while I do think it's very wrong to drive under the influence because apart from yourself you do endanger others with it I do have to point out the double standards of the K-drama industry with their over the top reactions in such cases.
So this actor ( I don't know him to be honest) got caught DUI. Now he is totally erased from a current drama. At the same time in pretty much EVERY K-drama I watch or peak in, there is scenes where people, especially the main characters, get drunk, and I mean VERY drunk, and are brought home by their love interest totally out of it depicting this as something charming and sweet. Also in every K-drama there is scenes showing the typical drinking culture after work, where everyone is pretty much forced to participate, even if they don't like/drink alcohol but they have to because otherwise they'd be considered social outcasts. And so on.
So pretty much every drama promotes drinking large amounts of alcohol all the time, yet when any actor or singer is caught (and yes, when people are very drunk in reality, the are not reasonable and they don't walk home but still take their vehicles, it's not like in the dramas that they get carried home by a friend all the time), they are treated like hardened crimimals.
If it's such a grave sin to be caught drunk it's quite ridiculous to steadily promote drinking to that level in the dramas at the same time.
Hello dear Lucy,honestly, I can't remember the details of 'boys don't cry to that extent anymore, I only saw the…
well, I at least couldn't resist now to fast forward through the remaining episodes after what you said. And yes, it was the right decision to drop it after ep. 7. I just flicked through the remaining episodes for 15 minutes and it all got so much worse. I don't know why they stretched this to 15 episodes. They could have ended it in 10 easily. I think Sang-yeon's character is so extremely toxic in the later episodes and also very infantile actually. How believable is it alltogether that two women, both professionally successful and living a big city life still only focus on what was their teenage crush? It seemed to me there were no other men in their lives in between? I don't buy it. And it also makes these two women look childish and immature.
It didn't make sense to me either that these two even kept in contact after all Sang-yeon had done at some point. She was alomost psychopath and someone to steer clear from at all costs. I also found it weird that the ML seemed someone dumb and always passive and overly polite. No matter what both women did and how strange they acted towards him, he was always apologetic, naive and he didn't make any kind of decisions for himself. I also find that unbelievable - and again, someone who is considered especially attractive and living a city life? I am very sure he would not wait for years like a school kid for his first very short crush he had as a student.
As for the last episodes... well, somehow since 'crashlanding on you' there seems to be a tendency to include Switzerland in dramas ;) (There is tons of tourists coming to the places shown in that drama every year btw) . I've lived in Switzerland now for three years and just can say this accompanied suicide is not really a topic in Switzerland itself, but is sure is a topic in other countries. That said I have to agree that this show now really advertised this procedure step by step, plushing it up with wonderful images of Swiss nature, mountains and greenery - no idea why they did that as it almost seemed like a holiday ad Oo And these last scenes didn't even touch me at all as I found the whole relationship between these two women totally artifical and non-believable. Very sad as I really like Kim Go-eun a lot but that was a stark fail for me altogether.
well that is a really generous and nice gesture for sure, I bet the group of fans couldn't believe their luck and enjoyed every bite and sip of the meal =)
'Boys Don't Cry' was a brutal rendering of Brandon Teena's story. Add too, the prolific display of pedophilia…
Hello dear Lucy,
honestly, I can't remember the details of 'boys don't cry to that extent anymore, I only saw the movie once in 1999 when I was only 20 myself. But I do remember that it was a very crass movie depicting very brutal things and as it was based on a true story I was touched by the horror of it for sure.
As for 'you and everything else' I just can say I was reeeeally annoyed yesterday night, as they built up a very strong climax concerning the dead brother, and revealing who his 'gilrfriend' was... they drag it on for what feels like forever, I was on the edge of my seat thinking 'who is it fgs?' - and then this? As it was late I even woke my husband because I uttered quite loudly what kind of horsedung is this? I was even angry staying up so late only to find this ridiculous and totally unfitting plot twist, just for the sake of it being in there somehow.
And I am disappointed too as for once in a while it was a serious storyline, without the often typical sequences of slapstick even in otherwise serious storylines, it was very good young actresses in the first few episodes, everything was really well done until ep. 7. Sad, but yeah, I too hope this intentional adding of this specific plot quite everywhere will fade out soon and better things will come.
can someone tell me who the really good young actress is who plays the young version of Ryu Eun Jung? She is not listed in the actors list here, also not on other websites, who is she?
