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In my understanding she doesn't have the soul of that Uncle of that kimchi lady in the present, her soul is the same as the previous one and the other 18th other, her identity is now Ji Eum. So she as the uncle, she as Joo Won and she as Ji Eum is the same one, her personality just varied depends on her circumstances as the time, like location (she used dialect as the uncle and can still use it as 9 years old Ji Eum) and her work and skill like the flamenco dance despite never learn about it. It's better to say that her soul is evolving as she got more life, like when she told Seo Ha some enlighten she got from her 10th life after they run.

I agree with you that the personality is weird in the way she approach the ML, at least the drama didn't do it well in giving the reason why and how she behave that way (the flamenco scene is also not funny). It comes as abrupt and contradicting to her supposed mature introduction. Maybe it tries to be funny but it's not.

I read the webtoon but it still feel weird for me, also there was no interview in the webtoon, this conversation happen after she worked so idk why the drama do this.
The Female lead supposed to have this discerning eyes/look but sometimes the drama doesn't look that way.
The drama exposition didn't help the concept much imo, they focus too much on being mystery and deliver the information in fragment since the beginning which can be quite confusing.

Idk why you add that we don't have to follow logic because this is fantasy. Just because it's fantasy, doesn't mean the whole things should be detached from the reality. Fantasy can still be logical, also, this really isn't a fully fledged fantasy though, reincarnation is stuff that is from our world and many people believe in it.

Yeah, the drama shows that she is fixated on being with him (marry him) based on their interaction in the 18th life, which when he was 8 years old.
The drama could've gone with the other route , like making her feel regret about the way she passed away right in front of him , but develop the attraction after they met again when the man is 33 years old.

I went back and hint one is "when we were young" chapter 11-12, she said it through do yoon instead of telling seo ha. and yeah, it's pretty late cause he found out on chapter 24 about their 19th life meeting.

I don't remember "marry me" as a clue because Seo Ha never remember or suspected that Ji Eum is Jo Won, Ji Eum confessed to him about this truth. Seo Ha thought JE reminds him of JW and feels like he can't date JE because of that but he doesn't find it out himself. Cho Won is the one who find out and confront JE about it, even when she thought that it's absurd.

I get why she is being clingy, he saves her life and she was about to give up on life. He is cool and he is still cool after 10 years. As much as it gets too much, I get her reasoning, girls try all her chances.

The changes makes the story more complicated than it needs to be. I feel like if I hadn't read the webtoon, this drama is actually score lower for me. It doesn't make sense if it just drama based.

As I remember of why she is so into Seo ha is because he makes her acted like a child, being actually childish and petty since she act like adult all the time and she felt regretful with the way she passed away.
Go back several months, they meet almost every day and become close, then Seo Ha just lost her mother and start visiting Joo Won house but she is avoiding him because she felt that he keeps makes her heart changes then she saw him in the rain and that's when he proposed to her. They regularly meet and on his birthday, Seo Ha said that no one is able to accompany him to the amusement park, his mother had promised him but she has passed away, so Joo won said she'll go with him.
She had promised his mother that she'll take care of Seo Ha and she also promised him on the brink of her death (the line that didn't explained in the drama) that she'll meet him.
All this sequenced weighted on Jie Eum/ Joo Won minds as Seo Ha was left alone by 2 of his closest person in a short time and the way she passed away right in front of him, she really wonders if this boy gonna turn up okay.

Then she able to meet him once , she save up her money, she looks for him in his neighborhood and find him, he was crying and she felt really bad about him, promising to be back the next week but the money for next week was stolen by JE brother and she missed the promised. When she is able to save up the money again, he had left to study abroad.
All this event making her felt somewhat responsible, regretful and also she didn't fulfill her promised.

