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You forgot that he is in an international court of public opinion. It doesn't matter if it was legal in Korea at the time, no country in the world would think it's OK, even Korea then and now. Because no one is actually pursuing teens except creepy old people who are using it as a loophole to abuse teenagers and get away with it.
However, that wasn't my original point. My original point was that it doesn't matter whether it's illegal or not, he is morally in a muddy water. I personally think it's disgusting to think of a teenager this way when you are around your thirties. It would've been fine if she was closer to his age. I don't care if he waited until she was 19 or not. The fact that he saw her as a woman at that young age is what I find gross, and no new information would change that.

Seri has got to have some dignity and a life that doesn't revolve around the professor.
We talk sh*t about the hairdresser, but I find this one even worse. At least the story of the hairdresser is somewhat interesting, Seri's story with the professor seem like something I wrote when I was seven after watching Trapp Ikka Monogatari and daydreaming about being Maria.

A few of Good Manager, maybe 4 episodes, I lost track after my Netflix subscription ended, but only 1 episode of the rest. I admit though that the main reason for dropping The Veil was the awful female character, but his character wasn't helping.
I heard that they pick up after a few episodes, that is why I tried so hard with Good Manager, because everyone is talking about how good it is, but I guess I'm not patient enough.

I did watch him in Good Manager, Awaken and The Veil, but I dropped all of these dramas because I couldn't connect with his character. I liked him in Remember and Becoming a Billionaire, and I really loved him in One Dollar Lawyer. I only hated him in Listen to My Heart. He is more suitable for quirky unemotional characters in my opinion. I've never connected with his sadness. I get that you did, and I respect your preferences, but I don't think it was the wrong casting, and I'm curious if you would change your mind once the drama starts.

I don't think the mother only in it when it benefits her. She has been treating them like a family too, and I wouldn't say they have ever benefited her. She got her money forcefully invested in the factory and she isn't making any profits yet.
As for the daughter, I do think she is a doormat. She says that she isn't making any profit yet, but she has offered to pay his daughter's tuition even though he hasn't stepped up to help in the factory. The brothers are useless, and she is carrying a family of a man she only met briefly, and when she started to single-handedly rebuild it up, she decided to spend all of her future earnings on them, and they allowed her, even though they didn't really need the money. I would be pissed off if she was my daughter too. It would be so frustrating seeing your daughter getting walked on and used like that. The factory is under her name because she swallowed the debt. It wasn't a gift to her, so she didn't have to give it back when it started doing well. She isn't only sharing the profit (which she doesn't have to do by the way), she is burying herself more and more into debt for providing them with luxury they don't need.

You can offer whatever extra you have out of consideration, you can even offer all you have if you are nice enough, but she is offering what she doesn't even have. She is committing to use her future income on a person she hasn't even met, and for a reason that isn't really needed (as she can come back and continue her studying where it's cheaper) when both of her parents are alive and well. She even offered to pay his wife to stay with him. I'd say she is the definition of a doormat.

I find Chun Su's "wife" bringing up the US law every time she could, and even when it doesn't apply pathetic. You are neither an American nor currently in America, so stop forcing its law on your own country. Ew

She's never been his wife, yet she demands a wife benefit. Go back to America, you are not welcomed anywhere else in the world.

I don't agree. I like Min Namgoong, but I think Park Shi Ho is way better at acting as an emotionally wounded man. His eye acting can be so deep, it makes one feel bad for him. I wouldn't say that I've ever felt bad for Min Namgoong, probably because he always seem like he is well off. Park Shi Ho also has a similar physique and vibe to Simon Baker which I find is a plus, because I loved him as Patrick Jane.

This is what one usually mean when they say someone is without a personality, because "happy go lucky" and "innocent" are what you start with as a baby, then you start developing a personality. Her being sheltered and rich is a situation not a personality. So, I don't think she has any personality yet, and I don't think she will develop one.

3 months was the length of her relationship with her husband, so it makes sense that she would move on after only 3 months. LOL
I forgot how long they dated exactly, but I remember them saying they only dated briefly before realizing they wanted to marry each other, then their marriage only lasted 10 days. If you fall in love fast, you move on fast too.

I find the mother of the female lead to unexpectedly be the voice of reason here. Her daughter is allowing herself to be a doormat. Somebody should put some sense into her.

He already has admitted the "gross" behavior, he only denied the illegal stuff, because it is illegal.

Regardless of the legality of the situation (because honestly, I don't care), I think sending a "platonic" letter to a "close" teenager who is about 10 years younger, then dating them when they reach "legal" age, is a gross behavior. As someone who is around the age he was when they "started dating" according to his agency, I'll tell you that this is not normal. Once you see someone as a teenager and you are fully an adult (at an age where your brain has been fully developed), it is hard to see them as anything else. I can't speak for men obviously, but I'm telling you this is too iffy, and can only mean he was seeing her as a woman even when she was a teenager, at least in my opinion.

