My K-Culture Impressions & Experiences In "The Red Sleeve" K-Drama
I think I'm more of a fan of modern Korean dramas to historical dramas but that doesn't affect my experiences when I decide to an historical kdrama. I could give count of the number of historical kdrama I've seen since I started to see Korean films and every one of them left a mark in my quest to learn k-culture.
The k-culture have always been an intriguing one for me every since the first historical drama I saw, "The Legend". It was a fictional story but it made me curious about what the world of Korea is like before modernization. I don't remember much from the series, I decided to share my experience on the most recent iconic history drama I saw.
I think historical kdrama series even though fictional, a lot of what is shown are a good glimpse of the world of Korea before modernization. I think their culture is still well preserved even through such a long time as they do show it in their movies to keep the remembrance and even make others know them.
If there is one Korean historical drama that drew me in more to learn about the Korean culture, it has to be the series "The Red Sleeve". I think I've reviewed it on Hive before so I won't say much about it but I'll share my experiences before, during and after seeing the story in this series. It has become one of my best historical kdrama.
I still think the historical drama "Under The Queen's Umbrella" is my most favourite but if I'm to say the one that made me learn about the past kings of Korea and how people lived before, "The Red Sleeve" made me curious about all that. It's a romance based historical drama but it opened my eyes to so many happenings in a royal palace.
Before seeing the series, I had almost no expectations, just wanted to see another historical drama to take a break from my regular modern day kdrama. And during my time seeing this drama, I came to understand that this one was different in an aspect I never imagined... Choosing self freedom and happiness over love.
The Drama reveal the life of a king who is in love with a court lady and begins to court her in hopes of having her as a concubine. As it has always been in history, she would have no choice but to accept his proposal but Deok-im, the court lady proves stubborn and becomes the first maid who doesn't desire to be confined in the king's palace.
The usual historical stories I've seen before this drama was, the king falls in love and the lady accepts after realizing her love for the king and then they both rule together as king and Queen. I guess I began to expect same for this series but my expectations were not meant. I wanted to hate the story but it taught a lesson afterwards.
It shows how much every person should value their happiness and freedom over a love that can never be. The King loved the maid too much but she saw how the matters of the kingdom will not let such a love stand. I also got to learn that every king who ruled in the past always have one queen with a few concubines as he wanted her as one.
In the story, every court lady has an attire that distinguished them as there are even ranks among them from Consort to maids. I think the native attire of the Koreans are amazing especially the hanbok, I see some Nigerians actually make it to wear here showing their love for their attires, might wear it someday too lol.
Another thing about the K-Culture is their native music with their unique instruments, I saw a few of them in a modern musical drama "Heartstrings" and I realized how much I enjoyed those traditional musical presentation to surpass modern music, it was beautiful to watch and listen to. This kdrama didn't say much in music.
Over all, the Korean culture is a beautiful one from attires to language to music to foods and even to their ranking styles and way of showing respect are all intriguing for me. I'm looking forward to my first real life experience with any part of their culture, would be so memorable. You can check out any of the series I shared if yet to.
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Wow, what an interesting experience! I also love how The Red Sleeve emphasizes the importance of freedom and personal happiness... The hanbok and traditional music are truly captivating! 🌸🎶
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Los K-dramas son una completa adicción jaja, recuerdo haber visto heartstrings por los dos protagonistas siendo famosos cada uno por la actriz y el actor que también tiene una banda en la vida real que se llama CNBLUE. Me encanta que haya variedad para seleccionar, uno de los últimos K-dramas que ví fue el de Goblin y me gustó mucho aunque no tanto como a la audiencia jeje. 🤗
K-dramas are a complete addiction haha, I remember watching heartstrings because of the two main characters each being famous for the actress and the actor who also has a real life band called CNBLUE. I love that there is variety to select from, one of the last K-dramas I watched was Goblin and I really liked it although not as much as the audience hehe. 🤗
Haha you sure know the best ones to see, I've seen Goblin too and it was an amazing watch. I'm a fan of CNBLUE. 🥰 Thanks for stopping by.
Is this a new drama? Or an old one?
I have not seen this one.
I love both historical dramas and modern k dramas . Like alchemy of soul that one had it own vibe
It's not a new drama, but it was a unique kind of historical drama so I remembered it for the prompt.
Alchemy of souls was a whole new vibe really.
Oh ok . I have not seen it
Yeah alchemy of soul was really good
In such kind of drama the most complicated thing is the court. Sometimes I feel the court play the most important role in that kind of drama and it also shows that how powerful the court issues there.
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Yeah, I also learn a lot from how they address matters in the court and matters of the court, it's quite interesting.
This is my type of movie, I love Romantic movies, especially one filled with suspense, I will add this to my watch list, thanks.
Yeah, you'll like this one.
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