Peninsula 1990: The Happy Life of a Chaebol
半岛1990：快乐的财阀生活
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- Urban
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- Urban Life
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I've found that those who write about Korean entertainment are at least 20% smarter than those who write about Chinese entertainment. These days, even the most shameless writers of Chinese entertainment are capable of producing such illogical and poorly written content.
Pshaw, what's the point of a bunch of knife-wielding artists constantly focusing on a single female lead?
Here's a joke! South Korean chaebols are all devoted saints! Here's another joke! Men aren't lustful! One last joke! South Korean chaebols don't treat female idols like dogs!
If you're going to write about multiple women, then don't. Samsung's eldest daughter, you're having affairs outside the marriage, are you out of your mind?! Are you really that brainless?
Your legs are about to be broken, and you still want Lee Boo-jin to be your concubine? Lee Kun-hee is going to throw you into the Han River.
Author, you'd better stick to a single female lead. The dual-female lead plot is a major flaw in your book's logic. The protagonist is the heiress of the Samsung family, and the male lead is from the bottom rungs of society on the peninsula. In a capitalist society, you're practically dragging your entire family to their doom.
Have you ever been to Samsung? Some of this is just random writing and assumptions.
Then add this 🙂
It's still the same old, tired trope, just set in South Korea with a different skin. It's still about being reborn, going to university, earning money while studying, and having messy relationships with a few rich and beautiful women, building a harem of women who practically throw themselves at you—the same old formula. So pathetic.
In reality, within large, influential families, if the man has a mistress, the woman sees it as nothing more than him adopting a cat or dog, or buying a toy. Unless the mistress also comes from a large family, the woman won't react negatively. If you have a mistress from an ordinary family, nobody will care; large families don't even treat ordinary people as human beings.
The so-called "South Korean chaebols" are nothing but roadside tycoons; they can't even compare to Cao Wang.
The book title, synopsis, and reality still can't filter out these incredibly powerful men. I have to admire them; I can smell them coming right away.