Kwak Shi Yang, playing the horrifically co-ercive and violent character, Chung Hwa Seo, who murders his wife; apologised once, in a facetious instagram post, and everything was forgiven. https://www.sportschosun.com/k-drama/2024/09/sc-issue-im-sorrygood-partnerji-seung-hyun-guaciyang-16336 No shade to KSY. He's right. It's acting. But it really highlights what people value, when it's compared with Ji Seung Hyun having to make multiple apologies, to appease the public, due to playing a character having an extra-marital affair.
I absolutely love this! Cannot comprehend that they're training for the Iron distance. Olympic distance triathlon would make more sense. Regardless watching them tri so hard to keep learning and progressing, is my happy place. A lot of this is on YouTube if people are looking...
"In a hellish reality, she becomes a true judge by dispensing justice to wrongdoers". That sounds a lot more like…
That's a singular perspective. Judao Christian and Islamic lore, are not the only ones witb demons, heaven, hell etc. This is a Korean Drama. And they're all stories anyway so this writer has every right to make up their own version.
Blkittykat, I absolutely love this editorial! My first love was Cultural Anthropology and the importance of myths, to understanding a culture, cannot be overstated! It just gives so much more meaning to the viewing experience of movies/dramas, when you have an insight into the myths that influenced them.
Thanks for your very clear explanations and great examples, of each of these myths in shows - you've helped clarify some things for me, in a way that the dry academic type versions I'd tried, did not 😳
Completely side-tracking but the teru teru bozu reminded me: It's both funny and creepy to think about how many rituals or sometimes superstitious practices, we undertake on the regular, that are based on really horrifying origins. Neck ties is one example that springs to mind...it's not a ritual per-se but still a daily symbolic men's attire, that has creepy origins in the plague.
Another awesome article Badass Bunny! I feel like Jeon Mi Do should get a large mention here, along with her 2 cast-mates. Despite the epically tuneless renditions in Hospital Playlist, she's actually a renowned Musical performer. The terrible singing in it, is testament to how good an actor she is!
Oh, and I think Kim Sung Cheol is starring in Hellbound 2, very soon!
Exactly. I prefer it when the subbers give explanations in brackets. But honestly I thought he was pretty well known 🤷♀️ ...Netflix shows, restaurants all over the world...
Well...google 😆 Subbing a person out of existence and replacing their name with a pretty awful (IMO) English chef's name, is a very weird kind of whitewashing.
I see "melodrama" and I think South Korean makjang. 🥴🤨🙄😏
Yep makjang this is not 😁 Whenever I see the melodrama tag on a KDrama, I think 'mellow'. If you went by the dictionary definition of melo, it's definitely different to what you'd expect. (Sorry for my annoying alliteration 😬😅)
I'm confused by your comment - you said you understood what they were trying to show, but then also said you didn't…
I think you're trying to make a point that child sexual violence being depicted in a movie, that others are calling a bromamce, is problematic yes? I agree with you, but I also agree that sometimes movies are the only way that people become aware of such things in society. Personally I would've preferred to know it was central to the story before viewing. This movie IS NOT just an action comedy bromance, as you said!
Amazed and impressed by her performance in No Gain No Love. Already a master of comedic timing AND physical comedy. I will be avidly watching out for her next projects!
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No shade to KSY. He's right. It's acting. But it really highlights what people value, when it's compared with Ji Seung Hyun having to make multiple apologies, to appease the public, due to playing a character having an extra-marital affair.
Regardless watching them tri so hard to keep learning and progressing, is my happy place.
A lot of this is on YouTube if people are looking...
Thanks for your very clear explanations and great examples, of each of these myths in shows - you've helped clarify some things for me, in a way that the dry academic type versions I'd tried, did not 😳
Completely side-tracking but the teru teru bozu reminded me: It's both funny and creepy to think about how many rituals or sometimes superstitious practices, we undertake on the regular, that are based on really horrifying origins. Neck ties is one example that springs to mind...it's not a ritual per-se but still a daily symbolic men's attire, that has creepy origins in the plague.
I feel like Jeon Mi Do should get a large mention here, along with her 2 cast-mates. Despite the epically tuneless renditions in Hospital Playlist, she's actually a renowned Musical performer. The terrible singing in it, is testament to how good an actor she is!
Oh, and I think Kim Sung Cheol is starring in Hellbound 2, very soon!
But honestly I thought he was pretty well known 🤷♀️ ...Netflix shows, restaurants all over the world...
Subbing a person out of existence and replacing their name with a pretty awful (IMO) English chef's name, is a very weird kind of whitewashing.
I am a complete sucker for drama crossovers, inter-textuality and all things world-bulding-ish