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Omg...This was my favorite medical drama couple.

Here's an example for you - https://youtu.be/KplR_9JvYB8?feature=shared

This style of voice modulation is a part of the culture. She is parodying the courtesans or noble ladies of that time.
I can't even count the number of times I have heard "DIAAN XIAAA" in this voice in a gazillion dramas.
The voice modulation is also pretty common for many chinese opera styles. Its actually not odd at all despite the fact that she is deliberately going overboard with the gestures but I can understand why it might seem odd if you are used to hearing less tonal languages...e.g. korean which is pretty flat! Chinese language and culture is quite different

New guidelines by the govt will hopefully change that. Whenever we get 24 episodes or less from big productions, they absolutely kill it. It happened with reset and the double...and there's many more

My friend,have you ever listened to chinese opera?

I mean, chinese make top notch dramas but ruin romance dramas by making them 36 episodes or 40 episodes. Ideally, romance dramas should only be 24 episodes and if possible, only 20 episodes. 20 episodes format is ideal for perfect pacing

Idk 🤷‍♀️ why you are annoyed but she is deliberately mocking historical clingy mistresses. Its a parody! I LOVE THE CUTELY ANNOYING ACT. Its a part of asian culture and its often used to tease people as well.

Its nothing but eurocentricism. These were normal eyes ...even back in the days. His eyes are smaller maybe compared to the double eyelid surgery and artificially enhanced ones. His eyes are gorgeous and he emotes so well

Yu ning had a good performance in his genre. Squid game was a completely different genre and the season was disappointing.
People undermine how difficult it is to act in romance and romantic comedy. Just to give you an example, Kang Ha Neul nailed his character in squid game (which was last year) but he failed for me in romance genre this year in tastefully yours. It was the most anticipated drama and yes, you could say that the writing was bad but its not like POB was perfectly written. There's better written ones out there. For me, one of the best korean actors couldn't create chemistry with his FL. I hated POB in last 4 episodes but I stayed for the chemistry between LYN and all his co stars.
His second drama this year,which is a romantic comedy/parody is also pretty enjoyable.
Kang ha Neul is a theatre actor..and i fully understand what you mean by "acting performance" but it is what it is. LYN, despite being a traffic star was a standout in the genre.

As for the other korean actor, Cha Eun woo...I mean, I am scared that his fans are gonna chew me out but his popularity doesn't stem from acting but his looks... That isn't the case with LYN who was actually NOT considered to be a visual fit for mainstream romance roles. I am the right person to assess that because I have watched every cha eun woo drama and dropped all of them. Almost all of his co actors overshadowed him and that is also not the case with LYN, he brings the traffic for his chemistry and holds his own in front of co stars and senior actors

Would he nail other genres? Probably not...probably..idk..but he is pretty good with mainstream romance/romantic comedy.

Side note : Story of Ming lan, legend of Fu Yao (didn't like the second half but the acting was solid) and the legendary "Nirvana in Fire" are better in terms of acting and storyline than some historical dramas you mentioned but ...no average drama fans have the patience to finish them. These dramas happened when people had better attention span.

I have tried watching korean thrillers but those aren't my thing... I tend to gravitate more towards japanese anime (masters of this genre according to me) or western thrillers

Not alm modern cdramas are ass. Reset is my favorite even though I generally stick to british/American thrillers. These are different GENRES. You cannot compare a thriller/slice of life to a comedy or romance. Most kdramas majorly failed in the historical romance genre for me. Liu yuning is popular because he performed well in a popular genre. Prisoner of beauty performed better than soo many kdramas I have seen in the same genre in MANY YEARS even though its not my fav cdrama of the year. There's better written wuxia out there...but the acting was good. Kdramas had nothing to give me in this genres and the ones that they had...were boring in terms of acting performance as well as writing.

Modern korean romance also failed for me this year in comparison. Korean webtoon style of acting...to me, is not as appealing as the chinese novel based maniacs.

I found Guardian of Dafeng actors to be farr better than the study group actors or even undercover high school actors...and both dramas had super animated action scenes,comedy and similar themes even though one was in a xianxia setting and the other was...in a webtoon style of setting.
The thing is, you can't even compare the chinese dramas to korean ones because koreans don't have THE ENTIRE GENRE THAT CHINESE HAVE in the form of wuxia and Xianxia.

I admit that Squid games was not my thing at all so I didn't watch it...I am not into multiple seasons and they did f up in the last season like I predicted.

As far as pure thrillers are considered, I haven't watched any korean or chinese dramas in that genre this year as I prefer American and British thrillers over both.

I mean,the content in general that we watch on social media. Almost all forms of content has gotten small.

Its 40 episodes. ...if she changes her mind THIS QUICKLY, it would be a 24 episode drama. But its 40 episodes so I guess we are gonna get very slow and organic growth

She isn't stupid at all...this is comedy. Its not sherlock holmes. The FL, so far, has managed to do all things right except one thing...and the plot armor is preventing her from recognizing the person. Besides, she's the lead heroine in the real world...at a young age. So, clearly, she is doing well

We need to be patient. I think we have become too Attention deficient...because of short format content

He was neither a monster...nor did she deserve anyone better than a man who tolerated her spying ovef millitary affairs and betraying him twice after her family got his parents killed. He said yes to the marriage for truce...not to get betrayed by THREE MORE MEMBERS OF HER FAMILY. I am also done with the drama but I ain't gonna color her like some POOR INNOCENT WOMAN when she was clearly a spy. None of his doubts were wrong. However he was, Wei Family weren't traitors and they paid heavily for trusting people. All of them...right from the father and brother...to Wei Shao and his generals. I am not gonna hide her obvious failures and her biases because her gender happens to be the same as mine.
Nope! This is not the "Stong independent woman" I want...

That's real audience. Cdrama simply has more audience because of more people watching them...but MDL has more kdrama bias because international audience generally know kdrama first. Look at most popular dramas on MDL in the last 5 years.... its now that Cdrama audience has started expanding internationally and you see cdramas getting more attention here...which they rightly deserve!

The whole concept of "multiple seasons" is very american. They should ditch it. Kdramas gained popularity because they were a few episodes and "one and done". Fine...2 seasons with few episodes if people really really want it but three is unnecessary and bound to fail

This drama parodies the cdrama tragedies. Lol! She doesn't take this world seriously because she has read the script...but upon her entry, the script changes and so do the characters and she is unable to see that ...she still hasn't figured that out and honestly, she doesn't care enough because its all fake to her. Lol!

She is gonna take the excuse of the "plot armour" ...lol!