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this kind of comment makes me really wonder about the reason for all the bad comment, like does this helps you in any means? by spreading false information?

I wonder what this drama does that makes people hate it so much in this website.
I mean, it ended like a week ago, the viewer who stays is mostly fine and there is this resurgence of some criticism.
It just weird cause the rating falls and most of the criticism happen like 1-2 days ago like some kind of plan. I am not the one to complain as I also have heavy criticism of another drama.
At least the domestic rating, netflix popularity and the enthusiasm when it aired never get erased.
It's like criticism for the sake of hating the popular things, like bringing people down because they don't like something that other's like, forgetting that romance drama shouldn't be rated on how good their detective skill and how believable their fantasy mechanism.

Also I want to add for new viewer who watch it, it's good as weekly watch, not good to binge watch. The dialogue feels like normal people with flow, silence and natural conversation , the plot don't move fast, the PPL is not blurred or replace, that's why when you aware of the brand, it looks like it has a lot of PPL and what makes most people stay is the chemistry. I am fine with just the two leads conversing in their bench, it because they feel real and the conversation sounds good.
The male lead and female lead is genuinely nice person, you can understand them and you want them to be together.
The drama knows what it want to be and do just that.

It ended a week ago though, it not ended this week. It's not conclusion since I was here last week and people are okay.

I am talking about the episode 3 with the mother and daughter, both are still hungry but want to the other to finish the last piece of the meal. You can see that the female lead detect it as lie and then buy them dinner because she knows they both are lying about being not hungry or not wanting the last piece.
I agree with you that is someone lied then FL will know it. My comment is about how people are so sure about the male lead own thought, how he convince himself with something yet there is no scene so far to back it up.

Idk that he is an idol, I thought he is a rookie actors. Seriously though his acting is just not convincing and some of his body language, like you said just feel unnatural.

I disagree that Female lead power is resemble our world Lie Detector. These machines detect typical stress responses and we even see how her mother lies in the most professional way, no stress , no awkwardness and been able to deceive so many people. Her power is mostly linked the actual truth that someone knows and what they said outside/with their mouth rather than lie detector stress factor.
The female lead power so far is 100% yes and 100% no regarding someone statement, it happen when someone is saying something that they know isn't true. It's not about the lie you convince yourself since the mother who said she is not hungry convince herself and actually okay by not eating, that she isn't hungry mentally but it still a lie in the female power because she is hungry.
Lie is always intentional, it means to deceive, the act itself of lying if to deceive and not being truthful.

Why I am saying that him lied about not killing the ex gf crumble the narrative is because the plot right now needs someone to help him to find the truth. We've seen that everyone actually believe he did do something to the ex and they have proof about his involvement in one way or another. His truth statement is negate by other people.

When you said that he makes himself believe that he killed the ex also out from the narrative, the male lead so far has been consistent about the murder, he didn't admit to killed the ex from the first episode. It exactly why he hides itself, because no one believe him. His nightmare is because people don't believe him and if this is his subconscious mind, there will be line where he said "I killed her, it because of me" but there is none, his subconscious mind is about him denying the accusation, just like his own statement in real life, idk where this assumption that he has convince himself that he indeed killed her even come. He had always say the opposite. It makes more sense if his subconscious mind is telling him that he is innocent rather than guilty because it matches the statement.

We'll see in ep 5 if it's the truth of lie, I just think it being the truth is better narratively with the story so far.

It can be, I think they wear the same shoes but it also quite wild since Do Ha should remember the ex voice and also Syaon voice. He seems to have perfect pitch in ep 1, he definitely can recognise different voice.

Like you said, back from the dead is kinda a Kdrama brand

1. I think it's consider lying had he answer Kim Do Ha since that's not his name as the original question is "what's yours" after he encountered her legal name in the mail.
Imo, his answer is that one that not up to interpretation, it supposed to be just that: the truth.
Truth that you don't need to think over or extrapolate or justified like
"I didn't do it because I didn't"
"I am hungry because I am hungry"
"I am alright because I am alright"

That's why it easy to see when he avoid the answer or being secretive, he just didn't answer or saying something like "I used to do that too".

Imo his character supposed to be the easiest to read because he just said as it is but the drama want to show that society has been accustomed to lying that we always try to read between the lines even when there isn't any. As contrast to her who the real statement/truth is always between the lines and not the actual word that she spoke.

