This is a wonderful mini drama. I love the couple so much - they're very sweet and authentic. Good pacing, focus on romance, interesting and charming ML, nice communication, believable struggles of both main characters, no overly dramatic events and not much screen time for evil side characters. I felt so motivated right now that I even wrote a review. This mini drama is a gem for me 🌸
This drama kinda gives off Once Upon a Dream vibes. That one also had a so-called 'incestuous relationship'. I’m guessing they won’t be related here either. I’m intrigued already.
Costs are going up, yet the quality is going down. Korean dramas are starting to eat its own tail. There are some exceptions, but for the most part k-dramas became repetitive.
Rising cost means taking less risk and more repetitive formulaic content. If they are taking Netflix money which means more radical shift of tone as well.
Gotta love the VP of Korean Content villainising the international kdrama fan community for illegal distribution, and bitching about us not paying for it. Korean networks (same goes for Japanese, Chinese, Taiwanese, Thai, etc.) didn't distribute abroad back in the day, so it's not like we could've just bought a "legal" DVD/VHS. Trust me, been in this since 2006, and spent a lot of time searching for a way to support the creators by buying official copies. They literally didn't exist back then.
So people recorded the raw dramas, and volunteer teams spent weeks or months transcribing, translating and creating subtitles for fans abroad. This wasn't bootlegging - no one asked for money (beyond possibly a few donations to cover bandwidth and storage costs when increased demand led to heavy server needs). The availability of subtitles massively increased the awareness and popularity of Korean dramas, expanding the market. Effectively, these fans provided years of unpaid promo.
Then in swoops a bunch of rich American companies, seeing a market ripe for the picking. They paywall everything, pay some poor translators a pittance to create lower-quality subtitles under time pressure, and then demonise the very people who created the demand (for free!) in the first place.
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Wang Xing Wei, wo ai ni!!!!
I felt so motivated right now that I even wrote a review.
This mini drama is a gem for me 🌸
So people recorded the raw dramas, and volunteer teams spent weeks or months transcribing, translating and creating subtitles for fans abroad. This wasn't bootlegging - no one asked for money (beyond possibly a few donations to cover bandwidth and storage costs when increased demand led to heavy server needs). The availability of subtitles massively increased the awareness and popularity of Korean dramas, expanding the market. Effectively, these fans provided years of unpaid promo.
Then in swoops a bunch of rich American companies, seeing a market ripe for the picking. They paywall everything, pay some poor translators a pittance to create lower-quality subtitles under time pressure, and then demonise the very people who created the demand (for free!) in the first place.
Late stage capitalism, ladies and gentlemen,