If the incompetent, fumble-fingered norm-zombies we call "producers" twist the adaptation into a mostly "straight" nightmare, I'll dig the adaptation's cinematic grave myself
I doubt they planned to release anything. Based on their statements, they’ve only asked for an apology. Clearly,…
Korea revised its laws 5-6 years ago and raised the age of consent from 13 to 16. Engaging in "sexual" acts with those under 16 is now unlawful, unless one's younger than 19 (legal adult age)
That's beside the point. You can't look at the law in isolation when discussing this topic. Korean culture has a strong emphasis on age, and a relationship between an adult and a minor would be seen as an abuse of power and a violation of social norms by normal Korean people. Your culture isn't the same
I doubt they planned to release anything. Based on their statements, they’ve only asked for an apology. Clearly,…
"And again, the parents knew nothing? Then how can they judge her relationships, if they did not see them unfold at all? They did not see the dynamics?"
You kept yapping about your culture that needs fixing. Did you know other people have their beliefs and cultures? Mine points to "adults dating minors = not cool, immoral, should be illegal"
The family of this woman holds the same belief that adult-minor relationships are immoral. How the relationship came about (unfolded) or how your culture sees it is irrelevant
"Pictures, talking, videos, AI can fabricate everything. But "fans" are ready to judge based on .... nothing proofed"Multiple…
This unnecessarily long comment boils down to, "my country is in denial about abuse"
"You assume that the guy approached her only with dirty"
What are the odds that an adult pursued a minor out of pure, platonic admiration? Was he fascinated by her nuanced takes on high school algebra? Did he seek out her teenage (lack of) wisdom on geopolitics?
I'll give you the short answer, the odds are 0%
"How do they know how the relationship developed? They witnessed 0 of it”
Her family witnessed the fallout and pieced together the puzzle
"KSR was so independent that she had her own apartment"
A minor with their own place isn't a prodigy in maturity, they're a minor who doesn't have a support system or safety net
"Why did all countries have young marriages? Was the world immoral?"
The past wasn't the golden age of morality. People had no birth control, no women’s rights, no child protection laws. They trampled over each other and clawed their way to the top. The present isn't that different
No human society was, is, or will be moral or a moral utopia
"I never said my country is conservative and extremely religious. More like old-fashioned"
Your not-conservative-or-religious-but-old-fashioned country where: 1) Marriage is seen as sacred 2) Most people get married young 3) Divorce is “allowed,” but rarely happens
Sounds conservative and religious
"One can't stop teens from discovering their sexuality, exploring and so on"
The topic isn’t minors being curious, it’s that adults should have zero involvement in the process
"I know they are not lying about it because I grew up surrounded by them ... Still, women and men are equal, and divorce is normal (not looked down on). There is no pressure to stay in an abusive marriage, not by society or anything else"
Your story belongs in the "Unreliable Narrator" section of the bookstore
"East Asians are not human anymore. They viciously devour each other and have no problem doing it"
Have you ever ventured into the Western side of YouTube, Twitter (X), Reddit, or any political group? If online "discourse" determined humanity, 99% of the human population would be considered rabid beasts by now
"Their societies are nothing but Squid Game on steroids"
"Squid Game" is a critique of global capitalism, extreme competition, and economic disparity. They're some of the factors that spell societal collapse, and every modern system is walking across that glass bridge, one wrong step away from falling/collapsing
Thank you. There isn't a shortage of women in south Korea or the world. And out of the millions of women he could've…
Precisely, we should ask ourselves why we had or have laws that set the age of consent too low. Age of consent laws are intended to protect minors from predatory adult-minor relationships and the negative consequences of early "sexual" activity. A low age of consent (below 18-20) doesn't fulfill that purpose
The age of consent being 13 isn't a free pass for adults to "date" minors, though. Sometimes things are implied. That age of consent implies minors can engage in relationships with minors close in age, not adults old enough to be their babysitters. A 15-year-old isn't equipped to handle a relationship with someone 12 years older than them. It'd be a massive gap in life experience, maturity, and power dynamics
We can't measure the BL content from a few seconds of footage. It remains to be seen if this is a half-BL story, a mostly "straight" story with BL undertones, or some other promotional bait
