Characters age gap is so weird like when FL was in middle school(possibly 13-15 yrs) , he was already a police…
It depends on where you live and your culture.
As far as I know, in SoKor, age gaps wherein the man is older is not a problem as long as they are of both of legal age (which is 21 Korean age if I remember correctly).
Age gaps wherein the woman is older is I think acceptable as lone as it isn't more than 12 years.
To add some context, re: cultural differences. Here in the Philippines no one cares how big your age gap is and it doesn't matter who is older.
But compare that to like Canada, according to a Canadian couple vloggers, in Canada people frown and ask stupid and offending questions when they learn how bit their age gap is (somewhere 14 to 20). This couple just accepted their life will be filled with people asking those questions and frowning on them.
However, when they migrated here in the Philippines late last year, they were surprised that no one cared. They even said that no one asked stupid questions nor anyone frowned after learning their age gap.
So, it depends on where you live, what your culture is. It turns out, Filipinos are more liberated on age gaps than Canadians. And I'd say Korea is somewhere in the middle.
Lastly, the show did not imply that the young kid was having a relationship with the probably 22-23 year old guy. Again, in South Korea they have a law against marriage with a minor (below 21 Korean age). As context, in the Philippines, a new law was passed making marriage with a minor illegal and a criminal offense. Sooner or later, a new culture may arise out of it, just like in South Korea, our culture may start to frown on relationships with a minor because there is law against marriage with a minor.
If the show implied in any way that the adult and a minor have a relationship beyond platonic, Korea would be in outrage by now. The same way with age gaps, if the age gap between adults is not culturally acceptable in SoKor, they would be whining about it all over the Internet already.
Same. I can't understand a thing.The actor married a Hawaiian so he sure can pronounce English properly, why did…
Not sure. At least from MDL's description on his bio, it sounded like he married someone who grew up in Hawaii.
And for him to have married a non-celebrity "office worker" (as MDL described her), it would mean he also lived in Hawaii for quite sometime (but not as long as his wife). He should've acquired American English during their dating years.
It's just as assumption on my part, since she's an "office worker", she doesn't have the convenience to travel and live elsewhere like most in higher in corporate hierarchy. So they probably dated in Hawaii not in Korea.
In any case, his English in this show is not natural. Hehehe. I mean, he's trying to sound like a foreigner (or a Korean who grew up in the US in his case). Foreigners always have that inflection in words when speaking another language, the director probably asked him to sound like that … but in English.
LOLs, and now it's so hard to understand his English.
Confirmed:* Lee Jin Geun was the bully during the bully scene when they were kids.* Lee Jin Geun was the bully…
Yes, that is correct. But it still doesn't answer the question, "who is she?"
As of episode 8, the plot has turned into a story about kids in the same class in the same town.
Cha Jin Hoo is out of the picture, he was just another chef who happened to have ties with Gye Hoon and is a business partner. He's like an "extra" in the story.
So, is Hwang Min Jo and Lee Eun Jung written-off similarly to Cha Jin Hoo?
I'd like to think not, hence the question, "who are they?"
Oh Yeon Seo looks very similar to another actor, even her acting, facial expressions, movements, but I can't quite place who it was.
I checked her profile here in MDL and in Wikipedia and I haven't seen any of her past shows/films, so at least that I'm sure she looks and acts similarly to another actor.
> maybe Noh Da Hyun took his sister with her in context of playing or something and she got trappedPossible. Noh…
Ooooh, good eye! Yeah, that opening sequence is indeed telling. Good point, they were probably kidnapped together and tried to escape, and that's when something happened. (Maybe Gye Young fell?)
Yep, the preview is also surprising, she started to feel Gye Hoon. Gye Young did not feel his brother's emotion … but Da Hyun can.
Looks like they are finally going to reveal another clue as to how the Link works.
I should definitely stop making theories because none of them are right apparently 😂Litterally, how did I not…
> I should definitely stop making theories because none of them are right apparently 😂
Same haha.
But still, that's what makes this TV series fun. The writer is doing well in leading us to analyze the show but in reality we are too far off.
The only danger there is … the longer they do this, the higher the expectation will be. If they can't meet that, audiences will be dissatisfied.
