It turns out that Jo Jin Woong does NOT have any criminal record. His attorney, Kim Kyung Ho, who has sued Dispatch,…
Why should JJW pay a penalty to anyone for anything? You should remove that link you included above. The article it goes to is nothing but gossip and unfounded speculation, much of it from some anonymous troll online who could be any person Earth. Why on Earth would you link to such garbage?
As ignorant as Korean Society is, I dont blame him for retiring even if it comes out he was the victim the whole…
Well said. In just a few days, it will have been two years since one of Korea's finest actors, Lee Sun Kyun, took his own life after incessant harassment by law enforcement, media, and public. After his death, it turned out he'd been blackmailed, and the drug allegations against him, made by a fucking prostitute, were 100% false.
But at the time he checked out, to his mind, he really had no other choice. It's the only way his wife and kids would ever know peace, and he knew it. He was right.
I love how international commenters always act like their country doesn’t have these issues. There is no where…
Am I correct in assuming that by "intentional," you meant "international?" If so...first of all, no one in these comments has "acted" like any such thing. Second of all, you are shamefully, willfuly ignorant on this matter, and it shows. Maybe stop yapping about things you know nothing about.
I'm live in the U.S. and we do NOT have celebrities killing themselves at anywhere near the rate they do in Korea, and have done so for at least 25 years. Korea's overall suicide rate is 29.1 per 100,000, the highest by far among OECD nations and DOUBLE that of the U.S. No other country has the insane, puritanical, psycho attitude towards celebs that Korea does. In Korea, people think you owe them your very soul if you succeed as an entertainer, and thus apply crazy-ass standards of conduct they themselves could never pass. This successful, popular actor just saw his career destroyed by bullying allegations and incidents from more than THIRTY years ago, for which he was already punished.
In Korea, you get NO second chances, even if your first blown chance came 35 years ago when you were in junior high or high school. That is madness. How many people haven't done something they'd like no one to know about over the past 35/40 years? By contrast, in America, you get second, third, fourth, and fifth chances, and if, in the end, you improve yourself, pay your debt to people and society, and succeed, 95% of the public will applaud you. In Korea, entertainers never, ever get a chance at redemption.
Even worse, as in the case of Lee Sun Kyun, who killed himself nearly two years ago because of attitudes like yours, it doesn't matter at all if what you are accused of is complete bullshit. You will be destroyed anyway.
But I'll not waste further effort responding to you. You're the problem, and it's unlikely you'll educate yourself and change. I hope you get what you enable to happen to others.
I don't know how Lily Malice manages to live with all that bad karma it has accumulated
"Lily Malice" Love it. :D
Two possibilities: Lily Phallus (how's that one? :D) sold her soul to Satan long ago and has nothing to lose anyway, or it's a bot/AI/cyborg and never had a soul to sell. In either case, I doubt karma is a concern.
I don't get people complaining about the mdl rating being too "low?" How is 7.5 on a 10 scale "low?" It's actually far too HIGH.
Anyway, in my view, this is garbage. I'm mortified for Yoo Ah In that he's in this. Of course, he's great in every one of his scenes, but the plot is so stupid and much of the other acting so weak; he can't carry the whole damn thing alone.
I've been itching to drop this since early in the first episode, but I held on because of all the favorable hype I've been subjected to over the last four years. All of it was unwarranted. It's objectively terrible. The CGI is lame af.
hi there! i understand where you’re coming from about the use of the word “comfortable” when describing…
Wow, you've given me some good stuff to think on, and too much to respond to this minute. I'll let what you've shared percolate overnight and see what pours out for morning breakfast. :)
Thank you for your thoughtful, non-hysterical approach to your reply. I appreciate it.
I do want to make on thing clear: This show does not "bother" me in the sense you seem to mean it here. I don't think about it unless I'm on this page or watching an episode. I def don't lose sleep over it. :)
I know my writing style is often spastic/sarcastic/bombastic ("stics!" Is it OK to use "spastic" as long as I'm referring to myself?), though, so I get that it can be taken as revealing emotions I don't feel. :)
it's a simple high school drama. not every bl-related drama has to be to your standards of sex. if you're looking…
Oh gosh, you wrote "Period. Full stop." I guess that makes your mistaken grammar lesson factual, which it's not.
You are correct in one sense: The show was created FOR "teen girls who..." And if you fit the cohort of teen girls who do and are what is in the description that follows, then as I wrote above, be insulted, Be offended. You should be. I'm glad.
Did you know that just because a show is designed for a specific cohort, it does not follow that NO ONE ELSE is allowed to watch and enjoy it? It's true! Of course, that brings into question the tastes and discernment of those people, but does not automatically shove them into the audience I specifically described. But that's another discussion, and apparently, beyond your comprehension.
