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I agree. I am south Asian. In our culture eating till you drop from diabetes is the norm. No matter how unhealthy. People wake up and eat, going to the loo and then eat. Take a bath and then eat. Take 10 food breaks and then again eat in the midnight. If you say no you are branded as an antisocial person. The amount of times I literally had to cry and almost shout and say no. It’s horrible. I almost feel like people force feed just like how they do for geese Foie Gras and the social shaming that goes with it. It’s very insidious and invasive. And I can get this thing with alcohol.

Surprisingly the moral police disappears when an older actor is cheating on his wife or they are abusing a young actress, Kim Soo Hyun managed to hide for years and a Korean actor is still in umpteen dramas despite assault. There is massive double standards

I totally respect having different codes of moral values. In some cultures people cannot even hold hands. However that means that people consume media books, movies, dramas, music in keeping with their values. However just becuase person a has a set of values, it does not give them rights to moral police person B. My rules are mine to follow not to impose on another person. Expecting them to follow is literally a dictatorship or theocracy where people have no rights. Which is why stopping adults from dating (it’s fine if one does not want to date prior to marriage) is such a harmful thing to do. And hence fans are despots for behaving this way

Or maybe he had some valuables with him… he was the emperor after all so gold jewellery, antique stuff etc.

There is literally nothing of French culture here anyways other than the cuisine. If this is the late 1700s then it’s Louis 16 era when French people were starving and Marie Antoinette was being guilotined. If it’s late 1300s then the Europeans were dying of black plague anyways. This is just celebrating food. So why can they not show some brown or black cuisine. They never do in Korean dramas. And as a person who watches Korean dramas this is my observation like I said.

I agree but I was like they need to change the narrative a little maybe Mexican or Middle Eastern food would also have been so great. Imagine Tamales or Kunafa or Hazer Baba. I do feel that Koreans are bit white adjacent since that’s the only external culture they seem to celebrate in all of their dramas. This drama is not the only one.

While I am loving this drama, I hate how “white adjacent” this drama is. Given what is happening in the world around us, I don’t want to see dramas celebrating white culture. Almost all her culinary wins are either French or Italian. Why not India , or African (Nigerian cuisine Jollof rice anyone?) or Mexican or Lebanese. Literally every episode is her worshipping on the “alter of how great white people food is 🙄”.
This white loving this is the reason why we brown and Asian people get so bullied.
Anyways this is out of my chest and I am sure most people will not agree with me, but I felt deeply annoyed, and I am 100 💯 sure it’s just a me problem.

This makes sense. thanks for your comment.

To be honest yes. I would rather she acted with an age appropriate actor handsome or not. There are many who are within 8 years of age difference with her not 15 like this actor.
I would rather have actresses act with actors their age and not with super talented, powerful, male grooming actors like Leo di caprio or Kim Soo Hyun.
It’s always reeks of actress exploitation and manipulation within legal boundaries just so the agency and the production can be legally safe but the actress is used badly

I agree it sounds very shady… I mean IU acted against someone decades older in my ajusshi and I loved it. I loved Goblin too. Kim Tae Ri in Mr Sunshine. But for none of these actresses it was a trend. I don’t mind age gap in fact all these dramas were critically acclaimed and I love them.
But for this actress, it’s a bit concerning because it seems a trend and I do agree the agency needs to be investigated. I don’t know what horrible binding contact they have with her

I love her and I also like Hyeri (she was fighting with over that useless lump of protoplasm of a guy.
I feel she meant that both had a honest catfight over a guy, and tempers were high. She was unable to control her emotions and was honest.
She takes responsibility for that. For being herself basically

To answer your question,,, I usually read sci fi/ fantasy. I don’t watch unless it’s super popular like interstellar. Somehow I like the richness of a readers world over visuals.
I only watch romance (never read romance books too cheesy).
Thrillers and horrors are the only genre which I both love to read and watch movies / dramas too.

Interesting… I knew about the three laws of Asimov about how robots have around humans. This is new…
I read a lot of science fiction but usually it’s space operas like Dune, Red Rising or alien first contact like the Sun Eater.
Seems like I should read sci-fi novels based on present day earth which I almost never do

What is a Turing test? If I may ask…

In India there is an act called “abetment of su@c@de”. According to this act, under Section 306 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) (Section 108)
The punishment for this crime is up to 10 years of imprisonment.
If this was India to be honest, he would have been in jail by now.

Famous celebs who self exited, did lead the police to apprehend a lot of people responsible. A very famous case is of 19 year old Divya Bharti in 1993, her husband spend years in jail. Her case is very similar to Kim Sae Ron, where she was groomed by her husband since she was 15.
Some of whom (famous people) were in and out of jail for years.

In India, To be honest, it’s a huge threat for people who try to bully others. If you tell your bully you will off yourself and hold them responsible (a letter or anything), honestly it’s impossible to stay away from jail or court visits.

Of course, 100 💯. But sometimes you cannot help it. I was such a huge fan of Neil Gaiman and it was such a massive shock for me when his news came out. I can never read his books now.
Some celebs are shockingly bad human beings, maybe it’s the money. Fame and fan adulation which makes them literal monsters.

Totally which is why I said, “I cannot relate to them”. I am not denigrating them, but sharing that their content is not “authentic enough for me” to support.
Social media accounts are usually carefully curated by a team of managers, PR professionals and sponsors. However the main mandate is given by the said “star” or “personality.” And some actors can be pretty callous and this does shine through
There are several Pakistani actors who I follow who have raised their voices against multiple social injustice despite how conservative their country is and backlash can be potentially harmful to their lives even.
Several Indian stars also are authentic even if they can get bullied online
Recently Millie Bobbie Brwon from stranger things protested against terrible beauty standards for women.
There are many more examples. Again I know I am probably being fooled but still I will chose to follow those who “appear to be more authentic” to me

Yupp… the last straw for me was this super sweet old lady who was the mom of these rich actors multiple times in multiple dramas (which means they must have shot together for months at a time). When she passed not a single condolence, I mean NOT a Single condolence from those actors who played her doting kids, then three days later cue in the Fendi, the Prada ads with perfect faces…
I felt like those people are not the type of humans that I understand or relate to… and that’s when I was like fu@k it I am not here in this k drama land anymore.

I have not been on MDL for a long time. I exited the k drama world for this reason. I followed some actors on Instagram and found most of them very vapid and superficial.
If their colleagues died (old age, sicknesses or other reasons), some of these stars never mentioned them. They just kept posting photos of fashion shoots.
Their photoshoots are also so curated and they seem so “perfect” but there’s just such a dark underbelly.
Now with this latest news my suspicions are correct.
Anyways it’s become really hard for me to enjoy k content now. Especially with Netflix pumping so much money and rich chaebols everywhere I expect more”super rich monsters” are getting enabled. Sighh…
Without these chaebols and Netflix, I suspect actors with deviant tendencies would not have been given so much social and financial power.

I am pinning it on my desktop