omg. This is so naive and disgusting. Your comment illustrates the insanity that drove LSK to take his life. Rather…
Your entire comment is absurd. Thus, I'm not going to put energy into replying at any length. Your alcoholism has nothing to do with anything here. That you think it does indicates your perception and reasoning skills need honing. Maybe more frequent meetings?
I wanted to like this flick. I liked the measured pace, almost complete lack of OST in the first half, and other technical aspects, but...
What the hell with that ending? Made no sense. No sense that his passion for her was real. No sense there was anything about her that would inspire such passion. Eventually, that measured pace morphed into tedium. Several of the relationships between male characters never became clear to me. WTF with that hotel/"pheromone" scene? There were never any customers at the swanky hostess club. The ML took over as the manager, but never managed anything or even showed up at work.
I could go on, but suffice it to say there are a lot of reasons my early impression I'd be rating this a 9/10 soon turned into a certainty I'd be giving it a 7/10 instead. To me that's a solid C-average flick, nothing more or less.
Korea is my fave source of Asian films by far, BUT can Korean male actors portray a character who is not endlessly lighting up a cig? It's an acting crutch that has become annoying to me. I'm no anti-smoking-in-movies crusader. I always laugh when I see some tender flower has added "smoking" as a tag/trigger warning on a movie's MDL page. BUT when every character in every crime/thriller/romance/yakuza flick is lighting up constantly, the behavior becomes tiresome, a cliche/stereotype rather than a real person's habit. Just once, I'd like to see a Korean actor portray the act of thinking/ruminating/considering without lighting up to appear to be deep in thought. It's 2023; haven't any of these people heard of lung cancer or emphysema or any of the other 500 bad side-effects of smoking? It becomes laughable when it's a character who is otherwise in great shape and runs around kicking ass in brutal fight scenes with bad guys without appearing to have difficulty breathing.
I agree with you. All these people talking about how korea is a toxic country are blind hypocrites who are trying…
Every single terrorist who took part in the 9/11 attack on New York City in the U.S., which killed more than 3,000 people and sparked wars that killed hundreds of thousands more, was a Muslim.
I do not believe EVERY Muslim is a terrorist, nor have I ever said so. However, a prominent percentage of terrorists are Muslim. Do you understand the difference between those two concepts? If so, please stop writing nonsense.
There are plenty of moronic bigots in the U.S. who would say that, but I'm not one of them. Such people are in the minority here, thank goodness.
And oh, a reminder asking you to please copy, paste, and send in a reply to me the statement in which I wrote that Koreans are "the yellow people." Thanks.
I agree with you. All these people talking about how korea is a toxic country are blind hypocrites who are trying…
I'm not going to take your bait and get into a pissing match I would win anyway.
Could you please provide a quote from a comment of mine where I called Koreans "the yellow people." If it's true that I wrote that, I'd like to correct it. So please provide a link or copy and paste the comment in which I called Koreans "the yellow people" and put it in a reply to this comment.
It's important to avoid making sweeping generalizations about any group of people based on individual tragedies.…
If you're trying to spark an argument about American Imperialism and Evil Bullying Around the World, you'll have to have that fight with yourself. This thread is about Korea's suicide epidemic and twisted celebrity culture, not geopolitical issues or how the U.S. causes all the problems in the world.
You're attempting to redirect the discussion, and I'm not going there with you.
It's exceedingly dishonest for MDL's biography on this page to say that Lee Sun Kyun "passed away after being…
Boy, are you ever spot-on about this. It's disappointing the people who run MDL are glossing over the fact LSK killed himself by carbon monoxide poisoning from charcoal briquets he deliberately lit up to achieve his intended purpose.
"Passed away." That is just a lie. Plus, he was already dead, not "unconscious" when he was found.
I'll say no more for now. You've said it all very well above.
How does this statement establish that these two people really ARE dating?
Actually, it's a great way of saying "buzz off, The Fact. Our player's personal life is nobody's business but his."
This is how ALL agencies should respond to queries about anything beyond the scope of the entertainer's professional activities and other matters directly pertaining to them.
What a coincidence, dating "scandal" right before her comeback 🙄🙄
Could you point out where the word "scandal" is used in either the headlines or body of this story?
So are you implying her agency floated this rumor deliberately through The Trash, I mean The Fact so that the actor could deny it, giving willingly oblivious outlets like MDL a "hook" on which to hang information about her "comeback?" I mean, you could be right. It seems nothing is beneath these entertainment agencies, as is the case with Korean media, netizens, and law enforcement.
As an American, I loathe the way the word "comeback" is used and abused in K-Entertainment. "Comeback" necessarily implies that the person in question went away to...somewhere...and is now returning, or fell from favor in their career somehow. In fact, they went nowhere at all and they haven't failed either; they just have a new movie/drama/song/album/whatever coming out. But "comeback" sounds more exciting and rousing than a simple press release with the headline "So-and-stars in the new drama _______________." It's another example of the breathless, melodramatic style of news reporting in Korea.
I see, however, that in this one case, the actress actually DID "go away somewhere," seeing as this is her first project in four years.
