ShortCircuit

They missed the time, didn't they, those klutzes LOL.

Why are all these guys living in the freaking jungle though?!

TBH I actually like it. At least they have a lot of nature scenes and while the plot really is strange at times, this is a fantasy so I'll give it a pass.

I think it's because Reborn Rich and King the Land were big successes last year. Everybody got into the bandwagon and is singing the same tune.

Let's hope some outlier genre hits it big THIS year so at least next year we'll have THAT instead :D

He is a bestie. not a lover. That's what the FL said and he never protested. Anyway, there's a SFL all ready for him, so no, he's not annoying.

You know, that's actually a great point. But Pan Yue doesn't know about the bewitching, and maybe he wouldn't believe it if he knew anyway. I still hope Shen Ci isn't a witch himself, because it would be nice to finally find someone who really is imprisoned but innocent.

Then again... he keeps drawing that ripple symbol. I guess he'll turn out to be no. 3 now that no. 4 is out of the secret organisation, LOL.

I know, LOL. It was meant to be sarcastic (and not even all that salty either, since I've been getting used to it.) That's just life :D

Thanks again - if they post the rest of the schedule, it would also be great to know about it *wink*

1. Every society/population ages in the Western world and the countries living to the same standard. The only places where population growth still happens is in very poor countries and sadly, I think the youngest general population is in the Gaza strip, which we don't need to discuss here but it's obvious why they're the youngest for a whole (not recognised) country. There is no natural progression in the field because it's seriously underfunded (you can't just throw bodies at the problem, they need medicine and infrastructure to do their work right - and also there is NO human body able to resist through working 80-100 hours weekly under stress. NONE. Even soldiers need respite. And the money for medicine and infrastructure isn't there, and isn't even in the discussion either. This law doesn't address that at all.)

2. The thing the SK new doctors complain about is that there are no more experienced/higher up doctors even being hired. Every hospital that can do it just takes in residents, works them like slaves and then just replaces them with newer residents instead of hiring them. Basically, if they can escape the consequences, they're treating them like low-paid interns for the terms of the residency and then don't offer them posts but pick other new people to do the same.

3. I can promise you that NO capitalism-involving politics will ever plan ahead for the good/sake of community, despite the pompous words. There are 1-st world countries where they disdain the idea of helping others in their society if they're on their worst time. Everything intended to help the poor and needy is seen as communist/socialist (they usually mix these up as if they were the same thing) and then there's a lot of propagandistic talks and news and whatnot condemning helping the poor or the less fortunate. IF this becomes law, there is NO surety there will be any drive to push the new students into the fields that actually lack personnel - they'll just say it's a free market and let them decide for themselves. And the main reason will be that the COUNTRY can't afford to pay for services intended for the less fortunate and so there will actually be no budget for those. So even if the country is aging and there's a growing need for doctors specialising in getriatrics' needs, there won't be a lot of such doctors coming up even if they triple the numbers. In the end, the overflow will still remain in the bigger cities, specialised in the best-paying fields, and THAT will (maybe) drive the prices in those fields lower OR drive the quality of what they're offering also lower (which is more probable. I mean - just considering plastic surgery, someone desperate enough might accept a low-quality job and pay a bit less than none at all. It's already happening in some place - including Europe.)

4. I love statistics. You know what the problem with statistics is? If you get 100 USD and I get none, that means we each have a mean/average value of 50 USD in our respective pockets. You should look instead at MEDIAN values of revenues for doctors and then maybe split it into fields of specialisation. You'll see beginners - which residents are - are the lowest paid (though probably better than just nurses obviously) and there are very few senior specialists who get the highest wages/revenue of any kind (include bonuses here etc) that skew the scale into very wrong numbers overall. Obviously someone can pick and choose which statistic they want to present in order to justify anything... But numbers can lie. Like, A LOT.

https://studyworkgrow.com/average-vs-median-salaries-whats-the-difference/

For a for-profit org, which most hospitals are part of, the most important thing is cost-saving. And they'll be extremely happy to report mean wages (that include CEOs and CFOs and whatever highest paid manager there is) instead of median wages, because then the emperor loses his clothes and the actual wages become starkly apparent.

If people strike, they don't do it because they like not being paid for the duration of the strike. But cost of living keeps going up and the earnings never ever keep pace. Corps and international orgs have been getting away with way too much and if you just look at how the gap between haves and have-nots has grown in JUST the past few years (starting around the time of the pandemic) you'll see that we the normal people have always been getting poorer despite all appearances, while the wealth of the world kept being sucked up to the very priviledged few (EXTREMELY few). That is not sustainable.

Oh, and want to hear some more (socialistic) drivel? YOU and I can do our parts to ~save the planet~ by being careful of consumption and energy saving and cleaning up after ourselves and recycling and whatnot and then ONE idiot who owns a private plane or yacht will nullify our complete sacrifice in the name of saving the planet in one or two flights (not long distance) or sailing to their own private island. If you think YOUR pressure on a politician will count more or at least the same with some one the actually priviledged's needs... *sigh*

I mean, I myself am drowning in serotonine-causing binge drama watching for a reason. Part of that reason is that, periodically, I dare to look at the state of the world and I shudder. If people keep fighting, with all means they can use, more power to them! I won't condemn them.

This is a class war and we're all in it, whether we like it or not. The fact that people who protest are seen as "already" priviledged doesn't point them as wrong - it points at everybody who's at the same level or under feeling inconvenienced and deciding that the people who are slightly better off are the enemies.