To sum it up, it's the culmination of responsibility, regret, gratefulness and her heart for him and his well being that makes her adamant to meet him again in this life to make up all of the things she can't do for him.

both of that is not even in the webtoon, step mother is drama only and the father is quite different

1. Best of the best friend, good
2. Yes but it's so hard to make him confess it
3. No
5. Long time ago, her twin sister passed away and God asked her to make a choice, to granted her wish or to passed away (kinda forgot) Ji Eum will remember her past life until she find her soulmate and fulfil her wish
6. To find her soulmate/past relationship and fulfill her wish that she asked at the time, letting the past end, it's different between people
7. In the Webtoon, it's the uncle but we haven't seen him in the drama
8. So far
- Ji Eum x Seoha meeting when she was a child (the stalker story line isn't there)
- Seo Ha's dad characterisation, he is an absentee dad, not a violent dad
- Yoon Cho Won's job, she isn't related to gardening but heiress to his parents entertainment company
- there is no pool scene in webtoon
- first meeting after becoming adult between seoha and ji eum
- first clue to find her identity (?) I don't think it's marry me, it's like Childhood iirc
- his mother working in the hotel, I think in webtoon, his mother is always sick and that makes seo ha hated to be called a kid since her mother stays because he is still a kid.
- magic trick with rose (I think they swapped this with the hairband, which is less impressive)
- no step mother in the webtoon,
- no hearing aid in the webtoon, he does has difficulty hearing to a certain degree
this is just what I remember

She got killed by accident, the uncle saw Seo Ha father didn't really mourn Seo Ha's mother death and tried to make Seo Ha's father feel regretful, like "what if his son gets into accident, will he shows some emotion?"
The uncle plan is to injured Seo Ha but I think there is miscommunication and the henchman hit them too hard, Ji Eum/Jo Woon is protecting Seo Ha and end up getting the most impact and died in front of Seo Ha.

I get why people like rating cause you want the drama that you like get the appreciation it deserve but more often it becomes a fandom fight

It explained how she remembers all her past life in the webtoon, not sure if they can fit it into the drama.
The drama didn't really explain why she is so obsessive towards him and the sequence of event doesn't help either. The webtoon didn't have the stalker scene either, several scene in the drama changed from the webtoon and imo, it makes the character motivation less understandable.
Many people are weirded out by the romance and the obsession but the fans in this page try so hard to convince that it isn't weird, it's at least make you raised an eyebrow.

You said the P word and not me, so you thought about the possibility?
you make the assumption, I just say it's weird and people who find it iffy is justified.

You said it yourself, "she is only 12yrs old with 17 different peoples memories in her head"
it's 17 different life that happen after each other.
I can't believe you can't see the irony.

I didn't say she is a 1000 years old, even 80 is already a lot, what I mean, she is already mature the moment she supposedly "fell in love" with him, that is an 8 years old and people who are feeling weirded out by this is understandable.
It isn't age like what you said but the logic of someone as mature as her, based on the drama characterisation, based on her own words that she fall for 8 years old boy.

They didn't just randomly trying to be nitpicky since a lot of people pick up the same vibe from the drama yet not many feels the same way with the webtoon. I know you feel like people are being hard to keep saying this about this drama but it because it shown and the drama didn't do a good job explaining it. The drama has flaws and it's fine

I need the petty banter from the leads, the girls friendship and the bromance

I don't think the drama got many criticism beside it looks like old cliche romcom. Criticism doesn't always equal bad rating since romcom viewer has the expectation of having easy to enjoy drama, they wouldn't care less if the mystery isn't that good as long as the chemistry and the romance is executed well,
Anyway, where do you see the criticism?

You contradict yourself, a 9 years old into 18 years old and said that he is her first love and continued pursuing him after she becomes adult is not teenage puppy love. There was no indication by the character itself that it's puppy love, it's your interpretation.
Also she is accepting an 8 years old Marry Me confession as real when she is 12 years old and continuing that when they were older, despite being reborn again.

It's fine of you can made it in your minds but just accept that a lot people see it as weird because it's indeed not normal without trying to justify that it's normal. If it just one life time, people wouldn't comment much, the fact that it's the 19th is the why people pick this up.

Nah, she isn't exactly a new individual with new personality, she is almost the same as her 18th life and she also reference her 10th life when she describe stuff that help her to become who she is, showing skill she attain in her previous life despite supposedly "reborn into a new body", she doesn't have muscle memory but can do it perfectly.. What is that if it isn't a maturity and growth?

The drama doesn't help itself, you don't need to justify it that hard.