InspectorMegre

Omg I finally get it.

YES I DO BELIEVE that Asia is superior, bc it had Buddha teaching for EIGHTY years while westerners killed Jesus in a few years after he got back from India/Tibet. So, Westerners never had a chance to BE TRAINED BY A MASTER. Only his disciples got a little bit the few years he was teaching...
As a consenquence of this LACK OF EDUCATION, Western world is very IMMATURE, still stuck on physicality, without any ability to understand paradox and to self reflect, WITHOUT ANY TEACHING, e.g. Catholics do not even read the Bible, and other chrisian brands that do read the bible receive no real teaching on it. THE WESTERN WORLD IS CONFUSED and still obsessed with the physical blood of Christ on the cross and the feeling of guilt that he sacrificied himself, and with the idea that Jesus is the only son of god. WESTERN WORLD IS PRIMITIVE. That feeling that you are not a child of God and that you should feel guilty in front of God is just stark varvaric PRIMITIVISM. How can anyone deny the full circle and Oneness of All Life???? believing in some old bearded guy who "lives up there" and keeps watching you keeping the tab on you to snag you later... COMPLETELY ignoring the Law Of Karma, and the Law of Unity and Cause and Reaction.... among other things... That is just .... unbelievably PRIMITIVE. The whole western world in schicophrenic, bc everyone is obsessed by love, etc but scientifically, love does not exist, and science is the backbone, "the religion substitute" in the west. So love, so highly cherished, does not exist scientifically. This just shows the IDIOCY of western thinking. So many holes that are unexplained and everyone just trudges along not even asking questions.

Meanwhile Asia is extremely well trained and with extremely practical and efficient effective teachings for daily life and beyond. The keys to Asia are India with the science of yoga and Buddhism for thousands of years, and Tibet/Nepal where all that knowledge is stored. Jesus was gone for 12 years and traveled to India - then quit bc of the red tape - India has caste system and a whole bunch of charlatans pretending to be saints - and then Jesus went to Tibet, where he learned and got enlightened.

YOu will see the extreme difference between western PRIMITIVISM and Eastern utmost sophistication and knowledge, in discussions between African Catholid I think? Bishop Desmond Tutu and Tibetan Dalai Lama, where Tutu says that we cannot change... that we cannot change or influence our mind and emotions, and Dalai Lama KNOWS there is a well prescribed and well practiced and known SURE WAY to achieve that liberation, to DISCIPLINE THE MIND AND BECOME ENLIGHTENED.

So Christians are left at the total loss as to what they are thinking and feeling, without ANY instructions as to what it means and how to deal with it, and with the IMMENSE FEELING OF SHAME AND GUILT, as they are taught what they think and feel is "bad" - yet nobody is helping them deal with it. So they are easy pray to drugs, s.x, violence, etc. The West is like a an abandoned child, nobody is raising it.

In the East, Buddha taught for 80 years how to live properly, how to self observe, meditate, pray, how the whole spiritual process works, how to die properly, and how to use one's life to the best. TIBETAN BUDDHISM IS LIKE A COOKBOOK FOR ENLIGTENMENT, it is so well organized collections of teachings that WORK.... It is like the de lux VIP easiest road to Heaven, you just have to to follow the practice!!!!!.

The amount of SKILLS AND INTELLIGENCE is incomparable. The west is ***incompetent*** and ***primitively ignorant***. Science discovers "new things" every few years and essentially ridicules everything it knew so far. Meanwhile, the East had all that knowledge long time ago.

The West now has technology and can kill and heal - but only on surface, as all that technology comes without any wisdom, and is essentially misused. The West is rich bc it used that technology to colonize and loot all over the world, and it still does it. The west has a lot of blood on its hands and all those riches are STOLEN from someone else. The usa is built on free land taken from Natives, and then everything on it built by free slave labor of people kidnapped from Africa. There is ABSOLUTELY NOTHING SUPERIOR ABOUT THIS, when everything you have is based on THEFT AND EXPLOITATION.

