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Rich people have a lot of money. Depending on how rich they are, they can oscillate between Korea and the USA like other people commute. I had a bunch of rich classmates. I didn't even know how rich they were until the moment when one of them was like "oh, we were in Tokyo over the weekend to have some sushi at my mom's favourite place" as if Tokyo were just around the corner. Unsurprisingly, the way she said it sounded "unbelievable" in my poor ears. They spontaneously spent thousands of EUR to have some sushi on the other side of this planet.

Just because the sister in the drama says that she'd send her son back to the USA, does not mean that she will simply call a taxi, and the boy will somehow arrive in the USA. However, thanks to her money, she'll certainly have ways to send him back faster than poor(er) people.

Did you do make this up in your mind or did you do research? Kids do travel alone. My friend back in school did that each summer. She flew to Mexico by herself. Her mother booked a special service with the flight company, and there was a stewardess who acted as some kind of a baby sitter in the airplane. In Mexico, her father did the same, so my friend could fly home again.

FL does set boundaries, especially with 2ML.

The relationship didn't just feel one-sided, it WAS one-sided. That is the whole premise of this drama.

Both characters are shady and don't hesitate to exploit other people to reach their goals. However, ML didn't expect that somebody could exploit him, so he truely believed that FL loved him, and he fell in love with her.

For the rest of the drama, he was the hurt and angry puppy, and, at the end of the drama, he finally seems to have accepted that FL is not interested in him romantically.

Regarding the immigration, it is quite common for rich (and poor) Asians to get a child in the USA. The child being born in the USA are automatically US-American citizens because of jus soli. Since the parents are Korean, the child also gets a Korean passport because if jus sanguinis.

Why rude? The Arab prince character was quite entertaining, funny and sweet. At least, he had been before the censoring.

Well, writers who are too lazy to develop a proper reason to make their characters do things are the ones who come up with stories like this. Unfortunately, "he does that because reasons" is a common "explanation".

It's a romcom. What do you expect? ^^

It was a good watch but, unfortunately, they basically dropped the thriller/crime elements after 6 episodes to focus on ML diagnosing every second patient with a brain tumor while most of the doctors in the hospital behaved unprofessionally.

Also, I felt that ML and FL had zero chemistry. FL is so cute and pretty but she looks like a teenager while ML looks as if he could be her father. That's not my cup of tea. Furthermore, she behaved like a rather stupid traffic policewoman who suddenly wanted to play the role of a homicide detective. For some reason, she became a homicide detective (no qualification needed?), and then we never saw her working again. Interestingly, even though she's supposed to be the main character, we rarely saw her. That's one of the main reasons why the "romance" scenes between her and ML felt rather forced.

The writers had many good ideas but, in my opinion, most of the ideas were not executed well, or rather: they were not explored sufficiently. Some storylines simply felt incomplete.

If you read carefully, you will notice that it was you who approached me to tell me how much you are into love stories where a almost 40 yo man approaches a virgin minor. I didn't ask you to tell me about your personal desires.

If you still didn't get the message, let me use your own words you spammed here multiple times below other comments by other people: Fuck off.

LMAO, the FL was 16 in the drama when the love story with the almost 40 yo adult began (fantasy stuff aside). However, I understand that some people love it young and innocent, and they find many excuses why it is okay if they do/like it while it's not okay for others. The fine age gap of 10-12 years includes a 22 yo adult approaching a 10 yo. Or an 18 yo approaching a 6 yo. Not a big deal, I see. Age is just a number. ROFLMAOZHEDONG If the ML hadn't been hot but had looked like, for example, Andrew Tate, Weinstein or Trump, the same people would complain how distusting the age gap were and how dare the ugly old guy groom an innocent minor. ROFLMAO

ROFLMOFL The question is: Why didn't the writers make the FL 18 yo? Why a minor? ROFLPOFFL

lol, shôtacon and lolicon are fantasy, too, lol, AI videos featuring minors are fantasy too. lol lol lol

This was a good drama with a solid crime story and some action. I just wished they hadn't broken up the story flow with those many, many timelines every couple of minutes. That was quite confusing. And some of the plotholes were a bit too obvious like the scene where the front tire of the motorbike gets hit by the bullet, the bad guy falls off the motorbike, and a few seconds later, ML takes the motorbike and drives away.

