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No.. It doesn't work this way and I know that from my own experience. People with suicidal depression give clear signs for their intentions to their close environment.
They also have physical symptoms. They are unable to concentrate to what they are doing, they under perform in their work, they are not interested for their future because they think that there is no future, they don't eat and sometimes they don't even bother to wash themselves.

And if for one thing you will never see a person with severe depression to be interested for any kind of new projects, new contracts, agreements for future jobs, or you will not see this person being creative. The mind of such heavily depressed people literally shuts down.

Anyway.. I don't think that his death was a suicide due to depression and if it was in my hand I would have check his background and his dealings.

Where exactly do you see the enhancement on his current look?
Because I don't see a guy who fixed some minor imperfections because there was nothing to fix in the first place.

I see an actor so botoxed that nothing moves on his face and a middle aged man who has brought himself a step before anorexia.
If you think that this is nice and healthy and an example on how people should look like then probably you are not his fan and you don't want him to be healthy.

Even depressed people don't suicide just like this. I mean coming back home from their work and then suicide in a matter of hours without leaving behind a note or something. Out of the blue and without any particular reason.

They didn't find anything at his place other than some vague sentences in a notebook that didn't actually indicate that he was thinking of killing himself.

Takeru Satoh disassociated actually himself from Amuse and even if Amuse is still investing in Satoh's agency he has his own business now. They can't interfere into his own company. And he doesn't actually need the money they invested and he can now cease any collaboration with them at any given time. He "has" them, they don't have him.

The fact that Kamiki joined him indicates a lot about what were/are their dealings with Amuse.

Also Satoh didn't say that much about his best friend's death. He just left quietly without that much fuss. I like this way of thinking as I can fully comprehend it.

Better safe than sorry. Taking whatever you can and get out of there.

I've just watched the 3rd episode of this drama and he is really good. The problem is that the drama as a whole is rather average with some huge factual errors and somewhat boring plot.
This guy is underrated and he is wasting his talent in TV dramas.

Ok... here is a bit of fun now. Have you count how many times Xiao Qi saved A' Wu? lol
I count them.
1/ At the festival when he saved here and Zitan from the assassins.
2/ He caught her when she fall from the roof of the first prince's house.
3/ He caught her on the bridge where he fought to release her from her Hulan abductors.
4/ He saved when he came back to brake the siege of his base camp.
5/ He saved her a second time from the Hulan tribe where Helan Zhen was killed.
6/ He saved her at the last episodes from her father and Song Huai En.

So he saved her six times in 68 episodes in other words a rescue every ten episodes on average....!

If 20 days were enough to change our faces with plastic surgery, I would have done it. But unfortunately this is not the case. Even a simpler most basic nose job needs six months of healing. Full face reconstruction needs multiple surgeries and years of healing because it is currently impossible to change completely all facial features simultaneously.

The doctor's father was never represented in a court or anywhere else by a lawyer ( friend or any other appointed to him by the state).
He was killed while he was detained as a suspect without a warrant and the company run after the friend lawyer who was trying to figure out what happened.
There were no existing official or unofficial records to mention the name of the lawyer.
So the doctor who came back under a different than his real family name wouldn't be able to make any inquiries about his father's fate with or without money first because there wasn't something to be found and second due to data protection laws.
The doctor is officially unrelated with any of these cases due to his switched name.
So there is a plot hole but anyway... let's put it aside.. lol

This guy must be the most underrated actor ever.
He has some fantastic acting skills but he is cast mostly in local TV series that don't find easily their way to non Chinese audience. I'm not saying of course that Chinese viewers don't count and is not good to be "big in China". I'm just saying that he is way too talented to stick with the Chinese TV dramas.
He needs desperately to add some international productions in his bio. Movies or stage plays. To follow the example of Mark Chao who btw is not even in Zhou Yi Wei's caliber as an actor. But Mark Chao can speak English and that helps him to be cast in movies that hit the international film festivals.

That is probably the case. They make these dramas in the "soap opera" style. Countless episodes playing for years. But ... this doesn't work for those who want to watch a drama with a beginning and an end.
I was f.e trying to rewatch Rebel Princess. It is not rewatchable and I'm going to change my rating on this because it has 68 episodes that half of them add nothing to the plot. It is full of comings and goings and non ending meaningless dialogues and non interesting sub plots of the sub plots.
This might work for elder people who want to watch something before going to bed, but doesn't help C-Dramas to approach a more international and younger audience. And when I say younger I don't mean teenagers, I'm not a teenager myself after all.
I mean people who want to watch something in their spare time to entertain themselves.

That is the reason why I said that Japanese are on spot on regard of the duration of their dramas, though - and I have to point this out- their series are not that good on regard of their plot as Korean and Chinese productions are.

Korean and Chinese have better writers and know how to adapt a book or how to write interesting scripts. The Japanese though they go straight to the point mess up the universe particularly when they try to adapt books into series.

I have read some of the popular Japanese novels ( translated in English or in my native language) and I'm trying to find and watch their TV adaptation, and I wouldn't say that any of these adaptations came even slightly close to the source material/ book. I don't know how they manage to do this! lol I have the notion that they messed them up in purpose. lol

I'm not telling that you lie. I'm just saying that it is impossible for these two to have met.

But that is exactly the problem in the plot. that he knows! That is what I'm trying to tell you. There was no way to know . This is not a theory. It is fact . The doctor under his real name was registered as a dead person, in S. Korea. He couldn't come back with his father's name. The orphanage had "died" him... lol

And it should be impossible for the doctor to know about the existence of the lawyer because he left the country when he was seven years old.
Did you know when you were 7 years old who was the lawyer of your father in order to hire him 35 years later?

