I guess its not about what the great grandfather did but because she was praising him which means either she had…
i don't think someone found this in research and set her up. had someone dug that out they would have just released it regardless of an interview. i also think she has mentioned coming from a doctor family a few times before as well.
it's more likely that either in her publicist package or in a questionnaire you generally fill out for production before a broadcast interview she mentioned a fun fact of coming from a family of doctors. with the asian culture and tiger parenting stereotypes i think they're especially fascinated with people coming from laywer/doctor/engineer families who choose the arts. it was supposed to be charming but when she went into specifics especially the mention of japan people got curious and checked their suspicions.
it was just an unfortunate set of circumstances. had she said less or had she not been ignorant about her family history maybe she could have avoided this. skr is strict about "earning" public support, that's why the cancelations are harsh. they don't think someone whose family benefitted from war crimes should now be entitled to the people's money. and i understand that sentiment to an extent.
it keeps bearing in mind skr is still in a war, and that they were wartorn and in a major financial and economic crisis just a few decades ago. as someone coming from a country war torn in the 90s, it's a very specific way of looking at things. you know they haven't done anything, but their parents or grandparents may have directly caused the death, ruin and poverty of their parents and grandparents. they lost aunts and uncles in war. people are still dealing with those traumas. and so much of it stems from the japanese occupation. it's very nuanced.
I think it's been a reminder to the viewers that she doesn't know he's her father, which does make it worse for…
i think a much better angle would have been to make either the other coworker or the chairman's right hand man someone age-appropriate and the romantic interest for banggeul (idk if you've seen that one, but something like one of the couples in your radiant season). that way you get a romance, and you get the comedy of the chairman not approving of the relationship which she could read as him being interested in her and turn him down which he gets to be outraged at that assmption. also wouldn't drag it out, as they did her and the crime of ep7.
the writers had options but picked the lazy and creepy one. imo they should have also played up the chairman yearning for his wife and given us a storyline with them, which could end in her having realized it's him. another very romantic idea.
also re: my mention of the comments as stubborn is bc i don't think saying "this isn't a romance" answers the criticism, which is why i found them annoying. one must engage with criticism in good faith and be willing to look at a different perspective. a lot of those people just act superior bc they look up interviews. but you shouldnt need to look up "word of god" (ie behind the scens stuff) for a good show! and if many people are criticizing the same thing, something's gotta be there. intent is one thing but the end result doesnt have to reflect it, and since the discussion is being had - it clearly doesn't match here.
Just so you realize it. It's actually about 2 months after her death. That's when the baby was conceived, and…
idk i think it's weird to pretend she lives in a vacuum where only her father's decision ever affect her. she's in an environment surrounded by people of her own class, where people had political marriages and prepare to have them in the future, know who they'll marry, where parents have affairs and divorce and remarry... you can't say she didn't care that she was a maid when she never calls her a wh*re or a gold digger, she only ever demeans her station as a maid. even the kids explicitly see her as below them as she was a maid. you can't act like that doesn't matter and that it's not directly correlated to her being embarrassed? the ENTIRE show is based on class differences literally from the soccer player placed against the chairman and you choose to purposefully ignore this. everyone is here like woe is jaegyeong but the treatment of the stepmother is okay? so she shouldn't have fallen in love? come on now. a bad thing is a bad thing. if someone slaps me, turning the other cheek doesn't mean let them him me again it means NOT hitting them back.
She's not trying to get revenge. She is after money and power. "The car accident and destroying others' lives…
i think saying the point of the show is that the protagnist is in the wrong is a wild misinterpetation. he did a wrong thing (made mistakes in how he raised his children) but people should be allowed to make mistakes in life without that correlating to being an excuse for murder and breaking the law? and mind you, they werent ruining their father's life - they were ruining that of an innocent man. INNOCENT. the hit and run started it all and you think bc they saw an opportunity to pin it on their shitty dad that's fine? much like the narrative we are centering the rich and forgetting the poor - bc who cares about the random soccer player? (this show certainly never did past ep3)
like she is not justified. she is not in the right. many are placed in similar situations and dont make her choices. the writers are portraying the chairman as a flawed man but that doesn't make him an antagonist. they're humanizing his children but that doesn't make them the heroes.
