#gay undertone kdrama

[theongp]

Okay now i'm getting real thirsty for some new gay-undertone kdramas

I desperately want to know what upcoming kdramas (specifically thriller/crime genre) that have potential shippable pair of male lead characters (or supporting char) or have gay-undertones mxm pairing or have homoerotic antagonism vibe (even better)

There are two upcoming netflix's series that seems pretty good, Killer's Paradox (Choi Woo Sik and Son Suk Gu are the leads) coming out next month and Weak Hero Class 2 but it will come out last year i'm afraid. But I NEED MOREEEEEEE.

I already read a list of some upcoming drama this year but major of it has male-female leads so i don't really have much hope tho 🥲

[rmvzx]

every show/movie i watch HAS to have queer undertones

LMAOOO, why does every kdrama i start either have a potential gay ship or turn out to be queer-coded.

[cantalooprat]

Lovely Allergen

What I Liked

the vaguely moumou-like atmosphere it has, i think it's a mix of the way the setting is described---the details of the song household, their school, the smattering of friends, lin rong's restaurant, cotton candy and orange...it just sketches out this very vivid picture of their daily life and how it shaped song yu and yue shizhi into who they are, and i rly liked that! it makes the whole story feel more alive

the food descriptions!!!!! reading this in the middle of the night is like... dang im getting hungry just reading abt it!! war flashbacks to kdrama eating scenes!!!

as usual, i have to mention the ad ost lmao all 3 seasons have such lovely theme songs

song yu with the tags slapped onto him: "cold love interest" "doting love interest" "devoted love interest"

yue zhishi: "cute protagonist" "weak protagonist"

but also they're such a deep, interesting spin on the whole "cute/weak shou" and "cold doting gong" archetype, zhichu rly rly rly writes so well, i felt it even from yybl (but also both translators for yybl n kagmy r both rly rly good as well, which contributes a lot to the reading experience). the way song yu is so cold and detached not just bc "his personality is like that" but bc he has to repress his feelings for yue zhishi, and how he's even losing sleep over it, but he won't ever say anything out loud bc he knows it's wrong... how yue zhishi is so so dependent on him, oblivious to his own feelings, how the initiative has to come from yue zhishi and yet song yu takes it upon himself to be responsible for "leading his little brother astray" but also yue zhishi won't let him take that responsibility alone!! the way i wanted them to be happy because both of them really deserve that happiness... sigh

there r just so many small moments that it's hard to describe in one piece. song yu and yue zhishi's relationship is built upon all of these small moments glittering like stardust, gathered up inside a crystal clear bottle. when exactly did they fall in love? these two probably don't even know it themselves, but before they realized it, the crystal bottle has been filled with so much glittering stardust, their precious memories etched on each fragment

the cute au where they meet for the first time but have long since fallen in love w each other from exchanging their letters, very wholesome very cute i even love its placement (2 chapters right before the very last extra) and how it ties in to the last extra... sigh again

i cried at the letter song yu wrote actually that entire sequence of them coming out to the parents broke my heart

the car scenes how can i not mention the car scenes, zhichu car scenes r absolutely 😔👌

as a whole, zhichu also writes with this... sort of hopeful tone. like, her version of reality is a very very gentle and hopeful one. she doesn't outright gloss over gay relationship as "gay marriage is legal now for plot convenience reasons" but she also treats it as like, something people will eventually accept. her books are honestly just very gentle and warm (even though kagmy has like this melancholic undertone throughout the text, which can't be avoided but also makes it a p heavy read despite the deceptive "slice of life childhood friend romance" plot)

also also that quote on the s3 ad banner art which is also a spoiler to the last sentence of the main story, which is also the reference of s1 theme song title...

