Stuffed Cat

Instead of a long response to many of the points, I'll summarise:

" K-Dramas good, Netflix bad* "

(*For the K-drama genre generally. Most of their actual shows I've watched are good.)

"To me this seems like a death sentence, certainly treatment would be more appropriate. I'm sad for him, he's an excellent, one-of-a-kind actor."

Google has a useful, and easy, translate function.

So glad I followed the link to this when your list popped up on one of the dramas I was looking at. Very many thanks for your efforts. I've bookmarked it so I can come back to find what isn't already on my way-too-long "Plan to Watch" list!

Er ... the word "paradox" has nothing to do with superpowers or magic, and only relates to the universe in as much as there seem to be quite a few paradoxes, if everything we think is true about it actually is.

Wikipedia: "A paradox is a logically self-contradictory statement or a statement that runs contrary to one's expectation."

And THE most important part of the storyline was, of course, that the dog survived. Yay! :-)

And to think I nearly dropped this because the first episode, whilst good, didn't particularly grab me. I have a huge backlog of shows to watch but couldn't decide which. Easier to just watch the second episode of this. Hooked from that point on. and only took a break when I couldn't keep my eyes open any more. Loved it.

Why isn't this tagged with "Wore A Black Shirt Male Lead"?

Totally agree with your sentiments, but have to say ... if there's a gun to your head, you're probably in the USA already.

Found this something of a hard watch. So many "Why would they...?" and "Why wouldn't they...?" moments. But although I didn't go straight on to the next episode at the end of each, I was drawn back after a day or so because I needed to know what happened next. In the end, I'm glad I stuck it out. It was well-made and worth the time invested.

Have to say, though, if I'd been one of the apartment residents and I'd had a gun, very few of the other occupants would have made it past the first couple of episodes!

I'm not so sure that's true. I think after half-a-million years or so, once you'd watched and rewatched everything else ever made till you were sick of it, you might be getting kinda desperate for something ... anything! ... new. :-)

I actually love dramas that have the nerve to kill off big stars and major characters halfway through. It's all too easy to watch a fight scene or similar and think "yeah, but they'll survive, they're central to the show" which dampens the scene's impact. But when, occassionally, the major star / character you assumed would be safe suddenly falls down dead, it puts you on the edge of your seat for the rest of the show, because you can no longer be certain what's going to happen.

My favourite example is (allegedly) a health warning on a packet of salted peanuts, given out as an in-flight snack: "May contain nuts."

Song Hye Kyo: Thought there ought to be at least one token woman on this list.

This is possibly Yoo Ah In's last chance for a public appearance before they cart him away to serve a thoroughly deserved life sentence for daring to smoke a couple of joints and popping a few pills. Why couldn't he have just done something sexually perverted to some innocent victims instead? That would have earned him only a slap on the wrist, before being totally forgiven.

How could Lee Do Kyung not be on this list, with such distinguished white hair? Oh, and he makes me laugh a lot, too.

Lee Sung Min: Possibly a controversial choice, but he's actually a pretty good actor.

Yeo Jin Goo is the new Song Joong Ki. I only voted for him second instead of first out of deference to SJK, who is a couple of years older than him.

Song Joong Ki should be number one on this list, obviously. He can still convincingly play a fourteen-year-old character, and everyone knows he has a halo of golden light around him when you meet him IRL.

I agree with your last sentence, but I think you're confusing 'justice' with 'the law'. Most commenters here believe that if he were to get anything LIKE the four-year sentence demanded by the prosecutors, this would be an INjustice, whether or not the law allows such a sentence. I'm fairly confident that if you presented the facts to the world at large, you'd get the same response. Don't know if that would be true in SK itself because the culture there seems to have come to accept such things as the norm, but I'd wager there would be at least a substantial minority who realise that while it may be legal, it isn't just.

I don't think I've ever heard pharmacies and chemists described as drug dealers before.