Too bad the episode they filmed when the Grumpy Secretaries was with Han JiMin were scenes no extras were needed. They could've made an appearance again.
The crime was premeditated. That night, Ra ik and his friend had both been drugged by someone who wanted to frame…
Also, the FL forgot to investigate who it was who asked the kids to visit his house, and if they told that someone—or anyone for that matter—his passcode.
English titles are often nonsensical. They also could have used "I, Idol" and it would have made more…
Exactly!
Their OTT partners should hire sensible people. Or, if the English title came from the production companies, they at least should say something about it, after all, they (OTT) will be running the product for years and hope they recoup their royalty/licensing payments.
It's understandable if official Korean English titles doesn't make sense because they're not aware or familiar with English nuances. But those OTT partners, they need to be proactive. LOL.
Then again, maybe the OTT services hired Korean representatives too for negotiations. 😅
I had a lot of thoughts and opinions about the disabled child episode but I looked into it further and found out…
That's correct. It's cultural and economical. With the kind of life they have, rising costs, combined with their varied traditions (confucian, shamanistic, buddhism, christian, and who knows what else), everything affects everything.
For context and comparison, here in the Philippines it isn't special schools that drive land prices up or down, it's churches from very influential religions—Roman Catholic and Iglesia ni Cristo—simply because you can't evict them once they're established (not like Protestants and Pentecostals, they can be easily evicted). In other words, once they're around, the land around it will remain residential or residential/commercial. You won't be able to buy those lands. Even the government's Right-Of-Way finds it hard to implement the law for public infrastructure projects. 🤷🏽
In SK, instead of churches, it's things like special education that can put a limit to land prices. And with rising costs of living, they all want the land prices to go up so they can rent it out or sell it at a higher price.
In the US, it's different. They ensure college kids are in debt so the rest of their lives, they are trying to pay their debts. Even before you finish paying your college debts, you're already living in a new house that you're paying because you haven't earned it yet. You have to work hard or live in the streets.
But once you get a promotion, the industry comes after you saying you need a bigger house so you can get a lot of tax breaks and not waste your new higher pay. But where does that new higher pay goes? Payment for the new house, again.
Different style but same concept. Keep everyone focused on money at the expense of others and of themselves. And it is also called "economy". Because if people have low purchasing power, it leads to less flow of money, which will slow down the economy, and might force it to enter into economic depression. 🤦🏽
1. The CEO. He wants to drop him because he's becoming a headache. He's willing to risk the drop in share prices…
Yeah, and it's doubtful he doesn't have access to his place. Or, at least haven't thought of quietly waiting for the ML to open the door, like what those toxic fans did.
Not related to drama…just noticed that Sooyoung and Kyungho both are acting as lawyers in currently airing dramas
LOL. I was going to say this too. The 12-year couple playing the same role. And someone thought it will be cool to have their shows premiere one after the other. It actually works, they kind of helping each other indirectly. Fans are talking about them and their shows more.
1. The CEO. He wants to drop him because he's becoming a headache. He's willing to risk the drop in share prices because he expected it to be closed fast. Unfortunately for him, there's a fierce attorney who's prolonging it.
2. The Manager. Out of all the people around him, he's probably the one who's most angry since he's the one who has to endure everything.
3. One of the staff. Three of them did say they want to kill him and were holding pointed objects.
4. The father(?) of the prosecutor. As he said, their job is to pick a suspect and force them to confess regardless if the confession is true or not. He probably heard the comments of the disgruntled staff and so he set the ML up.
5. The father of the ex-girlfriend. They haven't shown him yet but since they're wealthy, her father probably hated that they were dating. He was probably the reason why they broke up.
6. That angry band member, the drummer IIRC. The victim didn't struggle, as the police said, the victim knew the suspect. And since the victim is also intoxicated, more reason he wouldn't think the suspect would actually stab him.
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Why I think the ex-gf is not the suspect: - She was paying attention to the case. - She studied the profile of the prosecutor. - She met the prosecutor pretending to be interested in him, but she was actually fishing for information at the same time planting doubt and leading him to other possible scenarios.
However, I suspect that she knows something. She probably knew who the suspect was but she's too afraid to share the information with anyone because she'll get dragged into it.
Again, only up to E03 as of the time of this writing.
The English title "Idol I" doesn't make any sense.
아이돌아이 is: - Revised Romanization: aidolai - translation: an idol child
The best choices are: 1. An Idol Child 2. Idol Eye
"Idol Eye" is qualified based on the premise of the story from episodes 1 & 2. It was further established in E03. The "eye" representing the following: - things from the perspective of an idol - the things the ML witnessed while drunk and has forgotten — basically, he is a witness to a crime but his drunkenness combined with his trauma of witnessing it resulted in his brain sealing those memories to protect himself
"Idol I" doesn't make any sense. Well, if we wanted to stretch it, the meaning of the English title might be the selfishness of the ML, you know , "I". But that's stretching it and we know from episodes 1—3 that the ML isn't selfish at all.
