Posted : 2021-04-07 09:00
Updated : 2021-04-07 09:00
Shin Hye-sun, left, and Kim Jung-hyun, the lead actors of tvN drama, "Mr. Queen." Courtesy of tvN
By Dong Sun-hwa
When it was revealed that the tvN drama, "The Golden Hairpin," and JTBC's "Until the Morning Comes" were in the pipeline for later this year, numerous people in Korea raised their eyebrows rather than welcoming them with high anticipation. The reason was simple ― the Chinese backgrounds of the productions ruffled people's feathers.
The two upcoming TV shows are Korean renditions of popular Chinese novels, which are expected to have star-studded casts. Although remakes are nothing new to drama production companies, a growing number of viewers here these days are venting their discontent over the works originally from China, largely due to the ongoing cultural clash between Seoul and Beijing over the "origins" of Korean traditional assets, including kimchi and hanbok.