And that's why I'm going to go and binge-watch some more because enough reality for today.

There's a suggestions forum for this: https://kisskh.at/discussions/suggestions

Not this year, apparently. This, Impossible Heir, and now they've just announced another conglomerate drama starring Le JeHoon, I guess the theme of every other drama for the year is fixed now.

I really wanted to see more supernatural dramas in 2024 *sigh*

...Oh. So the SK theme of 2024 is chaebol/conglomerate stories.

Dammit.

This is a web drama. I don't think they reserve time slots for them, and also their general release dates change a lot depending on a lot of variables.

It's not against increasing the numbers of students of medicine. It's about BETTER conditions for everybody working NOW. The residents are treated like s*it, and not just in SK, paid very little, and not guaranteed any position once they finish the residency. The proposed law basically almost doubles the number of students in medicine schools but does nothing to improve the problems with finding positions/giving better work conditions (including financial support) for already trained new doctors.

And - reading comments from people who say they're striking in SK posted on some news articles about it - one fear that is also being pushed aside is the TYPE of new doctors the increased numbers will actually train... because some say (again, hearsay, so I don't know how true it is) that, since the most money appears to be in plastic surgery, a lot of these doctors will probably choose the lucrative side of the profession and so the remote rural communities that are underfunded already and have a general lack of medical professionals will NOT see any benefits of the law and are used as a pretext to push the law through.

I am a bit salty regarding news articles about anything having to do with people protesting work conditions and wages that do not keep up with the inflation, because I've been also in a strike and all the news sites took a lot of care NEVER to publish our demands and the reasons behind them but always present the strike as detrimental to the good of society. Strikes happen when you can't take it any more, and the fact that people already resign positions they've been studying for years and competed extremely hard to get should tell you these are not just some upset people who don't want more competition (they already have a job. Or used to.)

Last year they changed the schedule for TTEOM about four times and drove us mad. I kind of doubt there were that many gov't announcements in a three-week period to force them into it. I'd rather guess they did it for more traffic and to make people get the VVIP express package for the last eps or something (which I don't blame them for, it's bussiness for them.) It just was very maddening to expect eps and them not being released because the schedule changed again, LOL.

I hope they don't do the same with IB, because there's still half of the drama left to air...

I'll bet they're coins that show head on both sides. Must've been a new trick for those yamen guys and none are bright enough to simply turn one coin and look to the other side, LOL.

They spoiled the general plot of the first 9-10 eps. There's twice as many eps to tell the rest of the story.

Don't skip anything. COME AND SUFFER ALONG WITH EVERYBODY!!! *evil laugh*

I'd love to see it... just hope it's not too close in set-up and execution to Ming Ye being blind and saved by Sang Jiu (through overcooking, LOL), because TBH there are some places in both dramas that feel a bit similar (though obviously not the same).

The registrar is presented hard as the possible spy. He has access to writing tools and pretended to want to see Gu Yong before he was sent away (so he had a chance to swap the red seal ink with one including a poisoned needle) and then when the jail went on fire (well, more like in smoke LOL) he was coughing up a storm - I guess he inhaled some of that smoke while setting it.

Unless it's a red herring, obviously. I just don't want it to be A-Ze because he's given Ling'er some fruits and he's obviously shipping PY with Zhi very hard, LOL.

She's trying hard to still hide, right? RIGHT? And so she decides to teach ALL the beggar kids the song only she and Pan Yue know, so that man - who DEFINITELY won't EVER have to do with any beggar kid caught stealing or something, because he's just the head of the freaking POLICE, that's why - will obviously hear it sooner or later.

Ah, Madam/Mister Scriptwriter, we're going to have some words...

I loved the actress who played Gu Shan. She went all into it - action scenes, emotional scenes, I believed her completely. THAT's a good actress. I hope I see her in more dramas.

LOL @poor A-Ze. He's trying, but to no avail...

Pan Yue: You'd rather move in with them too, wouldn't you?
A-Ze (screaming ~YES!!!!~ on the inside): ...No.

For a smart kid, Jiang-ge, you're definitely very stupid. It's painful seeing XiaoSheng pining over him and deciding not to come between him and CaiWei/Zhi, and he doesn't even see her yet (more than a fun new friend, for the guy who could count his friends before on one digit.) I liked how Zhi solved it - listen here, A-Jiang, we're besties and that's all we're ever going to be. He also took it pretty well apparently, despite the miraculous removal of meowing cats and the apparition of chestnut cakes and dinner and wine LOL. I wish he'd open those cute and loving eyes and point them in XiaoSheng's general direction.

But @!@#$%#$@!!!! that cliffhanger. And now the schedule is doing handstands whenever Youku wants it to and we're going to get EXTREMELY frustrated in short order LOL. Don't ask me how I learned that (but yes, Youku was the cause then too.)

If he decides to pretend he doesn't know, I'll go to Ancient China and teach him some manners.

PS That blind guy is also handsome, please be some innocent guy and not the devil, LOL.

PPS The new cook though... "This is bland, this is cold, this is hard, I have no appetite, I'll be leaving" - Whoosh there goes employment LOL.

LOL poor kid got friendzoned so fast, MY ears are ringing hahaha~

I knew that song would be how it happens, so it didn't really come as a surprise. But the end of the episode is cruel - CRUEL, you hear me, Mr. Director? - and I want more right now.

That's a Youku thing. Let's hope they don't change it again (because they like to do that.)