Michelle Topham

I dropped it after Ep 4 and same on most current K dramas. But I do recommend The Killing Day if you haven't started watching it yet. Excellent. And yep, I'm watching mainly older ones at the moment (Stranger is superb), as there is little airing right now I have any interest in either.

Yep! I have a Korean friend who lives in Seoul and she sometimes sends me translated posts from Korean forums about different actors/dramas as she knows I write about them.

She's translated a few for me about Destined with You (a drama I dropped as I hated Jo Bo Ah's performance in it, wanted to scream every time she hammed her way through a scene -- awful acting), and it was easy to see she's not well liked in S, Korea either.

She was the only bad thing about Tale of the Nine-Tailed, destroyed Destined with You (love Rowoon, couldn't watch it because of her), and now we're going to have to suffer through this. The drama sounds amazing, it will be hard to watch with her in the lead.

And honestly, she is the only Korean actor I cannot watch, but I have such a visceral reaction to her terrible acting, I want to punch the screen every time she appears :)

Kim Jae Wook is not the main lead, he's one of the leads. Unfortunately, Lee Jae Wook is the main lead. Not that I don't like him, but with Kim Jae Wook being secondary main lead, it likely means less screen time.

I think he prefers the villain roles than the romantic roles, and he's damn good at them.

Lee and Kim are their last names -- Jae Wook is their first name -- so, no.

Disappointing. Will be watching it for Kim Jae Wook, but I can't stand Jo Bo Ah, she ruins every drama she's in. Wish they had cast a different FL as this will require a lot of fast-forwarding through to be able to stomach 12 episodes of her. She just can't act.

That's one big reason why I dropped it. The man simply can't act.

Never mind... this is why I rarely comment on forums. Just cannot stand narrow-mindedness in any form. Moving on...

Actually it wouldn't when you learn why. And in many instances in real life, it wouldn't be anyway. There are numerous marriages comprising people who met as student and teacher.

I know one couple personally -- she was 17, he was 25-ish when they met. As far as I can remember (?) they have now been married at least 15 years -- four kids together etc etc. Started dating after she graduated, married four years later when she graduated university.

No different of a relationship as people who meet online, in a coffee shop, at work, or wherever.

In my mind, NOT judging other people's relationships and concentrating on your own is usually the best and nicest way to live your life.

Subbed, but unfortunately only available on non-legal sites in English :) -- https://mangatoto.com/series/67140

I have been asking Yen Press for months to get the licensing for it so we can read it legally in English, but the only reply I get is "sorry". :(

Manga hasn't finished publishing yet so, hopefully, once it does they'll do a season 2 :)

Highly highly highly recommend the manga. It's in my top 3 of all-time, and I read a sh*t ton of manga :) There are 17 volumes out at the moment, and I read the first 16 volumes in one day -- couldn't put it down it is so damned good.

Unfortunately, there isn't a legal English translation (yet) as far as I know, so there are only the dodgy sites to read it on. I've been begging Yen Press for months to license it for legal publishing in English as I would buy every volume the minute it came out, but just keep getting "Sorry" replies from them :(

There's a reason for their relationship though, and you learn it as the manga progresses. (Not sure if it explains it in the drama yet, as I've just finished Episode 5 ?). They are superb together though. One of my all-time favorite couples :)

You should read the manga if you like the drama. It is exceptionally good. One of my favorite ever manga series because of these two characters, so I was ecstatic this weekend when I suddenly discovered there was a drama adaptation :).

Absolutely superb. The manga it is adapted from is one of my favorites (I've read the chapters of the manga that are currently published at least 4 times), and this adaptation is phenomenally good. Two of my favorite ever manga characters come to life. And come to life brilliantly (the acting of both leads is exceptionally good, as well as hilariously funny). Really hoping for a second season once the manga series ends. Highly recommend this drama -- beautifully written, wonderfully acted, and laugh outloud funny.

This is so damned good. Expected to watch it at double speed and possibly drop it after a couple of episodes as the premise wasn't necessarily my thing but, wow, I'm absolutely hooked. One of the best dramas streaming right now.

No. I gave it through Episode 3 to see if it improved, then dumped it. Picked it up again and watched it through most of Episode 5. Still one of the worst K-dramas I've watched in a long time. Gave up. Life is too short for mediocre, IMO :)

It doesn't deserve anything close to an 8, IMO. Terrible acting, even worse writing and the plot is disintegrating fast. I just made the mistake of undropping it to see if Ep 5 was any better. Nope, even more of a car crash. Definitely done now :)

And better writing. The writing is abysmal.

Well said and, yes, that's one of the main reasons why I've just dropped it at the end of Episode 3. She's still not remotely capable and really kind of a stupid person.

I don't do well with women like that (in real life or on screen :) ) Throw in that Jo Bo Ah is badly cast in this and overacts in almost every scene, and not even Rowoon can save this for me. Too many other better dramas to watch, IMO.