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If someone here is fluid in Korean, I'd like help with this scene for which there are no subtitles.
SPOILER LEVEL: ENDING, so be warned.

Super omega painful nails-through-brain breakup. It's FOUR HOURS.
There's some semi-breakups after, but they're not that forced and hurtful. After the first ends, you'll be too numb to take the others seriously.

The triangles involve glorified joke characters. The ML/FL do not have feelings for the monkeys.

8-9 minutes into Episode 6, Netflix tries much better than usually to approximate the Imperial March. B+ for effort.

Lately I don't know if I should watch shows on Netflix, the usually less censored TV broadcast, or something else.
In this case, like for While You Were Sleeping, there's a director's cut bluray with extended scenes in the actual episodes.
I chose a semi-random episode to compare: Episode 12.

On Netflix and I assume other licensed web sources, ~20 seconds of funny parody posters are missing (0:34:22 on web/Netflix, 0:34:35 on director's cut bluray, 0:34:11 on SBS TV). Shortly before, the Netflix version also has a background TV screen blurred out.
The director's cut bluray (or I guess DVD) release also has around 1 minute and 55 seconds of material not found in the TV/streaming versions, the bulk of it being the 1 minute and 25 seconds at 0:44:26.

In the DC BR extras of While You Were Sleeping, I kept seeing how Lee Jong Suk sweats monstrously after 30 seconds of filming (and how one of 2–3 staff girls swarms in to wipe his face, hold a fan at him, and fix individual hair strands).
In this drama, they just always make him do something physical before close-up shots so that it seems justified. I can't stop thinking & laughing about it.

Now that I finished watching this, I should also mention that of the >60 k-dramas I watched, this one seemed to have the most production mistakes (like things accidentally caught on camera) and continuity errors.

It's not clear whether the antagonist had any feelings for her or just used her for career advancement as an opportunist; that part of the story disappears entirely after a short while.

The SML shows the most innocent and helpful love triangle behaviour you could ever imagine.

None of the couples formed have people extensively warring over a partner or such.

There's multiple couples, but ML/FL take up the majority of the time (along with the sequential cases).

Throughout the entire show I kept thinking she's cloning Lee Hye Ri's "Reply 1988" FL. Otherwise nothing stuck out about her acting/performance, though.
(I haven't seen Bae Suzy in anything else, so I can't say anything about her range.)

People expecting a deep & meaningful or even thrilling plot seem to get disappointed.

I expected a light show with romance, comedy, and some fun to be had with super powers, and thanks to that it was much better than I expected/feared.

And like so often, he plays a second, different character later on... essentially, anyway.

To be fair Kim Won Hae is in *everything*, and he seems to know how to pick scripts.
His comedy role in this is sure among my top 2 or 3 performances I've seen by him.

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HWT does it to himself because he wants to stop having a lie weighing down on him.
He's ultimately happy with the outcome (studying law), and that "heals" the ML's shaking hand.

I agree that Mr. Choi being the ML's forever-ever-after work romance would have been a more satisfying ending. I would have liked him formally inducted into the Dream Dragons as well.
As it is, the writer chose to give him a "repentance arc" where he spends his entire adult life living towards a really unnecessary death in the arms of the ML, merely for being one of many people who contributed to his brother literally exploding.

I thought the wedding was very "Reply"-like in that it's a pre-announced surprise reveal that some people will consider a surprise and some people will wonder why it's even there.

My S.O. insisted that it would be the younger colleague, saying that 'Prosecutor Lee kept flirting with her', and for me it was always perfectly clear that it would be the older colleague, with whom he had a special bond after meeting her and her child at the hospital.
Since we just communicated in terms of "ah, it's so obvious who he is dating, no point talking about it", we only noticed our opposite views during the actual wedding scene in the last episode.

Is it lacking any music, scenes or other content on Netflix / streaming services?

Noticed these by chance:
EP1: When Jang Hye Sung and Cha Kwan Woo first meet, she is playing a game on her phone. Netflix has the game blurred, but sound intact.
EP4: Different background music in café around half an hour in. Right after, the court case has altered music, missing images, missing game, and so on.
EP7: Same café, forty-something minutes in: some very faint background music swapped.

(in later episodes music in HOLLYS COFFEE doesn't seem switched out as much)

Could it be that watching it as a crime/thriller drama is why you didn't like it?
I watched this as a fluffy "light" romcom drama, and enjoyed it more than expected. I wasn't looking for suspense or a mystery to unravel, so I did not even notice the absence of those elements.

Months ago, I picked out your review to revisit after watching the show, and now that I've finished we could not have watched more different dramas. I thought the first six or eight episodes were great, and I kept wondering when the "show turns super bad like people say", and that moment never came.
For me, there was more than enough chemistry between the leads.
Bae Suzy seemed to be a clone of Lee Hye Ri in Reply 1988 with many mannerisms, but otherwise I didn't have complaints.
It was my first time with Park Hye Ryun and the four leads, outside of a few cameos or very minor roles, and a Lee Jong Suk movie (where I didn't like him) – so I didn't go into this as a fan or even familiar with anyone other than some of the omnipresent supporting actors.

I don't see it mentioned anywhere: the Director's Cut is materially different, for example in Ep 10/16, at 26:20 of the director's cut, the FL spends a whole time walking around a hospital room after talking to a nurse, which takes about 1m25s, while the 'normal' version skips ahead immediately to makeup product placement.

I don't know how many episodes are different, and I couldn't find any articles, lists, or many comments about it.

The villains just keep coming one at time to pad the runtime.
Checkboxes: let's break up, let's have a hospital episode, let's have a tragedy in the family, let's get the ML injured so the FL realizes she can't lose him, ...

Biggest omission for me: The ML/FL *never* have an actual conversation about Seo-yeon (Jung Seo Yun), who is so to speak the defining person in both of their lives. Not a single talk.

Second-biggest: there's no moment where the FL's sister Ha-kyung learns that the ML is also the boyfriend of the dead Seo-yeon.

The idiotic timeskip changes nothing. The same "oh, we spent some time apart, now let's be together forever" thing happens before and after the timeskip. I already stopped buying it before.
The ML's mother only gets screentime to die right after. Towards the end, the ML's father started appearing more, so I thought he'd be next in line to be killed off for no reason. But no, it was so we could see him cut food for 30 seconds.

We never find out what's with the parents / family of the Yeo sisters.

For me this was like 8 hours of content stretched to 16+ hours.
Found a lot of the plotlines forced / tacked on and eventually repetitive.
There was nothing in this show that isn't familiar from other dramas.
My favourite part were the comedy scenes centered around Yeo Ha-kyung in the early episodes (they don't happen that much later on).

Positives: nothing I'd call a triangle.

You mean the sequential gallery of villains that never seems to end?