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Reply 1988 and the Summer Olympics

I adored all the weirdness, the friendships and the antics that made up the show Reply 1997.  By 2012, I'd watched quite a lot of k-drama's, but Reply 1997 was the first time I recognized the difference in Seoul dialect and Busan dialect. I had finally become so accustomed to hearing spoken Korean, that it was as …

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In Time With You Remake Review

***May contain spoilers*** I tried to give The Time We Were Not in Love a fair chance. Because In Time With You is in my top 10 and the only Taiwanese drama that I want to re-watch, I knew it was going to be a hurdle to like its remake. Since I've watched multiple versions of …

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Loving the skin you’re in

Too many cultures practice colorism, knowingly or unknowingly. It's prejudice or discrimination against individuals with a dark skin tone, typically among people of the same ethnic or racial group. I was watching a show the other day and this scene made me as sad as when I see brown and dark brown-skinned people wanting be …

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