SBS Fri-Sat Night Drama Good Partner Ratings Stagnant Around 15% in Recent Episodes as Viewers Begin to Complain About the Push Towards Keeping Families Together with Cheating Spouse

So the South Korean conservative culture remains strong despite in modern times divorce being more and more acceptable and even adultery being decriminalized. SBS Fri-Sat night legal drama Good Partner dealing with a family law firm started off very strong with increasing ratings each week up to a high of 17%. But the last three episodes dropped and is now averaging 15% and with it comes complaints about the storyline, namely that the drama appears to be using the child of a divorcing couple due to infidelity by the dad always missing the dad to make it seem like divorce is a bad idea even in this situation. While its normal for a child of divorcing parents to miss one parent when with the other, this drama appears to be making it extra obvious with the kid always asking for the dad when with her mom moreso than usual, with the implication that a family is only complete when the parents are together regardless of any reason.

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K-stars Looking Casually Cool Attending the VIP Movie Premiere of Concrete Utopia with Lee Byung Hun, Park Seo Joon, and Park Bo Young

It’s been a slower than usual summer season for K-movies, other than for the 3rd installment of The Roundup: No Way Out topping three weekends at the box office and Smugglers one weekend, it’s been Hollywood movies at the top. … Continue reading

More K-ent Programming Cancelled or Postponed in the National Week of Mourning After Itaewon Halloween Deaths and Injuries

As South Korea grapples with how the Itaewon Halloween weekend celebration led to so many deaths and injuries, the entertainment world is taking quick action on programming this week during the formal national mourning declared by the government. The K-dramas … Continue reading

First Posters and Teaser for September 2022 tvN Drama Little Women with Kim Go Eun, Nam Ji Hyun, and Park Ji Hoo

I wish this drama didn’t call itself Little Women but then again quite a few Korean dramas have used famous Western work titles and it didn’t create confusion, thinking of Pinocchio and While You Were Sleeping among others. Perhaps this … Continue reading

Song Ji Hyo, Nam Ji Hyun, and Chae Jong Hyeob Serve Up Dishes and Wishes in First Posters for Welcome to Witch’s Restaurant

The fantasy genre in K-dramas continues to go strong and up next is streaming platform TVING with Welcome to Witch’s Restaurant. I’ll confess to probably letting this one slip by but for the fact that it stars Nam Ji Hyun … Continue reading

First Look at Song Ji Hyo, Nam Ji Hyun, and Chae Jong Hyeob in TVING Fantasy Drama The Witch’s Diner

Ooooooh, this looks so tasty a drama dish! The first stills are out for the fantasy drama The Witch’s Diner (Welcome to the Witch’s Restaurant) airing this July on streaming platform TVING. Starring Song Ji Hyo as the titular witch … Continue reading

Netizens Revisit Two Iconic K-dramas Cinderella Unni and Will it Snow for Christmas, Considered Lifetime Works for the First 4 Episodes Before Falling Apart

When I saw this post circulating among K-netizens it was such a walk down memory lane. Both dramas aired in 2010 and then it felt like such hope for the new creative and emotional heights for K-dramas in the start … Continue reading