Those of us who choose to watch this series despite its flaws, because there are redeemable elements among the mess (Hioki's cuteness), and because we've already lost four hours of our lives to it, so why not one more, at least have the good sense to call it out as mostly flotsam.
I drop MOST BLs I start watching. Many others, of good quality, I thoroughly enjoy and watch to the end. And then, there are shows like this one, which fall somewhere in between, that we finish while holding our noses. I'd bet you've done the same. But gray areas, discernment, self-awareness, and reality are not your forte, so...you do you.
I have written about how and why the Korean Celeb/Media/Public Suicide Machine is sick and twisted and evil so many times, I won't do so again, here. There is no point.
Jin Woong likely, and wisely, concluded that media scum such as Lily Alice have now latched onto this non-story and will not stop hounding him about it until he either issues the usual, groveling apology they want and resigns, or kills himself. Better to get it out of the way immediately and be done.
We are coming up on two years since Lily Alice and her kind put the great actor Lee Sun Kyun in an early grave, via suicide. I'm guessing Lily is hoping that, despite his resignation from the industry, Jin Woong still might take that route and give her something to "write" about for a massive number of clicks here on MDL.
I hope Jin Woong stays with us, enjoys his money, and lives a happy, full life outside the sick, sick, sick industry to which he's given so much.
it's a simple high school drama. not every bl-related drama has to be to your standards of sex. if you're looking…
I mention reading comprehension a lot because a lot of MDLers lack it, such as yourself.
What part of this do you not understand?: "... for teen girls who love to watch two boys pretend to be homo..."
In this, I specifically describe a TYPE of "teen girl," THOSE WHO LOVE TO WATCH TWO BOYS PRETEND TO BE HOMO, etc. Teen who girls who do NOT love to watch two boys pretend to be homo, etc. are NOT included in what follows. Had I place a comma after "teen girls," you might have an argument, but I didn't and you don't.
This is what I mean by reading comprehension issues on this site. People like you perceive what you WANT to perceive, not what is actually written, then choose to get worked up.
In fact, my comment is more directly aimed at the MAKERS of this show and its type, ie.: "It's a love fest for..." But you lack reading comprehension, so you've no clue about that, either.
Anyway, if you fit the subset of teen girls I described, by all means, please be offended. If you don't fit the described subset, but choose to be offended anyway, by all means, be my guest.
How can you not like Kikuchi? :OI like your idea about the writer, writing himself in, though. That would be a…
The fact that you find something "ick" is your problem, not Hatano's or Mob's. These arbitrary boundaries "everyone that is against their ship" set are absurd and unfounded. Loosen up. Their potential relationship is not immoral, unethical, or illegal, but you feel "icky" about it, so it's wrong...or something...? Hilarious.
What about later, when Mob would be working as a professional somewhere, and Hatano would be in college? Would that, too, be "ick?" lol Good god.
How can you not like Kikuchi? :OI like your idea about the writer, writing himself in, though. That would be a…
Age of sexual consent in Japan is 16. Hatano is at least 17. Clauses in that consent law allow for near-age relationships. If Hatano is 17 and Mob is 20 or 21, who cares? They're fine.
Age of legal majority and age of sexual consent are not the same thing, in Japan or most other places.
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You should remove that link you included above. The article it goes to is nothing but gossip and unfounded speculation, much of it from some anonymous troll online who could be any person Earth. Why on Earth would you link to such garbage?
I hope JJW sues Dispatch into oblivion.
What efforts to rescue his image have there been?
But at the time he checked out, to his mind, he really had no other choice. It's the only way his wife and kids would ever know peace, and he knew it. He was right.
By the way, our president is also an ADJUDICATED RAPIST.
If so...first of all, no one in these comments has "acted" like any such thing.
Second of all, you are shamefully, willfuly ignorant on this matter, and it shows. Maybe stop yapping about things you know nothing about.
I'm live in the U.S. and we do NOT have celebrities killing themselves at anywhere near the rate they do in Korea, and have done so for at least 25 years.
Korea's overall suicide rate is 29.1 per 100,000, the highest by far among OECD nations and DOUBLE that of the U.S.
No other country has the insane, puritanical, psycho attitude towards celebs that Korea does. In Korea, people think you owe them your very soul if you succeed as an entertainer, and thus apply crazy-ass standards of conduct they themselves could never pass. This successful, popular actor just saw his career destroyed by bullying allegations and incidents from more than THIRTY years ago, for which he was already punished.
In Korea, you get NO second chances, even if your first blown chance came 35 years ago when you were in junior high or high school. That is madness. How many people haven't done something they'd like no one to know about over the past 35/40 years? By contrast, in America, you get second, third, fourth, and fifth chances, and if, in the end, you improve yourself, pay your debt to people and society, and succeed, 95% of the public will applaud you. In Korea, entertainers never, ever get a chance at redemption.
