Michelle Topham

Doesn't make any sense, does it? I think it's around 50 (?) as I hit the limit last week, and it won't let me block any more people -- just says I've hit the limit. But I just deleted one person to add Iarami, as that person has severe problems, and I have no interest in having someone like that in any capacity in my life :)

Well said.

I am so sick of the vile people in the K-drama community, both Korean and international, who think it is acceptable to destroy someone's life or to still go after them when they are dead simply because that actor's/singer's so-called 'morals' aren't the same as theirs (because, of course, THEIRS are better morals than everyone else's).

All of these vile people need to be ostracized by decent people, until they have no-one to talk to but each other.

I usually respond once, to let them know I think they are the worst kind of person, and then from then on just act like they don't exist. Life is to short to allow that kind of evil into it.

Unfortunately, MDL has a limit on the number of people you can block. But... for people like this vile person, if your block list is full like mine, just skip over their comments without reading them. That way they are talking to the air :)

Go away. It's people like you who destroyed this man's life. I have no words for the absolute contempt I feel for you.

Same. Wasn't expecting to like it, but it was one of my faves ever after just Ep. 2 :)

Hope you love it as much as I did. It's the one drama I recommend to anyone that asks -- well, that and Crash Course in Romance (not perfect, but very entertaining and the FL and ML are fabulous together).

It's a comedy.

Mind-blowing boring and dull, isn't it? And I'm just finishing Ep 3 and doubt I will get any further.

FL's parents in Tell Me That You Love Me do -- after the initial shock of learning their daughter is dating someone who is older and deaf, the mother comments how she feels sorry for him being an orphan and never knowing his parents.

Her entire reservations about the relationship are because he's deaf and not really because he's deaf, just that she thinks her daughter will have to deal with difficulties she wouldn't have to cope with if he was a hearing person.

A really nice surprise as, like you, so sick of that trope.

ROTFL. Yep. And they briefly show part of the interior in The Story of Park's Marriage Contract, and its far more lavish and bigger than in Crazy Love. And that was the real interior in CL, as I remember watching a Behind the Scenes video when it aired, and it was obvious the production company had just gone in, added a couple of lamps/an ultra modern recliner and started shooting, rather than pretending the enormous living room in other dramas actually FIT into that property :)

From what I remember, the CL scenes were the only ones that also likely reflected the taste of the owner -- ultra-modern, simple, chic -- you know, the style that fits the exterior of the house :)

It's weird they use the same place though, isn't it? I used to live in LA where I stumbled across filming for a drama or movie at least once a week in my neighborhood (affluent area in Santa Monica) -- and no, it was NEVER the same house :)

Edit: And thanks for the reminder -- it was on My Demon too :)

You do see the same sets/locations a lot in Korean dramas. I've now seen the same "rich man's house" four times in recent months, starting with Crazy Love and, last night, on the third episode of The Story of Park's Marriage Contract :)

It definitely takes away from the believability of a story when you have to go "Wait, didn't Crazy Love's Noh Go Jin (Kim Jae Wook) own that house?" - hahahaha.

I think some people are just "anti-idol", so if an idol/former idol stars in it, they MUST give it terrible ratings. And sure, if the idol can't act, which is true in some cases, I can understand that. But not in Park Ji Hoon's case. He's a superb actor.

And, as far as the drama goes, its very entertaining so far.

Probably. :)

It has massively dropped in the ratings in South Korea, so not too popular there at the moment. Hopefully that will change though as, so far, it's a very enjoyable drama and the performances are superb.

Only problem is, MDL has a limit of the number of people you can block. I hit my limit months ago :)

He wasn't married then. Please stop spreading lies.

Thanks MDL for being just as slimy as you always are. I mean, Jesus effing Christ, anyone who had their private messages released probably wouldn't look so great, eh? So glad I rarely click on MDL articles, because apparently your "writers" are just as big of an a-hole as those on Koreaboo.

Exactly.
Edit: And yes, Unit 731 was the impetus for this, but don't forget the Japanese also carried out human experiments on tens of thousands if not hundreds of thousands of Koreans during their decades long rule of Korea.

It didn't start at Unit 731 in the mid-1930s, with the estimated 200,00 to 300,000 who were murdered by the Japanese there, and it likely didn't end there.

The Japanese' opinion of many other nationalities -- the Koreans, the Thais, the Chinese, the Vietnamese, the Hong Kongese, the Singaporeans etc -- was that they were inferior to the Japanese, so they treated them like they were animals to be experimented on.

The way then that all of this has been depicted in Geongseong Creature is interesting -- tell the truth wrapped in fiction, and people are more apt to believe it.

No, very little romance, and what there is is incredibly forced and does not feel genuine. I wish they had left it out, as it's the only thing that I didn't like about the series. Well, that and the fact that the FL is an idiot :)

This is an absolutely masterful way of showing what the Japanese did to the Koreans. The millions they murdered, the vile human experiments they carried out on hundreds of thousands of Koreans, the devastation of Korea's history, the rewriting of Korean history to suit their own ends. The way the Japanese still insist Korea has only become as successful as it has because of Japanese "help" (regardless that they stole much of Korea's resources, then burnt down half of the country when they eventually left). The way they lied, and still lie, in order to hide their own evil.

All of it presented as "fiction" but it's not remotely. And all of it centering around the "Gyeongseong Creature', when the creature is actually Japan itself poisoning Korea, and destroying everything it touches.

And good for the writer/director/actors for portraying it. And for refusing to let people forget what Korea and the Koreans went through at the hands of the Japanese, and how they survived.

Because unlike the Germans, who have apologized and made amends for what they did during World War II, the Japanese never have. And we all need to remember that.