Sure the East is not angels only, there are lots of nasty things in the East, like those wooden throwaway chopsticks, Indian caste system, and general societal strict hierarchy. Those are super ugly. There is nothing perfect on Earth... and everyone has lots to improve!!!!!

There are some things to be learned from the West - efficiency is executing plans and programs, and direct communication, and some leeway in self expression and accepting differences. It is diverse enough that you can carve your own niche - and learn stuff from the East without going there lmao The West is where all kinds of great minds from all over the place gather. That is good stuff.

Officially, I am a Chistian, and that is something one cannot chose, and I can see why. I like the idea of God that I can talk with all the time, I would not be happy being a Buddhist lmao and Sure I am good buddies with Jesus, however, to fully understand what he was saying, I have to study Asian spiritual practices. So yeah, I am ASIAN IN SOME WAYS, I am a yogi :) in the tradition of Christ
There are yogis from India who have Christ in their lineage as one of their core gurus.

So yeah, long live ancient knowledge from Asia,

and so far.
S Korean dramas are best able to capture that FEEL in the entertaining context of pretty good storytelling. It is not perfect but it is as good as it gets on this planet.

And yeah, Chinese are masters when they CAN, those few who DARE,
like cmovie Xuan Zhang about Chinese monk who walked for 5 years from China to India to get Buddhist texts, stayed there for 5-10 years to study, and walked 5 years back to China. Chinese are EXTREMELY smart and those who get into stuff like this surely can make quick progress, that's why there is such a clamp on China.

S Korea is the only place out there that has the proper environment, the proper government and "independence" as much as possible to actually produce these wonderful educational stories of wisdom, when you look at it

SO yeah that's why I am watching kdramas.

The West is LOST, like big time LOST. Rotting from the inside.

India has more saints per capita than anyone else lmao Christianity has so few saints and they got saintly often by doing stupid things, like self torture. There are genuine ones too. but ... omg so rare. The corruption is intense. Bc in the west, church is 100% involved in politics, collects money, does wars and colonizing and missionary work.
While Buddhist monks walk around with begging bowls. That is HONEST.

So ... long live kdramas with their wonderful ability to present all sides of a coin, to laugh at it, to keep warmth and compassion, and to inspire. Yup they are not perfect, sexism is kdrama fault #1. Still it is much better than ANYTHING else out there. When it is a REAL kdrama. Lately, they are getting westernized and losing their dramas and their culture.

fascinating how all "victims" are always so naive, oblivious, completely unaware and DUMB

The dimwit sister is starting to be irritating, for two reasons. First, I can see how kdramas ALWAYS include a super dumb female character - but who is KIND.....and usually pretty and very sociable and with lots of friends.... .

Kdramas do not have many flaws, but this sexism of showing really dumb women who make mistakes is THE constant deep flaw of kdramas. They "progressed" from openly mentally disabled women in High Kick 3 and here, for example, to open losers, e.g. Dynamite kiss and most other kdramas. So the plot is made by having a dumb female character keep making mistakes and then - always! - a smart capable dedicated man saving her.

Second, the mentally disabled sister here 100% believes she should be entitled to make decisions about family money and future. bc the family tells her there is nothing wrong with her... .THAT IS THE TROPE OF KDRAMAS - a TOTALLY ERRONEOUS PERSON IS DOING STUPIDITIES AND EVERYONE SAYS IT IS NOTHING... Hey be honest for once!
So the mentally disabled sister has no concept that she should CONSULT with the rest of the family first.... and that omission is her family's fault. So she is dangerous to the family.
Her strained acting and strained artificial voice straight from a children's cartoon is ... irritating. The sister is actually a very pretty woman but I dont have time to notice bc how she speaks with puckered lips in fake affectation and her voice is just .... like nails on chalkboard.

The older sister is slightly smarter but not really smart, she is very reckless and impulsive. A perfect pair with the ML, who is the KING of reckless and impulsive. So they miss a lot of info and communication bc they are so .... self centered.

ML is fascinating to me bc he is 100% Korean, including that funny little moustache. The drama has many actors who look western - ML's roommate and his "dad", grandfather and acu doctor, etc. So ML stands out as "genuinely local" and that is refreshing. I really like NO plastic surgery and no dieting.

