Most lessons from k-dramas and dramas in general are how not to behave in real life, how not to think in real life and how not to make pathological relationships :-p Just do the opposite of what both leads and secondary leads do :-P
A problem with many series is that shitty characters who behave like assholes (both men and women) get redeemed so easily and their victims just forgive them, keep running after them, keep sacrificing themseves for them like slaves doing stuff for toxic love or something, which is depicted as heroic, romantic love. It doesn't make any sense and it promotes bad values, bad examples, actually.
Asian dramas lack this motive of just repay/righteous karma hit - not the revenge because revenge isn't good and there's plenty of revenge in Asian drama series. It's only the lack of getting what you deserved. Almost always, the shitty asshole secondary leads or main leads - no matter men or women - get friends, get support, get redemption for their shitty behavior through the whole series or from the past. There're no dramas where shitty secondary leads get nothing or get openly punished for being assholes - no - there's always this secondary couple having a happy ending even thought they've been destroying everything and behaving shitty through the whole show, there's always a main lead being chased by his slave even though he or she behaves like a total asshole and should be flushed in a toilet. There're no dramas where a shitty ML or FL is left alone and in sorrow while his/her love chooses the SFL or SML, who's just been fair with them. There're even almost no scenes where a rational and headstrong ML or FL says - f***ck you and then the one who destroyed all needs to do something really big to clear up the situation or can't clear it up at all. Instead, it just magically happens and the one actually being a victim runs to help another one who didn't even properly explain. BTW, that's also what makes me mad about many series - not explaining things, which could be relatively easily solved if just said aloud and openly. In dramas even when everything breaks people do not reveal truth, which could almost instantly save the day in many situations. Also - why those unnecessary, not logical secondary leads triangles. If there's a reason for a triangle - ok. However, in most cases, there's literally not a single reason but still a triangle develops. Where are the series where a ML or a FL instantly shuts the secondary rival off and there're no friendships, no further contacts or even hate till the end of the series without any amends like it's always done in those dramas?
I understand when a man or a woman plays an asshole for some reason but when it comes to serious stuff, behaves properly. That is acceptable, ok. Very often this person makes amends to try and repair what they broke - at least they do that or at least we can't say that when a test time came, they behaved wrong like they played being wrong in minor stuff throughout the series.
A problem with many series is that shitty characters who behave like assholes (both men and women) get redeemed so easily and their victims just forgive them, keep running after them, keep sacrificing themseves for them like slaves doing stuff for toxic love or something, which is depicted as heroic, romantic love. It doesn't make any sense and it promotes bad values, bad examples, actually.
Asian dramas lack this motive of just repay/righteous karma hit - not the revenge because revenge isn't good and there's plenty of revenge in Asian drama series. It's only the lack of getting what you deserved. Almost always, the shitty asshole secondary leads or main leads - no matter men or women - get friends, get support, get redemption for their shitty behavior through the whole series or from the past. There're no dramas where shitty secondary leads get nothing or get openly punished for being assholes - no - there's always this secondary couple having a happy ending even thought they've been destroying everything and behaving shitty through the whole show, there's always a main lead being chased by his slave even though he or she behaves like a total asshole and should be flushed in a toilet. There're no dramas where a shitty ML or FL is left alone and in sorrow while his/her love chooses the SFL or SML, who's just been fair with them. There're even almost no scenes where a rational and headstrong ML or FL says - f***ck you and then the one who destroyed all needs to do something really big to clear up the situation or can't clear it up at all. Instead, it just magically happens and the one actually being a victim runs to help another one who didn't even properly explain. BTW, that's also what makes me mad about many series - not explaining things, which could be relatively easily solved if just said aloud and openly. In dramas even when everything breaks people do not reveal truth, which could almost instantly save the day in many situations. Also - why those unnecessary, not logical secondary leads triangles. If there's a reason for a triangle - ok. However, in most cases, there's literally not a single reason but still a triangle develops. Where are the series where a ML or a FL instantly shuts the secondary rival off and there're no friendships, no further contacts or even hate till the end of the series without any amends like it's always done in those dramas?
I understand when a man or a woman plays an asshole for some reason but when it comes to serious stuff, behaves properly. That is acceptable, ok. Very often this person makes amends to try and repair what they broke - at least they do that or at least we can't say that when a test time came, they behaved wrong like they played being wrong in minor stuff throughout the series.