i have to go to work, i'll be back on later.
Now you're giving me a headache. You're saying he's been raped? He wasn't raped. Maybe the poor translation gave you a misunderstanding, maybe he did make out with him, but he was not raped. Until the uke really remembers with clarity what happened that night, rape is still not confirmed.
The contract is the contract, you're mixing it up with the 'possible' rape. I'm saying that he can sue the boss for unlawfully making him to sign a contract that he would have never signed if he was sober.
Chapter 1 already states that it was a company drinking session, there would have been many employees at the bar that night that would be able to testify that Daewon was not sober enough to give proper consent to signing the contract--he wouldn't have to open up about the 'possible' rape if he wanted to sue. If they did get the uke alone to get him to sign the contract, he was already very drunk before that, and if there's a witness, there would have been enough grounds for a lawsuit.
chapter 4, page 7: "we've already slept together." "it was against my will." This heavily implies that they had sex and that it was against the uke's will, if you want to interpret this as them having actually SLEPT together, then be my guest but...
Also, why do you assume that they were still at the party when he signed the contract? If this is premeditated like i think it was then don't you think the boss'd have pulled him away?
You make it sound like it'd be hard to pull off what i'm saying, but it really wouldn't, all they'd have to do is wait till he got drunk and then pull him away saying they're taking him home (or any excuse, really.) and then get him to sign the contract. He'd have no witness to testify for him and he'd have signed the contract himself so there'd be no getting out of it. It's a VERY simple and easy to pull off plan.
Btw, i didn't dislike your post, i wonder who did?
ch 6* my bad!
Nah, it's common to get downvoted on mangago whenever you voice out an opinion that are along the lines of, "OMFG (MC names) PLEASE BANG ALREADY."
Nope, it wouldn't be hard to pull off. All I'm saying is someone at the party would've already saw him drunk before they pulled him away from the crowd, and that'll be enough grounds for a lawsuit. The court won't be sympathetic to someone who claims they are intoxicated during the signing, but if there are witnesses that can guarantee their intoxication—the court can then rule that the offender knew about the intoxication, and deliberately took advantage of it. Bars, and especially bars in Asia, usually have CCTVs as well (because things like drugging and sex trafficking happen), so even if no witnesses dared to step forth, the CCTV would've provided enough evidence to show that Daewon's intoxicated beyond awareness of the legal complications (his erratic actions are enough to justify that). The reason why I'd said it's easy is also because of the nature of the voice-acting contract, it's a BL porno. And while you can say this is exploitation of a wrongful social stigma, Daewon can make a more convincing stand for himself precisely because of this fact as anything to do with LGBT is extremely frowned upon in South Korea, especially in the legal context. The law would be more inclined to side with the one they automatically 'feel' is the one being exploited.
It's easy to pull of the plan, and it's still easy to expose it. These are all basic things I learnt even before I even interned at a law firm (which ironically made me not want to pursue it because of the loopholes and biases like I mentioned above), so for this to not occur to Daewon is really unbelievable.
Anyway, I will be really busy henceforth so I'm afraid I can't continue this discussion with you any longer. Good day. (๑•ㅂ•)و✧
That's fine, i'm not sure i could bring anything to the table to rebuttal what you bring forth anyways . ╮(￣▽￣)╭ You bring a very sound argument in the case he could build against the boss and it'd probably take me too long to think of any kind of counter-argument. It was fun talking/debating with you as well, thank you. (๑•ㅂ•)و✧
Poor translation aside (I'm still grateful that translator took the time to do all that), am I supposed to enjoy a story about a main character who's so adamantly homophobic that he can't even separate his personal preferences and work?
Forget the contrived plot development of Daewon getting kicked out of the house so that the story could progress to his living together with the other guy, the fact that he constantly berates people who are genuinely trying to help him puts me off. I'm not saying he's not entitled to be indignant after being forced into a voice-acting role he doesn't want to do, but his tantrum throwing has a limit before it becomes childish and extremely grating.
It's not wrong to feel uncomfortable, or even disgusted at homosexuality, especially in Korea where the LGBTQ scene is still being oppressed and shunned. I don't expect Daewon to magically start developing empathy, much less rainbow gay feelings towards a guy he just woke up half-naked in bed with. What I do expect, is at least a modicum of professionalism, if not respect, to someone who is just as accomplished as him in the voice-acting field, despite his 'less-than-agreeable' sexuality.
I understand that under-performing at your work because you're out of your comfort zone is one thing. One can be humble, and slowly take time to adapt.
However, blaming your poor performance on a co-worker (who's kind enough to let you live in his house even though you're just lambasting him 24/7 over his sexuality) and everyone else around you for it is another.
At this point in time, there is absolutely no redeeming feature in the MC—he is conceited, arrogant and has some serious sense of personal entitlement akin to thoroughly spoiled brat. He as a lot, a lot of growing up to do.
On the other hand, the other characters aren't that great either. The boss and Hyun-soo are pushy and unfeeling towards Daewon, you don't just dump a voice-acting contract, much less one with gay sex scenes onto a person who's so clearly unwilling to accept it. You don't joke around with a person who's clearly disoriented and panicky from finding himself waking up with another man. You don't continuously invade someone's personal space despite them already voicing out their dissent.
But meh, contrived plot development seems to be a running theme in this manhwa (and many other yaoi)... it'll probably be revealed that the MC is just some guy who's so far inside the closet that he comes off as homophobic, or he'll start magically developing said rainbow gay feelings after working together and living in close quarters with Hyun-soo despite Hyun-soo being nothing but a unsympathetic creep thus far.
TLDR; everyone needs to grow up.
The story has an interesting concept and premise, but the execution of it has been unfortunately lackluster. I really, really do hope the manhwa shows some great progression in the later chapters, or else it'd be a damn shame.
Then again, most people people don't usually read yaoi with an overly critical mindset like I do... So I suppose I'm going to get massively downvoted for this...