Your right. I can't tell if this is straight-baiting or actual straight washing. It's been so long since I read…
The source material is a gay-topia with not a straight couple in sight. There are two gay couples, and it's all sunshine and rainbows
The adaptation is pairing up Chan Young and Ji Yu to toss a straight bone to the intolerant mainstream audiences and satisfy them. They're not letting gay stories have their moment in the sun
What raw uncensored BL masterpiece this is literally based on an omegaverse mpreg novel.......... What are you…
"Omegaverse is not that deep"
Omegaverse runs deeper than it appears. It's a quicksand. You leap in and realize too late the horrifying depths you’ve been swallowed by
"Some people read so much into every little thing"
Critical thinking or dissecting the media we consume isn't a personality flaw
"Loving Omegaverse does not make you a homophobe"
Willfully ignoring the homophobic elements of omegaverse is homophobic
Omegaverse clings to the belief that for a relationship to be "valid," it should imitate "straight" dynamics. Its mechanics of heat and pregnancy scream, "I'll conceptualize gayness through a straight lens." That’s homophobia in action
"the worst possible capitalistic hellhole" Oh dear, I'd beg to differ. My country and others are the same. At…
Conformity is the currency of public discourse. Stray from the prescribed script, and you're cast as the enemy
I'll clarify that neither Kim Soo Hyun nor any other celebrity holds my admiration, and I support each person's right to share their negative opinions about celebrities. That being said, threatening rape in response to your or someone else’s uncertainty and neutrality is uncivilized and immoral. I apologize on behalf of those who treated you poorly
"the worst possible capitalistic hellhole" Oh dear, I'd beg to differ. My country and others are the same. At…
We've earned the hatred
Humanity’s greatest "talent" isn’t intelligence or innovation, it’s self-delusion. We've perfected the ability to ravage everything in sight. We set fire to our own habitat and build societal systems that exploit the weakest, be they human or otherwise, while writing poems about our so-called "brilliance" and "progress." An outside observer wouldn’t see an intelligent, brilliant species. They’d see a highly advanced virus with shoes
He deserves it why r crying he was selfish individualAlex is the one who needed to survive but 😭
"Being selfish doesn't make a person bad"
It's this quality that's granted us the power to build empires and tear them down with equal fervor, to trample on the rights of the different and marginalized, to start wars, to betray our loved ones, and to take the last cookie in the jar. Our selfish survival has come at the expense of the environment and the welfare of other species
Humans are flawed, selfish creatures with an immense potential for immorality, and that dark potential has sealed our fate as the architects of our own demise
Reading this, you might infer that I hold a negative, pessimistic view of human nature, and you wouldn't be wrong. I hate humans, myself included. However, there's something interesting about Jin Uk, and I wish we had more time to explore his story
If "young" means "minor" or "legally underaged," it's a matter of grooming her, stunting her emotional growth, exploiting her lack of life experience, and causing lifelong damage. "Love" is a felony away
"You never know who you get attracted to"
You can control how you act on that attraction. Your response to discovering your attraction to a minor shouldn't be to pursue a relationship with them
"Not like he killed her"
Is that the standard you hold yourselves to? The bar for decency has hit rock bottom
That's beside the point. You can't look at the law in isolation when discussing this topic. Korean culture has a strong emphasis on age, and a relationship between an adult and a minor would be seen as an abuse of power and a violation of social norms by normal Korean people. Your culture isn't the same
You kept yapping about your culture that needs fixing. Did you know other people have their beliefs and cultures? Mine points to "adults dating minors = not cool, immoral, should be illegal"
The family of this woman holds the same belief that adult-minor relationships are immoral. How the relationship came about (unfolded) or how your culture sees it is irrelevant
"You assume that the guy approached her only with dirty"
What are the odds that an adult pursued a minor out of pure, platonic admiration? Was he fascinated by her nuanced takes on high school algebra? Did he seek out her teenage (lack of) wisdom on geopolitics?
I'll give you the short answer, the odds are 0%
"How do they know how the relationship developed? They witnessed 0 of it”
Her family witnessed the fallout and pieced together the puzzle
"KSR was so independent that she had her own apartment"
A minor with their own place isn't a prodigy in maturity, they're a minor who doesn't have a support system or safety net
"Why did all countries have young marriages? Was the world immoral?"