But I think there are some things that are starting to make sense because there are less possibilities we can consider.
For example, someone mentioned that maybe Da Hyun and Gye Young were playing somewhere and that's what Lee Jin Geun saw.
If that's the case, and Jin Geun also revealed that Gye Young was injured, it would mean that she got into an accident.
Maybe: * Da Hyun and Gye Young were playing, or * Da Hyun was the cause of the accident. Or, * Jin Geun was harassing Da Hyun again and Gye Young saw them and came to her rescue … and she got into an accident.
Da Hyun's parents tried to save Gye Young. But since they were new in the town, they kept it quiet. A few days later, Gye Young died. (It was also probably the same year her parents got divorced.)
This caused Da Hyun to enter trauma mode and her brain sealed those memories. (But she still is self-blaming.)
The shaman said, "2 people were involved". Da Hyun's mother and grandma? Instead of bringing her to the hospital, they tried to save her themselves. And when she died, they buried her.
Not coming to the police actually will lead to much more severe problems and sentences irl, especially if you…
It depends on which country you are.
In most Asian countries, there are no cases for not reporting something especially if it was justified and/or self-defense and/or no one died and/or the "victim" doesn't file a case.
Also, if we're going to talk about IRL, if we analyze the character of Da Hyun: - as a kid: she had very low self esteem -- which led to being alone, too shy, and getting bullied - her having a very low self-esteem could mean that she had a bad experience prior to them moving to the town (and her moving to a new school); we're in episode 8 and not once was her father mentioned; all we know was her mother divorced her father. - she may have overcame her low self-esteem but she did not overcome the things that came with it: one such is self-blaming. This probably was not only because of her self-esteem but because of whatever she experienced with her father -- which shaped the way she thinks.
So, on Da Hyun's side, we can't really blame her for keeping mum about it. She grew up with a mindset of "if something bad happens to other people, it's her fault".
Which led me to suspect (thanks to another comment who hinted at it), after episode 8, that maybe Da Hyun witnessed an accident involving Gye Young, and days later when Gye Young died, it drove her to extreme trauma which led to her not remembering anything.
If that assumption is correct and she later remembers … and her and Gye Hoon is finally getting somewhere … it will devastate her and might drive her mad. This time, as an adult, she'll be fighting her own brain from sealing the memory again.
She's smiling today, as an adult, because she can't remember her childhood, especially the traumatic memories. But she hasn't completely overcame some things, like self-blaming.
OMG, what is this drama 😂😂😂🤣🤣, I was literally laughing when both of them were fighting and policeman…
> maybe Noh Da Hyun took his sister with her in context of playing or something and she got trapped
Possible. Noh Da Hyun not remembering anything is suspicious. Something traumatic happened for her brain to seal those memories. Usually, for a young kid, it's witnessing a gruesome scene and/or death.
Da Hyun's parents also prefer she doesn't remember anything. It means it was a very devastating and gruesome memory.
Also, in episode 1 or 2, during the flashbacks, Da Hyun's parents were already being suspicious during the "search". In fact, I've been suspecting them as the kidnappers / killers since then. But maybe, there was an accident.
The Eun Gye Hoon's Link was not severed until after Eun Gye Young's death (at least the assumption that she died). It would mean that, if Da Hyun and her parents were involved, they tried to save Gye Young but days (or weeks) later she still died.
While Da Hyun probably even got more traumatized after Gye Young's death.
Hmm… considering how adult Da Hyun kept blaming herself for "killing" someone even though it was [1] self-defense; and [2] she did not know what exactly happened after she lost consciousness; she probably thought the same thing, blamed herself for the death of Gye Young.
One more thing. Da Hyun had a very low esteem when she was kid. She kept to herself. - Usually, people with low esteem are like that because their parents were … to make it short, gave them a very bad experience. - Or, they were bullied. Which Da Hyun was bullied (again??) after transferring to a new school.
Few people get over their low esteem, and if they do, more often than not they go overboard, getting too much high esteem. In Da Hyun's case, she seemed to have overcame that. But her tendency to self blame is still there, possibly a by product of her low-esteem and whatever she experienced when she was a kid (for example: they never talked about her father … something is suspicious there).
