not being able to tell the actresses apart is not a valid reason to not watch kdramas.it's a matter of exposure, you'll be able to tell them apart eventually.like these two actresses.
The sameface issue isn't as bad as the samescript dilemma. You've seen one KDrama you've seen them all.
>boring femslop :/>boring femslop korea :O
>>223463252how are these the same?>Tak Dong Gyeong has been working hard ever since her parents passed away. Her life seemed more stable after working as a web novel editor for 6 years, but then she gets diagnosed with glioblastoma (brain cancer). She blames her unlucky life and wishes to curse everything to disappear, which unintentionally calls Myeol Mang, Doom himself - neither human nor god - to appear. Myeol Mang says that he can grant Dong Gyeong's wishes. As her last hope, she makes a contract with Myeol Mang for a hundred days to live how she wants, risking her everything.>Kim Mu Bi, an aspiring film director and assistant director, quietly works to follow in her father's footsteps in the film industry. Ko Gyeom, a passionate film critic, aims to watch every movie ever made and becomes intrigued by Mu Bi after meeting her on set. Meanwhile, Hong Si Jun, a self-proclaimed genius but unknown songwriter, still grapples with his past, including his ex-girlfriend, screenwriter Son Ju A.
>>223463115she was so good in My Holo Love
>>223463298ok well at least there's not a hardcore s*x scene every episode like in western femslop or actually basically every western show.
>>223463252>"Eyes of Dawn" is the story of three young Koreans caught in the maelstrom of the nation's modern history. Spanning from the colonial period to the Korean War, the series brought to attention such issues as Japanese war crimes (especially the existence of 'comfort women') and the tragedies wrought by Korea's ideological divisions.https://letterboxd.com/film/eyes-of-dawn/>The "Group of Eight" is a gang of filmmaker friends who met as juniors and seniors in their university film club. They've since built successful careers in the industry—all except Hwang Dong Man. An aspiring director who hasn't debuted in twenty years. To mask it, he overcompensates by dominating conversations and lobbing harsh critiques at everyone. He tries to pass as a mentor, but his constant chatter wears people down.https://letterboxd.com/film/we-are-all-trying-here/>Anthony Kim, a brilliant CEO of a drama production company who will do anything and everything for the sake of money, fame and success. He is known to possess the Midas touch as he has created blockbuster dramas and Hallyu stars. When a death on the set precipitates his fall from grace, Anthony attempts to regain his former status by putting the drama "The Morning of Keijo" on air. And to accomplish that, he needs the help of idealistic Go Eun, who dreams of becoming a top writer, and the handsome but egoistic actor Hyun Min.https://letterboxd.com/film/the-king-of-dramas/>A young woman joins forces with a UFO enthusiast to investigate her boyfriend’s sudden disappearance and stumbles into a wild conspiracy.https://letterboxd.com/film/glitch-2022/>A woman steps into an odd machine and becomes… a chicken nugget?! Now, it’s up to her father and admirer to embark on a zany quest to bring her back.https://letterboxd.com/film/chicken-nugget/>Detectives from the present and a detective from the past communicate via walkie-talkie to solve a long-time unsolved case.https://letterboxd.com/film/signal-2016/
>>223463252>>223463669>Private soldier Jun Ho is a confused youth who served in the military normally like other Koreans. One day, he suddenly becomes a member of the military defector arrest team. As such, he is tasked with capturing deserters and must grapple with the more troubling cases of why some soldiers feel they have no other choice but to go absent without official leave.https://letterboxd.com/film/dp-2021/>Since he was a child, the board game baduk has been everything to Jang Geu-rae. But when he fails at achieving his dream of becoming a professional baduk player, Geu-rae must leave his isolated existence and enter the real world armed with nothing but a high school equivalency exam on his resume.https://letterboxd.com/film/misaeng-incomplete-life/>A man witnesses an accident and makes a life-altering deal. Ju Yeon, a surgeon haunted by childhood trauma, encounters the person responsible for it. A man, desperate to change his life, loses everything after borrowing from loan sharks to invest in cryptocurrency. Gil Ryong, unfairly fired, is forced into a dangerous situation involving money. Meanwhile, a bespectacled man runs a successful private clinic in Gangnam, with a dangerously alluring girlfriend, Yu Jeong.https://letterboxd.com/film/karma-2025/>Choi Jun Ung seeks a job, but it's hard for him to get hired. One night, he witnesses a man trying to end his life and decides to stop him. He gets acquainted with grim reapers Koo Ryeon and Im Ryung Gu, who belong to a crisis management team. Their purpose is to prevent people from committing suicide. After Jun Ung ends up in a coma and becomes half-human and half-spirit, he is employed by a company of grim reapers as the newest member of the crisis management team.https://letterboxd.com/film/tomorrow-2022-1/(I do agree it's getting harder to find unique ones as time goes on, but I'd blame streaming slop, especially Netflix for that)
people seriously can't tell these two actresses apart?
