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Re: K-Drama: 스타의 연인 (Celebrity Lover/Star's Lover)
Just a thought re the contract. If Suh had agreed to make sure that Chul Su was protected, then he has himself broken the contract. He set the press on Mari and also on Chul Su. Both are now exposed to the public so how can the contract be any good.
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5/9/2009, 10:36 pm
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That Suh is really a dog isn't he. Mari is not very bright to sign away her life and future.
Is this a legal possibility in real life? I suppose it is possible to be tied up for years as in the case with anyone managed by Johnny Jimusho. They have held SMAP for twenty years. Golden Goose for JJ of course. There are other groups under that management also with long contracts.
The book publishing world can be a minefield. A good writer is OK with a good editor and good company but now and then it can get difficult. Nowadays it seems to me we see more and more books by wellknown personalities with the proviso "as told to" printed on the jacket. It is obvious that the "author' can't have done the writing because they don't have the vocabulary when interviewed about the book.
Just like Mari until she was given a small education by Chul Su.
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5/10/2009, 10:23 am
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Since that sad case there has been at least one more young actress taking that way out. It has put a damper on my appreciation of Korean films and drama. It is such a conservative country but show business is rampant with covered up scandals. I suppose it goes on in other business also.
Women are not considered equal it would seem in Korea even today.
Despite everything that happens in Japan I think they have a more practical way of looking at life and have moreacceptance, and therefore I think less suicides for those hidden activities that happen in Korean show business.
Suicide seems to happen more often in those countries anyway and I can't quite understand some of the reasons. Impossible to fathom the state of mind and the person must feel utterly alone and hopeless. It makes me sad.
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5/10/2009, 10:59 pm
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Dear Peg, I think some of the problem results from the way younger people are expected to do what elders, parents, parents-in-law, etc. tell them to do. When the young people can't or won't obey, the guilt eats them up. In many ways, it's a society where anyone older or with more status can tell others younger and with less status what to do. It must often be very difficult to live in a society like that. Our Western society has elements of this kind of interaction, of course, but not to the extent that it exists in Korea. We've seen it played out many times in the different dramas we've watched over the years, with this element as the main plot device. That's why some of these dramas, while very good, would never play in a Western country--people wouldn't understand that subtext.
Perhaps one of the reasons this drama (and Worlds Within) did not receive higher ratings is because it has a "Western" feel to it. The characters in this drama make their own decisions. Mari rebelled against Suh, her elder and her "mentor," I suppose some would call him. In the last episode, Yuri told Chulsu to think of Eun yong because she loves him so much--he must not hurt someone who loves him that much. But he seems to have decided something different, at least for the time being. Still, I expect he may listen to his sister, regardless of the emotional attachment he now has to Mari, emotions he's never quite realized before. It's extremely difficult to lay aside cultural habits acquired through twenty to thirty years of living--very few people can do that, I think. So, I think he may start feeling guilt toward Eun yong and move back toward her, especially since he can't offer Mari much in the way of worldly goods.
On a very different note: I read that the actor whom Choi Ji Woo has been seeing has entered the military. I realized that whenever I read articles like that, it sounds as if the guy is somehow leaving society. Do you know--do the men get leave? Are they not able to visit home/family, etc. at any time during those two years?
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5/11/2009, 4:28 pm
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hyena,
When show business people go into the military they usually do not go through the same kind of service as ordinary mortals. They have to do the six weeks training first like everyone else. Then they are very often sent to do civil work in offices in Seoul. So Ji Sub was doing office work and was very embarassed as lots of his fans came every day to bring him lunch and lots of stuff. fFnally the Army asked his managers to put a stop to it. JiSub posted on his website and apologised and asked them to stop. He kept nine to five hours. Gong Yoo of 'Coffee Prince did his six weeks and then went way north to do some armament training. He was quite lonely but kept a website and fans talked to him that way. Later he was turned over to the entertaiment section and he is a radio DJ and news man. Some musicians are sent to music duty also and it all makes sense in a way but I wonder if the young 20 year old guys who have to go for regular duty are envious.... Regular army life is tough especially in Korea.
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5/11/2009, 9:56 pm
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in Korea, China, Taiwan and to a lesser extent Japan, the practice of confucian ideals like "filial piety" is considered a primary duty and a tradition. This means respect for parents and ancestors. Unfortunately this tradition is taken to extremes in the sense that children are expected to obey unconditionally and not just to be faithful and take care of one's parents but also including in-laws; it also means that you must ensure that there are male heirs, uphold fraternity among brothers, etc....etc...etc... Because of this conditioning, Korean society has a lot of repressed feelings and behavior. It was only recently that children of single mothers could be registered under their mothers name. Until 2007, I think, if you were an illegitimate or natural child and your father refuses to recognize you, then you do not have a birth certificate. If your father recognizes you, chances are you will be taken from your mother and raised by your father's family. So it is no wonder that LMR acts and re-acts the way she does...basically because she has very little rights. While Chul Soo is aware of the fact that in Korea, you marry within your class sector...you don't cross over. While it is still true that in western society and in modern Asia, your station in life (class or sect) is still considered when getting married, it is not absolute and is not a primary consideration. In Korea, marriage is a business, a merger of families...that's why class is a major (if not, the only for many) consideration.
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