IM YourOnlyOne

It's all about who pays the highest for the license fee and royalties for XX years.

If Kocowa is offers the sweetest deal, it doesn't matter. The number of people who watch on their platform is their problem. You got far more from the deal than if you choose another.

Also, another reason, especially for Netflix, you actually also apply. Maybe they did but Netflix rejected them. Or, maybe Netflix gave a counter-offer but they didn't like it. So, in the end, they just applied to Kocowa and worked out the best deal they can get from it.

Or, it could be both. Kocowa offered a sweet deal. But they still applied to Netflix and Viki aed Disney and whoever, but got rejected or were offered a deal lower than what Kocowa offers. From a business standpoint, Kocowa wins.

What's important is you get a very good licensing fee. If you cae squeeze in a good royalty from them,the better. If not, it's okay. The licensing fee is the most important., that's where you earn the most money.

If the deal is Kocowa will keep it for 10 years, and they'll pay every 12 months far higher than what Netflix and others offered, take it. The royalties are just a bonus.

Lastly, their target market is only Korea. Any global earnings are just a footnote in reports. They always take a separate category. So, in the grand scheme of things, it doesn't really matter who wants to pay for licensing fees to air the show. Even if the licensing fee is low, it doesn't matter. (But of course, they'll work it out to get as much as possible.) Only Korea matters in financial reports.

You'll more likely hear, "ABC show earned 123M on the domestic market. Globally, all our shows this year earned 456M combined in licensing fees and royalties." Key takeaway there, "combined".

🖖🏽

What a rookie mistake: getting cocky by not finishing it properly and revealing your game. 🤣

You never ever do that. You need to play the game you started to the very end of your target. That way, when things go sideways—and it always will—you are still in the game.

But hey, the writer said so because they need 8 episodes. LMAO.

E05

The way I understood it, the 15k is the entire region or town with the same name as the town proper. The town proper itself is smaller.

Here in the Philippines we still have that kind of set up in the provinces.

The entire region or town big. But the town proper, or "bayan" in our language, is small and usually is the center of things. It's like a town within a town.

For example, the National Capital Region is often called "Metro Manila". But the Capital City is also called "Manila" (or City of Manila to be exact). Foreigners are 99% confused by that.

In Korea, it's probably like Seoul or in Japan like Tokyo. Seoul and Tokyo are still called "cities" but on reality it stopped being a city, it is already a region. It is beyond being a Metro/Metropolitan. Seoul and Tokyo both absorbed its neighboring towns and cities over decades.

Maybe, that place where the FL is hidings the town proper. But the town/region itself is larger than that town proper. The town proper is not independent but they're allowed to have their own local management.

Another way of looking at it is the town proper is like a subdivision or village. But instead of being closed-gate, they don't bother with putting up boundaries. Again, from a prespective here in the Philippines, cities and towns here often have subdivisions/villages. They always have their own management. Some can apply for legal/political recognition, some don't.

She's probably a secret agent for the government or some other group interested with the wealth.

So far, she can't be bought. It means she's loyal to something else and usually that is an Oath or a company.

Another possibility, maybe the Chairman hired her agency. She was blindsided when she disappeared but the moment she figured it out, she came rushing to her. For what? The only reason is to protect her.

If she's working for someone else, then it's to spy on her.

Also, she was far too curious to find the secret door. It was as if she has a mission to fulfill. Her dedication in finding the secret door is not an average "assistant" would do.

Something is suspicious with HyeJi.

Wow. The comments section turned into hell. 😆

All I can say is, if it's Pacific-Asian, people anways whine. But if it is EU/NA, no one cries. Take for example, American Gods, both the original novel and the TV adaptation.

The only religions American Gods did not touch/twist were Christianity and Judaism. Everything else were "fictionalised". There were no whiners, instead people praised both the novel and the TV adaptation.

But if it's a Pacific-Asian work, get ready for the "I was offended" camp. No one will take your whining seriously if you have double-standards and/or biased.

Nah. It was only the people who don't understand what an adaptation is who are complaining.

No adaptation is perfect. So, people complaining about shallow things like "she didn't usea sniper gun" or "that didn't happen that way" or "he doesn't look like the character" are just complaining because they can complain. The movie captured the essence of the original material given the many constraints of a live-action adaptation. And no, making it a TV adaptation doesn't guarantee that it will be better. All things Korean industry considered , a TV adaptation might actually turn out worse.