Even worse, as in the case of Lee Sun Kyun, who killed himself nearly two years ago because of attitudes like yours, it doesn't matter at all if what you are accused of is complete bullshit. You will be destroyed anyway.
But I'll not waste further effort responding to you. You're the problem, and it's unlikely you'll educate yourself and change. I hope you get what you enable to happen to others.
Two possibilities: Lily Phallus (how's that one? :D) sold her soul to Satan long ago and has nothing to lose anyway, or it's a bot/AI/cyborg and never had a soul to sell. In either case, I doubt karma is a concern.
How is 7.5 on a 10 scale "low?"
It's actually far too HIGH.
Anyway, in my view, this is garbage.
I'm mortified for Yoo Ah In that he's in this. Of course, he's great in every one of his scenes, but the plot is so stupid and much of the other acting so weak; he can't carry the whole damn thing alone.
I've been itching to drop this since early in the first episode, but I held on because of all the favorable hype I've been subjected to over the last four years. All of it was unwarranted. It's objectively terrible. The CGI is lame af.
dropped for good.
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Thank you for your thoughtful, non-hysterical approach to your reply.
I appreciate it.
I do want to make on thing clear: This show does not "bother" me in the sense you seem to mean it here. I don't think about it unless I'm on this page or watching an episode. I def don't lose sleep over it. :)
I know my writing style is often spastic/sarcastic/bombastic ("stics!" Is it OK to use "spastic" as long as I'm referring to myself?), though, so I get that it can be taken as revealing emotions I don't feel. :)
You are correct in one sense: The show was created FOR "teen girls who..." And if you fit the cohort of teen girls who do and are what is in the description that follows, then as I wrote above, be insulted, Be offended. You should be. I'm glad.
Did you know that just because a show is designed for a specific cohort, it does not follow that NO ONE ELSE is allowed to watch and enjoy it? It's true! Of course, that brings into question the tastes and discernment of those people, but does not automatically shove them into the audience I specifically described. But that's another discussion, and apparently, beyond your comprehension.
Those of us who choose to watch this series despite its flaws, because there are redeemable elements among the mess (Hioki's cuteness), and because we've already lost four hours of our lives to it, so why not one more, at least have the good sense to call it out as mostly flotsam.
I drop MOST BLs I start watching. Many others, of good quality, I thoroughly enjoy and watch to the end. And then, there are shows like this one, which fall somewhere in between, that we finish while holding our noses. I'd bet you've done the same. But gray areas, discernment, self-awareness, and reality are not your forte, so...you do you.
I have written about how and why the Korean Celeb/Media/Public Suicide Machine is sick and twisted and evil so many times, I won't do so again, here. There is no point.
Jin Woong likely, and wisely, concluded that media scum such as Lily Alice have now latched onto this non-story and will not stop hounding him about it until he either issues the usual, groveling apology they want and resigns, or kills himself. Better to get it out of the way immediately and be done.
We are coming up on two years since Lily Alice and her kind put the great actor Lee Sun Kyun in an early grave, via suicide. I'm guessing Lily is hoping that, despite his resignation from the industry, Jin Woong still might take that route and give her something to "write" about for a massive number of clicks here on MDL.
I hope Jin Woong stays with us, enjoys his money, and lives a happy, full life outside the sick, sick, sick industry to which he's given so much.
Lily Alic, You. Are. A. Blood-sucker.
What part of this do you not understand?:
"... for teen girls who love to watch two boys pretend to be homo..."
In this, I specifically describe a TYPE of "teen girl," THOSE WHO LOVE TO WATCH TWO BOYS PRETEND TO BE HOMO, etc. Teen who girls who do NOT love to watch two boys pretend to be homo, etc. are NOT included in what follows. Had I place a comma after "teen girls," you might have an argument, but I didn't and you don't.
This is what I mean by reading comprehension issues on this site. People like you perceive what you WANT to perceive, not what is actually written, then choose to get worked up.
In fact, my comment is more directly aimed at the MAKERS of this show and its type, ie.: "It's a love fest for..." But you lack reading comprehension, so you've no clue about that, either.
Anyway, if you fit the subset of teen girls I described, by all means, please be offended. If you don't fit the described subset, but choose to be offended anyway, by all means, be my guest.
lol
These arbitrary boundaries "everyone that is against their ship" set are absurd and unfounded. Loosen up. Their potential relationship is not immoral, unethical, or illegal, but you feel "icky" about it, so it's wrong...or something...? Hilarious.
What about later, when Mob would be working as a professional somewhere, and Hatano would be in college? Would that, too, be "ick?"
lol Good god.
Hatano is at least 17.
Clauses in that consent law allow for near-age relationships.
If Hatano is 17 and Mob is 20 or 21, who cares?
They're fine.
Age of legal majority and age of sexual consent are not the same thing, in Japan or most other places.