Amastris Dratwka

I made almost the same exact point over here:

https://kisskh.at/article/song-joong-ki-shares-news-of-his-marriage-and-growing-family#comment-12352153

I have the opposite thought. She's not only European but a former European actress. She's not gonna give a crap about the scrutiny of a small nation like Korea. She likely doesn't live by their standards nor has any interest, outside her new Korean family to do so anyway. They can raise their child in Europe as well, since he's already stated they will be living between those two places as a family.

What I think is freaking awesome is how SJK is blasting all the standards and showing he can STILL remain famous and relevant!! SJK and his new soon-to-be bride are not the ones who will have to adjust, but Korean society. If they attack her, their 'racist' inclinations will be decimated by the international media and citizens at large. South Korea as a whole hates being considered 'small' and 'small minded' even if that's what they are most of the time. They'll have to straighten up right quick!

SJK broke the mold! He likely would have had a hard time getting into another relationship based on how negatively Koreans look at divorce, and the shaming they would do to divorcees. Not only is he getting remarried, BUT she's absolutely beautiful, with a fantastic pedigree [ that Koreans overall cherish themselves ] and pregnant already. He flew in the face of their stereotypes and judgments. I just love this about SJK. No one can hold him back!

I figured this!!!!

At the start, it felt like Song Joong Ki was so ready to start a family right after he came out of conscription. The 'mostly' amicable breakup of his first marriage always felt like they just happened to be at odds with their lifestyles. She had her own set of friends, but other than that, she's pretty much felt like she wasn't a big 'family' person. So many times he was at family/friend events on his own. Over time, especially her age, that they weren't getting pregnant felt like that was just something she wasn't into or interested in, which is totally, 100% her prerogative. But, by his words and actions, it was totally obvious he was the opposite. He wanted kids and to start a family right away. You can see that with how he is with his own family's young ones.

Katy feels like a person that has a lot of the same interests as well as desire for family. She's already attended many functions with him and such. He talks about their animals and such. It really felt like this has been a long time coming. I'm so happy for him.

For those inevitable 'shotgun wedding' comments: Let's be clear here. She's a Westerner. She's European. If she didn't want to have a child and spend the rest of her life with this man, she wouldn't. Europeans hold very little shame and public outcry of romantic relationships that come out like this. They are a dime a dozen. She can do whatever she wants without any major harm to her reputation. It's obvious what her choice is. Blessing to them both and I wish them a long and happy family life together.

Maybe that's been true in China, Singapore, Vietnam, Mongolia, Cambodia, Nepal, and North Korea. But that hasn't been the case for Thailand and South Korea, that only recently [2021 to be specific] decriminalized abortion. But Indonesia, Japan, Laos, Malaysia, Maldives, Philippines, Taiwan, India, and Hong Kong either outright prohibit abortion, or prohibit 'abortion on demand', thus, only allowing it for specific reasons, i.e. r@pe, life/health risk, fetal impairment, or socio-economic reasons and only within a certain timeframe, like 1st/2nd trimester, after overcoming those circumstances.

Just because China HAD a 'One Child Policy' with their 1.4B population doesn't mean the entirety of Asia is into abortion. By and large, it's actually quite opposite of your statements. Even China has had to up it's child policy to THREE kids because they've made it carte blanche abortion for decades it's in the psyche of their citizens to do that rather than have a bunch of kids. China isn't 'Asian countries', it's ONE nation.

Hope he remains independent in the future. Good Luck!

I'm hearing the he's planning to go independent. Seeing that he already got a project in the works, without officially signing with another agency, leads me to believe this is likely gonna be the case.

For actors that already have an established brand, this is probably the best way to go about things in the future. Make your own decisions and keep all your own hard work earnings.

Wow. This is messy.

He said she told him that she needs to get out from under her abusive parents, so he's been putting her up and paid the monthly rent on top of her borrowing money, but she just drops him for another dude? And that's not the other dude that says she owes him money...like this girl is 17 and already that's 3 boyfriends and counting...whoa...in South Korea, that's pretty scandalous. Not sure how this is gonna be for her career but I'm not hopeful at all....she sounds like a nightmare.

Then top that off with her reply that she needs to get legal counsel from her parents. bwhahaha...the same 'abusive' parents she had guys paying her living expenses to get away from??? She cannot possibly have an agency, because why would they allow her to post this stuff of social media when it just makes her look worse. Need to have some life experience before trying to act like an adult. Silly girl.

Now that prosecutors say they will seek to arrest Park Min Young's 'supposed' ex-b/f, all the nasty underbelly of South Korean entertainment talent agencies see the light of day.

This poor man has been gaslighted up one side and down the other. Let's get the facts straight about how shit went down, shall we?

