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GOING TO YOU AT A SPEED OF 너에게 가는 속도 493KM — 2022, dir. Jo Woong

#my babies #love all play #going to you at the speed of 493 km

"It was the scene where she smacks my forehead, and she was debating. Like 'should I use my fist?' So then I said 'I'll die if you hit me like that'." - Heo Nam Jun

My Royal Nemesis (2026)

#my royal nemesis

driflloon

zhou ye 周也 for tencent video all star awards

#zhou ye #photoshoot

littlevillagefish

(their matching injured hands i see you director)

Pursuit of Jade textposts part 9

complete collection of pursuit of jade textposts

#chasing jade #pursuit of jade

fake-married-my-dead-fiance

I think sometimes a woman wants to fantasize about a big strong man who will protect her and sometimes she wants a sad, scared wet puppy of a man that she can protect and sometimes both of these men are the same person

#pursuit of jade

yingtan

ZHANG LINGHE 张凌赫 as Xie Zheng "Marquis of Wu'an" PURSUIT OF JADE 逐玉 (2026)

#pursuit of jade #chasing jade #zhang linghe

captainjoongki

not to sound like an annoying karen, but i honestly, truly feel that netflix has fucked up the kdrama genre for good.

just 10-ish years ago, there were kdramas that the big 3 korean channels (SBS, MBC, KBS) would broadcast and then there were kdramas that the main cable channels (jTBC and tvN) would broadcast. and between those groupings, you got everything. you got 16-20 episodes of dramas that had heartfelt writing, filmed with bright colors, filmed with concise plots, that most of the time, ended WELL. you got a GOOD ending that was complete. the works felt authentically south korean. yes, there were cheesy tropes and moments that made you cringe, but it felt so real. and you had SO many kdramas airing during the week! you couldn't keep track of just how many!

cut to netflix coming in and making it big with kdramas with squid game and some romantic works and then suddenly they (and disney+) are making these short kdramas, less than 10 episodes, with generic filters, generic plots, and poorly written scripts that are just mere shadows of what kdramas used to be. they end shitty 90% of the time. and worst of all, they feel like american shows. and no, i don't mean sex scenes or action scenes because hey, i love change there, but i mean the entire VIBES are just off. they're not the kdramas i fell in love with, the ones that felt so human. and thanks to these big, foreign companies coming in, the main broadcast channels have basically shut down 1/2 their timeslots, and so many dramas aren't even getting aired these days.

yes times change progress is great robots will probably replace us all in a few years blah blah, but it's really depressing to me personally since i have such fond memories of the utter joy of kdramas, especially from the golden era of 2008-2017. and while there are some that escape the netflix!americanized! curse, it's unfortunately the majority that remain nothing but commercial puppets, rather than authentic entertainment.

#true