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Is D.P. the Unluckiest K-Drama Ever Aired?


It’s had to contend with two of the biggest Korean television exports in recent memory: Squid Game and Moving.

This is a world powered by men spectacularly ill-equipped to lead, who are so afraid of the abuse of their superiors that they simply visit the same violence upon their perceived subordinates, all to continue a cycle of toxic masculinity in an otherwise celebrated male system. Yet, hidden in that striking dynamic are two people at odds with the system in which they function, with both Jun-ho and Ho-yeol slowly understanding the responsibility they’ve been handed is too big for them. But it also grabbed a wider audience who could see the parallels between the feckless officers that allow, encourage, and even perpetrate abuse in the military and the toxic leadership they experience in their daily lives.

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