Ophanin

If you want to understand why this actress, Ha Young, is highly criticisized right now : watch this.
The way people talk about their past and their family matters. You can't have this extremely dark history and speak this casually about it. (by trying of deny it) It means that you don't care. Not only her but the all family should lose all the money they made on a pile of corpses and give it to their victims. Especially when they show how much they don't give a damn. It's not (just) a story of an actress victims of a smear campaign. (of course, some people will take advantage of this to indulge their misogyny. Of course.)

When she talks in interviews about her family's pride, about the four generations of doctors, while obviously avoiding the subject, she must have known that it would come back to haunt her and them. Her handwritten letter of apology can't make up for that. Because it's not a matter of sincerity. She isn't responsible for her family's past, no, but she's particularly proud of it. Growing up surrounded by criminals and pretending you didn't know ? ... Please. Stop it.

It's a story of : "Forget it, it's the past." It's only the past for those who benefited from it. The far right wants everyone to forget. Japan certainly doesn't want this to be an issue. Why have those guilty of crimes against humanity alongside the Japanese never been held accountable ? And why did they continue to kill "communists" (independence activists) ? Why did they continue to monopolize the economy today ? Because the U.S. kept them in their positions, and their grandchildren now come to boast about the honor of belonging to their illustrious family and star in cute and funny K-dramas.
This is unbearable for many people. We all can understrand that.

What about the show, though ? It premieres a few days before Korea's Independence Day celebration. But the show itself ? It's really nonsensical and unhealthy. The guy lies, but since he's so handsome, it's ok, it doesn't matter. I dropped it very quickly. (second episode) All this amnesia stuff is starting to get old.

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I'm not saying this to show off or take the moral high ground (if you like this CDrama, good for you), but this is just not acceptable. Episode 1 is sublime, with its fights, its twists and turns, its hyper-edgy and fast-paced editing; it's spectacularly done. In episode 2, we see a man kidnapping and beating up a woman. And we're supposed to accept this enemy to lover trope ? Excuse me ? (eventually, we'll try to justify the unacceptable by saying that she's attacking him too. But this scam is starting to become obvious. Don't even try that)

No, no, no, I'm stopping here. I absolutely did not expect to see that with this poster, this synopsis, this first episode. I don't understand how anyone can subject themselves to this.

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