SJ “Sinxity” Shin worked as a creative director at YG before producing 'Semantic Error.'
,” he said. “I really loved that drama with Neil Patrick Harris and Darren Star. It’s really fun, but it was a typical gay romance. BL is really different from that. BL drama is a kind of fantasy in its own world, where characters love each other boy-boy, girl-girl, it doesn’t matter.”
“This year the environment for actors worrying about playing a queer character in BL dramas changed because of the success of” said Shin. “The actors who played these two characters were not that famous before the drama. Their Instagram followers before, they have 907K and 667K followers. It really increased. Also, one of the actors is a member of a k-pop boy idol group DKZ. Their album package sales really increased. Beforetheir sales were reaching 4K or 3K but now they are at 100K.
“In 2020 an artist named Holland was the first k-pop singer to openly come out as gay,” said Shin. “Twenty years ago the celebrity Hong Seok-chan came out, but in that 20 years there were no stars that openly publicized their sexuality. Now we have a political party talking about gay marriage. There was no discussion about that before this kind of movement, but now on the political side, they are talking about gay marriage. It is rapidly changing.
“At the end of the day we want to make good content that inspires people and offers viewers another perspective. At YG, I witnessed the success of Gangnam Style and BlackPink and saw how the global perspective toward these artists and the content changed drastically. It was very inspiring for me and everybody who worked there. Withwe got to change people’s public opinion on LGBTQ issues.
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