#unlock the boss

[mostlyfate]

UNLOCK MY BOSS 사장님을 잠금해제 (2022 - 2023) dir. Lee Chul Ha.

[dengswei]

I’ve said this before but damn this scene in unlock my boss speaks volumes because it is the reality of janitors/cleaners. no matter what company you’re under and how much they tell you you are equal to the other employees there you can tell, you can feel the judgement, the shame, the way people view you as “lesser” than because of this job, & just judge you automatically because of that. And most of the time there’s never anyone on their sides. You’re not seen as an equal let alone seen at all until you’re needed for something. Or if you’ve messed up. And you do... you get used to it because it is the norm for people in these jobs but it shouldn’t be! Because society would crumble without people in jobs like this! People brush it off because they think it’s an easy job but it’s not! And until you experience doing a job like this yourself you’ll never understand. So yeah respect janitors/cleaners, try and give them a helping hand if you can because most of the time they’re doing a lot more than they probably should be doing and they almost never get a thanks for it. Don’t just have the mindset of “a cleaner will clean this up because it’s their job.” Yes it’s their job but give them the basic respect that they deserve because guess what they’re human too.

[junkobato]

Upcoming Kdrama December 2022

1/12: Recipe for Farewell with Han Seok Kyu, Kim Seo Hyung. 12 episodes; life, food. Trailer

7/12: Connect with Jung Hae In, Go Kyung Pyo, Kim Hye Joon. 6 episodes; thriller, mystery. Trailer

7/12: Unlock the Boss with Chae Jung Yeop, Seo Eun Soo, Park Sung Woong. 12 episodes; mystery, comedy, sci-fi. Trailer

9/12: the Forbidden Marriage with Kim Young Dae, Park Ju Hyun, Kim Woo Seok. 12 episodes; historical, rom-com. Trailer

10/12: Alchemy of Souls 2 with Lee Jae Wook, Go Yoon Jung, Hwang Min Hyun, Shin Seung Ho. 10 episodes; historical, fantasy, romance. Trailer

17/12: Red Balloon with Seo Ji Hye, Lee Sang Woo, Hong Soo Hyun. 20 episodes; comedy, life. Trailer

19/12: Trolley with Kim Hyun Joo, Park Hee Soon, Kim Mu Yeol. 16 episodes; thriller, mystery, melodrama. Trailer

19/12: Missing: the other side 2 with Go Soo, Ahn So Hee, Ha Joon. 12 episodes; thriller, mystery, supernatural. Trailer

21/12: Interests of Love with Yoo Yeon Seok, Moon Ga Young, Jung Ga Ram. 16 episodes; romance, melodrama. Trailer

21/12: Big Bet with Son Seok Ku, Lee Dong Hwi, Heo Sung Tae. 16 episodes; action, crime. Trailer

23/12: the Fabulous with Minho, Chae Soo Bin. 8 episodes; Rom-com, life. Trailer

30/12: Island with Kim Nam Gil, Cha Eun Woo, Sung Joon, Lee Da Hee. 12 episodes; thriller, horror, fantasy. Trailer

30/12: the Glory with Song Hye Kyo, Lee Do Hyun, Park Sung Hoon. 8 episodes; thriller, melodrama. Trailer

Can time please slow down? I can't keep up with all the new shows!! 🤯

[hd-learns-korean]

No, but like can we all take a minute to appreciate how trippy the premise of 'Unlock My Boss' is.

The spirit of the CEO who owns a famous IT company gets trapped in a smartphone! A Smartphone!

Great, now I have a new phobia to contend with! Spirits trapped in phones! 🤣

I swear if my Alexa starts talking to me out of nowhere I will throw it out of the window without a seconds hesitation. Not one gosh darn seconds hesitation!

Below is a gif of me watching all the smart gadgets in the house like:

In all fairness I've seen Episode 1 and I thought it was really cool, I'm looking forward to see what happens in the rest of this drama!

Gif not created by me. All credit should go to the original creator.

[dramarec]

Whoever did the endotracheal tube for Unlock My Boss, I want to kiss them on the mouth. Invasive mechanical ventilation? Proper medical care?? In my kdramas???

[dramaswithasideofkimchi]

November Teaser Roundup

All the new November #kdramas are here for your viewing pleasure! From fashion wannabes to casino kings, the Hallyu wave has it all covered. What will you be watching? #TheFabulous #Casino #WeakHeroClass1 #Somebody

From romance to bullying to banter among first responders to an old mobster resurrecting his casino days, November has a lot to offer! Which dramas will end up on your screens this month, drama fans? (more…)

[youngjedisubs]

Unlock My Boss

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[seawherethesunsets]

I was looking for your unlock my boss gifs in the tag but couldn't find them. are you shadow banned?

oh??? it works fine for me tho when I do a search? and i get notifs of ppl liking/reblogging it

[dramastansposts]

Unlock the Boss Behind the Scenes 😆

[mostlysignssomeportents]

Live Nation/Ticketmaster is buying Congress

I'm touring my new, nationally bestselling novel The Bezzle! Catch me THURSDAY (May 2) in WINNIPEG, then Calgary (May 3), Vancouver (May 4), Tartu, Estonia, and beyond!

