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Whatever you say, I have seen in the past 5-7 years that Korean drama HAS changed somehow. There is much less toilet humour. There are still the disgusting drunken scenes but less vomiting. There is less stuffing one's mouth and chewing with mouth open spitting the contents here and there - main leads are careful not to do it anymore, they all chew with mouths shut. Female characters are stronger, they are no longer the infantilized, clumsy and bubbly, asexual type - that still survives in Chinese drama.
Things like that are noticeable. Is it because Koreans have become more sophisticated, in such a short time span? Maybe, maybe not. It is a definite possibility that the makers of these dramas are more aware of international audiences who contribute to their earnings. Here, as everywhere, money talks. If you have noticed, those subtle changes are not there so much in weekend family dramas nor in 100-episode dramas, because those are not that popular with international audiences. (You rarely find any 100-episode drama on the legal platforms). Those still cater to the "average family", including the grandparents.

I agree. Also, writers would never pair up FL with murderer ML.

In k-drama, if you don't actually see the corpse, and see it being buried, you cannot be sure the person is dead. Or rather, you can be pretty much sure s/he's not.

What if the ex girlfriend on the beach is not dead? I don't put it as spoiler because I of course haven't watched the next episodes which haven't been aired yet. She will probably come back to try and spoil the relationship between the two leads.

For whoever, like me, has been desperately searching everywhere for the name of the tenor who dubbed Lee Je Hoon in the singing parts... He is Kang Joseph, who nowadays has a splendid international career.
E lucevan le stelle: https://youtu.be/sUQAlEO0LGI
Nessun dorma: https://youtu.be/-EX9HCcl9OA
"The person who gives happiness" (2nd, concert version) https://youtu.be/bQK9NAgb18Y
Here are the soundtrack titles and who is singing them:
https://www.yesasia.com/global/my-paparotti-ost/1032525486-0-0-0-en/info.html
As you will also see on the above link, when the two main leads sing together "The person who gives happiness" (just before the boy's departure for abroad), it's the actors themselves singing.

"They"? It was only one person - the same tenor throughout the movie (except when the two actors sing together at the piano, there it's their own voices). And yes, I found out it was Kang Josep.

Definitely not, LOL! JYW is not that stupid.

It's the need of Korean drama for slapstick comedy done for belly laughs. It seems that among the Korean public the majority likes this sort of cheap comedy and finds it funny. I don't. I find it ruins some otherwise nice dramas. For myself, I like British humour, like Monty Python or the Jeeves series by P.G. Woodehouse. Something more subtle than people stuffing their mouths full and then spitting out the content on someone's face, or rolling their eyes and grimacing in an exaggerated way, or clogged toilets and people shitting their pants. So you can understand how distasteful this is for me.

I didn't say expect to find that ideal. I said "not take crap". It means we should value ourselves (this applies to both men and women of course), put the bar a bit higher and not put up with people who demean us and don't value us (like the poor married woman in the drama), but wait until a fairly decent person comes along. Fairly decent doesn't mean perfect, because after all we're all human, we're far from perfect as well.

The first couple episodes were a bit disjointed and all over the place, you could hardly understand why any of those people did what they did, but it slowly fell into place. Jung Ryeo-won is such an endearing actress, even as a woman I find her smile irresistible, makes you melt. The 2nd lead Jang Hyuk was fantastic (and super-sexy, as always!), the actress playing the knife lady was excellent, and there is the Chinese cuisine chef who is one of our favourite comic actors, Im Won -hee (the receptionist on Dr. Romantic).
I also learned that you're supposed to lift the wok and jerk it in the air to make the ingredients jump, instead of just letting it on the fire and sautéeing with your utensil. Of course, even if I know now, I don't have the arm strength to do it that way.

That's why we watch those dramas. For those dreamy, unrealistically perfect male leads, so different from most men we meet in real life. Let us at least for one hour dream that such a man exists. It gives us a breather and the courage to go on and not take crap from the jerks we meet.

It gives vibes of countless other dramas, but okay...

I've only see him in the school drama "Live On" and, what can I say... his acting there was on par with Cha Eun Woo. Which is to say... you know, right? LOL.

Pathetic FL are all over the place. Traumatic no, not that much. But pathetic, ugh! I just dropped "Kokdu" after 6 episodes because I couldn't stand how pathetic the FL was. The scene of her grovelling on her knees and grabbing her boyfriend's pants telling him that it's okay to cheat on her, as long as he doesn't leave her, was the last straw (but not the only instance) It was so cringe I couldn't bear it any longer.

Hm. So Plus is also available in Scandinavia now. Good to know.

Oh, you can say that again, he was dreamy there!

Maybe in the UK? I know that Plus is also available to the UK. (But no, after Brexit you wouldn't say that you are in Europe)

Knowing how k-dramas function, it's totally possible that he's the father, but for some reason he wasn't told. Just like in "Woo Ri the Virgin".

Let's not confuse the actress with the character here. I don't particularly like the actress, but she's okay. It's the character in "Kokdu" that is horrendously written. Not the actress's fault in any way.

You're confusing the actress with the character here. I don't particularly like the actress, but she's okay. It's the character in "Kokdu" that is horrendously written. Not the actress's fault in any way.