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Well, I don't personally know him but just to share my thoughts on him, from all he said and showed on social medias over the last years, Chang Min likes receiving attention for sure (I mean, anybody doing a reality show or being very active on social medias is, no ?). He definitely don't have any problem to find boyfriends, or friends with benefits, and knows how to use his alluring personality and physique. But I also think he doesn't have bad intentions and really don't see what's wrong in some of his actions than can be seen as insensitive by others. He has an innocent side too and is quite honest and straightforward when asked a question, but he is also a free soul that don't like obsessiveness. The show was just a week so I don't think him or any participant expected a real relationship out of it. Jeong Hyun is cute and they'd make a nice couple (it would actually be nice if they have genuinely developed a real relationship after the show), but to me he doesn't really seem the ideal type Chang Min described many times in the past (he likes cute younger men but not feminine ones, which Jeong Hyun seems to be a little bit, even by Korean standards). I don't think the show is scripted but it's a show, it shouldn't be taken too seriously, they are mostly doing it to gain popularity and opportunities, not really to find love I believe. ^^

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Some comments are funny. ^^ Why take this show so seriously ? It's a dating reality show, it may be not staged but it's definitely not 100% authentic neither, the participants kind of act a bit. They only spent a week together, you can't expect real relationship from just that. Maybe after the show, if some of them met again (I think it was shoot around April), but it must be watch like a divertissement, not something serious. Chang Min was on a straight dating show in 2017 just because he wanted to appear on Mnet for example. It's just like "Single’s Inferno", it's a good way for them to gain some popularity and new opportunities but I doubt they really look for a serious relationship thanks to this show.

Chang Min is actually really considered handsome in Korea, either for men or women. He is tall, have a slim body, not very muscular but still athletic and with good proportions. His face has soft traits, charming eyes and thick lips. A fair skin. And a "quiet" personality which gives him a lot of charm too. And Chang Win was the most popular participant even before the show thanks to his social medias activities. He "officially" came out in 2020 through a live streaming Korean platform with a famous gay YouTube, and he was also famous for working in a waxing shop near Seoul University (I was actually surprised to see in the show that he owns a restaurant now). And actually, it's obvious (from his past activities more than the show) that he is the type to play innocent (I think he is not clueless but instead very sharp to notice things), like he knows his power of seduction and the benefits he can get but still keep a modest facade and pretend he don't understand the situation sometimes, something than is also appreciated in Korea. So yes, no surprise he is the "star" of the show.

Well, if you're watching this kind of Korean dramas you should try to at least understand the Korean culture and Korean history. You may not like it, that's up to you, but your comment is quite disrespectful and just show you're clueless about how family and elders/younger people relationships work in Korea.

That's a big spoiler here.

These Calvin Klein are rocks, never moving down a bit.

No, ratings are given by people depending on their tastes and feelings towards a movie or a TV series (most people rate based on emotions, not objective critical reasons), and the audience isn't objectively representative of all the population. That's totally different than the real cinematographic quality of a project and of the performances of the actors.
To take just one of your example, "What's Wrong with Secretary Kim" is one of my 10 stars dramas, I have many reasons for liking this drama this much and gave it a 10 out of 10 here. However, his cinematographic value is objectively quite poor : just a basic office romance comedy with predictable twists. So ratings aren't automatically related to quality.
As for your last sentence, I totally disagree. I personally never choose to watch something based on reviews and ratings, so once again, don't generalize something that you think. It's your opinion, and I respect that, but think of the way you write your comments. That's not difficult to write "I think", "I feel", "I believe", etc. but it makes a great difference on how others understand your comments.

You don't like it, that's different. Don't write your comment like it's a fact or a general truth, because it's not. Lots of people have like these dramas. And ratings aren't a proof of quality either, it just indicate the popularity of a show, which is quite different. So please write your comments expressing your opinion and feelings, not like your are stating the truth.

I can't wait to see what cast will play this. And I really wonder how they will adapt it, regarding all the inner thoughts in the manhwa, as it is an important part of the development of the original story.

