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Right? I had to double check it wasn’t Sho Hirano the moment I heard his voice and saw his smile.

Since this one is a finished webtoon, I'm gonna go in prepared for the ending in the webnovel. (Like I should have with the Love Alarm series. ?)

I know that's what gave the companies freedom with True Beauty and Cheese in the Trap with their endings because they were/are still ongoing with at the time of their release.

With finished ones, they're kinda... stuck with the ending.

It was during Justin's rough years. Like when he was egging his neigbbors' houses and causing a disturbance in his neighborhood. Now that he's grown up some more (he was only like 20 or so, so not working with a fully developed brain yet) most people dont mind him anymore.

From what I remember, there were enough signatures to look into deporting him but in the end the he wasn't a real danger to the country (just acting like an "idiot kid" as he says it now) so they left him be. A lot of people said he deserved a chance to turn it around because America's about second chances and things like that. Which he luckily did. And now since he's married Hailey I doubt he ever will if they try again. LoL

And I wanted to do the Trump thing because it's always annoyed me how he called it Kung flu and blamed China for it spreading (we all could have done better in the early days) but I got sick before I could sign up. But I wonder how it never flagged up with so many ARMY Mins and and ARMY Kims popping up in the registration. But it was funny watching on the news here (I live in Oklahoma, an hour or so away from Tulsa actually) how his supporters were hollering about how loved he was in Oklahoma and then so few people showed up.

Well, our fellow Americans have petitioned for some bizarre things before. Remember the petition to deport Justin Bieber? LoL

Uh.. this is based on the webtoon.

I sympathize for the victims. I was a victim of bullying when I was 15 and still have mental health issues (PTSD for one) even now and I'm 27, so I know that the recovery process can be long and hard. But I'm more mad at the school and teachers than anyone else. Yeah, Ji Soo did wrong (no denying that, especially when he himself admits it. I don't defend him but I don't think he's the only one wrong here) and so did the group of kids he ran around with. But I feel the school failed him and the victims. If they would have taken bullying seriously, they could have disciplined him and the others better and maybe (not definitely, but there would have been a possibility) he could have learned earlier that his actions were wrong. Instead, seeing that no one was gonna punish him, he didn't fear trouble or even thought it must be okay since it wasn't worth the time to get onto him.

And the victims, they should have felt safe in their school or at least heard. It's not right that they got to the place that they eventually just accepted abuse was part of their everyday life. At the very least, their parents send them there to their schools to get a good education. How is living in fear everyday going to help them with their studies, if not harm them?

I see a lot of people saying that Korean schools are competitive, I get that. We see it in dramas all the time to the point that bullying is a common theme in school dramas because it's a normal thing to run into at school. Also, I'm not saying all schools ignore bullying (I hope that the school Ji Soo attended is a rarity).

EDIT: Then I just remembered, in that program, the school pretty much blew off the show. They said that they can't make comments on Ji Soo or the allegations because all the teachers and administrators that worked at the school at the time no longer worked there. Really? ALL of them? It was only 15 years ago. Or am I the only one that found that weird?

I can see why people are upset with him, but I agree with you for most points. I was bullied, too, in my youth and still have depression and PTSD from the incidents. But the thing is, I don't hold it against the girl who did it because I didn't know what she was going through that made her feel the need to hurt others. (She came to me later on in life to apologize after she had gone through therapy herself and wanted to turn her life around. She's now a therapist for at risk youth). We're not the same people at nearly 30 that we were in middle school (he was about 15 then). At least I hope everyone grows past the state of maturity they were in then. I'm not saying he's innocent just because he was a kid, he shouldn't have done what he did back then. But he could have denied the allegations or tried to pay to cover it up or something but instead he admitted his wrong doings, something he never did when he was a child. And he couldn't even do that for a teacher then but now he's done it in front of the whole world.

I don't defend Ji Soo. His actions were wrong and have caused trauma that's stuck with some of his victims to this day. But I don't wish him ill because telling someone to die is just as wrong as what he did, to me. Have you even heard any of his victims say that? I can understand them wanting him to step away from acting (it would be awful to have to see his face on TV when you are trying to move on or as a parent that knows he hurt your child) but I wish people wouldn't be as extreme as telling him he's not even good enough to live.

