Korean Drama
If you flick across the non-standard cable channels, you may come across a lot of Oriental garbage. There is a lot of Oriental garbage in the world, and they are not ashamed of putting most of it on television. I guess we have that in common.
Recently, I have had reason to watch Korean dramas, which are by all accounts popular. I made the joke that they were all the same, not just because all the actors look the same, but they seem to have the same plots and characters. Here is what happens in every Korean drama:
1. A woman is doing a weird screaming/crying thing. This must happen at least once every twenty minutes.
2. 20% of all the females in the show dye their hair a weird orange/red colour. No one else dyes their hair any colour except this orange/red shade, and it should be a steady 20% of all the female cast members.
3. There is an older lady who never smiles. This is broken up into 'lady who is always sad' (like Eunnim's real mother in My Bittersweet Life) and 'lady who is always angry' (like Su Young's mother in Ojakgyo Brothers). You will never see these characters in any other light. Ever.
4. There is some confusion over who the main character's (or her love interest's) parents are. Maybe someone's adopted, or the babies were switched at birth, but there's always something terribly wrong with the mother-child relationship.
5. There is some guy who looks like he's 15 years old in a position of some influence at a company. No one's sure, exactly, what the company does, but there are tense board meetings and feverish papers passed in hallways.
6. There's a young girl who likes this guy, but he likes some other girl, and there's some other guy who likes her and blah blah blah. You know? That sort of thing.
7. Some character is being judged ill because he's poor.
8. Women screaming and crying. All the time. About everything.
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