Confirmed: * Lee Jin Geun was the bully during the bully scene when they were kids. * Lee Jin Geun was the bully Eun Gye Young punched. * Lee Jin Geun was the bully Eun Gye Hoon fought after he saw Gye Young and Jin Geun embroiled. * Ji Won Tak's original name was Han Se Jin, the son of the Piano teacher Han Ui Chan.
Still a big question: * Who was Hwang Min Jo? * Who was Lee Eun Jung and is it her real name or just an assumed name to pretend Lee Jin Geun is her brother? * Are these two like Cha Jin Hoo? They have no connection to the town?
Here's another possibility.Remember the bully fight scene?Confirmed:* Noh Da Hyun was the girl who was cornered…
* Lee Jin Geun was the bully? Probably the bully Eun Gye Young punched?
* If it was him, then it explains why he cornered Da Hyun, he was already obsessed with her. Which would also explain what he meant in Episode 7 that they first met in their neighbourhood.
* Later, Lee Jin Geun and his father, probably kidnapped Eun Gye Young, as some sort of revenge.
* As a kid, Gye Young was too afraid. At this point, she relied on her brother for protection. She was brave because she knew her brother will find her because he can feel her.
* But the Link was severed between Gye Hoon and Gye Young. Probably she got into an accident or there is a distance limit (if they go way too far from each other, the Link will be broken permanently).
* Gye Young was eventually re-registered as adopted by her kidnappers as Lee Eun Jung.
* She learned to defend herself.
* She probably killed Lee Jin Geun's father.
* Jin Geun knew about it so he's blackmailing her to silence. But also fled because he's probably afraid of her too (I mean, if she killed your father and you know the reason why … you'll know she's also after you).
* They stayed in contact because of some agreement (because they're holding each other's secret), or because they just hate each other soo much that they are teasing and pissing each other of.
* So when Jin Geun suddenly stopped contacting her, she started to find him.
* She was crying so hard probably not because Jin Geun is her "brother" but because she's pissed she was not the one who killed him.
* Then in Episode 7, Da Hyun sent a text message how Jin Geun is back and is threatening to kill all of them, especially Gye Hoon.
* If Eun Jung is Gye Young, and she knows her real identity, it would explain why she rushed back to the restaurant … it was to protect Gye Hoon.
* Then when Jin Geun showed up, her automatic reaction was to kill him.
Confirmed: * Noh Da Hyun was the girl who was cornered by the bullies. * Eun Gye Young saw them and defended her. * Eun Gye Young was brave enough to strike first. * Eun Gye Hoon saw them and joined the fight.
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They can turn this into a TV series and explore more about the technology, the enhanced kids, history, and more character and world development.
As far as I know, in SoKor, age gaps wherein the man is older is not a problem as long as they are of both of legal age (which is 21 Korean age if I remember correctly).
Age gaps wherein the woman is older is I think acceptable as lone as it isn't more than 12 years.
To add some context, re: cultural differences. Here in the Philippines no one cares how big your age gap is and it doesn't matter who is older.
But compare that to like Canada, according to a Canadian couple vloggers, in Canada people frown and ask stupid and offending questions when they learn how bit their age gap is (somewhere 14 to 20). This couple just accepted their life will be filled with people asking those questions and frowning on them.
However, when they migrated here in the Philippines late last year, they were surprised that no one cared. They even said that no one asked stupid questions nor anyone frowned after learning their age gap.
So, it depends on where you live, what your culture is. It turns out, Filipinos are more liberated on age gaps than Canadians. And I'd say Korea is somewhere in the middle.
Lastly, the show did not imply that the young kid was having a relationship with the probably 22-23 year old guy. Again, in South Korea they have a law against marriage with a minor (below 21 Korean age). As context, in the Philippines, a new law was passed making marriage with a minor illegal and a criminal offense. Sooner or later, a new culture may arise out of it, just like in South Korea, our culture may start to frown on relationships with a minor because there is law against marriage with a minor.
If the show implied in any way that the adult and a minor have a relationship beyond platonic, Korea would be in outrage by now. The same way with age gaps, if the age gap between adults is not culturally acceptable in SoKor, they would be whining about it all over the Internet already.
