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And let's be real here there's no treatment, it's a terminal stage. So there's nothing more for her to do than go out with a bang. She's gonna realize she's wasting time on this and gonna forgive ML, but then the plot's gonna change completely for some more fun stuff.

Also, since you're mentioning ML's amnesia you better get it under spoilers, especially considering that he just pretends to have it is several episodes in.

So, how many episodes have you managed to watch? Five? It's still far away from romance and ML becoming a better man. Half the drama is all about FL taking her sweet revenge and going through five stages of grief.

P.S. FLs getting dead drunk and embarassing themselves is a staple of basically every kdrama nowadays. And somehow it's just FLs, MLs are usually the white knights that are stoically suffering through this s*it.

Tell me about, it I'm about to finish part 1 and FL is one hell of a dumb bi*ch. Self-absorbed, always jumping to conclusions and an annoying tsundere in denial when it comes ML. What he saw in her I've no idea, must be her stupid angry rants that she throws at him all the time, the guy barely has time to make a retort. It sure is something fresh to him, I guess.

The last episode is just wildly unrealistic. Police does not exist in this drama - some hyperviolent brats are beating up people in the middle of the street and in a cafe and everybody just don't give af. And every bully is a psycho with no redeeming qualities, like they've all escaped from a looney bin. Just a brainless beat em, nothing else. That ML is atrociously dumb doesn't help either. On the verge of dropping this s*it.

Wdym? Those were 1600s, sexism was the norm everywhere back then. Don’t apply modern sensibilities to historical dramas. They show it as it was back then, not how it is today.
And Korean dramas don’t undergo heavy censorship and embellishment like in China. There’s no big brother watching over everybody’s shoulder . And considering that Korea adopted a lot from Chinese culture it’d be naive to think that it wasn’t the same in China back then.

ML actor, why is he always acting the same way? Is that his amplua or something? Are they typecasting him? All I'm seeing is One Dollar Lawyer in historical drama - same slow manner of speech and expressions, a rather annoying know-it-all with a hidden tragic backstory.

It's not an American drama. But we've already seen knives being used.

Yea, bullies often come from bad families with a wife beater/drunkard of a father or some other stressfull environment at home, causing children to vent their frustrations on other kids. However, majority of these kids come from low income families with poorly educated parents.
But kdramas love to put spoiled rich bitches and/or total psychos with no redeemable qualities as bullies, which is another story entirely. This here bully has everyone in his pocket, another spoiled brat?

The bully guy looks like your typical tough guy on the outside and cry baby on the inside, with daddy issues or the like. That's how they usually try to excuse bullies trash behavior towards other people.
But who knows, perhaps he too was secretly pumping iron from childhood.

I didn't. The guy who came from US is PGY. The bully is Han Ul.

I haven't read the webtoon, but from the drama plot it's rather obvious that the guy who came from the US recently lost his mother because of that bully. And looks like she was a teacher as well.
As for Ms. Lee herself, it's unclear so far, but something happened to her after she got her teacher certificate so she wasn't able to teach for a year and then applied to that crappy school, even though her exam scores were top of the class. Not sure whether it's related to that bully though.

Also, this drama plot may turn into a different direction from the original source, happens all the time.

Yea, there are polar opposite qualities about him I've already written above that make him feel very off.

There's season 2 coming actually:
https://kisskh.at/702271-weak-hero-season-2
Milking is on the way. I won't be watching that one though, because I dropped the first one.

I've even written my thoughts so far below. But I'm like 90% sure it's not gonna end on anything definitive with how few and how short the episodes are in this drama. Probably gonna be trying milking seasons after this one ends.

I was thinking where I've heard the whistling riff of the intro song. They basically stole it from MAMAMOO's song, fkn identical:
https://youtu.be/Vz508O9NNTg?t=14

Would you believe it - ML's actor is 29 already. I'd bet he and teacher Lee (she's 39) probably use those famous Korean cosmetics on the regular, while those other guys do not 🤣

Exactly. People having strong will and discipline to train like that usually get results in other areas as well. It's also a very common trope in manga and Asian culture in general - through hard work and determination you'll achieve success even if you don't excel initially compared to others with natural talent. There's a whole cultivator subgenre about it in China even.

It's probably the fact that not only is he very dumb (while having smart looks), but he's in 10th grade but still doesn't even know how to study after all these years. And considering how determined he is, and that he attended all those auxillary private cram schools and lectures, it just creates a dissonace and makes it hard to believe that over the years he hasn't improved at all.
That he's very dense and can't read a room doesn't help his case either. Should have just gone to study how to become a pe teacher like people were telling him, it's only gonna go harder from there if he manages to get to college.

Eh, it's another one of those beat 'em ups with utterly ridiculous bullies akin to The Glory, Brave Citizen, Weak Hero Class 1. Somehow also reminds of Persona 5 video game. At least here they try to water it down with comedic stunts of an absolutely dense ML, and for once there's one good teacher who actually does her job. But violence and violations here are so prevalent and over the top that school would have been closed thrice over irl. It just looks very cartoonish, which is fine looking only in manga where this plot actually came from.

That it's only 10 episodes is especially worrysome. However, live kdramas changing original plots happen very often as well.