Avoid romantic K-dramas as much as possible.
“I feel this way with Korean men,” a Swede told me. “In our country, men are so [sexually] aggressive. They grope me and seek to have sex all the time. I don’t like it. “
There’s a Korean aspect to depression and raw sex represented in hits like Squid Game and Parasite.
Reality will hit them hard once they recognize the difference between the genuine world and the entertainment world.
It’s just his non-public idea that he believes women visit South Korea to find a boyfriend.
Actually, they are not like in drama. They prioritize their career over any woman, then sex for fun, then money, then the decision of their circle of relatives, then their lifestyle and love for women is the last thing.
As with South Korean girls, for them that money comes before sex.
that is good.
This is a superficial technique to relationships.
Of course, there will be a lot of disappointments, but when might that not be?I mean, it’s not like a lot of other people come or even move to Japan in search of their mind’s eye of a bustling technological wonderland. . with an awakening difficult to follow.
I say, let everyone try to be happy, let everyone pursue their dreams. Let everyone also make their own mistakes. If it takes that to realize that television is not real life, so be it. Disappointments and setbacks are an inevitable, and possibly obligatory, part of life. And if they find what they’re looking for, hey, more strength for them.
Then we had Waifu and Husbando. Now a Super-K-Man?
I love this article. In my youth, I surely hated melodramas. They were all made in America and, in my opinion, they were horrible. I saw my first k-drama in 2009, “Be Strong Glum-Soon,” and I was hooked. I saw them on Dramafever, and when that site closed, on Rakuten Viki and Netflix. The discussed Guardian and My Love From the Star, which I saw several times. So far, I intend to watch My Love from the Star once a year. I read an article that analyzed the series and pointed out that it was the most watched television screen in the history of planet Earth. I guess it’s because of the great fortune he’s had in Asia.
Some Korean screens are what I call guilty pleasures, not so memorable, but fun to watch. Others are of a strangely high quality, and I don’t feel guilty about them at all.
😀 the arrival of streaming services, we don’t just see Korean screens. I saw smart displays from Japan and Taiwan, and many other European countries. Fewer of us see screens from Latin America or China.
It is a shame what Xi has done to the Chinese arts. Before his repression of Chinese society, there were glorious exits from this country.
One last thing. . . I read that when the male lead of My Love from the Star got married in South Korea, thousands of Japanese women went to that country for the wedding.
As we used to say, “It’s television. “
a type of masculinity called “soft” masculinity.
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Hi Aliy, do you want to expand OOKKAAYY? Maybe a little sexist or I’m too analytical on St. Patrick’s Day.
Hi Aliy, do you want to expand OOKKAAYY?
it just turns out to be an oxymoron, that’s all.
Maybe a little sexist or I am being over analytical on St Patrick’s Day.
How is that sexist? the term has nothing to do with gender roles
My girlfriend and I have been watching S. Korean TV dramas for over 4 yrs and overall have been satisfied with the content. One of the main reasons we watch them is that there no gratuous sex scenes, no bedroom scenes, etc…etc.. We are not interested in the men though, although the ‘hero’s’ are depicted as good, well dressed and well behaved. One thing we both hate is that all the men depicted seem to have a right to grab a womans arm and drag her to where ever, It happens in every drama we have see. We love the girls though, their acting and beauty is outstanding. And as of yet, we have not seen any drama that concerns gay people, which is sad. As gay women, we would love to see a drama with gay women in it, but I do not see that happening soon. Oh, and our pet hate is the constant drinking and eating and crying scenes, we both think that if scenes like this were taken out most of the 50 minute dramas would be reduced to 15 minutes. But most of the actual story lines are good. Our favourites of all time, so far, is I am not a Robot, and the one where a rich woman crash lands her kite thing in N. Korea.
Regarding the comment about the lack of gay themes, are we watching the same shows? It isn’t my thing, but I am surprised by the number of gay lovers in K dramas.
Can anyone explain the weird pink lipstick on both men and women? And those bowler haircuts on the guys?
This is so hilarious, there is hardly any other country as chauvinistic as Korea.
Arriving in Korea with the idea that the men in entertainment business are identical to those in real life is like arriving in Japan believing that it is identical to what the anime shows.. (Maybe some little cultural things and some places, but a very few things, like it or not lol !!)..
The first time I arrived in Japan I thought that Son Goku and Kenshin Himura were waiting for me when I left the plane, what a disappointment… LOL !!..
It’s always seemed to me that the immigrants who do the worst in Japan are those who were deep into anime and came to Japan with expectations of what they thought Japan was supposed to be. The gap between their expectations and reality seem to crash a lot of them. Conversely, the people who have done the best are those who came to Japan without expectation, and just settled into the country as it is, rather than expecting it to be something they got from anime.
Ironic, and a bit sad really. But in my experiences it’s been fairly consistent across the board.
I have had friends whose women are in their 50s and are alone in Korea looking for Korean actors and romantic activities with Korean men. Korean dramas have rejuvenated their boring, domestic lives.
Tando, I can think of one, J—nArray. . . is below Kuwait on the gender equality table, it turns out that men are looking to upgrade their mother with a woman, no wonder the birth rate is falling, no wonder Japanese women do not need to marry and prefer to live alone, and no wonder they are beyond Japanese shores in search of someone who loves them, respect them and treat them as equals.
Ironically, the Vietnamese media has been filled over the years with stories about the abuses so many Vietnamese have suffered at the hands of their Korean husbands.
Men, who do place brides at home, love Vietnam because women have a white complexion, unlike Thailand, Philadelphia, etc. Yes, we are talking about quality humans. That is the reality.
Several decades ago, Tuan Tran, a Vietnamese immigrant sitting next to me in our Japanese elegance at the University of Minnesota, told me that in Vietnam they have a saying: “If [a man] needs to live a long and fulfilling life, live French, eat Chinese food, and marry a Japanese woguy. “I can only attest to the latter, but I found it to be VERY true. But then, several Japanese women told me that I was more like a Japanese boy than a 6’3” American Celt. It’s really just a shot, I think, and it seems that, at least in America (50% divorce rate), luck and self-knowledge have a lot to do with long-term mating success like anything else. Fortunately, Bae Doona was still in diapers at the time and not on media screens where things may have gone and are less satisfying to me. . .
Coming to Korea with the concept that men in the entertainment industry are for those of genuine life is like coming to Japan believing that it is what anime is for. (Maybe some little cultural stuff and some places, but very little, like that or not haha!!).
The first time I arrived in Japan I thought it was Goku and Kenshin Himura were waiting for me when I was taken off the plane, what a disappointment. . . ¡
This is the first article you’ve written that really had something to contribute to the discussion without trolling. Well done.
I had this name twice. Ah, really.