Nevertheless, this drama had one of the best villains I've ever seen. He understood people, and successfully exploited their weakness. The perfect psychopath. Heo Sung-tae did a great job portraying this character.

Jang Geun-suk was also great as the detective. This was the first time I saw this actor in a drama, and I was impressed how natural his acting felt and that he was able to create some intense scenes with his older co-actors. Even though there was no romance, I also felt that he had a great chemistry with the FL.

Oh, and this is one of the few non-sageuk K-dramas where the less than 40 years old "hero" has a beard, and even when he was shaved, his face wasn't hidden under layers and layers of make-up to make him look like some supermodel.

You, my friend, are a true hero, a white knight on the internet defending the best of all romantic constellations: grown-up men with virgin minors. Who could have anything against adults loving children like adults love adults considering the biggest love story ever features a famous conquerer (40+ yo) and a girl (6 yo)? Thanks to you I realised that I have been wrong my whole life. Peace be upon you, my friend. Peace be upon you.

If you read carefully, you'll notice that the word "average" stands almost directly next to the word "intelligent". I didn't talk about the acting or actors but about the characters.

To put it simply for you: In "Awaken", ML (= the main character, not the actor) appears to be smart because he is surrounded by people (= other characters, not the actors) who are increadibly stupid. Calling him a genius is like calling somebody who is surrounded by mentally disabled people a genius because that somebody is able to count to 10 without making a mistake. It's just ridiculous.

The writers tried to prove ML's intelligence by making him do stuff intelligent people cannot do because intelligent people, just like average people, have to learn things first before they are able to apply things. There is no way to come up with a complex formula out of the blue. Many things are based on conventions and definitions, trial and error, not on "natural laws". Yet the writers tried to sell certain events as an evidence of intelligence, which clearly shows that they have no clue how intelligent people "work". People are not intelligent just because someone says so. Otherwise, I would be the smartest person on this planet because my mommy said so.

A character is mainly defined by the writer, not by the actor portraying the character. An actor, as good as he might be, as many awards he might have, usually cannot make a poorly written character look well written. He might add some complexity through his acting but his freedom is limited because his job is to portray the writer's character, not to rewrite the script.

I really hate those "tags" because they make things worse, in my opinion. :/

When I was young, the internet was a dangerous place full of scammers, trolls, viruses, nonsense, and a bit of relevant information. Everybody who "survived" on the internet knew that you should not believe anything you read on the internet. If something was too crazy or too good to be true, we interpreted it as a joke or a scam. That was the default mode. Those who didn't usually had a virus within 5 minutes and were not able to access the internet anymore.

Nowadays, the internet pretends to be a "safe space", and all those uneducated and naive people are here now. The tags make things worse because those people still won't learn about irony/sarcasm/cynism. A tag just tells them how to interpet things and gives them impression that nothing should be questioned.

I don't care if people don't like my (poor) attempts to be funny as long as they at least noticed that there was an attempt.

It's really sad that so many people are unable to identify sarcasm/irony/cynism nowadays, especially if a comment exaggerates things in a very, veeeery obvious way. :(

This is a decent crime drama with a rather unusual story-telling because of the many flashbacks and 3(?) different timelines. While I like the cinematography, I feel that they could have made the timelines more visually distinguishable. A cold color scheme for "today", and a warm color scheme for "past" works for two timelines but not for three unless you make the third one greyscale, which did not happen, though.

Anyway, I was really impressed by ML. His acting felt so natural, so I looked him up because I had never seen him in any drama before and thought he was some talented but "ugly" nobody who rarely gets a chance. I was very wrong. He was in sooo many dramas in the 2000s.

I also enjoy the chemistry between ML and FL. While there is no romance, it's enjoyable (for me) to see how she's getting on his nerves and how he reacts to her. I'm looking forward to part 2. :)

Well, the private lives of actors and the millionths article on QoT are way more important than some random award.

Well, HE didn't do anything, that's right. However, the writers very obviously tried to make this age gap seem romantic and desirable. I read a couple of years ago (in another context) that Korean politicians tried to increase the birth rate by advertising romance between older men with way younger (naive) women. I don't know if Goblin is a result of that idea but I also read that the idea was dropped very quickly, and I never saw such a huge age gap between a 16/18 yo character and the love interest in any drama ever again.