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Mr. Queen

철인왕후

2020 · TV series · 1 season

Created by Park Kye-ok, Choi A-il

DramaComedyScience FictionFantasy

A modern chef suddenly becomes trapped inside the body of a queen from the Joseon era, which causes chaos for everyone involved.

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  1. PositivealephnerdDec 30, 2023

    I'm in the US. And KDramas don't show up prominently in my recommendations (I prefer watching on KissAsian - force of habit and the subs are better).

    The algo is heavily targeted to your own assumed tastes. The one time I did watch one, it was in Korean with English subs.

    Maybe you watched a western marketed KDrama like Squid Games? Try watching Beyond Evil, Itaewon Class, Reply 1988, or Mr Queen and see if it reverts to English. I'm kinda curious now

  2. NeutrallifthrasiirJan 4, 2022

    > SK TV are essentially Hollywood TV casted with SK people.

    I'm not even sure what you want to claim, Hollywood has been long associated with the film industry and not the television industry.

    Assuming you are referring to the general USA television: I don't feel so, especially being a South Korean and aware of SK television for decades [1]. For an easy example, the 2021 South Korean TV drama with the highest rating (17.37%) was Mr. Queen (철인왕후) from tvN, a drama cable TV channel, and it is a (Korean) medieval-themed fantasy drama based on a PRC drama Go Princess Go (太子妃升职记). Such dramas and films have been popular in SK and I'm not sure there is an equivalent in the States.

    [1] I should clarify that television has been in decline like everywhere else and most audiences have switched to YouTube and OTT services by now.

    Assuming you are referring to the Hollywood film industry: of course the influence exists, but the SK film industry directly competes with the Hollywood in the domestic market and if your claim is true the domestic industry would have had hard time, but it doesn't seem so at least for now. In fact this seems to be the real reason behind the current K-whatever trend; it has survived the Hollywood and is not well known until now so it is a fresh alternative to the Hollywood and other well-known film industries.

    > If you watch Squid Game, and you think that SK people would think and behave like what the TV shows, then you would be wrong.

    This applies to virtually every media.