Many sharp-eyed fans have spotted recent
Taiwanese dramas with similar plots and storylines from popular Korean
dramas. One of them being SETTV’s currently airing prime time drama,
“Ti Amo Chocolate” (also known as Set Chocolate).
Some netizens have
even gone as far as teasing that the drama should change its name to “Ti
Amo Korean Drama”. Like The 1st Shop of Coffee Prince, the female
lead pretends to be a guy working at a restaurant. Netizens also
pointed out that the scene where Van Ness Wu almost found out
that Joanne Zeng was a girl when she wore a dress to the party
was also very much like when Yoon Eun-Hye dressed up to go to the
art gallery and bumped into Gong Yoo (male lead).
More eerie similarities were spotted by netizens. In the Korean drama, You’re Beautiful, Park Shin-Hye jumped on top of a truck in
order to retrieve a cell phone. The truck started moving and Jang
Geun-Suk had to chase after her. Likewise in Ti Amo Chocolate,
Vanness fell onto a truck during a conflict with Joanne Zeng. Joanne
then chased after the truck on her bike when it suddenly started moving.
Another Taiwanese drama that has also been criticized is Happy Michelin Kitchen. But before it even started airing, news broke out that it was a copy of a Korean drama. However, the production crew expressed that the drama was inspired by the classic story of Butterfly Lovers. Interestingly, when the drama aired in mainland China, it used the name, “‘人間美味一號店“ (roughly translates to The 1st Shop of Deliciousness), which massively reminded fans of Coffee Prince.
The drama that Jerry Yan filmed in the mainland last year was
also criticized for copying Korean dramas. The actor expressed, “Actors
create characters. Although the script was similar, different actors
will portray the character differently.”
As the bashing and accusations continue, a number of fans still came to Taiwanese dramas' defense. They commented:
" I think i'ts too soon to tell or not. I think it all depends on the plot
and how the story flows"
" Netizens once again just love to nick-pick everything out. If you ask
me ALL dramas resemble or are inspired by one another and honestly, if
you ask me, not one drama is actually THAT original enough to be labeled as a
certain country's drama... -__- Dont make me go back in time and say
how people copied Shakespeare!"
" Like SERIOUSLY. Korean "FANATICS" need to get a life"
" Almost all Asian dramas in general are based off of one another or off
popular Animes so I'm not sure why netizens are fussing over this.
Korean dramas tend to do remakes of Taiwanese and Japanese dramas too.
Since Japanese dramas are heavily based on Animes, it's like a full
circle. So uh...get over it, yeah?"
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