The Heirs

I realized some time ago that The Heirs was my first K-drama watch (I think around 2019 because I saw the first ep playing in my parents' room and went to watch it myself on YouTube). I started getting into K-dramas last year after my sister forced me to watch True Beauty and I was obsessedddd. After watching The Heirs, I realized it was probably the blueprint for True Beauty, so much similarities, just different decades and conflicts/back stories presented through different forms. The world is divided into two lanes again, which made me realize Twilight was the blueprint for love triangles in film. I'm team Kim Tan, Lee Su-ho, and Edward ofc 😂 First male leads are for me >>> I also love them for making Cha Eun-Sang a horror lover, the amount of Scream references??? hellosidney96, "Hello Sidney" x2. Unfortunately I hadn't caught on to this when I was younger because my horror phase occurred around 2022 (I used to be so afraid of them lmao). Perfect for me now tho because Scream is my fav as well 🤭🔪 Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Friday the 13th. It would've been real funny if they had a scene watching horror together and Kim Tan gets scared or something, but I guess that happened in True Beauty instead. Similarly, Lim Ju-Kyung also loves horror & heavy metal music, def a reference to this series... I only realized watching it now how much you can really learn about running a business / how the business world works through Jeguk Group's drama here. Also the way K-dramas used to have more episodes; 20 episodes really made it enough for them to build up the story. I liked how they placed the first 4 eps focusing on the USA meet-cute, although Kim Tan basically fell in love after only a day lmao 😭 but ig that's how dramatic it can be for teenage love? Lol. But yea ig the episode count is smth I wish stayed till modern K-dramas, they mostly end abruptly, or part of the story structure doesn't seem enough. Recently read that this K-drama also influenced the Hallyu wave and Korean economy. Not surprised though, this would be so expensive to do now since they're mostly A-list actors.