2024 Year in Review: The Bean Count – Part 1

It’s time for the yearly Bean Count! For those new to this Dramabeans tradition, Bean Count is a nerdy way of looking back at your year in dramas and giving the shows you loved more love by stealing re-appropriating the attention you gave to other shows.

Here’s how to do your own Bean Count:

1. Get your total beans by counting all the 2024 shows you watched in their entirety. One finished show = one bean. (If it’s a currently airing show that you’re up-to-date on, it also counts as one bean.)

2. Now that you have your total beans, redistribute them among your finished/current shows using whatever rule makes sense to you. You can give each show one bean back, or give all your beans to one show, or somewhere between those extremes.

NOTE: This year’s list of shows includes dramas that aired after November 27, 2020 until November 27 this year. We’ll add a list of the shows at the bottom of the post. If we missed some, feel free to count them in your list.

Check out how the DB minions did their Bean Counts below. Click on the buttons to sort shows by number of beans or airing date. Click on the minion names at the bottom of the table to see how each minion distributed their beans.

If for some reason you can’t view the charts, there’s a copy of the table here and the pie here.

But more importantly, share your own Bean Counts in the comments! Part of the fun is seeing how y’all truly feel about this year’s dramas when metrics and objectivity are thrown out the window, and it comes down to a single question: how many beans is a certain show worth to you?

Bean Chart

The Uncanny Counter		3
True Beauty		10
Mr. Queen		3
Run On		5
Sweet Home		9
Sunbae, Don’t Put on That Lipstick		5
Hello? It’s Me!		1
Beyond Evil		4
Vincenzo		16
Navillera		8
Taxi Driver		2
Sell Your Haunted House		2
Law School		5
Youth of May		7
Imitation		6
Mine		1
Move to Heaven		12
Mad for Each Other		2
Racket Boys		4
At a Distance, Spring Is Green		1
Monthly Magazine Home		1
Hospital Playlist 2		12
On the Verge of Insanity		1
You Are My Spring		2
Kingdom: Ashin of the North		2
Police University		1
D.P.		5
Hometown Cha-Cha-Cha		5
Human Disqualification		4
Lending You My House on Wheels		1
Yumi’s Cells		16
Squid Game		14
Dal-li and Gamjatang		6
The King’s Affection		5
My Name		4
Inspector Koo		2
Happiness		4
Secret Inspector and Joy		2
Melancholia		1
The Red Sleeve Cuff		1
Hellbound		4
One Ordinary Day		1

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Frequently Asked Questions

1. Can I get partial beans for dropping a show?
Nope. No bean for you. You must have watched all the available episodes for it to count as one bean.

2. What if I fast-forwarded a show to finish it?
mary thinks it’s cheating to count it as one bean, but mary is just jealous because people have more beans than her every year We don’t judge people since this is supposed to be a fun tradition. If that’s how you watch dramas and it counts as finished in your book, sure, count it as one.

3. What if I watched a very long show? Shouldn’t it count as a jar of beans?
Sorry. That’s still only one bean. This rule was set in stone when the Bean Count laws were formed. Changing it will anger The Ghost of Bean Count Past.

4. Can I give negative beans to some shows, and give even more beans to another show?
Since one finished show = one bean, you can get a negative bean by un-watching a sho–just kidding! Nope. You can’t award negative beans. You can, however, take comfort in the fact that you stole that show’s one bean and gave it to something else.

 
LIST OF 2024 SHOWS (click on spoiler to expand)