Good for people who only watch kdramas to see their favorite actors.
For people who only watch kdramas because the actors they are simping are in it, this "review" is NOT for you. So keep scrolling.
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Itaewon Class has been touted as a KDrama which "tackles" prejudice towards transgender, foreign parentage and ex-convict discrimination. But apart from several repetitive lines about the difficulty of getting employment as an ex-convict, a half episode about a transgender being outed in social media and a "redemption" arc for an American actor presented as someone with Guinean mother, the entire drama hardly focused on these touted topics.
It's safe to say that kdramas have a long way to go before it can confidently incorporate these themes in Kdramas. I just hope we don't see the same bullying porn so rampant in Kdramas.
At its core, this is a revenge porn dressed as a pub KDrama but with less drinking.
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Itaewon Class has been touted as a KDrama which "tackles" prejudice towards transgender, foreign parentage and ex-convict discrimination. But apart from several repetitive lines about the difficulty of getting employment as an ex-convict, a half episode about a transgender being outed in social media and a "redemption" arc for an American actor presented as someone with Guinean mother, the entire drama hardly focused on these touted topics.
It's safe to say that kdramas have a long way to go before it can confidently incorporate these themes in Kdramas. I just hope we don't see the same bullying porn so rampant in Kdramas.
At its core, this is a revenge porn dressed as a pub KDrama but with less drinking.
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