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Go Kyung Pyo Protected His Heart and Dream In Frankly Speaking Episode 3

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This episode tells us exactly what it means to be protecting our hearts by expressing what we really mean and by standing up for our own self including our dreams. Nobody would be able to protect us but ourselves. This is really such a great reminder to all of us especially in our modern society today where we compromise ourselves and our feelings to give way to other people because there's hierarchy that dictates us what to do. This happens most especially in our workplace. It's true that in order to survive this chain, we must use white lies and sugarcoat our words to come out pleasing to the ears of those we wanted to have a good impression with but we should do it moderately. In a way that, we wouldn't lose our true selves in the long run. That has become the problem with Song Ki Baek here. He was so used to living in lies and sugarcoat everything that he lost his true self to get himself to his desired dream/goal. Now that he got a disease of telling only the truth, it
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Park Eun Seok Apologizes For Portrayal Of New Character In The Penthouse 3

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I already see this coming ever since I spotted his new character Alex Lee in the 2nd episode of The Penthouse 3. However, I don't think Park Eun Seok is the only one at fault in here. First of all, the actor will only try to act based on the character that was given to him, meaning, the writer of the penthouse should not let Park Eun Seok take all the blame here. 

The main issue here, if you're not aware, is that Park Eun Seok's portrayal of his new character Alex Lee was criticized by the general public for being 'racist'. Alex is an Asian American character that stereotyped African American Vernacular English with his portrayal with knotted hair, tattoos and strong accent. The irony here is that, Logan Lee himself is an Asian that lived in the US for quite some time so this is really awkward. With what's happening right in in the world, this matter is really a sensitive issue. Everyone can vividly see what went wrong with the production's characterization of Alex Lee. South Koreans are easily pissed off when something came across as inappropriate to their own culture so I hope they will gain this high sensitivity as respect for other culture as well. The production and the actors should work hand in hand, do proper research so they could point out what is appropriate and what's not. 


Park Eun Seok already issued a statement via his Tiktok. I'd say it was well thought of:

Regarding the drama Penthouse character Alex, I'd like to let everyone know that none of the appearances that were driven by the character was falsly intentional to harm, mock, disrespect or discourage the African American community. I'd like to apologize to the people who took offense by the character's appearance. It was more admiration of the culture than mockery but now I'm aware that the approach was more CA. It was wrong attempt for character development.

 Again I'd like to apologize to those who took offense, I as a minority myself should've known better. Thank you for giving me the opportunity to grow in awareness.

I hope you have the sincerity in your hearts to give the benefit of the doubt, that Alex's appearance was rather a character approach who admired the culture and wanted to "be" like, not intentionally portraying mockery.


How about you? What do you think about this?

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