Alissa._:)

"6 high school boys in relationships that have zero interest in sex?" this got me. Like on one hand I get it, it's GMMTV and the actors are all pretty new kids but also...sex was a topic in Hormones and that show is from 2013 lol

Tbf I'm always highly doubtful teenage couples will last through college until I remember my parents and like 4 people from my high school did lol. But yeah KimMon will definitely not.

On that last point: I know why they're keeping this so tame, because that's the whole point of the show and I think it's presumably also to make the actors comfortable (which I appreciate). But it is hilarious to me when you consider that they're all teenage boys. Like there is no way certain *ahem* things wouldn't be happening (unless they're asexual, but that'd be a different discussion altogether).

This show doesn't try to be anything else than what it advertised itself to be and honestly I'm perfectly fine with that.

Probably helps a ton that the script is better lol

As a bisexual woman, same here lol

I knew this was going to be something stupid before I opened the spoiler but this is not what I expected...how old are these people?

Damn, that sucks that you had that experience. Unfortunately, you're not the first one I hear this kind of story from. Probably one of the main reasons why two of my (Korean) male friends want to go back to Northern Europe, where they first met because it's easier to live there if you're a gay couple in your early 30s.

I also thought the reaction was a little over-the-top but I've gone to uni in Korea and my God the posts that get passed around on the intranet are something else. I just thought it was weird that the entire university seemed to care. In my experience, most people will either just talk about it in private or ignore it, unless it's someone from their major or in their class. I don't think anyone would be dumb enough to say "I've only seen this on TV" out loud though lol.

I don't think you can escape it in your adult life either but I feel like it's a bit like with foreigners: most Koreans just never really come in contact with foreigners for longer than five minutes within Korea (and outside only on vacation), so there's a lot of misunderstandings still going on, and it's the same with the LGBTQ+ community. But I think they're getting there, at least my Korean friends are all quite whatever about it, although this obviously unfortunately might not extend to the professional world.

To be fair, from my personal experience of living in Korea for a few years, it's very uncommon to see gay couples in public unless you go to specific places. A few weeks ago, I saw a guy in his twenties pick up his boyfriend at university (like, they were very obviously a couple) and I almost did a double take because it's super rare to see people being open like that (especially men) outside of the "gay areas" of Seoul. And a lot of Koreans (including some of my closest friends here) genuinely used to think they've never met a queer person before they met me. I usually hit them with "well, you most likely have, you just didn't know that they weren't straight because they didn't tell you", and then most of them actually realize how deep heteronormativity is still engrained in their society and people's minds. They're not necessarily against it, they just think it doesn't exist "directly" around them, like, it's other people, but nobody they know in real life. So that part was actually pretty realistic.

Definitely agree with you on that, it seems that they kind of forgot about the plot line of making videos completely and I don't really understand why? Although I did like the interlude for Guan and Li because even though their fight was cliché, it was realistic and I thought the flashbacks were pretty nicely done.

Same, I get why people complain about the pace but I don't really mind it. It's a nice change from other dramas that sometimes progress unrealistically fast.