Us vs Korea || Honey & Lemon

Hello all my beautiful people how are you all doing today?

I’m back with a honey and lemon collab with my amazing partner in crime MingMing! This week we decided to compere Dramas with shows from our own countries. I’m going to compare them to American shows so lest get this blog stared.

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so we know that K-drams are so different from other shows around the world, and specially with American shows. Even if I like K-Dramas I also like American shows, some have already fished and some are still on airing. They sure have many things in difference from length to been more provocative to been more dramatic.

Shows like Pretty little liars, How I met your mother, to the 70s show have aired for about 10 years. With multiple seasons, and that is something that is very uncommon in K-dramas. Usually dramas contain one season and its rare for them to get a second season and even if they do, its usually with a new cast but maintaining the same type of storyline. In America if a show doesn’t get a second season or more its because it didn’t do well with the audience. And with many content some great shows get canceled due to lack of views.

Crime shows is something that is very command to watch from Criminal minds, CSI, iZombie, Stichers , Numbers, Black List, Person of interest, white-collar, the finder, How to get away from Murder, and many more. And I’m not sure if I just haven’t seen shows like this but that’s something I never seen in Korean Programing, sure we had a remake of Criminal minds, and shows like Vampire detective, you’re all surrounded that dealt with individual crimes in each episode and with one main story line but they are all one season.

While K-Dramas tend to stick more in to different styles like, Comedy, melodrama, medical, historical and others. American shows tent to stick a lot to Crime shows, medical, syfy and comedy. Shows with Melodrama as its focus like Switch at birth and Pretty Little liars are not that common or I haven’t seen much of them. But one things I’m sure of Historical shows in America are like almost pretty sure not existent. Just like how post apocalyptical shows in Korea are pretty much none existent. While The Walking dead , Falling Skies, the last ship and Revolution are very well know, I haven’t seen dramas like that. And wish that they would.

iZombie is one of my favorite shows that I’m currently watching, we have seen Vampires on K-drams but not zombies, or any other type of supernatural crime shows except for Vampire detective.

one thing American shows are well known is for their sexuality. American shows are more open to talk about the S word unlike K-dramas. Even if it’s a school theme show or shows that have minors in them like Pretty little liars, the fosters, switch at birth, Teen wolf, Faking It and many more have a strong prances of the S word.

the biggest difference is probably the repetition of the LGBT community in American shows, its very common for shows to have at least one member of the cast to play out member of the LGBT community, usually is a side character like in Teen Wolf a few of the characters were homosexuals but shows like Pretty little liars who had a main character been a lesbian fallow by another main character who came out later on the show, and shows like Faking it that had the two main characters pretend to be lesbians and a few side characters that were gay, but then one of the leading girls did end up been a lesbian and the other one struggled with her sexuality. In the fosters the youngest cast member played a character who was in middle school, and for part of the show he struggled with his sexuality before accepting that he wasn’t straight, also the adopted parents in the show were two female characters.

But in Korean dramas, these topics are not very common and its usually not receive well by the audience even if Korean woman lowkey like BL dramas. The drama Schoolgirl Detectives was strongly criticizes for including a kiss between two female characters, but the Drama The lover that included a potential romance between two guys was favored by many Korean woman. This topic has created many conversations with many people been ive but at the same time many others been against dramas including any time of same gender romance. Unlike in American shows Gay kiss scenes in K-Drama are readily accepted, when the scene is intended to make audiences laugh.

lots of people bash American shows saying “This is why I don’t watch America shows, and I only watch dramas. They make everything about sex” or “American shows are garbage”

we are all in title to our own opinion and I don’t thing American shows are that bad, we have some good ones and we have some that might not be the best. Nut I think that the biggest insult in American television is…

DAYTIME SOAP OPERAS!

many people would say that K-Drams are the Soap operas of Korean and I’m very proud to say “BITCH! NO”

this is the one American show I’m very thankful to say that its very different from K-Dramas because thy are horrible and why on earth would anyone watch them. One day I decided to watch a soap opera name “Days of Our lives” this soap opera has aired since 1965 with 13,275 (and counting). The show made headlines for been the first daytime soap opera to include two main characters who were part of the LGBT community… and I do it it was good for a few episodes but then the drama stared. I saw a character that was introduce when I stared watching it who was nice, then she became evil, then nice again and then she kidnaps someone daughter and then she was nice again and then she got killed … all within one week.

so I’m very thankful and happy to have my Korean dramas that last only 16 to 72 episodes (depending on the production) and not 13,000 episodes.

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Love them or hate them, Some American shows are worth the watch. I’m not saying that they are all diamonds because they are not, but some are good.

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