The Problematic of the Unproblematic

You don't have to look long to find crimes of hair in Korean dramas. I personally know someone who said they could not watch Boys Over Flowers because of Lee Min Ho's hair. Well, ok....I admit that was me.  I found it so distracting that I could not move on to episode 2. But the crimes I'm talking about here are not bad styling, because everyone has their favorite examples of those (Hwang Jung-Eum in Can You Hear My Heart , or the entire cast of Full House Take 2 to name a few).  No, I'm talking about crimes against hair as in just plain crazy bad drama making.  Or in other words, random hair changes that no one is supposed to notice. Now these changes fall into several categories: The COLOR CHANGE I think I first became aware of this phenomenon while watching Goong when Yul's hair changed from that ever popular reddish brown to a darker, more natural shade around episode 14. I thought it was really strange at the time - both the reddish color and the ...

My grabby-hand noona friends (I mean this in a very endearing way, girls!) and I have noticed something strange that seems to have taken root in KDramaland. It's make-up related. Lip make-up related to be precise. I guess it's a trend when four subsequent or parallel dramas do it? The horror! It looks as if their lips were stained instead of using lipstick in a proper way, or like they just had lunch and then forgot to touch up ... But see for yourself!  Someone a bit more knowledgeable among us suggested that they might in fact be trying to go for the so-called ombre-effect. But does ombre effect equal looking like they just ate a strawberry but forgot to wipe their mouths? Certainly not! It could and should look like this: Wow, that's beautiful!! Try again, make-up people! The second lip-related disaster that seems to have become a trend is color that is completely off the charts. This woman just looked into the mirror: And this ... Isn't...

After reading about how some Yoochun fans vehemently oppose one of his co-actresses (Jang Min-in-ae) in the upcoming drama I Miss You due to some, hm, smexy pictures (and, as some claim, bad acting in the past), I started thinking about purity, or the image of it, in KPop and KDrama. And about super-scary-crazy fans ( Xiahpaws, Chunsas and Jaeharems? And they have hymns, code names, hierarchy ranks, and spies? Really??) , but that's another topic. To be honest, the complete lack of sex scenes in KDrama that make you appreciate even just the 'eyeloving' and crave even for the smallest touch between a potential couple is one of the reasons why I like KDrama so much more than US shows.  In that sense, there are a lot of similarites between KDrama and British period pieces like Pride & Prejudice or North & South (my husband calls them "lady films"). Romance is not shown in the form of sweating, grunting bodies, but as a pure and noble venture, always c...