The English title should've been «An Idol Child» or «Idol Eye».
But to summarize, it is a law originated from Emperor Justinian of the Roman Empire. All countries adopted the laws he made and adapted it to suit their respective cultures. Some were updated to catch up with the times, some still not updated. And each country has varying levels of "updates" too per law.
I wouldn't be surprised if your country also have a similar law or used to have one. There is no country today whose laws did not originate from the Roman Empire or was not heavily influenced by it. It is commonly called today as the "Civil Laws".
Secondly, the law was created to protect the Family Unit. The basic unit of a society is the Family Unit. The State relies on a healthy Family Unit to survive. Thus, the integrity of the Family Unit must be protected.
The problem is, society changes. Our sensitivities and beliefs changes more or less every 50 years. I was born in 1982, it hasn't been 50 years yet I can no longer count how many things are no longer acceptable today than back in the 80s and 90s. Unfortunately, we are slow in updating laws to catch up with the changing times.
The immunity of family members from suing each other is one such Civil Law meant to protect the integrity of the Family Unit. Underneath this category are other laws like immunity from suing each other related to finances, which was the law discussed in Episode 8.
Unfortunately, like I've said earlier, each country have varying levels of updates and cultural factors also comes into play.
In my country, the Philippines, a similar law was amended multiple times in my lifetime, and often it was to add a provision to bypass the said law. If the provision is triggered, then the law won't apply.
In South Korea, due to their heavy Confucian culture, their version of that Roman-based law was left untouched for 71 years. Remember what I said earlier that changes in sensitivities and beliefs usually happen more or less 50 years? 71 years is clearly overdue.
South Korea have two options. 1. Completely abolish that entire law; or, 2. Amend it so that its scope is not too broad or there's a clear path to bypass it
The second option is what other countries usually choose, and what the Philippines chose repeatedly. This is so that members of a Family Unit won't end up suing each other just because of some small issue, like say, total amount of a month's salary.
The first option, if that entire law is abolished, the Family Unit can be opened to all sorts of issues/cases where family members sue even for the smallest things, which obviously will lead to more broken families. Remember, if the Family Unit is broken, the will State suffer too.
South Korea's National Assembly has up to December 31, 2025 to amend that specific law touched in Episode 8. If they don't submit an amendment, the court's decision to permanently suspend that entire law will remain. Will it end up good overall? No one knows. The world will definitely watch if there will be an increase of cases related to the absence of that law and what kind of cases those are.
If there will be an increase in cases, and the cases are not petty but actually serious, it means it is fine to abolish that specific law entirely—at least in South Korea. Other countries will study it and see if the same can be applied to their own countries.
But since the National Assembly is very busy with their political turmoil, the deadline will like pass and that specific law will forever be suspended in its entirety. So, that's something to watch how it will affect Korea's family unit.
I feel like he is a lookalike - meaning a doppelganger... That's my theory because Kang Dawit kept on saying that…
LOL! I didn't realize that. I thought it was a reference to another thing.
That was a very good easter egg. I wonder if it was only an adlib from the ML. 😅 Or, maybe it was both their idea for him to appear as a reporter so they can later make an easter egg about it.
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Their OTT partners should hire sensible people. Or, if the English title came from the production companies, they at least should say something about it, after all, they (OTT) will be running the product for years and hope they recoup their royalty/licensing payments.
It's understandable if official Korean English titles doesn't make sense because they're not aware or familiar with English nuances. But those OTT partners, they need to be proactive. LOL.
Then again, maybe the OTT services hired Korean representatives too for negotiations. 😅
For context and comparison, here in the Philippines it isn't special schools that drive land prices up or down, it's churches from very influential religions—Roman Catholic and Iglesia ni Cristo—simply because you can't evict them once they're established (not like Protestants and Pentecostals, they can be easily evicted). In other words, once they're around, the land around it will remain residential or residential/commercial. You won't be able to buy those lands. Even the government's Right-Of-Way finds it hard to implement the law for public infrastructure projects. 🤷🏽
In SK, instead of churches, it's things like special education that can put a limit to land prices. And with rising costs of living, they all want the land prices to go up so they can rent it out or sell it at a higher price.
In the US, it's different. They ensure college kids are in debt so the rest of their lives, they are trying to pay their debts. Even before you finish paying your college debts, you're already living in a new house that you're paying because you haven't earned it yet. You have to work hard or live in the streets.
But once you get a promotion, the industry comes after you saying you need a bigger house so you can get a lot of tax breaks and not waste your new higher pay. But where does that new higher pay goes? Payment for the new house, again.
Different style but same concept. Keep everyone focused on money at the expense of others and of themselves. And it is also called "economy". Because if people have low purchasing power, it leads to less flow of money, which will slow down the economy, and might force it to enter into economic depression. 🤦🏽
The evidences are all there, it is up to the two camps to weave the most believable story that will convince everyone.