His contract was up back in May, 2021 and he wanted to leave to go independent. A week before his contract was supposed to expire -- May 31st -- Hook Ent leaks his relationship with Dain. He gets lambasted. You know why??? Because Hook couldn't let him go it alone to learn just HOW MUCH MONEY he was REALLY making!! Does it surprise anyone that the Dain leak happened on the EXACT same day Hook announced LSG would be leaving their agency???

So many posts questioning whether his career is tanking, etc... So, what does he do??? Yep! He makes a partnership deal with Hook on June 10, 2021, 10 days after his old contract expires, wherein, he still gets to keep his agency Human Made to actively communicate with domestic and overseas fans through independent and creative activities in more diverse platforms like he planned but they got to continue managing his career, including acting, music, MCing, etc. The GASLIGHTING that must have gone on to keep him there just makes my stomach turn.

Thankfully PMY moves to Hook in December 2021, and then less than a year later gets outed with her b/f by Dispatch. The 'supposed' ex-b/f is an embezzler and fraudster like the CEO of Hook. He invested in the media production company, Chorokbaem Media, that merged with Hook Entertainment around the same time PMY switched her talent agency to Hook as well. Coincidence? We think not!! By mid-Nov., 2022 Hook was being raided by law enforcement, likely on embezzlement and tax evasion...because they've been watching PMY's 'supposed' ex-b/f's crypto BS and paper corps. If not for this shit, LSG likely NEVER would have sniffed out what was going on behind the scenes, and continue to have this shady company pilfer his hard worked earnings.

After that raid, Youn Yuh Jong left, and LSG was demanding an accounting of his funds....now he finally gets to run his own company, get paid IN FULL, and be done with all the gaslighting, embezzling BS.

I don't know how PMY comes out of this ok. Like, you have to be stupid to think she wasn't aware of EXACTLY all the crap that was going on....money is the root of all evil....

Finally Bogummi is doing another drama. He's vacationed far too long...looks like he's decided to be independent than join an agency and I'm all for it!!

This is definitely a pairing I never knew I really wanted!! Reminding myself from the start to not get any 'shipper' feels about these two, since she's in a relationship with Lee Jong-suk.

Money is the root of all evil.

I'm so sad about her poor decisions, not just in her dramas. Leaving her agency for Hook that gaslighted and embezzled money from Lee Seung Gi. Now the confirmation of her relationship with a crypto fraudster who also embezzles money? Hearing that this fraudster put PMY's sister in a executive position in one of the company's he fronts just makes me even sadder. Looks like he has connections with Hook and that may be why PMY switched over agencies less than a month after a partnership was announced. Kang Jong-Hyun invested in Chorokbaem Media which partnered with Hook Entertainment in 2021. Looks like embezzlers enjoy hanging out with embezzlers. With his crypto scams and Kwon Jin Young's scamming of Lee Seung Gi, how do you come out of this alive? Hearing whiffs of other talents of Hook being involved in embezzlement.

They got so brazen, but finally the police took notice and raided Hook last November. I swear that's why Lee Seung Gi started to wise up and demand an accounting of his earnings. Acclaimed actress Youn Yuh Jung left in December following the raid. Nothing like having the light of day shined on your dealings to clean up a mess. These poor actors... Lee Seung Gi wanted to leave Hook years ago, May, 2021 to be more precise...around the time that partnership started. He wanted to start his own agency... but when he made that decision, all of a sudden his dating rumor with Dain came to light. Hook has been gaslighting Seung Gi for years. He should have not been contracted with Hook after May 2021 when he started his 'One Man Agency'...but looks like his contract just finally ended after confirming that they've been embezzling money from him all this time.

Now that prosecutors have indicated they are seeking arrest of Kang Jong-Hyun, I don't see how PMY's name isn't 100% completely tarnished over this. She's such a beautiful girl. Jong Hyun is not only shady af, but dude is out of shape with a face not fit for exposure. What in the hell did she see in him besides money? This is a girl who takes fitness and dancing seriously. He gives her family money and positions, and she dates him. It just looks so freaking bad... No wonder she hasn't invested her energy in picking and acting in good projects these last few years. Why should she? Her family was getting paid by her b/f. *smh*

Why does it say 32 episodes when Tencent Video and Viki only have 29?

There are a lot of women who have never had an orgasm, however it's very rare to find a man who has ejaculated without climaxing. They are usually simultaneous. Whether any release is satisfying to either male or female is very subjective, indeed, and isn't always tied to your emotional and intimate feelings towards your partner.

