SAME: FL is disguised as male to earn money for her family,
setting = prestigious government school for men where FL stays for stipend given and desire to learn
FL is initially hazed/picked on
FL is exceptional achiever among peers with a strong voice for equality across socioeconomic and gender divides
power struggles within school reflect power struggles occurring within country at large
DIFFER:
country of origin: SS = Korean, CAA = Chinese
overall plot development: SS - fairly unified and coherent
CAA - weaker reflection of plot with numerous inconsistencies: particularly FL life depends on disguise as male yet
FL shrieks whenever she sees shirtless men
FL keeps flowered coin purse even after being told it reveals that she is a woman
setting = prestigious government school for men where FL stays for stipend given and desire to learn
FL is initially hazed/picked on
FL is exceptional achiever among peers with a strong voice for equality across socioeconomic and gender divides
power struggles within school reflect power struggles occurring within country at large
DIFFER:
country of origin: SS = Korean, CAA = Chinese
overall plot development: SS - fairly unified and coherent
CAA - weaker reflection of plot with numerous inconsistencies: particularly FL life depends on disguise as male yet
FL shrieks whenever she sees shirtless men
FL keeps flowered coin purse even after being told it reveals that she is a woman
Sungkyunkwan Scandal is set near the end of the 18th century while Rookie Historian is set in the early 19th century.
Both female leads are feminists starting out on the career path of a government official. Said career path is illegal for women throughout Sungkyunkwan Scandal, but newly made legal a few episodes into Rookie Historian.
In Sungkyunkwan Scandal, the female lead is a Sungkyunkwan scholar, which -- to loosely connect the two dramas together -- was a typical starting point in the career path of a royal historian. However, in Rookie Historian, the government is in a hurry to fill the newly legalized positions for female historians, meaning that the women who want to become historians take the civil service exam without ever having attended university, drawing yet another divide between them and their male colleagues.
If you've watched Sungkyunkwan Scandal and wish to see further conceptualization of the career path and feminist movement that the female lead of SS started down, watch Rookie Historian.
If you've watched Rookie Historian and you're curious about what kind of university experiences the female historians might have missed out on during a time when such experiences were forbidden to them as women, watch Sungkyunkwan Scandal.
Both female leads are feminists starting out on the career path of a government official. Said career path is illegal for women throughout Sungkyunkwan Scandal, but newly made legal a few episodes into Rookie Historian.
In Sungkyunkwan Scandal, the female lead is a Sungkyunkwan scholar, which -- to loosely connect the two dramas together -- was a typical starting point in the career path of a royal historian. However, in Rookie Historian, the government is in a hurry to fill the newly legalized positions for female historians, meaning that the women who want to become historians take the civil service exam without ever having attended university, drawing yet another divide between them and their male colleagues.
If you've watched Sungkyunkwan Scandal and wish to see further conceptualization of the career path and feminist movement that the female lead of SS started down, watch Rookie Historian.
If you've watched Rookie Historian and you're curious about what kind of university experiences the female historians might have missed out on during a time when such experiences were forbidden to them as women, watch Sungkyunkwan Scandal.
