IKR?! Makes me wondering if it's truly so common in Korea to be in debt or it's just the trop to have some room for any angst/SA pushed later
Yeah, you don't see loan sharks that often in Japanese manga or Chinese manhua, so it isn't an Asian thing.
Korean people have a higher sense of image than Japan and China. Everyone has to be carrying Luxury items and dressed in the finest clothes. And they can go to extreme lengths to maintain this image like taking massive loans and racking up credit card debt. Another reason is that Korea is a hyper capitalist society where people obsess over some trend for a short period and then move on to another. Hence, businesses close down and fail really often and people are unable to pay back the seed amount they got for the business from shady loan providers.
Got it, so I take it's quite common there, as part of the pursuit of luxury, but still using this trop so frequently as an excuse to give rape in series is kinda tiring/frustrating for me I think I'm just done with overloaded SA in fiction
Yeah I don't mind it most of the time but I have to agree it's getting shoved into every Manhwa, like not even the dark ones but ones that start off fluffy have a surprise sexual assault in there which is brushed away as casually it came. And to be honest it's getting really tiring.
Exactly this, I don't mind such topics in series, but when it's addressed correctly, not sexualized/romanticized all the time, currently rape/SA is treated as a random add-in just to be brushed off later without any execution!
And exactly this is what's frustrating for me, how 'normalized' it is in fiction, to the extent where many readers cannot even distinguish rape and consensual act anymore when they see that, because they also became insensitive. And of course, it's fiction, but not only fiction when it affects readers and the way they portray such topics.
I like dark/toxic series, but now it's always related to SA, where obviously rape is not the only plot device for dark theme! Any psychological or mafia themed series is right away connected to rape, it's seriously insane at this point...
Like you said, it's many times even showed as a 'funny' part in comedies and so on...
I'm reading yaoi/BL for over 20 years but have an impression it's only getting worse, we have more BL series in general, there are some well written ones (very rare), but majority either way are just porns fetish ones, I understand fetishes and so on, but the amount of such series is just alarming now!
Sorry for this vent, I'm just tired of all that rape/SA overload in fiction
No matter what manhwa I pick, there's always someone trying to escape from loan sharks...