The scenes of very slanted eyes in front of the camera have triggered my own past memories :) My birth home had an Asian liitle "picture" of men on horses hunting..... someone - I dont know who - in my family bought it decades ago and it was always displayed prominently. For some reason, it was truly cherished.... I think it is from ... Asia Minor somewhere, like... maybe? Iran... Mongolia? India? somewhere around there.... With these scenes of a face with very slanted eyes as the front shot all over the screen, I am starting to have flashes in very vivid dreams with such eyes - even in light blue or green/gray - of ppl I have never met consciously, and also ppl from my current life with such eyes., like my Palestinian friend from years ago, who had light brown-yellow, almost dark yellow, eyes - all these eyes slanted. Google AI says that Native Americans, Polynesians and some Africans have slanted eyes. Hm. There are white ppl with ] slanted light blue or green eyes
Not to mention, all these sites are probably monitored by ppl with such eyes lol and also ... different eyes lol

Ah the trope of poor ppl being ah so proud! - for refusing BIG money which they genuinely earned and NEED lmao. The actor offered money to reward KimChi family for hiding him that night, the H top woman offered money bc of the framed metal-in-the-food scandal that her husband did... And KimChin family proudly refused with a big sermon. What bs!!!! Take the money and pay off the loan, morons.

What a cheesy way to extend the drama.... The ppl in debt dont take the money they earned, so now we have 1 ep about that and 20 more eps about them losing their restaurant bc they didnt pay their load

Also, this is such a typical brainwashing of poor ppl to continue giving their money and always stay poor and powerless... The drama is actually propaganda and helping rich ppl.

The script writer should use their brain cells and think of some smarter plot to put into the drama.

I love Asia, I make a living off Asian knowledge and concepts :) and I live in the USA because Asian lifestyle IN ASIA is too restrictive and the USA allows freedom to PICK the lifestyle I want :) so out of all Tinders, drugs, rock n roll, etc. I can PICK to live a family lifestyle that is squeaky clean and tons of fun - and so I jibe with watching kdramas :) bc they got that. Moral compass, good values, good healthy lifestyle, community, wisdom, and tons of fun.

I am living the best of both worlds :)

The West has very toxic values and lifestyle, but also leaves freedom for you to find the niche you like - bc is a huge rather empty space so you can claim your territory :)
The Asia has extremely healthy values and lifestyle concepts, but in practical real life is too bogged down with social norms, sexism, and "staying in line" with everyone else, bc ASIA IS OVERCROWDED so ppl have to tiptoe around each other.

So living in the USA and practicing traditional Asian values is extremely fun and rewarding life :) I would love to try living in Tibet or Dharmsala, or in Nepal, or India too because those places have something that nobody else does - extremely well implemented and taught spiritual values.

Spiritual education is often missed in kdramas, unfortunately.
Cdramas are 99% crude "military parade" feel but when Chinese make something special, wow they are just amazing and totally outdo anyone else, they make the DEEPEST stuff. It happens once in a zillion years, but when it happens!!! Showing that Chinese actually have the deepest understanding but are sooo bogged down with bad stuff bc there are so many of them and most are too dumb as usual and there is such heavy oppression too much to even breathe.

Also, USA used to be much smarter, but all good movies and dramas and critical thinking basically died off around year 2000. Some can still be found in isolated spots, in stand up comedy or alternative "news" but it is very very very very rare these days. The USA is totally dumbed down and drugged down. So it is on its way OUT. It has become a very backward space. Epstein files were still not released, instead there is almost a nuclear war and the president pocketed 2.2 billion dollars so far and nobody is doing anything. YOU CANNOT MAKE GOOD DRAMAS AND MOVIES IN AN ENVIRONMENT LIKE THAT, WHERE MOST PPL ARE TOO FAR GONE OFF THE DEEP END TO WATCH REAL STUFF. If Epstein files are "normal" then ... what could you possibly make dramas and movies about???? it is like... anything goes... and nobody is thinking.... or doing... anything.... but continues with Tinder and drugs. Marijuana is like cigarettes. What kind of stuff will those ppl enjoy watching?????