How did these two manage to meet and on top of that exchange info? As I said several comments before this looks to me like a plot hole.

Well ... not exactly. I don't know of course how backward was S. Korea back then but the overseas countries were not this way.
As for the local S. Korean adoptions the lawyer might not have had any problem to get the baby girl if he was so well connected ( he wasn't because he couldn't get rid of the company's people) but he would definitely had problems in time when he would have to register the adoption of this child.

I explained to you the best I could how and why the lawyer shouldn't know that Lee Joon Yeop was his friend's lost son.
Because Lee Joon Yeop real name was registered as a name that belonged to a dead person. The orphanage switched the boys and the names of the boys. The dead one got Lee Joon Yeop's real name.

If the doctor who said that he lost the child went to any registration office he would have get a death certificate. So his friend's child wouldn't be lost for him but dead. And then Lee Joon Yeop would have had to prove to the lawyer that he was his friend's son as he was the only person left who knew that, because officially he was registered as dead by the age of seven when he was given as a replacement child for adoption in UK.

His legal Korean name is the one of the other child and the name that he got from his British foster parents.

This is a very funny video clip from an otherwise great movie.
For those who don't know this movie this is Red Sun that is a spaghetti western ( a European made western) that was released in 1971 and its director is Terence Young who was the director of the first three James Bond movies.
That for the record.

As for the video the funniest thing is in one of the first comments where someone says that when the scene starts they are in New Mexico and when they scene ends they have reached Oregon... ha ha haaaaaaaaaaaaaa

I don't think that he told him whose the child was.
And if he did so the lawyer should have had the shock of his life.

And that because after watching the 12 th episode there is no explanation on how he was able to adopt Hyo Kyung and how he lost Joong Yeop.

How was he able to adopt Hyo Kyung in the first place. As what? He wasn't related with her mother ( perhaps she was his secret love or his lover or whatever but not related ) and he wouldn't be able to know where her newborn baby went after the death of her mother. It was easier to lose the newborn unnamed and unregistered baby girl than the orphaned 7 year old boy.

He says at some point that he lost him, but how did he manage to lose him by the time that the boy had a name and even if they switched his identity with the child that died just before the adoption, they would have to give a name to the dead boy. They would have had to switch the names otherwise they would have had to justify somehow a dead boy's body!

So the reasonable and normal for the lawyer thing to know would have been that Lee Joong Yeop died because that is how the orphanage replaced the one boy with the other.

Edit to make it clear. The orphanage sent Lee Joon Yeop for adoption to the UK couple under the name of the dead child and registered the death of the other child under Lee Joon Yeop's name.
If the lawyer asked about Lee Joon Yeop's whereabouts he would have got a death certificate. So how did he lose him? And why did he believe a random guy who came in his office and told him that he was his friend's son?

Great idea as long as they can make it look like this... looooool
( this video is edited . It is an extended version of that scene! ha ha haaa)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sULTwrKipc

Yes you are right. The doctor was adopted in UK though it doesn't change something where they were adopted.

The point is that he was adopted as a replacement of a child that died and they changed his name. And that is the reason why up to this episode, director Seo and his wife that hired him in the hospital, didn't know with whom they were dealing. And nobody else other than the doctor himself had any chance to know what was his real name as the orphanage probably switched his real name with the other of the dead child. So they registered his real name as the name of someone dead.
The lawyer wouldn't and couldn't be able to know that he was alive. And that looks to me as a plot hole. I mean the chance that the lawyer knew that the doctor was still alive and adopted under a different name in UK and that the baby girl that HE adopted ( how?? ) was the doctor's sister.

It shouldn't be registered anywhere in order for the lawyer or the reporter to find it out.
The doctor knew it and nobody else.

It seems that the writers chose the lazy way to explain everything on this drama.
And that because the adoption of the reporter by the lawyer was the expected but simultaneously the most improbable thing to happen. as the lawyer didn't have the requirements to adopt not even a cat at that given time. He was poor, he was unemployed because the company was running after him and divorced. So it is to wander how he manage to adopt a child in the first place and particularly THIS child .

Not to mention that his adopted daughter was unfair to him on the last scene, because how could the lawyer be able to know that the doctor who was adopted in USA, was her brother. The doctor's adoption was the result of an illegal replacement, ( but not an illegal adoption) as the child that originally was to be adopted died. The doctor didn't say to the lawyer that he was adopted as a replacement for another arranged adoption and that the orphanage that sent him to the US couple had changed his name.

He didn't say that to the lawyer. He said it to Jae Hwan.

It seems that the writers chose the lazy way to explain everything on this drama.
That Jae Hwan's mom had indeed an accident in her apartment and that director Seo thought that she was dead due to this accident and that the doctor's mom had a second child that was given for adoption to the lawyer.
The latter is what was expected but simultaneously the most improbable thing to happen because the lawyer didn't have the requirements to adopt not even a cat at that given time. He was poor, he was unemployed and divorced. So it is to wander how he manage to adopt a child and particularly THIS child ......

My comment wasn't meant as an insult. I've just gave your comment's statistics.
Does your reply of 1308 words to an unknown to you person on the internet and on a subject completely irrelevant to the subject of the discussion board ( about a K-drama) look normal to you?
If it doesn't, then you need to check this out, And if you do still find your reply as normal, then you need again to check this out because you wrote the 1308 words (obviously obsessive) comment reply.
And do you know what is the worst on this case. That I don't really care. I didn't bother to read more than a couple of lines of this comment because I'm coming here to comment and chat casually and I'm not interested to read essays on if and how cats can be trained.
I don't care.