Actor Lee Min Ho’s “Intercourse And Being pregnant” Scene Horrifies “When The Stars Gossip” Viewers

One scene from the newest episode of tvN‘s struggling Okay-Drama streaming on Netflix has viewers baffled by the scriptwriter, director, and even the forged who took on the present.

In Episode 6 of When The Stars Gossip, an area station romance between an astronaut and an OBGYN physician on a mission, lead actors Lee Min Ho and Gong Hyo Jin are seen observing the habits of mice.

When Gong Hyo Jin’s character, Commander Eve Kim, questions whether or not the 2 mice will find yourself mating, Lee Min Ho’s character, Gong Ryong, assures her of it—claiming he is aware of what he’s doing.

In the case of intercourse and being pregnant, I’m the skilled.

— Gong Ryong (in accordance with Netflix’s official English subtitles)

Whereas the road doesn’t sound too off-putting within the subtitles—or within the dubbed model, the place Gong Ryong merely says, “In the case of pregnancies, I’m the skilled”—it’s now being berated by Korean-speaking viewers who watched/heard it within the Korean unique.

Within the Korean unique, the road is grammatically constructed nearer to:

I’m the skilled at/about having intercourse and impregnating.

— Gong Ryong

After the episode aired, viewers flocked to on-line communities in outrage. Some identified the disrespect towards OBGYN medical doctors by portraying Gong Ryong like a “breeder,” whereas others mocked the manufacturing for costing an extravagant amount of cash to be set in area but not involving area in any respect.

• “I can not consider this can be a tvN weekend Okay-Drama that value ₩50.0 billion KRW (about $34.3 million USD) to make.”
• “What the hell is that this?”
• “This… aired? Who bagged the ₩50.0 billion KRW (about $34.3 million USD) manufacturing finances?”

• “I’m flabbergasted that this present nonetheless landed investments with a script like this.”
• “The scriptwriter put in 0 effort to make this even remotely sci-fi. As an alternative, she smothered the entire script in intercourse.”
• “Search engine marketing Sook Hyang should have been possessed by a demon or one thing when she wrote this, as a result of in any other case… What occurred?”

• “I’m having second ideas in regards to the forged who selected to tackle these roles.”
• “I’m an OBGYN physician and… that is offensive. I’m a health care provider who treats ladies, not a fricking breeder. That is so disappointing, extra so as a result of I appreciated her earlier works.”
• “Each the scriptwriter and the director do not know what they’re doing.”

Although one netizen acknowledged the cheekiness in Gong Ryong’s reply and associated it to a Natalie Portman clip they’d seen…

I’m wondering if this can be a twist on that one Natalie Portman video. I believe it’s one thing she stated on a chat present about being requested about her father’s job when she was youthful. Her dad is an infertility specialist, however primarily based on how she described it, her instructor known as her mother and requested in regards to the dad or one thing… I noticed it on YouTube Shorts.

— Netizen

…most easily expressed their disappointment within the scriptwriter who can’t appear to cease speaking about intercourse, the director who’s driving the present to its demise, and even the forged who should have learn the script and nonetheless accepted the function.

• “It’s surprising to me that nobody from the directing crew or the forged lineup discovered this script to be problematic.”
• “This present had me confusedAF for the reason that fruit flies. For one, scientists would check with it as ‘mating,’ not ‘having intercourse.’ I can’t consider the script remains to be hung up on intercourse. And… OBGYN medical doctors should not intercourse specialists. Has this scriptwriter by no means been to an OBGYN earlier than?”
• “What the hell is that this…”

• “What number of episodes do forged members get to see earlier than accepting a job? I’m going to be so dissatisfied if the actors nonetheless selected to be part of this AFTER studying the script.”
• “What does this scriptwriter assume OBGYN medical doctors do…? I’m disgusted.”
• “Intercourse, intercourse, intercourse. So immature. What OBGYN physician would act like this in actual life?”

• “That is low key tremendous disrespectful towards OBGYN medical doctors.”
• “Does anybody ever say sh*t like that out loud in actual life? Like, ever?”
• “I’m nonetheless attempting to attract the connection between an OBGYN physician and intercourse experience.”

This scene is one in every of many who have turned the viewers off from When The Stars Gossip. Beforehand, its “misogynistic“ portrayal of supporting characters additionally confronted fierce backlash. Given, the viewership score is plummeting to an all-time low—proof that viewers present no mercy relating to Okay-Dramas poorly made.

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