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I hope they're getting paid.

Oh! So, I guess that explains why certain celebrities received such treatment and most did not? Because of “strict rules”? The celebrities who were obviously discriminated upon did not follow European rules?

Since you know so much about European rules, can you perhaps point us to what rules they violated? It could be the answer to this drama. So, if you have any information, you definitely should share it, so everyone will be enlightened.

I think you did not read anything related to these recent incidents. ^_^ If you did, you would have been aware that the “security personnel” you are trying to defend only acted that way to certain celebrities, not to everyone.

If, as you claim, they are just “doing their jobs”, then the treatment would have been the same for everyone, and this issue wouldn't exist in the first place. The fact that it is a huge issue is itself proof that there was discrimination from that particular “security personnel” who is supposedly “just doing their job”.

It's similar to what is called Peter Principle.

In the Peter Principle, an employee who is doing well in their position is promoted, and then they did well again and was promoted again. Until they reached a point where they no longer excel because it is out of their field of expertise, and out of their know-how, skills, and talents.

In acting, while they are technically not promoted, they do get offers to get a bigger role. And the actor is of course tempted. Bigger role = higher talent fee. Higher talent fee = more promotions, tv commercials, modeling. And it also means “success” in the field. The higher your worth, the better.

However, actors are also affected by the Peter Principle. If they take on a project where it's out of their skillset, they'll be in trouble. It will spread in the industry, and the industry will whisper how Actor A lost their touch. When in reality, they did not, the last project(s) was/were simply not within their skillset.

It does not mean they are not talented. They are.

Think of it as a painter who excels in painting nature. Then one day, they painted an abstract, or some other subject they never excelled at. It will still sell, of course, because they made a name for themselves already. However, sooner or later, people will notice how it is subpar to their other works.

In novel/book writing, authors use different pennames whenever they try a new genre. There are many reasons for this, but it all comes down to not damaging their reputation as an author IF in case the new novel they wrote fails, after all, it's a new genre and they're testing the waters.

For actors, they can't do something like the painter, still sell their works because of their reputation. It is easier for their reputation to get damaged, while a painter, it takes time for people to notice the differences (and usually only those with a very keen eye on arts can detect it).

Similarly, actors can't do something like novel authors, where they can hide behind a new stage name, test the waters, and if it fails, they'll be safe.

This is one reason why there are actors who sticks to a certain role. Some as a support role. Even in actors with main/lead roles, they do stick to certain roles as well, like romance, comedic, damsel in distress. The difference is, it is easier for big name main/lead actors to try a new genre and role, than those who are still trying to make a name for themselves.

And others who already made a name for themselves in a support role, it's more stable to retain it than risk it. ^_^

Personal preference.

* Health
* Family
* Business (acting is not their primary focus; which is fair, once you no longer receive offers, you need to have a stable business or something else).
* They excel better as support than main/lead.
* They just love to be a support.

It's similar to regular work, there are people who prefer to be rank/file (lowest position) than to get promoted. They excel in that position than in a higher one.

> It’s perplexing that writers choose to explore such a topic.

Not at all. ^_^

A 2023 daily drama (or was it weekend?) also explored the same topic. It is actually a common trope in Asian dramas, be it Korean, Japanese, Filipino, Thai, Chinese, Taiwanese. The sole reason is that, writers want to engage the audience and to talk about it. One best way to do that is to incorporate a clash of social, legal, and biological/scientific issues such as, but is not limited to, marriage.

In Korea, like in most other Asian countries, any persons who are legally siblings cannot marry regardless if they have no relation by blood. Supposedly, it originated from social issues wherein everyone in the neighbourhood knew them as siblings but had no idea they are not related by blood; so they think they committed an unforgivable sin. To avoid such issues, which usually affects the entire family, laws were later passed to stop it.

Basically, it was just to conform to social norms and demands, not necessarily based on science or anything factual. There are a lot of laws like that, and sometimes are silently repealed once things died that for that issue, unfortunately, for this topic, it's always an issue. ^_~

Now, in other countries and societies that are more “modern” or “liberated” or “progressive” (whichever term you prefer), they either abolished such laws, never had such laws, or people ignore such laws because they knew it is obsolete.

