K-dramas might be featurg more gay characters – jt watch Where Your Ey Lger or To My Star – but South Korea’s showbiz still has a way to go
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11 K-DRAMAS THAT DIDN'T SHY AWAY OM GAY RELATNSHIPS
Upg BL – or boy’s love – seri Color Rh is the latt a le of dramas and movi bunkg LGBTQ+ stigma South Korea, followg Netflix-released Long Time No See and No Regret, directed by Korea’s first openly gay filmmaker Lee-song Hee-il * my son is gay korean drama *
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Enter Kang Yooseok as Shwoo and Choe Chanyi as Daon, his betifully flawed love terts, whose storyl engage wh their gayns a tangible way, not simply relegatg to the peripheral. (Viki, Japan)To My StarOnce aga provg there’s more to gay fantasy than universy romanc, To My Star featur Son Woo-hyun as popular actor Kang Seo-joon, who is exiled om stardom amidst a media ntroversy. In fact, acrdg to rearch done by OECD, Korea is “laggg behd pared to the OECD average regardg acceptance of homosexualy”.
Love Wh Flaws (2019) Cha Inha plays a bartenr workg at a gay bar this drama. Thankfully, he is eventually told by his relativ that beg gay isn’t somethg he needs to apologize for and is accepted by them for who he is. He plays a high school stunt who is jt g to terms wh his homosexualy but is still nfed about his feelgs.
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XX (2020) While he don’t play a huge role the show, actor Lee Jongwon portrays a perfumer who is gay, and had an ex cheat on him. Shows like Netflix’s Vcenzo and Me are featurg more gay characters but South Korea’s showbiz still has a way to go.