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He's so cuteeee
And his laugh at min 0:10-0:11?? Adorableee

And the way he can act serious for the camera that's focused only on their faces, but in reality he has to stand with split legs lmaoo respect

I want to let this out once. About HJP's "rudeness". I think most of us agree that he tells facts and harsh truths, and those facts sometimes can be very painful to hear, but he's a businessman and doesn't need to coddle people with nice words just because they can't take it (other people might not agree with this and I understand, if you're one of them don't jump me thank you). Yes, he gets a character development in that department after the timeskip and becomes a bit softer but I still want to talk about the early episodes, and in particular this one scene:
(I'll recap it so that you remember it)
Ep 2. HJP meets SST at their office for the first time, and asks dosan for a favour, to pretend for 1 hour to be the person in the letters.
At this Dosan is visibly disappointed and says "So you're not here to invest in our company". HJP says sorry [Wow what a rude jerk!]
Twosans ask for a reward. HJP asks how much money they want. Dosan then asks HJP if he had a look at their business plan. HJP says yes.
Dosan then AGAIN asks if HJP is interested in investing.
HJP replies: "your business is still in the early stage for us to invest"
(notice how he goes easy on them here, he's POLITELY telling them the business plan is not good enough yet)
Dosan: "is it because it's too early or because we have no potential?"
(I'm sorry but he's asking for it, he's pressing the issue when HJP already told him he's there not to invest)
HJP: "Look, i'm not here as an investor"
(and HJP AGAIN tells them this, still not saying anything rude, at this point he told them 3 times he isn't there to invest)
SST go on the rooftop to discuss and then they come back.
Dosan asks to enter sandbox instead of money.
HJP: "I can't do that just because you ask me"
Dosan starts reading that article about Sherpa.
HJP tells him to stop, but dosan continues. HJP again "i never said that, the interviewer-", dosan still continues to read the article. Then HJP snaps and offers money again.
Dosan: "We want to enter sandbox, we don't need money"
HJP: "Too bad, sandbox is beyond my ability"
Then when he's about to leave he turns around and tells them his success rate etc with start ups and that he's nver gonna invest in them.

Now read again and notice who is the rude one in the whole scene.
HJP? The one who politely tells them 3 TIMES he's not gonna invest? The one who says no to help them enter sandbox but Dosan is STILL pressing him? No. In my opinion, the rude one here is Dosan. He's asking for it but then gets all sad when receives the ultimate answer since sst didn't unerstand the first four times, but the viewer somehow is left with the impression that HJP is the rude one.
At that point we didn't know it, but later we realize that to enter the sandbox program they need to go through fair selection, it's not like HJP can go and put them in sanbox like nothing happened, it would be unfair to everyone else. When one doesn't know when to stop asking for things he was declined multiple times, I understand hjp's snapping at the end when he was about to leave.

Sorry for the rant lol

Just watch hjp and yeo jin goo's scene, it's really cute and in 2 minutes they outchemistried dodal's 10 hours of screentime in 16 eps

First half: really good
Second half: bad and disappointing

I'd say try it, but IF at ep 9ish (or even before) or 11ish you feel like it's going downhill, you definitely need to trust your instincts and drop it.
But if you really like it until ep 9/11 then most likely you won't hate the last episodes

Things I will remember of start-up:
- HJP
- this comment section and the people I met while the drama was airing

Lmaooo hello
Yep yep

Oh poor little soul xD you're cute
Kimsamsoom was being sarcastic hahaha

I don't know how to do it :/
You mean I have to create a new discussion topic or something? Or link this comment in one of the discussions? Sorry i only started commenting on dramas with start-up, i was a pretty passive user before, and don't know how things work welp
You can recyle the comment yourself if you want, I don't need credit and I'm pretty sure we (the HJP gang? lmao) pretty much all think the same about dosan and can pinpoint all of the things I compiled above ahaha

Btw, I'm planning on republishing this comment once in a while so that new people in the future can be "enlightened" xD

Offtopic but is it only me or the samsung galaxy fold HJP was using in the last episodes (ep 15 i think?) looked uncomfortable to use af? lol

To show people I'm not bluffing + it's actually funny, they should read the user's reply to understand the absurdity ashhah

If anyone's interested in the comment I mentioned, here it is: https://kisskh.at/51909-sandbox#comment-4606291

shshsh

Exactly lol we were pretty open (excluding to the trolls).
I think some people come here for the first time imagining in their minds what it was like in this comment section during the airing of the drama based on their bias, and then based on that imagination they start calling people toxic etc lmao

I still remember the user that said that we were hating on the actors, but then I said that I was here every single day for weeks and nobody hated on the actors... then that user replied "alright I wrote this to see if there any hate comment about the actor and actress guess I was wrong" lmaoooooo
That was so funny

You really dodged a huge bullet.
How nice could it be if I was this perceptive, and picked up sooner on the little clues... instead I let it all slide because everything else seemed great, and when I realized later that the drama was having huge problems with the writing....it was too late because I was too invested in that one character's happiness (han ji pyeong) to let go of the drama. Sadly another bullet to my heart was shot and he didn't get his happiness at all (i don't consider what he got a happy ending), instead he was utterly humiliated and left with nothing but pain and loneliness.

Exactly.

I "compiled" here all of the things that I consider as his negative traits/actions that are never adressed as wrong, if you want you can check it out :) https://kisskh.at/51909-sandbox#comment-4684317

When she said "I don't know who is in my heart" i rolled my eyes so much because wake up! you're only thinking about Dosan, he's the only one you're concered about, and on top of that you're not giving Jipyeong any chance at all, it's impossible for you to be so conflicted about who's in your heart girl! It just doesn't make any sense.

I agree with everything! Also with the rating and all. The first half is soo good, and when it was still ep 6 I wanted to give this drama a 10 even, but then after that.... Such a wasted potential, it's pretty sad.

You should put this comment in a review btw, it's nicely written :)

Can you kindly explain what we did to ruin this place for you and why you consider us sick?

P.S. I'm in no way attacking you, just asking why you think so.

Exactly! All of that, and the mere acknowledgement of his not-so-nice actions would have made him so much better, above in my reply to janice i also give 2 examples of how he could have shown the minimal growth that would have made us forgive him, but instead we got what we got and many can't like him because of that.
Also yep loose ends and plot points that are just brushed off bug me quite a bit, I didn't mention them in my comment because it was lengthy already but believe me i have complaints in that department too lol

Absolutely!

That's why i tried to say it without being too harsh lmao