The writer is probably trying to engage the Korean people (first and foremost) to re-think the validity of their own laws about such situations, in the eyes of a 21st century person. And more likely this is why this was not the first time this topic showed up in Korean TV.

People today are more open and progressive. They understand that as long as there are no biological relations between two people, it is fine to marry each other. This is why there are people who make it a point to emphasized that A is adopted, thus, A and B are not related blood and can be together romantically. Under this microscope and logic, it is clear that the laws against such situation is obsolete no matter how and where we look at it.

> Moreover, the tendency for KDrama writers to craft stories like this is troubling. It seems to reflect a societal reluctance to fully accept adopted children as permanent members of their adoptive families.

Not at all.

In Asian cultures, again, be it Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Filipino, Viet, Thai, Indo, Malaysian, an adopted child is a full member of the family unit, regardless if they were legally adopted or not.

Yes, there are families where an adopted child is treated less, but it is not the norm in Asian cultures. We Asians are family-oriented, we do not push away children once they turn legal age. We do not throw our parents and grandparents to some hospice or home-for-the-aged. You'll often see Asian families as “extended”, or living in compounds (each with their own home units, but to the outside world, they only have one address).

However, people draw a line when it comes to romantic relationships. We are not blind to the fact that an adopted child can have a romantic relationship with their adopted sibling, if ever that happens. While discouraged generally because of social pressure and laws that will prevent them from getting married (and potentially sued by the State), it is neither common or uncommon.

It's so hard to explain if you are not an Asian who was born and grew up in at least one Asian culture. There is no be-all-end-all “where do we draw the line”, you'll just know.

Lastly, in Korean culture, they have what a system called “family register”. To be truly considered married, one of the spouse has to transfer their family register to their spouse's clan, effectively ending their social and legal relation with their blood family.

The same in adoption. To be truly adopted, that person's family register must be transferred under the clan of the new family. Until that happens, they are not legally adopted, and there won't be legal issues about their marriage.

However, in Suji's and Uri's situation, Suji's family registration was legally transferred to her father's. When her father and mother divorced, Suji was registered under her mother's clan.

As for Uri, the show implied that they let people live in their home for an indefinite period of time, and the “family” is only symbolical, not legal. Which points to the possibility that Uri's family register is still floating.

Even if Uri's family registry was updated, Uri and Suji can still marry for as long as Suji's family register remains with her father. And secondly, there is no blood-relation issue either.

What if Suji later returns her family register to her biological mother?

Then, we are going to have a legal problem. Legally, people who were registered as son/daughter of… are siblings and cannot marry, as is the case in other Asian countries. Uri will more likely transfer his family register just so they won't encounter legal issues.

Once they marry, then Uri can transfer his family registry back, however, instead of an ”adopted son”, he will be the son-in-law.

In the end, there is no issue.

^_^

There are different ways to do it.

Traditional:
1. The directors tell them.
2. Scenes are actually longer before it's “cut”. If there's nothing else to do during the scene, actors naturally freeze waiting to hear “CUT!”

Modern:
3. Editing. They just freeze the scene, add some effects that they're still moving. Voila!

I doubt he'll die from the fire from the past. I think what will happen is he will be lost in time.

Remember how he is often repelled by objects in the past? If the building collapsed on him, he will be constantly repelled to the point that there's nowhere else to go and he'll passed out. It will take time for the rubble to be cleared, so he'll be stuck, passed out, in the past while under those rubble.

By the time the area where he was stuck is cleared, months, possibly a year, went by already. And there's no guarantee he'll wake up immediately after all those months under that rubble constantly repelling him.

Think being blasted by a massive speaker while you're down already.

That is also why his mother saw in her dream that they will hold a funeral where the casket will be empty. It hints that in the present time, the ML did not return for months already, and they have to accept that he died in the past.

