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It has everything to do with culture. Culture is values, believes, assumptions about self and collective, about authority and rights, truth and myth, even time and space! And a long string of historical choices based on that culture that shaped society.

You are bringing up unnamed countries that have much worse laws than SKorea. I am asking what relevance it has to this case? "Whataboutism" is a strategy of bringing up something outside of the original context. I am not making comments about you as an individual, I am only responding to the logic of your statements. Kindly refrain from making personal comments about me.

Huh? Who is "blaming" a country? And what with this whataboutism for god's sake? .

I am a lawyer by education. To my legal mind this law is barbaric for a long list of reasons, one of which it accomplishes nothing to deter and solve the underlying problems. As to other countries having death penalty - so what? Must we compare laws to the worst possible denominator? If this was North Korea this law would be par for the tyrannical course, but SKorea wants to play on the international field. It is opened to be judged by others.

well, tough. That better life was created by that culture they despise. Their beloved home culture created the life they are trying to run away from.

wow. just wow.

what an appallingly flippant remark... brrr.

The law itself is severe and unfair. Has nothing to do with celebrity. Celebrity only makes us know about this case, but there are others who are not famous who are treated this way. This law is barbaric.

F*CK this Korean justice system.

Funny thing that. Scores of Indians want to live in America, (largest of all the immigrant groups after Mexicans, who are next door) but hate American values.

There is some historical fiction that is extremely accurate , though does take some liberties for the benefit of good storytelling . But I agree, it is impossible to be 100% historically accurate. To start all we know about history is what some other literature or arteffect told us about it. :)

It is ironic. Historically the so called West learned its "sexual context" from the East. Now the East is accusing the West of being too sexual in its context. It is really funny.

Movies do, TV dramas not so much. Remember the hysteria around Nevertheless?

"viewers are free to voice their opinions and concerns about the content they consume" - yes. And others are free to judge their concerns and disagree with them.

I simply gave description of 2 ways of looking at the same thing, I did not suggested one was superior to the other. "Prudish," "childish," are no more derogatory description of drama that 'filthy and vulgar and toxic". But Korea being a conservative society is a fact, not an opinion. You are entitled to see whatever you want as wholesome. I am entitled to see it as saccharin. I think we just need to A2D.

wow. having a bad day? Reread your comment and see if your response makes any sense. Personally I don't give a flying hoot what you watch. Bye.

The subject is whether showing sex or nudity in dramas is filthy and vulgar. To some it is, to many around the globe it is not. Many humans don't find nudity / sex filthy, nor lack of it to be wholesome. What you call wholesome some other people call prudish, puritanical, it is morality policing attitude that perpetuates a myth of saccharine virtues found in sanitized human relationships. It is a matter of perception, and some even manage to perceive Michelangelo David as pornography. 

Whether a nude scene is an effective artistic choice in a particular drama is an entirely different matter. I for one rolled my eyes when the camera slid to the shaman's boob in the 1 ep, but I didn't think it was filthy or vulgar. It was just a boob. I also thought Korean movie makers and actors must be sick to nausea of doing the same childish love stories, and cartoonish costume dramas. They must, like all artists, what to experiment with other visual means and content. Creative people have the right to experiment. They don't exist to satisfy everybody's personal tastes and hang ups. Korea audiences are annoyingly conservative and demanding, and for some reason they feel that their personal views are somehow the ultimate moral truth..

Why not watch Hallmark movies and enjoy 'filth and vulgarity free' cutesy wootsy poliana?. Or maybe something by the mormon mama, about holier than thou vampires and perpetuate teenagers? Of course one can always embrace Chinese communist censorship to get a fix of 29 year old virgins and their leading men who had never had a date but know all about love.

I disagree. SHE was the center of the universe, and he was revolving around her, thinking that maybe one day it would be HIS turn to be a priority in her life . He broke up with her because he finally got it that such day will never come . He wanted normal, ordinary life with the accent on the family, she wanted something very different. They really were not suited. the fact that she found someone to love who actually suited her was a miracle, and she nearly destroyed it. She is very talented and charming, and so on, but at the same time she is a very difficult, and self willed person.

I am so sick of c-drama endings ! WTAF is wrong with the writers and producers? Is this addiction to the "tragic"/"open" end in every other drama a cultural thing, or do we have here a generation of tone deaf movie makers who are so in love with their artistic vision of angst and ennui that they just can't do anything else? Don't they get it that their audiences had their belly full of tragedy and pretentious open endings, that we have tragedy enough in our own lives, that we want hope and joy, and good over evil when we go to the movies?