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- June 1, 2015 at 11:16 PM
For some reason the current generation of young male Korean actors are all ikemen. They all seem to have been selected due to their ideal look rather than skill. As a result most are just average at best regarding acting. It’s a stark contrast to the previous generation. Comparably the Japanese ikemen era didn’t last as long and you hardly see them again except for the really good acting ones.
Since they generally got access to only 100-200 million or 1 billion viewers at best compared to the 30x-6x for westerners the level of acting/competition is generally higher. This holding onto the ikemen wave is strange. It’s dragging down a bunch of shows.
And the villains tend to outshine the heroes in acting. It’s too bad the good ones have been tied to high level long running shows that turned out disappointing (imho due to script).