I wish his victims well in their recovery and moving on from this because I know it's a long process. It wasn't fair they had to go through it and they were brave for coming forward. To me, the punishment system in schools is to blame as much as him. Maybe if they were taken seriously in the beginning, Ji Soo would have had a chance to change earlier and less damage to those around him would have occurred. Students should feel safe at school and like they're going to be protected, not ignored.

I wish you luck with this petition, I really do. But I've mentioned on another comment here, I'm not very optimistic it'll be picked up by Netflix. They're investing heavily in Korean dramas and movies and when they see a drama that South Korea cancelled themselves, I don't think they'll be willing to risk the entire country. They're getting angry at their own citizens (the writer, actors, director, etc.) so I don't think they'd hesitate to get angry with Netflix.

I know us international fans want to watch it, but I'm sad we may have to accept we'll never get to see it. And another poster mentioned while we may get many signatures, we would need more than the 184,000 signatures Knets gathered.

But you never know, so i'll wish you and everyone who signed the best of luck.

I agree with you on all points. But Im just gonna comment on the P.S. message.

I would have loved to see where the drama would have gone, but I highly doubt Netflix will pick it up. They just spent millions on expanding their KDrama catalog and are producing more and more kdramas. If the sponsors from SK dropped the drama like a hot potato, Netflix is most likely not gonna take the risk. They've invested so much and they still have bills and salaries to pay at the end of the day. They're not gonna risk alienating a whole country that literally petitioned their president/government to stop this drama.

Oh, gosh. I died reading that sentence.

But where's the lie? I told my friend when I saw the cancellation news, "Yeah, cancel for the food. But ignore the zombies zombies they're so historically acurate."

True. Plus (even though I really want to know hiw the story would have went) I don’t think Netflix will do it because they've spent so much money recently to expand their Kdrama content and are now producing their own. I don’t think they’ll put a show on their platform that Korean citizens clearly don't want airing. It could lose them money and as we've seen by all the sponsors dropping this drama like a hot potato, money's what matters. (As it should, you know, since they have bills and salaries to pay, too.)

Yeah, it didnt have anything to do with China. The director says that a character was travelling to meet some Western exorcists who were coming through China and he stopped to meet them just before crossing into China and treated them to a meal. The director just thought it'd be logical that a place so close to the border where there were most likely many Chinese merchants passing through would have some food that would make the Chinese customers comfortable, too. (There was Korean food on the table.)

I think it may be a bit of an overreaction because these actors and crew worked so hard and now its never gonna see the light of day. But, playing Devil's advocate, I think the director maybe could have been a bit more mindful of the current situation between the two countries' citizens because it's not exactly a small matter. I think this just happened at the wrong time because of the fighting and also with River Where the Moon Rises having to replace the male lead (and now refilming the first 6 episodes).

I'm just disappointed for everyone who worked hard on the drama and because I'd been looking forward to the drama.

While Ji Soo was known for being the king of Second Lead Syndrome, he has gotten the girl before in one of his dramas. But he was pretty much guaranteed to get the girl in this one because the story of On Dal and his princess is a famous story in Korean history. On Dal is even seen as an inspiration that there's always hope to improve your situation in life.

I loved her, too. She was like a fan implanted into the show to give us a voice. But it took me a bit too long to realize that she's supposed to be Chifon Cake, the writer of the novels. That reference hit me right between the eyes when I finally got it. LoL

I really want to see Okinawa ever since I saw the second season of Itazura no Kiss. It looks so gorgeous there (and I may just bump into A.N.JELL there. LoL).

KDrama: Exo Next Door
KMovie: Train to Busan
JDrama: Last Cinderella
JMovie: Heroine Disqualified
Thai Drama: Kiss Me (Currently watching)
Thai Movie: Crazy Little Thing Called Love
TDrama: Bromance
CDrama: Fifteen Years of Waiting for Migratory Birds
CMovie: So I Married an Anti-Fan