From personal experience, with many of my g/fs saying, even alone using toys, weren't able to achieve climax, there is definitely an emotional/mental attachment to sex that less men suffer. That's not to say that men don't suffer from performance anxiety. Believe me, they do, and can, and it's just as unfun for them as it is for women. It's just that, as a statistical percentage, more women suffer from the issues than men.

Additionally, not scientifically researched, just anecdotal on my part, more 'attractive men' have issues pleasing women than the average/above average looking guy. Attractive guys tend to rely on their good looks to score, and often are more selfish lovers, not on purpose, just that they are visual lovers, like majority of their partners, however, for women, in the end, this isn't always a 100% climaxing conclusion, it serves more as foreplay. In the end, they don't put in much effort to understand a woman's body & pleasing them since it's not necessary for them to get down a girl's pants. I'd say, ~60-70% of the avg looking guys are appreciative of having a partner, and tend to put more effort into knowing how to please her, and are as excited, if not more excited when they're able to figure her out and have her climax. They'll ask the questions during sex, and pay attention to not just her words. ...Just like men with performance anxiety, with women who are eager for it to happen, tend to often be too tense to relax and enjoy it...Allowing the process of finding the various ways to climax is something that needs to be done in an emotional relaxing mental state -- and there are more ways than 1 to achieve it, and that's not just toys or positions...but spots within a woman's anatomy.

On another note, this isn't a textbook situation, as there is never any tried and true way or standard operating procedure to achieve the end goal. Thus, it's not a matter of society's repression or teaching young adults how to use their bodies. This will always be an individual personal pursuit, and, for women mostly, the process is very much tied to their emotional and mental state, and that's not something you teach, but something internal that every individual has to figure out for themselves. All society can do is make activities revolving sex not so taboo as to disallow a woman from the process of figuring out her body without feeling degraded and ashamed.

Is she really gonna still be married when they start falling for each other? =/

Why do the same K-Drama plot themes come in groups of consecutive dramas until they find a new batch? There was already a drama about romcom cram school instructor with a "mystery" woven into the story. I remember the time slip batch, the AI Robot batch.... it's like the writers get together and determine the next 2 years worth of drama template themes then all work off of it for the next couple years. lol.

I'll still watch it though, because, watching Asian dramas since 2006, I'm used to watching the same story being told multiple times in various ways, remakes...even between nations, i.e. Thai version, Taiwan version, South Korean version, Chinese version, Filipino version, Japanese version, etc. etc.

Why are you posting about this on another drama's page? Take that to AoS 2, public Feeds or the Forums for discussion. It's not appropriate to post here on this drama.

I'm not sure where you get your information, BUT the consulate of Canada participated in his trial to make sure it was fair. The CCP would never release info stating 'crimes committed in our nation are punishable by our laws regardless of citizenship' if they believed he still had Chinese citizenship rights. That's not how the CCP works...the CCP even established ILLEGAL police stations in OTHER nations to help harass and/or kidnap expats they want to repatriate back home. If the CCP agreed with your take, they wouldn't have allowed Canadian officials in the court room. He's doing his time, and as a citizen of Canada ALONE, he'll be deported back to the country of his citizenship, CANADA... It's also one of the reasons why AFTER the ruling, the CCP randomly discovered he didn't pay his taxes to the tune of millions of dollars so they could claim to LEGALLY confiscate his assets. Since covid and the slow crash of the Chinese economy, the CCP has been doing this to a lot of rich Chinese, be it actor/actresses, or heads of corporations... as if ALL these people had the power to obfuscate millions of dollars at tax time every year from the CCP... Like, what took them so long to figure it out???? It's all a game...

Bottom line: He'll do his time for the his crime. He won't get any of his assets still left in China, and keep only what his mother was able to shift out of the mainland to Canada or elsewhere. She'll be best to stay out of China, and, with the Canadian govt's oversight of him as a citizen, he'll return back to his HOMELAND when his time is up.

BTW... his mother was smart to have him renounce his Chinese citizen at 10, and make him a Canadian citizen. Without that, the CCP can claim him as there's, as they've recently been pushing, otherwise he would have simply disappeared completely, instead of the Canadian govt there to insure his safety...because right now there are a LOT of Chinese entertainers who are being forced by new CCP laws/rules to renounce their citizenships elsewhere in order to continue to be able to work in the Mainland. Like Arthur Chen who has become extremely popular. His dad is the director Chen Kaige and they are now US citizens. Arthur was born in the USA in 2000. Now that he is developing his career in the Mainland he's renounced his American citizenship. Hong Kong especially since 2021 has been trying to force dual citizens to renounce their citizenship, especially from Canada since it and Australia are some of the more common places Chinese emigrate to...

