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Same !!! How can it be this funny, this often and in every episode? It has shot to the top of my kdrama comedy list; leaving even Welcome to Waikiki in the dust behind it.

Ooooh. But how many times have you said that up to now? Before every new episode? And how often has it been right? Every time or, at least, most of the time? There has to be a lull coming up for us to catch our breath before the final episodes. I wouldn't even have thought this was possible. For each episode to be as good or better than the last. Every single time :-)

It doesn't matter what the teacher thinks though. He made a number of serious mistakes. To start, if there are two interpretations and answers for a question, you shouldn't put it on the exam. It's careless. It means you didn't fully consider what you're doing; didn't have full command of your subject.

So, if you make that kind of mistake, you should just quickly admit it, apologize to the students who were affected, take the opportunity to show to the whole class why both answers are correct and then gracefully move on to give full marks to everyone who gave a correct answer.

Digging further in to the mistake and blowing it up to be a huge war of wills just makes you look small and incompetent. And that's not to mention the fact that he put his hands on and pushed a visitor to the school. That's so far out of line that it's ridiculous; something that could get him fired especially if anything like it has ever happened before.

So, he made a fool of himself and made some enemies too. The students and parents were upset. But, worse, his colleagues and his superiors will all be resentful that he made them look bad in front of the academy teacher. And they have to do the exam all over again, which is a whole lot of work, when he could have done a better job in the first place or fixed the end result quickly and quietly.

He's definitely trouble.

Free, but mandatory, public schools, as well as the lesser private schools, and all of their teachers, are often dismissed and abused by parents and the academy system that's fuelled by parents who will spend a lot of money to 'improve' upon what the regular school teachers are doing. They are seen as being less professional and less able to produce results, so the academies most often get the credit for students being admitted to the big universities.

So, there is a huge pay gap and an increasingly large respect gap between teachers from these two environments, which means that the FL was, indeed, pushing her boundaries, and her luck, when she went into that argument, in a public school, with an older man who also happened to have more conservative and dated ideas than she did.

She kept trying to find out what the man's colleagues thought because she guessed, accurately, I think that he was out of step with them. He's obviously belligerent and unable to admit when he might be wrong. So, he blew the issue up out of all proportion because of his pride, inferiority complex and animosity.

But, then the school decided against his wishes, in favour of her argument and that just adds insult to injury. I wondered if he had been fired or put on probation but maybe he was just told to apologize. You can see where it's going though, either way. An enemy has been made and he'll most likely be back.

This makes a lot more sense. Accident, not murder.

But there's only one more day til we might find out ... :-) See you back here after the episode!

And the little girl purposefully wanted to kill herself and/or her mother? Sorry, but isn't that's kind of ridiculous? I can't think of an explanation that would be less likely. Unless there was an accidental switch leading to an unintended outcome. Like she had a sudden impulse or whim to drive fast or fly, maybe. But still. Really unlikely imo :-)

It's true that this kind of FL isn't new to kdramas but she doesn't come along very often. Women don't forgive other women very easily so this kind of FL will have to show redeeming characteristics but soon or the drama will get trashed right along with the character.

And, it's also true that the heroic, or misunderstood, ML who is half of a fated love story will always, in fact, be a virgin. It's a part of his being a hero or his being misunderstood :-) but we do get morally grey ML's whose sexual history isn't explored.

It's not talked about or reviewed visually, but you know that they're not virgins because it's just so incredibly obvious. They're so good looking that women fall at their feet. And they're so entitled that they see this silly behaviour as being a given. Of course they're sleeping around.

Actually, you don't see it as much in more recent dramas, but, for me, it's more irritating that the women who write kdramas show so many women worshipping a pretty face even if the owner of it is a reprehensible person. I guess it's accurate that pretty boys and girls get away with too much in life but it's disheartening to see it portrayed so often.

I totally agree with you on every point. And it really irks me that this only seems to happen with unlikable FLs. And, at it's heart, it's a kind of sexism that the bar is set so much higher for the behaviour of female characters.

I mean, you don't hear much about it when the drama's ML starts off as a horrible person. He's just described as being 'tsundere' and everyone lets it go even if he doesn't actually improve much throughout the drama, or he only improves, as a rudimentary human being, in relation to the FL that he's fallen in love with.

