Even if I was a billionaire, I would never buy a luxury car.I'll stick with reliable Toyotas. It's just not in…
Do you as a non-billionaire use lavatory paper twice not to waste any spot on the sheet? You probably earn enough money, so you don't have to worry about the lavatory paper, and you probably don't waste any thought on it as long as you have it at home. Using the sheets twice might save you a bunch of cents per year but those saved cents will not improve your life in any way, so this investment is a waste of time, and you'll prefer to use the sheets only once.
If you were a billionaire, a car won't be a money pit for you. Your fortune attracts so much interest that you could buy and maintain multiple cars just with the interest after taxes. A bunch of $1000 bills are "nothing" for you because you have so many of them.
Let's say you are bad with money and invest 1 billion dollars for an interest rate of 1 % p.a., that's 10 million dollars. Let's say you pay 90 % taxes on that interest, you would still get 1 million dollars that year. That means you have 1 billion dollars + 1 million dollars.
In reality, you hire people who are good with money.
There would be no difference between a Toyota and a Mercedes for you in regards to money. If your car breaks, you could get a brand new car within a couple of minutes. You will not worry about the maintainance cost. because saving those costs will not make any difference in your life.
As a billionaire, your definition of luxury will be different from normal people's definition. For you, luxury are mainly rare/unique things, and the problem is not money but quantity.
Don't compare billionaires to idiots who constantly live beyond their means.
why you so triggered over how other men look? lmao. you talk about how others are weak but you worry more about…
Thanks for the list. I know and enjoyed all of those dramas, except for Vagabond, which I haven't watched yet. Watch "The Veil" if you haven't already. I think you might enjoy it. :)
Kingdom is awesome but I'm wondering why you don't complain about ML. Ju Ji-hoon is very slim (he looks healthier than Jung Kyung-ho) and very pretty. Whenever I watch a drama with him in a role, it makes me wish that he'll make out with another guy. He looks like the Asian version of one of my non-Asian ex-bfs who I "forced" to wear my skinny Miss Sixty jeans. That ex looked sexier in them than I. Ah, good old fetish.
In my opinion, Jung Kyung-ho did a good job in Cruel City. It's not like he was supposed to be a buffed guy like Cho-heon in Vigilante. He also didn't look gay. When I see him, I usually think that the poor guy should gain weight because he looks anorexic.
The profile pictures on MDL almost always look fairly ugly. I don't know who selects them but the pictures rarely look like the actors in the dramas. If you dislike how Jung Kyung-ho looks because of his profile picture on MDL, maybe give Cruel City a try and watch the first episode. It's an action drama, not BL or anything like that.
Another example for a horrible profile picture is Namkoong Min. He does not look like that in dramas. Maybe he did 10+ years ago.
As you can see, there are lots of alternative dramas. You don't have to complain in the comment section of "Cruel City" just because Jung Kyung-ho isn't the kind of actor you are looking for. That drama is 10 years old anyway. Nobody will change it for you, so don't waste your time. ;)
why you so triggered over how other men look? lmao. you talk about how others are weak but you worry more about…
Kdramas are everything but woke in the Western sense of wokeness. As mentioned above, Asian beauty standards cannot be compared with other beauty standards, they also must not be interpreted via the lens of non-Asian ideologies. If you watch Kdramas, you have to learn about Korean culture to be able to interpret them in the "right" way.
The skinny flawless pretty boys in Kdramas are definitely not there to cater to wokeness. They are there because (straight) Asians consider them desireable and want to see them on screen. If you don't like them, that's fine but complaining about Koreans making dramas for Koreans who have their own (Korean) taste is ridiculous. Kkonminam have been popular in Korea since at least the 90s.
If you want to see a buff ML, maybe watch "The Veil".
Regarding old people playing highschoolers, one must not ignore the context. In the past, minors (just as adults) were exploited by the industry. Now there are finally laws to protect minors. That's why you see so many adults playing minors because the laws protecting minors make it difficult to create a series/movie with actual minors. If the studios made a highschool series with actual minors, the production would not only take a lot longer but it would also be MUCH more expensive. Also, if puberty hits too hard, it might be that they'll even have to replace actors because the minors's bodies change too fast. Adults don't change that fast unless they have an accident, illness, or cosmetic surgery. If you don't believe me, watch "Stranger Things".
I'm not sure if you are aware of it but one big and important part of the woke ideology is to make people believe that fiction was reality and "representation". You seem to have fallen for this woke lie. Otherwise, you wouldn't demand that fiction should give a "right impression" but would understand that actors are people pretending to be something they are (usually) not in real life.
