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No, no, don't worry! Why would you hurt me? I am not the FL character, and I've never been in that situation either. We're talking theoretically.

As soon as she realized the state of her feelings that she had somehow kept buried, she honestly burned the bridges with the other man, because she doesn't want to give false hopes and lead him on, or marry him and cheat even if only emotionally.

I'm really not getting your reasoning. What she's saying is in response to his question about whether he should have confessed earlier. She replied saying that the attraction to Jungo is so strong that in any circumstance she would leave other commitments to follow him. It was a way to let him know that he shouldn't blame himself for not confessing earlier, that it would have made no difference. And that also that he shouldn't pursue her further, because even if they got married, she would still prefer Jungo given the chance.
The goal of all this is to make it perfectly clear that they shouldn't get married. She burns all bridges and sets him free, with harsh words, so that he has no little window of doubt or hope, so that he doesn't try to dissuade her and say "Well, let's get married for now, and you may have a change of heart later, we all change as we grow older" as he said in an earlier scene.

Everything you say is true. However, dramatically speaking, if a film or series isn't showing even a glimpse of something, to indicate that it exists, then it doesn't exist. (I don't know if I'm explaining it well!) They could have shown at least one second of her working and feeling lonely at work, or calling him from work once, or something like that. And the university thing is left completely in the air, no information at all. Just the lie to her sister.

But she was really very honest with Min Jun. And she's not two-timing. The moment she realized that she still isn't over Jungo, she told Min Jun exactly what's going on. Even without being sure of what will happen with the other guy, and more or less being sure that she will end up alone. One cannot blame her at all here.

I don't want to excuse Jungo for not putting her as a priority, for not being more firm when other people claim his presence, for not answering her calls and not sending her a message to say he'll be late, and for not enquiring about her state of mind and what's going on with her. Those things are inexcusable indeed.
HOWEVER:
Why on earth does she solely depend on his company for social life and entertainment? She is "like family" with her co-workers, surely she can hang out with them and their friends and from them meet new people, men and women, and slowly form a circle of her own, people to talk to, to go out with etc.
How come she is sitting at home moping, without anything to do but waiting for her man?
Why did she not go to the university? She told her sister a lie, that she wasn't accepted, while she was. We didn't get an explanation for that (are they waiting until the end of the drama?) Is it indeed because it was costly? But she hadn't enquired beforehand and did her calculations? Jungo pays for his tuition by working at multiple jobs, why can't she do the same? From the moment they got together we haven't seen her working, is she even working at Ichiro's Ramen?
What I want to say is that she also has some responsibility in all this. She shouldn't depend on him only. He is working like mad to build their future. And if she is indeed not working (or only working at one part-time job), does it mean that he is also paying for her food and other necessities?
The drama is vague on all these questions which are not without their importance.

Drop it to avoid wasting any more time. It's called cutting your losses.

And many many other dramas, unfortunately.

I had to scroll past some parts. That is mind-bogging, I think it surpasses even the Nazi experiments! But the article doesn't mention Koreans.

Probably the producers are very keen not to offend the Japanese too much, since they are part of the intended audience. So they want to make sure that nobody hates them today or something like that. There's a good saying in Italian that fits perfectly: "Mettere le mani avanti", it means, literally, "to put one's hands in front of him" (to prevent falling, just in case).

I am not judging whether this is right or wrong. I'm just answering the question of why it's done.

No, it's not an excuse. It is knowing your target audience. On Facebook, which knows I am a woman, I only get ads for women's clothing (although I might have a husband or a son).

Siwon can get praise for good acting even in a bad drama or movie. But one good actor cannot save it.

You know why you couldn't have been right? I read that Choi Siwon is a fervent Christian, very militant, and he would never accept to be in a drama where a priest was the bad guy.

Because most of the audience is women.

The nice sexual experience. So far she doesn't had any with any of the two suitors. And it's possible that she won't have till the end.

Very often they just get a detailed synopsis and maybe 1-2 ready episodes. The rest is written afterwards. Of course, in this case, even the synopsis would have been a mess. Maybe they didn't have many offers lately and their agency advised them to go for it anyway because "how bad could it be?" (last famous words, LOL!)

The Korean word for both is "dongsaeng", so it's up to the translator. They should have translated "sibling" if they wanted to keep it mysterious, otherwise "brother" makes much more sense.

Probably the Korean said "dongsaeng" so it could be any. I suppose translators just use their common sense to choose.

The founders technically had American citizenship but two were Asian and one a Cairo-born Armenian. They used to have headquarters in Singapore. But they sold it to Rakuten in 2013.
Yes, today the headquarters are indeed in San Mateo, California, with subsidiary offices in Singapore, Tokyo, Japan, and Seoul, South Korea.
Rakuten Group, Inc. is a Japanese technology conglomerate based in Tokyo (headquarters in Setagaya City, Tokyo, Japan). As they say in their "About" page, "Serving users worldwide through businesses based in 30 countries and regions. Rakuten Group has 70+ businesses and About 1.8 billion members across the world."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viki_(streaming_service)
https://global.rakuten.com/corp/news/press/2013/0902_01.html
Here are the discussions on Viki itself when the sale was announced. As you can see, no one was too happy about that.
https://discussions.viki.com/t/sale-of-viki-to-rakuten/150
https://global.rakuten.com/corp/about/