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Fortunately there is a cute couple in the drama because watching the main couple totally depressed me. Many of my friends are currently battling cancer and I wonder every day when it will be my turn because I am very old and that is the fate of so many old people! I watch Kdramas to take my mind off things but there are too many this year that talk about cancer.

I will not anticipate any drama or film because everytime I did I was disappointed.

Wow!!! You set the bar really high when it comes to beauty.! How can you say Seo In Guk is not good looking?

Thanks for the recommendation: I took a look and it seems interesting indeed.
I personally really liked Robin Hobb's novels. But the series that really stuck with me was The Tales of the Otori, a series of novels written by Lian Hearn set in an imaginary feudal Japan. The five novels" follow a young man named Tomasu (renamed Takeo by his adoptive father, referring to his deceased brother) in his fight to avenge his adoptive father, escape his biological father's legacy, and find the love of his life through major battles involving dozens of lords and numerous warriors." (wikipedia) I was so passionate that I read the second volume in one day.
I am still waiting for the film adaptation of the first volume (The Silence of the Nightingale) planned by Universal, which bought the rights to the work .

In fact, I am an avid reader and a big fan of heroic fantasy. I have read the 15 volumes already written and published by George R. R. Martin and I loved the complexity of the story and the characters, the twists and turns of the story... of which the TV series is only a rough summary. But between reading in private and showing gory, shocking images... there is a big difference.
And yes, I was talking about Queen Woo too because from episode 1 the women are filmed in a scabrous and degrading situation. According to the comments I have read, the rest is even worse.
I am open-minded... to a certain point!

I have nothing against art in general and the right of artists to go beyond the norms. For example, during the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games in Paris, I loved everything, including this famous scene that caused so much ink to flow and aroused criticism from many people because they saw it as a mocking representation of the Last Supper, (which it was not since it represented the world of the gods of Olympus, Olympic Games oblige!) And besides, I am French!
But too often the word Art is only an advantageous mask to show scabrous scenes. And I insist again, because you definitely did not understand what I was saying about the scenes presenting women as sexual slaves who can be made to do degrading and humiliating things that only satisfy the male ego. These scenes are most often "click bait" just to attract an audience tempted by this type of image.
So, let's say we agree to disagree!

Nonsuch I agree with what you say in the first part of your comment about Victorian England or the Vatican. But I think that trivializing unhealthy content - and I repeat this has nothing to do with nudity but with the degrading, humiliating way women are treated in many sex scenes, Game of Thrones style - trivializing this type of relationship between men and women is dangerous and morally unacceptable. How could a kid, raised on such scenes, respect women?

Stop taking others for fools. Why do you think that all the people who don't like explicit scenes are fans of sugar coated love stories? As for me, I love detective stories, thrillers, science fiction, fantasy... Your comment only shows that liking these explicit scenes gives you a feeling of superiority. It's ridiculous and very childish!

Don't say "It's silly". I , for example, didn't know at all that the drama was 21th rated. As someone here said"The serie was introduced as a kdrama about Queen Woo with traditionnal content. So, something dark that could still be seen with teenagers or believers without much trouble. " I was surprised when I watched the first episode, so I searched comments about ep 2,3 and 4. And what I read decided me not to go further than the 1st episode.

I agree with what you say, but only in part: nudity is not vulgar (otherwise we wouldn't let children admire Greek and Roman statues in museums for example! Ah ah!
What is shocking from my point of view is that many sex scenes show women in degrading, humiliating situations and it becomes very disturbing. Young people who watch this kind of film have their mentality about love and sex completely distorted.
How can we be surprised then by the existence of the "molka" or these Nth rooms where men pay to see women raped, humiliated, tortured... There is a Korean documentary on Netflix called The Nth room: a cyber hell" that I invite you to watch if you haven't seen it.
And these days "An incident nicknamed "the new Nth Room" is recently shaking South Korea. According to various sources, including victims, a set of salons Telegram with a total of over 212,000 participants has been exposed. It was revealed that to gain access to these rooms, one must submit a series of photos of any girl or woman in one's circle, such as classmates, sisters, friends, girlfriends, or exes, and provide the girl's personal information.
Some of these rooms revolve around humiliation of family members, where the perpetrators take photos or videos of themselves inappropriately touching their sister or mother. " (K GEN)
That's why I'm worried about this development in K-dramas.

I went to your profile because we seemed to share the same feelings about K dramas and I saw you're an ATEEZ's fan. Me too! :)

I discovered K dramas in 2022 when I watched Extraordinary attorney Woo on Netflix and I liked it so much that I never watched anything else since then. Dramas like "Move to heaven", "Navillera"... are full of humanity and so heartwarming... But since The Glory I was fearing that k dramas would try to imitate the western productions to gain a larger audience. And my fears came true! So now, I tend to watch old k dramas. I've just finished "Two weeks" (2013) and it was awesome.

It's not a question of "dark times". Even nowadays horrible things exist and women keep to be treated like slaves and sexualised (I recently watched the Netflix documentary "The Ntn room: a cyber hell) and another case like that one is being investigared these days in Korea. I have nothing against homosexuality but I will not watch the drama you're talking about. I'm tired of seeing women treated like objects , violence, disturbing content etc...! I only want to be able to watch dramas with my grand-children ...

I only watched the first episode and saw a disturbing scene that reminded me of the Game of Thrones atmosphere. I quit watching the western productions because I was disgusted by those sex scenes and thought I had found my" happy place" with K dramas but I fear that very soon they will be tarnished by the same sexual content. Korean dramas are losing their soul.

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Why so much hate? Or ... are you jealous? :)

Great news!

Great news!

Top 6 in France! This must be the first time I see a K Drama reach that position in my country! Great!

Yes, the first part was great but the second one was really too long! They added too many misfortunes for the heroes and finally I found it a bit ...boring!Too much is too much!