For centuries, educated people had understood this and were able to "believe". There was even a time when male actors portrayed women because women were forbidden from performing on stage. See, for example, "Cross-gender acting" on Wikipedia. It was also clear to US-Americans until a couple of years ago because "Hollywood stars" were meant to be fiction, not approachable for normal people.
I finally completed this drama but I watched most episodes with 2-3x speed because they were incredibly boring and repetitive.
The premise of this story was promising: revenge and falling in love with one's enemy. However, the revenge part basically ended in episode 1. For the rest of the drama, not much happened because Mary Sue, I mean, Kyera was "just there", and everybody immediately loved and listened to her. She was able to do everything, she never struggled for more than 1-2 seconds. Sajo-hyun's and Ak-hee's secret was revealed after a few episodes, and there wasn't any progress anymore either. The villain had a somewhat interesting story but the court was like a stupid kindergarden. I really hate it if things work only because everybody is thick as mince. Even in the most average sageuk, a villain like that would have been killed/executed after a couple of minutes because his enemies would not have hesistated to exploit his very obvious weakness.
Yes, other dramas have bad writing, too, but they usually have good actors who are still able to make their respective characters interesting and relateable. Or those dramas have lots of good ideas which were not executed well. I like creative trash but I don't like unimaginative trash.
"Love Song for Illusion" has got lots of good actors but one of the actors sticks out because of the lack of acting skills: FL. It was sad to see how much effort Park Ji-hoon put into his acting but Hong Ye-ji wasn't able to keep up with him in any way. All she did was looking pretty with the same facial expression, and sometimes a tear or two which indicated that her character was supposed to be sad. It was very obvious in the "romance" scenes they shared. ML had a range of facial expressions, and certain facial expressions were for FL only. However, FL looked at everybody the same way. There was no "I love only you, ML" expression, just "I am looking pretty". This is probably the main reason why the main leads had absolutely no chemistry, apart from the fact that they did not have anything in common.
Also, lots of scenes were basically repeating themselves with little variations. At some point, I found even Park Ji-hoon's characters boring because despite him trying not to act in a repetitive way, the repetitive nature of the scenes was too obvious. The only characters who remained somewhat interesting were the queen and the villain because the writers came up with a bit more story for them throughout the whole drama. These actors did a great job, too, but lazy writing remains lazy writing. :(
No, anorexia isn't about "can't get weight back". I know a few anorexic women in real life who "gain their weight back" for a couple of days/weeks before they start to starve themselves again. Many of them had to go to the hospital on a regular basis to survive. Anorexia nervosa is an eating disorder.
Also, anorexic people can eat a lot and have bulemia. A former friend of mine was a bit overweighted when we were 13. She even had a disc prolapse at some point, which was crazy because that was something mainly old people get. Years later, after not having seen her for years, I met her by chance at a bus stop. She was only slightly thinner than PMY. I asked her whether she was anorexic, and she confirmed. She looked horrible, even worse than when she was overweight. I didn't ask but she also told me she had bulemia, so this explained why she was able to eat so much while being extremely thin. I've just looked for her on the internet, and she seems to look a bit healthier in her pictures but she's still very, very thin. I know that she knows Photoshop. She's also better at doing her makeup.
PMY is not 50 kg. Please stop being racist and jealous. And stop sharing lies about Asian women. Asians are humans, too.
You never corrected your numbers. You claimed that PMY weighted 37 kg for the cancer scene, and gained 13 kg within a couple of days to look healthy for the restaurant scene. 13 kg is a significant amount of weight but PMY looks as thin in the restaurant scene as in her cancer scenes. She just looked less healthy as a cancer patient thanks to the pale lipstick and makeup. So, where are those 13 kg? Or is this the famous secret of Asian biology you tried to propagate here?
BEAUTY STANDARDS are not equal HEALTH. Our anorexic white runway models are not healthy just because they are on a runway or on TV. They do get criticised but the industry still prefers their anorexic bodies, so the industry often lies about weight, and they also take pictures of underweight models eating burgers to make it look as if those models were eating "like a normal person" but, unlike a normal person, those models were naturally slim.
While there are fat models (just like there are fat actresses in Korea), they are just a tiny minority. If you learn about advertising and psychology, you'll understand what purpose those fat models serve. It's not about "diversity", "all bodies are beautiful", "muh racism" or "muh jealousy". It's mainly about zeitgeist and virtue signaling to gain the attention of certain target groups.
