Kim Tae-ri’s K-drama Faces Criticism for Excluding Lesbian Relationship

On September 12, various discussions regarding Kim Tae-ri’s upcoming K-drama, “Jeongnyeon: The Star Is Born” , gained significant traction on the Korean forum “theqoo” .

These discussions include key details from news articles about the K-drama, revealing that the production team opted to “modify the characters” due to the original work featuring “sensitive” aspects of girl love (GL, or lesbian themes).

In the original webtoon for “Jeongnyeon: The Star Is Born” , the female protagonist has romantic feelings for a same-sex character; however, this character has been excluded from the K-drama adaptation.

Consequently, criticism has emerged, with netizens arguing that if the production company needed to make numerous alterations due to the original lesbian content, they should have created a brand-new story instead of adapting a girl love webtoon.

Here are some comments from netizens:

In the first place, why did they choose a girl love story only to remove the lesbian relationship?
It was a lesbian love story to begin with; if they’re going to remove the girl love aspects, then they shouldn’t have used the original at all.
Why can’t they just write a new script filled with heterosexual content that they prefer? Why modify an original girl love work?
How can they simply change it to friendship or eliminate a significant character?
The more I ponder it, the more I feel for the character; I can only express frustration. They should create something entirely different.
Our country still has a long way to go.
In the end, they erased the queer character without honoring the original work…

Source: theqoo (1) (2)