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Hey wheezy, you should learn the meaning of big words you're not used to using before you type them, like "polygamy," which has nothing whatsoever to do with this issue, and which neither I nor anyone else mentioned.

Polygamy is plural marriage, usually one man and multiple wives. Is that's what going on here? I hadn't heard about that.

I'll assume your tiny mind and fingers actually intended to type the word "adultery" here. Did you know there's a difference between "supporting" something and knowing it's none of your business one way or the other? It's true! There really is a difference, wheezy!

Oh, and can you quote me where I suggested you were not "allowed to voice" your opinion on the Internet? Cause I'm pretty sure I never said that.

One more panty-sniffing, self-righteous, ignorant Church Lady.

Why do you care? How does this effect your life?

"Cheating" is such a juvenile word, perfect for people who don't like to think. Some married couples have open relationships in which they agree to sleep around with whomever they wish. None of it's your business. Mind what you do with your own genitals, if anything, and leave other people alone.

Idiot. Pull your head out of the sand/your ass:

Woman stoned to death:
https://apnews.com/article/iran-death-penalty-adultery-39ac846801400d8d1399ca05f1053ac8

20-year-old gay man killed by his own family:
https://www.rferl.org/a/iran-monfared-gay-man-killed-beheaded-lgbt-plight/31249991.html

Iran's executions of gay men:
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/9557897/iran-executions-cia-spies-death/

"Those things" happen thousands of times a year in Iran and many other psycho countries ruled by Muslim dictatorships. What other well-known facts do you pretend don't exist?

It's that Korean/Asian thing of judging other peoples' private behavior, especially sexual, because they get off on it as a sexual thrill and they get to pretend they are better people by comparison than the celeb they're trashing.

Hi Suh. I am going through those same "issues" about supporting Korean entertainment. I am much more a movie person than a drama person, and the biggest percentage of my favorite Asian films are out of Korea, as are my top fave actors. Thus, I can't really speak to an emerging focus on more violence in dramas than before.

However, I must admit that Korea turned me on to crime/thriller/yakuza/romance flicks in a way I've never liked what comes out of Hollywood in that genre. Korea's writers/directors/actors have a refined skill for bringing me fully-developed, individual characters with both flaws and good points that leave me feeling conflicted about who and what I am rooting for. I like feeling conflicted that way. I don't care for films that dish out easy, fairy tale, black and white scenarios and characters, because there are few of those things in the real world.

I ditch movies that feel to me as if they're glorifying sadistic, graphic violence, but here again, the Koreans excel at treading that line very well for me. I find myself being OK with confronting graphic depictions of awful things that happen in the real world, as long as it is all done in a way that moves the story along more powerfully than it would otherwise move without that content.

I feel the same about sexual content. I can tell the difference between semi-graphic sex scenes that are there for legitimate reasons, and those that aren't. Though, I must confess I don't get worked up about whether or not graphic sex is too much or too little. Naked, beautiful people doing beautiful, sexy things are a lovely part of life, and I don't mind seeing it.

No, my one, hugely predominant concern is the insane, sick/sick/sick fan/celeb/media/netizen culture of character assassination and humiliation that leads to so many celeb suicides. And Koreans as a whole still don't seem to get it. My concern about supporting Korean entertainment is entirely about not wanting to feed into and support that side of the industry.

To be honest though, I watch almost all the content through pirate and free sites, so me not watching is not going to effect the industry one way or the other, except that I wouldn't be in comments raving about their shows and actors. Plus, I am so thrilled to be able to watch these great films that I would be loathe to give them up when I'm not paying for them in the first place.

The exception to this is the Korean content I watch on Netflix, which I pay for. There again, however, it is almost entirely movies, though not only those. I enjoyed "Moving to Heaven," for example, starring Lee Je Hoon. I don't care for his "Taxi Driver" series, though. Just the same old, Korean style revenge stuff with nothing particularly distinctive or original about it. I don't blame LJH for following the $$$, but I'm sad to see him doing these lame, crime/violence series like the other one that was just released, when he is so fantastically talented in dramatic roles that don't lean on yakuza plots for their existence.

Netflix, however, has been forced by Korean content creators to scrap shows and actors as a result of the insane, netizen, judge-and-punish first, find out facts later, culture regarding actors. They had to scrap two shows, I believe, featuring the amazing Yoo Ah In, because of his current legal troubles and the Korean production companies' ways of handling his involvement. The Korean way of looking at addiction as a moral/character issue rather than a disease/treatment issue, as we do in the West, has now cost Netflix millions of dollars and they are not happy about it.

