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Same here. For me the happy ending would be if she were on a beach somewhere reading a book, smiling, wearing colourful clothes, eating cakes/pastries, and taking therapy to overcome decades worth of trauma and abuse. I don’t have want her to end with anyone. She is too bruised now to start a relationship with anyone.
Or maybe even shift places. In Korean dramas I have seen people shift to Jeju and I hope this one also ends that way where she is finally able to be away from everyone and everything which reminds her of her trauma. So likewise, it’s extremely cheesy of me too.

Wow wow wow maths,,, only Korean dramas can make a nerd like me happy. This also has a lot of happy bubblegum feels to this drama. The first episode as good. Let’s hope drama gods keep the momentum and this does not end in a dud. 🤞 Fingers crossed.

Why is everyone dead, why why why

I think it’s because Korean dramas cannot get too sexual etc due to cultural nuances. Which is why conflicts and either misunderstandings or a larger theme such as a murder, just to keep the plot moving. Also murder and romance is literally as old as Agatha Christie (her first book Mysterious affair at Styles written 1920 ) was both a murder and a romance 😊.

It is what it is 😊

Exactly my point 👍

I think so. It’s just a figment of imagination

True. I remember prior to Netflix taking over k dramas, I used to watch on VIU and wait for each episode. It was more fun.

Love the article. To me the standout dramas were the glory, business proposal, attorney woo, falling into you. My theory is that due to covid restrictions and shooting schedule disruptions 2022 was not a standout year for good dramas. Up until 2019 (pre covid) I used to have many more dramas on my favourite list.

I will watch The Kings Love. Heard love alarm is too juvenile. Thanks for the reco.

If you are a book love your will love this drama. For me the drama writers had a massive love affair with the book publishing industry and books. I am a person who reads at least three books a week. I am also someone who will not buy a book if the book jacket in one book in a series just not match rest of the books. I am also someone who plonks down her hard earned money on sprayed edges. So this drama this drama this drama, oh my god, oh my god, it’s one of my best dramas I have watched. Every scene every moving frame is an ode to the art of writing. The stories within the drama feel so wholesome. This drama is like “your most comfort food that you share with your loved ones”.

Which is why it’s so sad in real life. Women live so much longer than men (about 7/8 years more) and only considered “young” until mid thirties and condemned to be considered “old” for the next fifty years of their lives.
Society must change this perception. Even a 5 years age difference makes people go crazy (remember “why her” the comments were vicious) while no one bats an eye if the guy is even 20 years older. I hope in the next generation alpha (GEN Z is equally ageist) they do away with this.

I think it’s because it’s difficult to create conflict lasting 16 episodes without other love interests. That said I want a love triangle where the author is brave enough to show the female lead choose the second lead for a change.

Finally someone said it. If he was Song Hye Kyo people would have chewed her out and have had her for breakfast. He, Nam Goong min, So Ji Sub, only pair with women who are at least 12 years younger.

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Exactly right. That’s exactly what I was trying to say. As an adult if we recognise our feelings are irrational (or too strong) about something we can chose to walk away and take the high road (avoid the source of not liking) Instead of spreading malice online.

I need to split your comments into two parts
1) fans need to stop dragging SJK. True. He has nothing to do with her and neither does she. They are legally divorced and must be allowed to move on
2) it being a fact that she is a poor actress. It’s perception since I and many do find her a good actress. I have liked her since “That winter wind blows”. Her acting was amazing in that drama and I liked her in encounter and the glory. I did not like her acting in “descendant of sun” (to me that drama is super stupid just like crash landing, but it’s my opinion and who cares since those are hit dramas) or now “we breaking up.”
I personally hate Park Shin Hye and her acting so steer clear of her dramas. And don’t watch her dramas. I know I will hate them.
It’s clear you don’t find SHK acting which is fair too. But people do like her acting and that’s fair too.

I don’t like the way the heroine talks in a girlish voice. it’s a Korean and Chinese drama thing, where girls put on a pseudo cute school girlish way of talking and to me it feels like fingernails down a metal surface it’s that jarring. In my native language it’s called “Naekami” and culturally (in my native culture) it’s considered a negative trait and such girls are called “Naeka”. Her way of speaking ruined half the drama and the end ruined the other half. 🤷‍♀️.
Would have preferred if she was the departed one somehow would have fit better with the narrative since she was such a lost soul. I don’t know why movies and dramas like to kill off men and show grieving women. Would like to see it the other way around sometimes. Which is why I liked the new drama with Yoona (won’t say name due to spoilers). I have watched hundreds of movies and shows (Indian, Hollywood) where men keep getting killed off in army, in battle and the bereaved woman and her trauma is shown with such vivid detail. We in society like to see alive and extremely unhappy women I guess. All titanic based movies and books always kill off the men.

I will not pass judgement against a woman I know nothing about. Unless otherwise proven she is not bad to me. The culprit is Song Jong Ki if he is unable to stop the negative press that the women he involves with are facing. He is a man and should man up. That’s my opinion. In India, a cricket star Virat Kohli’s wife faced a lot of criticism and he stood up and told the bullies off. Another person Arjun Kapoor is having an affair with a much older woman Malaika Arora and when the press made fun of her he publicly told them off. That’s how men should behave. Not throw their women under the bus to face the media on their own.

Most were SJK stans. In their heads she is the evil witch who did him dirty. But thankfully that ship has sailed since he has found another lady love. I like that British woman she looks sweet, And unfortunately the misogynists have not even spared her and saying all sorts of things about the fact that she is a divorcee. It must be difficult being the significant other of male celebs in Korea.