So, I’m a K-Drama girl. Well, I’m really into all sorts of Asian drama, but Korean dramas are by far my favorite. I find them to be the best acted, written, and produced by far. Thai-Dramas, the so-called Lakorns, are cool once in a while. But it’s like stepping way, way back in time. A lot of rape and tying up, abusing girls, until they eventually fall in love with their rapist and he falls in love with them. In Thailand, they eventually passed a law limiting the number of rapes you could have in any hour of television.
The Japanese dramas tend to be utterly silly. Mind you, there are some good ones, but a lot of them are too over the top for me to watch. Chinese dramas (mainly Hong Kong dramas) can also be silly, but there are a few good ones. None of the non-Korean dramas are up the quality of the South Korean entertainment industry, but each has its shining examples. I’m highlighting a rare Singapore drama in this post (the only one I've ever watched).
It’s called, “
An Enchanted Life,” and is about a girl (Spoilers lie herein by the way) who starts out as a “betel nut babe”. Basically, she dresses up in sexy outfits and flirts with truckers on the highway selling a mildly intoxicating chewing gum like substitute. Her boyfriend gets promoted to “Big Brother” in his triad and she’s excited, because he gives her a gold card. But the catch is he wants her to sleep with the leader of the triad. She ends up running way to Singapore from Taiwan looking for her long lost father.
He turns out to be a rich jewelry designer. She falls in love with a guy who helped her find him. But he’s engaged to her half-sister. There’s also a triangle guy who loves the girl. A lot of craziness, a murder attempt, etc. Kind of a lame ending, but interesting.
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