I'm not in either of the two camps you cite at the beginning of the post either. But I recently tried to get into k drama and couldn't. i tried watching extracurricular and took it off after 15 minutes. but i will try again soon with a k drama called Signal.
This only happens to me with so called K Drama, because I do consume Asian movies, especially thrillers, crime, or even deep dramas, like the Japanese movie Drive My Car, which I thought was fabulous. I also recently saw an Indonesian movie called Photocopier. I recommend it to you
There are many K-drama fans in the community, check the feed, you can exchange opinions with them.
I've seen badass Chinese movies too but I haven't seen any of the ones you mentioned.
I think I get why this happens. Most of them are usually very cliche at first so people lose interest quickly. I've seen some that were absolutely silly in the first episode but started getting better in the second episode. It just has to do with patience but I guess not everyone can exercise that after a bad first impression.
I'll be sure to do this.
Thanks for the recommendation😊
P.s: I finally saw " not okay" and it was a little disturbing but with reviews of it swarming here already I don't know if I'll write one.