I am very sure African countries do not turn a blind eye to issues like this because marriage itself is between…
Yes, in backward countries, where overly conservative parents care only about their own agendas, not the happiness of their children this can indeed be an issue. I'm talking about places where arranged marriages are still the norm in 2022.. South Korea is an outlier, where arranged marriages are becoming increasingly rare, but potential spouses and their families are inspected like horses, well sometimes.
I'm of of the opinion, that adult children should be allowed to do whatever they want with their lives. (well, as long as they don't have sex with their blood relatives of course)
wait so is it incest or notedit: yeah okay this is so bizarre and weird and just.... yikes. same blood or not,…
No it's not incest, a piece of paper is not going to make it incest. They have no blood relation & they have not spent a second together before meeting as adults ..
Everything she wrote in the past 10 years has been either mediocre, or bad. Gu Family book and Dr Romantic are her biggest hits -somehow-, but Gu's story is terrible and Dr R has no plot.. Her latest, Forecasting Love and W had perhaps the worst plot of any drama I haven't dropped.
Where Stars Land is her only good drama, but the script is not why.
I don't mean to sound toxic or anything, but I cannot believe that prolific actors are still willing to accept Kang Eun Kyung's scripts. Especially after Forecasting ..
Let's hope she is going to write a good drama, but I'm HUGELY skeptical.
Unpopular opinion: Korea doesn't know how to make dorama without putting in romance when it doesn't even need…
I completely disagree. Romance is the reason why Hallyu is on the map & it's the only thing they can do consistently well.(well okay romance & comedy, two things) The pure thrillers & procedural dramas I've seen were at best mediocre, far inferior to American shows.
The webtoon's first season ends with a honking cliffhanger and the drama writer did a very low effort attempt to do something similar, but more acceptable for a drama that won't have a second season (yeah).
I'm thinking that there could be a real chance that the webtoon artist would follow Yumi's Cells example in the FL having multiple partners over a long period of time.
There are two important things that they've taken from the "original", namely the red umbrella & the iconic hand holding scene. The first one doesn't really work, because with the completely different cinematography the original artistic intent is completely lost. The hand holding scene felt a bit whelming, perhaps it should've been re-shot, but that's not all, they completely changed the aftermath of it, I was mildly disappointed about that if I want to be completely honest.
EVERYTHING ELSE is different, the vibe, the relationship, the hardships & the (long) happy ending, even the supporting characters are completely different. It barely makes sense to even consider these two dramas related. They bought the licence, but ended up not doing much of anything with it.
SiTR had been ruined for me by the super makjang-ish second half, here we only have a few scenes like that at the half way point, overall it's a pretty tame drama, with a very limited amount of angst.
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I'm of of the opinion, that adult children should be allowed to do whatever they want with their lives. (well, as long as they don't have sex with their blood relatives of course)
Her latest, Forecasting Love and W had perhaps the worst plot of any drama I haven't dropped.
Where Stars Land is her only good drama, but the script is not why.
Unfortunately that's not how that works, they can test for some things, but not everything, it's not recommended to have a child with your cousin.
Not that it's relevant for this drama, it's just some over-dramatized family register BS.
Let's hope she is going to write a good drama, but I'm HUGELY skeptical.
I'm thinking that there could be a real chance that the webtoon artist would follow Yumi's Cells example in the FL having multiple partners over a long period of time.
EVERYTHING ELSE is different, the vibe, the relationship, the hardships & the (long) happy ending, even the supporting characters are completely different. It barely makes sense to even consider these two dramas related. They bought the licence, but ended up not doing much of anything with it.
SiTR had been ruined for me by the super makjang-ish second half, here we only have a few scenes like that at the half way point, overall it's a pretty tame drama, with a very limited amount of angst.