>>223463115It's not same face that's the problem it's same name, hell even just stupid name, how can anybody take anything korean seriouslymostly though I just don't like koreans because of how much they whine about being forcibly civilized by superior japanese military force
>>223463550What if I want a sex scene or two sometimes? You'll say go watch porn, but the issue with that is porn actors can't act and usually there's no narrative to make me care about who the people fucking actually are. Even amateur often has the latter problem. Of course, lots of shit just shoves it in for fanservice or to titillate.
>>223466056no, because once you open the floodgates you get modern american tv shows.
>>223466208I don't think that's true. There is a middle ground. And i could also just watch good film.
>>223466218korean movies are the middle ground in all of this, if you want that kind of content in the k-media ecosystem just watch korean movies, but once the barrier between the two falls apart it's gonna force everything that people liked about kdramas out and flood the medium with kmovie style content.
>>223463115I still can barely tell my wife and her sister apart
>>223463115Squid Game had probably more characters in any show i've seen. Such a range of koreans of all ages and styles. The first season was a fun watch and thanos in season 2 was pretty darn funny. I like things a little more fast paced than the usual slow, meandering kdramas like you posted. Variety is the spice of life.
>>223466240sex isn't "kmovie style content" you deranged prat. you're here because your dad plowed your mother. if koreans want to tell stories in episode form and some of those stories contain people doing s-e-x, then be happy for them. you don't have to consooom everything and you certainly don't have to consooom things you dislike.
>>223466451there won't be anything for me to consume if the smut peddlers get their way, that's the problem. the smut will flow and push everything else out or to severely diminished amounts.
>>223466240I don't think exclusively Korean movies but yeah Korean cinema definitely has movies that fit the bill. But most of Korean cinema I've seen is trying to challenge the viewer, what I want is something as comfy as a kdrama but with a little testosterone, but not so much that it overwhelms the comfiness. Hard to find in most film that isn't European or Japanese, and even there it's very rare. It's easier to find in TV shows from anywhere, especially older good ones. This is not to knock kdrama, I'm sure there are some I would enjoy, I just haven't seen much. I tried goblin and found it just ok, also another one I can't remember the name of. I'm also not saying a show needs to have sex scenes to be good btw.
>>223466476you are aware that sex scenes in western shows and movies have gone down considerably recently. and many younger people are uncomfortable watching them (whether thats because they watch stuff with their roomates aka parents and its embarrassing or because they have some severe porn addiction and feel shame i dont know.) its a downward trend. now if that's because of viewers opinions then surely the pure koreans watching these smut kdramas will be incensed and help set a downward trend in kdrama smut. right?
>>223466540it's trending downward but it's nowhere near kdrama levels. I swear almost every recent western show I try there's always some kind of s*x scene or smut. People that only watch western shows don't even notice because they're seeped in it. Even with the downward trend it's extremely pervasive especially compared to kdramas.
>>223466592I swear almost every recent western show I try there's always some kind of s*x scene or smut. >which recent ones did you watch?>People that only watch western shows don't even notice because they're seeped in it.This is just false. everyone who watched house of the dragon noticed the steep decline of titty.
>>223466616ok to be far I've long given up on western tv, last show I watched was probably Devs, that had a s*x scene. And I passively watched some of House of the Dragon because some other people were watching it where I live and it was full of smut, even the newer seasons. I'm not saying they don't notice the decline, I'm saying they don't notice that despite the decline it's still pervasive comparatively.
