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   Yohan Yukiya Sese Cuneta 사요한🦣 (youronlyone@c.im)'s status on Tuesday, 21-Jan-2025 23:16:14 JST Yohan Yukiya Sese Cuneta 사요한🦣

   People who give a disconnected English title to non-English materials should be fired. They are giving people the wrong expectations which results in low ratings.

   «졸업» (lit. graduate) became «The Midnight Romance in Hagwon» 👎🏽🤦🏽

   #Kdrama #TV #Movies #Film #Drama

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     Bence Varga (vbence@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 22-Jan-2025 06:24:33 JST Bence Varga

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     @youronlyone I had a couple of semesters on translation and I'll never forget the lecturer - being a professional translator herself - begrudgingly mentioning that the title is not the translator's domain but the marketing department's

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     Yohan Yukiya Sese Cuneta 사요한🦣 (youronlyone@c.im)'s status on Wednesday, 22-Jan-2025 06:24:33 JST Yohan Yukiya Sese Cuneta 사요한🦣

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     • Bence Varga

     @vbence Yep, that's correct, it's the marketing department. They think what can get attention without any care if it will cause false expectations that can result in bad ratings.

     Not always of course, but it's happening a lot. 😅 Which is ironic, because they should care about the ratings too.

     Good thing I like the education theme, otherwise I would've given the show a low rating too. 😅😅 (It's what happened with "Goodbye, Earth" too. They set the expectation about an apocalyse, scifi production, but it was a life drama. The original title was already perfect.)