SO GUESS WHO WINS THE ENTERTAINMENT WORLD AND STORYTELLING? S KOREANS :) the best storytellers out there globally today.

If you have any recommendations for great family-involved dramas like this, I would appreciate it! Thanks. I think this is my favorite family-involved drama so far.

I liked My Father is Strange, Once Again, and Five Enough, All About My Mother, Iron Family, and current daily Our Happy Days and somewhat the current Recipe for Love are ok too.

I plan to watch Reply series.

OK sure, I am only up to ep 5 now. But wow this is a real kdrama! I love it!!!! I wanted to watch it for a very long time and finally, the new dramas are so few and so bad that I am making the time to watch this one and to skip the new ones. There is a long list of old dramas I want to see, like It is Ok This is Love. I will check your watclist to get ideas :) THANK YOU!

Well it is obvious, nothing is perfect, and Asian dramas of course have their faults BUT Hwood has so much more and more serious unbearable faults, it is a total cesspool
That's why I switched to kdramas

Good USA movies kinda stopped around 2006. I have a list of them in my feed :) Smarts still exist in the USA, check out collaborative kdrama Tempest or kmovie Okja, BUT nobody would dare film that in the USA..... And I am not sure what's going on in Europe, it tends to have more artsy stuff, but ...

Now I am thinking of famous Italian movie Perfect Strangers lmao Check that out...

I have the background of someone who likes REAL stuff.
Right now I am watching Kimchi Family kdrama and it is a real thing.

And you, what are you when you so proudly say "we" dont have sh.t like that in Western cinema? For someone who claimed they are from N Korea and who had to use AI to write in proper English, you are surely very proud of the West. Where did that come from... ?

So yeah in Western cinema there are no such Asian cultural things but there are Western cultural things....

So Asian dramas do not have:
S.X VIOLENCE AND MEANINGLESS CAR CHASES AND SUCH OTHER SHOCKING FILLERS
BROKEN FAMILIES, MOST KIDS HAVE JUST A SINGLE MOM
EVERYONE DIVORCED, ON DRUGS, ON PILLS, FAR AWAY FROM THEIR FAMILIES
KIDS SHOOTING THEIR ENTIRE SCHOOL TO DEATH
PPL NOT ABLE TO WALK ON THE STREET BC IT IS DANGEROUS, YOU CAN GET ROBBED, HOMELESS EVERYWHERE,SHOOTING HEROIN ON THE STREET AND POOING ON THE STREET
ENTIRE DOWNTOWN AS A SUPER DANGEROUS AREA
PPL NOT ABLE TO WALK ON THE STREET BC THEY ARE TOO FAT AND OUT OF SHAPE
KIDS NOT ABLE TO GO OUTSIDE, NEVER WALK TO SCHOOL
EVERYONE SPENDING TIME INDOORS WATCHING TV FOR THEMSELVES
DEVOURING GREASY FAST FOOD
NO COOKING, NO FAMILY MEALS
NO FAMILY GET TOGETHERS
NO GRANDMA GRANDMA UNCLE AUNTY NO NEIGHBORS NO COLLEAGUES
PURITAN IDEAS OF S.X AS "DIRTY" AND THUS EXCITING, ADVERTISEMENTS EVERYWHERE FOR ANYTHING USING S.X AND VIOLENCE
EVERY 3rd AMERICAN HAS GENITAL HERPES AND ALL BIG CITIES HAVE BILLBOARDS ABOUT EPIDEMICS OF HEPATITIS C, AIDS, SYPHILIS, ETC BC OF PROMISCUITY
THERE ARE 11 MILLION ACTIVE TINDER USERS IN THE USA
65% AMERICANS USE RECREATIONAL AND OTHER DRUGS
EVERY 5th AMERICAN HAS CANCER FROM POISONED FOOD AIR AND WATER

MARIJUANA LIKE CIGARETTES, advertised everywhere, stores everyone, online shopping everywhere

Basically the USA is one huge orgy, Old Roman style
and sure enough that is reflected in the movies, dramas, etc.
and it is SHALLOW. Series like Friends are totally shallow mindless.

do you want me to continue?

