Rossie

This drama has a Turkish adaptation as well, aired back in 2013 and broke rating records. It's crazy how much the world as a whole just can't get enough of juicy revenge dramas like these :D definitely adding to my list!

I feel like watching a lakorn when watching this drama, too many salty bitches out to get the female lead, too many over the top cliches and randomly sprinkled slapstick humor. But just like I'd do with a lakorn, I have no problem filtering through it all, I am watching this for the love of the ship and I am loving every second of it - Lee Ha Nee x Lee Seung Yoon, what a pairing!

That's because you don't feel "a connect" - you either connect with people or feel a connection.

Ffs it's so hard not to fall in love with this woman, whenever I see her I'm just taken - and I'm not saying this because of how obviously gorgeous she is. girl's got charisma and a whole damn lot of screen presence - something a lot of female actors lack.

Read a review above saying they could have done this without all the explicit parts and that made me wonder, could there possibly be a censored version out there? I honestly think nothing much would be lost. Listen, I love this movie in its entirety but I wanna be able to recommend this to friends and fams without them lifting an eyebrow.

Yeah, some of the things you hear in the news about what the Korean police has to deal with on a daily basis do make you take sympathy on them though. Like the country's got a serious drinking problem, imagine having to deal with mundane things like breaking up a drunk fight or accomodating someone who passed out at the curb from drinking all night with his boss on a weekday, when instead you could be out there fighting crime which you were..you know, educated to. The Korean police is reduced to nothing but the babysitter of the nation.

As seems to be the case with any other site on the world wide web. The notion that everyone can and will express whatever is on their mind seems to elude most people. If you say you like something, I guarantee you that someone else will say they dislike it and vice versa. If you do not agree with an opinion, simply scroll past it. Don't get negative about it.

He gives me Kim Young Kwang vibes in The King's Affection, must be the smile

Think I read somewhere that the writer of this show was a real-life judge himself.

"Dystopias, through an exaggerated worst-case scenario, make a criticism about a current trend, societal norm, or political system."

Exaggeration is literally the core element of dystopian fiction. Look it up some time.

nah i suspect it was a wig, dunno why tho..

just checking out the profile page to make sure this kid does not have irresponsible parents that would bleach her hair in real life

Ah yes, I'd appreciate that ^^

ty, I know about this source, the folder has been available since 2018. unfortunately, the files per episode take hours to download each, which I really don't have the patience for. i really hope someone will make this lakorn available for streaming again.

It takes two to tango. Most people are quick to dismiss the male part in a relationship because as you pointed out, it's 'her body, her choice'. This is bs of the finest calibre. She didn't make a baby on her own, they made it together - ergo it's not her choice to make. Legally speaking, he's got as much rights to decide whether they should keep the baby or not. I'm not even gonna dive into the morality aspect of things, cause that's a whole other story. Point is, shit happens and (more often than not) shit happens at the worst timing possible. When you've got aspirations to fulfil, a baby is not exactly what you'd want. She could go on to say that she'd still want to keep the baby and raise it as a single mother without getting in anyone's way, which is fair, but he's got a right to say that he's not okay with bringing a child to the world that will have an absent father, which is also fair. The lives of young actors and alike are constantly on full display, down to the smallest of details, and it's absolutely horrid to see how quick the rest of us are to judge and compare. It all takes one mistake and whoosh, you're out.

oof...I'm not even a fan of this guy, but why is an actor's personal life even relevant? I didn't know what the tea was about so just went ahead and read up on it after seeing all the comments here, chill your horses, I thought he killed someone or did something that entirely shattered the crystalline codices of humanity on Earth
..reminds me of the guy who played the main character in "Mask". A newbie actor starts getting recognition for his art after having played minor role after minor role, and of course the competition sees this and decides to stir up some bs because their sorry asses can't take seeing them be successful. I'm just saying, no one's perfect, everyone's got a shady side (and let's face it, his isn't even on the darker side - takes two to tango) so why cast judgment on something that doesn't even concern us? he didn't do anything morally depriving, did he torture a defenceless baby walrus? did he sell a little kid to the organ mafia? did he cut open his own mother and had her entrails spread over different spots in town. come on now... he made some choices, which granted might have been bad but 99.9% of humanity make bad choices. if you like his stuff, keep at it. no one can judge you for it.

Yeah, 8.9 is a little generous in my opinion. What carries this production is the cozy feeling you get when watching it, the side characters and their individual stories, the warm get-togethers and how everyone seems to have each other's backs in a small seaside village. Other than that there's really not much to it. The main characters are bland (sometimes downright annoying), their love story boring and cliched. A lot of cringy acting, indeed. But I wouldn't blame the actors, their characters were just written that way.

Don't see why you'd conclude that. The ending was pretty much setting the stage for a second season.

I wish there were more dramas like this, they're so rare and in between... T^T

Thank you for the heads-up. I get annoyed by the flawed 'deity' concept that seems to be a trend in supernatural k-dramas as well. This has nothing to do with forcing your beliefs on others, in fact, I feel that the personal views of the makers of the drama get forced on me. It simply is frustrating to watch a drama that takes place in a dark world devoid of hope and where everything bad that happens to the hero or heroine gets blamed on a fictional, incompetent deity. It's fine if you think a god in the sky could never exist because your life svcks (why would he make you go through shvt if he did exist, right) but don't force this on the viewer. We watch this as a form of escapism, not to have someone remind us of our shvtty existences and beliefs. So yeah, when I feel like a drama is way too biased or colored by certain beliefs, I, too, drop it. It's not worth getting myself depressed over and nobody can shame me for doing so - for whatever reason, everyone is free to drop a drama and to come here and state why without being shamed by the lot of you.