What series are you currently watching?
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Speaking of Netflix, I recently finished season 2 of "Young Royals." It was quite good.
If you are new to this franchise, I recommend starting with season 1.
I don't think it's a spoiler to say that the last episode of season 2 ended with some mild ambiguity that could leave open the door to a season 3. I hope that such is eventually produced.
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@eobox91103 Definitely will start with season 1. Always, for any title just to be sure I don't miss out on any future references in the latter episodes.
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Damn! That 1st episode was brutal but it felt so good.
When you're a genius and a weakling, you use Physics to your advantage and you get to be besties with the class' strongest and the class' closet gay.
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This series made me feel angry
all throughout its 8 episodes and it just graduated to season 2 judging by the preview shown at the ending.The bromance between the weak hero and his strong bestie was all over the air. High school brutality has never made me feel this good. Ah I meant angry.
Anyways, congrats! Highest ranking I had ever seen for a series this year.
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@Rotron I started watching The Golden Spoon thanks to you. So far I love it!
Recently I started to watch a bunch of Korean tv series. Namely Kingdom -
@Kekkaishi The Golden Spoon! The very title why I subscribed to Disney+. I like the plot and everything. It's good. I'm not gonna tell you more but let me know what you think of the ending.
If you like The Golden Spoon then you will like Reborn Rich even better but the series is not yet done.
I just wish I could watch Kingdom with you. I've been wanting to watch it but I just can't watch scary videos by myself. They linger in my thoughts and mess with my head. It's one of Netflix' most popular Korean series.
KDramas has got lots bromance too and are slowly opening up to Boys Love and Gay Themed Movies.
If you want to track what you're watching, I would recommend you use https://mydramalist.com/ . MyDramaList has a YouTube channel that shows you The Best of recommendations. https://www.youtube.com/@MyDramaListOfficial
Also The Swoon channel on YouTube for trailers of upcoming titles from different sources.
https://www.youtube.com/@TheSwoon
I might watch this next. Looks funny.If there is a title that you really want to watch but can't find it anywhere or it's behind a higher pay wall, look for it in Bilibili - the Chinese YouTube wannabe. There's a good chance it could be there.
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@pupkinvasya Thanks very much for decoding this!
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Now showing on Amazon Prime: ISLAND
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@Rotron Thank you for the many recommendations. May I assume that if these series are on Netflix or Amazon Prime that they have English subtitles available? My Korean language skills are virtually non-existent.
I did spend a week in Korea some ten years ago (DPRK, not ROK), and was able to learn the following:
- Hello.
- Thank you very much.
- Where is the toilet?
- My spleen rejoices at the thought of the Great Leader.
- Please do not shoot me even if I am a Western Capitalist Pig.
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@eobox91103 You are most welcome! Yes, they always come with English subtitles. International streaming sites will always require them. It may not be obvious, but the Korean wave is big in the West. President Obama made a reference of it during his visit to South Korea as it was made the top priority by the Korean government. South Korea has a dedicated goal to become the world’s leading exporter of popular culture.
Also to take note, compared to an evil country that keeps censoring and banning sensitive topics considered controversial; South Korea did the very opposite by banning the censorship laws. This move provided immense opportunities and independence to the young and vibrant generation of Korea to express newer and bolder ideas through cinema and music. I only wish that pornography was made legal too though. South Korea is one of the few countries that explicitly prohibits any form of pornography. Pornographic websites, books, writings, films, magazines, photographs or other materials of a pornographic nature are illegal in South Korea. You would rarely see a shirtless guy in their series or movies. But where all those kdrama-like porno scenes where only the genitals are not seen coming from? I still can't find those titles but you'll see them in porn sites.
Please do not shoot me even if I am a Western Capitalist Pig.
LOL! That is funny but yes the reality is that North Koreans (communist) will force you what they want you to do and South Koreans (capitalist) will pay you in return for a favour. It is only through China that someone from the North could escape to the South. Is that how you got there? what did you even do there? Hehe
I would recommend that you watch Parasite (2019) if you're new to Kdrama. This movie's outcome shocked me. It got 6 nominations and 4 Oscars.
In person though, I really do not want to speak near in front of a Korean. Their saliva goes splattering all over your face. Hahaha. Believe me. I've dealt with a lot of Koreans during the early 2000s when Koreans can no longer handle the poverty they were experiencing in their country's recession at that time. They came in droves to my country to start a new life. some where successful, some where not, some still thriving today for those who decided to stay permanently. Just to tell you the truth, South Korea has been eaten by the rich, if you're not among the rich; life is hard for you. Majority of Koreans can not afford a home which is depicted in a lot of their dramas - a home is always a dream for them.
