Not sure why writers are afraid to give women with children a second chance at love. Doctor Cha teased a new love…
Actually, I liked the fact that FL didn't jump onto the first guy who shows interest in her. Her husband got murdered not long ago. In the last episode, she has finally found some peace in her life but she still needs time to heal and to learn how to deal with her mental illness. Also, she told her daughter "a moment ago" that the father is dead. It would be inappropriate to replace the beloved husband with a new love right away.
If you want to watch a drama where a single mother with a child gets a new chance at love, maybe you'll enjoy "Crash Course in Romance".
2ml guilt trip her too much in the name of helping. She has no chance but to respond positively for his romantic…
Gosh, I'm glad I'm not the only one who felt this way. I found him so pushy, sometimes even creepy. The whole time, I expected a plot twist revealing him as the/a murderer.
I don’t think it was that bad in the end. It left us with a good message of there is no such thing as a happy…
Well, actually, it was some kind of a happy ending. The bad people are in jail or dead. FL still has her dad, her daughter, and a good friend who might become a future love interest. She had suffered for decades because of her bad mental health but she finally got professional help. She finally knows about her flaws (the imaginary friend, for example), and is able to deal with them. She now knows where and how to get help. She doesn't have to waste energy on hiding the fact that she's mentally ill. People around her know that she's mentally ill, still support her, and treat her like before because they see her good personality and her skills, not just her mental illness. And she is finally free instead of controlled and exploited by people such as her former boss.
who on Earth would let her child to travel alone from the US to S.Korea?? if she’s indeed traveling alone, why…
It is not uncommon to have children travel alone for whatever reason. There are special services like we saw in the drama. However, this has to be organised by the parents. It's not like the child booked her own flight. The stewards also don't hand the child over to some random person. I was able to ignore that part because maybe FL's ex-bff made it somehow work.
What bothered me most was the fact that FL checks social media to figure out that her 7 yo daughter flew back to Korea despite knowing that her daughter would arrive that day, and despite knowing that the evil ex-bff might hurt her daughter.
The ending of Yoon Jin is not satisfying at all. That b*tch clearly needed help as she too suffered with mental…
So true. I was really disappointed because from ep. 1-16 she did everything to get what she wanted. She was rich, powerful, successful, and, as you wrote, basically unstoppable. And then the writers got rid of her within two seconds? That was lazy writing.
So, what country do you live in? Yes women pay attention to brands…some much more than necessary. I have a friend…
Almost all popular dramas I've watched (from thrillers, sageuk to romcoms) feature excessive drinking. As aforementioned, alcoholism is rampant in Korea, and there is a lot of social pressure to join those excessive drinking events.
Promoting excessive drinking in almost all dramas is like promoting binge eating in the USA where obesity is rampant.
If Korea and/or the USA want to address and improve the state of their respective society, they need to feature healthier behaviours in popular media because, in reality, unhealthy behaviour is deemed desireable. Most people cannot think for themselves, and just do what other people around them do or what they feel other people expect then to do. The best place to make things look cool is fiction (dramas, advertising, and so on). Many people love to copy things and behaviours from their favourite fictional source.
The USA already knows that morbid obesity is not a desireable trait, especially since the health care system gets more and more expensive. (This is also true for countries with "free" health care, by the way.)
In Korea, the dangers of alcoholism are still not acknowledged unless the addict becomes violent on a regular basis or cannot work anymore.
If you cannot see the difference between driving an expensive car, sporting an expensive designer bag, and excessive drinking in dramas, well, then I know why you are throwing in words such as "offensive" and "ridiculous" even though my arguments had nothing to do with personal feelings and preferences.
So, what country do you live in? Yes women pay attention to brands…some much more than necessary. I have a friend…
Yes, it is. That's why I don't like to see this behaviour reinforced in dramas. Dramas are fiction anyway, so they don't have to reflect the real world. Korea does not consist of hot, young chaebols waiting for pretty, poor women either.
In my opinion, it's one thing to celebrate something special and drink (too) much alcohol one day, but it's another thing to drink (too much) every single day. I'm not saying that the characters in dramas should never drink and never get drunk but they really don't have to drink every evening or sometimes even at noon. IF they drink, it would be nice if they could stop drinking before getting wasted.
For me, beer and ice cream consumed in the winter is much more confusing.
WHAT? I love eating ice cream in winter. It's not uncommon where I live. While I don't drink beer myself, I know lots of people who drink beer throughout the whole year. Germany without beer would not be Germany.
So, what country do you live in? Yes women pay attention to brands…some much more than necessary. I have a friend…
I'd rather see PPL with expensive cars than with alcohol. Alcoholism is rampant in Korea, and drinking way too much is shown as a desireable trait in dramas.
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. :(
If you want to watch a drama where a single mother with a child gets a new chance at love, maybe you'll enjoy "Crash Course in Romance".
What bothered me most was the fact that FL checks social media to figure out that her 7 yo daughter flew back to Korea despite knowing that her daughter would arrive that day, and despite knowing that the evil ex-bff might hurt her daughter.
Promoting excessive drinking in almost all dramas is like promoting binge eating in the USA where obesity is rampant.
If Korea and/or the USA want to address and improve the state of their respective society, they need to feature healthier behaviours in popular media because, in reality, unhealthy behaviour is deemed desireable. Most people cannot think for themselves, and just do what other people around them do or what they feel other people expect then to do. The best place to make things look cool is fiction (dramas, advertising, and so on). Many people love to copy things and behaviours from their favourite fictional source.
The USA already knows that morbid obesity is not a desireable trait, especially since the health care system gets more and more expensive. (This is also true for countries with "free" health care, by the way.)
In Korea, the dangers of alcoholism are still not acknowledged unless the addict becomes violent on a regular basis or cannot work anymore.
If you cannot see the difference between driving an expensive car, sporting an expensive designer bag, and excessive drinking in dramas, well, then I know why you are throwing in words such as "offensive" and "ridiculous" even though my arguments had nothing to do with personal feelings and preferences.
In my opinion, it's one thing to celebrate something special and drink (too) much alcohol one day, but it's another thing to drink (too much) every single day. I'm not saying that the characters in dramas should never drink and never get drunk but they really don't have to drink every evening or sometimes even at noon. IF they drink, it would be nice if they could stop drinking before getting wasted.
https://kisskh.at/680385-black-sun
Both "The Veil" and "Mouse" can be found on Viki. At least in my region.
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. :(