For the love of all thatâs holy, stop placing bugs with flashing red lights on them so that they stand out a mile!
But 99% of people look much better without glasses than with them. For many of us it is a necessary evil (itâs not advisable to wear contact lenses all the time) but itâs very easy to make someone look better by getting rid of glasses, (fake) acne and of course more flattering hairstyle and clothes.
The actors look good to begin with, so to make a big, striking difference, you have to use all means available.
Actually it seems that in Korea wearing glasses is thought cool and smart, and many actors and idols do photoshoots with glasses on, when in reality they donât need or wear them. Iâve also seen them in dramas as an indication of an intellectual or an intelligent person.
As for me, I will repeat they are nothing but a bother. My nose has permanent dents from all these years of wearing them. I recently had a lens replacement operation hoping to get rid of them completely, but turns out that at my age it cannot be done. I still have to wear them (three different types: PC work, reading books, detailed embroidery or beadwork), even if the numbers are much much less than before. Ugh!
How they ride a bike. The bike is never adapted to the size of the biker. The bike is most of the times to small and te saddle is to low. This hurts the knees.
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Youâre so right. It not only can hurt the knees, but it also makes the rider work that much harder.
Glad Iâm not the only one bothered by this. LOL 
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Getting a nosebleed or fainting due to over work or over studying and then miraculously recovering after saline solution IV infusion.
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I dont know if this has been said, but them just standing right behind them or a bit to the side, while theyâre overhearing the convo those two are speaking has. Like⊠You should be blind and deaf if you canât see or hear people lurking behind you. ^.^
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Iâm going to have to disagree with you about glasses Iâm afraid. If girls wear glasses it elevates them to goddess status 
Honestly, I donât have a single male friend who doesnât think glasses make a girl more attractive. Maybe itâs a U.K thing??
Especially when itâs a villain or a hero with martial arts skills in historical settings 
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Why wouldnât you look around you first before spilling all of those secrets? Or you donât see that obvious figure hiding behind a tree / wall? 
(There are dramas in which the villain/ hero immediately figures out someone is listening though).
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Exactly! Every time i see it, Iâm like, be careful, youâre gonna die! 
And then Iâm disappointedâŠ
I dunno, to make it more annoying for the people watching, i guess? We have to see it if we want to yell!
But its rarely those dramas come! Maybe 1/10?
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It isnât difficult to make multiple copies of videos that could save you or destroy someone else, so STOP only having one copy of something. Sigh.
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And if for some reason you stupidly only have ONE copy, do NOT bring it with you and flash it in your enemyâs face to gloat about it.
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Or give it to the person that obviously shouldnât be trusted with that important information 
. Usually these people make it super obvious to the character that they should not be trusted with anything, let alone the most important information you have at the moment.
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NO WRITERS. Simple as that. The K-drama industry is too successful for anything to evolve in the right direction (creativity).
They have a very limited bank of themes they draw from, with minimalistic storylines and screenplays relying on the same bag of tricks and templates. These are usually centered around exaggerated abuseâwhether at school, home, or the workplace. To achieve this, series are often plotted unrealistically.
They depend on misunderstandings, things left unsaid, and unfinished sentences to keep the story moving somehow. Actors are pushed into awkward and embarrassing comic gags to fill gaps, often accompanied by a lot of ridiculous shouting you just want to skip. Someone mentioned templates earlier, and they were absolutely right.
Personally, I donât think Korean writers have completed any formal training. In France, for instance, there are schools for that! You couldnât possibly submit a screenplay without proper education.
I love Korean culture and would love to see more elaborate work. But is there even a market for it? Urban C-dramas are doing a better job, in my opinion. They donât fall into ridicule so easily.
Your answer is too wide sweeping, may I suggest. Yes, I recognise the culture of cliches and overstretched coincidences you characterise but there are many dramas way above that tide mark and what makes the best stand out is the excellent quality of the writing.
Iâve just recently revisited Hospital Playlist 2 which is a wonderfully sustained drama.
