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⌈ Secret Post #5333 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.


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Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
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Comments

Those of you who watch Kdramas...

[(Anonymous)]

I've only seen a handful of Cdramas myself, and it's both interesting and a little frustrating sometimes to deal with their weird quirks, tropes and other unexpected cultural stuff, for example:

* coughing blood
* self-sacrificing female characters who are expected to suffer for their love interests
* very poorly developed or limited female characters
* male leads who aren't exactly the greatest in their treatment of women

I'd love to hear some examples of what I might expect from Kdramas, if anyone can help!

Re: Those of you who watch Kdramas...

[(Anonymous)]

I haven't watched a KDrama in ages, so my information is probably outdated, but there were always two guys that the MC had to choose between and she always picked the wrong one. There was the hot jerk who treated her like crap and the sweet guy who always supported her and the MC would always pick the hot jerk. It drove me crazy, especially when the narrative would suddenly turn the sweet guy into an asshole so the MC could run away in the arms of the hot jerk.

Re: Those of you who watch Kdramas...

[(Anonymous)]

Aw, no. I really don't like love triangles, especially not like that. :(

Re: Those of you who watch Kdramas...

[(Anonymous)]

Lol still a thing.

Re: Those of you who watch Kdramas...

[(Anonymous)]

I feel like (most times) the female lead is fairly well developed as a character (depending on what show you're watching). There's always an element of pluckiness/keep working hard to them (I've found across the board). The lead tends to be a little bad ass & determined hard worker who grows through the progress of the show.

There's the fucking slow-mo three different angles of the same scene (usually a kiss, the guy grabbing the girl and looking into her eyes... intensely? menacingly? Etc etc) that shit gets me every time (and the occasional wall pinning out of no where like wtf is that, we're about to have some problems you come at me like that lol).

Usual jerk dude/men who have issues communicating (but this is common across all media).

I've only seen two historical ones, the rest were contemporary.

Historical ones:
Scarlet Heart Ryeo (my fave!)
Mr. Queen (although technically it's a dude who gets transported through time into the body of a queen)
The Scholar of the Night

Contemporary ones:
Oh My Venus! (Love this one)
Her Private Life
What's wrong with Secretary Kim?
My roommate is a Gumiho
And a few others. The ones I watch tend to be romantic comedy not very DRAMATIC.

As a complete aside, since it's Japanese dramas, I just want to share the beauty that is Dean Fujioka -- so for anyone interested in seeing his beautiful self walking around in the early 2000s fashion,i offer May I Blackmail You? (It's not particularly good, but the lead lady is sweet and generous and he just doesn't understand her kindness).

Re: Those of you who watch Kdramas...

[(Anonymous)]

Fujiki Naohito is my one true dorama love but I'll check your rec out too.

Mr. Queen seems to be a newish title, sounds interesting. Is it slash, het or gen?

Re: Those of you who watch Kdramas...

[(Anonymous)]

Oh, to be clear I'm sure Dean Fujioka is in better things, that's simply the first thing I've seen him in lol but the actor your shared is very good looking too! I'll check his stuff out!

It's a bit of het/gen (i guess slash in a way? Idk. Only because mentally/spiritual the Queen is a dude but physically the Queen is a woman. Also, I can't quite remember if there were any "jokes"/comments/suggestions made that were teetering on homophobia/transphobia etc., But just a heads up, in case there were :/ ).

Re: Those of you who watch Kdramas...

[(Anonymous)]

Thanks for the heads up! I love warnings in fandom spaces. I'll look out for male lead then, heh. Reminds me of Go Princess Go series that also has a dude travel into a queen's body.

The summary looks interesting. Kinda your usual detective series with two leads.

Re: Those of you who watch Kdramas...

[(Anonymous)]

bosses hiting underlings in job settings
rich spoiled characters
kimchi
Romantic series tend to have Second Male Lead thingy.

Depends on genre really. The series are 16-20 ep. There are good and bad, same as cDramas. The old are always right and youths have to respect them is the one that bothers me a lot. Characters always have their phones and use it a lot on screen. Drinking.

I kinda prefer the sound of Chinese to Korean so I might watch cDramas subbed and kDramas dubbed.