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I don't think they will cross any boundaries as teacher and student and I cannot fathom any PD putting forward that kind of a relationship as a romance. They would be roasted.

I'm sorry, I wasn't trying to convince you.

agree

disclaimer: calling the relationship in MnJ one of respect and admiration is for lack of better words. I am aware that such a relationship, where there is a breach of trust, cannot really be described in these terms.

You can read the above if you would like. Anyway, I agree with you to see how it goes.

Okay. So, in MnJ the leads meet on the road where they crash she has his cell, he has her ring. She first sees him at school lying on a tree (if I remember well) and invites him to be interested in his studies. In M, they meet on the train and there is an exchange of bags and she finds him lying on a bench listening to music and she is to interest him in Math. In MnJ, she has a fiance who is an office worker and mother stays at home with father a retired educator who has a reputation and holds sway in the field. She has a best friend which is not in M. In M, she has fiance who works for the ministry of education and holds sway. In MnJ, he has a mother who drives him and corners him in his studies which makes him loose his interest. In M, he has a father (and mother too) who drives him and corners him in his studies that makes him loose interest. In MnJ, he has a fascination with art they share, in M it's a fascination with Math which they share. Of course, there is always the second female lead student with here bag of troubles in both. There is his upcoming fight, connection with books, library scene, beach/listening to music scene, and her leaving the marriage talks for the sake of the student mirror each other in MnJ and M.
I know some of these elements are in CN. I also see that the personalities are different in all three shows actually due to their different personality/background setups. The relationship of mutual respect and admiration unfolds similarly in MnJ (sexual and taboo from the beginning) and M, where it isn't in CN. They male student in CN is attracted to his teacher and ends up slapping her and everything else that unfolds.

See my above response and go back and watch MnJ, if you have seen it before, and you will see what I mean. CN had a similar set up but MnJ is closer to this than it is. IMO Japanese dramas of the early 2000's had more licence to tell a taboo story than today, hence, again imo, the controversy with CN and the nature of this story (K audience as well). Still, it comes across as remake, albeit an updated and sketched out version.

So the story is updated and fleshed and more conservative but the story unravels the same way with almost parallel setups in the relationships and looking at the preview for ep 3 I'm even more convinced.

This is totally a remake of Majo no Joken.
Edited: To clear up any confusion; "totally a remake" here means (in a cheeky way) "so much like". Please don't understand it as "this is literal remake of MnJ".

Totally agree.

Okay, some lazy writing in ep 55. The reveal with the mole and the fainting so the identity is revealed were so inorganic to the storytelling so far. I hope this doesn't keep happening because, honestly, I was impressed with the story development so far even if SH and JK kept repeating the same lines to each other .

I did the same thing. Finally just watched MC and, honestly, it was JH who kept me invested.

Interesting article. I personally do not find it offends my morals in anyway. I think that individuals today have enough education and access to knowledge that they can make a mature/reasonable decision based on their circumstances. So, it's for the people in the situation to decide. My personal thought on watching is that it opens my eyes to a wider spectrum of human experience and ups my empathy level.

Back off will you. It's not a fight. I was stating my opinion on the actor. I wont change your mind and neither will you change mine.

I can't say his last drama, the only one I watched of him, was a hit because of his acting capacity. I would say it was based on his popularity. Also, it is not true that is acting is high for a newbie. He does not have a natural talent for acting as I've seen new/younger actors who act much better than this. I do think he can learn over time of course, but he doesn't have the skills (popularity perhaps) for a lead role imo.

Same expression in his last drama. Maybe, though I think that LMH acts with his body and has more expressions. I can't tell for this guy's physical acting because there are so many intentional close up scenes, it's all camera work and everything is about the characters expressions to create fluff.

I've seen him in another drama. Same expressions.

The actor who plays the ML has two expressions that he alternates; "doe-eyed sucking in breath" and "doe-eyed with fish mouth". He wears mostly the first expression and then alternates to the second from time to time to portray deeper emotion. How someone with such limited acting range can be considered for for these projects I will never know.

that line " i'm worth more than her"

English speakers and their dialogue in Kdramas are always cringey.