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This show does such a really good job at empathizing with teens and treating them with dignity and respect. It's rarely ever done, let alone rarely ever done well. My respect for Ga U Su not just as a teacher but as a person grew 10x after hearing his advice to Eui Ju before meeting the principal. He couldn't have said anything better to her in that moment. It wasn't blind encouragement nor was it a cruel reality check. He simply told her what she needed to do and gave her the agency to grow through a setback, exactly what a teacher's job is.

Also love Eui Ju's parents and her friends who have her back. Her dad's advice especially had me tearing up a bit ngl, that's sage advice for a lifetime that I know Eui Ju would've been eternally grateful to hear.

I know kids can be mean and blow things out of proportion and Eui Ju isn't completely blameless either. But one of the kids saying something like, "what if she wrote lesbian novels about us" made me realize that everyone regardless of age will have different perspectives on the same things but also that I think things like this start looking more amusing than life altering/weird when you get older. Like at my age with the experiences I've had, if someone wrote a lesbian novel with me as their inspo, I think my first instinct would be to laugh it off. There's so many other real pressing stuff I need to deal with daily that something like that honestly might even feel like an honor lmao, that someone thought of me as their muse would be a welcome disruption to my everyday chaos lmao...so I can understand Ga U Su's perspective and the other teachers not wanting to escalate this as well...

This drama started off pretty cliche and became one of the best romcoms this year for me from ep 3 but ofc it's upto to continue or not coz everyone's individual taste is different 🤷‍♀️

Also loving the pace of this drama! This is how u do a 12 ep romcom and make use of every episode 🙌

So in love with yejin and mechoori...i usually tune out of shows the moment the leads get together but i could watch another 20 episodes just with these two enjoying their domestic life together lmao...love the restraint and affection from both yejin and mechoori towards each other. It shines in every scene they're in together 🥹😍

Ya i thought about that too after this episode honestly...the ceo did say he was going to take responsibility and figure it out...it wouldn't make sense for him to take a bribe and then kill himself either...

Damn i couldn't have seen that plot twist coming in the end...that snake did a great job hiding himself all this time...or did mechoori always know it wasn't the ceo but didn’t have evidence to prove it? He's never bad mouthed the ceo or said anything against him in all these years and now with this new context, it makes me wonder if he knew all along...

Oh okay thank u!

Hmm that sounds interesting too! It makes sense too

So excited for this! Have been waiting since i saw a clip from it in tvn's drama compilation for 2026...this poster looks great too 😍 cant wait to see park eun bin and yang se jeong on screen together! They already had insane chemistry in the clip from the compilation 🥹

I looove this couple so much. Genuinely haven't rooted for two people like i have been every week for these two lol...yejin is so tender and soft with mechoori and mechoori's kindness and sense of responsibility with yejin just melts my heart lol...i genuinely shed happy tears when yejin heard those voice recordings and when they hugged and resolved their misunderstanding without dragging it for eons.

I'm repeating myself like a parrot atp but considering how deprived I was from this in kdramaland for years, I'll just say it again. From Idol I to Spring Fever to Can This Love Be Translated to Boyfriend on Deman to Perfect Crown to now Sold Out On You, I'm genuinely so thankful for all these healthy, reciprocal, equally invested in each other couples kdramas r serving us this year one after the other. Thank you for this, genuinely! It always makes me so happy as a woman myself to see a female lead especially portrayed to be someone who isn’t passive, wears her heart on her sleeve and isn't afraid to express herself and show love and care to her loved ones including the ml.

Yaa i did think of that pairing too but i liked her and dong hyun better coz i keep noticing her looking at him longer than she needs to lmaooo even when she's addressing seong jae 🤣🤣 probably coz he's seong jae's senior so he needs to do a better job guiding him but it's still making me delulu 🤣 By new guy do u mean the guy who keeps trolling hwang seok ho? And who sucks up to the senior officer all the time? I mean they all do but this one does it the most (plus he's handsome 🫠) so he stands out 🤣😅 i think i found him: lee min gu?

Yup that's probably what happened coz the evil king and even the present sml that looks like him had the same plan to use her against him

Ohh that would be interesting but im shipping dong hyun and ye rin 😭🤣

Ya but i think that's also coz she's the reporter they've been seeing on tv? So basically a celeb visits the camp and runs to hug one of their men...they're all shocked lol

I haven't read the webtoon but it's looking like the game is seong jae's own hallucination/brainworks to cope with acute grief? I know they handled it in a lighthearted manner but i did think the officers were right to be more cautious with him, coz from the outside it does look like he hasn't processed his own grief (not that grief has a timeline but he seems to be running away from his) by jumping into military service not even 2 months after his dad unexpectedly passes. He had a great relationship with him too. Plus how it looked like his dream with meeting his dad again also seemed to rooted in the game which makes this sound more plausible to me...also how to everyone else it does look him just talking to the air and how only he can see the game...

This makes it even more interesting to me coz if the game is seong jae's own mental creation, then that means that he's always had a "kitchen soldier" within him. It makes sense too since he spent a lot of time watching his dad cook and he might've subconsciously learnt all his tricks (like the drama shows too when he adds tomato sauce to remove the fishy smell) but never actually tried cooking until his dad left, in a way, maybe it's his mind's way to try and connect with his dad somehow, doing something his dad enjoyed doing.

He really doesnt seem to have a bad bone in his body hahah...i hope it stays that way too😅

Why does a 6 ep drama also need a love triangle lol...gotta give it to kdrama makers and their loyalty to love triangles...anyway a cute story with "blue" being the main character 💙

Also where is this filmed? Does anyone know? Is it jeju

I hope dong hyun doesn't let any insecurity fueled by those gossiping officers affect his newfound camaraderie with seong jae. I hope seong jae becomes the reason dong hyun eventually becomes good at cooking in his own way and the drama ends with them working together at the food truck or maybe they open a restaurant together haha...military cooking bros for life 😎 👨‍🍳

Also as someone who's never seen park ji hoon in a romance, that last scene was adorable lol...park ji hoon always looks like he needs a hug but i didn't think he actually looked so huggable until that last scene 🤣😍

You've got a great brain. This is all true and anyone with some media literacy will agree with u.

Sounds somewhat like Vincenzo! I might check it out...

This was bound to happen. In fact I called it before the drama even aired the moment iu mentioned how she only felt pressure with this drama unlike her usual shows. IU and bws are at their career peaks and people love to scrutinize successful people to near suffocation levels so naturally any mistake would get amplified × 100.

Imo the makers r the most responsible for this but the actors r not completely blameless either. Defending actors who r the face of the "mistake" they willingly chose to participate in is like defending someone openly promoting drinking bleach just coz someone else wrote the script and they just parroted it 🤦‍♀️

At their level of public scrutiny, the makers should've been doubly more careful and the actors should've consulted their own team to cross check etc considering how historical dramas have been cancelled in the past too (like joseon psychiatrist) and r a sensitive genre for backlash.

Also to everyone bashing Koreans for being upset, I personally don't think any of us foreigners should frankly have an opinion about why Koreans r upset about *their* historical misrepresentation, especially when it has to do with colonial structures and concepts. I can totally understand why it would've caused this backlash, and excusing oneself out of any responsibility just coz it's fiction doesn't work coz the inspo is still from real lived in ancestral history and pain, and excusing it once is dangerous coz then it sets precedent for everyone else.

Anyway, I hope things can settle now that everyone including the cast and crew have apologized. Hopefully historical productions r even more careful from here on out with their fact checking 🤷‍♀️