What’s up with ML everywhere smoking and playing with lighters? I get it, the Kdrama prop departments are obsessed with lighters but no smoking please 😑.

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    I thought I was the only one feeling like this ><
    Everyone calls them hot, maybe that's why they keep showing them smoking 😩

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      Yeah I was taken aback a little bit, I thought in SK they’re not supposed to show smoking scene on broadcast programs 😳

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        Netflix produced shows can show actual smoking scenes but broadcast can’t. Have they actually showed anyone smoking? Usually it’s just pull out a cigarette or lighter and then get interrupted.

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          You’re right, they weren’t actually smoking, but ep 5 of YOM showed ML holding a burning cigarette and DAYS, Vincenzo, and MRIG all showed ML sucking/almost sucking a cigarette. I think those scenes were suggestive enough to potentially mislead the audience into associating smoking with hot men. TBH I’m disappointed ~~~

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          Interesting point. In MOVE TO HEAVEN (on Netflix US) Lee Je-hoon (as Samchon) puffs away like he knows what he is doing.

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        I read somewhere that smoking scenes can be shown but they should’nt light a cigarette on screen. Afterwards I noticed in a lot of dramas they either cut away the lighting scene or they face backwards to light or just click several times but don’t light esp when the character is frustated. I honestly think that it is a pretty dumb rule.

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    Maybe it’s ppl and they will put another one for electronic cigarettes as a perfect birthday gift…

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    I’ve noticed a lot (more?) of smoking in recent kdramas, what’s up?

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      Me too, and it’s frustrating. It’s like they ran out of ideas to show how attractive men should behave and someone suddenly thought smoking men look cool, let’s bring it back ><

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      There’s definitely more *almost* smoking – I am not a fan.

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