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Three of them have been released so far. The last one being Sigh.
The days we loved, the days we hurt,
The days we sometimes exchanged harsh words,
The days that blurred within the mist,
Tickling my heart like a spring breeze.
In the breath that only you whisper to me,
I close my eyes again and take a deep breath.

Suddenly, you come to mind,
Your breath makes me breathe,
Enabling me to fly anywhere.
Into my frozen heart,
Breathe life into it with your breath and mine.

On unusually long nights, under the brightening moon,
I quietly pause and let out a deep sigh.
The days shattered by the icy wind,
Turn into spring rain, gently patting my back.
In the breath that only you blow upon me,
Only then can I breathe the same breath again.

Suddenly, you come to mind,
Your breath makes me breathe,
Enabling me to fly anywhere.
Into my frozen heart,
Breathe life into it with your breath.

There is no longer a need for fear,
"If we share a gaze and sigh* together,
(he first said ""exhale"", but I told him it's not romantic and then he changed it to ""sigh"""
I fill this breath with my love for you,
And send it off on a tender breeze.

With all your strength, you breathe life into me,
Your breath gives me life,
Allowing me to stand up no matter what.
Into my parched heart,
Breathe your warm breath.

We haven't seen anyone in her life but there is a colleague who seems to like her.

Because she knows that his dreams of making it big in that world could easily be crushed, and it's not as easy as it seems.
Also, who resigns from his job BEFORE being sure he has another one? That was silly. He could have waited for the results, it was a matter of a couple of days.

Not true. Remember the first scene, where the female lead trains another teacher, and scolds her for suggesting a list of books to read to her students? And tells her that all that is important is to know how to answer exam questions? And, if those books are not relevant to the questions, the parents will protest that she wasted the students' time?
Remember the scene in the café, where she describes the realities of being a hagwon teacher to the ML? Yes, she wants to discourage him, but it's all facts.

In reality, hagwons have to follow very closely the curriculum of the schools and what is asked in tests. They have zero liberty to improvise. So what you learn there are exactly the same things. The difference is that if the parents are not happy with it, they will take their kids elsewhere, so they are, if anything, even more slave to the parents than the public school is. The teachers have to be on top of their game to convince the parents to leave their kids there, so they put on more effort, in order not to lose their job. A government-assigned teacher can be good or bad or lazy without suffering so many consequences.
I was raised in Greece, we have the same hagwon system (we call it "frontistirion") and yes, it's a mirror of the failure of public education.
Sometimes the same teachers are in the school and in the tuition center. They don't explain well during the morning class, to make the students pay for the tuition center or for private lessons with the teacher in the afternoon. This is the sad truth.

That said, in every system, in every establishment, there will be idealistic teachers who love their job and want the best for their students, and there will be others who don't care. This depends on the person's character and morals.

Δύο επεισόδια είναι συνήθως αρκετά για να δεις αν κάτι σου κάνει ή όχι. Το συγκεκριμένο δείχνει να υπόσχεται καλή συνέχεια. Αντίθετα, το Dare to Love you μετά από δύο επεισόδια το άφησα, δεν βλεπότανε.

I dropped SITR like a hot potato after episode 13, then watched the lacklustre finale, which is the last 5 minutes of ep.16. I was all the more furious because I had loved the drama till then.
One Spring Night was definitely better.

Not really. Here he is a confident adult, and she is a confident - if jaded - adult. In Melancholia they were both very innocent to the point of being naive.

I didn't know it from the very start - I mean, you don't know how much the cartoonish thing will be. I always give a drama a chance, by watching two episodes. Sometimes more. But for this one, two were enough.

You're right, sometimes I've noticed that past evil deeds get pardoned too easily. However, it's usually the male lead who acts like a heartless jerk in the beginning of the drama but then we discover that he's a softie inside and he just acts that way because of some childhood trauma or has a rare illness etc.
That is also such an over-used trope. Every time I see it I think "Come on! Not AGAIN!"
Generally I don't like it when from episode 1 I know what is going to happen. It's writing "by numbers", very formulaic.
And also.... How many times can a female trip and fall in a matter of days? In all my life (and it's been more than six decades), I may have tripped and fallen down... two or three times? And there was no one to catch me either. But then I don't drink, so it was only because of a detached sole of the shoe, a broken heel or a faulty pavement.

If the drama producers chose a female lead that looks like this, it's their fault, not hers. She was offered a role, she accepted it, and she's doing the best she can. So if someone is to blame, it's the people who chose to write the character like this and who chose this particular actress.
The villains, as I said, can be cool and interesting. She's neither cool nor interesting - at least up to episode 2 that we've watched so far. She (the character, of course!) has no self-respect and her drunken act is repulsive. I don't know how any man could be attracted by it.
Of course we know that, as per k-drama trope, she'll be redeemed by the end, by that man's consideration and later love. But do women always need a man to save them? And aren't people sick and tired of those tropes? The umbrella scene at the end of ep.2 was the cherry on that disaster cake.
I am dropping it. Our time on earth is too precious to waste on things that don't add anything to our lives.

I wish this were the only problem in the drama!

It's rather poor writing and direction, I would say.

We are not mad because she's older. "Angel's last mission: love" also had an age gap, but everyone adored it. No, it's that the FL's character is badly written.

I am not a fangirl of anybody and I intensely dislike k-pop. But can you deny that most of the time they pair very good-looking guys with perfect manners and charisma to goofy, pathetic and extremely plain girls you would never look at twice if you crossed them in the street? It's intentional too, because it feeds the daydreams of the delulu fans.

This one? On Viki.

I'm not offended by those things you mentioned, but I'm offended that so many Asian drama heroines are shown as weak, pathetic, dizzy and downright ridiculous. Of course there are some women and some men who are like that, but the percentage we've been shown is staggering (and most of the time, when there's a character like that, it's the woman). This is a stereotype that must go.

Not complicated and deep. Just well-made and a tiny tiny bit realistic, not so over-the-top.

Not to mention that the men are swoon-worthy and the females are often very plain, and nevertheless the swoon-worthy male lead falls head-over-heels for them. So that the plain or ugly viewers can dream that it will happen to them as well. It's so predictable and obvious, yet the public buys it and accepts it. Not that it cannot happen in real life, once in a while; but it's really the exception that confirms the rule.

I know most writers of dramas are women (don't know about this one, though). So why oh WHY they have to write such pathetic, embarrassing female characters? A villain can be interesting and cool (like the queen dowager in Missing Crown Prince). But these poor excuses for a female human being make my skin crawl with embarrassment.
You don't need to exaggerate so much in order to give a bigger character development. There's something called "subtlety", but it's an unknown for some of those drama makers.

In those times marriages were for convenience. So don't give it too much weight. He bravely put her life before his, I don't know how on earth you are still doubting his love.