I have lived in the USA for a very long time and traveled all over so I am very sure what I am talking about,

I guess it is our fault as the audience for not requesting him, praising him, and making him madly popular.

His FL partner from Five Enough became a famous actress just bc she CANNOT act, she just keeps a poker face.

This dude CAN act and is very hot, so we the audience must request and clamor for more of him

I agree with you and also disagree. There is absolutely no historical period without chasing power and politics lmao
and no period without sexism in the last ... 20,000 years? after matriarchy lmao

And women should be smarter than sexism... but sexism continues bc women are NOT smart to see it.

Plus, historically, from what I understand, Joseon "enslaved" women, they had a lot more rights in Goryo. Joseon was Confucianism and women got reaaaaaaaly low on the social totem pole...

So yes in that doggie eat doggie Joseon world, women probably increased attacks on each other. But it is their fault.

Do you know why this predatory woman picked another woman to play with? BC THE OTHER WOMAN IS WEAK ENOUGH SO YOU CAN PLAY WITH A WOMAN WITHOUT ANY CONSEQUENCES

So the predatory woman is a DOUCHEBAG picking weaker ppl to pray on.

I have no clue about this drama so these names dont mean anything to me :)

Yeah two smart Aleks ganging up. Fantastic portrayal of cdrama audience. Are cdramas this crude too?

Wow what a smart Alek here :) What a great advertisement for cdramas. to have such crude audience.

Practically all western stories are either failure OR "winning" by sheer blind luck.

I havent watched anything western since ... 2000s? so it is hard to remember...

OK, Julia Roberts movie "Pretty Woman". She is a professional prostitute, and a RICH CLIENT of hers falls in love with her and marries her. Essentially, she won a lottery without even trying

James Dean movies are all about failures.

So many movies about druggies who cannot leave it , etc

Literature too... Dostoyevski is all about gloom and doom and hopelessness... That famous book about a woman living in mid west with a cheating husband and she doesnt even know... Hemingway books...
That .. Maryl Streep? movie about woman in mid west who has an affair with a traveling tourist passing by and she wants to elope with him but stays bc of her 2 kids...

THEY ARE ALL FAILURES WITH HOPELESS BAD ENDINGS

When I read the plot, I said - cool.
Then I saw it is 64 eps - yuck - then I saw each ep is only 2 mins!!!!

NO THANKS to short verticals :)

Was Sung Hoon on the verge of starving and thus accepted this role?

Why does Sung Hoon end up in trashy silly dramas... ???

Great actor should seek better dramas

yup 100% agree with you. Fantastic actor who ends up in silly dramas

FYI His good ones also includes Five Enough

booo

the plot sounds like a complete and unbelievable mess lmao

The drama plot is ... well ...

but the ML actor makes it stellar :) he is a really good actor

This reeks of product placements and ads for the s.x industry.

I think ML actor is very talented so I wonder if he is so starving he had to take this? ??
Or is he greedy bc for sure americans will watch this, they are addicted to being shocked
or if he really believes in this?
In any case... I am not his fan anymore.

Korea seems to have a very healthy relationship to s.x that I have seen so far, they are not prude nor schicophrenic guilty and excited about "dirty" like Americans,
and from what I could tell, there were nice educational books and educational materials through history to educate ppl how to do it well, so ...
and yeah there are hostess bars etc etc etc
Then there are really fun ways to get educated naturally, like k-pop dance, karaoke bars, ... and all those outdoor gyms and running etc...

So this movie seems ... totally .... not needed except that some s.x shops want to sell more products...

Yeah both family and s.x industry worlds will change in very expected ways, bc this is done in many countries all over the world. So someone - most likely insiders with the help of outsiders - is trying to break the family culture and thus increase drug use and consumerism and reliance on the west.

Sure, s.x industry will have increased sales and influence as S Korea is made more and more like the USA, a drugs/s.x/violence/no families cesspool without any moral compass whatsoever

Booo! I dislike genociding Korean culture.