i know you acknowledge that you’re being overly critical but i’m gonna go out on a limb here and say the author doesn’t know much about marketing/the internal affairs of a company so she’s not going to go in too much detail about it. i honestly prefer this a lot more than when authors try and fail to describe a specific setting - case in point was this one bl webtoon that was about a hacker (?) i forget the actual name of it but it read like a fucking cybersecurity lecture lol and didn’t even make much sense to me as someone who actually knows CS (i actually cringed lmfao), and in cases like these it’s like, since it’s a romance story focus more on the romance and the setting can be secondary
Is this about zero day attack lol
totally fair, it’s probably just my personal preference to feel like the setting is believable to me. I get how the overly explanatory part feels annoying once it’s excessive. I think what makes a successful story is balance in general (both characters and setting) but at the same time it’s probably asking way too much of more casual authors :’D
stories that concern themselves with specific settings seem to care very little about the setting itself. Understandably it focuses a lot more about dynamics within the workplace (since this is obviously a romance), but it would be a lot more interesting and believable if you got to see what kind of marketing the company produces. I’m nitpicking here, but I’m a little bored with the story because I’m not fully convinced by the business setting. Naturally a lot of people are not reading this because they care about the business of marketing, but I think specific settings are supposed to compliment the story and in this case it doesn’t feel that way. Again, I’m being overly critical, but I really hope we get to see what exactly the characters are proposing. I know it’s weird to criticize, I just found myself a lot more curious about the business than the romance itself, lmao. I really liked the scene when Yoonhee was talking about the advertisement she was most proud of, and I wish there were more examples of what kind of ads were being produced by the company. You get the feeling that the artist prefers drawing people above everything else, which isn’t inherently a fault, but it gives nearly every scene a lack of variety which makes it a little boring overall.