Exactly! Glad to find another soulwho understands how adaptations work.

I'll just paste my earlier response to another similar comment.

---

Not really.

Why was the film not good for you? Because there were a lot of changes compared to the source material? And you're thinking if it was a TV series they'll be faithful?

Nope. There's no guarantee of that happening. Take for example the Korean adaptation of Little Women. It was vastly different from the book. It was a TV series.

Another is Shadowhunters. It was a TV series too, and is different from in many places than the book series.

Writers have literary freedom when it comes to adaptations. What is important in an adaptation is the essence of the original work. The Little Women Korean TV adaptation captured that essence well, that's why it is a legitimate adaptation.

The same with this film adaptation.

However, if you're talking about production, still no guarantees. Usually, TV adaptations don't get better editing and CG than films. CG alone is expensive, and TV prods often gets less budget than movies.

Next, the actors will definitely be different. Again, budget constraints.

Because of budget, the TV adaptation might end up with 6–12 episodes only. Which means they have to remove a lot of scenes.

Since it will end up that way anyway, isn't it better to just produce a movie and get a bigger budget?

For a TV adaptation to be better than a film, they need investors who won't back down from the project. They will also need multiple seasons. And we all know how the Korean industry is not a fan of multiple seasons.

A good example is His Dark Materials: 3 seasons with 8 episodes each. It surpassed the film adaptation The Golden Compass.

The TV adaptation was a huge success because the funding came from loyal investors, and it was produced by BBC. Even though there were changes, that's expected in an adaptation, because they were given 24 episodes total, they were able to pack in as many critical scenes as possible, as well as, cast the right actors for each of the characters. Even Philip Pullman was involved on which moments they need to include and how to change the scenes to fit the TV format.

I seriously doubt Korea will get that level of support for a TV adaptation of Omniscient Reader. More likely than not, they'll butcher it. The movie format is the best they can have considering the attitude of Korean investors.

Not really.

Why was the film not good for you? Because there were a lot of changes compared to the source material? And you're thinking if it was a TV series they'll be faithful?

Nope. There's no guarantee of that happening. Take for example the Korean adaptation of Little Women. It was vastly different from the book. It was a TV series.

Another is Shadowhunters. It was a TV series too, and is different from in many places than the book series.

Writers have literary freedom when it comes to adaptations. What is important in an adaptation is the essence of the original work. The Little Women Korean TV adaptation captured that essence well, that's why it is a legitimate adaptation.

The same with this film adaptation.

However, if you're talking about production, still no guarantees. Usually, TV adaptations don't get better editing and CG than films. CG alone is expensive, and TV prods often gets less budget than movies.

Next, the actors will definitely be different. Again, budget constraints.

Because of budget, the TV adaptation might end up with 6–12 episodes only. Which means they have to remove a lot of scenes.

Since it will end up that way anyway, isn't it better to just produce a movie and get a bigger budget?

For a TV adaptation to be better than a film, they need investors who won't back down from the project. They will also need multiple seasons. And we all know how the Korean industry is not a fan of multiple seasons.

A good example is His Dark Materials: 3 seasons with 8 episodes each. It surpassed the film adaptation The Golden Compass.

The TV adaptation was a huge success because the funding came from loyal investors, and it was produced by BBC. Even though there were changes, that's expected in an adaptation, because they were given 24 episodes total, they were able to pack in as many critical scenes as possible, as well as, cast the right actors for each of the characters. Even Philip Pullman was involved on which moments they need to include and how to change the scenes to fit the TV format.

I seriously doubt Korea will get that level of support for a TV adaptation of Omniscient Reader. More likely than not, they'll butcher it. The movie format is the best they can have considering the attitude of Korean investors.

Exactly!

It is an adaptation, just as Little Women Korean version is an adaptation even though almost everything about it is different.

Adaptation, from the root word "adapt". You adapt a work in a different cultur or medium. Writers have literary freedom to adapt it however they want as long as they got a License to do so (meaning she Copyright holder approved the adaptation).

What is important on an adaptation are not the shaloow things people complain about, it is the essence. The movie, while not perfect, adapted the essence well of the original source material (the novel, not the webtoon). Just as how Little Women did the same. Just as how Shadowhuntert did. Just as how the Lordf the Rings did.

EXACTLY!

Exactly.

It's very common for self-confessed "true fans" to always complain about an adaptation. So, you should watch it without relying on what other said.

Even the Lord of the Rings movies received a lot of complaints from "true fans".

