As a thai living in bangkok my whole life, the bangkok trip somehow makes me like bangkok a little more lol. If the author is not thai then they must have spent quite some time here because everything seems so accurate. Even the conversation about the stupidity of the fact that we have to fight for same sex marriage legalization, that's what we talked about first thing after it's legalized last year. It also makes me realize my privilege that even though our country is shit in everything else, we are open to diversity than some other places. I never noticed in my daily life when two girls making out or two guys holding hands at the train station because there's nothing special about that, i was surprised to see it mentioned because it's so mundane, it's sad to see that such simple thing is so scary to do for someone out there. I get a little teary knowing maybe people come here to express the love they way they never can back home. When yeoreum said 'i don't think it's a problem here' and mr lim finally took his hand, that's such a beautiful moment. I never noticed either that there's a woman with body hair, a woman bigger than beauty standards, someone too short, too tall, pale and tan, performing on a drag stage, because again i'm used to seeing them in spotlight. It only caught my eyes because when reading other manhwas or this manhwa in other episodes where they're in korea, the characters tend to have similar look. Of course there are still conservative people who're miserable about those diversities here and we still have so much to fight for but it's good to know there are at least somewhere they feel safe to be themselves. I love that the author pointed it out and we get to see the beauty in differences here.
As a thai living in bangkok my whole life, the bangkok trip somehow makes me like bangkok a little more lol. If the author is not thai then they must have spent quite some time here because everything seems so accurate. Even the conversation about the stupidity of the fact that we have to fight for same sex marriage legalization, that's what we talked about first thing after it's legalized last year. It also makes me realize my privilege that even though our country is shit in everything else, we are open to diversity than some other places. I never noticed in my daily life when two girls making out or two guys holding hands at the train station because there's nothing special about that, i was surprised to see it mentioned because it's so mundane, it's sad to see that such simple thing is so scary to do for someone out there. I get a little teary knowing maybe people come here to express the love they way they never can back home. When yeoreum said 'i don't think it's a problem here' and mr lim finally took his hand, that's such a beautiful moment. I never noticed either that there's a woman with body hair, a woman bigger than beauty standards, someone too short, too tall, pale and tan, performing on a drag stage, because again i'm used to seeing them in spotlight. It only caught my eyes because when reading other manhwas or this manhwa in other episodes where they're in korea, the characters tend to have similar look. Of course there are still conservative people who're miserable about those diversities here and we still have so much to fight for but it's good to know there are at least somewhere they feel safe to be themselves. I love that the author pointed it out and we get to see the beauty in differences here.