As to Korea? I think they very rarely adapt even anything from a manhwa, let alone a manga (thus leaving out any twdrama remakes which are manga-based). I can think of very very few manhwa adapations. In fact, the only ones that come to mind are Goong, Full House (apparently very loosely based on the manhwa), and the upcoming Daemul (based on a josei manhwa, apparently). I think they have very strong screenwriters, so they don’t tend to adapt things much at all, Taiwanese, Japanese, or their own (which is a pity, there are tons of manhwas I want to see adapted. But if psycho success of Goong didn’t start this sort of thing, nothing will). I mean, even book adaptations are rare (the only ones that come to mind recently are Coffee Prince and Capital Scandal, based on chick-lit novels, and Hong Gil Dong, if you can even call that an adaptation, seeing how loose with it they were :P). It also probably has to do with the fact that unlike twdramas (and shoujoish jdramas) which are stuck in high-school/college, most kdramas star people who are older (and in some cases, even if not, actually play older! Kdramas are full of people playing older than their age). It’s easy enough to upgrade a manga story from high school to college, but to a work-place? That’s a bit hard. I honestly can’t think of that many kdramas set in high school, and with both protagonists high-school age. Goong? My Sister-in-Law is 19? The very few first eps of Chun-Hyang?
And I don’t think Koreans ever adapted a manga before Hanadan. Actually, I think it’s proof of how popular Hanadan is, that they are adapting it. I don’t know any other manga adaptations into kdrama.
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Date: 2008-05-12 09:20 pm (UTC)As to Korea? I think they very rarely adapt even anything from a manhwa, let alone a manga (thus leaving out any twdrama remakes which are manga-based). I can think of very very few manhwa adapations. In fact, the only ones that come to mind are Goong, Full House (apparently very loosely based on the manhwa), and the upcoming Daemul (based on a josei manhwa, apparently). I think they have very strong screenwriters, so they don’t tend to adapt things much at all, Taiwanese, Japanese, or their own (which is a pity, there are tons of manhwas I want to see adapted. But if psycho success of Goong didn’t start this sort of thing, nothing will). I mean, even book adaptations are rare (the only ones that come to mind recently are Coffee Prince and Capital Scandal, based on chick-lit novels, and Hong Gil Dong, if you can even call that an adaptation, seeing how loose with it they were :P). It also probably has to do with the fact that unlike twdramas (and shoujoish jdramas) which are stuck in high-school/college, most kdramas star people who are older (and in some cases, even if not, actually play older! Kdramas are full of people playing older than their age). It’s easy enough to upgrade a manga story from high school to college, but to a work-place? That’s a bit hard. I honestly can’t think of that many kdramas set in high school, and with both protagonists high-school age. Goong? My Sister-in-Law is 19? The very few first eps of Chun-Hyang?
And I don’t think Koreans ever adapted a manga before Hanadan. Actually, I think it’s proof of how popular Hanadan is, that they are adapting it. I don’t know any other manga adaptations into kdrama.
OK, I think I wrote a dissertaion, sorry.