But that's the thing. Eventually that rubble will be cleared. And if he did not die from months of constant repelling of past objects against his body (again think massive speaker blowing its soundwaves on you), then there is still a chance he'll eventually wake up.

Though by the time he wakes up, if his memories are intact, months to a year already passed, and when he returns, he'll return to a point in time similar to how long he disappeared.

^_~

At least that's how I see it.

Nope, it won't have a S02. The story will end in the remaining two episodes. There's not much to tell at this point. They already reached the plot where they have to tie the loose ends, and give it a good ending. ^_^

Vagabond, Hospital Playlist, etc. got a new season months to years after a complete silence. ^_~

So far, they haven't shown the “present time” when the ML traveled back to the past to tell the FL where Ina was hiding.

Also, that version of the ML did not say anything other than Ina's case. He just stared at the FL when she was about to leave.

If you looked at the scene and the ML's face, it sends the aura that he was fighting himself not to tell her additional information, because it might accidentally change things that already happened from his relative time.

In addition to that, if I am not blind, that future ML who told them where Ina was, he was wearing similar clothing as to when he saved the FL from the school fire. Which gives another possibility that that future ML version was either about to save her, or already saved her.

Personally, I think it was the version of the ML that already saved her, because they intentionally kept the camera zoomed-out from the ML. It's as if they don't want to give any hint about the scratch on his neck.

And him staying back instead of his usual coming near to the FL was itself suspicious. Could it be he was hiding that scratch on his neck?

Of course, none of it says he already saved the FL. It could very well be he was about to save her, hence, he looks sad because he probably already know he's going to die (maybe the FL or his family told him eventually).

In real world science theory, them not being able to change future and the past is because everything that should happen already happened. From the ML's perspective, it is only about to happen, but from the FL's perspective, seeing the future versions of the MLs means that that future already happened. Does that make any sense?

So, yes, it does seem that things will end badly, with the ML dying.

HOWEVER!

I think they already hinted he'll survive.. ^_~

You know, all of them are being controlled by their abilities. His sister can't fly even though she conquered her obesity (note to others: being obese is different from being fat; don't mix the two). Their mother practically surrendered herself to her powers… granted, she already tried but failed.

And Ina, her ability to hear thoughts just came up at the wrong time, which is why she's blaming herself; not just because of what she heard from her mom, but the timing when her powers manifested, which distracted her mother from her driving. Who wouldn't? Especially when that ability is to hear thoughts?

But now, Ina's father, despite the creeping depression, can now control his powers. He can even go to a time where the FL wasn't there (the friends travel while they were headed to the beach). He can now use his ability the way he wants to.

Ina is similar. Although in her case, she needs glasses. But, symbolically, she is no longer being controlled by her ability. She was freed from the burden she carried since that accident. She's like X-Men's Cyclops. There is no on/off to her ability, it's permanently “on”, she needs her glasses. But she is no longer afraid of it. She no longer sees it as a curse.

Ina's aunt will more likely learn to control her powers on her own once she sets herself free from her deep resentment on her mother. She has this desires and dreams that she let go because of her mother, and that is what's blocking her ability to fly.

The most challenging is their mother/grandma. She can't let go of the past (when she tried to save her father), and voluntarily surrendered herself to her ability. I think she can control her ability the way a film director watches different films. But because she just let her ability to run, she's limited to whatever information she was able see. I think her ability has more to do with what we call as lucid dreaming.

There are lucid dreamers who can control their lucid dreams. It isn't easy, and it requires training, not to mention, it's tiring. (I can control my lucid dreams.) If she can learn that, she will be able to control her ability as well. She can go forward or rewind, and understand the bigger picture better, instead of trying to interpret things.

Yep. Instead of him having control over his ability, it is the other way around.

Oh, yes! A very good point! Indeed, she is only hearing thoughts at the moment she use her powers, thus lacking in context. And if someone figured out she can read thoughts, and the limitation of her ability, they'll know how to block their thoughts and/or manipulate her.

