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Will it though? Help I mean. Remakes are almost always worse than originals, and outside of the English-speaking world and a few others, people have no issue with subtitles (or at worst, dubbing), so what's the problem with just more marketing for their shows, and/or offering them on more platforms?

"Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and unto God the things that are God's" is proving my point, as demons would be God's.

And, be honest, do you really think that, should angels and demons exist, they would allow themselves to be arrested, put on trial, and imprisoned?

Because in the religious world, of which hell and heaven are a part, metaphysical affairs are above mortal ones.

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He knows they're real because he's met several demons. Doesn't matter what they want, it's none of his business, out of his jurisdiction, above his paygrade,...

Everything you've written here makes complete sense...in a normal world. But in the show, heaven and hell are real, and the ML knows it, yet still goes around behaving like human law has any authority over demons.

My complaint is the exact opposite of yours. In the show's universe, heaven and hell are real, so who cares about human laws? What little time murderers spend behind bars is utterly meaningless compared to an eternity in hell.
Same goes for the ML; the dude finds out hell is real, and there's a demon going around hunting killers, yet what does he do? Take a vacation? Help the demon? No, he goes on and on about how it's his job to put people in prison, where they can be "punished"... in a world where hell is real, as if human laws superseded divine ones.

That forced dialogue from the victim's mother about wanting to see him punished is even worse than meaningless to the viewers, as we know that the murderer is paying for his crimes in hell, so it just comes off as the writers trying to forcefully create a moral dilemma where there really isn't one.

It's the other way around, they're mid series that are called great because their leads are attractive.
Vincenzo's entire premise is that he's cool. That's it.
And Queen of Tears has a cowardly, doormat husband who cries tears of joy upon finding out his wife is dying, rather than just getting a divorce like a normal person, and said wife needs a freaking amnesia trope to figure out her, and her entire family, have been treating her husband like utter shit for years.

And what exactly do stereotypes have to do with any of this?

Sorry, I've no idea what you mean by that.

From what I've witnessed in the comment section on this site in general, an attractive male lead will do it for most viewers :s.

One needs not look any further than Queen of Tears or Vincenzo for proof. Rated 8.8 and 8.9 respectively, yet monumentally stupid plot and character behaviour-wise.

Pretty much. The acting is pretty good, and the FL is campy in a fun way, but the terrible plot and, I don't know what to call it other than, in-universe logic, bring it all back down to mid.

Dunno, to me, all it does is just makes me like the second couple more than the lead, which on occasion it also, like in this show, makes me actively dislike.

You mean, since the end of the second episode? Well, he hasn't been grovelling yet, but loser and lovesick definitely apply that far back.

I'm so tired of these schoolyard antics. I'm half surprised he hasn't pulled her hair and said she had cooties.

I don't know why Korean romcoms do this, that their main couples nearly always act so childish and neurotic, and it's the second couples that are well-adjusted and, for lack of a better word, normal.

With how cliché and trope heavy this show is, it's possible that the FL can't have children (possibly tied to what happened during that 1 year sabbatical), which led to her fiancé leaving her.

Was a wonderful show, with the exception of the FL's best friend and the cop couple. The whole thing with money being the cause of their breakup was just so stupidly done.
So much talk about reality this and reality that, when the reality is that she probably had more money than she could spend in her lifetime, and expecting her to not spend any is just plan dumb. That's literally what money is for, to be spent. Sure, not wasted, but definitely also not to be left sitting somewhere when it could be helpful.
I'd understand it if the writers made them break up because both of their parents disapproved, as Chinese culture is heavy on obeying one's elders, but to put money as the reason was the wrong way to go about it.

Also, the epilogue left much to be desired; no mention of the FL's best friend whatsoever, not even during the wedding scenes, and a five year timeskip following the lead couple announcing they were planning to get pregnant, but no child or explanation for why there wasn't one was given.

Would've been a 9.0 or even a 9.5 for me if there weren't these issues, but as such, it's an 8.0. Still very good, just not great.

I was thinking along those lines as well. Is it possible that she's the FL's kid, and the year-long break she took was to have her and put her up for adoption?
The subtitles also had a line when the FL's co-workers were talking about her taking a break where one of them said "that poor little girl".

Or maybe, she's not her daughter but is otherwise related to the gap-year. Maybe the FL looked after her for a year before she went to live with the 2ML because her parents died or something, and the FL knew them in the US.

For instance, this show. Aside from the actors and soundtrack, no one has anything nice to say about the plot, characters or their development, the writing, or anything, really.
Another that comes to mind in Tale of the Nine-Tailed, wherein the plot was even worse than this one, but because the male lead is insanely popular, that average-at-best show has a rating of 8.3 on here.
Oh, Vincenzo also fits the bill. Terrible plot, love-it-or-hate-it comedic style, yet rated 8.9 solely due to the male lead's popularity and attractiveness.

I think you might be conflating several different things here; :
-childhood friends with no romance involved
-childhood friends with romance involved, one-sided (this show now) or reciprocal (this show at the end, when the FL inevitably figures out she's loved him since they were kids too *sighs*)
-ex lovers
Just because the result is the jealousy of the love interest, doesn't make them the same thing.

And while it does apply to Korean shows as well, from my experience it's about 50/50 whether the childhood crush wins or loses, while in Japan it's pretty much ironclad that they'll lose (unless it's a harem, in which case everyone loses because Japanese harem MCs are damn near asexual ;)).

Yep. In my short time (~3 years) watching Korean shows, there's one thing that stood out to me the most; a pretty face goes a looong way, even farther than in Hollywood, when it comes to popularity and user ratings.

So worked up to write a 5 paragraph long comment? I couldn't say. You on the other hand...