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It's a list of dramas that people consider bad, despite their popularity. I think you might have misread the question.

"Now, as for him not checking the DNA of the child he clearly didn't love the mother of.... that just made him a bit of a naive, overtrusting fool, but I might beat him with a pillow over that detail. If someone took advantage of me, used my wealth and reputation etc under a fraudulent pretext of having my child all those years, I'd sue them (but I'd have checked as soon as that kid was born since this isn't some situation where he impregnated a lover accidentally)."

I think he loves the child (as you would, if you were not a sociopath) despite not being the bio dad.

I don't disagree than a affair can ruin a marriage. But being a bad/good parent is unrelated. I don't know why I have to labour this point.

The FL's acting in this drama is definitely better than in Nevertheless (lots of slack-jawed staring).

The acting, on behalf of the leads, was very, very poor. Both were near expressionless for much of the time, including in moments of high drama/emotion. I don't think it was a direction/writing fault. No director has EVER said "here's a really poignant scene, please make it look like you're having a stroke" but also the story was utterly nonsensical.

I don't know who the 'we' is, or how you 'hear' of so many cases but in my experience there's almost no relationship between one's performance as a parent and a spouse. As in this drama, too.

Isn't 'constant drinking' (and dangerous drunken states) a factor in many kdramas?

Wow, I would have thought that the needs of the child were front and centre (you can be a bad spouse but a good parent and vice versa) not whether one parent has pissed off the other, but I suspect that's something that's universal, sadly.

In real life people do terrible things - like using their children as pawns in custody battles, for example, when their pride, or feelings, are hurt.

I think a some of the people who comment on dramas are very young, or have never been in relationships and see them only in terms of what they see in 'cute, fluffy' dramas, but I don't think the relationship between Chan Young and Jin Seok is just a friendship. Its clearly an affair - even if they don't have sex. It's emotional betrayal - except there's nothing to betray, the marriage was entered into under false pretences/fraud. Where I'm from that's ground for invalidating a marriage (annulment) which is the same as the marriage not existing at all.

In the UK Family Courts favour the mother in matters of custody (not officially, but most of the time in practice). Is it the same in South Korea? And will the fact that he's not that little boy's biological father mean that he has no rights at all?

Because it's not the 1950s any more. Plenty of people have loving, successful relationships without ever getting married. Plenty of marriages fail.

She's one of the leads in Uncanny Counter (which is great).

I'm liking this. It seems much more real than many dramas (but I lost a 29 year old friend to recurrent breast cancer) so maybe that's why?

Was he the brother in 100 Days? Because he was great in that.

The tone for this drama is set in the very first episode when, in a fit of pique the FL throws a spike-heeled stiletto at the MLs face, drawing blood. And then they fall in love.

Woo Do Hwan, Kim Kyung Nam and Jung Eun Chae kept me watching for a while, but I still couldn't finish it. The garbage 'plot' and some of the acting (particularly Lee Min-Ho) eventually killed even that spark of interest.

She's very expressive (which I like - I hate the mute, blank-faced staring school of Korean acting) but she doesn't always pick the best projects. In my top 10 for her mad skills, but not in any of my top 10 dramas. I'd love to see her in something like Taxi Driver.

So happy it's on Netflix - which pays the drama makers and the subbers.

I didn't use cougar. How is 'mack' offensive?