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   Yohan Yukiya Sese Cuneta 사요한🦣 (youronlyone@c.im)'s status on Saturday, 13-Sep-2025 02:08:19 JST Yohan Yukiya Sese Cuneta 사요한🦣

   • K-drama | K-movie

   Few people notice this: there is often a monthly & quarterly theme in #Kdrama

   This month and last month, the recurring theme is #euthanasia or "assisted death", and #Switzerland is sometimes mentioned in passing. (IIRC, there was a K-drama that touched on this earlier this year.)

   Usually, this has to do with current social sentiments and discussions. Writers and directors who still values social issues more than entertainment produce projects based on what's the current trend or pressing issue/discussion. Again, usually. The other possibility, someone or some group is pulling the strings.

   However these themes occur, it gives us some insight intothe cultural and social situation in South Korea.

   As we all know, fiction can influence the people's views and sentiments on sensitive issues, directly and indirectly. It may not be evident immediately but it will be eventually.

   It looks like it is euthanasia or assisted death this time. It's a war on minds. Push and pull. Either make it common so people become comfortable with it and make it easi for politicans and news to openly discuss it, or write the stories in a way that will make people to reject it.

   It's good to openly discuss sensitive topics and use fiction to put cultural and social issues up front, as long as fiction isn't used to push one side or an agenda.

   @kdrama

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     Kdramarama (kdramarama@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 14-Sep-2025 09:06:32 JST Kdramarama

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     • Ronsboy67
     • K-drama | K-movie

     @ronsboy67 @youronlyone @kdrama justice saw a preview for the new Kim Go-eun drama You and Everything Else touching on it

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     Yohan Yukiya Sese Cuneta 사요한🦣 (youronlyone@c.im)'s status on Sunday, 14-Sep-2025 09:06:32 JST Yohan Yukiya Sese Cuneta 사요한🦣

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     • Ronsboy67
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     • Kdramarama

     @kdramarama @ronsboy67 Yep. «You and Everything Else» is about assisted death too. There was another last month, but I didn't watch it (already loaded with shows to watch 😅). @kdrama

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     Ronsboy67 (ronsboy67@mas.to)'s status on Sunday, 14-Sep-2025 09:06:33 JST Ronsboy67

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     • K-drama | K-movie

     @youronlyone @kdrama apart from Mary Kills People, which is not a #kDrama original but a remake of a Western show, what other #kDrama recently have focused on euthanasia as a major topic or plot point?

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     Ronsboy67 (ronsboy67@mas.to)'s status on Sunday, 14-Sep-2025 09:12:57 JST Ronsboy67

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     • Brisingr05

     @brisingr05 @youronlyone @kdrama Ah. Mention of a monthly theme made me think of an entire #kDrama, where the theme was significant. One episode of one Drama doesn't feel like part of a "recurring theme" to me.

     I'd be more likely to include "Beyond the Bar" as part of a legal 'theme' given its near overlap with "Law and the City"

     With the rise of pre-shot over live-shot, we're seeing less of this than formerly. Fewer "all vampires" "all doctors" "all judges" than in the days of yore.

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     Yohan Yukiya Sese Cuneta 사요한🦣 (youronlyone@c.im)'s status on Sunday, 14-Sep-2025 09:12:57 JST Yohan Yukiya Sese Cuneta 사요한🦣

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     • Ronsboy67
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     • Brisingr05

     @ronsboy67 @brisingr05 True. Kdrama os becoming more episodic these days, than serial/sequiential. Some are mixing the two formats too. Allowing them to tackle more topics.

     @kdrama

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     Brisingr05 (brisingr05@kpop.social)'s status on Sunday, 14-Sep-2025 09:13:02 JST Brisingr05

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     • Ronsboy67
     • K-drama | K-movie

     @ronsboy67 @youronlyone @kdrama Episode seven of 'Beyond the Bar'.