#m: gyeongseong creature

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[kateknowsdramas]

Wi Ha Joon ~ Gyeongseong Creature

[wolsim]

"I thought I made myself clear. I take care of my own business." Gyeongseong Creature (2023 - 2024), dir. Jung Dong Yoon

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Gyeongseong Creature 1.01 Najin (2023 —)

[natahjikio]

GYEONGSEONG CREATURE (2023-2024)

[cottagehorror-lesbians-stuff]

the "creature" in gyeongseong creature was a clever way to represent violences committed against women during japanese colonial occupation in korea.

land and women are always linked when it comes to colonialism because the land is stolen and destroyed, and so are the bodies of women, appropriated in a similar way by masculine occupation forces. it's a large topic, well-researched if you're really interested.

anyway. the fact that the parasite was tested on women was a clever euphemism for sexual violence. it avoided traumatic (and exploitative) depictions of physical brutality towards female bodies, although it conveyed this strong metaphor.

it also extends the representation of brutality to a people, a land, a culture.

choosing a woman to be the person who incarnates the results of suffering caused by colonialism was definitely the best choice made by the creators of this show. it links all the stories of colonized peoples together through this one feature that you can be sure to always find in accounts of occupation: the exploitation of women and their bodies.

[freesiablooming]

Do you know that as a korean actor, if you star in a movie or a drama that portrays the harsh reality of japanese colonialism or how it hurt korean society from the core, Japan might declare you as a anti Japan and forbid you from entering Japan. Or at least you will be canceled by Japanese fans.

Apprantly, Han So-Hee and Park Seojoon had that in mind and talked with each other about it. They were mentally prepared for it. They were determined to film this show. Because they were not afraid.

Source: music director of GyeongSeong creature

Translation: Park Seojun and Han Sohee knew they might not be able to visit Japan after this show. They talked about it at the dinner. I remember feeling respect for them because I felt their sincerity. Jang Tae sang(Park seojoon's character) has a trauma about his mother who died while fighting for independence. But he eventually follows her footsteps.

[dangermousie]

2023 Kdramas I am excited for

We have only a bit over two months in the year left, but it looks like kdramas saved the best for last. Here is the list of kdramas I am excited for...

Boyhood/Once Upon a Boyhood (November 24) - Siwan hasn't done a bad drama and I am in the mood for a nostalgic 80s piece. I am a little amused that a 35 year old is gonna be playing a high schooler, but in a fond way.

Castaway Diva (October 28) - I am very fond of Park Eun Bin and if anyone can sell the whimsy of a tale about a woman who was a castaway and then becomes a pop star, she will. Not fond of the new trend for 12 eps but it is what it is.

Goryeo-Khitan War (November 11) - my most anticipated for the rest of the year. Every casting and crew choice, every promo makes it look like an old school politics and war heavy sageuk that does not cater in the least to youth or even fusion sageuk subgenres and I am here for it so so so MUCH!

Gyeongseong Creature (December) - not a big fan of netflix originals but I am there for the cast and the setting.

The Matchmakers (October 30) - looks like a wacky period romp with Rowoon and Cho Yi Hyun. I don't have high hopes for it because I like my period stuff angsty, but whatever else, it's gonna be pretty pretty pretty!

Moon In the Day (November 1) - except for GK War, my most anticipated for the rest of the year. Reincarnation/time travel story that flashes back between modern day and Silla - GOD YES!

My Demon (November 24) - sounds like shoujo crack about a demon who loses his powers and enters into a contract marriage (of course) with a human. Done many many times before but I am always a sucker for the trope.

Perfect Marriage Revenge (October 28) - first of all, I have a huge weak spot for Sung Hoon. He's a limited actor but between New Tales of the Gisaeng and his role in Faith, he won my heart forever. But also, this plot is so old school melo the way they don't make it nowadays. Our FL is betrayed by her sister and her husband and dies. But she wakes up before her marriage and decides to do things differently and get revenge. She gets married in a contract marriage to our ML, a chaebol (of course) played by sexy Sung Hoon and...doesn't it all sound like those delicious transmigration novels made flesh?

The Story of Park's Marriage Contract (November 24) - I love time travel/time slip stories and the fact that this is a woman who ends up in the modern day where she comes across the dead ringer of her deceased husband makes it high class Durian, plus Lee Se Young is a wonderful actress who rarely picks wrong.

Tell Me That You Love Me (November) - a remake of my favorite jdrama of all time, Aishteiru to Ittekure, this story about the relationship between a deaf painter and an aspiring younger actress is going to give me the adult love story I crave. The fact that the legend that is Jung Woo Sung is back in dramas, and is playing the ML, is just the perfect thing. (His last proper drama was Padam Padam in 2011!!! He is mainly a movie star.)

Vigilante (November 8) - I am just here to see Nam Joo Hyuk kick people in the face.

Welcome to Samdalri (December 2) - Shin Hye Sun and Ji Chang Wook in a romcom mmmmm. I don't have any pics so have:

[candiedstarss]

me when gyeongseong creature as an allegory for war. for what Japan did to Korea. how season 2 is all about how the war never really ends, how it rooted itself in the country's bones and never left. how even those who survived weren't safe. how the perpetrators got away with it, how they never felt remorse.

the literary symbolism in this show makes me

[lurkingshan]

I am just sitting here a little bit in awe because Gyeongseong Creature just delivered some of the smartest character writing I have seen in ages.

We’ve been shown consistently through this narrative that Tae-Sang is a survivor and he strongly believes in doing whatever he must to get by. We also know he values loyalty and cares deeply for the handful of people he considers part of his little found family, and that he’s determinedly built himself a place to belong in this world and more afraid of the possibility of losing it, and his people, than he admits.

Maeda came to him loaded with knives ready not only to lie to him about Chae-Ok being dead, but also to expose the fact that every single member of his found family has betrayed him under duress. She expected this revelation to shatter him, isolate and alienate him, and bring him to heel. And for just a moment, looking at his devastated face, we fear that her plan has worked. But no, he looks her right in the eye and says fuck you, bitch, they only betrayed me because they had to, because people like you forced them to choose between that and survival. He understands they did what they had to do and he has already forgiven them. His devastation is not for what they did to him, but for what they were forced to do and how it must have hurt, humiliated, and shamed them.

It was a gorgeous moment of deep characterization, where we could see all the things we understood about Tae-Sang coming together and adding up to his resilience in the face of Maeda’s attempt to break him, and I will never forget it.

[oracleanne]

I’m sorry that the Japanese experimented on your mother and turned her into a metaphor and a horror beyond our comprehension. Would you perhaps like a caramel?

[duahauuoplanh]

10 years. I've been looking for my mom for 10 years..

[kateknowsdramas]

Han So Hee as Yun Chae Ok

~Gyeongseong Creature~

[qominsi]

We're watching it for the plot, of course.

PARK SEO JOON as JANG TAE SANG Gyeongseong Creature — episode 3 경성크리처 (2023/2024) | dir. Chung Dong-yoon

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HAN SO HEE Gyeongseong Creature Season 2 Coming September 27

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GYEONGSEONG CREATURE (2023-2024) 🧬 Episode 1

dir. Chung Dong-yoon & Roh Young-sub