You (= the French "on", not the French "tu") almost never see any normal weighted actresses in the main role in K-dramas. The main roles in Korea (and Asia) are for very thin actresses with very few exceptions. Or have you (= the French "tu") ever seen any normal weighted or even fat young Asian actress in a main role in a Kdrama? I saw one or two heavily overweighted young(er) actresses in support/guest roles. And I saw a ripped young woman in "Sweet Home", which was very nice because she was supposed to be a firefighter. Her body is not normal, though, because she clearly did a lot of sports to get those muscles.
Seeking the truth is nice and all but you won't get the truth from PMY. She's not so stupid to share personal information with strangers on the internet, especially not medical information. You also won't get the truth from her agency because her agency would never share anything that might make PMY look bad. Having an eating disorder might make her look bad while claiming that she did this or that for a role will make her look good.
Are you a stalker or how do you know how much PMY eats in one sitting? And what is "one sitting"? How often does that happen?
she won't ..she keeps the same dull expression , so I dropped it after eps. 7I rarely drop dramas. I prefer to…
I'm jealous. Unfortunately, I'm currently already watching ep. 13, and since there are only 4 episodes left, I must complete the drama. :(
I've been fast-forwarding a lot and watching it with 2-3x speed because, otherwise, it's insufferable. The revenge part seemed to be over in the first few minutes of episode 1. Then there was/is basically no story left. FL walks through the forest, jumps over walls, can do everything (dancing, being a physician, assassine, and so on), randomly pops up out of nowhere, gives orders to court people who are very eager to follow her, all hot males instantly fall in love with her. She's a Mary Sue but without any story. Nobody would notice if she suddenly disappeared from the drama.
And there is absolutely no chemistry between the main leads. It's funny how much effort Park Ji-hoon puts into his performance but Hong Ye-ji always has the same facial expression. Even when she claims to be in love with him, she isn't able to convince me in any way. This is really the worst romance drama I've ever watched.
The writing is also very bad. Every other episode, the story seems to change as if the writers ran out of ideas and randomly came up with the next idea, which is usually a lame trope. I'm only watching this because of Hwang Hee's character, the villain, but I wished I could drop it. :(
FL displays the same facial expression basically the whole time, no matter whether her character is supposed to be worried or happy or afraid or surprised or whatever. She does not seem to be able to make those feelings/emotions visible, or her character is lacking any feelings/emotions. That's hard to tell. It doesn't help either that I don't like her character but an underwhelming performance combined with an obnoxious role is too much for me. I hope FL improves her acting in the next episodes or that her character will hopefully become less annoying. Otherwise, I'll drop this.
There is star quality and there are actors who may not be „star quality“, where you know that if you watch…
Indeed, we also need actors who can disappear in a role like Song Ha-yoon. She didn't steal PMY's show, which is great because it was clear that PMY was supposed to be the star in this drama. Another "star" or "wanna-be star" would have ruined it. Yet she made an impact because of her great performance. I hope she'll get more complex roles in the future.
I "pick" her because I watched her dramas. I am not interested in BTS, I don't know BTS (apart from the name), so I don't talk about BTS. Also, I usually do not do research on actors unless they look, for example, extremely unhealthy like PMY. If PMY weighted 47 kg back then and 50 kg in the restaurant scene, I'm wondering if she just aged really badly (unlike me, who is her age and hasn't had any plastic surgery or botox or anything like that) or if that's just not her weight, and the official statements are lies like the "articles" from your favourite sources. Since PMY does not look like a smoker or drug addict, I don't think that she aged worse than I. She also has the money to get good plastic surgery. Her looking gaunter at 50 kg while looking healthy and pretty at 47 kg means that something is wrong with the numbers. And since you come up with random numbers just to correct yourself when somebody points out that your claims make no sense, tells me that I'm very likely right.
So, why do I care about PMY? Well, I like her as an actress and hope she'll be in more dramas in the future. I certainly won't watch all of them because I'm not that into romcoms, and PMY mainly acts in romcoms. However, I definitely will not watch any dramas with anorexic and otherwise unhealthy actors in it because I don't want to support that. If many people watch those dramas, producers might think that it's because of anorexia. The next actor must lose weight, too, to look as anorexic as the successful actor.
We judge all the time, that's right. Otherwise, we would not watch any dramas or listen to music because it's all about judging. Enjoying is judging, too.
You are also right about the choices. Most actors in this industry have two options: Lose weight and get the role, or be a "fatty" and don't get any role. Work overtime, or don't come back. If you do some research on actual news websites, not on gossip websites full of lies, you'll get to the interesting articles which tell you how less successful actors get treated. Having to lose weight is just one aspect. And since there are many, many beautiful Koreans, especially many, many younger beautiful Koreans, the actual choice for most is to either obey or to leave the industry.
