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if an enemy enters a country and creates problems, that country cannot stay quite and be like 'i wont do anything inhumane to that human being and let him just destroy my country because i believe in peace'.

professional lawyers also defend criminals, thieves, corrupt officers, gangsters etc... thats their job....
sk is a democratic country so the makers can make anything fictional in the name of freedom of speech and expression and it will be under the law, similarly the citizens of that country also have the freedom to form a petition and sign it... neither of the team did anything illegal or unlawful...
hurting the sentiments of public dont have to be illegal or unlawful...

does a court lady automatically becomes a concubine just because the king slept with them or should they be pregnant with his child?
if a court lady becomes a concubine by just sleeping with the king then if a king is a player then the palace will have more concubines than court ladies... lol

as far as i know kings/crown princes dont intend to take court ladies as their concubines unless they have feelings for them or they get pregnant... so san never had any intention of taking a court lady until he completely realized his feelings for deokim...
the mother kind of understood that there was something going on b/w san and deokim and she wanted to show deokim her position... san without knowing deokim was there randomly said that his only aim is to be the king and wont marry someone from low class which might look like to deokim that he was just playing with her as a court lady...
san understood what his mother was doing and thats why he gave her the look after he saw deokim....

well, koreans are watching korean history being distorted on korean channel on a tv/platform they paid for and using their rights as a citizen to sign a petition on a topic that they feel offended... its none of our business to tell them what they should feel offended on and not...
just to know, are you fine with black face on kdramas and their misrepresentation of black people?

why dont you try the easy way and stop following the entertainment industry of that so called stupid nation... problem solved... FYI the girl in your dp is also a Korean...

since the drama already completed shooting , airs on a private channe and has an international streaming platform, it might be able to air more episodes giving the people a better picture and the backlash may decrease over time but the writers could have totally avoided portraying the ML as a north korean as it holds importance in the story as well as the history... they should have seen the backlash coming with that... atleast joseon exorist didnt see it coming...

If he didn't have feelings then definitely no king will think of taking a court lady( without any strong family background) as a concubine by himself... Commoners become concubine solely because they catches the interest of the king/crown prince... Kings get married either to have heirs or for political reasons and not for love... Even yi San's grandfather and great grandfather had commoner concubines solely because they were in love with those women... they all would have only had concubines from big families if they didn't had romantic feelings for court ladies... I guess the only other way court ladies become concubine is if they get pregnant with the king's child... Correct me if I am wrong...

My comment wasn't about the show at all... It was just a general comment...
About the show, it's their history and if they feel offended we cannot do anything about it... Youth of may dealt with the same topic but didn't face any sort of backlash and had a smooth run... So it's not like Koreans have a problem with dramas being made with that particular background... There has been multiple movies dramas and music videos with this topic and if this one drama particularly rubbed them off in the wrong way they might have valid reasons for it...
Some countries are very sensitive when it comes to religion same way Koreans are very sensitive when it comes to their history...
As an Indian if someone(esp indian film makers) makes a movie which underplays British atrocities in India and portrays them as savers of humanity, i will be seriously offended but non-indian( or people who weren't colonized) will watch it just as a movie or a drama and might say we Indians are over reacting and should watch it as a fictional show... How will the Americans feel if osama bin laden is humanised and his actions are justified? Why did the davinci code offended so many people if it was just a fictional story?

i watched a drama without dropping it solely because of the comment section of mdl... lol... the drama was startup... lmao... i would have totally dropped it at ep 6-7 if it wasnt for mdl and netflix....

its on amazon prime....

its on amazon prime....

its not about being the good guys or being the bad guys... if a government agency has to torture or kill spies or terrorist send to their country by an enemy country nobody has the right to question them on morals and ethics... its their duty to protect their country and countrymen at any cost... their priority is the security of their country not the human rights of the spy or terrorist...

mr.queen faced a little criticism for its first episode for sexual comedy dialogues and it had nothing to do with the ML but it was quickly forgotten... it faced the heat only after it was done airing and when joseon exorcist got cancelled...

this drama is not based on a chinese novel, didnt distort history, didnt have bad acting and hope there is no chinese investment... knetz dont have any reason to get mad at...

i guess one of the main reasons i enjoy watching dramas while its ongoing than binge watching is the live discussion in MDL... there are dramas i completed solely because i was active on MDL comment section of that drama... lol

yi san lied to his mother that time the same way he lied he dont remember smiling when he is always smiling when he is with deokim...

i wish indians protest like koreans and stop damaging public properties... wasnt there an indian tv show which got banned due to petitions from indians? i forgot the name of the show... it was 2-3 yrs ago i guess... i wish people protest in a similar way with serials and movies instead of burning and vandalizing...

Atleast Koreans stop at online petitions and are being extremely civilized with their protest... Indians would have burnt down public properties over issues like this... As the above commenter said, the Rajput community vandalised the set of padmavat without even having any proper historical evidence about the story to back up their claims... Some uneducated foolish politicians even made threats against Deepika Padukone as well...
It's funny when Indians say Koreans should take a chill pill when fellow Indians don't know how to do it😂

Ya... A lot of korean-chinese production got shelved due to China banning korean entertainment industry in China...