A FL that begins a drama with bad qualities rarely gets away with it. People just love to hate them, won't tolerate them and become incensed enough to drop the drama because of them, even though they will obviously undergo some kind of transformation to improve as human beings.

So, this kind of dropping is silly, really. Why not wait for that predictable thing called character development and enjoy the transformation?

Go Mun Young in It's Ok Not to be Ok is another case in point. People were outraged at her behaviour and were slow, or quite unable, to forgive her even as she changed and you learned why she had been the way that she was.

I thought that the daughter was experiencing her power for the first time while they were driving in the car. Not sure what it was, exactly, but her eyes lit up bright blue. And that's when her mother lost control of the car. I didn't think that the mother or the daughter had done anything deliberate to cause a deadly collision. No murder-suicide or anything like that. It was just unfortunate timing that caused an accident. But it seems that, ever since then, the daughter has been seeing herself as being at fault for the accident and every misfortune that has occurred since then. Poor kid. Someone needs to help her feel better about what happened.

No. It's a bad look and the only weak link so far, so Aeon, is making a poor (imo :-) joke over it.

Just two episodes in and ... this is actually very cool. It's quirky, different, intriguing. A really original premise with some very unlikely, super(anti)hero, main characters and a very solid cast.

The parents are played by two talented veterans. I only know the female lead from Be Melodramatic but that was excellent so, enough said about that. I have a feeling that this will be Jang Ki Yong's best drama selection and best work to date. It looks like he's chosen well for his first drama after enlistment. And the young girl who plays his daughter? I have always wanted to see more of her. She has great potential for a long and successful career in kdramas.

Anyway, for those who are asking, so far, it isn't similar to Moving at all. It's not based on a webtoon or a novel. It's an original screenplay that is communicating very well as it comes out of the block. The cinematography and tone have a suspenseful moody feel to them and, overall, it has the feel of quality about it, which probably has something to do with Jo Hyun Taek, the Baeksang Arts Award winning director of Sky Castle.

Hmmm. I'm definitely looking forward to seeing more of this.

They don't want other people's opposing opinions to be heard. Sometimes they don't want a drama to be seen by other people who might enjoy it. So, they swamp it with the lowest possible rating just to bring the rating down as far as possible. Some will even create multiple accounts for the purpose. So, basically, it's a juvenile power trip kind of thing.

So pessimistic. You'll jinx us if you aren't careful :-) But I enjoyed EY all the way through so I don't quite understand what everybody else was complaining about. All it seems to take is a couple of episodes that lose a little momentum and then everyone jumps ship. I mean you have to expect a few rest episodes before the high notes that come at the end. Don't ya think? :-)

Not sure that's a spoiler. It's that you made a really smart observation !!! So, she still doesn't know/remember him but she answers straight away instead of on the 22nd ring like when she was so distraught in the hospital. Ahhhh. progress, maybe :-)

I hope and imagine that there will be a few plot twists and it seems that they will compete for the girl so ... maybe? But I'm still doubting it. Second leads don't usually have their fates all intertwined with a first lead. That honour usually goes to the other main lead.

but we've seen SJ save her twice already. And there was the flashback to her waking up in the hospital screaming 'why did that person have to save me?' while he was standing outside the door also in tears. I guess there will be a next accident where TS might be the one to save her. But, unless they start tag-teaming to protect her, I have a feeling that it's always going to be SJ who seems to have that as part of his fate.

reddit r/KDRAMA? It's not OK. That's one draconian rule from a place that used to be a great spot for friendly discussion. Just make another account and join again. Although it's going downhill so bad and a lot of us will fall out with these new rules.

Taxi driver must certainly be related to bad things that are gonna happen. No doubts.

This actor has been working in kdramas since 2003. There have been many jobs and many contracts. And her past would undoubtedly have come out by now if she really had a past like the one being described in these stories. In other words, the background checks have already been done throughout her 20 year career and she has passed them.

Now put that up against some anonymous, unproven, allegations and ask why we should jump to believe claims that have obviously been designed to kill someone's career ... ?

Why do we give these things the time of day? They're just nasty stories from anonymous people who want to strike a blow at someone famous. I mean she's 37. She's been around in the business for 20 years, right back to the time when this allegedly happened ... in high school. And now there are allegations just after she's successfully played a bully in a big drama. Please! How ridiculous.