"So why on earth would I judge a woman I don't know, even if she's a celebrity, because she made a decision?"
Says the guy who claimed he wrote her agency to get personal opinion about an actress who he totally does not judge. And he also messages her agency because of a decision she made. Sounds contradictory, doesn't it?
Unlike you, I don't contact actors, agencies, an actor's friends or family. I just discuss with strangers on a website. PMY very likely does not know about me because I don't message her or her agency demanding information.
Wow, this was one of the most annoying FLs I've ever seen in any drama. I hated her since she grabbed the sedative dart without asking the doc who was right next to her and throwing it towards that animal. Then she proceeded to mess with the vet's work. Was this supposed to make her look cool?
The FL was also very "intelligent" like "oh, he didn't run children over with his car, so he is clearly not mafia". Wow, what a brilliant conclusion.
It didn't help that the actress (Nana) with her two facial expressions was underwhelming. She could not make me like her character in any way.
ML isn't particularily intelligent either. Everybody can enter his secret hide out, and his friend shouts around that ML's an assassin every couple of minutes but nobody ever hears him through those paperthin walls.
While the drama began somewhat interesting, the second half felt rather draggy because all secrets were already revealed. The actors for the support roles did a good job, though, and I found their characters more interesting than the main characters.
An anti-fan would hope that PMY loses even more weight, so she ruins her health and won't get any roles anymore. I'm neither a fan nor an anti-fan. I am just concerned that this bad behaviour in this harsh industry gets enabled not just by producers and toxic anti-fans but also by well-meaning strangers on the internet who do everything if a pretty woman gets criticised. From your comment, I feel like you might be the latter.
As a woman who is approx. PMY's height and who had weighted 48-50 kg for many years, I can assure you that I never looked as skinny as her. She has always been WAY thinner than I, even when I did a lot of sports and had less body fat. Now I'm less "ripped" and more on the skinny-fat side. I also have very dominant cheekbones, so I'm prone to look like a skull when I lose weight but I never looked as gaunt as her who has less prominent cheekbones. I can tell you getting fat was hard work and didn't happen overnight. I also know a female bodybuilder who is taller than PMY and who weighted 55 kg at her height. That bodybuilder had almost no body fat and never looked as skinny as PMY despite all those well-defined muscles. This makes me wonder if you are even aware how body, muscles and things work, and how healthy women look if they don't put on multiple layers of pretty makeup.
You are aware that PMY's answers to questions are well thought out to please her fans and other people, aren't you? She's been a professional actor for many, many years. Do you really believe that the production halted multiple weeks for her to gain 50kg - 37 kg = 13 kg? There is no way to gain this much weight in a couple of days unless you have congestion.
I know very well that the industry lies about the weight, plastic surgery, and so on to make the actors/idols look more relatable to normal people. "She weights as much as you but, unlike you, she's very skinny, which is the reason why she is a famous actress, and you are not." And many people believe that because their only source of information are gossip websites and statements by agencies whose job it is to sell their actors at all cost.
Regarding "Castle in the Time", it's very funny that you made it look as if she gained weight for it after "Love in Contract". Did you do that on purpose? Just for your information, "Castle in the Time" was filmed back in 2016. Back then, PMY looked healthy and happy.
honestly it sounds more like she has some physical or mental health issues and people just are enabling her by…
I completely agree with you. With a bit of "bad makeup", she could have looked exhausted, sick and almost dead like a cancer patient. There really is no need to ruin one's health just for a drama people will forget in a couple of weeks, especially since nobody would have been able to tell the difference between her looking sick and her being sick anyway. In my opinion, an actor should be remembered for his performance, not for the single fact that he gained or lost weight for a role. PMY did a decend job in "Marry My Husband". It makes me a bit sad that she probably won't be remembered for her performance because everybody including her just talks about her "dedication".
Unfortunately, I doubt that she'll get the support she needs. This industry is very toxic, stressful, and encourages unhealthy behaviour. Let's hope she'll put on some weight and will look healthier and happier in her next project.
honestly it sounds more like she has some physical or mental health issues and people just are enabling her by…
It's also interesting that the initial weight wasn't mentioned. PMY looked like a skeleton in her previous project, "Love in Contract", so we can assume that she already weighted around 40 kg. Surviving only on a few ion drinks is a fairly typical behaviour of anorexic people, and "being dedicated for this role" is a nice excuse, especially since the character was supposed to be healthy for most parts of the drama. If it was really about the role, PMY would have gained weight to portray her pre-cancer character accordingly but everything is focussed on the little cancer part only.
