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The censored episode 13 ends with a short amount of kissing against a wall. The full episode continues that process for like another minute and half, reaching other scenery along the way.

The ugly-quality video on sites like Dramacool is the uncensored version.

For some reason, legal streaming services (like Netflix) and even a UHD Korean TV broadcast have at least one, uh, intense scene cut out. If you're here for the 'steamy kiss' tag, click the spoiler comment.

Preface: I am not a skipper. I don't even know how to. I have never fast-forwarded a drama and declared it "completed", or watched one at increased speed, or skipped past certain plot points, or only watched scenes with a specific actor, or anything like that.

The tags "business, comedy, romance" might give you an incorrect impression to begin with. This is an office rom-com. "Business" is the setting, but virtually never of plot relevance.

With all that in mind, this is the rom-com with the least funny supporting characters I have ever seen. As the episodes went on, I started keeping count to make sure, and only by very generously rounding up could I say that there was a single time a scene not involving the ML/FL made us laugh. I'd go as far as guessing that the main writer(s) limited themselves to the primary couple's arc and everything else was handled by a bunch of freshly hired interns.
=> If you're the skippy type, skipping past all scenes that don't have the ML, the FL or their younger forms on screen is certain to be an effective strategy.

Thank you for the reminder to check this, I knew about it beforehand but forgot to pay attention when ep 13 came around, and now realize that while I watched it in gorgeous 4K, I indeed missed out on that scene.

Not sure what a good way to obtain and share this kind of information is. Some shows like Pinocchio or While You Were Sleeping or the new Anna also have an extended Director's Cut version that contains additional material compared to the broadcast and streaming versions.

over here Hwang Bo Ra seemed particularly bothersome in this ^_^

OTOH it would be fair to say that his character had the most prior relationships of all.

"Big Bang".

So kdramas that include it, like this, are "wrong"? ^_^

I didn't watch True Beauty, Doom, My Secret Romance but the "scene theft" from WWWSK is quite a lot already.

I'm told The Secret Life of My Secretary has plenty of elements in common as well, but my friend doesn't remember it clearly enough to say if there's any copied scenes.

You can watch this after episode 6.
The first 17 ish minutes is just replays. (There's still many afterwards)
The google link below, https://drive.google.com/file/d/1k_lWfUelobNke0cfbGdTORwFXiy8_Cyh/view , has nice English subs.

There's also the manhwa element to consider: unfortunately you can't expect realistic follow-ups or a logical plot.
MDL says you watched 2 episodes of Rugal... a good approximation would be to say that the physical laws of the universe might change from episode to episode.

Ah, you mean that the ML and his bro went all Batman and punished him, then the ML also went all chaebol and bought up everybody who ever talked to him to eliminate his future chances in society..... and as a result the SFL had a public toilet phobia until the SML showered her in caring&attention to heal her?
(Which is kind of the same as the FL healing the ML's life-long rain phobia by being nice to him on one single rainy day.)

Somehow when I have high expectations from the plot (ok, didn't have those here) or a show has a very high MDL rating (8.7!), I always end up very much disappointed. This one actually starts out pretty strong, but 85% of the actually funny jokes are somewhere in the first third, and like all(?) manhwa-based shows, the story gets more random and inconsistent over the course of the season.
Episodes 10 and 11 are not only more poorly written than the material before, but even the director or editor did a lazier job.

It just gets worse after like half ;p

He does the typical "rich CEO drops everything to run through all of Seoul for his woman" thing for so many hours. Maybe you should have endured?

Ep 10 was so dreadful that I thought ep 11 was merely somewhat murky.

The contract drafted in one of the earlier episodes, for the FL to act as the ML's fake girlfriend so the ML's grandfather stops wasting the ML's oh so precious time with blind dates.

"That said, there was one side plot situation that had quite an impact on the characters and their behavior, but then was gone and never mentioned"

Which sub-plot is that?

The broadcast version goes like this:
00:57:15,090 --> 00:57:17,520
There's something that I'm
curious about.

00:57:17,520 --> 00:57:19,830
- What is it?
- When we were back in high school...

00:57:19,830 --> 00:57:22,380
why did you want to go on
that quiz show so badly?

00:57:22,420 --> 00:57:25,330
I've asked you a few times,
but you never...

00:57:28,390 --> 00:57:30,220
Because I liked you.

00:57:30,570 --> 00:57:33,760
Because I really liked you.



I think this version goes into more detail, like since when? (That's what I think based on Youtube's automatic voice to text feature, but I'd like input from someone with KR knowledge.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5P6a7zGwBQk
this take contains unused dialogue, the broadcast version (57:15 in SBS HDTV, 59:02 on DC BR) is far shorter.