Imma gonna agree with you!

The drama theme lately, adultery, pedophilia and then this drama try to combine both. Great --"

I got excited when I saw TvN romance - but then I read the synopsis...dating a teacher while in high school AND she has an affair? Is it a Soonjung Manhwa type deal where he's an emotionally stunted loner who has never had a relationship before? And they have a pure romance with no physical contact? Still ethically wrong though. Can't quite excited for this one. But we'll see what happens when more details come out. I won't totally write it off yet, solely based on my TvN goodwill.

Maybe they MEET in school and marry after she graduates from university or something? Since he is supposed to be some kind of researcher, it's possible that they could re-meet somewhere else making this whole thing less uncomfortable.
Also, the way high school girls are portrayed nowadays on TV, she would either be an enourmous skank (thus the adultery, but why would she marry him? Money?) or a über-shy wallflower (but then why have an affair?). So I'm interested, if only to see how and if they will proceed with the ickiness factor of 20+ years of age-difference.

... Let's wait and see who will be cast as the wife ... and what ages she can pull off.

(But seriously ... is this some kind of a new trend to counter-act the myriards of noona-romances that we are flooded with???)

wut. well, I trust in Uhm Tae-Woong's choices when doing dramas, so it can't be all the bad, right? RIGHT? (please don't let this be gross please don't let this be gross please don't let this be gross)

I just hope this trend of adultery stops. It's disgusting and flossing over serious matters whilst calling it a rom-com/growth story/cheery-fate is just WTF. Even if the husband were an abusive bastard, if one's unhappy in a marriage, there's something called divorce. If it isn't used, the person cheating - even if a victim - is also much at fault.

This one is doubly bad because a high school student is a minor so having an affair with your teacher is so very wrong. And on top of that adultery. Just, eww.

Ehhhhh?? Why are you doing this, Dramaland? What's up with all these grody relationships, lately? I watch these dramas, and sometimes they're done so well I want to blot out the huge elephant in the room, but I really need to stop fighting my conscience. Yeah, call me immature or whatevs ORRR look at the story and realize it's got ICK written all over it. No, I do not support grown adults having relationships with teenagers nor am I for adultery. Tadahhh.

A "cheery story"?? It doesn't sound cheery to me - sounds depressing and hard to swallow. I don't know much about UTW's acting. I only saw him in Cyrano Dating Agency (movie) but I liked him on 2Days1Night. He seems like such an average "dude" - kinda of clueless and good natured.

(Sarcasm)

You know...using the word "icky" to describe your reaction to an older adult being involved romantically with a teenager apparently gets you reprimanded as having a childish vocabulary and called out as narrow-minded particularly on the High School King of Savvy threads (e.g. HSKOS recaps 11 & 12).

I know people who follow kdramas are from different countries and cultures, but it's SO SCARY how conservative some people are. I already read a big discution about noona romance and the legal implications of that. Now I'm reading this discussion about adultery. Both from TVN dramas. I really think people should think a bit out of the box and understand that tvn dramas are always unconventional in some way. About the age difference, there are a lot of different situations. In high school king of savy, for example, its pretty clear the male character is not being seduced or used by the female. And even then people talk about how dirty this is. My parents have a big age difference and they have 30 years of marriage. Real life is like that. About adultery, I don't feel comfortable about it too, because its a honesty problem in my opinion, but people get involved in different situations and it's possible see this in another way.

Hopefully the people calling the teacher-student premise icky were also equally horrified by the gender reversed versions that we've been treated to in the past. The adultery is what I can't get over and I'd rather not watch a tVN take on anything that weighty.

I love Kim Do Woo! What's Up fox and Me Too Flower are two of my favorite dramas, and of course Kim Sam Soon is great as well. She always gives her characters such great dialogue, and has these heroines that just tug at your heart. To this day I haven't found a heroine who is quite as real to me as Byung Hee is.

My sister and I have always thought that she wanted to explore a relationship where the man is much older than the woman, considering the second leads in those 2 dramas--I didn't like it at all in WUF, but that was because the guy was such a jerk; I liked it well enough in MTF. I hope this being on cable will give her opportunities that the non-cable channels don't afford, although tvn dramas aren't exactly daring.

At this point, the premise seems a bit vague to me. When they say that he meets her when she's his student in high school, does that mean that he'll be romancing her in that set-up? Or will there be a time jump where they'll end up marrying after the girl graduates or something? I'm hoping it's the latter.

I know it's too early to judge, but there's something about it that throws me off.

Sorry but I think this is just, so wrong, ethically wrong. What about our values that has painfully taught us the relationship between the teacher and student??

We have seen so many news regarding teacher and student relationships having an affair, and sexual affairs.

Is this gonna encourage more issues about the relationship of teacher and student?

I mean, I'm not against big age difference among couples, but not when they are still young. Like when if the guy is 41, and meets someone at 30, or 29, I think its perfectly fine. But when someone 30 meets someone at the age of 15, its just ethically not right.

The girl has to graduate first, please.

I was excited to hear about Uhm Force's potential return to dramaland...until I read the premise.

I wasn't aware of the hubbub over the issue of age difference in High School King of Savvy.

That being said, I'm a bit apprehensive to believe that this'll be the real storyline because it seems a bit too much. A teacher/student relationship is already a controversial issue, but add adultery on top of that? It seems a bit extreme to potentially air, even if it's cable. This possibly could be the writer/pd throwing this out there to gauge reactions and/or plausibility... then adjust accordingly.

Also, this is early in the game and not enough details. Now, what concerns me with this story is whether he was 41 when they first met (I'm thinking it'll be his current age)...because that really isunethical - no matter if "age is just a number." Now, if she was in college - I'd have no qualms whatsoever.

I consider myself open-minded but the topics of adultery and teacher/student relationships are no-nos in my book, sorry. That ain't being "conservative"...it's just simply my preference.

And I find it a bit disturbing how heated the argument is on both sides, with snideass wording and calling into question one's intelligence just because they don't agree with you? Childish and narrow-minded are what they are, not the opposing opinion.

Everyone has their own viewpoint and can think whatever they want on their own, so just expressing their disdain/support for the subject matter shouldn't be cause to bash them.

It seems that many fellow beanies are disturbed by the teacher marrying the student. I think it may be an overly strong reaction. As long as they don't marry while she's still in high school, there is no reason to get disgusted. Thinks like that do happen and it doesn't have to involve any immoral or illegal actions. Sure, it's risky, but the description doesn't mention any craddle-robbing, rather the life of the already married couple. We don't even really know when the plot takes place - how soon after their wedding it is, it could be just as well be several years (good old timejump).

Maybe I am less sensitive about the topic because our District Prosecutor happens to be married to her former teacher?

Eh...i don't really care for this drama. The truth is...if I ever cheated on my husband, he would leave me in a heart beat. That's the truth...because it involves real human emotions. He has given me everything that I have ever dreamt of...and if I decided to go screw that up, well...shame on me. Why portray a message that a marriage can still work without trust? Why...portray a message that it is okay to cheat...because the person you hurt will always be there?