I do believe her that she felt she needed to show dedication for her role, especially after her latest "scandal". She knows that the toxic netizens at least wouldn't call losing an unhealthy amount of weight "not dedicated".
The "good examples" you listed were people with a healthy amount of weight. And even if not, you were able to tell that they lost weight for a role.
PMY was already a skeleton. She didn't look any different from "Love in Contract". Did you watch that drama? I did. That's why I do not believe the claim that she lost weight FOR THIS ROLE because she already looked this way. Also, it makes no sense to lose this amount of weight because there were only a couple of scenes where she was a cancer patient. The rest of the drama was before she got cancer. How on earth am I supposed to believe that PMY was oh-so-dedicated if she looked like a skeleton when her character was healthy? Wouldn't it have been more dedicated to put on weight to look as healthy as her pre-cancer character?
It's ... interesting that your sources of information are gossip websites, and that you link them as if they were an undisputable source of truth. Here is simple maths: Assuming PMY weighted 50 kg, we get 50 kg - 37 kg = 22 kg. If you really believe that PMY was able to act while weighting only 22 kg, I understand why you mention awards because it seems that you also believe that the more awards somebody gets, the truer the lies become.
PMY's face still looks pretty, and I'm sure it would still look pretty if she put on more weight. Na In-woo looks as if he were in his 30s, so it was not necessary to lose weight to look as young/old as he. Please stop claiming that PMY had to lose weight to look as if she were 10 years younger just to be able to the the love interest of a younger ML.
She lost a lot of weight even before this drama, so I assume that her losing weight just for this role is just a made up excuse to enable either her eating disorder or producers demanding actors to lose an unhealthy amount of weight or both. She already looked extremely skinny and unhealthy in "Love in Contract". It was very obvious in the scene where she practised gymnastics. She was basically a skeleton with a somewhat pretty face. I recently watched her older dramas, and the difference is striking.
i kept waiting for it to get better , sadly that never happened, This is super boring. Lack of character depth…
I read hundreds of thrillers and prefer to watch dramas where people die, and I agree with you. While the first episodes were quite thrilling and interesting, I found the latter ones relatively boring. I don't like it when characters appear to be intelligent just because the other characters are so stupid.
Jamie disappointed me most. In the first episodes, they claimed she were oh-so-intelligent. I had high expectations. Then they basically discarded her after she had served her purpose, and she was just some stupid NPC for the rest of the drama.
If you were a billionaire, a car won't be a money pit for you. Your fortune attracts so much interest that you could buy and maintain multiple cars just with the interest after taxes. A bunch of $1000 bills are "nothing" for you because you have so many of them.
Let's say you are bad with money and invest 1 billion dollars for an interest rate of 1 % p.a., that's 10 million dollars. Let's say you pay 90 % taxes on that interest, you would still get 1 million dollars that year. That means you have 1 billion dollars + 1 million dollars.
In reality, you hire people who are good with money.
There would be no difference between a Toyota and a Mercedes for you in regards to money. If your car breaks, you could get a brand new car within a couple of minutes. You will not worry about the maintainance cost. because saving those costs will not make any difference in your life.
As a billionaire, your definition of luxury will be different from normal people's definition. For you, luxury are mainly rare/unique things, and the problem is not money but quantity.
Don't compare billionaires to idiots who constantly live beyond their means.
Kingdom is awesome but I'm wondering why you don't complain about ML. Ju Ji-hoon is very slim (he looks healthier than Jung Kyung-ho) and very pretty. Whenever I watch a drama with him in a role, it makes me wish that he'll make out with another guy. He looks like the Asian version of one of my non-Asian ex-bfs who I "forced" to wear my skinny Miss Sixty jeans. That ex looked sexier in them than I. Ah, good old fetish.
In my opinion, Jung Kyung-ho did a good job in Cruel City. It's not like he was supposed to be a buffed guy like Cho-heon in Vigilante. He also didn't look gay. When I see him, I usually think that the poor guy should gain weight because he looks anorexic.
The profile pictures on MDL almost always look fairly ugly. I don't know who selects them but the pictures rarely look like the actors in the dramas. If you dislike how Jung Kyung-ho looks because of his profile picture on MDL, maybe give Cruel City a try and watch the first episode. It's an action drama, not BL or anything like that.
Another example for a horrible profile picture is Namkoong Min. He does not look like that in dramas. Maybe he did 10+ years ago.