you guys took the "sharpay and regina george were the real victims" type narratives a bit too seriously and a bit too far lmao
Would you ever forgive your dad if he got another woman pregnant when not even 1 year had passed since your mother's…
i think i'd just go NC and sort my feelings out with a therapist before conforming my whole life and personality around hating my dad and becoming a killer but that's just me
i understand there's not meant to be a romance (as many stubborn comments keep reiterating) but the running "gag"(???? i really don't know how else to refer to it) of having banggeul continuously reference her father in a romantic context isn't funny!!!! like the point that she doesn't know it's her dad is meant to be the source of the comedy and what makes it ridiculous but it's just weird and creepy so it falls flat. maybe once i'd haha about it but over a dozen times it's just creepy. and for everyone getting so defensive over this critique with the aforementioned "there's no romance tho!!1!1" - how else is the audience meant to take her repeatedly getting flushed and fawning over the guy like a schoolgirl with a crush? and the repeated references everyone else makes bout them? it's okay to say the drama failed this bit, you can go ahead and admit that while raving about everything else - that's called nuance.
Just so you realize it. It's actually about 2 months after her death. That's when the baby was conceived, and…
there's a lot to blame him for, they acknowledge it in this episode. but i dont think jaegyeong cared about her mother or their relationship so much. i think it's implied the chairman always loved banggeul's mother. jaegyeong was simply insulted he dared to actually marry the maid as she sees it beneath her to answer to the help. kids know when the parents dont love each other, but in her mind the maid is who you cheat with not who you marry. i bet this was embarrassing to her circle.
banggeul also had the privilege of growing up without the pressures and responsibilities of the other two kids, bc she was never getting the company, and her mother would never sell her off for a political marriage. she had it much better than the other two, and not just for growing up away from him imo
I doubt the location is A.I, they film the show on a real island, there are even behind the scene footage that…
i think i'm allowed to be "dramatic" about something that's actively ruining our planet, destroying people's livelihoods, making there be no drinking water in cities with data centers, amping up the cost of electricity, ruining archives of knowledge, destroying our youth, endangering the arts etc. :)
it's more likely that either in her publicist package or in a questionnaire you generally fill out for production before a broadcast interview she mentioned a fun fact of coming from a family of doctors. with the asian culture and tiger parenting stereotypes i think they're especially fascinated with people coming from laywer/doctor/engineer families who choose the arts. it was supposed to be charming but when she went into specifics especially the mention of japan people got curious and checked their suspicions.
it was just an unfortunate set of circumstances. had she said less or had she not been ignorant about her family history maybe she could have avoided this. skr is strict about "earning" public support, that's why the cancelations are harsh. they don't think someone whose family benefitted from war crimes should now be entitled to the people's money. and i understand that sentiment to an extent.
it keeps bearing in mind skr is still in a war, and that they were wartorn and in a major financial and economic crisis just a few decades ago. as someone coming from a country war torn in the 90s, it's a very specific way of looking at things. you know they haven't done anything, but their parents or grandparents may have directly caused the death, ruin and poverty of their parents and grandparents. they lost aunts and uncles in war. people are still dealing with those traumas. and so much of it stems from the japanese occupation. it's very nuanced.
the writers had options but picked the lazy and creepy one. imo they should have also played up the chairman yearning for his wife and given us a storyline with them, which could end in her having realized it's him. another very romantic idea.
also re: my mention of the comments as stubborn is bc i don't think saying "this isn't a romance" answers the criticism, which is why i found them annoying. one must engage with criticism in good faith and be willing to look at a different perspective. a lot of those people just act superior bc they look up interviews. but you shouldnt need to look up "word of god" (ie behind the scens stuff) for a good show! and if many people are criticizing the same thing, something's gotta be there. intent is one thing but the end result doesnt have to reflect it, and since the discussion is being had - it clearly doesn't match here.
i also hope it's done but it doesn't suddenly overturn the scenes upon scenes i've had to suffer until now. even just thinking about it makes me sick
like she is not justified. she is not in the right. many are placed in similar situations and dont make her choices. the writers are portraying the chairman as a flawed man but that doesn't make him an antagonist. they're humanizing his children but that doesn't make them the heroes.
you guys took the "sharpay and regina george were the real victims" type narratives a bit too seriously and a bit too far lmao
banggeul also had the privilege of growing up without the pressures and responsibilities of the other two kids, bc she was never getting the company, and her mother would never sell her off for a political marriage. she had it much better than the other two, and not just for growing up away from him imo