^_^
Thank you ^_^
You have a point, if no one can understand him, it probably is not English.
And for him to have married a non-celebrity "office worker" (as MDL described her), it would mean he also lived in Hawaii for quite sometime (but not as long as his wife). He should've acquired American English during their dating years.
It's just as assumption on my part, since she's an "office worker", she doesn't have the convenience to travel and live elsewhere like most in higher in corporate hierarchy. So they probably dated in Hawaii not in Korea.
In any case, his English in this show is not natural. Hehehe. I mean, he's trying to sound like a foreigner (or a Korean who grew up in the US in his case). Foreigners always have that inflection in words when speaking another language, the director probably asked him to sound like that … but in English.
LOLs, and now it's so hard to understand his English.
As of episode 8, the plot has turned into a story about kids in the same class in the same town.
Cha Jin Hoo is out of the picture, he was just another chef who happened to have ties with Gye Hoon and is a business partner. He's like an "extra" in the story.
So, is Hwang Min Jo and Lee Eun Jung written-off similarly to Cha Jin Hoo?
I'd like to think not, hence the question, "who are they?"
^_^
I checked her profile here in MDL and in Wikipedia and I haven't seen any of her past shows/films, so at least that I'm sure she looks and acts similarly to another actor.
Anyone have an idea?
Yep, the preview is also surprising, she started to feel Gye Hoon. Gye Young did not feel his brother's emotion … but Da Hyun can.
Looks like they are finally going to reveal another clue as to how the Link works.
Same haha.
But still, that's what makes this TV series fun. The writer is doing well in leading us to analyze the show but in reality we are too far off.
The only danger there is … the longer they do this, the higher the expectation will be. If they can't meet that, audiences will be dissatisfied.
But I think there are some things that are starting to make sense because there are less possibilities we can consider.
For example, someone mentioned that maybe Da Hyun and Gye Young were playing somewhere and that's what Lee Jin Geun saw.
If that's the case, and Jin Geun also revealed that Gye Young was injured, it would mean that she got into an accident.
Maybe:
* Da Hyun and Gye Young were playing, or
* Da Hyun was the cause of the accident. Or,
* Jin Geun was harassing Da Hyun again and Gye Young saw them and came to her rescue … and she got into an accident.
Da Hyun's parents tried to save Gye Young. But since they were new in the town, they kept it quiet. A few days later, Gye Young died. (It was also probably the same year her parents got divorced.)
This caused Da Hyun to enter trauma mode and her brain sealed those memories. (But she still is self-blaming.)
The shaman said, "2 people were involved". Da Hyun's mother and grandma? Instead of bringing her to the hospital, they tried to save her themselves. And when she died, they buried her.
- Cha Jin Hoo, the asst Chef of Eun Gye Hoon, who has no connections to the town other than Gye Hoon.
In most Asian countries, there are no cases for not reporting something especially if it was justified and/or self-defense and/or no one died and/or the "victim" doesn't file a case.
Also, if we're going to talk about IRL, if we analyze the character of Da Hyun:
- as a kid: she had very low self esteem -- which led to being alone, too shy, and getting bullied
- her having a very low self-esteem could mean that she had a bad experience prior to them moving to the town (and her moving to a new school); we're in episode 8 and not once was her father mentioned; all we know was her mother divorced her father.
- she may have overcame her low self-esteem but she did not overcome the things that came with it: one such is self-blaming. This probably was not only because of her self-esteem but because of whatever she experienced with her father -- which shaped the way she thinks.
So, on Da Hyun's side, we can't really blame her for keeping mum about it. She grew up with a mindset of "if something bad happens to other people, it's her fault".
Which led me to suspect (thanks to another comment who hinted at it), after episode 8, that maybe Da Hyun witnessed an accident involving Gye Young, and days later when Gye Young died, it drove her to extreme trauma which led to her not remembering anything.
If that assumption is correct and she later remembers … and her and Gye Hoon is finally getting somewhere … it will devastate her and might drive her mad. This time, as an adult, she'll be fighting her own brain from sealing the memory again.