2. The Manager. Out of all the people around him, he's probably the one who's most angry since he's the one who has to endure everything.
3. One of the staff. Three of them did say they want to kill him and were holding pointed objects.
4. The father(?) of the prosecutor. As he said, their job is to pick a suspect and force them to confess regardless if the confession is true or not. He probably heard the comments of the disgruntled staff and so he set the ML up.
5. The father of the ex-girlfriend. They haven't shown him yet but since they're wealthy, her father probably hated that they were dating. He was probably the reason why they broke up.
6. That angry band member, the drummer IIRC. The victim didn't struggle, as the police said, the victim knew the suspect. And since the victim is also intoxicated, more reason he wouldn't think the suspect would actually stab him.
---
Why I think the ex-gf is not the suspect:
- She was paying attention to the case.
- She studied the profile of the prosecutor.
- She met the prosecutor pretending to be interested in him, but she was actually fishing for information at the same time planting doubt and leading him to other possible scenarios.
However, I suspect that she knows something. She probably knew who the suspect was but she's too afraid to share the information with anyone because she'll get dragged into it.
Again, only up to E03 as of the time of this writing.
아이돌아이 is:
- Revised Romanization: aidolai
- translation: an idol child
The best choices are:
1. An Idol Child
2. Idol Eye
"Idol Eye" is qualified based on the premise of the story from episodes 1 & 2. It was further established in E03. The "eye" representing the following:
- things from the perspective of an idol
- the things the ML witnessed while drunk and has forgotten — basically, he is a witness to a crime but his drunkenness combined with his trauma of witnessing it resulted in his brain sealing those memories to protect himself
"Idol I" doesn't make any sense. Well, if we wanted to stretch it, the meaning of the English title might be the selfishness of the ML, you know , "I". But that's stretching it and we know from episodes 1—3 that the ML isn't selfish at all.
The English title should've been «An Idol Child» or «Idol Eye».
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But to summarize, it is a law originated from Emperor Justinian of the Roman Empire. All countries adopted the laws he made and adapted it to suit their respective cultures. Some were updated to catch up with the times, some still not updated. And each country has varying levels of "updates" too per law.
I wouldn't be surprised if your country also have a similar law or used to have one. There is no country today whose laws did not originate from the Roman Empire or was not heavily influenced by it. It is commonly called today as the "Civil Laws".
Secondly, the law was created to protect the Family Unit. The basic unit of a society is the Family Unit. The State relies on a healthy Family Unit to survive. Thus, the integrity of the Family Unit must be protected.
The problem is, society changes. Our sensitivities and beliefs changes more or less every 50 years. I was born in 1982, it hasn't been 50 years yet I can no longer count how many things are no longer acceptable today than back in the 80s and 90s. Unfortunately, we are slow in updating laws to catch up with the changing times.
The immunity of family members from suing each other is one such Civil Law meant to protect the integrity of the Family Unit. Underneath this category are other laws like immunity from suing each other related to finances, which was the law discussed in Episode 8.
Unfortunately, like I've said earlier, each country have varying levels of updates and cultural factors also comes into play.
In my country, the Philippines, a similar law was amended multiple times in my lifetime, and often it was to add a provision to bypass the said law. If the provision is triggered, then the law won't apply.
In South Korea, due to their heavy Confucian culture, their version of that Roman-based law was left untouched for 71 years. Remember what I said earlier that changes in sensitivities and beliefs usually happen more or less 50 years? 71 years is clearly overdue.
South Korea have two options.
1. Completely abolish that entire law; or,
2. Amend it so that its scope is not too broad or there's a clear path to bypass it
The second option is what other countries usually choose, and what the Philippines chose repeatedly. This is so that members of a Family Unit won't end up suing each other just because of some small issue, like say, total amount of a month's salary.
The first option, if that entire law is abolished, the Family Unit can be opened to all sorts of issues/cases where family members sue even for the smallest things, which obviously will lead to more broken families. Remember, if the Family Unit is broken, the will State suffer too.
South Korea's National Assembly has up to December 31, 2025 to amend that specific law touched in Episode 8. If they don't submit an amendment, the court's decision to permanently suspend that entire law will remain. Will it end up good overall? No one knows. The world will definitely watch if there will be an increase of cases related to the absence of that law and what kind of cases those are.
If there will be an increase in cases, and the cases are not petty but actually serious, it means it is fine to abolish that specific law entirely—at least in South Korea. Other countries will study it and see if the same can be applied to their own countries.
But since the National Assembly is very busy with their political turmoil, the deadline will like pass and that specific law will forever be suspended in its entirety. So, that's something to watch how it will affect Korea's family unit.
That was a very good easter egg. I wonder if it was only an adlib from the ML. 😅 Or, maybe it was both their idea for him to appear as a reporter so they can later make an easter egg about it.
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