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Replying to fuji777 Dec 8, 2024
This is from an article in What's on Netflix written today, 12/02:Check in Hanyang is an upcoming internationally…
It is on Viki as well. The teasers have already been uploaded and the subtitling teams have already be chosen and we have started work.
https://www.viki.com/tv/40798c-check-in-hanyang
It is also visible in the whole of Europe.
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Replying to irmar Nov 23, 2024
In what way did you find it disturbing? Because they show her loving food and overeating?
Come on, do I have to explain the obvious? Sometimes we will wear something that until a little time ago fit us, but we've gained more and haven't realized that it will be too tight, or may it wasn't too tight while standing, and before lunch, but after a good lunch it became too tight... I'm sure you know all this perfectly well, but are just arguing just for the sake of defending your position.
By the way, k-dramas show skinny female leads overeating all the time (for some reason it seems to be endearing to Korean audiences). And we routinely laugh at those scenes, because we know that in reality actors and idols are on strict diets, they would never be so skinny if they ate like that in real life. And maybe filming those scenes is their only chance to have a good munch of fattening foods.
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Replying to irmar Nov 19, 2024
In what way did you find it disturbing? Because they show her loving food and overeating?
Most fat people I know (including me), love food and overeat. Either it's frequent snacking as she does, or two-three meals per day, whether it's junk food or meticulously prepared homemade dishes and baked goods, the end result is the same: it's too much, it's more than you burn with your level of activity. And yes, I've had a button burst at least once, and a seam too, more than once, because of too much stretching. I don't think it's anything outlandish, it happens. Yes, it's used for comical effect, so what? It's a comedy.
We don't need to be protected and pampered by not using the proper words for it, nor bury our heads in the sand.
Otherwise, the character is shown to be a very intelligent and capable woman.
That said, if it makes you feel bad, then indeed it's a good idea to not watch the drama, because I am guessing it will continue in the same vein (I've only watched 3 episodes so far). Life is too short to waste time on things that upset us.
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Replying to aramist Nov 16, 2024
I agree with you . I’m on episode 14 and to me the drama is trying to make it ok to cheat on your spouse . I…
Read about divorce law in Korea and you will understand why if she didn't want to divorce, it would be extremely difficult for him to free himself.
https://www.international-divorce.com/d-korea.htm
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Replying to aramist Nov 16, 2024
I agree with you . I’m on episode 14 and to me the drama is trying to make it ok to cheat on your spouse . I…
In South Korea it is not possible to divorce on your own. Both have to agree. Otherwise you have to actually sue the other person (which he ended up doing).
The Korean judicial divorce process is a fault-based contest between a wrongdoer and the wronged. The courts reason that a guiltless spouse should not be forced into an unwanted divorce. So she was holding him hostage.
Article 834 or simply the Divorce Law in Korea provides for the following types of procedures when it comes to marriage dissolution:
divorce by mutual agreement or uncontested divorce;
divorce by mediation;
divorce by trial or contested divorce.
https://www.international-divorce.com/d-korea.htm
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Replying to afternoon_sidekick Nov 16, 2024
The self sacrificing is strong with this one ...which is kinda ironic because they are supposedly activists
Well, there was a point where other dramas would do a noble idiot thing, and here it was avoided. She said "I promised I won't leave again" and refused to sacrifice. I was very happy at that point.
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Replying to eliteles1 Nov 13, 2024
Title Kill Me Love Me Spoiler
I didn't know that, that is, about this doctrinal point of belief.
Strangely, I think that The Double gained a lot by ditching the reincarnation and making it about the same person escaping and coming back to the "scene of the crime" to take revenge.
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Replying to luvkayl Nov 2, 2024
although su tian was very dear to him he only considered her as a sister, even though later on he mistakenly took…
Exactly. Feelings evolve. He thought he had fallen in love with his childhood friend. But she was someone else. If it were the real one, Su Tian, he may have fallen in love as well, or maybe not. We don't know. However he fell in love with Min Hui. What's so illogical or difficult to grasp for some commenters I don't understand.
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Replying to kalarro Nov 2, 2024
Title The Love You Give Me Spoiler
omg, that was jsut the beginning. More and more things exactly like that keep happening and making FL more and…
