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Africa is a continent, not a country, and very diverse at that. However the only time it's being mentionned it's always to show poor people who need outside help to be saved. The whole episode the ML is being depict as this savior that God sent or whatever. It's humiliating. They always like to show the humanatarian work in a way that make the "helpers" look great and god like. The whole focus of the Africa part of the episode was to make ML look good and perfect. As if the misery of people is just a mean to an end. Don't get me started on the lion king music, what even was that ? and the animals ? like Africa = Safari ? We don't even know where he "went".
When people speak of Asia, Europe, America, they always say where they go, but when it's Africa, suddenly no country exist, just the continent.

I'm from Paris and please the way this city is being portrayed in kdrama is exhausting. They pick and choose. Paris is so classy, and the cuisine is amazing blablabla and then move to Africa and it's a safari trip ? hello?

What the hell was that first episode ???
the blatant disrespect and contempt toward Africa? we know they are racist but 2022, seriously?
Like the first clip was f up, but they really went and made sure to drop a random racist ass clip the whole episode.
Dude dug up the second well in all Africa lmao. Glad it happend the first episode and didnt waste my time on this. And no one in the cast even questionned it, that ML really went and shot those scenes lmaoo

Yall are watching this sh.t ?? To be so openly okay with racism lol

Hey, for those of you who don't have the financial mean to support, link for the episode in my DM :)

If you don't have the financial mean to legally support, I have a site for ep2, DM me, 'd rather not spread it here :)

No, wait, I swear the wait once your start is unbearable!

Both main leads sort of look cute together but there was never for me the sparkle that second leads have. That last scene was too cringy for me. It pains me that we have two different kind of dynamics with the two couples, it's like watching 2 different shows. One is for teenagers (main lead) and one for adults (second lead). It even ruined they're little gathering last episode for me because I felt like we had 2 adults and 2 teenagers, they had 0 chemistry as a group.
It doesn't even help that Sung Hoon is more charismatic as the (supposedly) shy assistant than Tae moo is as the (supposedly) cold CEO.

He looks so fragile lol, his stance, his acting, his speech, all of it is just so off. It doesn't help that the guy who portrays his character's assistant is more charismatic

I swear it was so weird. It was very awkward. They didn't built their relationship for us to see them like that and the "slow passionate" vibe they were going was just so off.

100% agree. His acting, his stance, everything feel forced. Might it also be because of the writting of the character itself ? I understand that in the webtoon he crosses his arms all the time but in the drama , it just looks ridiculous (like him walking with crossed arms but not in a natural way, very cringy).

I think it's the actress hahaha I swear she had so much melancholia in her smile what is that? At first I thought it was her acting but I think it's just her face lol

I thought they were divorced???? I really didn't listen well hahaha
maybe at first he wasn't away as much?

That and him always putting his job first and stooding her up every date they had. Literal copy of her mom, it's a good parallel that he ended up taking her job.

I feel like their break up was foreshadowed the whole time. At the end they broke up because he could not make time for her, a reporter and an athlete can't have that kind or relationship and they've been trying to tell us that literally the whole show.
It's not much about communication (except on BYJ's end who clearly didn't know how to share his sorrow) but more about BYJ not making time for her, no matter how much he loved her. He kept putting his job before her (missing dates, dinners, going to NY without knowing when he would come back etc..). She made a lot of effort in their relationship but it never was reciprocated, no matter how much he said he loved her.

Thank youu!!! I was not sure I made my opinion very clear since english is not my first language but I'm glad some people agreed. I see a lot of disappointed people, it saddens me. I wish everyone enjoyed the ending like we did

I see your point, you wanted them to try again. Only then could their break up would have been justified, you feel like they gave up on each other too easily is that right ? I feel like as long as he was not comited to put her first, there was no way this could have worked again

Him always chosing his job over her (all the dates he missed, going to NY in the first place etc..) the way her mom did her whole life (which scarred her for life) is not a bad reason to break up imo

The whole show was so very well written, I wouldn't change a thing.
We knew since episode 1 that they didn't end up together, like no surprise here. I'm actually really glad they kept that direction and didn't try to have them reunite at the last moment. It would have ruined all their break up.
It's not like they didn't love each other, they were just not right for one another. She resented her mother for her job her whole life, it's good thing they didn't try to change her character and make her suddenly be okay with it just because she's in love (like yeah she did at first but then she understood the implication of being in that life again). She tried to give it a try though but you can't blame her for changing her mind. Yijin not communicating with her on his sorrow during the 9/11 episode made it even worse. That whole thing happend to early in their relationship, he didn't learn how to share his unhappiness yet. She was making effort, tried to be comprehensive, sucked it up, and he didn't reciprocate the way she wanted him to, the way she asked him to (even if it was because he didn't want to overwhelm her, he still failed her).

I also don't see BYJ's decision to go to NY as a weird one. He was in a weird place and he knew his relationship was ending. It started to end the moment he normalised not showing up to dates. He made her live what her mom made her live her whole life. Him going after her on that tunnel scene was a selfish move and he knew it, otherwise he would have let the NY job go. He could have stayed but that job was a big opportunity for him and he never once showed that his job was not important enough. Quite the contrary. His job always came before her. Him changing to local news to "not hurt her" doesn't change that. Had he stayed, he still would have stood her up during their dates. Their relationship was just NOT working.

It's a great drama about how two people who love each other very very dearly might not have the happy ending they expect. Because : life happens.
The writters could have gone with the whole "they meet again now that they are old and more mature" and blablabla but the implication would have been that your first love is your only love and though it's very romantic... well that's not necessarily the case. It would have made the drama a little bit less realistic for me.
Kdrama tend to do that sometimes. They give a sad ending and try to sugar coat it by some open ending and I thing it ruins the bitter sweet ending side of it.

What a ride though! I loved watching them fall in love!
This show and reply1998 did a really good job at making us feel nostalgia for a thing we never lived lol

Especially when it's been used 100+ times before in other dramas, it's like reading the same sentence in different font

Honestly the whole "hiding the boyfriend" part really annoyed me. When I saw the 2nd leads no fish-eyes kissed and how they just got together simply because they liked each other, I had some hopes, I thought "oh we'll have actual adult content" as in "they'll act like adults".
Not with the first leads though...
Them ducking behind cars and jumping whenever someone arrives as if they're 15 secretly dating is embarassing, they're grow adult. I really didn't expect that from a 2022 drama :(