I agree with all the female leads except the ones from Its Okay Not to Be Okay and Hotel Del Luna. unlike the…
1000% agree with you, like I mentioned in the article there is a plethora of female personalities in the world and there is no right way to portray a woman or a wrong way. Women are as you said multi demensional. I do want to point out that this article is not about “Strong female leads” or “Badass female leads” or “girl crush female leads” because those discriptions to me are subjective. Rather than a single rich girl who is outspoken I find characters who are single mothers like in when a Camilla blooms to be strong characters. But I can bet you not everyone can agree on this with me which is okay because like I said what makes someone strong can be subjective.
The article basically focuses on different and unique personalities or FL leads that do things that you normally don’t see a lot in dramas.
Like I’m IONTBO KMY is flawed and damaged as a result of her upbringing. She is impulsive, obsessive, can be violent, and has no filter. She does not think twice about physically hurting people she sees as threatening. But regardless of how psychologically damaged she is at the end of the day she is still functional and successful and kind. That’s a personality I personally haven’t seen a lot in K-dramas.
In Hotel Del Luna she is money hungry and probably trying to fill a void in her heart with materialistic goods. She is unapologetic about her spending and doesn’t simply do things because she is kind hearted. She does it knowing it will financially benefit her every single time. She is not exactly selfish but she is also not self-sacrificing or go out of her way to dedicate her time and effort to help others without Gaining something from it. It’s just a very different personality than I am used to.
I personally like the evolution of how women are portrayed in dramas now. I want to think of it less as a trend but more as stories of different women being told and hopefully a result of more female writers becoming popular and being hired by production teams.
Nicely written article, but I feel that characters like Jang Man Wol, Go Moon Young or Cheon Song Yi etc. are…
That’s actually pretty insightful, it really puts a focus on how strongly discrimination exist based the socioeconomic class. This is my first time of hearing about the drama into the ring
I can agree with that Ji Won in Flower of Evil was very strong. I never watched evil, 365 but if the female lead…
I completely understand, I definitely think that there should be an article on strong female leads although there are so many out there now. 365 is starting to sound more and more like my type of drama.
And speaking of Lee Seung Gi, I loved King2Hearts a lot, (like a lot), but it had the MOST ATROCIOUS "American"…
OMG not just this drama, ALOT of American people potrayed in Korean dramas are so bad at acting and their accents never sound American. More like Europeans/Canadians masking their accents. I guess Canadians can be considered American geography wise.
i think female leads from suspense thrillers like the flower of evil, 365: repeat the year and signal were much…
I can agree with that Ji Won in Flower of Evil was very strong. I never watched evil, 365 but if the female lead was anything like Ji won then it sounds like she is worth the watch. This list isnt about strong female lead its just ones with unique personalities if that helps understand the list better.
I have just seen A gentleman's dignity and the only issue i have with your description of this drama is what you…
Idk if I said assertive exactly, but strict and no-nonsense teacher. Although I can see why it translated that way. I did make sure to specifically mention the moments she would be assertive in like as a teacher and when Do Jin tried to be a play boy.
I think each person has an actor that make them happy to watch. Personally there is a certain charisma LMH has and he is also very handsome so I feel like I can look at his face for hours and be happy.
I do want to point out that this article is not about “Strong female leads” or “Badass female leads” or “girl crush female leads” because those discriptions to me are subjective.
Rather than a single rich girl who is outspoken I find characters who are single mothers like in when a Camilla blooms to be strong characters. But I can bet you not everyone can agree on this with me which is okay because like I said what makes someone strong can be subjective.
The article basically focuses on different and unique personalities or FL leads that do things that you normally don’t see a lot in dramas.
Like I’m IONTBO KMY is flawed and damaged as a result of her upbringing. She is impulsive, obsessive, can be violent, and has no filter. She does not think twice about physically hurting people she sees as threatening. But regardless of how psychologically damaged she is at the end of the day she is still functional and successful and kind. That’s a personality I personally haven’t seen a lot in K-dramas.
In Hotel Del Luna she is money hungry and probably trying to fill a void in her heart with materialistic goods. She is unapologetic about her spending and doesn’t simply do things because she is kind hearted. She does it knowing it will financially benefit her every single time. She is not exactly selfish but she is also not self-sacrificing or go out of her way to dedicate her time and effort to help others without Gaining something from it.
It’s just a very different personality than I am used to.
I personally like the evolution of how women are portrayed in dramas now. I want to think of it less as a trend but more as stories of different women being told and hopefully a result of more female writers becoming popular and being hired by production teams.
365 is starting to sound more and more like my type of drama.
I think each person has an actor that make them happy to watch. Personally there is a certain charisma LMH has and he is also very handsome so I feel like I can look at his face for hours and be happy.