Jovana Du

Not at all... I love My Mister an Tell You Love Me, both very slow dramas but I don't think they are dragged. But I do think Killer Paradox is a bit dragged. Dragged isn't about how long the drama is, otherwise films wouldn't be dragged. It's about how the director and screenwriter uses this time

The promotion material is so confusion that I still without understand what the story is going to be about... But it has Kim Soo Hyun

About FL, I guess the problem was both.... The character wasn't well written and the actress didn't make a good job.

Yes, the second season was confirmed last year. 10 episodes i think

There's but in my opinion is terrible... the photography is beautiful but the way the story unfolds and the dialogues are horrible

Hi! I really love those dramas:

- While You Were Sleeping
- One Dollar Lawyer
- Extraordinary Attorney Woo
- Hyena
- I Can Hear Your Voice
- Divorce Attorney Shin

Lawless Lawyer is more in the action but is really good and Miss Chun is a Litigator is a very light cdrama.

Hope it helps :)

So why Round 6 was so successful?? According to your logical it should have been a flop... Keep this narrow mentality of yours and I'm sure you won't be able to go far

But there's a difference in giving a bad rating or writing a negative review because I didn't like the show and I'm sharing my opinion about it from just give bad rating and write absurd comments for bring down the rating of a drama they didn't even tried to watch. Those are two completely different situations and people are entitled to dislike a drama and it doesn't make them a hater

Totally understand... My mom is always asking me and my sister why we get so excited about actors and dramas, for her it doesn't make any sense too

I totally agree with you that ratings do not reflect the quality of drama and isn't a garante that we are going to like it, but I like to see the ratings because in Korean this is a very important criterion for evaluating whether a drama is successful or not
and consequently, whether the actors I like are doing well or not.

Dramas with very good rating can get more sponsors or even more episodes and the cast can get better opportunities in the future. And the success in the domestic still more important than the international success for most of the broadcastings, sponsors and artist (have one big international hit doesn't necessary means that an artist will have more job offers)...

So, by the rating I can see how the artists that I like are doing in Korea and know better how their career is going. Lee Bo Young is an exemple of it... Most of her dramas aren't international hits and many international fans of kdramas doesn't even know how she is, but in Korea she is a recognized actress and her dramas have very good ratings. Even though international sites doesn't talk much about her, by the rating of her dramas I'm able to see how she is doing there.

There's also some thing of "pride" to see the dramas that we like doing good and being recognized :)

Hope that my answer has give you some insight about one of the reason why some people are interested in the domestic ratings of kdramas
I hope that

No, it's a very light story. I almost don't watch historical dramas bc of the same reasons, I always get angry and stop in the middle... But this is more a like a romcom, the king almost does't appear and it doesn't have any plot related to multiple wifes.

There are some politics bc the 3 mais character investigate some cases of corrupted officials, but none of the cases are heavy and they get resolved really fast. And there isn't any plot of women fighting for the same men. Overall, the scrip may seem a bit silly bc of this, but for me it's what make watching this drama such a nice experience.

And I loved Mr. Queen, but you may fell troubles by some part of the story. The King (main lead) has an wife and a concubine. There are many political conflicts, some of them a bit heavy. I don't remember if there is cheating, but the story has many lies ans conspiracy. The first half of the show is really fun, but it started to get more and more heavy from the middle to the end. I had a really hard timing finishing it.

Did you watched Royal Secret Agent? Is a very nice historical rom-com, really enjoyed it. And he's character is soo fun, he nailed it.

They probably took inspiration from america super-heros, not Moving (as moving also took inspiration from super-heros stories). Say they are "copying" is a bit too strong when talking about something that have been used again and again as super powers

Which one? I'm pretty sure none of these would be accused of "bigotry, fascism, patriarchy" or any thing like that.
With exception of Moon Embracing The Sun (this would exige bigger changes os the history), all the other drama could easily be adapted to the west context (including latin america). As you may not know, The World of The Married is based on the BBC One's drama series Doctor Foster.
The Korean professionals are always taking inspiration and reference from cultural productions of other countries (as almost any professional from this industry do).
It's normal that you'll like some productions and others no, this is only because of your personal taste and not because the drama is faithful to the "kdramaland principles" that you say that exist or because they are to western

Say something like "kdramaland" isn't some kind of stereotype about Korean audiovisual industry? What's is kdramaland for you? As I can see, korean professionals can produce very well dramas from a huge range of genre and subjects, like Mother, The Word Of The Married, Healer, Forest of Secrets, Whats Wrong With Secretary Kim,
Moon Embracing The Sun, My Mister, Reply 1988..... This only to name a few.

All industries change with time, dramas from the 2000 are quiet different from the ones of 2010 and those changes will keep happening. And if actor, directors, writers and soo many other professionals are choosing to work with Netflix is because they see something they like and aprove in the way Netflix work.

The mother left the father do all the experiments in Ro-Hee, so she's also bad and responsable for all suffering that Ro-Hee went through.

Hope it's going to be as good as Our Beloved Summer

No, it doesn't... I watched until ep 10 and the story didn't go to anywhere. It should have 12 episodes at most

Okay... So nobody is talking about the wrong that all did to Boom?

She was stabbed by her father and everyone rushed her to forgive him... Yeo Reum even screamed if her. How anyone can blame a kid for want the person the make her suffer so much to be punished?? Everyone make it looks like she was the wrong one and her father was the one that needed attention and forgiveness! If he wanted to be forgiven, he should have stepped forward and accept the consequences, but he didn't even payed the hospital bills.

The plot goes to all the wrong places.. Wasted 6h watching the firsts episodes

It was also important that the Queen had a powerful family to protect her so the other families/clan don't go against her and the Emperor or even kill her... Palace were really dangerous places, the Grandmother is probably worried that if the Kink marries a commoner, he'll lose political power or even get destitute.

It wasn't easy to have love and power back then