>>223466712>and it was full of smut, even the newer seasons.There have only been 3 seasons, I dont recall any in season 3. then again it was complete shit so maybe i skipped through it. >that had a s*x scene.does it make you that uncomfortable? I just find it funny, novel.the last three i watched didn't have smut:The Terror S1 The North WaterWidows Bay
>>223463115YWNBAsian
>>223466857hmm perhaps they have been driven out of their home turf but they're certainly trying to bring it in to kdramas, maybe under the guise of it be foreign and exotic so they think they can get away with it. I will consider those 3 shows you mentioned, but if there ends up having smut that'll be the final nail in the coffin for western tv for me.
>>223466928cracking pair of tits on that lass in e05 44min mark.its weird how lots of non koreans who dislike smut think they should get to dictate what koreans should have in their shows.
>>223467129source? any good korean investigative journalism which backs up your claim that koreans want more smut in their shows? no? oh well.
>>223467236yeah herehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUa2h-tcTXchttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHZd6zC6Q84watch some kmovies. lots of smut, you know why kdramas have been virtually smut free, its because of overseas funds. you see it wasn't westerners watching. it was chinese. more restrictive. now that westerners pay a chunk to the koreans, we get more smut. and the koreans are ok with this. because they were already doing it in their movies. and very erotically might i add. so yes maybe you shouldn't hate on the cdrama watchers after all. it was their nation keeping your kdramas in line.
>>223467456Netflix Korea is supposed to be a reliable source on what Koreans actually want in their shows? Why would they make content with people espousing opinions contrary to the smut the they put out?
>>223467574I dont think you understand nuance. lets me explain it. some people have different opinions. hope this helps.
>>223467603I'm talking about the desires of large swaths of the korean population not about the opinions of a few people that appeared on some youtube netflix korea content, hope this helps.
so do you have anything to back up the claim that koreans are fine with removing the distinctions between television and movies other that some korean netflix produced content?
>so do you have anything to back up the claim that koreans are fine with removing the distinctions between television and movies other that some korean netflix produced content?yes because its koreans writing, acting and starring in those shows. and they are happy to do it. and there aren't vast swathes of koreans protesting these shows. koreans love to protest. and i don't see it. koreans watch these shows. deal with it.the only distinction between movies and shows are how they are presented. one is a story of 90-180mins, the other its a series. there should be no restrictions on telling stories. except for age guidelines. you are creating arbitrary distinctions like one can have sex and one can't simply to fit your preferences and then believe this should be imposed on others. tyrannical behavior my guy.
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>>223467827nice fantasy. you won't do shit to fix your kdramas.
>>223463342He's talking about the script not the plot.
>>223467807plenty of actors all over the world act in things and work on sets of shows that they wouldn't personally watch or like. some hot shot netflix ceo shows up in hongdae with a wad of greenbacks someone is gonna act his his smut, that doesn't mean they endorse it.
>>223463115Actually I can tell their faces apart, its the names that get me. I can only remember so many suns and parks.
>>223468438they have first names too ya know
>>223468088And the writers and directors are also encouraged to write smut yes?? What I think is happening is Koreans wanted to make these sorts of shows but couldn't because of TV network restriction and when Disney and Netflix came along, they were given the opportunity to tell these stories.
>>223468545yes they are encouraged to because that's what the western suits came demanding of them because that's the kind of slop that sells in the west.
>>223463115Every face is unique just like every pussy is also unique.If you can't tell them apart it's a you thing.
>>223463115Kdrama just like anime is slop, the only reason you don't notice if it's full of tropes you've never seen before. Once you've watched two or three of these shows they all play out the fucking same.
>>223468569You paint Koreans as victims of western influence. As if they don't have agency to want to tell stories that may include nudity, as part of a TV show. What's wrong with them wanting to make something and then having people encourage them?
The only one I know is Park Eun-bin and she looks and acts completely different in every show.
>>223468747>You paint Koreans as victims of westernuhhh, ever heard of the korean war? they're a lot more than just victims of influence.
>>223468790more like Park Eun-throw-her-in-the-Bin she's washedI like her too
>>223468989What? that thing that happened 75 years ago?
>>223468545Yes, they are encouraged. Who else would be writing Netflix's sex scenes?
>>223472828It's Koreans writing them. Unless you think it's white westerners secretly doing it. And then just give the Koreans credit?