Oh I got so talkative again. Hehe, enjoy.
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@Rotron Thank you very much for your very informative discussion. I much prefer those to very short answers like, "ask the help desk."
I appreciate the information on the ROK. I have not been there, so my knowledge is based on what I see in the media, as well hearing lies from the DPRK, and then "inverting" them. It is ironic that I have more experience with the North than with the South.
That said, my experience in the North was very carefully controlled. I was part of a sports delegation, although we had a couple of half-days of touring around Pyongyang. It was clear that our minders were showing us what they considered to be the "best" of places--stores filled with food items, broad avenues with good paving (but absent of cars), temples to the Great Leader and Dear Leader. In the mausoleum holding the remains of Kim-Il Sung and Kim-Jong Il, the two glass boxes holding their bodies are kept at a very low temperature. I referred to the the two guys as the "Kim-sicles" (after the frozen candy "Popsicle"), but I made sure that nobody official heard me say that.
I did not know about the pornography ban in ROK. That seems odd for a first-world country, although it is good that there is freedom to produce gay-themed drama. In the DPRK, producing pornography would probably be met by immediate execution.
Nevertheless, there are lots of gay guys (and lesbians too, I'm sure) in the DPRK. Sometimes we shared changing rooms with DPRK players, and we all know a watchful eye when we see one. But a couple of times I carelessly sent back a return glance, and I saw shame and fear on the face of the Korean guy. I felt so sad. As much as I would have enjoyed a good fuck with him, I think a long, caring hug would have been more helpful.
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@eobox91103 Oh, what you have said about DPRK are all so true but they are all controlled spaces; there is nothingness beyond them. Imagine whole towns have lights on and lights off schedules daily. For a Northerner to be caught with anything coming from the South, most especially media like Kdrama will get you killed right away. Anything that would show the South is so much better or a better place to live at.
I am all so aware of the sport diplomacy. I was not aware that it still continues with all that tension between the North and the South. They also have something similar about family reunions who were divided between them. It's always a dramatic scene but this was stopped and I think the South wants this resumed.
They involve those in their 80s and older who are desperate to reunite with their long-lost relatives before they die. But North Korea, which often uses such reunions as a bargaining chip in dealings with South Korea, is unlikely to accept the offer because it's steadfastly rebuffing Seoul's and Washington's offers to resume talks on its nuclear program and other issues while focusing instead on perfecting its weapons technology. Such bastards!
Oh since you mentioned about your time there... and yes they have eyes everywhere. These were all brought up to light by defectors to the South on how they are treated by the family they call gods. About the gays there... poor guy who gave you an eye and just bowed down in hopelessness. I feel so sorry about them. There is a movie titled "One Summer Night" of 2 DPRK soldiers with this scene.
https://www.xvideos.com/video28840423/_one_summer_night_blowjob_scene
It's available on GagaOOlala: https://www.gagaoolala.com/en/videos/1348/one-summer-night-2016 for the uncensored version.
It's also available here in GayTor: https://www.gaytor.rent/search.php?search=one+summer+night&incldead=0&orderby=added&sort=desc
On the lighter gay side, you might want to watch this: https://www.gaytor.rent/details.php?id=50e4bd8b59e7425ea2177c8b561c4706428e4e939912551f
The link is the movie version but it's a series.
The handsome big guy is currently serving army time. Hopefully, he is being treated well in there publicly knowing he did this series before going in.
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His Man s01 e06
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@pupkinvasya I have not seen that yet. I'll check it out sometime.
As South Korea's very first gay dating reality series, "His Man" brings together a group of eight hot, sexy, free and single gay men to a shared house where they are to live, interact and open up to each other in their quest for “true love”.
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@Rotron I haven't watched it to the end yet, and so far I like it. Although they usually make strange choices
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@Rotron Thank you for your insights. I don't know how much "sport diplomacy" continues today: I went in the summer of 2012, less than one year after Kim Jong Il came to power...perhaps there was a desire to show more open-ness to the West. That has, of course, changed.
And yes, we were warned that we would be be watched all the time. Two of my team-mates were gay (and a couple), and they knew to not show any affection for each other, even in the "privacy" of their twin-bed hotel room.
One of my favourite photos from the trip was from the hotel room: There was a small table between the two beds with a lamp, a single-line telephone that would go only to the reception desk, and a clock radio. I was curious to pull the table away from the wall and see what I found:
The phone, lamp, and clock didn't need that many wires. We assumed that there were microphones built into the table, but we didn't want to test that theory by saying anything illegal.
