I don’t usually like being cynical but being naive is also not a constructive trait. There is so much that I feel I don’t know about what goes on behind the scenes of the dramas that I’ve liked, how power is exercised and how the gendered lens impacts and degrades the female actors. The comments of one of the LR PDs has been a disturbing glimpse behind this curated image of a happy set which its BTS clips tried to promote. What that interview revealed was the pervasive dehumanisation and mistreatment of KHY who should have had the benefit of not being degraded publicly by that scumbag. And, what is even more disturbing is that the disgraceful interview hasn’t been publicised much more in the English language articles about LR. If BWS can attract so much attention that he is going abroad on a fan greeting whatever/tour, I would have thought there would be more than adequate interest in condemning that revolting PD in a few more articles but not much had been said.
And, as far as the DB community is concerned, that awful interview attracted the interest and condemnation of a minority of us here but it hardly seems to have engaged the attention of many other DB commenters who embraced LR and fawned over BWS. It is really depressing that the BWS fan worship goes on unabated but the issue of systemic dehumanisation of KHY doesn’t attract anywhere near enough attention. It really is depressing.