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For half an episode perhaps. It's a lazy remake. Lazy execution of a lazy remake, the sort of thing that's rife in Hollywood at the moment. This would be tantamount to Japan doing a remake of Goblin... Or to use an actual example, something with unique qualities that cannot be replicated, such as My Love From The Star - nobody in Korea was flattered by it, nobody watched either, it was the wrong vehicle for an idol drama.
As such, I expect the international audience in the west to enjoy it.

Amazon even had the nerve to show ads for this on TV in Japan. Shameless, but I can see some Japanese tuning in out of curiosity - and they'll come away from it with a feeling of superiority. Tbh, wasn't Confidence Man originally inspired by the UK series called Hustle? Even so, Japan made it their own. Let's see if South Korea will measure up.

That's what I wrote above, it just means a character in the drama uses racial slurs, it doesn't make it racist per se, it's art.

Yeah. Like I said, Korean romanisation is a mess.

I agree with you. On another point. I felt a little disappointed that we might have to endure 40 episodes before that weasel intern-boss and the other boss's son get their comeuppance - its going to be hard work!!

The last one I watched was Iron Family, it was one of the best I've seen - I loved everyone in it from the start. This one, I like the actors but find all their characters lukewarm at best. I think most viewers have caught on to what's going on. As an expert on k-dramas, you'll know it's common to deliberately mislead the audience to a degree. And portray the ML as a self-sacrificing hero through loyalty to his friend?... he's not endearing himself to the viewers in any way. Even if he's being cruel to be kind, it's absurd. Regardless, anything could happen from here on, whatever any of us assume could be completely wrong.

It's warming up. It hasn't taken off like some others, but it's getting there.
So why is Song-jae's mother secretly spying on Eun-ho...? Is she perhaps... related? Would that throw water on Song-jae's fire?

Ah, Won Jin-ah. She's a dial tone, even in the action genre, she could have just bored the bad guys to death. That guy looked bored to be getting beaten up by her, he couldn't be bothered with it.
I'm sure she's a lovely person, but no charisma.

He's got potential, he did all that was possible given a poorly constructed narrative, terrible script which, as you said, has no emotional bonds, random character consistency and weak cohesion from episode to episode. I wonder if it was written by AI actually. They seemed to infer that the villain was once a normal child that became a psychopath - some would say that's impossible. A bit like how they messed up Darth Vader's psychology in the 2nd Star Wars trilogy.

Same title.
https://cine21.com/movie/info/?movie_id=62435

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/i_kill_u

Google is your friend.

Dystopian splatter fest. Some of the action is ok. The plot is riddled with holes, even a viewer with the utmost ambition to suspend disbelief would be thwarted, it's devoid of common sense. Worst of all is the emotional disconnect - I felt nothing in my heart from start to finish. I assume it was written and/or directed by cluster B individuals, no irony, this is exactly the type of drivel they come up with, thinking it's ever so clever, in reality it's crass and predictable, without nuance, the opposite of clever, the opposite of artistic. I give 4 for the unfortunate actors and whoever did some of the choreography.

Human trash, a film made by human trash about human trash for human trash.

Well, the movie was ok, I give it a 7, very exciting in parts. No need for a drama version.

Like MMH, I'll wait for the Japanese remake... oh wait 🙄
Korea doing budget remakes of Japanese classics like this and Doctor X. Has the tide gone out on Hallyu? A bit like the Japanese remake of My Love From The Star I suppose - sigh.

Ok. Korean romanisation doesn't make sense to begin with, there are already 2 systems. Actors doing their own custom romanisations just makes things worse. I looked her up.
Typically it would be romanised as Yoo-na or Yu-na. Just saying. Japanese romanji was ahead of its time, amazing. Trying to match English phonetics simply does not work.

Good news, congratulations to them

I heard that prisons in the UK are full of muslims. And a christian woman doing a three year stretch for posting a comment on sns,

Except she's the protagonist. Ever heard of The Ugly Duckling? Let's cancel Hans Christian Andersen too. Or maybe use your imagination for once.

I'm flattered you remember me. I only come back to add a few titles to my list now and then, and not K anything... however, I came to this article wondering if this film was something like She Was Pretty or maybe Crush and Blush, and I found out that apparently, for some reason, someone feels the need to point out that frizzy hair is racist. Even in 2025. American Eagle ✌️👖

I find that when something comes out that triggers the virtue signallers, it's something good. Always ignore everything a virtue signaller says - they're not your friends.