Well, it's still good, but I think it's taking a road I'm not fond of unfortunately. More and more romance moments (which could have been put off for this story I think), and too much "hard" comedy for my taste (I expected something more sad, even a little bit depressing, but in a good way). I like the core message of the drama and most of the acting, but I think the production will be too much like dramas these days that try to blend everyhting together (romance, comedy, serious social subjects, mystery, morals, etc.). I don't like that. :/

Fore sure, and that's interesting too for a character portrayal actually. Like I wrote, I saw it coming, but I expected something else, I was hoping they would do something different, at least the way I view it.

Well, unfortunately that's quite disappointing. Yes, we saw it coming, but I was still expecting something surprising and more original from it. Akira's delusions over himself are quite annoying at this point (they make him look like he finally understands his problems but in the end he keeps doing the same...). It would have been much better if he had finally overcome his incapacity to accept his feelings and talk about it. Yes, the bluntness of Shin's character is still good but it feels like a big waste at this point of the story. Even more when we see in the next episode preview that Akira is still at the point where he is struggling to speak to Sakuma sensei and they will maybe focus more on the side stories. I'm s-not sure what to think of it. Still 4 more episodes, which is great, but I have lost a little bit of my fondness for it I believe. I really think that it could have been much better with a brave Akira accepting to date Shin and showing their struggles at this point of the story rather than one more story looking like all the romances where the couple first resist for some "silly" reasons, to end together at the end of the drama.

That cast is gorgeous. Can't wait to watch the adaptation of this good manhwa.

That new English title sucks. "MonWedFriTuesThursSat" is much more original. I'll stick to the Korean title personally.

Yes, that's what I wrote. It's good but nothing extraordinary. When it reaches 20%, yes, it can be considered a hit. Getting focused on ratings doesn't really mean the same thing these days than years before. 10% of 1 million people and 10% of 10 thousand people is quite different.
Writing an article about that like it's extraordinary seems a little too much to me (just very biased actually, and I wrote that being a big Lee Jong Suk fan).

It's good, yes, but for MBC I believe it's not that special.
The ratings in Korea depends on several different factors actually. The channel (public TV or cable), the day, the time slot and for more analysis it's also interesting to compare nationwide and Seoul area as sometimes it might be quite different. Now that there are also platforms dramas it's different I think, and a lot of Korean watch dramas on their phones after it aired on TV. TV ratings these days aren't the same as 10 years ago and more when much more people where watching TV.
But generally, any drama on cable channel passing the 15% is considered very good (I would say popular instead of good personally because that's very two different things). However many dramas since 2010 in particular were very popular overseas when the Korean ratings never passed the symbolic 10%.

Of course anybody can feel different towards this drama, the characters and the stories told, but I believe anybody can also be touched by it as all the cast is doing a great job. I already wrote that but that's not a "fancy" drama, it's very simple, raw, full of real emotions. It's actually hard to watch some scenes because it's overwhelming. I hope all watchers will understand and more importantly really feel the healing effect of this drama.

Yes kind of. :) Though I'm more familiar with Korean culture, Japanese are similar for that in my experience and knowledge. Boys and girls tend to not mix that much (all boys or all girls schools are still quite usual there) and so physical contacts with friends of the same sex are quite normal and much more developed than what teenagers usually experience in western cultures I believe. For example, because of the public bathhouse (jjimjilbang in Korea and sento in Japan) culture being very developed, it's normal for men to shower fully naked together since a young age. Of course homosexual men will be very aware of others at some point in that situations, but because it's a cultural thing experienced since very young, there is not the same rapport to it than in western cultures.

It's all true I agree. And I would also add that even young Japanese men, homosexuals or not, are more "prude" when it comes to display affection towards someone they have feelings for, even though they have a lot going on in their minds and their bodies. ^^ Because physical display of affection is on the contrary more developed, in my experiences, between friends of the same sex, there is quite a big difference with romantic relationships.