There's one thing I don't understand. Lee Sungmin is in his 50s. The Japanese occupation ended in 1945. The story…
this is what i found after a 2 minute google search- *plus in his flashbacks he looks no older than 15y/o in the Army. pretty sure they didn’t have an age limit lol.
The tragedies of Han's family shown in his flashbacks are closely associated with the sufferings of many Koreans during Japan's occupation of their homeland in the early 1900s.
Under the Japanese rule, Han's father was deprived of his land and beaten to death, his brother died of hard labor in a mine and his sister committed suicide after returning home from a Japanese military brothel where she was forced into sexual servitude.
Han served in the military during the 1950-53 Korean War and later built his own family. After his wife dies, the war veteran digs up an old pistol he buried six decades ago and tattoos his targets' names on his fingers to remember them.
Can someone please explain how What's Wrong with Secretary Kim and Business Proposal followed the same plot? Yes,…
i strongly believe that if someone is going to write an article for the main page, they need to have qualifications lol. this author clearly doesn’t know what they are talking about, just repeating what they’ve read in comments or forums.
>but if Coffee Prince, Secret Garden, My Girl, My Lovely SS You could have chosen almost anything and you had…
i think you misunderstood my point. i’m not saying they’re bad at all. my point is that if they were made today, the exact same way, people would have a field day dissecting and trashing it. but because they’re such staple, old-school, nostalgia fueling dramas- people THINK they yearn for that formula. the new body swap/suprise gender reveal dramas get shit on & called homophobic nowadays lol
And if you don't just regurgitate those talking points, you get attacked. MDL is such an echo chamber, it's ridiculous,…
i’m a lurker exactly for that reason- god forbid i disgrace Lovley Runner or QOT i’ll get DMs for 5 straight business days. it ruffles my little feathers but i just remind myself that it’s the vocal minority.
most of these comments are copy & paste. 🦜 ✨netflix bad✨ ✨catering to western audiences✨ ✨3 sec sex scene OMG✨ ✨“old kdramas were so much better✨
man,older rom-coms are seriously TOXIC & annoying - only kept up by misunderstandings & silence. it’s just nostalgia that you crave~ look, ofc they have a special place in all of our hearts but if Coffee Prince, Secret Garden, My Girl, My Lovely SS were made TODAY, y’all would lose your shit.
now do one on C, Thai, & J-Dramas. 👏🏻 i’ve seen so much “kdrama hate” just because it’s more “mainstream” & it seems they’re the only ones getting dissected when in reality every country has tropes, cliches, formulas, & shit dramas. make it fair babes.
this is just a fairytale story about Crown Prince Sado. even the timelines aren’t historically accurate. i guess i should’ve read more comments before watching 24hrs of this lol.
i feel like i would have enjoyed this much more if it were subbed on Viki. with the era & country slang, my basic knowledge of korean couldn’t even scratch the surface of some of the jokes. it would have been nice to watch this with proper subs that explained & actually translated what the characters said 🫠
it’s almost like the point of that is to provoke the viewers so when he’s on the verge of death from getting his ass kicked, you(the viewer) feel a sense of accomplishment. if the main characters just beat the living shit out of a random character it wouldn’t feel very good, right?
but tbh, that story only goes on for the first couple episodes & is the most edgy one.
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*plus in his flashbacks he looks no older than 15y/o in the Army. pretty sure they didn’t have an age limit lol.
The tragedies of Han's family shown in his flashbacks are closely associated with the sufferings of many Koreans during Japan's occupation of their homeland in the early 1900s.
Under the Japanese rule, Han's father was deprived of his land and beaten to death, his brother died of hard labor in a mine and his sister committed suicide after returning home from a Japanese military brothel where she was forced into sexual servitude.
Han served in the military during the 1950-53 Korean War and later built his own family. After his wife dies, the war veteran digs up an old pistol he buried six decades ago and tattoos his targets' names on his fingers to remember them.
the new body swap/suprise gender reveal dramas get shit on & called homophobic nowadays lol
it ruffles my little feathers but i just remind myself that it’s the vocal minority.
✨netflix bad✨ ✨catering to western audiences✨ ✨3 sec sex scene OMG✨ ✨“old kdramas were so much better✨
man,older rom-coms are seriously TOXIC & annoying - only kept up by misunderstandings & silence. it’s just nostalgia that you crave~
look, ofc they have a special place in all of our hearts but if Coffee Prince, Secret Garden, My Girl, My Lovely SS were made TODAY, y’all would lose your shit.
i’ve seen so much “kdrama hate” just because it’s more “mainstream” & it seems they’re the only ones getting dissected when in reality every country has tropes, cliches, formulas, & shit dramas.
make it fair babes.
i just thought op’s post was ridiculous, from what i remember they never hinted any romance in the beginning. just another classic case of ageism.
i swear these roles suit him so much better
with the era & country slang, my basic knowledge of korean couldn’t even scratch the surface of some of the jokes. it would have been nice to watch this with proper subs that explained & actually translated what the characters said 🫠
if the main characters just beat the living shit out of a random character it wouldn’t feel very good, right?
but tbh, that story only goes on for the first couple episodes & is the most edgy one.