Italophilia

I remember his characters distinctly from Legally Romance and Begin Again. I'm sorry to hear this news.

No matter what, Xing Wu made a promise to protect Qing Ye when he brought her back from Beijing. Shu Han doesn't need to know Xing Wu's reasons for his decisions but he was nice enough to give her one.

It's their loss for not taking the time to understand the culture of what they're watching. It was clarified in ep. 1.

It's the false narrative of "I've been the one next to you all this time. Why don't you notice me?" So, she starts blaming Qing Ye as the bad influence when the fact is that she really just wanted Xing Wu to take the job so they could work more closely together.

Neither am I but I heard the ML's mom in ep. 1 say that she and the FL's mom are not related by blood. It was already clarified in ep. 1 for everyone.

The ML's mother says it early on in the show, ep. 1 IIRC, when she was playing mahjong and telling her neighbors that her sister's family was not a blood relation but that she was treated as if she was one.

I think it's the audience who has the responsibility to get to know the culture of the shows they are watching. If you join on-air discussions (often available on Reddit, for example), you will learn a lot more about the shows, including the language and the culture. The producer can't possible predict what would be offensive/a trigger for almost 200 other cultures.

It's common in certain Asian countries, like China. In the Philippines, we call everyone in our parent's generation tita (auntie) or tito (uncle), but we don't call their kids cousins unless we're related by blood. And we keep track of cousins up to 3rd or 4th cousins.

They're 16 or 17 when they meet, so Barth is maybe 37 at the very beginning of the drama. He has glasses and some gray hair. Also, he's Asian and they grow old pretty gracefully. I was often mistaken as 21 when I was in my 40s.

Thanks!

Did you watch on Viki or GMMTV? Viki says available in 3 days. I can't find it on GMMTV. I'm in the US.

I don't mean to offend. I was thinking of someone who came out to me as a teen as gay. Years later, he was dating a woman. He clarified and said he's bisexual. AFAIK, he has since dated both men and women.
In Nagisa's case, it really sounded like he loved wife (and I don't know if he was drunk whenever they had sex). But, you're right that as a gay man, his sexual interest was going to be elsewhere. It's just that we're not always privy to all his thoughts and journey. So, when I say, "Things can change in all the years in between" I am giving him the right to his own journey. I will not dictate how any one person should be confined to one tiny box once they declare their sexuality.

Don't blame the idols. Blame the directors or make-up department. The idols don't dictate when they need another layer of foundation.

I haven't read the novel, but according to those who have, the novel has constant descriptions of this general being very attractive. It sounds like the casting was done perfectly.
I found it hilarious that an official military site would deign to comment on a movie, an idol movie. Don't they have better things to do?

I just finished watching this on Dramawave. I loved it. the chemistry between the leads was good. Wang Xuan has become one of my favorites.

He was talking about the portrait of himself, not her.

@noor1234 is a troll. No list of shows watched. Just some reviews on their profile.

Official Trailer: https://youtu.be/owvTHTv0xY4?si=a2fpYHx67ji2pZT-
Teaser: https://youtu.be/wO-utzt7t80?si=9AjhnvQzwznxCzQr
Teaser 2: https://youtu.be/VA6x_pNz-GY?si=hJu_M4Ryof3Fhxf4

You didn't read what I wrote because it's fantasy. What was hard to believe? That I had over 30 year experience as a tax professional? Or that most of my clients were millionaires? Just an FYI, I live in an area where there are over 340,000 millionaires. So, comparing my practical experience with your non-existent one is laughable. This is my last comment on this topic.

No matter how simply somebody explains it, you don't understand. It baffles the mind. I'm not familiar of the tax structure where you live. I'm not sure whether you're familiar with business tax structures anywhere. If you don't care to understand them, that's fine, but please stop saying, "just pay it." You can just admit that you don't understand enough to make this judgment.

And you don't know whether other millionaires have run into similar issues because their cases may not have been publicized, which this was (illegally). But let me just say that individuals are allowed to pay what they owe, using the tax law. And tax agencies, not just in S. Korea, will always want them to pay more. And the burden of proof will be on the individual taxpayer when there's a disagreement. It is NOT an uncommon thing for high income payers to get questions on their tax returns. I was a tax professional for over 30 years for millionaires. They DO pay their fair share of taxes. The only ones that end up paying more in my practice are the ones who didn't keep good records.