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Rewatching...I forgot how awesome Professor Min is. Ep. 16 is too sweet.

I am glad someone mentioned Maurice. I keep thinking that they could do a modern Chinese adaptation of this drama pretty easily. Of course, you do not get arrested for hitting on a guy anymore, but ... I think they could still make the story work. I happen to love E.M. Forester. One of my all time favorites is A Room With A View. Again, that could easily be adapted to modern day. My favorite line is “It is fate that I am here,' George persisted, 'but you can call it Italy if it makes you less unhappy.” George is such a great romantic character.

Different people use different criteria for rating dramas. From me, as long as this drama ends well, it is on track to get between 8-9.
My rating system is a little erratic but generally:
10 is universally loved (by non hater/troll types). Beautiful cinematography. Good chemistry and emotionally attached/connected to characters/story.
9 like 10 but to a less degree.
8-8.5 is just a fun drama with a decent story.
6-7.5 are dramas with something noticeably wrong with them. Slow, bad acting, very bad production quality and or a less than satisfactory ending.
Below 6 are all just varying degrees of disapproval that ranges from Don't bother watching this pointless drama to Horrified that anyone is deranged enough to make such garbage. I am a big believer in dropping dramas that you are not enjoying. Life is too short. As a result, I don't have to give low scores very often.
Really the score doesn't mean anything until after the drama is done airing, anyway. I always reevaluate the drama after I have finished it and give it a final rating then. Something else to be aware of is that some people use the ratings for purposes other than how much they liked it, while it is still airing. I have only recently started using a different method. In the past, I rated airing dramas based on the day of the week they air/post. That allowed me to reorganize my currently watching list in the order they play during the week. I was kind of using it as a tv guide to tell me what I could expect to air that day. Now I use the notes section because I can also list the day of the week it airs/posts, what site I am watching it on, and I can see it when I click on edit without having to leave the page.

lol. I don't think this one is a scifi/fantasy.

I loved this drama so much. I am kind of wondering why there are not foreign remakes or copycats? Not that I think anyone could do better. .. Gong Ho Jin, So Ji Sub, and Seo In Guk all in the same drama plus a good script... just saying. ... Maybe it is just too soon. It seems like longer, but I guess it has only been 5 years since it started airing. Fall weather coming... I think I will have to rewatch this soon.

The only other version of this I have watched is the Korean Boys Over Flowers with Lee Min Ho and Gu Hye Seon. I watched that about 4 years ago. It was my first Lee Min Ho drama and tbh I didn't know what the hype was about when I watched him in it. Of course later, after watching City Hunter and Faith I recognize it wasn't all "hype' ;) I remember the general story line for BOF pretty well, but not enough for me to notice all the differences.
I am pretty impressed with Wang He Di's acting. I am not as pleased with the the Hua Ze Lei character. I think the Kdrama version had better chemistry between the second lead and the leading lady that his version does. ... at least, I remember liking Kim Hyun Joong in that.

What is the significance of 520?

It would have been too weird without Yoon Doo Joon. I think they made the right choice, given the circumstances.

A little anticlimactic but I am sure they did the best they could with short notice ending a week early. I like where they left the main couple. I wish we got more time with Woo Sun's romance. I wish we found out what the college friends were up to. Am I the only one that thinks the friend that doesn't talk to girls ended up with the girl that spilled on his pants?
It would be great if they did a special episode later that shows a where are they now with not only his college friends but also the characters from all the previous seasons.

Oh, I disagree. I would love to see a version of Persuasion. I absolutely love stolen glances in dramas to show where a character's heart is. There are so many opportunities for this, in this story. Plus, the lead female character is amazing. Cultured, intelligent, intellectual, capable, kind, responsible and modest. She is surrounded by flawed characters. I think it could stay true to the story and without getting heavy.

There have been many that have been roughly based on P&P but it would be great if they did a drama that sticks a little closer to the story.

Oh Wow. I didn't hear about that. I hope they have time to resolve his love life, his work life, the side romance, and give us a where are they now bit about his college friends.

Just finished ep. 13 and the end of this episode was Wow!!!!! Love it.

Watch It! Then Watch It again! The first time I watched it, I almost dropped it because it was so depressing/tragic in the first few episodes. This drama was recommended to me personally, and they told me it would get better, so I hung in there. I think it is somewhere between the 6th and 8th episode the drama takes a turn for the better. There are so many things I like about this drama, but I honestly didn't notice many of them until my second time watching it. I watched this drama about 3 times before I gave it a score of 10, each time raising the rating a bit. It is very rewatchable. It is my favorite drama performance of Hwang Jung Eum and my least favorite of Bae Soo Bin. What I like about this drama seems to be what you do not like about the drama. These people have a limit of what they are willing to do to get the person they want, gain status, and get revenge. The best moments for me in the drama are when the characters draw the line and say I can't do this. There is also a limit to their guilt/love motivated selflessness and or desire to have the appearance of good. They get to that point where they think they have suffered enough/been punished enough for their sins and decide to pursue their own happiness/desires. I also love how complicated the love relationships are. Maybe I was reading between the lines but I felt there was more than just comfort involved.

LoL. It is not, figure flattering, at all. I don't need him to wear Pink Chicken style leather pants but maybe at least go untucked, if he has to wear these jeans.

Totally agree. The Taiwanese version It Started With A Kiss along with it's season 2 They Kiss Again are my favorite also. Out of all the actors that played this role, Joe Cheng is the one that stole my heart. Each version has it's own charm. I have loved almost every drama version of the Itazura Na Kiss series. Others worth watching are: Mischievous Kiss Love in Tokyo and MSLIT2 (Japanese 2013 version with Furukawa Yuki), Kiss Me (Thai 2015 version with Mike D'Angelo), and Playful Kiss (Korean 2010 version with Jung So Min).

She didn't really reject him. She said they don't suit each other. He said he would put effort into making her like him and asked if it was the age difference. To that she revealed that she is a divorcee. and that she didn't suit "someone like him"(meaning as a divorcee, she wasn't good enough to be a match of a young rich successful never married man like him) and "so don't make a wrong choice. It is clear you will regret it". As soon as he heard she was in the hospital, he didn't care about any of it and ran to see her. He clearly isn't going to give up. I am worried that she will attempt to push him away again and next time she will say something hurtful to him. It looks like they will soon be working together again on Dae Young's project.... I am crossing my fingers that something cute and romantic happens with those two kids.

Anyone notice the guy delivering the drinks at the sauna? I think he is one of the student side characters in My ID is Gangnam Beauty

I really hope she isn't going to use the cruel method with Woo Sun, because I think it will permanently break him. There is a reason why "let him down easy" is a phrase. Some people would be emotionally scarred by the quick band-aid method. Woo Sun seems pretty fragile.

Sometimes shows have different names on different sites... depending on who has translated it. I have come to really love the weird titles though. I have a theory: The really cool shows that are popular in Korea do not have to try hard to get attention. So my theory is that those shows that do not need to try hard are more likely to have a literal translation. Shows that are less popular will need help getting attention, so the people translating them will paraphrase to make the title make sense in English. I might be completely off base, but it always seems like the stranger the title, the more I like the drama ;)