DorianGrey101

That's your own decision to make. I can tolerate bad dramas and no romance because I mostly watch for the subject matter and storytelling.

The kisses were very sweet but are short-lived. The romance is not even a third of the drama or just a few episodes but towards the end there is no lovey dovey stuff at all. I liked their ending scene though but wouldn't call it the most romantic drama.

So romance is not the main story here. It's there as a backdrop. You can check out Tiktok edits of their love moments.

I like the FL in Bubblegum with Lee Dong Wook and think it was more romantic and sweeter than this drama.

Are you sure you watched the drama? Please watch Episode 1 . There's no timeline to mix because that's the same student from Episode 1 before the ML even makes a switch to become a teacher. Ha Yul is a long time student,she is the first of Ms Seo's students that we meet in the first 15 minutes of the drama in Episode 1,the same student that she defends with Mr Pyo about the exam. The same student she comforts because she was crying about that exam and encouraged her to have the exam mark adjusted.

Ha Yul's mum is the one who meets Ms Seo with the other two parents trying to get her to give a more intense tutorial to their kids and Ms Seo tells the mum's that she has equipped the kids with a good strategy of how to understand things for themself. Also Episode 1 in the first 20 minutes.

Ha Yul's mum is pushy, but from Episode 1, Ha Yul likes and trusts Ms Seo.

That's not true, what about the one student that tells the teaching assistant to thank her ( Ms Seo/FL) for inspiring her and teaching her to make up her own mind. Even though she was forced by her parents to go to a different academy. The scene by the traffic lights in episode 16, so yeah she was an inspiration to her pupils and students.

Haha, Like it's so adult and rational to call someone whose opinion you don't agree with "bitter" while maintaining an infantile notion that you are right. Okay, rational adult thank you. Now move on.

You're hilarious. I have no reason to be bitter about a drama that I rated 6.5 for being dull, uninteresting, and meaningless. This drama lacks depth and is full of inconsistencies. Even Brother Grimm fairy tales from centuries ago are better at staying focused and telling a compelling story.

Rational adults can separate their personal emotions and subjective preferences from their critical analysis. Drama critique involves the ability to objectively assess and analyze various aspects of a drama, such as its storytelling, character development, cinematography, and thematic depth, and evaluating how effectively those choices contribute to the overall impact of the drama. Learn to tell the difference!!

You should tell that to the writer because they planted that idea that she was that one teacher that was passionate and cared about her students. That she was not only teaching them to pass exams but leaving a lasting impact on their lives despite the background and fast-paced environment of the Hagwons. That's the impression you are given from the start of the drama when she challenges Mr Pyo, teaches one student that showed up that the wanted to change his Hagwon because of her teaching method.

Don't reply to my comment and then tell me stories, please. Thanks!!Make your own comment. There is lots, of space to make your own ideas be heard on here.

One bad show doesn't get to define a whole genre!! This is not about the genre but bad, incoherent, inconsistent, and incompetent writing. the show's failure lies in its poor execution,not in the audience's ability to understand it.

You're clearly missing the point. The real issue isn't just the plot but the pacing, tone, coherence, and expression of ideas throughout the drama. The script starts with a strong foundation of idealism, but those core themes are abandoned by the end. It's a classic case of bad writing where the initial promises aren't fulfilled. A good story should maintain its thematic integrity from start to finish, not veer off into inconsistent territory.

These elements, crucial to the plot, fall apart by the end. From the first episode, we were led to expect a consistent storyline, but instead, we got an ending that abandons the initial idealism. Having that cat-fight glaring example of bad writing, betraying the foundation laid from the start.

Many things sub-plots are left hanging with no explanations or closure at the end. I found it hard to believe that the "white-haired witch" who was a strategist that planned her moves would get into a cat-fight as her ultimate end. That was so out of character with all the expectations build up by the writer from the beginning. I thought there would be some great mind-games and reveal at the end that would justify all the politics, fighting and competition. In the end there was nothing.

OMG, please stop trying to justify bad scriptwriting and a severely flawed story. I know how to watch and interpret dramas. There are problems with the execution of the drama and how it is presented to the viewer. From the outset, this was not a story about the struggles of the FL to reach her dream but a critique of the education system, teaching, and how teachers see themselves with all the pressures that the hagwon industry brings. That's why we have the struggles and the politics, the competition etc.

I would have applauded the writer if the story was all about the FL's struggle to reach her dream from the 1st episode but it's not it's about a system she was trying to protect. Therefore the whole build-up of the drama from episodes 1 - 16 is totally out of sync with that ending.

All the points you mentioned are either passing comments by other people or just ideas bouncing around without any thought or significance as part of the main plot. They could have shown that but didn't but focused on the hagwon.

Now that I think about it, what a waste of my time and energy. Me thinking there is going to be a showdown and resolution of her conflict with those two women (white hair director and other). Even how both women who were portrayed as strategists ended with a catfight. How ridiculous is that.

It took her ten minutes before the drama ended to come up with that decision after acting like a virtuous sacrificial lamb who was ready for a crusade fighting for the academy & the students and profession she loved. Even going to the extent of being so condescending and preaching to the “white-haired witch”, talking about ethics etc. That's what so unrealistic and out of character. Not once did she speak about having other passions except teaching. Even when she missed the law exam, she didn't seem disappointed in herself.

I totally agree that the idealism and all the preachy ideas about being a great teacher, caring for students and inspiring them to love learning was forgotten by the end of the drama. The last episode was such a dissappointment that deviated from the overall message of the drama. In the end we weren't even sure what the fighting was all for.

I also don't get how the manager was so passive and just looked on but didn't come up with the ideas of promoting the hagwan. Also replacing the face on the poster of the Hagwan just meant that they were repeating the same system.

What hogwash did I just watch? After all that preaching and idealist ideas about being a great teacher and inspiring students, they choose to end it this way. What a huge disappointment, it didn't deliver what was promised in the end.

I consider myself a very broad-minded individual that watches all sorts of dramas and honestly the subject matter is important but they failed to deliver it in a compelling way. It's too preachy and idealist while lacking that "realness" quality. You can tell what they were trying to say but they failed to convenience the audience with the story-telling. Surely there is more to a hagowan teacher's life.

I really hate the preachy tone of this drama and the impractical idealism (country, education system issues vs personal idealism). Can one teacher change a whole system? I get the issues of Korean education but the drama is written in a weird,cliche way. The characters don't tell their stories well at all...it's like a story you have seen before but just set in a school environment with petty politics. The whole concept of the "white haired witch" was unnecessary and that timid looking teacher wasn't enough tension.

So for how long will you keep it from them. Isn't that cruel.

There is an English Dubbed version on YT. I honestly, don't know if I liked the drama, didn't like the ex-husband. Also not a fan of these older dramas and their let's forgive each other theme.

I have watched all 3 versions of this drama and the Thai version is my favourite (under the circumstances, bcos they all push the wrong buttons inside of you. At least the FL quickly grows a spine in Thai version and let's the man go. The Taiwanese version is the worst and most excruciating of the lot. After all these years it still makes me angry just thinking about it.

You will have a fit if you watch the original Taiwanese version. They even have a kid together, thankfully this one stops before insulting us.

Now if the whole series had been like this, I would have been swooning. This was dang cute and less awkward than the whole series.