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There is nothing but pathology in these Korean schools, if you only look at their dramas and movies.

I don't know why people don't see her contribution to the drama. After all, if she had not worked for the politician, the other two (Tae Oh and In Ha) would not have discovered the plans of Kang's second son. These plans could have completely destroyed Tae Oh and In Ha's plan to take over the Kang conglomerate. The chairman, the oldest son needs Tae Oh as his man, but the second son doesn't need him. Tae Oh would be cut off from the company and In Ha would never be publicly recognized as Kang's son. Hye Won is a valuable asset to Tae Oh and In Ha's plans and they must have recognized it quickly since she was in the same department with them.

"Tae Oh tips off a prosecutor that comes into their company looking for files so it would scare Sung Joo & his mom not to cause problems in the future."
The report to the prosecutor's office was to forestall the actions of Kang Sungju and his mother. The chariman is actually committing financial crimes in his management of Milton. And they could possibly report him to the prosecutor's office. But Tae Oh came up with a plan to block them. Because when the chairman was "on his deathbed", the prosecutor's office withdrew from the investigation. This is a typical procedure in Korea. In this way, the chariman and Tae Oh created the impression that they had another enemy against them in order to confuse the chairman's wife and son.
"With Tae Oh hacker friend, they illegally mess up the shares that Kang Security is in charge of. It blows up on the news, making Sung Joo look bad."
They framed him for manipulating stock prices. Majority shareholders gained at the expense of minority shareholders. That's why the prosecutor's office is investigating this case and the second son has legal problems.

The filming of this drama has ended a long time ago and all episodes have been recorded. This is a pre-recorded drama. There is no chance that anything will change in the drama.

These elements of their faces come from catalogs of plastic surgery clinics, which is why it is so difficult to distinguish them.

This is a vote for which of these women is the most beautiful or which plastic surgeon did the best job? Only a few of these actresses did not have plastic surgery, as their childhood photos prove. But, for example, actresses from China all have plastic surgery and it is difficult to tell what they really look like.

These bad Chinese dramas score so many points because they please the audience and don't care about the psychological truth of the characters. Most of them talk about toxic relationships presented to the viewer in an attractive way. This Chinese drama is a paradise for shippers who love to create gifs of scenes: where ML and FL kiss, look at each other with buttery eyes, or have sex scenes. The latter is especially difficult in Korean dramas, where the main characters often do not even have love scenes, only kissing scenes. Meanwhile, in Chinese dramas it's about when the main characters will have sex and whether they will have a child or not. Due to China's new propaganda policies in recent years, they will usually have at least one child (often two, as that is the new allowed number of children in the country) because the nation needs to reproduce. And these are actually new versions of cheap Harlequin stories from years ago, whether they take place in modern times or in costume. In supposedly historical dramas, the plot pretends to be historical when in fact it is a version for the subjects of communism, distorted by Chinese communist propagandists. Mindless people from other parts of the world watch these distorted stories without realizing that they are being lied to (or they don't care) because they like to see the "pretty" faces of characters played by actors whose appearance is selected from the catalogs of plastic clinics. Some viewers love watching trash where the characters' lives revolve around their love lives and the rest of the plot pretends to exist.

To be honest, I didn't read your article further than the fragment about the Japanese "host culture". You wrote about it as something positive. I don't know based on what, what dramas? The drama with this type of plot that comes closest to reality is the drama from the series "Ashita, Watashi wa Dareka no Kanojo". One of the heroines becomes a victim of such a host and it is well shown how they act. They lure their clients into an emotional trap so that they spend as much money as possible, which sometimes leads to tragedy. Recently I read an article about girls who end up as prostitutes, encouraged by their hosts to constantly sponsor their "professional careers". On YouTube you can also watch materials and reports about the actual activity of "hosts". These are real stories. There is nothing positive about it. It's just cruel exploitation to make money, playing on women's emotions.

I wonder what makes a drama good or bad in the eyes of viewers. A drama is good when the audience likes the plot, what happens in the drama and are the characters likeable? This may be the impression we get from some of the statements in the comments. I was intrigued by this drama after this review. I want to watch it. Sometimes I watch some dramas that have e.g. ratings of 6.4, 6.9, 7.5 here on mydramalist and generally people complain about how annoying the characters are. Then I watch the drama and say, yes, the characters act in an annoying or selfish way, but I see where their behavior comes from and I see a well-thought-out script. But these scripts follow the characters, are faithful to their personalities, and do not try to please the audience.

"Come and hug me" had teenage versions of characters and people under 30. They were played by other actors and it worked very well. And in both versions, the characters had really difficult emotional scenes to play and they did well. It's just a matter of finding young actors who look similar. It's really not that difficult, because there are many good teenage actors who sometimes even act better than the older ones.

I think he has improved in terms of showing emotion on screen. He was much better in his last role than in his earlier dramas.

I didn't read any comments until the last episode and because of that I enjoyed watching it and liked almost everything. People unnecessarily look at the drama's plot through the prism of logic. It is a drama about phenomena that do not exist. Due to the fact that there were characters from practical fairy tales, every issue in the drama can be approached without looking at earthly logic. Even in the case of CCTV cameras, whether someone should notice an intruder in prison or not, etc.

For me, it was primarily a story about young people who want to become famous. Some want to achieve it thanks to talent, some thanks to beauty, some use dirty tricks to achieve it. Even for such a short drama, a lot of truths about Korean future idols were shown. Several stories that happened to the characters are similar to real stories. Bullying within the idol group between members of the group, false accusations to bring down a rival, spreading rumors to destroy someone's career, the activities of shady idol agencies that, instead of giving jobs in the music industry, try to turn their treinees into prostitutes. The love story was always present, but presented in an unusual way.

It is a fictional world invented by the author of the webtoon, having nothing to do with Korean history. This is evident from the role of some of the women in the drama. There have never been female warriors like FL's mother in Korean history.

The drama has been filmed and is waiting to be broadcast.

The ending fits the world presented in the drama. If someone is looking for a happy ending where absolutely all the bad guys get their deserved punishment, this is not the drama. The drama is closer to the real world, where evil is always reborn and the good guys constantly have to fight people who have no humanity in them.

You didn't mention his criminal history.

I've only watched one drama by this screenwriter, "Go Back Couple". It was a very good drama, funny and touching at the same time. There were interesting supporting plots, so not only the main couple "devoured" the episodes.

Sending prayers to the Celtic gods that his new leading lady won't be older than him.

I don't understand it either. After all, at least these two sons of rival gangs must have mothers. Gangsters have women they date. Women, not only men, work in the police or prosecutor's office.