What I Disliked

mmh not quite dislike and also i understand why it's like that but like... the slow burn truly was slow, like glacially slow until they confessed n then things went Wild

Notes

ngl part of the reason why i started kagmy is to use this absolutely gorgeous banner art from ad s3

tbh zhichu novels r always kinda heavy lmao she mentioned it too though, how there isn't a "sweet" tag bc it's not supposed to be a smooth-sailing fluffy novel

[prncssguya]

are you kidding me

[nenasspot]

byungchan's role in the king's affection up to now (I'm at ep 4) really is just looking pretty in the background huh

[theongp]

My worst freaking fear for every freaking crime/noir/action/super serious kdrama with 2 male-1 female leads: some triangle love drama bs

God bless me the film only just begun *sign*

You know me I came for the gay, the homoerotic undertone so...

My decision is I won't watch the film but still follow it from afar because it still has a little gayness in my eyes *sign again* 😔

Lmaoooo the almost dark comedy of the undercover detective progressively realizing this murder bastard drug lord slash ex-DJ is hardcore hung up on his wife:

- still wears a necklace she got him in high school and wistfully stares out windows while holding it

- complains about and directly compares himself to her husband (junmo)

- visits her mom in the hospital and gives her son in law presents

- has her birthday as the door code to his super secret evil villain room

Junmo: hey, bro. Wtf.

[k-ception]

Would I watch a spinoff where Baekkyung and Haru fall for each other? Yes, yes I would (if only baek kyung weren’t the ultimate fuckboi)

[highflyerwings]

You know what. I’m actually getting annoyed at the number of people I’m STILL seeing questioning whether The Devil Judge is queerbaiting. “Should I watch it? I don’t want to be queerbaited.”

First of all, the show hasn’t ended, so there’s literally no definitive answer to that. We can speculate one way or another all we want, but at the end of the day it’s still an unanswerable question. Why even ask it.

Second. South Korea is an extremely conservative country, where (to my knowledge) no gay love story has ever been aired on basic television. Not where the main couple is queer and we’re allowed to see them in love with each other the way we would a straight couple. Queerbaiting only applies if the marketing was intended to look queer. If this show were American, we could claim the marketing was laying the gay on pretty thick. We could therefor claim it was queerbaiting (depending on how it ended). But this is South Korea. Correct me if I’m wrong but there’s no way they would market it as gay to begin with, let alone follow through on that promise. So by those standards this show is automatically disqualified from being considered queerbait at ALL. The argument is irrelevant.

But the most frustrating thing about people who turn their nose up because “I don’t want to be queerbaited,” is that….there is still legitimate queer coding in this story. There are characters that (in my opinion) are so heavily queer coded you’d have to be purposely ignoring the signs to not see it. The majority of the characters break traditional gender roles in kdramas. There’s so much divergence from the heteronormative that I can’t believe someone would even question whether or not they “should” watch it.

Are you justified in your frustration at being constantly queerbaited by media? Absolutely. But by convicting this show in particular of being simply “queerbait” — and therefor not worth dignifying it by even watching — you’re invalidating the actual queer undertones in the story.

Just because these two men may not get a romantic kiss scene on camera (which I can assume is the only “good” queer ending most of you will accept), does NOT mean their story isn’t queer. Please stop invalidating queerness just because it isn’t presented in the same way heterosexuality is.

At this point. Even though we don’t know the ending yet. Yohan and Gaon are canonically in a relationship together. You literally cannot argue that fact. This story has always been, and always will be about their relationship with each other. That is the MAIN STORY. That much WAS marketed to us. That much WAS promised us. And we’ve seen them come this far. We’ve seen them fall for each other, and pine, and discover things about each other and themselves, they’ve cared for and hurt each other in equal measure, they’re in a deeply personal relationship and it’s baffling to me that so many people would delegitimize that just because, what…we won’t get to see them fuck on screen? We (probably) won’t get to see them put a wedding band on each other? I don’t even know what would be acceptable at this point because from where I’m sitting, this is a fucking gay ass love story, and I’m confused what the rest of you are watching if you’re not seeing that.

