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Where’s the Girl Power? — 6 Comments

  1. Other examples that I can quickly think of:

    My Sweet Seoul: Eun-soo (Choi Kang-hee), Yoon-hee (Moon Jung-hee) and Jane (Jin Jae-young).

    What Happened in Bali: Soo-jung (Ha Ji-won) and Mi-hee (Shin Yee).

    Brilliant Legacy: Eun-sung (Han Hyo-joo) and Hye-ri (Min Young-won).

    My Girl: Yoo-rin (Lee Da-hae) and Jin-shim (Hwang Bo-ra).

    Was going through the list of kdramas that I’ve watched. Wow, there’s really a paucity of genuine girl-girl friendships after discounting siblings or kinship and colleagues!

  2. Hi, this is my first comment on your blog. 🙂

    I’ve also often wondered why there are so few depictions of real female friendships in comparison to the male ones (they even have their own genre – the bromance! lol).

    I guess it plays into the cultural assumption that a woman lives for her man and not the other way around, so in dramas we always see the romantic relationship eclipsing all others. The woman does the sacrificing; even nowadays when women work and are seen as more equal, emotionally they tend to be more inverasted. Even if a female lead starts out having a lot of scenes with her friend(s), by the time the main couple gets serous these friends are just drinking buddies or sympathetic ears. It’s rare to see a friendship being given realistic screen-time. And friendship never trumps love (I guess how could it, in a rom-com).

    Plus, usually there are four main characters and the second female lead is a rival at the least (if not a crazy obsessive witch). I wonder if there’s some rule where female characters can only get so much screen time and so they don’t have time for girly bonding. Just a thought 🙂

  3. hi there, this is my first comment too.

    i really like this post. I think you’ve pretty much listed out all of it, and the rest are in thundie’s comment. i’m just surprise how few and far between those friendships are or has been sacrificed in the name of romantic plotline. I do have a few to add in though:

    Who Are You?: Young In and Ji Suk – the latter calls the former ‘kijibe’ in an affectionate way.

    Personal Taste: Kae In and Young Sun

  4. @ thundie, Laica, Pyjamagirl

    Thanks everyone! I love the additions of a few female friendships I left off my list.

    It’s a shame though, there aren’t more.

  5. I agree, I haven’t see girl friendships in Korean dramas that ever made me tear. I think the most heartwarming so far has been WWSWTM. I did like the Sam Soon relationship with her divorced older sis. That relationship felt so real.

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