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Ch 23 fucking nevermind I'm dropping it anyways.

I think she feels "disconnected" from her peers in Seoul, especially when they talk about their parents, she can't really relate with their relationship with their family and is also jealous of said relationship (even if she hates feeling that way). This inability to truly connect and relate with her friends in Seoul made her feel isolated and not "normal". In Japan and Korea, and other asians country, being "normal" is being like the others, like your pears, you don't want to stand out, to be different. Many people there don't consider being "unique" as desirable, but on the contrary something to avoid if possible. So for her being "normal" is really important and if you're not, you become isolated which is very painful (this is her point of view). She seems to see Haebeom a bit like a older brother, or at least someone she really cares about (in a familial way I think, not a romantic one), so him and Ho being in a relationship when she knows they can both be with a woman, basically means to her that they CHOOSE not to be "normal", which is just unbelievable and, well, kinda unacceptable to her, who so want to be "normal", with a "normal" family, but just cannot be. To her credit, it's true that homosexuality and especially having a child raised by an homosexual couple is far less socially accepted in Korea than in the US or western Europe. And we're talking about the small countryside here, where it's probably even more frowned upon. She told them that by choosing to be in a relationship they risk being shunned and isolated by their community, and in her eyes, the risk just isn't worth taking. She just can't understand them taking it.

Damn that explains it so well!! I was trying to understand it myself and you said it so well, thank you (づ￣ ³￣)づ

You're welcome! Thank you!

same lol. I'll have to read this again to remember the story