roddib

this is exactly that, bad writing, cringe humour, cartoon characters

exactly, it made no sense. It's as if he had watched The Knockout and thought, oh no, writing letters to higher police admins will not help before 20 years have passed. (There are also other elements in The Punishment that are similar to The Knockout, like the village refusing to give up on its land)

Nothing extraordinary, but not bad either. Rather generic. Watched the first 6 eps.

that was so funny!

Ep 1 was like a whole movie, without any filler scenes! Ep 2, also great. This drama is entertaining to the max.

Still not going downhill, still funny (at ep 14).

I really like the whacked, absurd humour of Uncle. Reminds me a bit of The Long Season, especially as Chen Ming Hao is in this drama too. He's such a presence. Although Uncle is not a thriller, we get our fair share of sympathetic small time gangsters (am currently at ep 9).

boring

Me too. I'm at ep 14 and not really understanding. A lot of things happen without explanation. I swear I watched every minute but it feels like I've missed bigger chunks of it.

This one was good, suspense-filled and funny.

kisskh

Ep 12 was real fun again. The scenes where they're on the filming set are the best. The director and the manager are such enjoyable support characters. Am cheering at Lee Jung Jae's outfits! Way to go! The 2nd couple is best forgotten, their whole thing seems very forced.

Also have to say it was so funny how the money lender gang was kept in the plot and showed up to serve their master whenever ordered to!

I laughed a lot watching this drama. Truly enjoyable. Sad that people are missing out since for me this is undoubtedly one of the best k-dramas this year. The ending was not as good as I hoped, though. Sullivan's actions and motives made little sense. And the congresswoman got off too easily. I don't understand why they didn't force her to reveal the evidence concerning the corrupted court verdict. Since that's what Sullivan wanted. And she was in their den, just carelessly hanging out when she could have stopped the bombing by revealing the evidence.
But the whole drama, the found family with the neighborhood army, the duo Yoon Kye Sang and Jin Seon Kyu, was so preciously good and funny. The scene with the mini race cars in particular had me choking (and the background music in that scene, damn good humour). And how even the laundry uncle turned out to be an ace sniper shooter in the last episode. I don't normally rate action but in this one it was really good. Hope to see YKS in more action roles.

Good! I decided to keep watching (currently at ep 8)

By now Legend of the Magnate is already number 1 in domestic TV watching and web streaming. It's a magnificent, epic historical drama. Not to miss!

Historical background: https://x.com/commiepommie/status/2000548539638898920 (15.12.2025)

Russia Hands China New Evidence on Japan’s Unit 731: War Crimes That Were Never Properly Answered For
China has received a new batch of Russian archival evidence exposing the full scale of Japan’s Unit 731 biological warfare crimes and this time, it’s not testimony, memory, or interpretation.
It’s documents, confessions and trial records.
What is it exactly? 👇
👉 These Russian archives cover 1939–1950 and include:
- Trial transcripts
- Soviet investigation files
- Internal government correspondence
- Medical assessments by microbiologists and war crimes experts
They document the 1949 Khabarovsk War Crimes Trials, where Soviet investigators:
- Identified 200+ individuals linked to Unit 731
- Publicly tried 12 Japanese war criminals
- Extracted confessions admitting biological warfare and human experimentation

This confirms what Japan’s postwar narrative has spent decades trying to deny:
➡️ Unit 731 was a state-run, military-authorised war crime programme.