Here are two dramas with him, you might enjoy (based on the list you shared here):
https://kisskh.at/680385-black-sun
https://kisskh.at/53875-day-and-night
And maybe:
https://kisskh.at/49999-memorist
https://kisskh.at/13239-signal
https://kisskh.at/52921-model-taxi
https://kisskh.at/21687-tunnel
Since you enjoyed Vagabond, perhaps you'll also like "Mouse" with the same actor:
https://kisskh.at/58953-mouse
As you can see, there are lots of alternative dramas. You don't have to complain in the comment section of "Cruel City" just because Jung Kyung-ho isn't the kind of actor you are looking for. That drama is 10 years old anyway. Nobody will change it for you, so don't waste your time. ;)
The skinny flawless pretty boys in Kdramas are definitely not there to cater to wokeness. They are there because (straight) Asians consider them desireable and want to see them on screen. If you don't like them, that's fine but complaining about Koreans making dramas for Koreans who have their own (Korean) taste is ridiculous. Kkonminam have been popular in Korea since at least the 90s.
If you want to see a buff ML, maybe watch "The Veil".
Regarding old people playing highschoolers, one must not ignore the context. In the past, minors (just as adults) were exploited by the industry. Now there are finally laws to protect minors. That's why you see so many adults playing minors because the laws protecting minors make it difficult to create a series/movie with actual minors. If the studios made a highschool series with actual minors, the production would not only take a lot longer but it would also be MUCH more expensive. Also, if puberty hits too hard, it might be that they'll even have to replace actors because the minors's bodies change too fast. Adults don't change that fast unless they have an accident, illness, or cosmetic surgery. If you don't believe me, watch "Stranger Things".
I'm not sure if you are aware of it but one big and important part of the woke ideology is to make people believe that fiction was reality and "representation". You seem to have fallen for this woke lie. Otherwise, you wouldn't demand that fiction should give a "right impression" but would understand that actors are people pretending to be something they are (usually) not in real life.
For centuries, educated people had understood this and were able to "believe". There was even a time when male actors portrayed women because women were forbidden from performing on stage. See, for example, "Cross-gender acting" on Wikipedia. It was also clear to US-Americans until a couple of years ago because "Hollywood stars" were meant to be fiction, not approachable for normal people.
The premise of this story was promising: revenge and falling in love with one's enemy. However, the revenge part basically ended in episode 1. For the rest of the drama, not much happened because Mary Sue, I mean, Kyera was "just there", and everybody immediately loved and listened to her. She was able to do everything, she never struggled for more than 1-2 seconds. Sajo-hyun's and Ak-hee's secret was revealed after a few episodes, and there wasn't any progress anymore either. The villain had a somewhat interesting story but the court was like a stupid kindergarden. I really hate it if things work only because everybody is thick as mince. Even in the most average sageuk, a villain like that would have been killed/executed after a couple of minutes because his enemies would not have hesistated to exploit his very obvious weakness.
Yes, other dramas have bad writing, too, but they usually have good actors who are still able to make their respective characters interesting and relateable. Or those dramas have lots of good ideas which were not executed well. I like creative trash but I don't like unimaginative trash.
"Love Song for Illusion" has got lots of good actors but one of the actors sticks out because of the lack of acting skills: FL. It was sad to see how much effort Park Ji-hoon put into his acting but Hong Ye-ji wasn't able to keep up with him in any way. All she did was looking pretty with the same facial expression, and sometimes a tear or two which indicated that her character was supposed to be sad. It was very obvious in the "romance" scenes they shared. ML had a range of facial expressions, and certain facial expressions were for FL only. However, FL looked at everybody the same way. There was no "I love only you, ML" expression, just "I am looking pretty". This is probably the main reason why the main leads had absolutely no chemistry, apart from the fact that they did not have anything in common.
Also, lots of scenes were basically repeating themselves with little variations. At some point, I found even Park Ji-hoon's characters boring because despite him trying not to act in a repetitive way, the repetitive nature of the scenes was too obvious. The only characters who remained somewhat interesting were the queen and the villain because the writers came up with a bit more story for them throughout the whole drama. These actors did a great job, too, but lazy writing remains lazy writing. :(
No, anorexia isn't about "can't get weight back". I know a few anorexic women in real life who "gain their weight back" for a couple of days/weeks before they start to starve themselves again. Many of them had to go to the hospital on a regular basis to survive. Anorexia nervosa is an eating disorder.