Anything that can't go on forever eventually stops. Monopolies are intrinsically destabilizing and inevitably implode…eventually. Guessing which of the loathesome monopolies that make us all miserable will be the first domino is a hard call, but Ticketmaster is definitely high on my list.

It's not that event tickets are the most consequential aspect of our lives. The monopolies over pharma, fuel, finance, tech, and even beer are all more important to our day-to-day. But while Ticketmaster – and its many ramified tentacles, like Live Nation – may not be the most destructive monopoly in our world, but it pisses off people with giant megaphones and armies of rabid fans.

It's been a minute since Ticketmaster was last in the news, so let's recap. Ticketmaster bought out most of its ticketing rivals, then merged with Live Nation, the country's largest concert promoter, and bought out many of the country's largest music, stage and sports venues. They used this iron grip on the entire supply chain for performances and events to pile innumerable junk fees on every ticket sold, while drastically eroding the wages of the creative workers they nominally represented. They created a secret secondary market for tickets and worked with ticket-touts to help them run bots that bought every ticket within an instant of the opening of ticket sales, then ran an auction marketplace that made them gigantic fees on every re-sold ticket – fees the performers were not entitled to share in.

The Ticketmaster/Live Nation/venue octopus is nearly impossible to escape. Independent venues can't book Live Nation acts unless they use Ticketmaster for their tickets. Acts can't get into the large venues owned by Ticketmaster unless they sign up to have Live Nation book their tour. And when Ticketmaster buys a venue, it creams off the most successful acts, starving competing venues of blockbuster shows. They also illegally colluded with their vendors to jack up the price of concerts across the board:

https://pascrell.house.gov/uploadedfiles/ful.pdf

When Rebecca Giblin and I were writing Chokepoint Capitalism, our book about how tech and entertainment monopolies impoverish all kinds of creative workers, we were able to get insiders to go on record about every kind of monopoly, from the labels to Spotify, Kindle to the Big Five publishers and the Google-Meta ad-tech duopoly. The only exception was Ticketmaster/Live Nation: everyone involved in live performance – performers, bookers, club owners – was palpably terrified about speaking out on the record about the conglomerate:

https://chokepointcapitalism.com/

No wonder. The company has a long and notorious history of using its market power to ruin anyone who challenges it. Remember Pearl Jam?

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/pearl-jam-taking-on-ticketmaster-67440/

But anything that can't go on forever eventually stops. Not only is Ticketmaster a rapacious, vindictive monopolist – it's also an incompetent monopolist, whose IT systems are optimized for rent-extraction first, with ticket sales as a distant afterthought. This is bad no matter which artist it effects, but when Ticketmaster totally, utterly fucked up Taylor Swift's first post-lockdown tour, they incurred the wrath of the Swifties:

https://www.vox.com/culture/2022/11/21/23471763/taylor-swift-ticketmaster-monopoly

All of which explains why I've always given good odds that Ticketmaster would be first up against the wall come the antitrust revolution. It may not be the most destructive monopolist, but it is absurdly evil, and the people who hate it most are the most famous and beloved artists in the country.

For a while, it looked like I was right. Ticketmaster's colossal Taylor Swift fuckup prompted Senator Amy Klobuchar – a leading antitrust crusader – to hold hearings on the company's conduct, and led to the introduction of a raft of bills to rein in predatory ticketing practices. But as David Dayen writes for The American Prospect, Ticketmaster/Live Nation is spreading a fortune around on the Hill, hiring a deep bench of ex-Congressmen and ex-senior staffers (including Klobuchar's former chief of staff) and they've found a way to create the appearance of justice without having to suffer any consequences for their decades-long campaign of fraud and abuse:

https://prospect.org/power/2024-04-30-live-nation-strikes-up-band-washington/

Dayen opens his article with the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, which is always bracketed by a week's worth of lavish parties for Congress and hill staffers. One of the fanciest of these parties was thrown by Axios – and sponsored by Live Nation, with a performance by Jelly Roll (whose touring contract is owned by Live Nation). Attendees at the Axios/Live Nation event were bombarded with messages about the essential goodness of Live Nation (they were even printed on the cocktail napkins) and exhortations to support the Fans First Act, co-sponsored by Klobuchar and Sen John Cornyn (R-TX):

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/08/arts/music/fans-first-act-ticket-bill.html

Ticketmaster/Live Nation loves the Fans First Act, because – unlike other bills – it focuses primarily on the secondary market for tickets, and its main measure is a requirement for ticketing companies to disclose their junk fees upfront. Neither of these represents a major challenge to Ticketmaster/Live Nation's control over the market, which gives it the ability to slash performers' wages while jacking up prices for fans.

