Mixing Joseon beauty with sexual desire: Hit erotic film returns as Netflix K-drama

In South Korean media in the early 2000s, the Joseon era (1392-1910) was typically rendered as a paragon of strict moral virtue and female chastity. Then came 2003 erotic film "Untold Scandal," which directly challenged that notion. Starring top-tier A-listers of the era, including Lee Mi-sook, Bae Yong-joon and Jeon Do-yeon, the feature daringly adapted Pierre Choderlos de Laclos' 18th-century French novel "Les Liaisons Dangereuses (Dangerous Liaisons)" into a Joseon setting, laying bare explic