
K-manhwa tries to make a likeable ML challenge: impossible. They are incapable of making any likeable man. The ML is a Hongdae "oppa" incarnate. Sleazy, can't take no for an answer, "I'm open-minded so you should be too", allergic to honesty, PREYS on fresh meat.

The thing is this is very much how South Korean men behave and they’re rampant cheaters. It’s noted and accepted as a societal norm. That is not to say that is not seen in other cultures, but it’s especially such an issue that the marriage and birth rate have stagnated in South Korea. What’s so bizarre is how even in their fiction Korean women write Korean men to be toxic as a default no matter who they’re partner is despite having every opportunity to depict positive depictions of healthy relationships, then are utterly surprised when their all consuming medias depict these traits as desirable so then South Korean men reinforce these characteristics due to exposure bias. It literally feeds into each other but the literal unwillingness to comfort these societal issues surrounding misogyny, toxic masculinity, and gender conformity perpetuates these institutionalized pillars of patriarchy. It’s why I get so mad when people say but “it’s fiction!”, fiction doesn’t exist in a vacuum nor does it come out of thin air, it has a basis of reality in order to even come into begin.

One that gaslight, guilt-trip, and manipulates you into thinking he had feelings for you while dating women left and right and claiming he had feelings for you. Oh but fucking around with 100+ women really shows that love huh? And only ever wants you back cause he thinks some other bloke wants you now, so now that makes you more desirable because you were just there and now that someone else wants you they don't like their toy being taken. I don't need to read all of the shit I skipped from 1-30-36 and could tell this is TRASH

I've gotten to get age where I find stories like these to be SO PREDATORY and this KID was basically GROOMED and LOVE BOMBED. That 30 something year old dude is CREEPY. If he wasn't "handsome" (in only this art style, any other and he'd be consider a minor background co-worker at best) he would be viewed as a complete and total CREEP. Caught feelings for a kid when the kid's literally in MIDDLE SCHOOL. Dude was 25 catching feelings for a KID WHO WAS 14/15.
The cute kid was cute but it couldn't help mask how this left a disgusting taste in my mouth after reading, I feel icky.
Leaving this here as a reminder for myself never to read anything by this artists all her other stories are also like this. Also warning everyone else too. All her MLs are the same jackass, that she forces these male-pussy having MCs to get together with them no matter how shitty they treat them. I would rather read about a prostitute getting an education than this shit
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