They thought it was too revealing, lol! Basically there was a peach emoji covering him in the wide shot. Timing also coincided with a comedian making inappropriate jokes on her colleague's YouTube channel, so I think that's why it was kind of on people's mind. The scene was entirely situational cohabitation comedy and not, like, inappropriate in context, but you know how it goes. If they didn't have the wide shot or they made the emoji bigger I don't think people would have blinked.

It was the least sexy shower scene ever, and there have been so many more sensual and lingering ones in dramaland. Ordinarily I don't think it would cause much fuss but with the whole Joseon Exorcist thing I think they're being super careful.

But... but... they don't need dramas to get their dark and makjang story lines. Just turn on the news.

Penthouse is extremely popular amongst Korean grade schoolers, if the ones I teach are representative..,

We're twins! I'm the same - I'm always a bit sad that Weather seems to be a niche love, because I think it gives so much warmth, but at the same time I love how k-ent offers so much variety so that there's something for everyone. When Eazal described Navillera as a cross bewteen Weather and My Unfamiliar Family, I was pressing play a second later.

Im digging Navillera and PIH is gold. But it reminds me a lot of Dear my Friends which I ended up dropping a while later because it was a difficult watch even if till date I think it was a gem. So I don't know how long I'll continue Navillera but it's take is comparatively light till now.

I am a fan of both JTBC’s WEATHER and tvN’s NAVILLERA. Reviewing the ratings for WEATHER I forgot how modest they were.
Fwiw. WEATHER’s highest rating was 2.667% for episode 16 (final).
NAVILLERA’s rating for episode 2 is 2.964% so it has already bested WEATHER’s highest rating.
I have seen comparisons of NAVILLERA to BRAHMS.
BRAHM’s average rating for its entire run was 4.9%.

LOL I've been getting Scarlet Letter, Crucible, witch hunting fever vibes.

Heh. Maybe they should shut all the netizens up by making lots and lots of Penthouse-type shows. Penthouse 3. Townhouse. Outhouse. Doghouse.

Given how viewers have made a big to-do and are calling an unsexy shower scene sexy, I wouldn't be surprised if a character in OCN gets killed or possessed (OCN's bread and butter) and then the entire show will be deemed as too violent and murder-y.

I think it's because Oh!Master is 15+ TV ratings and the rest are most likely rated for adult viewers only.

I personally don't have the energy to get riled up about people getting angry anymore, they have their reasons, let them get huffy and puffy if they feel justified. It just never ends these days wherever you go....I'll go on living my life.

Korea has some very strange rules and laws concerning TV shows. Many of them are holdovers from the previous dictatorship regimes that have never been updated. I think the best example is how they can show gory hospital scenes, guns up the wazoo, yet kitchen knives have to be blurred out.

The objection to JE seems to be largely about Chinese claims about things that are intrinsic to Korean culture. As everyone probably knows, even before JE aired, there was an ongoing controversy about the origins of kimchi which has been designated as an intangible cultural property of Korea. The Chinese were claiming to have invented it. Petty IMO. There was also an earlier storm in China about RM referring to South Korea's shared "history of pain" with the US over the 1950-53 conflict, in which the two countries fought together. (Oversensitive and probably means that what is taught for history differs considerably in the respective countries.) But I think the Chinese claims about kimchi were in retaliation to this. So with the rejection of JE, it's currently tit for tat, and ordinary people in the middle who need to work are getting burnt. So these {recent] culture wars have been going on since last year. Then there is the suspicion of Chinese investment and editorial/directorial interference in these recent dramas. So from what I read, it's not really about the dramas, it's about the politics. What I object to is the fervid witch hunting and trial by media and double-standards in censorship that everyone is referring to. Why are digital voices so loud? In the real world, I love the balance that South Korea seems to manage to attain with China. I wish we were more diplomatically savvy in my country

OH BTW, I can't watch The Queen for exactly that reason. It's so wrong.