Ok, I feel more relieved just by seeing Kim Yoo Jung‘s character still for SBS drama Backstreet Rookie (Convenience Store Morning Star) because the original webtoon uncomfortably sexualized the female lead character. Her character still in the new batch released for the entire drama is so adorable and I also love how earnest and dorky male lead Ji Chang Wook looks as the convenience store manager. The entire cast is showcased and there is a wonky character as a South Korean styled as a Rastafarian and I’m hoping it’s not as offensive as it looks otherwise hoo boy awkward. I just was a cute, silly rom-com and until the drama proves otherwise I’m still super excited to check it out next month in June.
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Ji chang wook so handsome????????❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
And Kim Yoo Jung is beautiful!
Yes I like her
I watch only for male leads unless the actress is jjj or shk. I dont care about actresses
@ady
But she is one of the top of her gen.
I didn't deny that. She can have successful career like shk or jjh .
Soooo excited!i hope its a nice story.God Bless.
Yoo Jung is so beautiful but her character feels like CWPFN 2.0. Anyways, hope this drama a success so haters will stop bringing up the flop did by CWPFN.
I’m excited! Only one more month! Eternal Monarch can you just end already? Lol
—I’m not feeling Changwook hairstyle, he’s so good looking why they give him a poodle head? Yoojung is gorgeous period!
—I’m also not feeling the Jamaican guy character, he’s making me already afraid that this show is going to be super slapstick and cheesy, I’m not here for that.
—I really hope that they don’t include the cigarette scene from the webtoon. It’s a huge turn-off and it makes me look at the male lead in a negative light because he shouldn’t be getting them for minors.
Please be good, please be good, please be good!
Agree. The Jamaican looking guy totally makes no sense to me and to this drama, only to add to the racist bash. Looking like a very low class joke ready to explode. I bet the comedy lines will be cheesy and crinchy just like Clean with Passion. A low budget drama. I like to make jokes but this Jamaican guy is too low for me even as entertainment. Everytime an asian trying to make fun of a dark skinned person is a no-no in my book. I am a white dude.
It’s really horrid, I hope they’re respectable. The entire world, please cross your fingers.
Agreed, but the cultural appropriation is something that every country does. Same as Mickey Rooney in Breakfast at Tiffany's.
Having said that, I never understood how Hallyu and prior to that HK cinema became so incredibly popular in South-East Asia (Philippines, Indonesia, Vietnam etc.) or some parts of the Middle-East and Africa. East-Asians (Koreans, Japanese and Chinese) have all derogatory terms for people from these nations and they use it like it is no biggie. For example, it is accepted to call Vietnam as Sh*t-nam in some of the East-Asian languages. Originally Vietnam was called Peace-nam, but they bastardise the name into Sh*t-nam. "Peace" sounds as "On" and "Sh*t" sounds as "Awe". Anyway I digress...
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Interesting insight, it’s always devastating to see humans looking down on other humans due to cultural or visual bias/discrimination.
@Laura. It gets even worse. I thought that the original meaning of Vietnam's prior name "Annam" meant Peaceful South (as I was taught), but I did some research and they meant totally different things with it. With "Annam", they meant "The Pacified South" (to pacify = bringing peace to a country with military force). Same word, but different meaning in different context... To bastardize an already derogatory term is even worse than I thought. Yikes...
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—that’s baffling. Wow. also I’m impressed, you’re so knowledgeable.
Don't judge the guy with the reggae hair based on stills yet. He was a scene stealer in Fiery Priest.
@m I recall the cast and director wanting to do season 2 of fiery priest, it seems like it’s never happening :/
Yeah, he was funny in Fiery Priest... But he was also a bit of a racist, as the majority of his time he was bullying the Thai delivery guy. Btw, that was also cultural appropriation. The guy that played the Thai guy was fully Korean, but he portrayed the role because he was darker skinned. They also casted Koreans to play Russians, who were seen as savages with weird eating habits. Having said that, the Fiery Priest was not offensive in my book, but I can imagine that people with no thick skin do not like it. Especially if you want to be PC.
Because the director of this new drama is the same director of The Fiery Priest. He must have liked that actor. He is a great singer, rapper and dancer too.
Yeah me, too. After seeing the webtoon I was like no way this is going to be shown in a public channel.
It is not funny to color one's skin dark and make fun of it. This makes me giving more respect to Chris Lyon (Kim To-ni) in IC. Dark skinned people is not to be make fun of. We need to give respect to all skin colors. Why not make him wear a blonde wig?
I don't think they coloured his skin. He was in Fiery Priest and his skin colour looks the same. Not all koreans are super fair, some are a bit tan than others. The actor name is Eum Moon Suk.
According to the character description on SBS site, he'll be a webtoon writer in this drama. And one of his webtoon is titled 'Her Reggae Boy'.
Ugh why did they have to go all cultural appropriation with that character. I already dislike him and I hope he doesn’t get a lot of screen time. Not only does the man have dreads but he’s also wearing a Jamaican flag.. He doesn’t even exist in the webtoon so the writer literally went out of her way to write a racist character. I’m so over it. I’m looking forward to the rest of the cast tho. Jcw and kyj look adorable.
A better heading to put that under would be "Rastafarian" not "Jamaican". There are also people from Asian decent who who reside in Jamaica FYI and would be classified as "Jamaican" For future reference "Jamaicans" do not look like that " Rastafarians" look like that, and there are some Rastafarians who are Jamaicans.
You are totally correct! His look is Rastafarian.
One would immediately think Jamaican because of the locks but the colors in the outfit has red which is not one of the Jamaican colors. Is this character in the original work I wonder. And if so what’s the role and if not why this role.
Makes me think of HaHa in RunningMan who liked the Jamaican culture and music so had locks and his music had that beat as well. To me Haha has much love and was more appreciating the culture. Let’s see what this character is bringing to the role.
Kim Yoo Jung looks very pretty here. I will definitely be watching for her and am rooting for the success of this drama, especially after the mess that was CWPFN.
End the King Eternal PPL Already and let this drama air earlier than schedule. this drama is looks more fun and exciting.
Pass. I wish talented KYJ is in another drama.