Apparently, no one thought of sending them to a foreign news agency or correspondent beyond the reach of the bad guys.
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On one occasion, cassettes (remember them) get delivered to all the major newspapers and TV stations and everyone of them gets intercepted. (Really, how did several secret agents end up at the women's dorm long before the hostage crisis?) Probably the biggest challenge to our ability to go along with the story is the way the villains in the ruling Korean party so completely control the press and everything else that no leak of their nefarious plot, even when presented on a plate, gets out to the public or the anguished (although mostly invisible) parents of the hostages. There is also the usual stream of implausible coincidences and flashbacks.
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And the writer had to resort to plot devices that simply beggar credibility, including innumerable times when tied up individuals wriggle free various hostages are allowed to wander free around the dorm even after they have been caught, multiple times, committing mischievous and in some cases treacherous acts the villains repeatedly swap places in the competition for power, all amid the usual torrent of eavesdropping, monologuing (see The Incredibles), and big and small reveals.
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The plot has more twists than a hungry anaconda and some of them are quite clever, but ultimately the series suffers from the same problem that afflicts so many Korean dramas - 16 super long episodes to fill and not enough material. The backdrop is also much darker: The ruling party in South Korea will do anything, including murdering a large number of young women hostages taken by North Korean operatives at a girls' university dorm, to carry out its scheme to get elected. So for those who require happy endings for their romances, this is not the show for you. He knows that to place his love ahead of his duty, his family will be destroyed by the unforgiving (and completely unromantic) North Korean government and indeed he himself may also be hunted down.
Snowdrop is a lot darker and does not end as well for the protagonists as the ambiguously romantic denouement of CLOY, but it presents the same insuperable dilemma, particularly for the man. The third episode of ‘Snowdrop’ will air on December 25th at 10.30pm Korea Standard Time on the JTBC television network.Snowdrop may have been planned well before Crash Landing On You but the underlying theme is the same - the impossible love affair between a North Korean soldier and a high ranking Korean woman.
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Based on this, JTBC will continue to contribute full effort into showcasing great broadcasts.” “The main values that JTBC aims for are the freedom of content creation and independence of production. JTBC said the drama would clear up controversies as the plot unravelled, adding: “In addition, in order to hear the valuable opinions regarding JTBC’s contents, we will listen to diverse voices by opening the portal site’s real-time chat window and the official viewers’ message board. “The drama includes the production team’s intent of hoping for no repetition of an abnormal era in which individual freedom and happiness are oppressed by unjust power.”
“Most of the misunderstandings regarding concerns of ‘history distortion’ and ‘disparaging the democratization movement’ criticized by many people will be settled through the progress of the drama’s plot.
‘Snowdrop’ is a creative work that shows the personal stories of individuals who were used and victimized by those in power. With this background, it contains a fictional story of the party in power colluding with the North Korean government in order to maintain authority.
“First of all, the background and motif for important incidents in ‘Snowdrop’ (take place at) the time of (the) military regime.
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