Fans First represents the triumph of Ticketmaster/Live Nation's media strategy, which is to blame the entire problem on bottom-feeding ticket-touts (who are mostly scum!) instead of on the single monopoly that controls the entire industry and can't stop committing financial crimes.

Axios isn't Live Nation's only partner in selling this distraction tactic. Over the past five years, the company has flushed gigantic sums of money through Washington. Its lobbying spend rose from $240k in 2018 to $1.1m in 2022, and $2.38m in 2023:

https://thehill.com/business/4431886-live-nation-doubled-lobbying-spending-to-2-4m-in-2023-amid-antitrust-threat/

The company has 37 paid lobbyists selling Congress on its behalf. 25 of them are former congressional staffers. Two are former Congressmen: Ed Whitfield (R-KY), a 21 year veteran of the House, and Mark Pryor (D-AR), a two-term senator:

https://www.bhfs.com/people/attorneys/p-s/mark-pryor

But perhaps the most galling celebrant in this lavish hymn to Citizen United is Jonathan Becker, Amy Klobuchar's former chief of staff, who jumped ship to lobby Congress on behalf of monopolists like Live Nation, who paid him $120k last year to sell their story to the Hill:

https://www.opensecrets.org/federal-lobbying/clients/lobbyists?cycle=2023&id=D000053134

Not everyone hates Fans First: it's been endorsed by the Nix the Tix coalition, largely on the strength of its regulation of secondary ticket sales. But the largest secondary seller in America by far is Live Nation itself, with a $4.5b market in reselling the tickets it sold in the first place. Fans First shifts focus from this sleazy self-dealing to competitors like Stubhub.

Fans First can be seen as an opening salvo in the long war against Ticketmaster/Live Nation. But compared to more muscular bills – like Klobuchar's stalled-out Unlock Ticketing Markets Act, it's pretty weaksauce. The Unlocking act will "prevent exclusive contracts between ticketing services and venues" – hitting Ticketmaster/Live Nation where it hurts, right in the bank-account:

https://www.klobuchar.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/2023/4/following-senate-judiciary-committee-hearing-klobuchar-blumenthal-introduce-legislation-to-increase-competition-in-live-event-ticketing-markets

It's not all gloom. Dayen reports that Ticketmaster's active lobbying in favor of Fans First has made many in Congress more skeptical of the bill, not less. And Congress isn't the only – or even the best – way to smash Ticketmaster's criminal empire. That's something the DoJ's antitrust division could power through with a lot less exposure to the legalized bribery that dominates Congress.

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/04/30/nix-fix-the-tix/#something-must-be-done-there-we-did-something

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[nobody-expects-the-inquisitorius]

No but look at the delivery of Cross killing Nolan vs Crosshair’s altercation with the guards

His first major act of rebellion against the Empire and he looks so fucking drained. It takes everything out of him. There's no glory, no victory, no satisfaction, he's convinced he's going to die and he wants the last thing he ever sees to be the life leaving an Imperial's eyes.

But now?? He's FERAL. He's feral and even when he's shattered that conversation with the guard radiated power and he's not holding back one bit because he’s a vicious creature and he never ever ever yells but that was a fucking war cry and we’re only into episode three oh my god my boy is BACK

Where's that one predator animal fear/prey animal rage post because that's basically The Outpost (THE EPISODE WHICH SET HIM UP AS A VULTURE MIGHT I REMIND YOU) ➡️Shadows of Tantiss pipeline and I'm feral

[mostlyfate]

UNLOCK MY BOSS 사장님을 잠금해제 (2022 - 2023) dir. Lee Chul Ha.

[charzumi]

drawing i did of boss as a color palette challenge with my friend 🫶

[wolha]

2023 YEAR IN REVIEW | favorite actor: CHAE JONG-HYEOP

LEE KI-HO CASTAWAY DIVA 무인도의 디바 — 2023, dir. Oh Choong-Hwan

PARK IN-SEONG UNLOCK MY BOSS 사장님을 잠금해제 — 2022–2023, dir. Lee Chul-Ha

PARK TAE-JOON GOING TO YOU AT A SPEED OF 너에게 가는 속도 493KM — 2022, dir. Jo Woong

[khaoray]

@userdramas get to know me bingo: original soundtrack @asiandramanet january - february bingo: lyrics

Tomorrow (2022)

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[dramarec]

watch this goofy webtoon adaptation, they said. it'll be fun, they said.