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Typical.

You regard it as "mean" to be reminded of the human cost of the kind of crap news you like to eat up, but you're OK with the crap news itself. Korean media ran with illegally leaked, anonymously sourced, unverifiable accusations about LSK because people like you need to be fed.

At least admit it what's in front of your face, and be proud of your role in the Machine.

Like I've said at least twice, it's pathetic how important it is to you that you have access to this kind of garbage.

"This article was not malicious at all they are just stating what happened between the two parties." Congratulations! That's a near-quote of what people were saying here on MDL right up until Lee Sun Kyun killed himself out of despair. A lot of them are STILL saying it.

"What? They're just reporting what is going on in the investigation surrounding the (false) accusations of LSK's (non-existent) drug use! You're just as bad as the people you're criticizing! How dare you stop me from getting my daily dose of trash celeb gossip, true or not!"

At least six Korean celebs killed themselves in 2023. With your help, maybe we can get that number UP in 2024!

Adorable. Love it. The taxi driver has such a sweet face, and the bitchy, hot kid a good heart under all the issues. The background hug under the end credits was perfection.

9.5/10

By the way, another BS statement of yours claimed MDL states up front that it is a site for, among other things, "gossip." That is untrue. Nowhere on this site does it claim to be a disseminator of gossip, though it clearly is:

About Us
MyDramaList.com is a community-driven platform where Asian drama and movie fans can create their own lists, discuss their favorite shows and movies, discover new content, and make friends. Our goal is to provide a fun and engaging space for fans to connect and share their passion for Asian dramas and movies.

Nothing about gossip there. How about in this other section...?

What is MyDramaList.com?
MyDramaList.com is a community-based website that provides Asian drama and movie fans with a platform to create their own drama watchlists, rate dramas and films, write reviews and recommendations, discover new dramas/movies to watch, and discuss dramas and movies with like-minded people.

Hmmm...I don't see anything here either about spreading malicious gossip and aggressively trashing celebs. Of course, this "lo_ve" person always covers her ass by pretending to "only" be repeating BS found elsewhere. She doesn't have the guts to own up to what she's doing.

" it is their site and they can post what they want whether it's good or bad."

Please point out and quote me where I said MDL CANNOT post whatever they want. You won't be able to do so because I never said any such thing. But this is one of several, typical, brain-dead accusations regularly made by MDLers who can't support an argument. When you run out of BS, well, just accuse the other party of writing something they never did, and then argue against THAT. Won't work on me.

I am one hundred percent for MDL printing whatever they want to print. I am also one hundred percent for me or anyone else being able to criticize them for their choices, and for its editors taking responsibility for what they put online. Every website or paper or magazine makes choices every day about what to publish, and they're responsible for those decisions.

In this case, MDL, and you, are responsible for the parts you play in the great Korean Celebrity Suicide Machine. This article is one hundred percent unnecessary and adds nothing to our understanding of the Asian film/drama industry except as an example of why such an appalling number of Korean celebs kill themselves.

Your new, and just as lame as the former, argument seems to be that people should feel free to shout "FIRE!" in a crowded theatre just because they CAN.

And no, I'm not going to apologize for being "mean," you poor thing.

Yeah sure, me being "mean" to you and MDL is NO DIFFERENT than you and MDL pushing celeb trash gossip that leads to bad things like suicide. It's all exactly the same, uh huh.

Like I said, the degree to which your garbage celeb torture articles are important to you is deeply disturbing...but then, so is the Korean Celeb Suicide Machine as a whole. You're just a part of it. Be proud!

" Unlike you I have sympathy and empathy for all."
You keep telling yourself, that, Korean Celebrity Suicide Machine Enabler Person.

It's hilarious you're pretending you care about this story because you're out to protect victims of bullying. lol

Let me know what you find out about whether or not your doctor, dentist, minister, adviser, coach, teacher, or other such people in your life were ever bullies, ok? Oh...that's right, you'll never bother to investigate that because they're not famous, and thus it won't feed your tiny ego to see them torn down in the press.

On edit: What's MOST disturbing is that you don't give a fuck if people kill themselves over trash like this. You likely think LSK DESERVED to die, am I right?

oooh, all-caps. I'm destroyed.
ooooh, you said fucking but don't have the balls to spell it out....oooh, lame.

ooooh, I crown you the queen of the Korean Celebrity Suicide Machine.

Newsflash: Me not reading articles will not make them not be there. I will continue to bitch and moan and complain as long as trash like this keeps getting published. Don't like it? Don't read my comments, genius. I'll post when and where I want. If you want to read garbage/trash/rumors then you'll see me there bitching about it. So block me. Please block me. Knowing people like you read my writing makes my skin crawl.

