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Let Me Be Your Knight. It's noona romance with contract co-habitation between a hustling down-on-her-luck FL and a famous aloof singer-songwriter ML and his bandmates.

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Yas, where are my fellow Empathetic Ones at! ✋

I'm 100% here for my morally grey lead characters in a romcom. 😎 They do good. They do bad. They unintentionally fall in love. I'm here for it. *eats popcorn*

Chaebol businesses have special advantages (including taxes and contracts) given to them by the government which is why their companies have 50% of the South Korean stock market and the families fight to have a tight reign on the business that often is in charge of their personal finances as well. They are more like kingdoms than companies. Since this is Korea, I'm sure Dohan's education is up to snuff. It's about grooming the young heir into a businessman.

Look at the LG chaebol controversy that is going on right now. The chairman didn't have a male heir after his son tragically died at 19, and he kept his wife and daughters out of the business. The pressure was so strong to have a male heir that it wasn't enough to designate another extended family member to succeed to the position. The chairman's brother convinced the chairman to legally adopt his then 26-year old nephew to become his "son" so he could be the company heir. Fast forward about 15 years to today, where the chairman unexpectedly died early. His "son" succeeded him, then promptly made his adopted family (mother and sisters) sign away all their rights to the company which they did, but then he also took most of their inheritance money too even though he said he would provide for them. The patriarchy is so strong and the previous chairman had been good to the women so it hadn't occurred to them that the nephew would screw them over so they are now fighting for their inheritance in court. The NY Times did a profile on the controversy which is how I found out about it.

This is not the type of thing that happens in companies where profit is king. And the fact that this drama has their company name as "LG" is probably not a coincidence.

Everyone here is ruthless. I can see it. Especially when Taeoh starts getting his own power, he might start taking what he wants.

They really showed the cracks in their relationships by adding a third person to their trio. Their shared ambition is what has brought them together but there seems to be little to no true loyalty outside of their loyalty to the goal. All three of them will play each other against the others to get what they want. The complication is their unwanted, unexpected, shallow feelings that they didn’t take into account when forming their well laid plans that could easily derail everything in a heartbeat. I feel like this trio is almost the anti-bromance/anti-romance.

That's typical of Viki which carries on the tradition that the service was founded on of entertainment as a language learning tool. This leads to some lines, words, or phrases being literally translated and often getting an extra explanation on what they mean, especially if its a reference to a famous person or famous quote or unique idiom. You're meant to pause the video if you want to read the long explanations. As for the expressions or honorific titles you noted, those are not usually translated literally on Netflix, Viki, Disney+ or Amazon Prime Video but they can be.

IMDB, a site used and updated by industry professionals says one per week; Namu Wiki, a user generated wiki says two episodes per week but has no link to a source. That's as much info as we have.

I'm also the one who posted that summary because it was the only one we had at the time. As soon as it starts airing, I'm going to find a better one from a show article.

No, he's the mastermind behind their ascent. But this is more of a co-lead situation as it's not a romance drama where there is ML vs SML.

This cost 20 billion won ($15 million) for 12 episodes (likely 44 minutes long, like other Disney+ shows) which puts it in the Top 45 Most Expensive KDrama Productions ever. To put that into perspective even amongst equally expensive 20 billion won dramas, look at the difference in number of episodes and minutes of airtime: Vincenzo (20 episodes; 70 minutes long) and Extraordinary Attorney Woo (16 episodes; 70 minutes long).

I bet they are only doing one episode per week to recoup their money by getting people to subscribe to their service for several months.

[1]: https://entertain.naver.com/now/read?oid=108&aid=0003099957
[2]: https://www.kpopmap.com/top-7-korean-dramas-with-highest-production-cost/

Lovers of the Red Sky is currently available to watch for FREE on Viki: www.viki.com/tv/37634c-lovers-of-the-red-sky

Here is the full list of tv shows and movies FREE on Viki: www.viki.com/categories/watch-free/genre/all

I feel the same. I was so bored. It took me 9 months to finish this because I'm a completionist.

THIS! When they blamed A, I just about burst a gasket. Also, B was a controlling and manipulative.

The Korean title for The Impossible Heir is Royal Roader (로얄로더). Due to how romanization works, it could also be translated Loyal Roader, Loyal Loader, and Royal Loader. It was difficult to know which one was intended and what any of them meant.

After a teeny bit of searching, I have discovered that it's a term used in video gaming.

"Royalroader (one who walks the royal road) is a term used in the Korean e-Sports League. It is given to a player who won the final in the individual league in his first appearance after Kim Dong-soo won the championship in his first appearance in the individual league. The name 'Royal Roader' came from the name of the road taken by the emperor. " (Korean Wikipedia)

This makes sense that our young players want to come in and win the chaebol war in their first attempt to become like an emperor.

What new or currently airing shows have not been available for you on Netflix? If you're talking about completed dramas, those are not always licensed for all countries. For example, Netflix doesn't have Goblin in the U.S. but it does have it in some Asian countries. But they're not preventing others from licensing it, since we have Goblin on Viki here.

They buy the worldwide rights but then only release them in a handful of countries not letting the rest of the world watch it.

It will only be airing one episode per week ending on May 15, 2024.
source: https://twitter.com/leejaewookrec/status/1758010522182844644

one episode per week.