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Yes, I was referring to the detective. I avoided naming him because I didn’t want to spoil anything for people who haven’t seen Light Shop yet. I just meant that, in Kang Full's original webtoons, he's a recurring detective who investigates unusual incidents across multiple stories, so his role naturally grows as the shared universe expands. Of course, the live-action adaptations could handle things differently.

I completely agree with you. Acknowledging the commercial side of the event doesn't cancel out its cultural significance. Both things can be true at the same time.

Moving and Light Shop aren't heavily connected in terms of the main story, but Light Shop provides the backstory of a character who is likely to become important as Kang Full's shared universe expands.

You should check out The Guest (2018)! It's from the same writers, so if you're excited for this drama, you'll probably like The Guest too. It's one of the highest-rated Korean horror dramas.

I think you're confusing Netflix Originals with licensed shows. This isn't produced by Netflix—it's an SBS drama licensed for streaming on Netflix. It releases two episodes a week instead of dropping all episodes at once like most Netflix Originals.

Wasn't the original Agent 66 the legendary one, not Kim?

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Fair enough. Given that you replied "exactly" to that comment, I don't think my interpretation was entirely unreasonable. That's why I responded to the food-related point.

I think you're confusing "food matters" with "military life is easy."

This is a drama about a military cook, so naturally food is a central theme. My country also has mandatory military service, and from my own experience, food is one of the biggest morale boosters for ordinary soldiers. When you live with restrictions on your freedom, privacy, and daily life, meals become one of the few things people genuinely look forward to. Given how important food is to morale, I don't find it strange that officers would care about it.

And even if you think the show idealizes certain aspects of military life, isn't it a bit of a stretch to dismiss it as straightforward military propaganda? Especially when the show openly depicts corruption, procurement scandals, abuse of authority, and other institutional problems.

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Hi, I really enjoyed reading your review! You explained the story and characters clearly, and it was interesting to see your perspective. Thank you for sharing!

Yeah, he does eventually start winning — it’s not one of those “suffer endlessly for realism” endings. The tone stays pretty grounded and philosophical, but there is payoff and hope by the end.

Romance-wise, it’s not a super fairytale type of ending, but they do emotionally choose each other in the end. So it’s more quietly hopeful than tragic.

I’m not sure. Other currently airing K-dramas have seen rating drops too, even without controversy, and people seemed confused then as well. I can’t help wondering if there’s a pattern here.

But if the drama spent a huge amount of time focusing in detail on every step of her adapting to modern life, would most viewers actually enjoy that?

People are usually more interested in seeing how a historical character interacts with the modern world once the basic adjustment phase is over, not watching her learn how to use phones, money, or transportation step by step.

At some point, the story and character dynamics need to move forward. If the show tried to make the adaptation process completely realistic, the pacing would become painfully slow and many viewers would probably lose interest early on.

Understanding technology and abandoning a lifetime of royal identity are two completely different things.

She learned how the modern world functions, but that doesn’t mean she’d instantly stop thinking like royalty. Knowledge changes faster than identity.

Even in real life, people keep the habits and mindsets they were raised with long after their environment changes. Even modern-day royalty would realistically struggle to completely abandon that identity overnight, so someone raised in an even more rigid class system would obviously have an even harder time.

Honestly, it would be far more unrealistic if she suddenly started acting like an ordinary modern person overnight just because she learned how modern society works.

The whole comedy comes from that contrast.

Imagine a scene where Hwang Dong-man is told something that essentially invalidates his life, a “hunger” signal appears on his emotional watch, and he returns home and eats in a frantic, uncontrolled way. Now imagine the same scene, but with him eating calmly and properly instead. It might look more “polite,” but it would fail to convey the shock and emotional collapse he is actually experiencing.

In that scene, messy eating isn’t really meant for comedy or as a comment on manners, but as a way to show a character’s psychological state. Rapid or uncontrolled eating usually suggests emotional strain or a loss of self-control, not “bad manners for laughs.” It works because eating is a basic human action that can reveal internal states without dialogue. The point of the scene is character expression rather than comedy.

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As far as I know, in Korea you have to complete four years of university, pass the teacher certification exam, and (for men) serve about two years in the military, so becoming a teacher at 18–20 just doesn’t work time-wise, no matter how much of a genius he might be.