Are LGBT K-dramas jt queerbag? Shows like Netflix’s Vcenzo and Me are featurg more gay characters but South Korea’s showbiz still has a way to go | South Cha Morng Post

Contents:

• 'PASSAG' DIRECTOR NOUNC 'DANGERO' NC-17 RATG ON A FILM PICTG A GAY LOVE STORY
• FIRG OF GAY CATHOLIC SCHOOL TEACHER ULD TT LATT SUPREME COURT LG
• 5 STYLISH KOREAN ACTORS AND THE CONTROVERSIAL GAY CHARACTERS THEY PLAYED ON K-DRAMAS
• BL / GAY (*RATED ORR*)
• BL / GAY - NEW MOVI AND DRAMAS 2020-2021
• 11 K-DRAMAS THAT DIDN'T SHY AWAY OM GAY RELATNSHIPS
• GAY DRAMAS/MOVI

'PASSAG' DIRECTOR NOUNC 'DANGERO' NC-17 RATG ON A FILM PICTG A GAY LOVE STORY

As many are quick to pot out, Passag‘ NC-17 ratg reeks of homophobia, spirg wrer-director Sachs to ll out the MPA for beg “anti-gay, anti-progrs, anti-sex.

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FIRG OF GAY CATHOLIC SCHOOL TEACHER ULD TT LATT SUPREME COURT LG

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5 STYLISH KOREAN ACTORS AND THE CONTROVERSIAL GAY CHARACTERS THEY PLAYED ON K-DRAMAS

Former sger, performer, and actor, Lee Ho-dong or better known as Hoya was the first few actors who played a gay character across Korean televisn. Wily regnized as South Korea’s first openly gay K-pop artist, the sger and actor Go Tae-seob, who the stage name Holland, starred a BL drama last year and believ that the growg visibily of BL books, TV seri and movi is a posive step. Bdette, who also intifi as gay and is a longstandg BL fan, said the genre will shake up nservative views on genr and sexualy South Korea.

BL / GAY (*RATED ORR*)

“Whether you are a heterosexual woman tryg to ject your sexual tonomy to the world, or you are a gay man who wants to see posive reprentatns of male-male romance, BL n be ed, ” he said.

It was there the wrer said Total Drama Island will have s first openly gay character and same-sex romance when lnch. Shows like Netflix’s Vcenzo and Me are featurg more gay characters but South Korea’s showbiz still has a way to goIn South Korea, beg homosexual might not be illegal, but acceptance is still a long way away the nservative untry – and this is largely reflected the entertament we talk about LGBTQ+ reprentatn Korean pop culture, films have fared way better than the small screen.

This versn omted the ccial lyrics, “No matter gay, straight or bi, lbian, transgenr life”, drawg accatns of LGBTQ+ censorship is not unmon South Korea, pecially when to LGBTQ+ characters. In 2010, a romantic vow between two male characters Life is Betiful – regard as Korea’s first drama to feature a gay uple – was censored after the church where the scene was filmed filed a plat wh SBS. A natnal mothers’ group ran a discrimatory newspaper advertisement that said, “When my son be gay and is flicted wh Aids watchg Life is Betiful, SBS should take the blame, ” acrdg to Korea JoongAng Daily.

BL / GAY - NEW MOVI AND DRAMAS 2020-2021

Queerbag generally refers to strongly htg at a gay relatnship between characters orr to appeal to LGBTQ+ viewers and palise on their tert, but whout actually followg through on the ial pictn – or sometim even turng to a 2017 drama The Boy Next Door tells the story of two attractive sgl (played by Choi Woo-shik and Jang Ki Yong) who are flatmat mistaken for a gay uple.

11 K-DRAMAS THAT DIDN'T SHY AWAY OM GAY RELATNSHIPS

The show featured many il, suggtive and homoerotic scen that enuraged the dience to image the two characters havg a same-sex relatnship, but the show never wr them as an actual gay uple. )Vcenzo’s eighth episo featured a queerbag moment when the protagonist, played by Song Joong-ki, pretends to be gay durg a missn.

Photo: NetflixElsewhere, Song Joong-ki’s h Netflix drama Vcenzo also falls prey to this by featurg a queerba bromance and negatively portrayg s sgle gay character. The eighth episo shows Song’s character, the tular Vcenzo, pretendg to be gay to succeed a missn, rultg mixed reactns om viewers. There are also other tl like To My Star, Wish You and Nobleman Ryu that will satisfy fans who prefer more idyllic gay romanc set fictnal worlds where beg gay is not owned drama To My Star featur a more idyllic gay relatnship.

Some rears and viewers argue that the BL genre rults flat, one-dimensnal pictns, while others believe that if straight women create and nsume ntent about gay male characters, the practice is tomatilly fetishistic. However, that don’t mean negative portrayals have vanished altogether; for stance, 2021’s mega-h Squid Game, we saw a gay predator sudnly featured for no apparent Seo-hyung Me. However, this might be ed by society beg more ut about stereotypg genrs, rather than the unrlyg hate for sexual mori dimishg, ” said one gay rights activist to Korea Herald.

GAY DRAMAS/MOVI

However, I wonr how 'll turn out due to the Che media ban on LGBTQ is a reason for most Che BL/Gay themed stuff beg produced Taiwan...

Whether the show jokgly ph a homosexual nnectn, is one elaborate plan to fool another character or even shows a real on-screen gay uple, after viewg the 12 dramas that dabble wh homosexualy you may have some new ships the makg.

'Life Is Betiful' has fely gaed attentn mastream dramas the days for supportg LGBT viewpots wh a morn gay uple. Homosexual relatnships are well veloped 'Reply 1994' bee litely portrays the male characters' blossomg some tertg feelgs for each other. However, spe the problems they face, their gay relatnship is openly revealed later episos and discsed among Hong Seol and pany.