From Kim Hye-soo to Kim Hye-jun to Moon Jeong-hee, Women Who Don't Take Things Lying Down Are Emerging

These women don't put up with the 'evil' that dawns on them.

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The emergence of female characters who do not hesitate to commit misdeeds in the name of self-protection is making viewers at home feel better. Self-reliant women's characters are in fashion and new women characters who are relentless in removing those in their way are dominating dramas.

Some of these said characters are Kim Hye-soo (Jeong Geum-ja) from the SBS drama "Hyena", Kim Hye-jun (the Queen) in Netflix's "Kingdom" and Moon Jeong-hee (Sim Myeong-yeo) from the jTBC drama "When the Weather Is Fine". There's a reason why viewers applaud their satisfactory actions.

Jeong Geum-ja, played by Kim Hye-soo, is the central and main character of "Hyena". Jeong Geum-ja, who has the habit of growing again even if pulled out like a weed, can do anything to win. Adding to this is the past, when she directly harmed herself to escape domestic violence, and she has definitely emerged as a sympathetic character to viewers. It can be said that losing her mother to a stepfather who wielded the weapon of domestic violence, and plunging a knife directly into her own stomach to escape the violence, created the Jeong Geum-ja of today. On top of that, Jeong Geum-ja showed the unwavering perseverance towards Yoon Hee-jae (Ju Ji-hoon), the male character, with a bold step toward the future, living not in the past, but in the present.

The same is true of the Queen in "Kingdom" and "Kingdom - Season 2". She even removed her father, Jo Hak-joo (Ryu Seung-ryong), in order to gain power,. In Season 2, which was unveiled last month, the single line that said, "The insignificant girl will now have everything" completely reversed the nature of the character and won the sympathy of the viewers. A new term, 'K-Jangnyeo' was born to viewers as she was forced by her father to marry a king that was twice as old as her and struggled to birth a son. Many female viewers liked her because she piled all the humiliation she had been through just for being born as a woman in a country called Joseon and paid it back by removing her father. Kim Hye-jun also expressed her feelings, saying, "I was upset that many women sympathized with the character".

On top of that, Sim Myeong-yeo's (Moon Jeong-hee) story in "When the Weather Is Fine", which aired on the 7th, was also sympathized with. Sim Myeong-yeo was forced to kill her brother-in-law Mok Joo-hong (Seo Tae-hwa) to save her sister Sim Myeong-joo (Jin Hee-kyung), who was under domestic violence, and her sister took the blame for it. 'The day' from 10 years ago, when the tragedy happened, was sympathized by viewers. Sim Myeong-yeo, who saw the young daughter of her friend who was assaulted by her husband at her funeral, was also depicted recalling Hae-won (Park Min-young) of the past, which caused grief. Viewers also agreed when Sim Myeong-yeo, who had lived in pain, screamed her lungs out.

Viewers' sympathy is directed to characters who become more violent as a way to protect themselves, even if they are not necessarily female protagonists who 'can't stand injustice' or 'move for justice'. These characters have been loved by viewers, as they have changed their perceptions. Viewers are also welcoming the natural movement following the changing times with one voice. "As voices on women's human rights have grown recently, the roles in the drama are also growing", said a production company's planning producer. "In the case of scripts without subjective narratives in female characters, they are not chosen by stars, and due to this effect, they are moving away from composition".