People on the upper floor have no reason to discuss defecation with people on the lower floor. This is because,…
They could have just bought a sealed composting toilet from the time they had and put it in some corner of the common area. Buy some partitions aswell and you have a pretty private toilette. Then they could have just held some sort of competition again and they would have gained the time back. This whole toilet conflict was so stupid and illogical, it made me stop watching the drama.
Great article and thanks for the book recommendations. I also often imagine how the books that I'm reading would play out as a kdrama and it's a fun thought to have.
The one I would love to see adapted the most is actually not really a book but a manga from the 90s called "Basara". For a long time now I thought it would make the perfect fantasy kdrama. The story has all the typical elements of a kdrama that we love. It's set in a post-apocalyptic world, where the king is known as a tyrant and the people suffer from poverty. The heroine's twin brother is believed to be the child of a prophecy that is destined to overthrow the king, but her brother is killed by the king. She then decides to impersonate her brother and fulfill the prophecy, so she embarks on a journey to lead the rebellion against the king. The only person who knows that she is a girl is a traveler she coincidently meets again and again on her journey and they eventually fall in love. What she doesn't know is that he is the king, while he doesn't know that she is the leader of the rebellion that he chases after. Thus, a tragedy unfolds.
For western books, I agree with the other comments that Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice" would make a great kdrama. I would really love to see an interpretation from the korean perspective. My only fear is that they potentially over-dramatize it and as an avid lover of the novel and as someone who has seen almost all film adaptions of it, I don't know if I would like that too much.
"The Neverending Story" by Michael Ende is another book that I think would be great as a fantasy kdrama. Bullying is a very popular kdrama topic but I haven't seen too many dramas that deal with escapism (especially literally to another world) as an answer to the hopeless situation of being bullied and in general that would be a new and interesting approach, especially as the story itself is not about bullying but that is just the starting point. And then of course there is the fantastic magical world of the book and the fantastical creatures that I would just love to see in a kdrama.
The one I would love to see adapted the most is actually not really a book but a manga from the 90s called "Basara". For a long time now I thought it would make the perfect fantasy kdrama. The story has all the typical elements of a kdrama that we love. It's set in a post-apocalyptic world, where the king is known as a tyrant and the people suffer from poverty. The heroine's twin brother is believed to be the child of a prophecy that is destined to overthrow the king, but her brother is killed by the king. She then decides to impersonate her brother and fulfill the prophecy, so she embarks on a journey to lead the rebellion against the king. The only person who knows that she is a girl is a traveler she coincidently meets again and again on her journey and they eventually fall in love. What she doesn't know is that he is the king, while he doesn't know that she is the leader of the rebellion that he chases after. Thus, a tragedy unfolds.
For western books, I agree with the other comments that Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice" would make a great kdrama. I would really love to see an interpretation from the korean perspective. My only fear is that they potentially over-dramatize it and as an avid lover of the novel and as someone who has seen almost all film adaptions of it, I don't know if I would like that too much.
"The Neverending Story" by Michael Ende is another book that I think would be great as a fantasy kdrama. Bullying is a very popular kdrama topic but I haven't seen too many dramas that deal with escapism (especially literally to another world) as an answer to the hopeless situation of being bullied and in general that would be a new and interesting approach, especially as the story itself is not about bullying but that is just the starting point. And then of course there is the fantastic magical world of the book and the fantastical creatures that I would just love to see in a kdrama.