Auditioning for “Semantic Error” was singer and actor Park Jaechan’s last shot at fame. It was also a professionally risky one. Not only was the TV series part of the lesser-known Boys’ Love genre in South Korea, it depicted something rarely seen on the country’s screens: same-sex romance.
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Yaoi or Boys' Love (BL) has grown from an underground to mainstream fictional genre. It emerged from women's manga comics in Japan in the 1980s, which portrayed the relationship between young boys based on the seme (active) and uke (receptive) dichotomy. Through an informal fan network, the transnational phenomenon came to Thailand in the early 1990s and a subculture was formed online.