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Bosomy Tae-hee
Movie

Bosomy Tae-hee

2020 • Unknown

Woke Score
4
out of 10

Plot

Cha-wook and Min-joo are about to get married. Cha-wook proposes a couple trip to Yong-woo’s wife who is his junior at work. Ji-yeon doesn’t like uncomfortable trips but Yong-woo’s boss forced her. The trip has been decided and Cha-wook plans to stay with Ji-yeon, who he’s been eyeing. Min-joo is forced to join. On the day of the trip, Min-joo finally tells everything to Ji-yeon and Ji-yeon decides to use Cha-wook.

Overall Series Review

The film is a South Korean erotic drama centered entirely on an elaborate plot of infidelity, manipulation, and revenge between two couples. Cha-wook, who is about to marry Min-joo, attempts to orchestrate a trip to cheat with Ji-yeon, the wife of his junior, Yong-woo. The narrative quickly turns as the female characters, Min-joo and Ji-yeon, discover the scheme and conspire to flip the script, using Cha-wook for their own benefit. The entire focus is on the power dynamics and sexual betrayal within personal relationships. It contains virtually none of the Western-centric identity politics or overt anti-Western/anti-theist themes common to the 'woke' mindset, but scores highly on the Feminism metric due to its central plot revolving around the emasculation of the male lead and the cynical deconstruction of marital institutions.

Categorical Breakdown

Identity Politics1/10

The narrative is completely contained within an all-Korean cast and setting, focusing on universal human flaws like lust and betrayal, not on immutable characteristics or an intersectional hierarchy. The conflict operates entirely on character merit, or lack thereof.

Oikophobia1/10

The plot focuses on personal, marital betrayal and psychological power plays, not on hostility toward Korean civilization, its ancestors, or national institutions. The themes of infidelity and revenge are universal and do not deconstruct the home culture.

Feminism9/10

The core plot is highly aligned with the 'Girl Boss' trope, though in a cynical context. The male character, Cha-wook, is presented as an incompetent, lustful schemer who is easily outwitted. The two female characters conspire to seize power by 'using' him after his deception is revealed, depicting them as the calculating agents and him as the bumbling idiot who is successfully emasculated and manipulated. The entire foundation of marriage and family is presented as a corrupt structure for betrayal.

LGBTQ+1/10

The plot is strictly focused on a heterosexual love square involving two married/engaged male-female pairings. There is no presence of gender ideology, alternative sexualities being centered, or commentary on deconstructing the nuclear family outside of the classic adultery trope.

Anti-Theism7/10

The movie scores high because the entire plot normalizes and celebrates moral lawlessness, focusing on betrayal, lust, and revenge. The cynical environment of infidelity and manipulation operates without any transcendent morality to counter the actions of the characters, implying that morality is subjective to the power dynamics between the players rather than an objective, higher law.