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Yea, especially weird if it was way back in kindergarden. Speaking of which, we're having yet another one - Love Next Door with Jung So Min 🙄
And don't get me started about ones from past lives aka. reincarnation trope. Beyond dumb.

Yea, double standarts 🤣

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Speak for yourself. It was just a commentary about stale, regurgitated plots using same tropes over and over again. No wonder everybody and their grandma are predicting already how this one’s gonna go. You’ve seen a dozen of them, you’ve seen them all.
I do like rom coms, but I prefer more realistic ones where MLs are flawed just as much as FLs and a couple actually works on their relationship.

It's female fantasy, because most of the audience are women. And writers think that most of them are dreaming of a pure white knight waiting for them like a dog for decades.
Same think is that FLs can get away with anything, because they're audience's self insert. Get sloshed senseless in every single kdrama out there and embarass themselves in front of ML; do dumbest, most idiotic stunts and have seven Fridays in a week - kdrama's perfect ML will forgive everything.
Realistically it's total bs of course, no healthy good looking man would stay single for long, nobody likes a messy drunk or a dumbass damsel in distress who can't ever solve selfmade problems. But kdramas are here to perpetuate a dream that love is blind, a woman doesn't have to change anything in herself to find a prince Charming who'll love her as is with all of her dumb quirks. That's why there are so many plots like these, or even dumber ones with tropes like reincarnation/true love/childhood connection/destiny etc.
Probably one of the reasons why marriages are dwindling nowadays, mass media making standarts unrealistically high. If you're not around 2m tall, handsome, making upper 6 six digits per year and perfect in every way you can gtfo.

Pretty decent start. Leads act natural. I especially like ML acting mature all the time. But you can see the whole plot from a mile away, predictable. Someone even wrote it down below.

First saw that poster with FL giving ML the confession letter and thought it was yet another take on Itazura na Kiss. But looks like it's something else.

I'm now thinking the killer is the cleaning lady ahjumma. She's kinda sus. But statistics say it should be a man.

Is SML necessary for the plot here? I feel like you can take him out and nothing would be lost. Useless character made to be an annoying third wheel. Why writers think it's necessary to have love triangles in dramas is beyond me, especially considering that they basically always end the same - SML never gets the girl.

No episode 12 this week?

FL has great dad.
The plot be dragging though, should have had fewer episodes.

The old glasses guy among new workers is the killer, right?

When fantasy is presenting itself to be grounded in reality, but makes even non-fantasy things look unrealistic it is hard to enjoy.

It's another thing we don't have where I live - seniority system. No matter how much dumber you are than younger people, you'll get promoted before them according to seniority system. And even if your position is no longer required you'll still get transferred around and retain your job until retirement. Even if it's being a nightguard, like in famous Japanese case.
Western world looks at this and only sees two things - inefficiency and waste of resources. And nobody cares about your retirement plan either, if you're no longer needed - you get fired, government job or not, and that's that.

It's just rather unrealistic, ahjumma getting hired off the street, I mean. Civil servant exams being brutal I've heard about, I can only pity FL. And I'm glad we don't have this rank system where I live and anybody with a proper degree can apply for a job either in the private sector or public sector. Whether said degree is of any actual use in actual work is another question entirely. In FL's case looks like what she studied for wasn't worth a damn and ageism is rampant in hiring practices. She could have complained about discrimination, but I get that she just got so discouraged she just called it quits.

But ahjumma didn't have any credentials to work in the office of a prosecutor. She didn't present any sort of documents about her education. Even her ID is dubious, being from a missing person. I very much doubt random people off the street can get hired into said office without any vetting. Even as a cleaning lady, too many classified documents laying around.

It's kinda frustrating that FL couldn't get a civil servant job after studying for years, while being a halmeoni with no skills or credentials she not only got a job, but also got promoted to ML's assistant.
I'm not saying older people get preferrential treatment, or that it was through connections. But it does make one question life's choices and whether what young people waste years on to study is even worth a damn.

What sort of reuniting with your first love are you talking about here? They were kids!

Is this sort of like that supernatual kdrama about a vet who could see through the eyes of animals by touching their butts to find the killer? Some sort of supernatural possesion/transformation with killer plot?

I agree. Relying on these dumb childhood connection/reincarnation/destiny tropes is just lazy writing. Irl, people work on their relationships every day, but tropes like these just promote fairy tales for naive teens and establish unrealistic standarts.