What's most disturbing is how important it is to you that unproven crap and rumors and innuendoes about actors/idols gets published. Like I said, is your doctor or dentist a bully? Why don'jt you care? Wouldn't that matter more to your life?

The reason you like these articles is that they make you feel self-righteous and superior to people far more successful than you.

How many suicides of Korean artists do you want before considering that maybe it might be worth considering this type of "story" is unworthy of being reported? So she bullied someone in high school. So maybe she didn't? WTF cares now, except weirdos who give as much weight to stuff kids did 20 years ago as they do to what those kids-now-adults do NOW?

What the hell does "She's still an actress" mean? Why do actors/actresses have to have their childhood behavior rehashed endlessly any more than doctors and dentists do? Why wouldn't you be MORE concerned that your dentist was a bully than that some actress who doesn't stick needles in your mouth was? It's very simple: People, especially Koreans, love driving actors and idols to suicide. They live for it.

Finally, the commenter above just detailed the fact that MDL has NOT reported on the nominations for the Baeksang Awards, which took place a WEEK ago. Did you choose to not read that or what?

I'm curious: What nationality are you? Korean? Why do you think 20 year-old bullying allegations are something that is "going on" in the film business NOW? Have you heard of a dude named Lee Sun Kyun, who was harassed to suicide over false allegations of drug usage and publication of one hundred percent private conversations illegally leaked by the police? Does any of that bother you at all?

Agreed. From eps 1 to 14, IU showed perhaps two or three different facial features and emotions. Mostly she looked catatonic.

Could you clarify for me, as one of the many who feel IU is a bad actress, what my "agenda" is in feeling that way? I need to know so I can write it down.

At what point in the drama did the divorce take place? I missed that.

The wiretapping was SUPPOSED to make you uncomfortable. Being uncomfortable is often a by-product of being "moved" and having "feelings," which is what dramas make you do.

LSK wasn't "lost," he killed himself after being driven to despair by months of harassment from Korean police, press, and public.

Depends on how you choose to define "romance." If you want to watch IU, why would the plot including romance matter one way or the other?

I was occasionally amused by the clarity with which the tap caught LSK's footfalls and breathing. lol I kept waiting for the sound of his heartbeat and liver function, not to mention gurgling bowel sounds.

Let's just say liberties were taken for dramatic effect.

No surprise at all. It's MDL. Made up scandals are much more fun than reporting on awards given out for high achievement. Destroying artists is a big-sell in Korea, rewarding them not so much.

"news" writers like "lo_ve" aren't the biggest problem here. That would be the MDL editors and senior staff who allow this kind of crap to run.

I'm American. The tone of this sort of article and the statements put out by the Korean agencies in relation to them are downright cultish/creepy to me. There's a North Korean/authoritarian/psuedo-religious vibe to verbiage such as "...reflect on herself and become a better person..."

Note also the BS claim that the actress made her own choices to drop herself from projects, etc., when that is highly unlikely to be the case. Rather, she was almost certainly forced to do so. The parallels in mindset to both North Korean, Communist, thought-control and its mirror-image, South Korean, military dictatorship-style, self-criticism papers and such is downright freakish.

So that's TWO young Korean actresses currently being tortured over high school bullying accusations, two others being dragged for the crime of, you know, DATING, Yoo Ah In still being hounded and obsessed over for drug allegations, and all this in the wake of Lee Sun Kyun' s suicide just three months ago, from which the press, police and psycho fans learned nothing.

Oh, and let's not forget that yet ANOTHER 30-year-old K-popper Park Boram supposedly dropped dead out of the blue during a drinking party four days ago. Theo stories being published in relation to that are more about telling us to shut up and not speculate, than they are to getting to the bottom of what actually happened, which does not include anything put out in yet another platitudinous agency announcement, letting us know that yet another K-Pop star has gone to bea star in the sky to watch over us, making sure we know how heartbroken the agency is and oh btw, stfu.

One of the most bizarre things about kpop agency suspicious death announcements is how often they express "condolences" TO THE DEAD PERSON, rather than to her family and friends, so that her "soul may rest in peace." Condolences go to the survivors, not the dead for god's sake.

#1. Because it's MDL.
#2. Because MDL allows people to rate shows they haven't seen, which is bonkers.
#3. Repeat #1.

Using "literally" doesn't make you sound smarter.

Nothing you wrote contradicts anything in my comment. Adaptations can be whatever the writers and directors decide they will be in relation to the source material. And adaptation can be extremely faithful to the original, or it can be extremely different. "Adaptation" merely means the series is BASED ON the source, there is no law requiring it to "follow the novel."

In fact, there is no way any live-action adaptation can be a word-by-word on-screen version of the novel. If it were, it would be 325 episodes long.

I repeat: All that matters to the viewers of a series is what is presented on screen or in dialogue. If something isn't shown or mentioned, then for the purposes of the series, it didn't happen.