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So? Why did the kids mothers sent her bribe gifts?

Was it really like that? I don't recall seeing anything about that in the drama, just some messages from the main bitch. Were we to assume it happened behind the scenes or something?

Yes, it could have been that sort of plot, why not.

That depends on how damaged said person is. Personally, at times, especially in the early episodes, FL really had a psycho vibe about her. And I've seen a video where this drama's real life inspirations were discussed. One victim was so fixated on revenge, he, like FL, went to get a specifically chosen education to be able to make a hombrew bomb to kill all of his bullies at a school reunion party. So don't speak as if "you" know the feelings of bullied victims, how messed up they may come out in adult life and how much are they willing to do to get suitably painful revenge on their bullies.
The plot of this drama could have been made way darker and it would have been more realistic than FL dealing with all her bullies cleanly, without any dirt on her hands.

You're not wrong, but feelings are not logical, the plot could have easily been written differently with those two characters in mind. Or it could have been a classic, ruinous relationship where FL gets in bed with her rival's husband on purpose - it could have been a plot where she steals her rival's family (like she actually told the main bitch she'll do in part 1).
But all in all, because it was noticable that they simply had better chemistry together, however mild it was. Main bitch's husband was even shown to have a keen, if ambiguous interest in FL. After part 1 I personally really thought there may be something coming.
FL and surgeon boy had zero chemistry compared.

1. I still don't get that part - what influence did she have? It's the mothers that have all the influence. They can complain about anything related to the teacher to easily get her fired, like, for example, an annoying drunkard relative of hers that makes scenes at the school premises and who makes annoying calls to kids parents. The teacher is far from unfireable. But I guess FL did have that will dirt on school's owner. But even so, even if FL was unfireable, her mother would not have been able to do anything at school proper, she would have been escored out forcibly. And mothers did gang up later and came to FL to complain.
I thought that maybe the main bitch told FL's mother some dirt on the other mothers so that she could blackmail them to get FL fired, but it's unclear.
4. Still don't get that part either.

If defending your girlfriend from bullies is also called bullying now and you have to apologize for it 20+ years later then the world really is out of whack.

I'm still watching part 2, but I'm really not feeling the romance between FL and the surgeon boy.
And I'm not feeling his character was necessary here at all, tbh.
Maybe it's because FL looks very old compared to the rest of her peers (which I guess can be explained with her living a tough life). And surgeon's actor not only acts like a way younger person, but actually is a way younger person. A strange choice of cast, tbh. FL's acting is on point though, I give her that.
Or maybe because FL's like a robot most of the times, dead inside. Her sole purpose in life is revenge. And she's so emotionless most of the time, she's not giving any hints or vibes she cares about the guy at all in that vein. So it's hard to believe her starting to love somebody when she clearly doesn't even love herself. And surgeon boy's love looks like puppy love more than anything.

Anyway, don't kill me, I dunno what it is, but something's not working here, there's no chemistry, romance feels shoehorned here, unnecessary. I would have rather they removed surgeon boy's character altogether and FL started a relationship with main bitch's husband - they looked more believably interested in each other.

1. What FL's trash of a mother had on school kids mothers to bribe them? Why were they giving her gifts?
2. Are there no laws or protocols in SK for disposing of bodies in public morgues after a set period of time? Morgues are not infinitely large, they can't hold many bodies, especially for so long. If bodies of homeless people, people with no families, or people like that killed girl were to keep piling up there then there'd be no space very soon. Why are they not given to public funeral houses to get buried or cremated?
And why practically nobody of hospital staff knew about that body in the freezer? Was somebody secretly paying to keep her there all those years?
3. Why spy grandma was not leaving her deadbeat drunkard husband? She was the sole breadwinner of the family, she could have ran away with her daughter and rented a flat somewhere else; could have filed a police report with her bruises as evidence to make him go to prison for domestic violence; could have gotten a forced divorce through court and could have gotten a restraining order on him. But instead she chose to stay and let herself and her daughter get beaten every day. I just don't get it. Is it something pathological or something?
4. How spy grandma's husband figured out that the main bitch killed somebody and where did he get main bitch mother's phone number? Spy grandma showed him some messages from the main bitch but there wasn't anything about murders there.

I'm still watching and I didn't get some things, can somebody please explain:

Yea, go for it. There's nothing to worry about here.

It will later be revealed that it was a misdiagnosis, but not until after she messes with ML too much for the sake of revenge to get away with it.
FL’s diagnosis, firstly, serves a serious purpose here as a wake up call to force her to reevaluate her life. And secondly, it serves a comedic purpose - her revenge on ML is hilarious.

It’s a comedy, the premise is heavy though, yea. But don’t worry, it has a very happy ending.

Exactly. It's very obvious, because we've seen it all already in other saeguks.

Intrigues escalated considerably in episode 10, but in all the wrong directions 🥱. Boring.

