Beautiful Life (SBS Soap, 2010)

Currently, two gay-themed soaps are on Korean public TV networks.

One is Beautiful Life and the other is Personal Taste.

Beautiful Life shows the lives of big family members' in Che-ju Island.

They encounter many burdens in their daily lives. But they overcome helping each other.

That's the main theme of this show.

One of the family members is gay and under lots of pressure of marriage.

Not like in Western culture, in Asia it is expected to get married when he/she reaches certain age. Family members and even co-workers keep asking about personal life without boundaries.

So it's not easy to live a closeted life in this situation.

This character faces the same trouble. He's a doctor and in his 30's. No one doubts that he has to settle down with a good girl. But he's gay and starts to see a good guy (who suffered from forced marriage and now is a divorce'). Family members, not knowing anything about his being gay, expect him to get married and even worse, there's a woman who wants to marry him even after knowing he's gay.

Not like Personal Taste, Beautiful Life deals with real problems which any Korean gay could relate to.

And add to that, the writer of this show is one of the most famous writers in Korea, whose shows never failed. So many Koreans are watching this show, I suppose.

Because of these two shows on public TV networks, many articles were written including this following article from English Newspaper in Korea.

http://www.koreaherald.com/entertainment/Detail.jsp?newsMLId=20100427000504

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