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Episode 13:

This would be so much more romantic, interesting, and most of all, believable, if Sunjae would just go gay with Min Woo, the other young prodigy, who is clearly hot for him.

Episode 12:

"You...you're a bitch." lol
About time somebody said it out loud. :)

Episodes 9.5/10/11:

This is SO much better at 2x speed. lol
Which goes to show how absurdly slow the pace of this drama is. Seriously, at 2x, there are STILL scenes that drag, especially when characters are sitting, thinking, feeeeeeeling their emotions, lol.
Even at 2x speed, I have skipped ahead multiple times.

SJ's now ex-girlfriend and his/her friend from before his explosion into the music scene have become my favorite characters. That guy always gives me a chuckle. What a great character. Love his easy-going style.

Forging onward...I wish the player I'm in had a 3x setting.

"...the actor walking or driving for long periods to show that he/she is "thinking." lol THIS!

Some of Hye Won's most annoyingly obvious acting has been when she's driving while agitated...is that a crime, a DWA? It should be! I see the actor working so hard to emote her mindset that I have laughed out loud several times, but then I feel bad because the director likely made her do it, and she may be thinking the same thing I am. :)

One of the most ridiculous scenes, and on that also eventually pissed me off, was when the beeyatch called SJ to "drive me around for a couple of hours." I was like wtf? Then, as soon as he pulls away from the curb, she goes to SLEEP! Go sleep in your own mansion, woman! Don't expect this kid to drive you around while you snooze. THEN, she has the nerve to dessert him 50 miles from his home!

Yes, yes, yes, I know...I was supposed to get that there was nowhere she felt peaceful and serene enough to sleep, other than in her presence, blah blah blah, but It. Did. Not. Work And her faux shock and damsel-in-distress reaction to his getting a hotel room, lol, how bogus. The least she could have done was call him and say "no, this ain't happening, dude. Drive me home." After that, I sort of began to hate her and see a lot of the plot as stupid.

I began watching for the first time last night, with episode 1, which is quite good. Just about the only violent Yakuza/crime-type shows I enjoy are Korean. I haven't seen KSR yet.

If she is still in most of it, why all the talk of "cutting her out" of it, and why rewrite it at all? I still can't believe NF caved to Korean cancel culture in that regard.

You mean things actually start happening, and not in slow motion? :)
Those do sound like exciting scenes. Maybe I'll watch it at double speed and stop when it looks like something critical is about to happen.
Thing is, I've become so annoyed with Hye Won and her no/yes/no/yes schtick, that I'm sick of her.
Some of her acting hasn't been the greatest, either, but that could be the script's problem. Again, these dramas string everything out so ridiculously long to fill the contracted number of episodes. Filler is king.
I've mentioned a lot of reasons for eventually dropping the show in comments below, if you're interested. I loved the first couple of episodes.

Episode1:

Wow. Koreans do Yakuza/action flicks almost as well as they drive their brightest and best to suicide.
That was the most believable 10-on-1 movie fight I've ever seen.
Another thing Koreans do best is establish characters, and quickly, too. The most likable movie characters--some of them complete douche bags--I've encountered are in Korean flicks.

Episode 9:

Stopping midway for now...the glacial pace is killing me.
I'm sorry to have to say it, but the only romantic/sexual chemistry between the leads is that which I manufacture in my own mind. It's not there on the screen.

If I weren't a huge Yoo fan, I'd have dropped this by now.
This would have made for an intense, absorbing film, but streeeeeeeeeeetched out over 16 hours, is just not it.

Thanks for the rec.

I was joking, my friend. :D
I'm going to give this one a look sometime soon.

Bullshit.
Removing Kim Sae Ron was ENTIRELY within the control of Netflix, and they should have told Knetz and the psycho Korean Suicide Machine to fuck themselves and left her in the series. Nobody outside Korea cared, and Korea is a teeny tiny market for a show that was released all over the world.

Netflix is partly responsible for KSR's eventual suicide.
"Out of their control," my ass.

Who else would control that decision other than Netflix?!

Kim Sae Ron did not "leave," she was brutally cut out of the show as if she never existed, which led to her eventual suicide. Netflix and the director gave Knetz the kill they were after, so fuck them too.

Netflix needs to stop commissioning Korean content if they're going to bend to Knetz insanity every time an actor shows a human frailty. Nobody outside Korea cares if an actor drives drunk, has a crash that doesn't kill or hurt anyone, is punished by the legal system, and then returns to work. No actor would be cut from a show like KSR was, especially considering the size of her role.

Fuck vampire Killer Knetz and the system that enables their sickness.

Fuck Netflix and Bloodhounds director for erasing Kim Sae Ron from this show, as though she was nothing, for the usual Korean celebrity crime of being human, which led directly to her suicide.

Congratulations, Knetz, and fuck you too.

How does "fucking excited" differ from plain, old "excited?"
Is it more intense or does it involve an added sexual element, as in being "excited to fuck?"

You made your position clear above, and I did likewise in my response. There's nothing to discuss.

It's horrible, and has been going on since at least 2000.

You are part of the problem.

Of course, you'd write a long paragraph defending the silence with which Korea surrounds its huge suicide problem. Typing "RIP" after the latest Korean celeb suicide and leaving it at that (because there are other bad things happening in the world!!!!), is part and parcel of Korea's horrendous culture of denial that only makes the problem worse.

Korea has, by far, the highest rate of suicides among developed nations. It's not just celebrities. It's nice that you don't want to talk or write about it, though.

Sigh...how did I miss this? I hadn't heard a word about Jung Eun Woo's suicide. This was just two months ago, too!
MDL and Korean media are great at moving right along past a suicide, eager to pretend it didn't happen. They go on and on and on when there's some bogus "controversy" to flog, but once they've gotten a kill, it's on to the next victim.

Thanks for the tip, though I feel horrible having to add his name to my list. What a beautiful man he was.

I asked the question because so many people, perhaps most people, in Korea/Asia, tend to greet the latest horrific, unnecessary, celebrity suicide with the usual "RIP," etc, without giving thought to, and condemning, the sadistic fan/media/Knetz/law enforcement machine that causes most of them.

This empty "RIP" reaction seeks to gloss over the suicide, pretend it came out of nowhere, couldn't have been prevented, and to move everyone past it so they can focus on driving the next unfortunate victim into the headlines.

Your "May god receive him in heaven" remark, made without mention of how this death came about, struck me as fomenting that poisonous mindset. I am sick/sick/sick of Korea's Celebrity Suicide Machine. It has killed far too many.

I didn't write that you "support" anything.
Try reading what I actually wrote, not what you imagine, and then respond to that if you want to.