Crime Drama-type Show

[hachiue]

I was up late last night and watched a crime drama-style show on channel 28.

In it, some guy kidnapped a girl (while she was taking a bath!) and kept her in an apartment and, as far as I could tell, just handcuffed her to different places in the apartment to keep her from getting out while chatting with her like a psycho would. His sister discovered it after seeing the woman's face on the news as missing and connecting it with the face of a woman she'd seen in pictures her brother had taken. When his sister talked to the police it came out that their father had left their mother when they were younger and that their mother had blamed (and abused) the brother and, eventually, drank herself to death, for which the brother blamed himself. Apparently the kidnapped woman was his boss's daughter. When the kidnapper first met her, she was a little kid and I think he was just starting out in his job, and she looked so happy to him that he became obsessed with her, following her around to take pictures. Anyway, at the end of the drama, there was a trial where he was found insane and locked up in a nuthatch.

Plot aside, there was one scene in the drama where the insane kidnapper tried to commit suicide by slitting his wrists in the bath, and his sister discovered him. But when they showed his arm (with the slit wrist) they blurred out his wrist so that the viewers wouldn't see the cuts. It seems to me like that was added afterwards by kbc, but I wouldn't really know. Is there some law in Korea (this was an mbc show) that doesn't allow wounds like that to be shown? Maybe this was added in later by kbc, but if so, why? It was shown late at night (about 2 am) so it seems odd that they would censor something like that.

[Alexa]

This sounds good, was it subtitled?

[ovaridedis24]

hachiue said:

But when they showed his arm (with the slit wrist) they blurred out his wrist so that the viewers wouldn't see the cuts.

I think it's a thing in Asian dramas on television where they blur out stuff that they feel is too violent, I remember there was a Thai drama that my family watched where they blurred out a guy holding a knife to a woman's throat.

[hachi]

It wasn't subtitled but it was pretty easy to figure out what was going on since they didn't do much exposition but showed the action instead.

I guess that makes sense - blurring out things that they think are too violent. It just seems weird - like it calls a lot more attention to it than it would to just not show his wrist, but him in a tub full of bloody water.

[ovaridedis24]

Yeah it is weird, I'm surprised in 'The Phoenix' they didn't blur out the part when Mi-Ran was slitting her wrist with the broken glass and just this morning I was watching 'I'm Sorry, I Love You', there was a scene in a gym and in the background they were playing American music with the 'F' word and all.

[hachiue]

Oh you're right! Those inconsistent weirdos.

I suppose I could understand the music since it's in English, but not their different treatment of violence.

[galacticchick]

This show sounds really cool. Kind of like my beloved 1-episode of Flower on A Knife's Edge from Drama City.

[hachiue]

It gave me the same feeling! Because it ended on an off note - not everything was happily tied up at the end, the plot was darker than most k-dramas, and it just seemed to be more interesting than the typical problem-pregnancy, problematic inlaw, blah drama.

I miss flower on a knife's edge. That should've been a longer series than it was. Come to think of it, I miss drama city in general. A lot of those shows were good.

[galacticchick]

hachiue said:

I miss flower on a knife's edge. That should've been a longer series than it was. Come to think of it, I miss drama city in general. A lot of those shows were good.

I know. I'm so sick of MPC. And yet I can't stop watching. I just don't care about any of the characters. I flip between MPC and the simpson's sometimes. I don't care if they wouldn't have aired the last half of MPC and replaced it with a longer series of FOKE-type drama.

Do you know if it is airing on Tuesday or Wednesday of the wee hours of the morning? You're the only one I know who stays up that late from what I've read in your posts.

[hachi]

It was late night just before my post, so on late April 10th (or actually early the 11th). I turned it on after the show'd started at about 1:45-2:00.

I tried seeing if the same type of thing was on last night but it was just the game show that they used to air before MPC (replaced by the evil infomercials).

I haven't checked any other nights of the week but I'll try - sometimes I don't make it that late because of the sleepiness.

[Knov1]

You said it was a MBC show, right? Then my guess is that what you saw is MBC Best Theater. It's the MBC version of KBS Drama City. Also, you said they blurred out a wound on a guys wrist? I doubt that was done by MBC. Best Theater stories tend to be darker than most dramas. Someone slicing their wrist or a bloody wound would be nothing compared to other stuff they've shown. Anyway, in Korea they really only blur out brand names, logos, etc.

I know KBC gives MBC Best Theater on weekends but I didn't know they repeat it at that time. I know they give KBS Drama City (without subtitles) late at night. I'm not sure what day though.

On Wednesday (Wed. into Thurs.) & Thursday (Thurs. into Fri.) nights @ about 1:50am, KBC airs repeats of whatever drama is being aired on Monday-Tuesday @ 10:30am. Currently that would be KBS I'm Sorry, I Love You. On Friday & Saturday nights @ about 1:50am, KBC airs repeats of whatever drama is being aired Wednesday-Thursday @ 10:30am. Currently that would be MBC Sad Sonata.