Hopefully, once Korean content creators and agencies see that their backward, moralistic, condemnatory attitudes are costing them big bucks, and are not going to be tolerated in the Western markets, they will begin to change their ways. There is NO reason Yoo Ah In's shows could not have been in production throughout this insanely stretched-out legal investigation and media crucifixion. He hasn't been convicted of anything. Yes, he's admitted to certain things, but not others. So what? He can still work while he's in treatment. Instead, Korea's moralistic attitudes about drug addiction have cost its entertainment industry millions of Western dollars now, and they can't be happy about that.

OK, not sure where I'm headed with this, but that's where I am right now.

I just realized...a couple of the LGs you've been referring to; you told me to check their comments above mine, must have blocked me. I see no comments from them above.

I'm dense, Lucy. I don't understand your first paragraph above.

As for the second paragraph, that's funny.

What dm showed who the two accounts were? I'm confused.

As for Maggi and me, she reached out after I trashed some LGs in thread and she liked my work. :) We've been fast MDL buddies for about a year and a half since. She lives in NJ, USA, I'm in KS, USA, but great minds live all over, right? :D

Don't waste brain cells on it. SanSebastian is the kind of "Christian" Jesus would have nothing to do with were he here on Earth. She beats others over the head while claiming that label in a failed effort to shore up her weak self-image and insecurities.

"What do you think of actors returning to broadcast after a huge controversy?"

Well, I think actors who experience "a HUGE controversy" should never, ever, forever, and never be allowed to leave their homes never, forever again until they do so in a coffin. After all, HUGE is larger than MAJOR which is larger than BIG which is larger than AVERAGE which is larger than MINOR which is larger than SMALL, so yeah, definitely only when dead. And should they decide to take matters into their own hands and light up some charcoal, I'm OK with that too because, well, they owe their fame to us, the public and that's just the way it goes.

At the very least, they should never be allowed to work again until they are dead, unless maybe as a garbage person or sewer worker. They have betrayed the trust of us, their flawless, sinless, perfect fans and thus, having betrayed us, deserve life-long oblivion in return. I mean, it's not as though these actors worked hard or studied or have great natural talent. Their success is due to US, their public. How dare they think otherwise.

It would be best if, when an actor who has been previously cancelled due to a "huge" controversy, considers returning to "broadcast," a nation-wide vote were held to determine if they should be allowed to do so. This is Korea, and we don't f**k around with people who are, you know, human or have had the unmitigated gall to DENY something we've accused them of.

Lord, if we just leave actors' alone in their private lives, what the hell would we do with all the empty time in our own?

hahaha...that's funny. I will have to copy Maggi on this. :)

It make sense the "Little Girls," as I call them, would come up with a conspiracy theory like that; anything to help them maintain the fantasy that surely there can't be TWO, or counting you, Lucy, THREE people who see through their BS.

Actually, there are quite a lot of people here who see through their BS, and that of a sad number of MDL staffers. Those folks don't like being attacked by the vultures en masse though, so largely keep mum. But I get friend requests from them all the time.

And yes, the LGs think adding "literally" to any statement makes it infinitely more credible. :)

lol Hi there. I saw your comment and had to reply. It felt like a compliment, since I'm older than dirt, to be exact. :) So...thanks!

I'm a big fan of new technology and the Internet is an amazement to me every day I use it. However, it definitely has led to shortened attention spans, and the idea that writing out your thoughts in detail is something only losers do. Better to make short, snappy, brainless slang comments and be done.

Yeah, I'd guess you're not accustomed to reading OR writing much, drac. Just skip over my endless blatherings. If you try to read them, you're likely to get a cramp in your tiny brain.

It's mainly just one psycho making real Christians look bad by using her limited knowledge of the Bible as an excuse to trash someone who has done good for others.

douche bag

YOU ARE BEING A SHOW-OFF, YOU STUPID A**.

Only, your style of showing-off is the worst, because you cloak your self-glorifying words under a veil of Jesus' righteousness. He was on to people like you 2000 years ago, and we're on to you now.

lol

Oh my god, you are ridiculous. You come here making a big show out of your self-image as a Christian (you're not one) by judging IU for doing good things, and casting a negative light on it. You have no idea how much more money she may have donated that no one will ever hear of. Nor is it your concern.

How much money have YOU given to charitable causes? Which ones? Where? When? It's our right to know since you're the big Christian know-it-all here. I despise people like you who use Jesus' name to make yourself look better, while judging the actions of others and putting them down.

"Being charitable" has a second meaning: "Assuming the best regarding others and their actions."

Shut up.

Stupid beyotch:

Matthew 7:
Jesus said:
"Do not judge, or you too will be judged.
For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you."

Quit giving Christians a bad name.

Kiss my ass.