Hey, MDL, catch a clue and stop reporting intrusive "news" stories about entertainers' private lives.
Have you learned nothing from what was done to LSK and how that ended up?
My thoughts on the "dating issue is it is NONE OF OUR BUSINESS. If an entertainer wants the public to know something like this, they can post it on Instagram and be done with it.
Her agency putting out a statement is ridiculous too. They should ignore these trash stories, although...a commenter below suspects her agency floated this rumor as a hook on which to hang an announcement of the new drama she's in. Who knows? Wouldn't a well-written, informative press release about her involvement in the show and what it's about make more sense? Start a rumor about the private life of one of your own actors so they and you can immediately deny it? Pretty lame. Not very attention-grabbing.
Furthermore, the subhead on this dumb story is repulsive as well. What do you mean, she is "embroiled" in a "dating rumor?" The use of the word "embroiled" immediately casts a vague air of negativity on the actor. Do you even know what "embroiled" means? Well, I'll tell you:
embroil verb transitive verb
1: TO THROW INTO DISORDER OR CONFUSION 2: TO INVOLVE IN CONFLICT OR DIFFICULTIES Example: EMBROILED IN CONTROVERSY
I think you used the word deliberately to make the story sound as if it is reporting on something suspicious that is part of the ongoing "buzz" and thus worthy of looking into. As it turns out, not only is this woman not "embroiled" in anything whatsoever, she is not even dating the guy. So your "story's" second and third paragraphs entirely cancel out its first paragraph. There is NO story at all. This thing should not be posted on your site.
Another problem: "Meanwhile, Lee Kang In's side neither admitted nor denied the dating reports..."
The use of the phrase "neither admitted nor denied, " most often used in relation to accusations/allegations, is similarly appalling here. You "admit or deny" something negative you have been accused of doing. This man doesn't have to "admit or deny" anything to anybody, most of all the Korean media or MDL, for god's sake.
Even in the sentence that establishes there is no relationship, as stated by the agency, the writer of this thing uses the phrase "According to the agency...", as if to say "this is what they SAY, but you and I know there still might be something going on." Typical Korean gossip rag-type language.
And let us not ignore the use of the word "allegedly" in this story, which is there to cover your and The Fact's (what an ass-backward name for a rag that mostly spreads unfounded rumors) asses.
FINALLY, this: "This will also be her first-ever project after being involved in the bullying issue in his former K-pop girl group April." Let The Fact and MDL never fail to leap at a chance to vaguely mention another, out-of-date, negative issue, thus reminding the public of whatever the "bullying issue" was. What "bullying issue?" What did she do? That sentence is designed to send Netizens streaking to their keyboards to remind themselves of or discover for the first time, what the "bullying Issue" was. Good god, it never ends.
Please take down this post. Please stop posting intrusive, sloppy, and sleazy articles about the private lives of entertainers. Please be part of the solution, rather than part of the problem.
Maybe suicide is selfish but everone has to bear own pain and when one can't endure anymore, also has a right…
No posing here. This is who I am and what I think.
You see me as "righteous" because you're wrong and you know it. Cuts no ice with me.
And "dirty?" That's YOU again (wow! You keep projecting your shit onto me), slinging that dirt at a dead man, demanding proof of innocence from someone who owes you nothing, even after those who think as you do have put him in his grave.
Good job. St. Sebastian wouldn't think so, though. You're one of those shooting the arrows.
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I'll be anticipating your apology.
I wanted to like this flick. I liked the measured pace, almost complete lack of OST in the first half, and other technical aspects, but...
What the hell with that ending? Made no sense.
No sense that his passion for her was real.
No sense there was anything about her that would inspire such passion.
Eventually, that measured pace morphed into tedium.
Several of the relationships between male characters never became clear to me.
WTF with that hotel/"pheromone" scene?
There were never any customers at the swanky hostess club.
The ML took over as the manager, but never managed anything or even showed up at work.
I could go on, but suffice it to say there are a lot of reasons my early impression I'd be rating this a 9/10 soon turned into a certainty I'd be giving it a 7/10 instead. To me that's a solid C-average flick, nothing more or less.
Korea is my fave source of Asian films by far, BUT can Korean male actors portray a character who is not endlessly lighting up a cig? It's an acting crutch that has become annoying to me. I'm no anti-smoking-in-movies crusader. I always laugh when I see some tender flower has added "smoking" as a tag/trigger warning on a movie's MDL page. BUT when every character in every crime/thriller/romance/yakuza flick is lighting up constantly, the behavior becomes tiresome, a cliche/stereotype rather than a real person's habit. Just once, I'd like to see a Korean actor portray the act of thinking/ruminating/considering without lighting up to appear to be deep in thought. It's 2023; haven't any of these people heard of lung cancer or emphysema or any of the other 500 bad side-effects of smoking? It becomes laughable when it's a character who is otherwise in great shape and runs around kicking ass in brutal fight scenes with bad guys without appearing to have difficulty breathing.
7/10
I do not believe EVERY Muslim is a terrorist, nor have I ever said so. However, a prominent percentage of terrorists are Muslim. Do you understand the difference between those two concepts? If so, please stop writing nonsense.
