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This is why my wife watches Korean dramas - less sex, more shipping! She has literally said that making American adaptations would make it much more sex focuse

by RajT88 3y ago

This is why my wife watches Korean dramas - less sex, more shipping! She has literally said that making American adaptations would make it much more sex focused, and ruin the premise of these shows.

Roark66 3y ago
Exactly. I'm not sure how it is in others regions, but here in Central Europe Netflix has lots of good Korean and Japanese TV dramas. It is funny how some of them have a great first season, then they get lots of money following their success, after which they try to emulate Holywood and make pretty bad season 2 (it is "too American" as my wife says - you know the whole plot after first 5 minutes, and there definitely have to be certain obligatory copy/pasted plot themes, like previously mentioned sex scenes etc). Of course, it's not just Holywood and American dramas that have bad elements. I find many Japanese dramas focus to much on the "internal conflict" in their characters. But overall both Japanese and Korean productions are light years ahead. I don't remember last time I saw a good American drama.
- RajT88 3y ago
  > I'm not sure how it is in others regions, but here in Central Europe Netflix has lots of good Korean and Japanese TV dramas. It's like that everywhere to varying degrees. Early on, a bunch of weird Korean films dropped on Netflix (2009ish), and then disappeared for a while. They started trickling back a few years later. A few years ago, a glut of Korean and Japanese dramas started dropping as their global popularity increased. You are still going to find more Korean and Japanese stuff if you're viewing Netflix in (say) the Philippines, but there's a lot everywhere. A lot of it has to do with licensing, and where they can get licenses to stream. As an experiment - try streaming Netflix connected to VPN endpoints in different countries. Sometimes you get the same stuff with different names! Example is a Japanese show called in the US, "Atelier". In Japan, it shows up as "Underwear" (lol).
bitshiftfaced 3y ago
I can't help but find it interesting that the country with the lowest birthrate has a reputation for having less sex in its media. I wonder if we'd find a relationship in general between some metric of sex on TV with the country's birthrate. But I'm sure I'm not the first one to think of this conspiracy theory.
- kelipso 3y ago
  Something about religious and conservative countries, their media, and their birthrates.
  - RajT88 3y ago
    Quite nearby, there's Japan with a similarly low birthrate, and not particularly religious. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
- hulitu 3y ago
  The sex on movies has nothing to do with birth rate ( unless is an american movie, when every sex scene will make you abstain from sex).

by RajT88 3y ago

This is why my wife watches Korean dramas - less sex, more shipping! She has literally said that making American adaptations would make it much more sex focused, and ruin the premise of these shows.

Roark66 3y ago

Exactly. I'm not sure how it is in others regions, but here in Central Europe Netflix has lots of good Korean and Japanese TV dramas. It is funny how some of them have a great first season, then they get lots of money following their success, after which they try to emulate Holywood and make pretty bad season 2 (it is "too American" as my wife says - you know the whole plot after first 5 minutes, and there definitely have to be certain obligatory copy/pasted plot themes, like previously mentioned sex scenes etc). Of course, it's not just Holywood and American dramas that have bad elements. I find many Japanese dramas focus to much on the "internal conflict" in their characters. But overall both Japanese and Korean productions are light years ahead. I don't remember last time I saw a good American drama.

RajT88 3y ago
> I'm not sure how it is in others regions, but here in Central Europe Netflix has lots of good Korean and Japanese TV dramas. It's like that everywhere to varying degrees. Early on, a bunch of weird Korean films dropped on Netflix (2009ish), and then disappeared for a while. They started trickling back a few years later. A few years ago, a glut of Korean and Japanese dramas started dropping as their global popularity increased. You are still going to find more Korean and Japanese stuff if you're viewing Netflix in (say) the Philippines, but there's a lot everywhere. A lot of it has to do with licensing, and where they can get licenses to stream. As an experiment - try streaming Netflix connected to VPN endpoints in different countries. Sometimes you get the same stuff with different names! Example is a Japanese show called in the US, "Atelier". In Japan, it shows up as "Underwear" (lol).

bitshiftfaced 3y ago

I can't help but find it interesting that the country with the lowest birthrate has a reputation for having less sex in its media. I wonder if we'd find a relationship in general between some metric of sex on TV with the country's birthrate. But I'm sure I'm not the first one to think of this conspiracy theory.

kelipso 3y ago
Something about religious and conservative countries, their media, and their birthrates.
- RajT88 3y ago
  Quite nearby, there's Japan with a similarly low birthrate, and not particularly religious. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
hulitu 3y ago
The sex on movies has nothing to do with birth rate ( unless is an american movie, when every sex scene will make you abstain from sex).