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Yes, he's certainly pissed at her, and also insecure, after all he just made a big change after 20 years of teaching. And he doesn't really know how to navigate those waters, how this new career will go, if it was a good choice or not. He must be very scared. (If he knew how that world really is he would be even more scared!)

The FL didn't have the information we viewers had, so it's very natural that she was confused. She hadn't seen all the scenes where his co-workers bashing his method and even the non-teacher telling him how to teach. She hadn't seen him accepting the post at the other hagwon.
But it's not only that. Many characters are discussing what happened all over the episode, and finally also in the final scene between ML and FL.

Frankly I couldn't care less if a drama character is or isn't a virgin since it has no bearing on the plot, really. But I do value civil conversation in discussion forums.

I would have to see a video of all celebrities going up, and in that video, I'd have to see white people lingering for pictures with nobody objecting, for me to believe that only those three were "rushed". Until I see such a video (it might be available on YouTube) I cannot give credibility to this article.

I know, I know, and historically speaking you are perfectly correct. I am speaking now from the point of view of someone who is neither Korean nor Japanese, and sees this name on the map, and is trying to think of what would be fair to both countries.

Good point, ha ha! But let's say that it's actually in the north of Europe, the most Northern sea before the Arctic. So it's north of most countries in the world, if you think of it.

There are many different editors, so of course there might be some examples of overlong notes, I cannot vouch for other people.
As for "things that need more explanation", this can vary according to how much of an old-timer you are in dramas. For instance, the usual Korean appellatives like "nuna" or "hyeong", we usually explain them with a note just once, the first time they appear in the drama, for the newbies. Then after that, we assume they will remember. Of course, for someone who has watched hundreds of dramas, it's unnecessary, but we do have to think of the new people who might get confused otherwise.

His point was obvious. It was a confession, but not a love confession. A confession of defeat. And a promise that now he will start to function in "hagwon-mode". The whole thing was explained many times during the episode, and a last one at the end, so I don't see how people are confused.

He didn't say it's her fault he felt embarrassed in front of his colleagues on that day. Watch the scene again. He says that their confrontation had a more general impact. It got him thinking about what hagwons are doing, how they approach teaching.
In fact, not only him but also his colleagues felt that they have to take hagwons into account, But their encounter changed his outlook and that of the others, and he couldn't teach as he taught before. We saw his colleagues bullying him and driving him to function in a hagwon-like manner. When until then he was teaching regardless of anything else, only according to what he thought was good for his students.
Something along these lines.

Saying "wake up" to me is condescending and rude.
You're the one who is not considering the previous work of these creators. They are definitely not like the rest of k-dramas.

I loved episode 10. It showed very clearly the difference between an idealistic teacher who cares about culture and the current trend, powered by parents and students, that only gives worth to grades, results and admission into top universities. An old-fashioned teacher who cares about instilling real culture has no place in this modern world - be it at a school or at a hagwon. But maybe in a school he would have partially survived if it were not for his confrontation with Ms. Seo. After that, other teachers made his life hell, and he also started to question the efficacy of his method.
He was not an angel, of course. A stubborn, arrogant person, who didn't treat her well in that incident. But he was a valuable teacher nevertheless, and his students liked him.
Their scene was really beautiful, meaningful and suspenseful. I really loved it. He poured his heart out and made her realize all that was going on in his life since their first meeting.
It's very natural that she felt guilty and, in turn, questioned her own values.
Lee Jun Ho had made her question them in a previous episode, but she taught him that only results matter. He had seemed a bit disappointed but followed her lead. Then came the "private" lesson to the gifted student Si Wu and his words about how this lesson impacted him, making him like literature for the first time. This made her remember the ideals she had when she first started teaching, before adapting (too successfully) to what the market wants. She understood that the exam-oriented education she had been giving was a betrayal of her old self. That's when the crisis started. And then the conversation with Mr. Pyo confirmed that not only she had sold out, but she had caused the person who still was a real teacher to ruin his career and sell out too.
To top it all, the 3rd incident, the scene with the Grey Witch. She went with the wild hope of turning things back (of course that wasn't possible). But the clever older woman made her realize that she cannot have one foot in the cutthroat market and one foot in idealistic ideas about a teacher's mission, and that it was hypocritical of her to think that she can have her cake and eat it too.
On top of it all, Lee Jun Ho showed her that he had accepted to follow her lead, starting to become like her, get into the logic of the cutthroat competition. This, just when she had started disliking this side of herself. It was very natural that she was appalled by this. Of course the poor guy had no idea, he thought about the whole thing superficially, as she had taught him to think in the past few months, and he thought he was following her lead, unaware that she had been changing internally in the meanwhile.
It's good that they had an explanation afterwards. Some healthy sex would have helped her relax much more and fall asleep more easily than ocean sounds, but oh well, it's a k-drama after all, people who want sex are "animals"!!!

I don't agree. If you just want to say "Oh, you're more experienced than me", she wouldn't have said "I have a confession to make" and make such a fuss about it.
She was definitely saying she's a virgin.

I don't appreciate your condescending tone. That's not a way to conduct a conversation.

I don't agree with her being flat, but I agree that we need some follow-up delucidation about the death of the doctor's wife and whether he really physically killed her or he just said that because he felt that she died because of him. There are yet two episodes, I am waiting and I hope that we will get some answers about this.
As for why she didn't ask, it might be because she's afraid of facing the answer. And probably that information was the proverbial drop that made the cup overflow, as far as her conscience goes. Just as watching the two lovebirds made her resolve to make their path easier (not sure how).

So what? As long as it's not fantasy genre, as long as the characters are human beings and not fairies or aliens who can fly or have other superpowers, the writers cannot go wild with what they write, they have to keep a minimum of realism.
In modern dramas too. The character is in a coma for months and then wakes up, snatches off the IV from the vein (have you tried doing that? Don't try. Even when it comes off by mistake it hurts like hell and there's blood everywhere!) and off he or she goes, walking or even running. Remember "Bring it on ghost"? And "30 but 19"? But there were many other instances. It always bothers me.

Come on! We know - some of us unfortunately firsthand - that when someone is bedridden for long, muscle mass is lost at tremendous speed. You can hardly sit up without fainting (I did), let alone walk, after such a long time as the king seems to have been in sedation. But he was up and walking more or less normally?
"Prolonged immobility is harmful with rapid reductions in muscle mass, bone mineral density and impairment in other body systems evident within the first week of bed rest. Anti-gravity muscles such as leg extensors and trunk musculature are preferentially affected by the loss of mechanical loading compared to hand and upper limb musculature"
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4600281/
"Disuse of skeletal muscles rapidly leads to a loss of lean muscle mass (sarcopenia) as individual muscle groups atrophy. This is accompanied by a decline in skeletal muscle strength at a rate of around 12% a week (Jiricka, 2009) or even up to 40% within the first week of immobility (Topp et al, 2002)."
https://www.nursingtimes.net/clinical-archive/orthopaedics/effects-of-bedrest-5-the-muscles-joints-and-mobility-18-03-2019/

She has been decisevely rejecting SML, not leaving an ounce of doubt. But he is delusional.

And if nothing happened at all, it could have ended in one episode and we wouldn't have a drama. What's the logic of that? Dramas exist because of obstacles to be surmounted.

Well said!

I think that was a wise choice on the part of the writers, when they saw how bland are the two actors who play the main leads. They wouldn't be able to give any passionate vibes.