No matter what manhwa I pick, there's always someone trying to escape from loan sharks...
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.
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










Gitae is like "da fuck is going on?!"