Y'all gotta stop saying (and thinking) that this is about "finding love" or whatever. This is not a love story. It's a thriller revolving around a hostage situation with 2 unpredictable, emotionally imbalanced characters. Sangwoo is not being sweet or cute or whatever. He's playing the manipulation game when he tells Bum, "I don't think you're disgusting." Sangwoo is a psychopath and a sadist (in the psychiatric sense), and he doesn't actually understand what Bum is experiencing emotionally, and he isn't capable of empathy. His saying that was an attempt to restore things to the way they were before the suicide attempt and to ease his own psychological distress about being like his father. His logic: 'I say Bum is disgusting -> Bum gets upset and tries to kill himself. So if I say I don't think he's disgusting, he'll be happy again and I can reassure myself that I'm not like my father.'
Everything Sangwoo does, he does for himself. That's not love. And Sangwoo is making this all about himself because he is fundamentally self-centered. (And Bum doesn't love Sangwoo either. At this point, any outward expression of "love" from Bum is a survival tool.)
So please don't romanticize this and give the "haters" actual material with which to criticize this fandom. It reflects badly on Killing Stalking and Koogi.
Y'all gotta stop saying (and thinking) that this is about "finding love" or whatever. This is not a love story. It's a thriller revolving around a hostage situation with 2 unpredictable, emotionally imbalanced characters. Sangwoo is not being sweet or cute or whatever. He's playing the manipulation game when he tells Bum, "I don't think you're disgusting." Sangwoo is a psychopath and a sadist (in the psychiatric sense), and he doesn't actually understand what Bum is experiencing emotionally, and he isn't capable of empathy. His saying that was an attempt to restore things to the way they were before the suicide attempt and to ease his own psychological distress about being like his father. His logic: 'I say Bum is disgusting -> Bum gets upset and tries to kill himself. So if I say I don't think he's disgusting, he'll be happy again and I can reassure myself that I'm not like my father.'
Everything Sangwoo does, he does for himself. That's not love. And Sangwoo is making this all about himself because he is fundamentally self-centered. (And Bum doesn't love Sangwoo either. At this point, any outward expression of "love" from Bum is a survival tool.)
So please don't romanticize this and give the "haters" actual material with which to criticize this fandom. It reflects badly on Killing Stalking and Koogi.