GLAD I WATCHED IT ONCE/KOREAN

This series was fun and the story, even with its sadness, was still nice.  There wasn't anything cerebral but it did have moments of emotional tugging value.  There are the standard cliche characters, however they are not so annoyingly written that I wanted to stop watching.  

Also, bonus points for making me Google Seo In-guk so I could discover that he is also a singer/songwriter and very good at both. 

Full credit for casting and acting.

WOOOOOOOW, this was long! Every part of the production except writing, gets the 8 stars to be considered as 10. The FL is worth her weight in diamonds, I have no idea who she is, but she's brilliant...well done casting! 

My favourites after her are the restaurant owner on the production company's first floor, the ex-con baker and the ML.  I'd watch these four together in series after series after series. 

Two stars off for the vicious, vindictive, and the airheaded, bloody annoying whiners...OH MY NERVES...I hit fast forward through every scene they were in to stop myself from doing the whole stabby stabby thing into my own brain...it would have hurt less.

EDIT:

It's been four months since I watched this and I'd forgotten pretty much everything about it.  I've just tried to re-watch, but as soon as I saw the FL's grandmother (even before she opened her mouth) my hackles went up, I bared my teeth and a deep, threatening growl worked its way up from the core of my being.   It was a struggle to restrain myself from snapping at the old hag and ripping her throat out.   Then the FL's middle sister opened her mouth...all restraint shot to hell.   

If it weren't for those cliche soap opera characters, I would willingly watch this production once a year for the rest of my existence.   I'm angry that this title has to be on this list...way to go writers...argh!

Not awful, so definitely worth a once through.    Even with its flaws, it's still considerably less annoying than a lot of the tripe that is out there now.

I had to fast forward within episodes and skip a few episodes to get through plot lags or cliche infestations.

It get 9 stars because the acting wasn't ridiculous and the writing was for the most part, intelligent.

I have it under this heading, but I think I might watch it again in a few years. 

Given the length of it, I was expecting  a cloying soap opera...it sort of was...but wasn't?  Whatever, I only skipped a few episodes because of boredom due to lag or annoyance due to nonsensical behaviours.

Cliche alert...seriously K-d writers...it's like your entire upper echelon are vicious, emotionally driven, megalomaniacs...WHY?????  

So much talent wasted on so much tripe....argh.

All eight stars go toward acting...  

I'm on the fence about watching it again.