I don't think being transparent and revealing the truth is ever bullying. Its very easy for the actress to prove…
I wanted to write something similar to your answer, I fully agree. I would add that it is not only seeing their bully on TV and being praised as 'pretty and good', I'd think it is more that Korean actresses in general are always presented like innocent, almost childlike, cute angels, like being harmless, always friendly and caring etc, because that is the general favoured image of popular Korean actresses and idols. If I imagine I had been bullied and I'd see that person way later on TV being presented as a very nice human being, when they are the total opposite, that would bother me the most.
I didn't know this actor, I just saw the preview of 'love untangled' on netflix and I immediately thought 'he is way too old visually to play a highschool student-' His face structure is way too adult and square, it's just obvious he is a grown man. To be honest it looked strange to me that they tried to make him at least somehow visually younger with the hairdo. Was just my sudden impression after seeing the preview, not knowing the actor or the show at all.
while I do see your point and understand it, the problem is, you can't watch ANY historical drama then, can you? Absolutely nothing is accurate concerning the real circumstances at that time, and that doesn't only go for Korea and Joseon dynasty, it goes for pretty much everything that depics the times several hundred years ago anywhere?
What I mean is, yes, this specific king was a horrible tyrant and murderer, so I see why is especially bothers you. But if you take this further, what about everyday things shown that are not accurate? All the people back then had many lllnesses, many of them didn't have teeth by their 20s, especially poorer people, they had thin hair, often grey early by malnutrition, they had dirty clothes, EVERYONE, including the kings and queens, had fleas and worms everywhere, scabies often too, and so many people, especially the rich and noble, died of STDs, Syphillis was rampant everywhere (if you dare, look it up under 'Syphillis end stage' in the picture section, many aristocrats but also poorer people died of it back in the days everywhere, (of course they rich were never shown with the symptoms in paintings), and so on...
Same goes for Europe when the Middle Ages are often portrayed as somehow nice and cozy times, when all the mentioned things are left out. Concnering Europe back then no one mentiones the absolute stink everyhwere, as people just threw their fecies out to the street and everything everywhere smelled like a huge toilet full of shit - but you know what? No one wants to see that, same goes for historical incorrect Korean dramas in the Joseon time. No one will use lots of money and time to depict reality in these times, as no one would want to watch that.
So, while I still agree you are right with everything you said about that specific king? If you really can't take it as what it is anyways, a fairytale (because you know, there is no time travel ;), just don't watch that content? This never claimed to be an accurate historical documentary, but a fictional fantasy show.
As for me, the real world is shitty enough right now, with wars in ever more places and war mongering in even more, so I watch K-dramas to switch off from reality, including fariy tales like this one.
They just approved my submission! I think this one’s much better.
ah, that's great, thank you! I handed in a pretty similar picture but the measurements were somehow wrong, so it didn't get through. Yes, your choice is so much better, that's her now and pretty as always =)
who is picking the profile pics? This one looks like AI, and bad AI at that. Doesn't even look like her
well, I tried to hand in a better picture of her, but measuremebnts wrong, this wrong, that wrong - rejected. So the measurements of the pic are obviously more important than if the picture shows the respective person AT ALL. I just hate these AI images, they are ugly, wrong, and they do not do the people's real beauty any justice, just creepy bs.
aw, what a nice and funny drama! I meanwhile became a real fan of Lim Yoona, I think her acting is really good, and she is particularly talented in playing comedic role, something only few can do. I already liked this in 'king the land' and it's the same in this drama, I laughed so much in the first episode at her Taekwondo-slapstick - hilarious =D
I initially liked her in 'healer'.... meanwhile I don't watch anything with her in it. Although I think she is not a bad actress, her face is so frozen und full of fillers, it's constantly distracting me when I watch her in anything. It doesn't mean the dramas she does are bad, I just really can't watch them anymore.
I don't know this actress as I don't watch Chinese content so just a curious question: why has this particular actress been on MDL with what feels like 50 start page articles all of a sudden for the past 4 weeks or so? I'm seriously curious as I don't get why?
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So this actor ( I don't know him to be honest) got caught DUI. Now he is totally erased from a current drama. At the same time in pretty much EVERY K-drama I watch or peak in, there is scenes where people, especially the main characters, get drunk, and I mean VERY drunk, and are brought home by their love interest totally out of it depicting this as something charming and sweet. Also in every K-drama there is scenes showing the typical drinking culture after work, where everyone is pretty much forced to participate, even if they don't like/drink alcohol but they have to because otherwise they'd be considered social outcasts. And so on.
So pretty much every drama promotes drinking large amounts of alcohol all the time, yet when any actor or singer is caught (and yes, when people are very drunk in reality, the are not reasonable and they don't walk home but still take their vehicles, it's not like in the dramas that they get carried home by a friend all the time), they are treated like hardened crimimals.
