I agree with everything. Honestly, I am not very happy that kdramas are becoming more famous, because it's inevitable…
I couln't agree more! I'm an old French lady and when I discovered K dramas in 2022 thanks to "Extraordinary attorney Woo" ( on Netflix !) it was indeed a breath of fresh air for me too. I have never watched a western series since then! I'm so tired of sex, nudity, violence like in "Game of Thrones"... I totally disliked Queen of tears: In the first episodes they portrayed rich chaebols making fun of ordinary people from the countryside and it bugged me. The life of those rich people and their "problems" are so boring! IThe two main leads disappointed me too. They looked so 'fake"... But "De gustibus non est disputandum"! In "Lovely runner" I liked all the songs of the OST. I agree the drama is not a work of art but at least the characters are sympathetic. I prefer the "slice of life" kind , like "Strongest delivery man", Because this is my first life"... or the thrillers. One of the best that I've seen recently is "Flower of evil" with Lee Joon Gi. This actor is amazing and the storyline was full of suspense.
"Because this is my first life" was really good indeed!
"The light has left your eyes" in in my "must watch" list. Still, as I know it doesn't end well, I still postpone it. I recently watched "Crash" with Lee Min Ki and I liked it a lot.
My biggest problem watching Asian dramas are the subtitles. Often they appear for milliseconds, way too fast for…
I agree about chaebols: I was so disappointed with Queen of tears; I felt no sympathy for the two leads, although usually I like Kim Soo Hyun's acting. Everything was so ... COLD!
I discovered K dramas thanks to Netflix. (I had just finished a legal US series and Netflix proposed me "Extraordinary attorney Woo"... and I immediately fell in love with K dramas, the language , the culture, the way of filming , everything... I felt like Alice in Wonderland: I fell into the rabbit hole and don't wanna get out! It was back in 2022 and I have already watched 130 k dramas. I tried to watch C dramas too but I don't like the sounds of Chinese at all.(Sorry!) Since 2022 I have not been able to watch western series; I'm tired of those scenes of nudity and sex the western series are full of. I watched Game of Thrones because the plot was really interesting (as long as the series followed the story imagined by the author Martin) but too many nudity and sex disgusted me . So I agree about what the author of the article says about The Glory : I tried to watch it because everybody said it was worth watching but I also feel it was made to please the western audience. I don't wanna see the K dramas lose their souls. Same with second or third seasons... For example Sweet home : in my opinion, the first season was quite good but the second totally uninteresting! I have lots of old dramas to watch and some are jewels... I still hope some of the the new ones will be as good too. I'm very old and old fashioned so k dramas are made for me! :) But there is one thing I regret in k dramas, it is that often the end is not up to the beginning, as if it was sloppy. I was disappointed for example by "Wedding impossible"
Can't wait to see Hwang In Yeop in this new drama! I love the way he portrayed Seo Jun in True Beauty. And I hope he sings one of the OSTs too. He has such a beautiful voice!
I totally agree with the article. It 's not a hate postI De gustibus non est disputandum!As for me , I first watched the drama because of KSH whom I liked a lot in his older dramas but I was not impressed by his acting in QOT (Too many crying moments)I Besides, in the first epidodes the scenes where kind people from the countryside are ridiculed by rich chaebols reallly bugged me ! ( + Too many scenes with luxury cars...) Do you want me to dream, provide me a good plot instead of showing the life of rich people who only think about money! The story was boring and I had to FORCE mylsef to watch the last 2 episodes! I kept on watching only because of Kwack Dong Yeo who played this good dad, naive but so endearing. He is the only character who had no ulterior motives and only thought of his wife and the baby that he considered his own. A breath of freshness in that rotten world.
I totally disliked Queen of tears: In the first episodes they portrayed rich chaebols making fun of ordinary people from the countryside and it bugged me. The life of those rich people and their "problems" are so boring! IThe two main leads disappointed me too. They looked so 'fake"... But "De gustibus non est disputandum"! In "Lovely runner" I liked all the songs of the OST. I agree the drama is not a work of art but at least the characters are sympathetic.
I prefer the "slice of life" kind , like "Strongest delivery man", Because this is my first life"... or the thrillers. One of the best that I've seen recently is "Flower of evil" with Lee Joon Gi. This actor is amazing and the storyline was full of suspense.
I recently watched "Crash" with Lee Min Ki and I liked it a lot.
So I agree about what the author of the article says about The Glory : I tried to watch it because everybody said it was worth watching but I also feel it was made to please the western audience. I don't wanna see the K dramas lose their souls.
Same with second or third seasons... For example Sweet home : in my opinion, the first season was quite good but the second totally uninteresting!
I have lots of old dramas to watch and some are jewels... I still hope some of the the new ones will be as good too. I'm very old and old fashioned so k dramas are made for me! :)
But there is one thing I regret in k dramas, it is that often the end is not up to the beginning, as if it was sloppy. I was disappointed for example by "Wedding impossible"