness!
We talk about how we felt the game went, some of the surprises that came along the way, and what you all have been waiting for: our stories involving the winners.
Thanks to all who participated! We actually had a lot of fun and learned some things that will help us the next time we do something like this.
Natalia’s fan goods can be found at: https://sojunights.threadless.com/
As always we you can find us on the social medias under CertifiedNoonas or you can email us at certifiednoonas@gmail.com.
Time Codes:
:00 How we felt/general insights
16:09 Drama intro
16:54 Natalia's drama pitch
18:27 Amanda's drama pitch
19:58 Jessie's drama pitch
23:11 Sky's drama pitch
25:07 Ending wrap up