I think this will happen, the ex coming from the dead to clear up misunderstanding will help the male lead tremendously.
Near the end, he'll be convicted and prosecuted publicly, went to the jail and then the supposed dead ex girlfriends shows up so the resolution for the conflict is easily solved.

On another note, I think the male lead has a really awkward walking mode. It just looks awkward and so far, the acting from him is rather disappointing.

I don't think she heard the last statement as a lie, it can be bgm for shocking revelation, the sound for the lie is all over the place imo. Adding, since if that statement is a lie, it feels like the whole narrative can crumbled down, everyone don't believe his statement but the female lead have to be one who can believe him based on his word alone.

Also there is a possibility that the male lead may have killed his ex in self defense, it's technically the truth because he killed her and it's self defense. Maybe it's accidental manslaughter, the act killed her but with law we can differentiate between murder, accident and self defense.
All these scenario have the fact : that he gave the fatal blow and it is still truthful despite not making him a murderer. Personally, I don't think he killed the ex.
He may have injured the ex because no one knows where is her body.

I think the liar bell is about intentional lies, anything that unintentional can't be considered lies, you don't know what you don't know.

Isn't the lady in episode 4 , that eat together in fancy restaurant have the vibe of the evil mother/step mother ?

I don't think she heard it as a lie, it's can be bgm for shocking revelation, the sound for the lie is all over the place imo.

He may have killed her in self defense, it's technically the truth because he killed her and it's self defense. Maybe it's accidental manslaughter, the action itself killed her but with law we can differentiate between murder, accident and self defense. All these scenario have the fact : that he gave the fatal blow and it is still truthful despite not making him a murderer. Personally, I don't think he killed the ex.

Idk if the last part of the episode is a lie though, the ring bells for lying isn't consistent enough for us imo. It could be that she is so shocked about the statement.

Female lead power imo is like "lying when you know the truth is different or intentional lying", therefore things that you don't know aren't consider lying cause you also don't know the truth.

1. I don't think he lied about his name. His actual name is Kim Seung Joo like how the police and the people in the market called him, but his composer name or the name he go by now is Kim Do Ha.
Also the female lead power works only when he answered and he didn't answer the creditor question, it's more like "I see that's what you thought".
Therefore had never lied to her so far, he also didn't bend the truth, he just said the factual statement. 2 Truth can still is a true statement that didn't negate each other since in this sense, female power works only when the statement is negating the factual truth.

2. The Lovely Liar imo is the Girl because she lied all the time, it just her lies is lovely. Like how she pretend like she didn't know that he is kim do ha or how she makes him giving his phone number, how she'll say she doesn't care yet she cares, how she'll easily be someone's cousin, girlfriend, friend and other. She knows how to lie to ease the situation. Beside the actual title is Useless Lies, Lies that don't have big consequences, which is more on the female lead not the male lead

I think the drama has market themselves really well with the promo and early episode, therefore I don't quite understand how people only look at the cliche as the cons, it was meant to be like that whether the drama gets rewritten or not. I rate drama based on what they offered and how they executed it so King The Land actually should be rated on their cheesyness, their cliche and predictability.

yeah, I love how they tackled the work problem, it's more about the problem from ground but not exactly make the higher up a super evil. Like when one time guwon realised that because he stay in the sauna outside of work hours, the employee also need to standby. It's that one little things that makes this drama special imo.

I do think the binge watch is one reason why people don't think it's engaging enough. This drama is about having the moment rather than fast pace plot. You can have them talk while arranging table cloth, talk in the seaside ramen place, talk in the bench, it just them interacting and nowadays, like a lot of people have said, the attention span is decreasing so drama that take their own time to explore dialogue for the sake of the character itself will feel very slow.
I also think the drama is deeper than what people gave it credit for, it managed to talk about the service industry without being preachy about it and this drama is strangely relatable for me, a lot of scene at their job feels like something I've encountered before.

This drama has a good dialogue and people don't take that into account. Just because it sounds smooth and also lighthearted doesn't mean that it low effort. I think the drama take care of the little things easily which is why people end up commenting harshly about the bigger picture, there is not a lot of bad execution in this drama.
There are drama with clear bad dialogue and bad script where you can pinpoint exactly where the logic don't match up but this drama is not that.
Also I think this drama is not good for binge watch and I also feel that binge watch model is what hurts them in the review but nonetheless, I think this drama is actually well written and well executed. A lot of details are shown, dialogue flows smoothly and also good placement for OST.