Divorce Attorney Shin isn't the kind of show I usually watch, but man, I love how many different cultural conversations coexist globally.
In some ways South Korea's treatment of women is more traditionally sexist, & in other ways there's a more mature delicacy around key adult themes.
Meanwhile here in Colombia, there's a famous telenovela, routinely rebroadcast, where the Virgin Mary helps suffering people with... a very different approach to domestic strife.
Takes all types to make a world.
(I also just enjoy the reminder that there are many cultures in which men weep in mainstream media! Openly! Goofily! And have silly, sentimental passions! While still being considered very professional in other contexts! What a difference from Western films and TV series, where men are definitely allowed to be emotional - so long as there are weapons or some other form of combat, competition, or hardship concurrently involved. 🙃)
@MLClark Definitely. Cultures are definitely different around the world and throughout history. I remember learning in a classical greek and roman culture class I took that the ancient Greeks thought that men crying emotionally was a sign of "manliness" and that expressing great sadness was "heroic".
@CIWS_35 Ah yes, back when beer was a women's drink, & wine was for men! :) It's also true to the Victorian period, oddly enough. Men were often *extremely* emotionally open in letters to their male friends. And let's not forget that Kinsey's sex surveys in 1948 and 1953 found that at least 50% of the population (37 male, 13 female) had sexual experiences we'd term homosexual today, so the whole rigid Western archetype for masculinity is pretty narrowly confined to a brief period & world region.
@CIWS_35 (Gore Vidal had a lot to say about this, too, in the 60s and 70s. He wasn't a fan of the term "homosexual" precisely because it and heterosexuality were medical terms contrived in the 1890s. He had a pointed and longstanding critique of Western culture's growing fixation on categorizing human experience, as a political choice that he felt significantly restricted the range of human experience, and thus reduced the humans behind the labels. 50 years on, I'd say he was on to something.)