She's smiling today, as an adult, because she can't remember her childhood, especially the traumatic memories. But she hasn't completely overcame some things, like self-blaming.
Possible. Noh Da Hyun not remembering anything is suspicious. Something traumatic happened for her brain to seal those memories. Usually, for a young kid, it's witnessing a gruesome scene and/or death.
Da Hyun's parents also prefer she doesn't remember anything. It means it was a very devastating and gruesome memory.
Also, in episode 1 or 2, during the flashbacks, Da Hyun's parents were already being suspicious during the "search". In fact, I've been suspecting them as the kidnappers / killers since then. But maybe, there was an accident.
The Eun Gye Hoon's Link was not severed until after Eun Gye Young's death (at least the assumption that she died). It would mean that, if Da Hyun and her parents were involved, they tried to save Gye Young but days (or weeks) later she still died.
While Da Hyun probably even got more traumatized after Gye Young's death.
Hmm… considering how adult Da Hyun kept blaming herself for "killing" someone even though it was [1] self-defense; and [2] she did not know what exactly happened after she lost consciousness; she probably thought the same thing, blamed herself for the death of Gye Young.
One more thing. Da Hyun had a very low esteem when she was kid. She kept to herself.
- Usually, people with low esteem are like that because their parents were … to make it short, gave them a very bad experience.
- Or, they were bullied. Which Da Hyun was bullied (again??) after transferring to a new school.
Few people get over their low esteem, and if they do, more often than not they go overboard, getting too much high esteem. In Da Hyun's case, she seemed to have overcame that. But her tendency to self blame is still there, possibly a by product of her low-esteem and whatever she experienced when she was a kid (for example: they never talked about her father … something is suspicious there).
* Lee Jin Geun was the bully during the bully scene when they were kids.
* Lee Jin Geun was the bully Eun Gye Young punched.
* Lee Jin Geun was the bully Eun Gye Hoon fought after he saw Gye Young and Jin Geun embroiled.
* Ji Won Tak's original name was Han Se Jin, the son of the Piano teacher Han Ui Chan.
Still a big question:
* Who was Hwang Min Jo?
* Who was Lee Eun Jung and is it her real name or just an assumed name to pretend Lee Jin Geun is her brother?
* Are these two like Cha Jin Hoo? They have no connection to the town?
She looks very different in here. It's her hair I guess, lols.
* If it was him, then it explains why he cornered Da Hyun, he was already obsessed with her. Which would also explain what he meant in Episode 7 that they first met in their neighbourhood.
* Later, Lee Jin Geun and his father, probably kidnapped Eun Gye Young, as some sort of revenge.
* As a kid, Gye Young was too afraid. At this point, she relied on her brother for protection. She was brave because she knew her brother will find her because he can feel her.
* But the Link was severed between Gye Hoon and Gye Young. Probably she got into an accident or there is a distance limit (if they go way too far from each other, the Link will be broken permanently).
* Gye Young was eventually re-registered as adopted by her kidnappers as Lee Eun Jung.
* She learned to defend herself.
* She probably killed Lee Jin Geun's father.
* Jin Geun knew about it so he's blackmailing her to silence. But also fled because he's probably afraid of her too (I mean, if she killed your father and you know the reason why … you'll know she's also after you).
* They stayed in contact because of some agreement (because they're holding each other's secret), or because they just hate each other soo much that they are teasing and pissing each other of.
* So when Jin Geun suddenly stopped contacting her, she started to find him.
* She was crying so hard probably not because Jin Geun is her "brother" but because she's pissed she was not the one who killed him.
* Then in Episode 7, Da Hyun sent a text message how Jin Geun is back and is threatening to kill all of them, especially Gye Hoon.
* If Eun Jung is Gye Young, and she knows her real identity, it would explain why she rushed back to the restaurant … it was to protect Gye Hoon.
* Then when Jin Geun showed up, her automatic reaction was to kill him.
Remember the bully fight scene?
Confirmed:
* Noh Da Hyun was the girl who was cornered by the bullies.
* Eun Gye Young saw them and defended her.
* Eun Gye Young was brave enough to strike first.
* Eun Gye Hoon saw them and joined the fight.
We never saw the aftermath of that.
What if: (see hidden reply)