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Episode 10 doesn't feel like a real ending. The main problem is not solved yet: Soo-min and Min-hwan still exist in FL's life and could hurt her.

(Unlike you, I haven't read the webtoon, so I don't know what exactly is going to happen.)

Actually, it is possible to flip over a man twice her size if she is a trained judoka (or something similar) and if the man is not. The key is to make him lose his balance. You don't need that much strength for that. However, the way FL flips her ex over is absolutely not how it works. You would have to be extraordinarily strong to do it this way. Even as a man it would be very unlikely that you would be able to do it this way unless the other man helps you. I really wished they would show something more realistic in dramas and movies. It's just ridiculous for everybody who knows judo (and similar forms of sport).

I agree with your points regarding the FL. There is no character development at all, which is sad. However, I like this drama anyway because I find Soo-min interesting. She's crazy and unpredictable. I'm curious how she'll end up. Min-hwan is a narcisst idiot. Since he used to hit FL in her previous life, I'm wondering if he tries to kill her at some point. As long as those two are entertaining me, I don't need any likeable characters.

No, she's obviously a married black woman. Or what do you mean?

Did I miss anything or are you the only one crying here? From what I read, people mentioned "Perfect Marriage Revenge" because other people might enjoy a similar drama. Personally, I enjoyed PMR a lot, and I was looking for a similar drama. That's basically the only reason I'm watching "Marry My Husband": because people who enjoyed PMR mentioned MMH. I'm enjoying both dramas.

PMR is visibly low budget. Calling it a flop compared to another drama which has a famous lead actress (Park Min-yeong) in it makes me wonder if you have more knowledge than everybody else. The production of MMH certainly cost way more money than PMR, so MMH needs much more viewers (who generate money) than PMR. Some numbers on the internet don't tell you anything about something being a flop or not unless you know the details. Those details get sold for a lot of money and certainly won't get shared for free.

No, you're not serious. Min-hwan's abusive side apart, he's just bad with money. He used his and other people's money to gamble in the stockmarket. He lost that money, which was repeated multiple times in the drama. Giving him more won't help Ji-won in any way because the money would be gone within a couple of days. Then Min-hwan would need even more money. His behaviour would probably get even worse because he would have learnt that Ji-won is rich. In her past life, she wasn't.

We need that trashy duo. Without any obstacles for ML and FL, there wouldn't be much content left to fill the remaining 6 episodes.

I have the same problem. I love sageuk but they are also the "worst" for me because all men have the same hairstyle, fake beard and clothes. I'm glad that newer dramas seem to use a variety of face shapes for the important characters. That makes it easier to follow the story.

In Death's Game, I found one of the actor's eyes so beautiful, and I had the vague feeling that I had seen those eyes in another drama. I eventually recognised Jang Seung-jo thanks to his ears.

Yes, it's your choice, and not liking the K-pop style is totally fine. I don't like to see anorexic guys either. I also don't like gay gay, which is the reason why I avoid Thai and Chinese dramas. I do like bromance, though, and sometimes also boys love but the guys have to look normal for me. I find people whose political opinion and whose bedroom adventures are not visible on the outside more relatable. The same goes for the look-I-am-so-straight men, too. I just don't like them. If I wanted to see overly sexual stuff, I would watch porn. However, I don't spam my personal taste under dramas I will not watch anyway. For me, discussing a drama is fun only if the other person watched that drama, too. I'm not interested in the actors's personal lives.

Maybe consider doing the same and be more constructive, so other people, especially like-minded people, will benefit from your comments. Help other people find enjoyable dramas, so other people will feel inspired by you and help you find dramas you might enjoy. Everything else is just a waste of your precious time.

That's what I understood. Your perception of "likes different things" was based on statistics ("in the way they rate dramas"), though.

There is comedy in Mask. Episode 1. Ju Ji-hoon busy in the shower. Then he trips and produces an unforgettable wtf moment. Absolutely hilarous.

Of course, those scenes were rare, so Mask is not exactly a romcom but there definitely is some comedy in that drama.

Have you ever watched Western gay movies? The "more masculine" actors in Cdramas look still as beautiful, flawless and gay as one could be. There is absolutely no way you would ever see a straight Western man who would look like that in a Western movie/series. And since you seem to be an expert on Asia: What makes you think that Asian beauty standards are comparable with Western beauty standards? (Very masculine looking Asian actors such as Simu Liu are called ugly in Asia.)

Arabs in the islamic world are often perceived as gay in the West because (straight) Arab men tend to touch each other in a way only gay men in the West would touch each other. Also their perfectly groomed beards are perceived as gay. Do they do that because of Western propaganda or because they are practising for the next Netflix drama?

"Got turned off" sounds gay af, by the way. It sounds as if you were watching Kdramas to get "turned on" by non-gay looking actors. If you don't want to give that impression, maybe talk less about gays. Being so obsessed with gay stuff is suspicious. Keep away from Kdramas if seeing Asian men makes you feel uncomfortable. If you prefer so-called traditional values, stick with the approved stuff your imam recommends to you.

Hehe, that's the entire plot. Please set a spoiler tag!!! ^^

The ears make him unique. Otherwise, he would just be a pretty man among lots of other pretty men.

No, that's not my point. I don't see how you could interpret my answers this way. Bear in mind that we were discussing because your initial question was about the difference between Korean numbers and the rest of the world. We are not discussing whether a drama is good or bad. Taste is subjective anyway. Also, we didn't agree or disagree on anything, so we cannot A2D.

