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Understand. But he lacks in both acting and screen presence which is double whammy. Cha eunwoo did well in rookie historian. There is a scene where he comes to know he is adopted and he talks to the king and that was a very well acted scene. Even in the last episode when he tell Goo Hae Ryung he is going to take a stand and possibly endanger himself, that is also very well done. He did the job of a sheltered neglected prince very well. Also I don’t find Cha Eun woo pretty. I tend to like looks like Mr Gu from my liberation notes. There are many pretty actors in k drama land and not everyone gets a chance to be honest. Korea is a very competitive society so it puts focus on acting, looks and media image all of the three. Actors can get canceled and they don’t survive the industry if they are just a pretty face with zero social capital. I think social capital is what drama producers look for, the actors who will get the views.

Why is the male lead so unappealing. I am going to continue watching by skipping scenes where he comes on screen because I like this otherwise. I did the same thing with FLAW where I skipped the cheater couples. But I still liked the cheater couples as actors. This guy here oh my god, they could have used a CGI character and even that would have acted better. When he has Dialogues it appears like he is reciting from the script book. It’s cringe on multiple levels. People say Cha Eun Woo is bad but I have watched him in Rookie Historian and he was really good. This production house should fire their casting director since otherwise this would have been a great drama and would have done better ratings wise.

I just watched because of the female lead she is gorgeous. Every montage of her is gorgeous. She reminds me of Shin Hye Sun (looks since Shin Hye Sun is an amazing actress). Drama is boring though. But points for showing an understanding male lead.

Guys are we sure it’s august 10? It’s 2022 august10 right? not 3022 august 10? I will not be surprised if it airs in 3022 or when human kind finally settles on mars.

Really really are you sure? August is my birthday too.

Yes. Even I regret making fun of old aunties when I was in my teens. Never remember making fun of old uncles, and now I am like why was I ever so insensitive. But it’s maybe because there is so much misogyny and it’s only when you get older and stronger do you not get swayed by popular public opinion. But 15 years ago, I did not see such viciousness hurled at women when I was in my teens that I see now. We used to be in love with older celebs such as Jennifer Anniston, Sarah Jessica Parker, Gwen Stefani, Eva Longoria and wanted to be like them when we grew up. It was not this toxic.

The 20 something Girls will age even more so, every decade life expectancy gets added by a decade. I know since I was an actuarial analyst for life insurance and I have looked at millions of age data. Any girl 20 year old now will live to 90 at least and a person like me in 30s will live to 80. That’s the ultimate irony the young girls who hate so much on older women are going to be far far far older than the women now when they eventually age 🙂. Talk about life coming to a full circle.

Thank you I will check this out. It’s not on Viu or Netflix

Agree she is amongst my top 1 😊🙂

I agree there is a lot of fairy tale aspect to this drama Instead of a sweet and sour approach. It is sweet all the time. For example showing the struggles that a single parent feels while parenting an autistic child. Parents of my friends (their siblings are autistic) told me that they have not slept in years and that their health is failing due to constant care giving. And there is a lot of conflict with my friends parents and them since they expect them to pick up the care giving after they are gone. Some of my friends have very young children of their own and this constant guilt tripping from their parents has made them suffer from depression. Few other friends decided to sacrifice their chance of having a family, a fulfilling career or marriage since they have to take care of their siblings when parents are gone. And I can see how some of these friends feel so wistful sometimes. It’s a complex social problem and care giving challenge should be addressed especially when you are making a drama about special abilities and this is where I think the drama “Dear my friends” shines.
The attorney who is jealous of her but they could have shown how difficult the Korean system is for non brilliant people and why it’s the student suicide capital of the world. It is also very homophobic but that’s of course what a lot of Asian societies (barring Thailand I think) are. So showing both aspects really would have made this a “classic” and “critically acclaimed” drama. At the moment sometimes some of these nuances are lost.

Where are you watching this. I want to watch this a lot.

Don’t know. I am around lots of small children including my own and have not seen it yet. But it may happen for sure. People are so different. I do feel though that some aspects are exaggerated to enhance storytelling and her brilliance is the main plot device for all of the story arcs presented within this drama. Her character has been “iconised”. This is why we have only seen her pain and tribulations so far.

