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I think he blames himself. There is some issue with his family or whatever so he thinks he is responsible. He also has some lingering feels since that’s quite natural too. As long as they don’t show him complete subservient to the heroine I am good, which he is not doing so far.

Same here too. I love the friends with benefits to real couple trope. It’s refreshing and also means that the characters don’t act like 13 year olds

I think people are a bit touchy since we all had unreasonable bosses. I know it’s a sore point of mine. That’s why people don’t realise it themselves but are having a psychological reaction seeing her this way as they are getting triggered by what they face themselves. I love her but her office image needs to be nicer. I get reminded of the drama My Horrible Boss where the female head started off as horrible but was a complete dudette by the time the drama ended

I also liked how he got angry when he saw her outside the motel. I don’t like men pushover characters when they are younger. For example all I remember in encounter is park bo gum and his big teeth 😊. So far I love how he takes a stand. Let hope this drama holds up today. I don’t like early breakups.

I agree to an extent. I don’t like bosses who make subordinates work unreasonably. They have a day team and a night team. So there will be contingency and business continuity planning both so there is no need for her to overreact. Bosses owe to team and customers both. One of the reasons why I hated the hero in secretary kim. But I hope she get better which I am assuming she will. There has to be character development.

Because a lot of people had a problem that the female was older. It’s fine to not be ok with the concept but they were very vicious and mean in their comments. While the same people had no problem with Bulgasal where the hero was 14 years older. Now those trollers are not there. And it’s a more healthy environment where people respectfully agree/ disagree

I like actresses when they are older sometimes since it’s different. I have seen lots of British, Scandinavian and Pakistani dramas where the women are older. However usually there is a stylistic choice. The men are always dressed in more formal clothes and have a full beard so it actually looks really good as a couple. In this drama the age difference is not large but the differences have been enhanced.

That’s because this drama was viciously trolled for like months before this even started 😊. Things have been more consistent with heathy critique since this drama started

That’s what I wanted to know. Since it’s the same with south Asian languages where you switch between second level and formal level. Third level is only for younger people. However couples will always use second irrespective of age difference since they have equal status

I hope she is really ill. I am not saying it in a sadistic way, but I find dramas where the heroine is ill very poignant and it’s not a usual trope. Scent of a woman and marriage contract are one of my all time favourite dramas. I loved and cried with Leo Tolstoy Anna Karenina, Gone with the Wind, Little Women, where one of the main female characters pass. Somehow these stories have remained with me, even though I read them in high school. Conversely I don’t like when the hero dies, since I don’t like to see crying women. We have enough of grieving women in real life anyways. The movie Fault in Our Stare was also so beautiful. There is something very melancholic and beautiful about people living life to the fullest with the time they have. I hope it does not get tropey where it’s a misdiagnoses. I will watch only if the diagnosis is real.

Asia Pacific 🙂. Sorry used to acronyms like ASEAN and APAC

I also suspect song Kang character to be not as bubbly as it looks and we may see some unraveling 🙂. And yes to female power leads.

I live in APAC 🙂

Agree she looks good. I feel that the cinematographer made a stylistic choice to make her look tired. The camera makes her face more in shadow/ silhouette, whilst Song Kang is always pink/ bright light. I think the director wanted to highlight their specific differences. Similar to other developments in books/novels we will find her looking more bright and him more grim as the episodes move along. This reminds me of its ok it’s love where the director did a similar thing, Gong Hyo Jin kept looking brighter while Jo in Sung kept looking more and more haggard.

Can anyone explain to me the speech levels they use to address each other. I keep thinking it’s (formal speech) from him and (very informal) from her. South Asian languages have three speech levels. And couples usually refer to each other with the second (semi formal) level. So like to know more about the cultural context

Yeah but Korean dramas have a history of doing sudden tone change. It’s all happy till it’s suddenly not. It gets very jarring for people like me who get emotionally invested in characters. I feel like, the author is cheating us. It’s fine if the drama was meant to be sad in the first place. I really really hated what happened in Dol Dol Sol Sol. This is why I appreciate 39. The character death has been declared so we as viewers will not be thrown under the bus. We know what to expect

I will get bit technical here. I have actually worked for govt. organisations in ASEAN, Au and NZ. The thing is in government organisations one cannot say anything without data backing. For example if Vietnam import usd 1 billion salmon, you have to go a out how much gray market, how much local consumption and how much smuggle to China from Da Nang. Even one basic fact like this needs to be what we say “triangulated” and corroborated from listed sources that the government agency you work for uses. If government agencies want to ensure faster decision making they establish special cells or form public private partnerships. If I use a wrong data starting from the press to the ministers to the taxpayer, everyone will be after me. I have had colleagues being fired with 2 hour notice. Thankfully these guys seem tenured at least. She is a director and is the face of the organisation. Nothing she says or does can be based on her opinion without backing. I am amazed that the writer got this right to be honest.

Exactly it’s like damned if you do and damned if you don’t. People prefer to see teenage girls with teenage problems and biased towards older women including young girls themselves, She is in depression with what has happened and just been promoted what is she to do. Similarly giving book ex Sarah J Maas gets a lot of hate for writing fluffy books with fairy characters and authors who write about grim stuff get hatred for doing so. Feb has been a month of many book launches and I am getting tired of the same hatred on booktube channels as well

I commented on this in this page I think before. But I am reiterating. It’s social media. Trollers pick a woman in creative profession to hate and then trash her work. In the book world it’s hanya yanagihara where people are making really mean comments without even noting prior trigger warnings. In one or two days her good reads ratings went down massively just beucase people decided to hate her suddenly out of the blue.

I think it’s best to go by IMDb ratings. Have a more varied subscription base. Anything about 7.5 is good and is based on personal subjectivity. At least that’s what I will do now