Kate

For Ko Moon Young being romanticization of ASPD, I would rather said... it's just lazy writing. The writers want a "unique, quirky female lead that defines the status quo" so they give her some kind of disorder, but they don't take into consideration that it will set limits to some aspects to the story itself. They want to wow the audience with representation without putting the work to make sure the character they write makes sense. And we end up with stuff like healing disorders with the power of love, forgetting about certain symptoms the character displayed, coz they stopped fitting the plot etc.

She does have ASPD. People who say she does not, write it to explain the lazy writing and her love for ML, also the fact her symptoms got better after she fell in love.

I think the problem is not that his character represented stereotypical portray of ASD, but rather that the only representation this group gets in media are autistic people further on the spectrum. While the representation is correct for that small part of the community, it does not represent the community as a whole.

That said, in IOTNBO Sang Tae not being so far on the spectrum would make no sense story wise. The whole show would have to be completely rewitten, including ML, his behavior, motivation and thr whole arc.

During majority of interviews Seo Ye Ji said she is playing Moon Young a character with either antisocial personality or ASPD. She used both phrases interchangeably. And again, the character fits the diagnostic criteria extremely well.

"a lot more dangerous people without any mental health issue in regard to people with ASPD" realistically speaking, everyone who is a true threat to society or themselves has some kind of mental problems, WHILE not everyone who has a mental problem is a threat to society. I did not check any statistics on how dangerous are people with ASPD as a group compared to general society, but taking into consideration the characteristics of this disorder, it would make sense they would be more prone to criminal acts. But that's "logically" and not scientifically speaking, since I did not check any research on it.

About Sang Tae, his portray was rather realistic. The further someone is on the spectrum the more "stereotypical" they would seem - more obssessions, deficits in social communication, repetitive patterns of behavior (repetitive motor movements, inflexible adherence to routines). It's realistic. The problem is, this is usually the representation presented coz it's the easiest to write. It goes for all disorders - it's easier to write "extreme" cases coz you can just incorporate all the symptoms without thinking about all the nuances like which symptoms usually group together, in what situations they show up more etc., since you use them all. It's simply way eaier to write someone who is far on the spectrum compared with someone who would in the past be described as someone with asperger syndrome. The "lower" on the spectrum, the more diversity in behavior, the further on the spectrum, the more similiarities...

For Moon Young, Seo Ye Ji literally introduced her character as one suffering with ASPD, so saying she does not have it is not true. Moon Young fits almost all diagnostic criteria easily. One can survive a trauma, have ptsd AND aspd.

"I'm very sure that a lot more they don't have any mental health issue" < having ASPD is a mental health issue. It's a personality disorder (as it states in the name).

I don't fully agree with the article myself, but your comment is not exactly correct either.

I watched it this year, but some time ago. But I wrote the review only now 🤣

Yeah I don't mean drama with the actress as the main, I mean La Ri Ma as the character being the main :)

So when can we get a spin off with La Ri Ma as the main character?
Coz I would pay some $$ to see it.

You are really unnecessarily defensive here 🙃

I did not say she is rude brat all the time. But she is at times. Her not being able to deal with her own emotions is not an excuse. Jealousy is not an excuse. It can be explanation, but not all people who are confused and figuring themselves out act like her. I dislike how she deals.

And she does show it clearly. As people pointed out. Her outbursts of jealousy are exactly what led people to believe she might like Sol. So saying she does not show it is just incorrect.

Basically her lack of maturity in terms of her emotions anf lack of emotional control is what i dislike about her. And i have the right to dislike her.

I like their interactions but i think Ji Wan is a bit too controlling and needs to figure out who she is outside of her relationship with Sol.
Assuming she is in fact either gay or bi, she is only figuring out her sexuality but i don't see it as an excuse to at times act like a rude brat...

From what i saw in the comment section majority (but not all) negative comments are not hate comments but rather a valid criticisms.
Comment section is there for people to write all types of opinions, not just good ones. If someone knows they are easily influenced by reading negative comments, maybe it's on them to not read said comments, and not on the others to not write them.

For me i just dislike how much focus is placed on the romance. I much rather see more of a friendship deal, development of the characters outside of the romance, struggles of youth etc. But it's mostly romance, rather typical one so i simply get bored...

Here is the thing.. I would love to see this happen for the representation but i also dislike Ji Wan quite a bit and think Sol deserves a better girl 🤣

matrimonial chaos
Definitelly good representation :)

if Nevertheless, gives different ending than the webtoon I will riot 🤣

hard to take out of context him saying he wanted to be with Young Ran but his living sitaution did not allowed him 🙃
but honestly, even outside of Soo Hyun's deal, the whole drama has a completely different focus compared to the webtoon. Why not make an adaptation of all the countless straight romance focused webtoon instead of making 180 out of the one who does not have whatever the production team was looking for?

Don't make an adaptation of a webtoon that is not a rom-com, of you want to make a rom-com drama.
Don't make an adaptation of a webtoon that is not romance focused, if you want a drama that is romance focused.
Don't make an adaptation of a webtoon with gay characters, if you don't want to have gay characters in your drama.

There are so many webtoons, that would fit whatever youth romance and building friendship vision the producers and director had, why pick a webtoon that is not that, just to complately change it? 🤣

Soo Hyun being straight just really pisses me off. I get that Korea is more conservative, but to be respectful to the source material, they could at least not give him any romance and not address his sexuality at all.

The power of Moody tbh, I feel you.
For me stepping out of my comfort zone if basically my 2nd chance project. Shit i dropped at some point getting back to watch list can be miss or hit, but it's a fun way to refresh my memory and see if my watching habits changed 🤣
Glad that overall you feel happy about getting out thewre with some dramas that might not be exactly your taste :)

I get it, but I don't trust KBS to keep it as it was in webtoon. They already made So Bin main characer over Soo Hyun (and I'm saying over him comapred to in addition to him, coz she does have more screen time than he does). 6 episodes in and his only "contact" with his actual love interest from webtoon was seeing him as he walked out of a room 🤣
I hope they will keep him and two girls as friends, but with KBS you never know.