The past wasn't the golden age of morality. People had no birth control, no women’s rights, no child protection laws. They trampled over each other and clawed their way to the top. The present isn't that different
No human society was, is, or will be moral or a moral utopia
"I never said my country is conservative and extremely religious. More like old-fashioned"
Your not-conservative-or-religious-but-old-fashioned country where:
1) Marriage is seen as sacred
2) Most people get married young
3) Divorce is “allowed,” but rarely happens
Sounds conservative and religious
"One can't stop teens from discovering their sexuality, exploring and so on"
The topic isn’t minors being curious, it’s that adults should have zero involvement in the process
"I know they are not lying about it because I grew up surrounded by them ... Still, women and men are equal, and divorce is normal (not looked down on). There is no pressure to stay in an abusive marriage, not by society or anything else"
Your story belongs in the "Unreliable Narrator" section of the bookstore
Have you ever ventured into the Western side of YouTube, Twitter (X), Reddit, or any political group? If online "discourse" determined humanity, 99% of the human population would be considered rabid beasts by now
"Their societies are nothing but Squid Game on steroids"
"Squid Game" is a critique of global capitalism, extreme competition, and economic disparity. They're some of the factors that spell societal collapse, and every modern system is walking across that glass bridge, one wrong step away from falling/collapsing
The age of consent being 13 isn't a free pass for adults to "date" minors, though. Sometimes things are implied. That age of consent implies minors can engage in relationships with minors close in age, not adults old enough to be their babysitters. A 15-year-old isn't equipped to handle a relationship with someone 12 years older than them. It'd be a massive gap in life experience, maturity, and power dynamics
The adaptation is pairing up Chan Young and Ji Yu to toss a straight bone to the intolerant mainstream audiences and satisfy them. They're not letting gay stories have their moment in the sun
Omegaverse runs deeper than it appears. It's a quicksand. You leap in and realize too late the horrifying depths you’ve been swallowed by
"Some people read so much into every little thing"
Critical thinking or dissecting the media we consume isn't a personality flaw
"Loving Omegaverse does not make you a homophobe"
Willfully ignoring the homophobic elements of omegaverse is homophobic
Omegaverse clings to the belief that for a relationship to be "valid," it should imitate "straight" dynamics. Its mechanics of heat and pregnancy scream, "I'll conceptualize gayness through a straight lens." That’s homophobia in action
I'll clarify that neither Kim Soo Hyun nor any other celebrity holds my admiration, and I support each person's right to share their negative opinions about celebrities. That being said, threatening rape in response to your or someone else’s uncertainty and neutrality is uncivilized and immoral. I apologize on behalf of those who treated you poorly
Humanity’s greatest "talent" isn’t intelligence or innovation, it’s self-delusion. We've perfected the ability to ravage everything in sight. We set fire to our own habitat and build societal systems that exploit the weakest, be they human or otherwise, while writing poems about our so-called "brilliance" and "progress." An outside observer wouldn’t see an intelligent, brilliant species. They’d see a highly advanced virus with shoes
It's this quality that's granted us the power to build empires and tear them down with equal fervor, to trample on the rights of the different and marginalized, to start wars, to betray our loved ones, and to take the last cookie in the jar. Our selfish survival has come at the expense of the environment and the welfare of other species
Humans are flawed, selfish creatures with an immense potential for immorality, and that dark potential has sealed our fate as the architects of our own demise
Reading this, you might infer that I hold a negative, pessimistic view of human nature, and you wouldn't be wrong. I hate humans, myself included. However, there's something interesting about Jin Uk, and I wish we had more time to explore his story
If "young" means "minor" or "legally underaged," it's a matter of grooming her, stunting her emotional growth, exploiting her lack of life experience, and causing lifelong damage. "Love" is a felony away
"You never know who you get attracted to"
You can control how you act on that attraction. Your response to discovering your attraction to a minor shouldn't be to pursue a relationship with them
"Not like he killed her"
Is that the standard you hold yourselves to? The bar for decency has hit rock bottom