There are plenty of moronic bigots in the U.S. who would say that, but I'm not one of them. Such people are in the minority here, thank goodness.
And oh, a reminder asking you to please copy, paste, and send in a reply to me the statement in which I wrote that Koreans are "the yellow people." Thanks.
Could you please provide a quote from a comment of mine where I called Koreans "the yellow people." If it's true that I wrote that, I'd like to correct it. So please provide a link or copy and paste the comment in which I called Koreans "the yellow people" and put it in a reply to this comment.
Thank you in advance.
You're attempting to redirect the discussion, and I'm not going there with you.
"Passed away." That is just a lie. Plus, he was already dead, not "unconscious" when he was found.
I'll say no more for now. You've said it all very well above.
"Where I'm from..." sounds like a weird place with strange customs.
Actually, it's a great way of saying "buzz off, The Fact. Our player's personal life is nobody's business but his."
This is how ALL agencies should respond to queries about anything beyond the scope of the entertainer's professional activities and other matters directly pertaining to them.
So are you implying her agency floated this rumor deliberately through The Trash, I mean The Fact so that the actor could deny it, giving willingly oblivious outlets like MDL a "hook" on which to hang information about her "comeback?" I mean, you could be right. It seems nothing is beneath these entertainment agencies, as is the case with Korean media, netizens, and law enforcement.
As an American, I loathe the way the word "comeback" is used and abused in K-Entertainment. "Comeback" necessarily implies that the person in question went away to...somewhere...and is now returning, or fell from favor in their career somehow. In fact, they went nowhere at all and they haven't failed either; they just have a new movie/drama/song/album/whatever coming out. But "comeback" sounds more exciting and rousing than a simple press release with the headline "So-and-stars in the new drama _______________." It's another example of the breathless, melodramatic style of news reporting in Korea.
I see, however, that in this one case, the actress actually DID "go away somewhere," seeing as this is her first project in four years.
Words have specific definitions and meanings.
Have you learned nothing from what was done to LSK and how that ended up?
My thoughts on the "dating issue is it is NONE OF OUR BUSINESS. If an entertainer wants the public to know something like this, they can post it on Instagram and be done with it.
Her agency putting out a statement is ridiculous too. They should ignore these trash stories, although...a commenter below suspects her agency floated this rumor as a hook on which to hang an announcement of the new drama she's in. Who knows? Wouldn't a well-written, informative press release about her involvement in the show and what it's about make more sense? Start a rumor about the private life of one of your own actors so they and you can immediately deny it? Pretty lame. Not very attention-grabbing.
Furthermore, the subhead on this dumb story is repulsive as well. What do you mean, she is "embroiled" in a "dating rumor?" The use of the word "embroiled" immediately casts a vague air of negativity on the actor. Do you even know what "embroiled" means? Well, I'll tell you:
embroil
verb
transitive verb
1: TO THROW INTO DISORDER OR CONFUSION
2: TO INVOLVE IN CONFLICT OR DIFFICULTIES
Example: EMBROILED IN CONTROVERSY
I think you used the word deliberately to make the story sound as if it is reporting on something suspicious that is part of the ongoing "buzz" and thus worthy of looking into.
As it turns out, not only is this woman not "embroiled" in anything whatsoever, she is not even dating the guy. So your "story's" second and third paragraphs entirely cancel out its first paragraph. There is NO story at all. This thing should not be posted on your site.
Another problem: "Meanwhile, Lee Kang In's side neither admitted nor denied the dating reports..."
The use of the phrase "neither admitted nor denied, " most often used in relation to accusations/allegations, is similarly appalling here. You "admit or deny" something negative you have been accused of doing. This man doesn't have to "admit or deny" anything to anybody, most of all the Korean media or MDL, for god's sake.
Even in the sentence that establishes there is no relationship, as stated by the agency, the writer of this thing uses the phrase "According to the agency...", as if to say "this is what they SAY, but you and I know there still might be something going on." Typical Korean gossip rag-type language.
And let us not ignore the use of the word "allegedly" in this story, which is there to cover your and The Fact's (what an ass-backward name for a rag that mostly spreads unfounded rumors) asses.
FINALLY, this: "This will also be her first-ever project after being involved in the bullying issue in his former K-pop girl group April." Let The Fact and MDL never fail to leap at a chance to vaguely mention another, out-of-date, negative issue, thus reminding the public of whatever the "bullying issue" was. What "bullying issue?" What did she do? That sentence is designed to send Netizens streaking to their keyboards to remind themselves of or discover for the first time, what the "bullying Issue" was. Good god, it never ends.
Please take down this post.
Please stop posting intrusive, sloppy, and sleazy articles about the private lives of entertainers.
Please be part of the solution, rather than part of the problem.
You see me as "righteous" because you're wrong and you know it. Cuts no ice with me.
And "dirty?" That's YOU again (wow! You keep projecting your shit onto me), slinging that dirt at a dead man, demanding proof of innocence from someone who owes you nothing, even after those who think as you do have put him in his grave.
Good job. St. Sebastian wouldn't think so, though. You're one of those shooting the arrows.