Since Netflix and other big companies started investing, Kdrama quality is going up

We gonna see kdramas like a high budget film

Looking at kdramas now and in the early 2010s, you can feel the difference. Everything is much better with more budget, better scripts, more diverse dramas, and Better written female leads. Netflix is putting Kdramas out there. For a Kdrama to be popular outside Korea now it has to be on Netflix

Netflix stock is taking a huge hit now that substitutions are declining, so they will probably will have to cut costs.

We will see what that means.

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True, though I think Netflix importance is often exaggerated on Kdrama. A huge part of the market is korea only and they are barely influenced by netflix.

no, if you look at the nominees and winners from the latest Baeksang Arts Awards, (one of the most prestigious dramas/film awards in Korea) most of them are Netflix produced or distributed by Netflix (D.P., Squid Game, Hellbound, Mine, My name, Juvenile Justice, The King's affection, Racket boys, all of us are dead, 2521)

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It's interesting as I'm of the opposite opinion.

As kdrama gains international corporate attention and more mainstream international integration they have, in my opinion, deteriorated into the ubiquity of modern International "prestige" fare.

Technically perhaps greater in budget with increased prestige. But lacking in the often idiosyncratic charm they once held in my opinion.

I got into Kdramas so long ago to find something different. And found a love of their unabashed melodrama and romances of old told in an unapologetically Korean way.

That certain pull and feeling has been lost in their translation to the International big leagues, in my eyes.

I yearn for kdrama to return to its less sophisticated roots. And find myself dropping modern shows repeatedly to return to older fare.

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