If it's such a grave sin to be caught drunk it's quite ridiculous to steadily promote drinking to that level in the dramas at the same time.
I think Sang-yeon's character is so extremely toxic in the later episodes and also very infantile actually. How believable is it alltogether that two women, both professionally successful and living a big city life still only focus on what was their teenage crush? It seemed to me there were no other men in their lives in between? I don't buy it. And it also makes these two women look childish and immature.
It didn't make sense to me either that these two even kept in contact after all Sang-yeon had done at some point. She was alomost psychopath and someone to steer clear from at all costs.
I also found it weird that the ML seemed someone dumb and always passive and overly polite. No matter what both women did and how strange they acted towards him, he was always apologetic, naive and he didn't make any kind of decisions for himself. I also find that unbelievable - and again, someone who is considered especially attractive and living a city life? I am very sure he would not wait for years like a school kid for his first very short crush he had as a student.
As for the last episodes... well, somehow since 'crashlanding on you' there seems to be a tendency to include Switzerland in dramas ;) (There is tons of tourists coming to the places shown in that drama every year btw) . I've lived in Switzerland now for three years and just can say this accompanied suicide is not really a topic in Switzerland itself, but is sure is a topic in other countries. That said I have to agree that this show now really advertised this procedure step by step, plushing it up with wonderful images of Swiss nature, mountains and greenery - no idea why they did that as it almost seemed like a holiday ad Oo
And these last scenes didn't even touch me at all as I found the whole relationship between these two women totally artifical and non-believable.
Very sad as I really like Kim Go-eun a lot but that was a stark fail for me altogether.
honestly, I can't remember the details of 'boys don't cry to that extent anymore, I only saw the movie once in 1999 when I was only 20 myself. But I do remember that it was a very crass movie depicting very brutal things and as it was based on a true story I was touched by the horror of it for sure.
As for 'you and everything else' I just can say I was reeeeally annoyed yesterday night, as they built up a very strong climax concerning the dead brother, and revealing who his 'gilrfriend' was... they drag it on for what feels like forever, I was on the edge of my seat thinking 'who is it fgs?' - and then this? As it was late I even woke my husband because I uttered quite loudly what kind of horsedung is this? I was even angry staying up so late only to find this ridiculous and totally unfitting plot twist, just for the sake of it being in there somehow.
And I am disappointed too as for once in a while it was a serious storyline, without the often typical sequences of slapstick even in otherwise serious storylines, it was very good young actresses in the first few episodes, everything was really well done until ep. 7.
Sad, but yeah, I too hope this intentional adding of this specific plot quite everywhere will fade out soon and better things will come.
I would add that it is not only seeing their bully on TV and being praised as 'pretty and good', I'd think it is more that Korean actresses in general are always presented like innocent, almost childlike, cute angels, like being harmless, always friendly and caring etc, because that is the general favoured image of popular Korean actresses and idols. If I imagine I had been bullied and I'd see that person way later on TV being presented as a very nice human being, when they are the total opposite, that would bother me the most.
What I mean is, yes, this specific king was a horrible tyrant and murderer, so I see why is especially bothers you. But if you take this further, what about everyday things shown that are not accurate? All the people back then had many lllnesses, many of them didn't have teeth by their 20s, especially poorer people, they had thin hair, often grey early by malnutrition, they had dirty clothes, EVERYONE, including the kings and queens, had fleas and worms everywhere, scabies often too, and so many people, especially the rich and noble, died of STDs, Syphillis was rampant everywhere (if you dare, look it up under 'Syphillis end stage' in the picture section, many aristocrats but also poorer people died of it back in the days everywhere, (of course they rich were never shown with the symptoms in paintings), and so on...
Same goes for Europe when the Middle Ages are often portrayed as somehow nice and cozy times, when all the mentioned things are left out. Concnering Europe back then no one mentiones the absolute stink everyhwere, as people just threw their fecies out to the street and everything everywhere smelled like a huge toilet full of shit - but you know what? No one wants to see that, same goes for historical incorrect Korean dramas in the Joseon time. No one will use lots of money and time to depict reality in these times, as no one would want to watch that.
So, while I still agree you are right with everything you said about that specific king? If you really can't take it as what it is anyways, a fairytale (because you know, there is no time travel ;), just don't watch that content? This never claimed to be an accurate historical documentary, but a fictional fantasy show.
As for me, the real world is shitty enough right now, with wars in ever more places and war mongering in even more, so I watch K-dramas to switch off from reality, including fariy tales like this one.