lack of realistic premises
maybe I'm stating the obvious but can korean webtoons be a bit more inclusive of realistic characters w realistic living standards i feel like one of the dudes is alw broke/living alone w disconnected parents/struggling w uni w no friends/isolated and then the other dude is some variation of rich chaebol/rich son of mafia/rich son of ceo/estranged from rich parents w funding/super cold but very academic w not a single friend, like why can't there be more stories where the both of them r just normal idk high schoolers/uni students w a normal income so they have days where they joke abt who pays the bill/ complain abt silly things their parents do/ the evryday pressure to live up to ur normal parents who gave their all to you or sum idk am i looking in the wrong place, i feel like mangas have a general better representation of couples in the mundane everyday life school/office and webtoons just have this drastic difference b/w the two
also when i mean normal income there's obviously no 'normal' i just mean like yk ur average going broke uni student / ur average hs student maybe surviving on a part time job's small pay/pocket money
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There's a lot of it. Even mangas have the same trope, its just that manga has been there much longer and they basically exhausted and possibly pioneered every trope possible. The popular earliest BL/Yaoi has the same tropes you're complaining about.
ohh i didnt think abt it like that
Though I'm not saying financial gap/struggles came from japan. It has always been popular and always will across all cultures. Why? Because it's convenient and easier to make a "happy ending", and its up to the writers how they navigate through it. Though i think, rather than realistic, i think you are looking for "relatable" and that's the slice of life genre ?
OHHH yes this is lowkey what i mean... i think I like slice of life more than i realised