Of course, as in every other historical saeguk, it's the cliche, evil and power hungry minister that is the main culprit 🤦‍♂️. Him and his host of relatives want to kick out the current dynasty and rule themselves. They most likely staged that peasant uprising 10 years ago, so that they could get the titles and prestigious jobs. And the minister got a chance to throw his niece under the king while he's at it.
The king, as usual, is politically impotent weakling covertly fighting an uphill battle against his ministry cabinet. And here he's also an idiot for distributing titles to one family members and thus having a power disbalance in the government. I guess the king skipped an old important lesson that it is good practice to give such important jobs to eunuchs, because they can't have families and so they've no selfish stakes in the game.
That Song guy was likely just an unfortunate scapegoat to villains' ambitions. Seems like he survived though and the weird "curses" is his way of getting revenge on the king who ordered the evil minister to subjugate the uprising. It didn't seem like these elaborate schemes were the villainous minister's doing, the minister is just making opportunities out of it. That Song guy also is somehow connected to the villain's niece, the current queen. Maybe her son is not the king's, but his. Not sure where her allegiances lie, but it seems not with the villain minister. Looked more like she wants to betray him and rule herself through her son. She also was the one who secretly visited the head shaman.

Anyway, I'd have liked the leads to investigate various crimes in the city than this boring political bs that's been beaten to death already in all the previous saeguks out there.

P.S. I still like the servant girl and detective/minister's son couple way more that the main one.

I love this actress, I hope this drama is gonna be good.

About fake amnesia: He used the opportunity presented by the hit and run incident to fake his amnesia to figure out who's out there trying to ruin and kill him, as he already knew somebody's after him. He wasn't pretending to be someone else and didn't do it for illegal gains, he was trying to save his life. That FL decided to use this opportunity as well and got herself entangled in fraud is not ML's fault.

About the contract:
He was in his right to call the police on her, she did owe him around $700K+ for property damage and fraud. That's pretty serious, she difinitely would have ended up in jail for that. But she begged him herself spare her and that she'd do anything not to go to jail. That private eye/attorney who was working for ML was right - her options were only to either go confess to the police, or negotiate well with the victim.
Yea, he made a contract, he needed her silence about him pretending to have amnesia, but isn't that better to have it written down in concrete points anyway than working off the debt with some nebulous terms?

And him getting back at her was pretty mild compared to her pranks. Cooking, housekeeping, driving him to work? It actually looked like he already got used to her and wanted to keep having her around. And it ended after about a week anyway, along with said contract, when he realized he had feelings for her and decided to push her away first before it got serious, since everyone is leaving him anyway all the time. FL even decided to pay him back her debt anyway later, because she felt guilty.

As for his employees, weren't you paying attention to late episodes? Yea, FL showed him how to be a better person, but in late episodes he himself gathered his scattered teachers under his wing again and solved their problems. He even went to Ilpum Edu CEO, his bitter rival, to beg save his company and employees from financial ruin by his delulu chaebol ex. And in the last episode he admitted to FL that he's now ready to embrace his workers. Everybody in his office seemed pretty happy in the end. So I'm pretty sure in the end he continued what FL started concerning his employees.

SK is far from US, don't try measuring them with western morals or work ethics.
Working overtime is part of far eastern Asian culture everywhere and not something people consider abnormal there, unfortunately. There's even an unwritten rule that you can't go home if your boss is still working, no matter how late it is.
Can't sue him for nagging his employess to always excel and get better results either. As was shown in the drama private eductaion industry is very comptetitive there and you can't let your guard down or you'll get bought out by competitors. It's a stressful industry to work in.
And being competitive and trying to excel over others since childhood is also part of their culture. That's why so many kids there go to private cram schools such as was shown in this drama.
As for his unjustified bouts of bad temper, again, seems like it was mainly focused on his secretaries and FL made him pay for it by doing all those crazy things in the first half of the drama.
Yea, FL's pranks accidentally turned beneficial and got ML out trouble when the villain started his disparaging campaign against him, but if that was all it took to make his employees fervently defend him then there wasn't much mistreatment from his side to begin with.
And again, he didn't do anything new since the start of the drama, all his adversaries were already established for his past deeds. So it's strange to see that somebody started disliking him not at the beginning, but at the end of the drama - after he underwent a great character development, realized that he was in the wrong, and started apologizing, not once, but left and right to everybody.

Apparently it was not a scene that happened irl, but was sort of a teaser to show that ML knows his life is in danger and he is in someone’s crosshairs.
And even if we were to assume it was real, the only person who really wanted to kill him was the stalker woman who I very much doubt would have been able to procure a rifle, as all firearms are illegal in SK.

Yea, because she actually slept with a 100+ guys and then ditched them! And they selectively were all jerks in one way or another, because she gets a kick from kicking bad men to the curb. For justice! 🤦‍♂️
If I were ML I'd be creeped out by this and most likely would have asked her for a full medical check-up report first before sleeping with her. Doesn't matter that she's magically the only one who for whatever reason doesn't make him feel anxious, let's be real here, you can get way worse ilnesses than anxiety if you're not careful with your sex life.
And going out of the way like that to find men to punish to validate an acquired bias, I'd say there's some pathological behavior going with her. That it wasn't addressed in any way in the drama by any person with psychology degree and just shrugged off as a positive funny quirk was rather offputting.

Anyway, it's alright, the person above has the right to not like such character and drop it. I didn't like her either and found this drama very overrated overall.