Like how the FL did, she sings the national anthem! Haha. And if Ina's more attuned to her powers, she'll realise that the FL was blocking her thoughts from her. I mean, of all the things you would think, it's the national anthem, very unusual if one hasn't shown that nationalism naturally outwardly, LOL.

As expected, the Cannes will defend the action of that staff despite it being obvious that there was a clear difference with how White celebrities were “ushered” in versus non-white celebrities.

It is about time that the world boycott Cannes. Otherwise, they won't apologise for it, they won't take action, because for them “the issue will blow up and forgotten in a few months”.

Obviously, no one is saying all Westerners are like Cannes, and that particular staff. However, Cannes, as supposedly a well-respected organisation, should have done something about this instead of letting random staff make statements in defense. They hired those staff, be it outsource or in-house, so they should take responsibility for it, investigate it, and make an official statement and what actions they will take.

Not like this, where the organisation is silent.

What a very sad and painful revelation, with the perfect BGM and dialogues.

She kept it all to herself. Like d*mn, kids shouldn't know these things. She became an adult at a very young age and grew up to teenage as any adult would have.

That's so d*mn messed up.

I'm sorry, there just isn't any word to describe and express it. Kids should be protected from these things. It's so painful and sad.

“I'm a monster!”
“I never should've been born!”

The ultimate question: Are their powers a blessing or a curse?

And Ina came to the conclusion that their powers are a curse, and grew up to teenager that way, their powers are a curse. They are monsters.

I repeated the scenes 7 times. They should give the writer, director, and actors, the best awards for this episode.

It is indeed a great honour to be called as someone who made others popular. It speaks volume to how successful you are.

Think of, say, Running Man, they made a lot of celebrities popular by taking care of them. Now imagine that same fame and influence but only from one person: Hyeyoon. That's huge. She has that power.

I'm also glad that she's humble. She could've joked about it, being a bubbly person in real life, but she did not. It shows how she never saw herself as the key to her ML partners' sudden success. For her, it's just another day at work, enjoy it day in and day out.

So, yes, Hyeyoon, even though you don't think of yourself as a very influential celebrity, with such great power, we, your fans, know that you are. You are simply amazing!

Hehehe. I know. But, daily dramas were meant for homestay family members. It's a format that was popular in the 70s, 80s, and 90s.

If you noticed, they also verbalise their thoughts and what they are doing, as if the audience don't have eyes. The reason for that was, again, meant for homestay family members who are more likely doing something while the TV is playing loud.

And dragging it out is part of the formula. You don't want to end it so quickly. What you want is for the homestay members to have something to talk about daily, especially during weekends.

Daily dramas are often more or less 30 minutes per episode. In addition, it has a weekly theme. Each weekly theme forms an arc. An arc can be a 2-week to 3-week arc, then it moves on to the next arc with multiple weekly themes. (Some arcs also overlap.)

This planning was designed to make the homestay members talk about the show. It helps them with “small talk” or socializing during their downtime or neighbourhood game / chitchat time.

I personally enjoy this format, not because I'm homestay, but I grew up in the 80s and 90s. Hahaha. Also, at work, it is easy to watch a 30-minute episode daily. It is a very good break from stress at work, and gives a topic for discussion in the office. LOL. Because the information in each episode are minimal and compartmentalised, it is easy to have a discussion without branching out. In a 60-120-minute episode, there are always so many revelations, discussions usually go everywhere.

^_^

I hope it helps.

They did show Suji developing feelings for Uri, the problem was, Hyunsung came into the picture. It was there, very subtle. She just failed to recognise it because of Hyunsung.

And don't worry, it is not easy to spot. It just was easy for me because I've been there (and played “Dr. Love” and matchmaker for friends). A few years before my 15-year relationship ended, I already knew my then gf started to fall for someone but she haven't realised it because I was still her bf. Tried to stop it, but there's nothing I can do because before we even started dating, I already knew there's a very huge risk I'll only be her “rebound” or “healing phase”, and once she's over that phase, she'll be gone.