Park Shin-hye has not done any acting since her last series Sisyphus the Myth (I’ve written this prior to her wedding and pregnancy announcement) wrapped up production in early December 2020. With Squid Game lighting up Netflix in the US, the UK and the world and so many dramas being shown, made and announced, her absence from any K-production is heartbreaking to her fans. I don’t watch Kdramas anymore. Even before I’ve heard of the racist incident involving the only Filipino actor in Squid Game but I reckon it was my rewatch of that episode in Hello Counselor where Jung Yong-hwa was a guest and one of the stories was a guy who was being treated so lowly by his fellow Koreans for looking like a Filipino. Anyway, I only watch Korean shows these days if Park Shin-hye is a cast member. I don’t follow Kpop but I enjoy dancing to the tunes.
Korean works such as #Alive and Space Sweepers made it to the Top Ten in the UK but none made it to number one on the streaming service like Squid Game. My husband likes watching it again and again. I’m not really fond of this type of genre. Its very essence doesn’t strike a chord with my free time. But that is me. All others enjoy this kind of pursuit. Sometimes I wonder if it is popular amongst my husband’s friends because they like watching East Asians engaged in this killing competition? Are they like those men in suits in the series looking through the games via a monitor ? Or was it through a window? I couldn’t really decipher, I just passed by during the penultimate episode.
The series catapulted its stars to the sky, the female lead is now the hype of social media, amassing followers to rival Ariana Grande. Let’s see her next pursuits, would she continue to be hot for the years to come?
