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Samsung phones sold in Korea must not have silent / “do not disturb” mode if ML resorted to changing his telephone number 🤣

I think it’s a mix. The Royal Academy is similar to British schools (like they even have division into houses) and royals are also supported by the state & are mainly for ceremonial duties. But the behavior & habits are more in line with what you see in historical Asian dramas (Queen Mother is a perfect example 😈)

Well, now he will be sleeping in his future wife’s gift (baseball jersey) 🤣

The FL should open a Subway location in the palace. The palace complex is large and people need to eat.

Like others mentioned, episode 1, 3 and 4 had epilogues. The epilogues are after preview of the next episode (so end of episode then some still photos then preview then epilogue).

Yeah, some people are just hating on successful/popular things because they think it makes them seem cool or just to troll / rage bait.

Director’s instructions to ML lead actor: you are playing the lead of Hometown Cha-Cha-Cha but 200% more grumpy 🤣

Oops… silly autocorrect. Fixed it, thank you!
I guess the troll review’s point was that people who liked PoJ have bad taste so they’d like this drama too. Obviously a dumb take 🙄

Yes, some people in the comments here have expressed that. I think it may turn out she had a crush on him long ago but was forced/chose to marry his brother because he was crown prince… maybe that’s why ML tried to interfere before the wedding — he knew she didn’t love him. But that’s just speculation. Unlike daily C-dramas, we have 5 days to come up with wild speculations 🤣

Thanks! I’ve somehow not watched any Republic era dramas yet except Love Between Lines which doesn’t really count (since it was a virtual world, lol). I prefer dramas with HE or positive OE… hard to invest 20-40 hours to watch something with a bad/sad ending 🥺

Most MDL people probably will recognize it as a song from Go Go Squid. It’s played a lot in that drama.

Maybe you wait closer to the end to figure out if the plot stays interesting? It’s been very good so far though.

She’s clearly meant to be 2 & 3. I don’t understand how we are meant to think that she’s good (1). The last item (4) is just some people shipping her with ML for some reason 🙄but may others don’t see it.

The government (prime minister + cabinet) runs the country while royals just perform ceremonial duties just like it’s done in the UK. But 2ML (prime minister) has too much spare time for sure, not like a typical official 😁

I agree. Although I think HDY did a great job of making us care about all the side characters even though they aren’t real. I probably cared more about their fates compared to majority of other drama with “real” characters 😳

Don’t dramas tend to tone down red flag-ness of characters? So I’d think his character here would be more positive.

At this rate, looks like next WCR drama will be “Hidden Shadow” instead of this one.

I believe it does based on what someone had told me earlier.

This drama isn’t based on his original script (it has a source novel), so maybe we will not need a box of tissues, lol

Unlike those other dramas, GJM didn’t write an original script here because it has a source novel. Not to say it’s not going to be good, but just it’s not fully his creation.