The Korean adaptation of Little Women received a lot of complaints from "true fans" (which ironically, these self-confessed fans of she original work many did not evee read it).

The Shadowhunters TV adaptation received a lot of complaints too. One most common complaint was it was "woke". If they are indeed true fans, they would've known that the novels were already that way before "woke" entered people's vocabularies.

"Fans" even complain when a comics/manga/webtoon is adapted into comics/manga/webtoon because the characters don't look the same, the events are different, the locations are localised, and every complaint they can think of. It's a F*** adaptation. That's how adaptation works. From the root word itself: adapt!

Yesz but the thing most people forget about adaptations of literary works is that the writer can exercise their literary freedom.

Second, and I personally think the most important, what matters in an adaptation is the essence of it, not if the events, characters, etc. were faithful.

Take for example Shadowhunters. People who claimed they are fans of the novels were disappointed because of the many changes they did. When, if they were a true fan, they would've recognised that the adaptation stayed true with the essence of the novels.

Those angry "fans" even accused it of being woke when the novels itself weri already like that before "woke" entered people's vocabulary. They just want to complain because they want the adaptation to be 100% the same.

And that's a TV series. So, even if Omniscient was adapted as a TV series, people will still complain endlessly.

Here's another example: Little Women. The Little Women Korean adaptation (last year or two?) was vastly different from the original novel. People complained, and most that did not even read the novel, LOL.

Oh, it was a TV series adaptation too.

"Fans", if they really are true "fans", will always find something to complain about when it comes to live-action adaptations of literary works. However, you rarely see such attitude if it was an animation adaptation. Even in the Japanese industry, adaptation of a manga, serial, or visual novel, into an anime rarely gets complaints regardless if the anime adaptation was too far from the original.

People just complain a lot whenever it is a live-action adaptation. People complain even with a simple thing as casting an actor who doesn't look like the character. It isn't the looks that is important when casting for a certain character, what truly matters is if the actor can truly act the character's character in question.

Do fans want someone casted because they look very similar to the character but cannot even act that character properly? Or, do they want someone who can act the character even if they don't look like the character?

Which brings us back to what I said earlier: the essence is the most important part when adapting a literary work into another medium, most especially in a medium with a lot of constraints like live-action. And this is what most people are missing. They are only looking at the surface, the shallow stuff. It makes you wonder if they truly understood the original source material or not.

And going back to Omniscient specifically, the webtoon itself is an adaptation. The originau source material of the film was the novel. Yet you'll see "fans" complain about how the castings were wrong because they didn't look like the characters themselves. Obviously hinding they were thinking of the webtoon and not the novel.

Which can be observed in works which were adapted between different cultures. A manga was adapted as a webtoon. A Western comics adapted as a webtoon and as a manga. Peopli complained because the characters look different and some events were different. FCOL, it's an adaptation! That's what an adaptation is! To adapt!

Self-confessed "fans" just like to complain. Many don't really understand the essence of the works they're consuming. They often only see the shallow things. The faces. The names. Will even act like they know how the original author feels and thinks about the adaptation (when the original authors usually were involved or at least was consulted).

1. I'm so glad to see the two reunited since Uncontrollably Fond.
2. I'm glad Suzy no longer is too thin (I mean it well, don't misinterpret). 😆 The one she has on this series is perfect for her.
3. Wow. Ahn EunJin!
4. Go KyuPil is finally anything but a pig animal. 😅

I've read the webtoon and I still highy approve of the film adaptation.

People just like to complain about every single live-action adaptation ever made. Majority of them don't understand it is not easy to make a screen adaptation of a literary work.

Oh, and did they really watched the entire series? Because if there is someone who should complain here, it is the current President of the United States of America.

The message—if we can call it that—of the show was the USA is the instigator of wars because it benefits them. The USA will bomb anyone anywhere because they feel like doing so, even if they lack actionable intel (hint: 2003 US invasion of Iraq).

It is actually surprising the current US President still hasn't noticed «Tempest» and say anything about it. Or, maybe he did and people around him constantly stopped him.

Seriously, if those who are complaining about how this TV series depicted this and that country actually watched «Tempest» they know the USA had the worst depiction.

Let's not forget, when Hollywood paints other countries in a negative light, no one complains about it, or at least they don't make efforts to be noticed. But if it was done by an Asian, people complain (Asians against Asians at that) and they make sure they are noticed.

Clearly double-standards. More likely political or backed by those with political interests.