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Kim Ah-joong comes back in 6 years with romantic comedy
2011/11/30, Source,
Actress Kim Ah-joong is coming back to screens after 6 years.
She will come back with the movie "My P.S Partner" due next year. She is currently going to details and signing the contract,...More
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Flower Boy Ramyun Shop - Some Cable Freshness
2011/11/12,
This new romantic comedy series has started airing over at tvN, a Korean cable channel. Big whoop, you'd tell me. Another rom-com from Korea. What's new, right? Quite a lot, I will say to you. Because romantic comedy is a very good genre to play "spot the difference" between the government controlled public television (for the most part, because there have been wonderful exceptions) and the corporate owned cable television.
For those who do not know of this, here is the short explanation. Public television is controlled by people and laws that use dated and sometimes even fascist ideology and practices when it comes to content. This means that, in public television, gay characters are not tolerated, a divorced woman is tainted and has no right to live, work and love and people are virgins until after their wedding, even if they are 30+ years old. Ok, not on all series, but these are some of the extreme and quite common issues that will seem plain weird and creepy to anyone living in the modern world.
We've had some fine and scary examples of that form of attempted (and often achieved) censorship lately, when the Korean Communications Commission and the Korean Advertisers Association started making a fuss about things which they deem harmful for audiences and which any person living in a modern society would consider plain crazy.
"A Thousand Kisses" has been one of the latest targets of the KCC
And as I say in my articles on cable tv, these limitations do not seem to exist much there. Whether they exist in the real Korea or not, I do not know, but they are definitely not traits of a modern version of the world. And a romantic series is the best way to illustrate that. Because those are usually for teen audiences and receive a lot of "treatment" from these moral government committees.
I shall refer to Korea as Korea from now on and for the entire article. But there is another Korea here... The one that exists in public television and is sometimes the version these pseudo-prude fossils want people to accept as "how things should and must be",...More
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[Updated] Hwang Jeong-min, Jeong Woo-seong 'screen stars'
2011/10/26, Source,
Coming back with general service channel dramas.
All those actors and actresses who were in theaters are now returning to TV,...More
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[Exclusive] Kim Ah-joong tax evasion, NTS imposes 6 hundred million
2011/09/05, Source,
In addition to MC Kang Ho-dong (41), actress More