Also, anorexic people can eat a lot and have bulemia. A former friend of mine was a bit overweighted when we were 13. She even had a disc prolapse at some point, which was crazy because that was something mainly old people get. Years later, after not having seen her for years, I met her by chance at a bus stop. She was only slightly thinner than PMY. I asked her whether she was anorexic, and she confirmed. She looked horrible, even worse than when she was overweight. I didn't ask but she also told me she had bulemia, so this explained why she was able to eat so much while being extremely thin. I've just looked for her on the internet, and she seems to look a bit healthier in her pictures but she's still very, very thin. I know that she knows Photoshop. She's also better at doing her makeup.
PMY is not 50 kg. Please stop being racist and jealous. And stop sharing lies about Asian women. Asians are humans, too.
You never corrected your numbers. You claimed that PMY weighted 37 kg for the cancer scene, and gained 13 kg within a couple of days to look healthy for the restaurant scene. 13 kg is a significant amount of weight but PMY looks as thin in the restaurant scene as in her cancer scenes. She just looked less healthy as a cancer patient thanks to the pale lipstick and makeup. So, where are those 13 kg? Or is this the famous secret of Asian biology you tried to propagate here?
BEAUTY STANDARDS are not equal HEALTH. Our anorexic white runway models are not healthy just because they are on a runway or on TV. They do get criticised but the industry still prefers their anorexic bodies, so the industry often lies about weight, and they also take pictures of underweight models eating burgers to make it look as if those models were eating "like a normal person" but, unlike a normal person, those models were naturally slim.
While there are fat models (just like there are fat actresses in Korea), they are just a tiny minority. If you learn about advertising and psychology, you'll understand what purpose those fat models serve. It's not about "diversity", "all bodies are beautiful", "muh racism" or "muh jealousy". It's mainly about zeitgeist and virtue signaling to gain the attention of certain target groups.
You (= the French "on", not the French "tu") almost never see any normal weighted actresses in the main role in K-dramas. The main roles in Korea (and Asia) are for very thin actresses with very few exceptions. Or have you (= the French "tu") ever seen any normal weighted or even fat young Asian actress in a main role in a Kdrama? I saw one or two heavily overweighted young(er) actresses in support/guest roles. And I saw a ripped young woman in "Sweet Home", which was very nice because she was supposed to be a firefighter. Her body is not normal, though, because she clearly did a lot of sports to get those muscles.
Seeking the truth is nice and all but you won't get the truth from PMY. She's not so stupid to share personal information with strangers on the internet, especially not medical information. You also won't get the truth from her agency because her agency would never share anything that might make PMY look bad. Having an eating disorder might make her look bad while claiming that she did this or that for a role will make her look good.
Are you a stalker or how do you know how much PMY eats in one sitting? And what is "one sitting"? How often does that happen?
I've been fast-forwarding a lot and watching it with 2-3x speed because, otherwise, it's insufferable. The revenge part seemed to be over in the first few minutes of episode 1. Then there was/is basically no story left. FL walks through the forest, jumps over walls, can do everything (dancing, being a physician, assassine, and so on), randomly pops up out of nowhere, gives orders to court people who are very eager to follow her, all hot males instantly fall in love with her. She's a Mary Sue but without any story. Nobody would notice if she suddenly disappeared from the drama.
And there is absolutely no chemistry between the main leads. It's funny how much effort Park Ji-hoon puts into his performance but Hong Ye-ji always has the same facial expression. Even when she claims to be in love with him, she isn't able to convince me in any way. This is really the worst romance drama I've ever watched.
The writing is also very bad. Every other episode, the story seems to change as if the writers ran out of ideas and randomly came up with the next idea, which is usually a lame trope. I'm only watching this because of Hwang Hee's character, the villain, but I wished I could drop it. :(
It doesn't help either that I don't like her character but an underwhelming performance combined with an obnoxious role is too much for me. I hope FL improves her acting in the next episodes or that her character will hopefully become less annoying. Otherwise, I'll drop this.
So, why do I care about PMY? Well, I like her as an actress and hope she'll be in more dramas in the future. I certainly won't watch all of them because I'm not that into romcoms, and PMY mainly acts in romcoms. However, I definitely will not watch any dramas with anorexic and otherwise unhealthy actors in it because I don't want to support that. If many people watch those dramas, producers might think that it's because of anorexia. The next actor must lose weight, too, to look as anorexic as the successful actor.
We judge all the time, that's right. Otherwise, we would not watch any dramas or listen to music because it's all about judging. Enjoying is judging, too.
You are also right about the choices. Most actors in this industry have two options: Lose weight and get the role, or be a "fatty" and don't get any role. Work overtime, or don't come back. If you do some research on actual news websites, not on gossip websites full of lies, you'll get to the interesting articles which tell you how less successful actors get treated. Having to lose weight is just one aspect. And since there are many, many beautiful Koreans, especially many, many younger beautiful Koreans, the actual choice for most is to either obey or to leave the industry.
