While one drama is centered on drugs and the other on real estate, both dramas are fundamentally stories about ordinary, desperate people who turn to crime in a heart-wrenching attempt to protect their families from financial ruin.
Mad Concrete Dreams, Dream Life of Mr Kim, Walking on Thin Ice, etc - so many dramas about ordinary people resorting to illegal activities to "win" in the rat race - are just variants on Squid Games season 1. (Seasons 2 and 3 are trash), Season 1 is a "molotov coctail thrown to expose exploitation by elites" as one reviewers so well described it. Imo they are also a molotov coctails thrown to expose how the flaws and dumbness of ordinary people lead them to be pions and exploited by the elites.
So if you want to watch the most violent deep-source, root-causes version of MCD, then watch Squid Games season 1.
So if you want to watch the most violent deep-source, root-causes version of MCD, then watch Squid Games season 1.
Mad Concrete Dreams is The Dream of Mr. Kim Walking on Thin Ice lol
Mr Kim did nothing criminal. Mad Concrete Dreams is like Mr. Kim deciding to solve problems by doing crime, like Walking on Thin Ice :)
The Dream of Mr Kim is how Mad Concrete Dreams could have been solved better - if the wife went to work, like Ms. Kim...
Mr. Kim has a housewife and a college kid and is THE boss at home that the whole family worships and listens to..... He is the breadwinner office manager with 25 yrs of experience, with big dreams of advancing and becoming rich.... but .... he keeps being delusional and failing, until he seriously fails.... So ... he tries to solve it on his own.
He secretly uses his family's money and invests in real estate. It turns out to be a scam, and he loses everything...... and he lies and cheats his family about it.
Finally, it all gets exposed, and the wife and son step in to help.
Mad Convrete Dreams ML-FL seem to be a worse edition of Mr. Kim and his wife :)
The similarity is that Mr. Kim tried to solve his problems by secret grandiose actions, just like ML in Mad Concrete Dreams...
A key difference is that Mr. Kim did not actively commit crimes, and his wife and son stepped in to help in very legitimate and honorable ways.
Mad Concrete Dreams seems to be Mr Kim and his wife deciding to solve the financial fiasco by doing shady and falling into criminal activities, somewhat like the couple in Walking on Thin Ice
WOTI couple willingly started with clearly illegal criminal dangerous destructive activities that harm other people - selling illegal drugs.
Mad Concrete Dreams ML just started a little shady without any intention to hurt anyone, but then ML and FL continued with the crime
Mr Kim did nothing criminal. Mad Concrete Dreams is like Mr. Kim deciding to solve problems by doing crime, like Walking on Thin Ice :)
The Dream of Mr Kim is how Mad Concrete Dreams could have been solved better - if the wife went to work, like Ms. Kim...
Mr. Kim has a housewife and a college kid and is THE boss at home that the whole family worships and listens to..... He is the breadwinner office manager with 25 yrs of experience, with big dreams of advancing and becoming rich.... but .... he keeps being delusional and failing, until he seriously fails.... So ... he tries to solve it on his own.
He secretly uses his family's money and invests in real estate. It turns out to be a scam, and he loses everything...... and he lies and cheats his family about it.
Finally, it all gets exposed, and the wife and son step in to help.
Mad Convrete Dreams ML-FL seem to be a worse edition of Mr. Kim and his wife :)
The similarity is that Mr. Kim tried to solve his problems by secret grandiose actions, just like ML in Mad Concrete Dreams...
A key difference is that Mr. Kim did not actively commit crimes, and his wife and son stepped in to help in very legitimate and honorable ways.
Mad Concrete Dreams seems to be Mr Kim and his wife deciding to solve the financial fiasco by doing shady and falling into criminal activities, somewhat like the couple in Walking on Thin Ice
WOTI couple willingly started with clearly illegal criminal dangerous destructive activities that harm other people - selling illegal drugs.
Mad Concrete Dreams ML just started a little shady without any intention to hurt anyone, but then ML and FL continued with the crime
similar vibe
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MDL description: " Ahn Dae Sung, despite his excellent memory, has failed the civil service exam three years in a row, but remains determined to pass with the support of his mother, Myung Sook, and girlfriend, Ah Hee. While working at his mother's convenience store, Dae Sung's life changes when a nearby murder occurs. Ah Hee, a police officer, investigates the case on her own and discovers a receipt from Myung Sook's store at the crime scene, pulling them both into the investigation. With no leads, the trio is determined to solve the case, but how can they catch the killer when the professionals are stumped?"
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MDL description: " Ahn Dae Sung, despite his excellent memory, has failed the civil service exam three years in a row, but remains determined to pass with the support of his mother, Myung Sook, and girlfriend, Ah Hee. While working at his mother's convenience store, Dae Sung's life changes when a nearby murder occurs. Ah Hee, a police officer, investigates the case on her own and discovers a receipt from Myung Sook's store at the crime scene, pulling them both into the investigation. With no leads, the trio is determined to solve the case, but how can they catch the killer when the professionals are stumped?"