What Unit 731 actually did? 👇
👉 Based in Harbin, Unit 731:
- Performed live human experiments without anaesthetic
- Infected prisoners with plague, cholera, anthrax and typhus
- Conducted frostbite tests, vivisections and weapons trials on civilians

At least 3,000 people were directly experimented on. Many more died from biological weapons deployed in real-world conditions across China.
👉 Unit 731 scientists:
- Were never prosecuted
- Were given immunity by the United States
- Handed over their data in exchange for freedom
- Later worked in postwar research institutions

see also https://x.com/MediaUnlock/status/1999721283370770454

Wikipedia: Shiro Ishii

The US brought the Unit 731 scientists to the US immediately after Japan surrendered hence they faced no trial for these and many more atrocities. Shiro Ishii continued his bioweapons research in the US. He was brought by the US to Korea and used them on North Koreans during the Korean war. (https://medium.com/insurge-intelligence/the-long-suppressed-korean-war-report-on-u-s-use-of-biological-weapons-released-at-last-20d83f5cee54)

Recommendation: Lost Identity (2024) is a very good espionage drama that deals with the Japanese bioweapons development and human experiments in China during WWII. The ML (Johnny Huang) is an escapee from a bioweapons research lab.

Some background : https://x.com/commiepommie/status/2000548539638898920 (15.12.2025)

Russia Hands China New Evidence on Japan’s Unit 731: War Crimes That Were Never Properly Answered For
China has received a new batch of Russian archival evidence exposing the full scale of Japan’s Unit 731 biological warfare crimes and this time, it’s not testimony, memory, or interpretation.
It’s documents, confessions and trial records.
What is it exactly? 👇
👉 These Russian archives cover 1939–1950 and include:
- Trial transcripts
- Soviet investigation files
- Internal government correspondence
- Medical assessments by microbiologists and war crimes experts
They document the 1949 Khabarovsk War Crimes Trials, where Soviet investigators:
- Identified 200+ individuals linked to Unit 731
- Publicly tried 12 Japanese war criminals
- Extracted confessions admitting biological warfare and human experimentation

This confirms what Japan’s postwar narrative has spent decades trying to deny:
➡️ Unit 731 was a state-run, military-authorised war crime programme.

No “rogue doctors”. No “isolated incidents”.
What Unit 731 actually did? 👇
👉 Based in Harbin, Unit 731:
- Performed live human experiments without anaesthetic
- Infected prisoners with plague, cholera, anthrax and typhus
- Conducted frostbite tests, vivisections and weapons trials on civilians

At least 3,000 people were directly experimented on. Many more died from biological weapons deployed in real-world conditions across China.
This wasn’t science.
This was industrialised murder disguised as research.
The part the West avoids mentioning: 👇
👉 Many Unit 731 scientists:
- Were never prosecuted
- Were given immunity by the United States
- Handed over their data in exchange for freedom
- Later worked in postwar research institutions

That deal buried accountability, not the crimes.
Why this matters now? 👇
👉 China’s Central Archives says these materials:
- Contain previously unknown evidence
- Form a continuous chain of proof
- Leave “no room for dispute”

Translation: denial just got a lot harder.
The timing says everything!
This announcement was made on China’s National Memorial Day for the Nanjing Massacre.
In 1937, Japanese forces slaughtered ~300,000 civilians in six weeks.
From 1931–1945, Japan’s invasion caused over 35 million Chinese casualties.
China hasn’t forgotten, even if Japan has.
👉 The Unit 731 Exhibition Hall in Harbin:
- Drew over 3 million visitors in 2024
- Is expected to match or exceed that in 2025
👉 One visitor wrote:
“I know the bacteria. I know the equipment. But seeing it all together fills me with anger.”
The uncomfortable truth: 👇
This isn’t about reopening old wounds.
It’s about exposing crimes that were never properly answered for.
When history is suppressed, it doesn’t disappear.
It waits.

📌 Unit 731 wasn’t an atrocity that went unnoticed, it was an atrocity that was protected.

see also https://x.com/MediaUnlock/status/1999721283370770454
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Addition [see eg. Wikipedia: Shiro Ishii]:

The US brought the Unit 731 scientists to the US immediately after Japan surrendered hence they faced no trial for these and many more atrocities. Shiro Ishii continued his bioweapons research in the US. He was brought by the US to Korea and used them on North Koreans during the Korean war. (https://medium.com/insurge-intelligence/the-long-suppressed-korean-war-report-on-u-s-use-of-biological-weapons-released-at-last-20d83f5cee54)

ROFTL indeed. But we can submit edits.