[yioh]

I saw your frustration w 2125, and same... kdrama always gives chemistry and stuff but then chickens out... the gay characters we do get are either one ep arcs (move to heaven, extraordinary attorney woo) or just... never have partners and are not too important side characters 😭 the only kdrama I have seen with good gay main characters was a weekend drama from 2010... and lesbians, well. Soljiwan from nevertheless, I guess?? Sorry to hear 2125 creeper you out and made you frustrated 😔

FOR REAL, kdramas always have the best written characters with the biggest gay undertones but then give them the blandest straight love interest omfg 😭 i’m so done w people idolising kdramas for having like one minor gay character on one episode too, like ………. idk it’s cute and nice but like cmon we can do better 😭 i’d take a well written side character over just one minor episode ……

[sunriseverse]

it's just like.............................it's one thing if it were one or two posts i'd seen over the years because yeah it is kind of funny when shows that are ostensibly straight have so much homoeroticism! but it's not one or two, it's at least every single time i check a kdrama tag, sometimes multiple times in a single day. and it frankly just feels like a sort of patronising usamerican/broadly western lgbt online trend of acting fascinated at an ~exotic~ show that *gasp* has homoerotic undertones? because of course it can't have been on purpose it must have been accidental when they were making a very straight heterosexual show! like no i'm sorry they're soundscaping and filming it to come off as homoerotic. the directors said with their mouths "make it look romantic". this isn't some weird freak accident that wasn't intentional asian people can make things gay on purpose actually

gods i fucking hate when people are like uwu xyz kdrama is soooo gay for a straight show!!! have you heard of gaycoding or do you think asian directors/actors/screenwriters are incapable of deeper themes and subtlety

[dramafan1001]

Spring is Green at a distance ep 1

So, there is a popular boy who looks adorable as a puppy.  Girls want to date him and boys use him to spend money on them.  He is rich, good looking, well mannered, charming and lonely. 

Oh, in Kdrama style, he has hoards of girls following him like he is an idol.  That is always strange in Kdrama but that is what it is.

Interesting chemistry with the second male lead.  More chemistry with the male lead actually.  There are BL undertones.  I read about the webtoon.  Looks like it is actually a BL webtoon.  I am wondering if KBS in Korea is adventurous enough to actually have a gay themed drama or they are instead going to go with ‘very good friends’ trope.  

The female lead - was quite frustrating the first few minutes but I was happy to signs of her speaking out so, hopefully, she is just shy and not weak.  I absolutely could not figure out why she would just help her room mate with all her luggage as if she was her servant or something.  

Anyways, the chemistry between the two male leads feels right.  I am not entirely sure about the rest of the drama.  It feels more like teenage angst that college angst.  I did not find first ep boring.

[onlyifyoubadd]

does anyone know the name of the kdrama that I think is a murder mystery/psychological thriller about a detective (man) hunting down a serial killer, and they have a interesting (gay undertones) relationship?

i was in a tag of this show a couple weeks ago and wanted to check it out, but i forgot to save it!

no spoilers, but i think in the end they have like a fight scene because it turns out the bad guy was trying to get the detective to be on his side. something like that ahaha! anyway, anyone know it??

[autistichanseo]

^^^^ wanted to reblog but also include @braceletofteeth ‘s tags bcos yes exactly I never thought ab Moon-jo’s homosexual undertones this way but we need more non-creepy gay characters mixed in with a few Moon-jo’s here and there (just like we had Jong-woo who wasn’t a creep but then we had Nam-bok and Byeong-min which…. Yeah…) and honestly I really can’t think of any non creepy/horrible canon gay or implied gay characters in kdrama so :/ considering the demonisation of lgbt in korea (though I heard that it’s getting better nowadays) I’m not entirely surprised however

There is something to be said about how when Korea want to make a psychopath (or a character look like one) they make them flirt with men since homossexuals are so scary. Not that I am complaining since I eat it up.