Colum H

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RANT Alert!
If you ever find someone lying unconscious especially after a fall or car accident etc. please do not lift them up, shake them and slap them whilst shouting "wake up! wake up!".
It only ends well in KDrama Land!

Please use DR ABC - Danger - is there any to the casualty or yourself? Response-Does the casualty respond to touch or noise. Airways- are they open and clear? Breathing-are they breathing? If not resuscitate them, then- Circulation- check for bleeding.

If you think the casualty is unconscious due to impact try not to move them if at all possible. Broken bones can cause massive, even fatal damage if moved around. In the case of the spine or the skull it can cause life altering injuries.

Sorry but it bugs me every time I see that particular trope.

Number 2 and THIS ^ are my pet hates. If the only reason a the FL likes the JERK ML is because he's handsome and rich then I end up disliking them both.
Accidental kisses? There's artistic licence and then there's 'that absolutely never ever happens', it just puts me off.

So this is OK if you like episodic dramas about court cases (all dealt with in a quite twee way). All the actors do a reasonable job and the plots are fine in a not too heavy way. Not my bag though so I dropped it half way through.

Whilst agreeing that sexual harassment is wrong whatever the gender of the perpetrator and the victim, I'm not sure if the examples you give prove the point you are trying to make.
The bit with Lee Elijah unbuttoning her shirt etc. 'you are 10cm away from being the same' was to make a point about a specific person rather than a seduction. Hence the repeated comments about 10cm separating 'him' from 'them'. She didn't do it to anyone else.
The Market again was making a point and, though they never made it clear how much, at least some of it was a put up job (the Aunties). It also had Grandma coming out and remonstrating with them. It was then pointed out that whilst embarrassing and intimidating (thus making it sexual harassment by most legal definitions) it lacked the true menace that a lot of sexual harassment towards women contains, they reminded us of that with the female associate having to tag along with the football fans to avoid the thugs at the end of the episode. As well as the lingering PTSD of Oh Reum's character
Having said all that I thought the bit with the cleaning lady in the loo was completely out of the loop and wrong to the point of arrest. Also as you say the reversal of the roles is too often used as comic relief which normalises rather than criticises the behaviour, which is again wrong.

Pretty good book as well. Read it if you find it...

Thought this might be different than the Korean version but no still nice girl falls for abusive twat.

Nothing really new in this but it's done so well it's easily forgivable. Thoroughly enjoyable.

I've tried this twice now but I can't get past episode 3. Just doesn't do it for me at all, I'm not a fan of medical dramas in the first place and the characters are just annoying which leaves me with nowhere to go. They say third time is the charm so I might try again in a year or two.

First episode was enough for me, too much like a Western drama (there's a reason I watch K drama). Didn't need half the episode to know where it was going either, so was already skipping.
Love triangles aren't really my bag so I probably should have left it alone.

I sort of agree and yet I keep trying to find somewhere to watch the last few episodes. Loads of clichés hung on the kid and grandpa a storm wracked boat on a sea anchor.

Ueto Aya is gorgeous but the rest of it is just childishly simple especially if you have no real interest in commercial aviation. If you like your humour like that or are interested in being an Air Hostess you might enjoy it.

Terribly over the top and cheesy stuff which is absolutely fun to watch. Leave your critical faculties at home, take breaks as needed and enjoy the ride.

Got bored of this quite quickly after the initial rush of the first episode. Found I didn't care for any of them, even the puppy failed to move me.

Managed a couple of episodes before dropping this. Cute and fluffy it definitely is but short on all else.
Why does she have lipstick on when being a boy? I'm pretty sure ice hockey doesn't work like that. Plot, pacing...DRAMA CLICHES!
If unsupported cute and fluffy with pretty people is your thing then this looks like a winner, if you want the cute and fluffy hung on a reasonable scaffold - probably not.
Though it does have one of the worst accidental kisses I've seen so perhaps worth watching for that.

redress?

Many years ago when sitting on a bus in my home town I encountered a doppelganger. Same hair style, glasses, big nose and ears and even similar clothing to myself. It was... disquieting!

Reading this review (in truth a few of your reviews) is a very similar experience.

I've never gone back and finished this one either.

I haven't finished it yet- got bored by the politics - but I have to agree about Nana. Thought she did really well as a comedy actress and I appreciated her homage to Audrey Hepburn, the hair, the dresses, her face - perfect!

So nice I watch it twice...

I really enjoyed My Mister but I found it a difficult re-watch as so much of the enjoyment is from wanting to know what'll happen next. Mother et al I find very easy to re-watch purely for the enjoyment of the scenes I know are coming.
I actually skip quite a lot of First Life when I re-watch it as I don't care for the youngest couple or the last couple of episodes. So I might even swap it out for Gangnam Beauty which I find strangely addictive in it's entirety, as do my daughters. When any one of us starts a re-watch it sucks us all in like Kdrama opium.