I've never seen it as a gender thing. I've seen many male celebrities get buried because of their scandals especially DUIs. Prominent examples would be Kim Sang Hyuk who took about 10 years to come back, and SuJu's Kang In who never managed to come back. My theory is that it's a combination of popularity, talent, type of crime, and how much people want them. Singers of all genders would have a harder time coming back than actors, because no matter how talented they are, they are always replaceable. Actresses have a tough market, because most of the market are women, and the majority of women are interested in men, also there are plenty of women who are ready to take another woman's place and do a great job at it. It's so competitive. Meanwhile, popular male actors are only a few, and they are dominating the market. They are mostly the actual lead, because women are mostly the audience, so once one go they are bound to come back if the audience misses them. There is also the notion that Koreans are more forgiving of sexual crimes, and men are mostly the ones doing them. This is not restricted to men, as Lee Guk Joo has been harassing male celebrities for years and people still love her. Hardly any celebrity gets a way with DUI unless they were unknown at the time, or they've covered it very well, like by creating a diversion with other unrelated shocking news or not allowing the news to spread. And this is the management agency's job, which they failed at in this case. People just love to pin it on sexism, because it is the easiest explanation, but a lot of things come to play other than gender.

Now, about the mother, I think her hands were tight. Her teenage daughter wanted to be with him, so her only option was to go to the police which would've destroyed her daughter's career and made her an enemy. She also can't speak to the public since it would've done the same and she is not a public figure who has a platform. Parenting is tough. I don't think blaming her for this would be right. She has little control over the situation, unlike the predator who decided it was a good idea to date a teenager who is about 10 years younger than him.

Also, I truly believe that if the mother publicized the situation, many people would've accused Kim Sae Ron of being a seductive Lolita, just so that their favorite actor would stay in business. You can tell by the comments, we already have a predator, but people are shifting the blame to all the other people, whether it's her parents, or even Seo Ye Ji who is despicable in my opinion but as far as we know, she has nothing to do with this.

I forgot about that. This is how much it dragged for me. LOL
To be frank, I didn't consider that it was in real-time. I assumed some time has passed since that incident, since it seemed like she has already moved on.

What?! She isn't trying to seduce him. She is married to the glasses guy. LOL
She is trying to get her daughter to marry his son, so when the father is dead, and because the son is a doctor, her daughter would be taking over the hotel.
She only doesn't want the father to have a woman because if he got married, his wife would take control, and she doesn't want a mother-in-law for her daughter. She has zero intention to be with the male lead.

Oh, I'm not good with their names or their jobs. I mostly know them by their number or their most prominent story, but I got now who you are referring to. I don't think Shinda is as bad as that scumbag though. I think nobody deserves that guy. He should be panished. LOL

Yeah, I noticed that too, I think they are using her to build up the next episode but never deliver, because maybe they don't think her story is interesting but they can tell people are interested. I don't even know if she ate with that guy or not, the only scene of her in this week's episode is when they showed her facial expression when Man #3 picked someone unexpected to eat with. I am mostly interested in her story, so I feel deceived every time they do that.

The woman that the pharmacist is going after (Woman #18) is the dream girl of most guys. She is cute, she laughs at everything they say, she doesn't talk about herself, and she only reacts to whatever they are saying. I think those going after her didn't realize yet that this girl doesn't exist. After they get married, the laughter stops and they are left of whatever behind that laughter which she showed us nothing of. I could swear I've never heard her speak except when reacting to whatever they say. She is someone's first love, but until she shows them her true self, I think they should be very careful. She is treating all of them exactly the same, never showed special interest in one of them, or to be more accurate, she showed special interest in all of them, which I find really iffy, because every guy she is with, thinks he is so special to her.

She did have interest in other guys too, so I don't think him exploring other options was a bad idea. I think he may not have realized that she got into him yet. We were the only ones who knew, so this is why we felt bad for her. He may haven't realized that she would be hurt by it.

I agree with all the things you said about the scumbag. She is seeing him with pink glasses when everybody else has figured him out in 5 minutes. Her brother is such a smart guy, I bet he's a great journalist.

I don't know, I thought he was just simple. I mean he might be clueless about how people's emotions function. Not to be this guy, but she said that he is an INTP which might explain why he doesn't do well in emotions and interactions. I don't think that it even crossed his mind that she might be hurt by this, because if he was manipulating her he would've done it more discreetly. If he just went with the other girl and never talked to her about it, she would probably be all over him to get him back, but saying that he is confused about his feelings cuts things off and puts her in a weird position, and I don't think he wanted to do that. I think he is just brutally honest about his feelings.