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The way you present it, it looks like all actors are paid after each episode and they are all paid the same amount for every drama they are in. In reality the production presents its project to the actor and they negociate a global amount of acting fees based on the project. An actor can play in a 12 episodes drama and earn 1.5 million and he can play in another 20 episodes drama and earn 1 million. Different actors receive different fees on a drama and on other dramas they will be on.

Of course, it is always possible to say 1 million/20eps, the actors is paid 50 000 per episode. But for the actor, what matters is his global acting fees that he negociated beforehand in contracts that even determine changes in the fees if there are additional episodes, or cancelled episodes or if the drama is cancelled or renewed or has reshoots and so on. Some actor can even refuse by contract to play in additional episodes because they are booked on other works already.

This is why actors have agents and lawyers. To foresee and arrange all this beforehand for them. The result is they receive an agreed acting fee by contract that is not always correlated with the number of episodes that were shot.

The actors would be stupid to be paid by number of episodes.. If your name is Kim Soo Hyun and you will not accept to be paid by the number of eps because the ones paying you would go nowhere without you.

Again 12 eps x 90 minutes are same as 16 eps x 60 minutes. The total hours and minutes are the same. No matter how you slice it.

The actors are probably not paid by the episode. They surely negociate an amount for the whole project. As for the crew, they are paid by hour. They will spend a booked amount of hours. Pretty sure this production is a big as a 16eps drama.

How is it a short drama? 12 x 80 mns is like 16 x60mns. It is just that each ep better be good so ppl don't get bored.

There is nothing wrong for a community or a group of people to support a work they like. Nobody forces anybody anyway.

Looks like cops vs gangsters but it is more the tragedy of three people.

Forget it... LOL... the guy is totally corrupt.

This looks fun. It is like for some reason, the power switches from one to the other...

I hope his bro is killed by cops and he fights the cops until death.

What the heck....!!!!

The princess has a sad story that made her stronger but also she as an extreme logic. She recognize the ML is an intelligent, self assured and capable man but she does not understand why such a man is infatuated with that woman. I hated that she pushed the ML into hunting her. It is something quite cruel to do. Maybe she wanted to test the depth of his feelings?

The drama has already plenty of cruel characters. It would be disappointing that a woman like her just ends up an agent to torture the ML and the FL. I hope there is complexity in her characterization.

As for Ryang Eum, let's see if this week end's eps make things clearer...

Poor Ki Chul. Should not have gone find Eui Jeong and Joon Mo. He should have taken off for Malaysia. Vengeance is a dish better served cold.

Maybe they gave her a different name in Singapore... It's the only way it makes sense for me.

I liked the princess at first. I hope they do not turn her into some bitch because of some love triangle and she can be a good friend if not an ally for the ML. Ryang Eum, I really liked him in part 1. But in part 2, he is the other wtf evolution that I am still processing. I hope things develop in a good way for him because I am not sure where he stands now.

So you acknowledge your arguments are now targeting my person, how you judge my person and what I should do. That's making things personal.

Saying to someone "You need to go back and watch that movie [...]
Then you can admit you're a hypocrite"

That means you need me to do something so I can admit that I am what you consider I am "an hypocrite". That's derogatory. That's name.

Keep digging adding emoticons all you want.

Sorry you wrote " your own definition doesn't stand up, and you are just incorrect. You need to go back and watch that movie, I guess - I just did. Then you can admit you're a hypocrite "...

that's making things personal.

I do not care that you call me an hypocrite. But I have no interest in this kind of discussion when you call others names.

Byebye.

You mean the scene in the school in Singapore? I am not sure I understood it. I felt llike Dr Mo went to see her daughter Byeol that she sent to a special school in Singapore and the kid became a genius with the same face as Ro Hee. I found it funny but not sure if I got it right.

Lets stick with our own opinion since you are starting to make it personal. I am not interested in this kind of discussion. Thanks for the exchange anyway.

She chose to marry the officer and was happily married for years with no problems. They lived as husband and wife, and she never had issues with his personality. But now her husband is so bad and jealous because she was abducted. So she wants to stay with her ex suitor. How convenient. She resisted but her little adventures brought her back to the ML. That must be fate.

No need to hold hand or kiss or bed together to cheat. All it takes it to voluntarily lie or keep your partner or spouse ignorant of where you heart and intentions lay to take an advantage or enjoy a situation. She is cheating in her heart and in her head already. He is no better than her because he should see her as the married woman she is but instead his silly infatuation is encouraging her.

Scarlett was in love with Ashley but she respected her husbands and never took immoral stance like "My husband is bad, I am going to find a suitor who is so good to me". She was an immature person but also a responsible one. The characterization is important and the one of the FL here with her action away from her husband is not good for me. Of course, threatening the princess regarding the life of her ex-suitor was acting on her feelings.

I do not expect her to go to her husband and clear her situation. I think they will keep using the husband as a roadblock and a cuck until he does something crazy and dies the jealous man he is.

The truth is that we the viewers know what the husband did and does and we can judge him on that calling him jealous or pushy or irritable or scheming or planning to have her killed. But the FL does not know. It is like showing the husband stealing the couple's money and the wife says, "I prefer to go back to my ex-suitor” and we say it is because her husband stole their money. But she did not even see him stealing the money. Why justify her actions based on things that we know but she does not know? That's poor writing.

Putting a suddenly jealous, ridiculous useless husband in the middle belongs to cuckolding stories. Not romance.

What a joke. She decides to marry the officer. They marry, bed willingly on that night, live, eat and sleep together in a perfect marriage. Then suddenly she is abducted and the husband become like a bad man and this frees her from her wedding vows?

She should go back to her husband clear her situation. This is what someone with decent morality should do no matter what her husband does. But I guess she is a "modern" woman.

Yes lets see what will happen but this part is poor writing.