This is a review with a personal background information. I hardly watched korean dramas and movies up until pandemic, but started watching them from Squid Game, Train to Busan and other kdramas and kmovies since the pandemic. Yes, I'm one of those people who started following korean entertainment media simply because there was nothing you could do during the pandemic. My wife on the other hand, is totally different case. She's from Turkey, and she has watched many kdramas and kdrama remakes from Turkey. According to her, Turkey has made a lot of remakes of kdramas, and also has aired many original kdramas. She said kdramas were and still are popular in Turkey, and there's a particularly popular kdrama, Dae Jang Geum aka Jewel in the Palace which is the original version of this show.
After watching Snowdrop on Disney+, and this was suggested to us, so we started watching it by thinking it as one of those kdramas. In my case, I didn't notice anything in the beginning of the show, however, my wife said this isn't a kdrama, and they are speaking chinese. Which was totally fine so far, but then my wife continued saying that those costumes and food are awfully close to the ones in Dae Jang Geum, She said even the characters are similar to Dae Jang Geum along with typical character dynamics in kdramas. The only difference is that people in this show are chinese and speaking chinese. It's hard to understand what was going on with this show but I wasn't totally ignorant of this "fad" from china since I've read a news article saying china is making a copy of Squid Game. My wife simply said why can't "they" just make a legitimate remake of a korean show like Turkey does? But in my case, the bigger problem is that it's Disney that is promoting this show. I mean Disney is an organization showing no tolerance for copyright infringement whether the case is small or not. However, they are promoting a show that is infringing the copyright of the korean show. It really breaks Disney's integrity.