Where does NN have 3 older brothers??? She has only 2 brothers, her older brother Cheng Song, and her twin brother Cheng Shao Gong. Besides, what does the number of boys have to do with her number as a female??? There are 5 women under the matriarch in the family: her mom Yuan Yi, her aunt Shun Hua, Cheng Yang's mom - Ge Shi, & Cheng Yang. Ge Shi is no longer a part of the family since she divorced Cheng Yang's dad Cheng Cheng, making only 4 ladies under the grandmother, Mrs. Cheng- Yuan Yi being oldest, Shun Hua being second, Cheng Yang being 3rd, & Shao Shang being 4th:

https://kisskh.at/character/cheng-shao-shang-niao-niao -- refer to sidebar for relationship context.

Even in the patriarchal system, if there is no male of equal age, the matriarch becomes the head of the household. NN's grandmother has 3 sons. 2nd son is divorced. They have a daughter Yang Yang. 3rd son is married with no kids. 1st son is married with 3 kids, 2 boys & 1 girl. Thus, 1st son & 2nd son's wives are considered 1st lady, & 2nd lady, but since they're married that title comes first. YY is older than NN so she is 3rd lady, and NN is 4th lady.

No that's not the question... the question is the hypocrisy because --FACT-- when she transforms in the last 3-4 episodes --- which most of these women never bothered to get around to watching cuz they 'dropped' it--- to the Goddess she's anything BUT cutesy and baby-voiced because THAT is the story.. the character she plays... and likely how she was directed.. and that has nothing to do with her ability to act.. and I don't care whether you think he is good looking but not your style because that is also irrelevant to HER ability to act...because she is a damn good actress to play cutesy, serious Goddess, and possessed by a man all in one role...

Oh yeah, and BTW... she did her own damn voice dubbing but Dylan DID NOT... his voice was dubbed over by 王保顺 , voice actor Wang Bao Shun... so, OBVIOUSLY that's EXACTLY how the DIRECTOR wanted her to sound!! So, knock it off with this... oh she's a shit actress with a bad voice and he's a good actor doing his job.... it's hypocrisy and double talk.

They both did a great job in their characters and showed great chemistry and tacit understanding and played off each other well. It was a great drama with both leads doing their part.

Yes, and South Korea uses the KCD-7.

The WHO doesn't dictate to every nation in the world. They aren't the Imperial Overlords. Just like with covid, the protocols the WHO gave out were either taken or not..and in the case, of the USA, many nations forced their citizens to take an American vaccine or not be part of society. So, whether it's the DSM, the ICD, or the KCD, the scientists involved tend to work together, however, when implementing procedures and such, that is under the purview of that particular nation's legislative body that controls the Health Care practices within their nation.

Additionally, around 2010, South Korean scientists undertook case studies, such as using the SRS on kids entering Preschool, which is based on USA standards. The understanding was that, due to the stigma, many parents would under report symptoms. In the end, it turned out that the parents were more honest than expected and the case study confirmed a probable prevalence of autism of 2.65% as opposed to the 1% in the USA. So, although the stigma remains in the minds of parents that affect their willingness to seek help for their children who suffer, the procedures to discover it are quite similar to the USA. Also, in Korea they use the Korean version of Autism-Spectrum Quotient which is based mainly on the DSM V, not the ICD-11, as well as much of the educational and mental health treatment etc that is provided.

[Edit: as an aside, I'll provide a NYT's article from 2011 discussing the case study just in case you don't believe my words - https://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/09/health/research/09autism.html ]

Are we saying that the vast majority of females on MDL are misogynistic? I think this is a little severe and overstated. I don't play into the modern day aspect of 'women hating' as causal for everything.

I worked in the aerospace industry as a project manager for a manufacturing company. This was a position that I was scouted for despite the fact that I did not have a ME license, but a BS in IB, minor in Finance. The entirety of that company's male executives lead me by the hand and taught me everything I know down to being able to write my own routers for production. My 1st boss who hired me got promoted and was replaced with an outside female from another company vs an internal promotion. I never had a worse boss than this woman. She literally yelled at me about my job performance in the hallway of the PM Dept bldg in front of my peers, trying to humiliate me for mistakes I didn't make. I later ended up quitting, and right afterward they fired her...and yes, the male executives apologized to me about the situation, but by that time, the water was already under the bridge, and I lost trust in the company over it.

This was not misogynistic. This is what happens between women a lot, JEALOUSY, and INSECURITY. Women are hard on each other due to their own judgmental attitudes towards themselves and women in general. It's like I said in my first comment, they are merely jealous of the fact that someone else is next to a male they fangirl over. This isn't something new and unique. It's been happening since the dawn of time. It's the story of many a greek or other fable...Cinderella, Snow White...etc... It's not misogynistic though. It's catty women attacking each other over a guy.