As somebody who has been working in the entertaining industry (not movies/series but a similar field) for about 2 decades, I just shared my experience with you. I also worked in advertising in the past, so I know how to interpret statistics to get answers.

The numbers we are getting on the internet are more or less worthless because we don't know the details. The industry pays a lot of money to get the details. Based on those details, they make predictions. If we see something trending, it's already too late to produce more stuff like that because the trend will very likely be over once we are done.

The numbers we see on the internet just tell us whether a drama is particularily popular/unpopular in Korea or somewhere else. They don't tell us what "popular" means. And who the people are who find a drama popular. People who enjoyed Squid Game are not necessarily the same people who enjoy a romcom. There is no "the Kdrama".

I hope that made sense now. Thanks for reading.

Without knowing the exact details on the viewers, the statistics will not help you in any way to answer your question. As aforementioned, popularity also depends on how something is perceived. It is not that difficult to be interesting for a couple of seconds. The difficult thing is to remain interesting.

In the early 2000s, Bollywood movies were veeeery popular in the West. For a few months. Same with Chinese martial arts movies such as Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. Zhang Ziyi was so popular back then. Or a few years/decades earlier: Bruce Lee, Jet Lee and Jackie Chan movies. Japanese/Korean horror movies were also very popular in the early 2000s.

According to the statistics, 20.6 million Asians live in the USA. 6 million subscribers would be about one third. (Of course, those 6 Millions are not Asians only.) 331.9 million people live in the USA, which gives us ~1.8 % who subscribe to KOKOWA.

There are about 8 billion of people on this planet. 75 million subscribers on Viki is not that much. Viki is one of the few sources where we can legally watch Asian dramas outside of Asia. And it's cheap compared to, for example, Netflix.

Unlike Japan, Thailand and other Asian countries, Korea invests in advertising. And Koreans advertise their stuff not just to Asians but also to non-Asians. Squid Game was everywhere despite the pandemia.

Also, for a long time, Western series consisted of dozens if not hundreds of episodes. You never know if your favourite series suddenly gets cancelled. There is a high risk not to get any ending. The best thing about Korean dramas is: There are lots of dramas which are only 8-20 episodes long. And the story is complete.

However, this does not tell you why certain dramas are more popular in the rest of the world than in Korea. And the total number of subscribers also does not tell you in which countries a specific drama trended, and how many people (absolute number) watched that drama in a specific country. What those people used to watch in the past. What they watch nowadays (apart from Kdramas).

Oh, and the rest of the world usually does not care about Asian/Korean scandals. Your statistics don't tell you anything about the current news, scandals and rumours in Korea. The rest of the world watches Park Min-young dramas even if Koreans try to cancel her because she dated the wrong guy.

"Cultural differences" and "values" are placeholder explanations. With those three words, you can explain basically everything.

Oh, ok, so if a 40 yo actor plays a 5 years old child in kindergarden, I should ignore the age gap because the story says so? It's a story about the first love. 12 years later, 40 yo actor is suddenly supposed to be 18, and the 5 yo actor is replaced with some 18 yo actress. Age gaps don't matter. What you claim is what you are. Obviously.

In a good drama, the visible age gap matches the story. I didn't mind that the adult FL was older in "Crash Course in Romance" but the writer should have adjusted the story. What bothered me was that I was supposed to pretend that FL and ML were the same age while they were clearly not. Good, that's my problem. Other people enjoy dramas where the 40 yo hot actor chases after a minor, and fans make up excuses. Since he's hot, everybody who disagrees has got a problem. (Yes, I'm talking about Goblin.)

Trending in other countries does not mean much if we don't know the exact numbers and what "trending" means exactly. Also, Kdramas are still rather new and exotic in non-Asian countries, so we cannot compare the numbers without knowing who exactly was watching a drama. People who are new to Kdramas might have lower expectations than people who watched hundreds of Kdramas. To them, the hundredth iteration of the same story still feels original.

It does matter. In "Crash Course in Romance", they used younger actors for the younger versions. Those younger actors looked basically the same age as they were supposed to according to the story. However, the age gap between ML and FL was very obvious and significant. While I liked the actors, the casting made no sense at all with that story. For me, the actors need to look the same age if the story claims the characters were the same age.

Taking offense because the story didn't equal your personal experience is like saying that all people who commit suicide were exactly the same. Most people who commit suicide experience their individual suffering. People in real life kill themselves for the most ridiculous reasons. I don't see how one could watch this drama and believe that the ML is supposed to represent anything specific or, worse, the watcher's life. Well, actually, I can see why somebody would believe that. US-American propaganda nowadays tries to make people believe that actors were ambassadors of a perceived group, and that fiction was actually real, and everybody lacked empathy and needed representation on some screen, and then everybody needed therapy because all emotions apart from pure happiness were unnatural. Sounds expensive, doesn't it? In the past, random people who claimed that some author or drama maker or whatever was writing about their lives were called crazy. Nowadays, those people are encouraged.

Dramas are mainly made to entertain people who generate money for the people who create those dramas. This drama is fiction. Even if we notice similarities with our own lives, it does not have anything to do with us. If we forget that and internalise those artificial needs injected by very intelligent marketing people who know psychology well, our lives will become even more expensive.