In the last year there have been more than dozen dramas where the male lead is much older example Eve, Bulgasal, My liberation notes etc etc. No one protested but people protest so violently if the female lead is older. I want to understand why people hate this so much. Then I realised this article is true https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbesbusinessdevelopmentcouncil/2020/09/28/gendered-ageism-is-the-new-sexism/ women consistently face harsh criticism and rebuke from society when they reach 40. What I don’t understand why girls are protesting in this website? Surely god willing every girl who is 20 now will be 40 someday (as long as this planet continues to exist that is 🤷‍♀️😊).

All are male oriented dramas headlined by popular actors. It’s basically economics. A list actors are expensive so either the female or the male brand is marketed. They don’t have the budget to afford both unless if very high profile like descendants of sun. And it’s evident in the costings. Chinese dramas on the other hand have very high budgets which is why both leads can be a listers. Also male actors have more sway in the type of scripts they can chose female actors barring Jun Ji Hyun and Gong Hyo Jin and Ha Ji Won, not so much.

I am fine with larger age gaps since the reverse age gap people love. So subverting that trope is a good idea. The point that women can also be attractive at 40. If you read Gone with the wind which was written in 1940s there is a line which says Scarlett O Hara dad is 64. “Her mama is 36 and she is middle aged”. So from than to this is a great achievement in how older women are slowly being perceived. But this is a feeling only women who are mid thirties and above will understand. So I can understand why Korean women love this idea. I once read an analysis of noona dramas by javabeans who ran drama beans. She wrote that article in 2011 I think since 2010 noona dramas started becoming popular with the drama “Woman who still wants to marry”. Many Korean women love it and since then it has been a regular feature where every year you have at least 5 noona dramas. So definitely not a new thing. It’s a trope similar to “boy love drama”, “friend with benefits” etc and has been around since 2010 I think.

Also it would be typecasting if Lee do Hyun repeats the same role after melancholia a drama which I loved since I love Albrecht Dürer painting which was done 500 years ago and has a very interesting history behind it. Plus the geek in me loved all of the maths theorems. But I did not like the student teacher relationship. They could have met in university where he was a teaching assistant and she was a adjunct professor (they are usually considered peers) and the scandal could have been about misappropriation of funds and even then the story would have been coherent but no we got this weird schrodinger cat drama which was not a romance or which was not a thriller. To cut a long story short I don’t want Lee do Hyun play a similar role here. Revenge dramas seem to be done badly by Korea creators almost everyone seem to be dissatisfied with Eve and Why Her.

I agree. I am also tired of the student teacher trope. I wish they did away with that seems like a weird fetish to be honest. But even if that trope is not there, where the female lead is older people seem to have a problem. And why so many dramas with school bullying it’s exploded after sky castle. Why can we not have more noona dramas like Romance is a bonus book where there is an age difference but no icky relationship

In encounter it was not like that. It was a Chabol and a poor person romance with the gender subverted that’s it. People are bringing in judgment from Lee Do Hyun last drama and not her last drama. He was the student there she has not been. Most of her partners in dramas were people she met at work. Lee do Hyun has played a student which is why people are deducing. And Goblin showed a problematic underage romance and people don’t have a problem with that. Anyways it is what it is. We live in a world where heteronormative rules dictate that couples especially women abide by the rules that is put forth for them. I have seen too many bashing of noona dramas to think otherwise on this forum. No one talks about Eve where the male lead clearly looks 10000 years older but people talks about Why Her where the male lead is only 5 years younger.

Why do people assume SHK is bad at acting? She was good in that winter the wind blows and other dramas too. In “Now we breaking up” no one acted well, so clearly the direction was poor. In fact I feel Jang Ki young acting as horrible that first scene where they both speak his French it was so cringey. Why bring someone’s personal life here. Is Song Joong Ki a purple unicorn who becomes The Great Wisdomous Buddha that people have to hate on SHK so much. He literally become famous due to descendants of the sun whilst SHK was an A Lister.
Also So Ji Sub, Nam Goong Min and Ji Sung only act with women much much younger than them. So Ji Sub clearly prefers much younger women who are decades younger than him in real life and Drama life but no hate absolutely no hate. Why is this going even in 2022?
Clearly Koreans and Chinese have no problem since their dramas have a even split sometimes men are older and sometimes women are older. Lee Do Hyun is a newcomer who also has to serve in the army soon which means he would want to earn as much as he can and also get as many high profiles dramas as he can so why do people have a problem?

Very true. Which is why countries with more diverse backgrounds and communities do score better on many social performance indices.