"So why on earth would I judge a woman I don't know, even if she's a celebrity, because she made a decision?"
Says the guy who claimed he wrote her agency to get personal opinion about an actress who he totally does not judge. And he also messages her agency because of a decision she made. Sounds contradictory, doesn't it?
Unlike you, I don't contact actors, agencies, an actor's friends or family. I just discuss with strangers on a website. PMY very likely does not know about me because I don't message her or her agency demanding information.
The FL was also very "intelligent" like "oh, he didn't run children over with his car, so he is clearly not mafia". Wow, what a brilliant conclusion.
It didn't help that the actress (Nana) with her two facial expressions was underwhelming. She could not make me like her character in any way.
ML isn't particularily intelligent either. Everybody can enter his secret hide out, and his friend shouts around that ML's an assassin every couple of minutes but nobody ever hears him through those paperthin walls.
While the drama began somewhat interesting, the second half felt rather draggy because all secrets were already revealed. The actors for the support roles did a good job, though, and I found their characters more interesting than the main characters.
As a woman who is approx. PMY's height and who had weighted 48-50 kg for many years, I can assure you that I never looked as skinny as her. She has always been WAY thinner than I, even when I did a lot of sports and had less body fat. Now I'm less "ripped" and more on the skinny-fat side. I also have very dominant cheekbones, so I'm prone to look like a skull when I lose weight but I never looked as gaunt as her who has less prominent cheekbones. I can tell you getting fat was hard work and didn't happen overnight. I also know a female bodybuilder who is taller than PMY and who weighted 55 kg at her height. That bodybuilder had almost no body fat and never looked as skinny as PMY despite all those well-defined muscles. This makes me wonder if you are even aware how body, muscles and things work, and how healthy women look if they don't put on multiple layers of pretty makeup.
You are aware that PMY's answers to questions are well thought out to please her fans and other people, aren't you? She's been a professional actor for many, many years. Do you really believe that the production halted multiple weeks for her to gain 50kg - 37 kg = 13 kg? There is no way to gain this much weight in a couple of days unless you have congestion.
I know very well that the industry lies about the weight, plastic surgery, and so on to make the actors/idols look more relatable to normal people. "She weights as much as you but, unlike you, she's very skinny, which is the reason why she is a famous actress, and you are not." And many people believe that because their only source of information are gossip websites and statements by agencies whose job it is to sell their actors at all cost.
Regarding "Castle in the Time", it's very funny that you made it look as if she gained weight for it after "Love in Contract". Did you do that on purpose? Just for your information, "Castle in the Time" was filmed back in 2016. Back then, PMY looked healthy and happy.
Unfortunately, I doubt that she'll get the support she needs. This industry is very toxic, stressful, and encourages unhealthy behaviour. Let's hope she'll put on some weight and will look healthier and happier in her next project.
I do believe her that she felt she needed to show dedication for her role, especially after her latest "scandal". She knows that the toxic netizens at least wouldn't call losing an unhealthy amount of weight "not dedicated".
PMY was already a skeleton. She didn't look any different from "Love in Contract". Did you watch that drama? I did. That's why I do not believe the claim that she lost weight FOR THIS ROLE because she already looked this way. Also, it makes no sense to lose this amount of weight because there were only a couple of scenes where she was a cancer patient. The rest of the drama was before she got cancer. How on earth am I supposed to believe that PMY was oh-so-dedicated if she looked like a skeleton when her character was healthy? Wouldn't it have been more dedicated to put on weight to look as healthy as her pre-cancer character?
It's ... interesting that your sources of information are gossip websites, and that you link them as if they were an undisputable source of truth. Here is simple maths: Assuming PMY weighted 50 kg, we get 50 kg - 37 kg = 22 kg. If you really believe that PMY was able to act while weighting only 22 kg, I understand why you mention awards because it seems that you also believe that the more awards somebody gets, the truer the lies become.
PMY's face still looks pretty, and I'm sure it would still look pretty if she put on more weight. Na In-woo looks as if he were in his 30s, so it was not necessary to lose weight to look as young/old as he. Please stop claiming that PMY had to lose weight to look as if she were 10 years younger just to be able to the the love interest of a younger ML.
Jamie disappointed me most. In the first episodes, they claimed she were oh-so-intelligent. I had high expectations. Then they basically discarded her after she had served her purpose, and she was just some stupid NPC for the rest of the drama.