Hit drama series in recent years have seen a surge in male leads who possess supernatural powers. In “Guardian,” the female lead Ji Eun-tak, played by Kim Go-eun, is able to summon Dokkaebi Kim simply by blowing out a flame. ( Read also: Korean drama ‘Goblin' styles sweeping fashion industry) Of course, I would never expect that of my real life partner.” “But it’s easy to escape to a world where someone will come to my side at the drop of a hat, no questions asked, and provide everything. “The realistic ideal is that two people complement each other in a relationship,” said Choi Ji-sun, 28, a lawyer who has watched every episode of the show, which airs Fridays and Saturdays at 8 p.m. 2 launch on cable channel tvN, scoring 12.7 percent according to Nielsen Korea - can be attributed to female viewers’ yearning for all-powerful male figures who can solve the problems of modern women’s increasingly stressful lives. Jung says the popularity of the dokkaebi character - “Guardian” has boasted a record-breaking viewership since its Dec. “Now, their abilities surpass the realm of human strengths.” “We’ve evolved past god-like men to actual gods, who don the appearance of good-looking human men,” said culture critic Jung Duk-hyun.
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“Guardian” has gone one step further in conjuring an ideal knight-in-shining armor, TV critics say. Korean dramas have notoriously favored near-perfect male leads - attractive, intelligent, heirs to vast fortunes and more. In the popular TV drama series “Guardian: The Lonely and Great God” or also known as "Goblin", the male lead is, quite literally, a god.īased on the Korean folklore of dokkaebi, a higher spiritual being roughly translated as goblin, the drama series features actor Gong Yoo as Kim Shin, a warrior born centuries ago who, after being impaled with a sword, is transformed into an immortal dokkaebi with endless wealth.
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