TW/CW for non-consent, sexual assault, and intimate relationship violence 

Spoiler alert: This episode contains spoilers for scenes from the following dramas: Boys Over Flowers, F4 Thailand, Coffee Prince, My Lovely Sam Soon, Theory of Love, The Heirs, Cheese in the Trap, 2gether, KinnPorsche, Business Proposal, Her Private Life, Bad Buddy, Into the Ring, Semantic Error, Not Me, When the Weather is Fine, Reply 1988, The Smile Has Left Your Eyes and Dali and Cocky Prince.

There are detailed timestamps below so you can avoid spoilers for specific dramas. 

In this special episode, we dive into portrayals of consent in dramas and how they are (and aren’t) evolving. We’re joined by our good friends RK (known on Twitter as @roh_tweets) and Joanna Beveridge, a writer and producer from Australia who has just produced a k-drama inspired web series called No Ordinary Love (known on Twitter and Instagram as @jmbeveridge).

3:21: We discuss the definition of consent using information from RAINN, an advocacy organization for survivors of sexual violence. Learn more here: https://www.rainn.org/articles/what-is-consent 

4:46: We dive into why it’s important for us to discuss how consent is portrayed in dramas. In short: portrayals of consent influence real life.

8:39: But portrayals of non-consent or ambiguous consent can be emotionally gratifying for women and we discuss why that might be.

16:28: A description of the structure of our episode: we start with portrayals of non-consent and then work our way to non-verbal and verbal consent (note: we were pleasantly surprised by how many examples of good consent we were able to find!)

Non-Consent

17:27: Boys Over Flowers, ep. 2: https://youtu.be/jriP7H8zccU

22:03: Coffee Prince, ep. 11: Clip of scene: https://youtu.be/Og8YGgnyL2w. Full scene starts at 57:54: https://www.viki.com/videos/106809v-coffee-prince-episode-11. 

31:48: Theory of Love, Ep. 6, Part 1, 12:22, https://youtu.be/hNHUsihNjKo?t=742 

Ambiguous/Unclear Consent

36:48: Cheese in the Trap, ep. 8, 3:28  https://youtu.be/PLhsgLODLeQ?t=204 

38:55: The Heirs, ep 9: https://youtu.be/q_L0Ti_HY5I  

41:52: 2gether, ep, 9, 5:42  https://youtu.be/PWTgQKlwTJw?t=341 

Drunk/Drugged “Consent” (which is really non-consent)

48:41: If somebody is drunk or drugged to the point of being incapacitated they cannot consent and if someone has sex with a person who is incapacitated that is sexual assault. Unfortunately a lot of people don’t understand this.

50:29: KinnPorsche:

iQIYI https://www.iq.com/play/kinnporsche-the-series-la-forte-episode-4-fdr5lzz8x8 

Dramacool https://www1.dramacool.ee/kinnporsche-2022-episode-4.html 

1:02:50: Business Proposal: https://www.netflix.com/title/81509440 

Clear Non-Verbal Consent

1:16:53: Her Private Life, ep. 9https://youtu.be/66rkZDsXWCE

1:18:04: Bad Buddy, ep.5, 7:35: https://youtu.be/uFEmU3ORlLg?t=459

1:21:18: Into the Ring, ep. 10: https://youtu.be/Yc9iznYO2PY 

1:23:12: My Lovely Sam Soon, ep. 6, 15:28: https://youtu.be/pnLMXwi1-4o?t=928 

1:25:05: Dali and Cocky Prince, ep. 7: https://youtu.be/UJiFQNjGy3c

1:27:33 Brief discussion of It’s Okay to Not Be Okay, Ep. 3:  https://youtu.be/Mgd7mdRpCYg

Clear Verbal Consent

1:28:51 Semantic Error https://www.viki.com/tv/38375c 

1:36:10: Not Me Ep. 9, Part 1 https://youtu.be/Qk6yEbCa5EM?t=60 

1:43:12: When the Weather Is Fine, ep. 11:  https://youtu.be/OiBDB6aSScI

1:44:58: Reply 1988, ep. 11,3:34, https://youtu.be/mDO2AMM9sxs?t=214 

1:48:42: The Smile Has Left Your Eyes: https://www.viki.com/videos/1138262v  

1:52:10: Dali and Cocky Prince:  Ep 10, 58:29:  https://www.viki.com/videos/1186894v-dali-and-cocky-prince-episode-10