He was good until he wasn't. He suddenly seemed to suspect that she's the sort of person to do something despicable. What you said is also true about her: doesn't he know enough to trust that she couldn't have done that? As soon as the dead girl is mentioned, he seems to lose his common sense and logic. It's very understandable that she got very hurt. Without trust, how can you begin a relationship. Can you imagine? If the old man were dead or if he didn't remember, that nagging suspicion would have stayed in his mind and hung over them forever.
And frankly, even when they did get together, he was insultingly suspicious of her and tailed her in the bookshop in a ridiculous way, risking to ridicule her if found out by their collaborator. Did he think she would cheat on him or what?
Not to mention the fact that he kept for himself his health concerns, and even the fact that he went to the US for surgery. Who keeps that a secret from one's significant other?
The show did drag a bit in the second part, to this I agree. This is probably because the material they had was good for a 16-episode show, and they had to somehow fill up 30 episodes. I feel that's the case for many Chinese dramas.
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On Homme Fatale Nov 1, 2024
Title Homme Fatale
They say it's a comedy, and it has indeed comedic elements, but the second half is downright tragic.
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Replying to ema Oct 30, 2024
I think if they had given the second lead couple less screen time, considering how weird their relationship dynamic…
Naaah. It wouldn't be better, just shorter. The main story was a bit silly and boring to begin with.
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Replying to LPA Oct 30, 2024
This was not a hot, passionate love story as the title suggests. I liked the actors and the drama, but it needs…
It sometimes happens because at the very end the dialogue is very thick and there is no time to insert those. When there is "breathing space" then they wait until the end.
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Replying to KarenLaird-Olson Oct 30, 2024
I've skipped so many epi just to get to the part where they are together, kind of a disappointment to see the…
To be fair, the FL never told him whereas she had numerous chances to do so, for instance at the end of ep.12 beginning of 13. I think she didn't tell him because she thought that his (and her mom's) advice would be "get over it, those things can happen".
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Replying to HoneyBeeAZ Oct 25, 2024
Title What Comes after Love Spoiler
She also left without telling him why. The flashback about her father’s company failing was really helpful to…
I understood that her leaving was hastened or triggered by the situation at home, but was not the main reason. Otherwise, if everything was well between them, she would have told him "I have to go home for a while because they need me, but I'll be back" or something like that. She didn't even know that her father was at the hospital, she only learned that when she arrived. So I can understand she didn't tell him of the bankrupcy because she didn't want him to misunderstand that this was the only reason for her leaving him, but that she would have left him even without that. Although nothing was clear-cut. Maybe if there wasn't the Korea emergency she would have left him anyway or maybe she would have tried one last time to have a conversation without fighting. We don't know and she probably doesn't know either.
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On What Comes after Love Oct 25, 2024
Title What Comes after Love Spoiler
Yes! Finally the happy ending we were craving.
Such a poetic drama, made with sensitivity and attention to detail, visually appealing. I especially liked the lighting choices, so warm and light in the good moments and cold, wintery and dreary when things got wrong and in present day scenes. Until the very end, when spring came again with its blossoms.
The symbolism of them running together matching their pace was a bit cheesy but okay, I see what they did there.
I liked that she finally conceded her part of responsibility, but I would have liked her to say why she felt it was her fault, because this was never touched in the whole drama.
- I didn't go to work, I just stayed at home and moped
- I didn't go to college as was the initial plan, which would also have made me meet lots of new friends.
- I didn't try to hang out with the few people I knew from Ichiro's, who might have introduced me to their families, siblings and friends, so that I would get my own circle of acquaintances, instead of only depending on you for company and entertainment.

All this, without dismissing his own faults, which were many. Not only dismissing her problem and not taking the time to talk it out with her, but also not answering her calls, not sending an SMS when he was going to be late etc. But it was very unbalanced. His were repeated again and again, whereas hers were just given lip service with a generic sentence at the very end of the drama.
And he never replied to the question why he didn't stop her or pursue her after she left.

Also... where are they going to live now? How exactly are they going to prevent the same thing from happening again? I know that an explanation of this wouldn't fit into the poetic ending, but it could be slipped in a conversation with her father - for instance, his contemplating a branch in Japan... Something!

These are the only flaws of an otherwise very satisfying drama, wonderfully shot and acting, with relatively few clichés. Well done!
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