{"id":46901,"date":"2022-07-31T02:58:55","date_gmt":"2022-07-30T17:58:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jul\/30\/thailands-gay-romance-tv-dramas-help-revive-flagging-tourism-industry"},"modified":"2022-07-31T02:58:55","modified_gmt":"2022-07-30T17:58:55","slug":"thailands-gay-romance-tv-dramas-help-revive-flagging-tourism-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=46901","title":{"rendered":"Thailand\u2019s gay-romance TV dramas help revive flagging tourism industry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The popularity of \u2018boy-love\u2019 series sends fans from home and abroad flocking to filming locations across the country<\/p>\n<p>There is a table in Soontaree Thiprat\u2019s Phuket cafe that is always fully booked. Most of her customers at the Dibuk restaurant want to sit in the corner, at the spot with the red tablecloth and purple flower.<\/p>\n<p>It is the table where the male student characters Teh and Oh-aew, played by the actors Putthipong \u201cBillkin\u201d Assaratanakul and Krit \u201cPP\u201d Amnuaydechkorn, would sit together and flirt in <em>I Told Sunset About You<\/em> and its sequel, <em>I Promised You the Moon<\/em>, a romantic Thai series that has proved hugely popular in its home country and abroad.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jul\/30\/thailands-gay-romance-tv-dramas-help-revive-flagging-tourism-industry\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The popularity of \u2018boy-love\u2019 series sends fans from home and abroad flocking to filming locations across the countryThere is a table in Soontaree Thiprat\u2019s Phuket cafe that is always fully booked. Most of her customers at the Dibuk restaurant want to s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":345,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,1066,71,236,1533,351,72,238,1532,520,519,93,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus","category-culture","category-digital-media","category-drama","category-internet","category-lgbt-rights","category-media","category-online-tv","category-television","category-television-radio","category-thailand","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/345"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46901"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46902,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46901\/revisions\/46902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}