Others in my top list include Signal, D.P., Stranger, The Queenâs Umbrella, Missing: the Other Side, Live Up To Your Name, Move to Heaven, Extracurricular, My Mister.
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In Korea Iâm sure thereâs an equivalent to Uber where you can log onto an app and access the hundreds of heavily laden lorries that lurk in every side street, poised to eliminate the whistleblower, the journalist, or anyone with the crucial USB stick at just the right moment ⊠âyour killer HGV ride is just three minutes away. Donât forget to rate this service!!â
Hereâs a comment I made about eighteen months ago on all thoise cliches âŠ
"I have been dating a Korean guy lately which has been nice, but some things about him are not as I expected.
His father isnât president of a major corporation facing a corruption enquiry while fighting off a hostile takeover bid.
He didnât grow up surrounded by bodyguards in dark suits talking into their cuffs. On the other hand, neither did he grow up in an orphanage, his parents having died in a mysterious car crash which his secret brother (that he never knew he had) had survived, and who had ended up being fostered by the president of a major corp ⊠(er, see above).
Nor does he have any special powers and seems to be completely incapable of time travelling back to the Joseon era and he struggles even to open a tin can in the kitchen, never mind any portal to a parallel universe.
Whatâs more, he doesnât have an overbearing mother that hijacks him with Kimchi every 48 hours!!!
Iâm beginning to wonder if this guyâs Korean at all ⊠or, have I maybe watching too much K-Drama?!!"
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âtoo wide sweepingâ, really? Doesnât this cover at least 80% of all K-dramas by any standard?
90% of all important questions in Kdramas have this themplate:
question -âimportant question (or statement)â,
answer - (deh?) âwhatâ
response - âanyeoâŠâ(oh nothing)
Isnât there almost always a misunderstanding or things left unsaid at the heart of every plot for some obscure reason?
Isnât the contrast between submissive (unexplicably obedient victims) and evil always cartoonish and exaggerated?
I could go on and on about their bag of tricks. Iâm not saying there havenât been nice productions Iâve enjoyed in the past. But Iâm looking elsewhere nowadaysâitâs just almost always a waste of time.
The last one I watched: Something in the Rain (2018). They had everything to make an amazing series, and the theme was great. I loved how it started, almost like an urban Chinese drama. Nothing felt forced or overly exaggerated, no unjustified violence or instances of unbearable abuse. The plot made sense, and the writing was subtle. But after episode 10, they just couldnât help themselves. Nothing made sense after thatâŠ
Yes, in some cases they are exaggerated / sensationalized, but donât you think that it being this prevalent reflects something about their society? If you look further into it, youâll find numerous cases of abuse in all layers of their society, from underaged minors who know they wonât be held accountable for their crimes because of laws, to chaebols who just donât care because of the power and money they have.
Again, making the same point for this one. Based on the culture, itâs not always easy for people to say whatâs on their mind.
Do writers abuse this and make certain characters make really dumb decisions? Absolutely. Have I met people in real life, not only Koreans, who donât finish what they say or let misunderstandings brew that couldâve easily be avoided? Definitely.
Again, Iâm not excusing lazy writing. Lazy writing is frustrating.
Why compare the two? Different cultures, different lenses. C-dramas are also heavily censored, so there are certain subjects that you just wonât see in a Cdrama unless the censors mess up (abuse, to a certain extent does show up in Cdramas).
Itâs good that you have found a genre you like now. I have no problem that you dislike Kdrama tropes and your second statement seemed reasonable, but the first statement you made seemed too generalizing.
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yes, the kdrama could be great, but when it ends, i am disappointed by how they do it.
i just found this on Korean Drama Memes and Quotes 
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I feel bad whenever I post in this thread, not helped by the fact that I started it! I honestly do love my Kdramas and watch them every single day. Iâve lost count of how many I have watched now.
But I have just finished back-to-back âThe Secret Houseâ and âBattle of Witches,â and my goodness, they are absolute carbon copies of each other. I know there are only so many stories you can tell, but the similarities between these two series were insane!