Good for him, woe for us. I wish they chose a more inspired script. This isn't even giving A Business Proposal, which I had some hope for even when others were skeptical.

Very true. TRS must have been hard to do in parts. It was rough watching it too. As much as I loved his acting, it was such a problematic role and drama.
Like all of us, their jobs must irritate and drain them as not all acting jobs are pleasant, bearable or meaningful works of art. I remember working in a P/T job years ago with a former actor who mentioned how many actors treat their jobs as just jobs and nothing more. He said that except for the minority of successful actors, everyone else was worried about the next job and for the majority choice was a luxury. So perhaps critics and viewers attach much more meaning to acting than the actors themselves.

He spent a whole year filming commercials, I also think he wanted some rest.

Uhhhh, this seems like a huge projection. Trying to dissect a friendship between celebrities using a performance is not it…

It’s pretty well-known that the members of 2PM and Girls’ Generation have been close friends for a very long time (two of them even dated a while back). It’s not our place as complete strangers to judge and analyze whether it’s “really true” or not based on a dance performance.

I have this conversation so many times, among fellow hottest… he might have got those 100 scripts or even more but I doubt he read them all, he has managers to filter them, also the fact that he says 100 times sounds to me like when your mum tells you: I told you a hundred times not to do that.

I have been called a bad fan for saying such a thing, but I just think that is just an expression. My opinion and only my opinion.

I was teasing about making things up so I hope you didn’t take offense.
I know he is an idol but as an actor though, it might not be the best thing to be viewed as an adult brat.

I hadn’t noticed that the title in Hangeul was actually the English title transliterated! I suspect you’re right in that Netflix will change it because it makes no sense as it is.🤣

I’d love to change careers and be that person who gets to name things like Ikea furniture, nail polishes, paint, perfumes and kdramas! How do I get that job?!

If it helps lol, my guess is that they meant "King, the Land" since "King" is the name of the conglomerate. Or, it's just Konglish. 🤷‍♀️

Off-topic probably, but I've always disliked these more generic-sounding changes to the international title. I know that on some level, localization happens everywhere in every industry, but I can't help but be a little disappointed and feel that these drama titles often lose their Korean uniqueness and quirks in translation. Changing a title as distinctive as Sunbae, Don't Put on that Lipstick to the very boring sounding She Would Never Know was just baffling to me.

That said, I support changing the King The Land title because its gibberish and as uninteresting as a drama name has ever been. It's just regular transliteration, and not a particularly good one either. This might be one of the few instances when the change actually helps rather than detracts from a drama's characterization. Because the current name comes off as rather lazy and half-assed from the production.

Konglish is interesting. As far as I know (given my limited knowledge of Korean), it incorporates both English nouns and verbs in both familiar and unfamiliar ways. For me, it is always fascinating to see how languages borrow from each other and how often the colonial and imperialist imprint of history could be seen on them. One of the intriguing Konglish usages is “화이팅” “hwaiting” which is derived from “fighting”. I read a likely apocryphal story about this word a while ago. It recounted that during the Korean war, American troops organised boxing matches and the Korean audiences adopted the word as an encouragement for the completion of an unpleasant task. And, the rest is history.

It’s a stupid name, but it’s supposedly states for King, name of the family (Won) and the hotels, and “The Land” is the name of the hotel lounge where Sarang (YoonA) works.