I didn't had many expectations from Ux2, because it's not a genre that I am looking for. Although, I am very familiar with the author.
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The story is quite enjoyable. It does not drag at all and it's built by various incidents between the teacher Hae-Young and the student Jin-Ho.
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The protagonist Jin-Ho is not a pansy like the other male protagonists of Im Dal-Young. He is quite tough and also a girls magnet. However,
towards the last volumes, he becomes somewhat weak because of certain circumstances.
- Hae-Young is also a tough and heroine. I like her attitude and all, but she is unrealistic as a teacher. And I don't mean only appearance-wise. Surely, a teacher does not dress like that at school but her behavior wasn't that of a teacher's. For example, she was acting like a high-school student at times and she was involved with some of her students in situations that involved Jin-Ho. Like,
the time when Ami tried to kiss her and later Hae-Young didn't anything or at least to report it. Or when Ji-Soo yelled at her for trying to date Jin-Ho and all. Hae-Young wasn't that pissed; She could have easily suspend her and the other girl. But she only treated them like they were equal to her.
The ending felt rushed to me.
So we see Hae-Young giving up on Jin-Ho because of the annoying Jae-Kyung. Therefore, Hae-Young decides to start a new life in UK and then we see that Jin-Ho followed her somehow there. How? He didn't had a job at all to earn so much money, yet somehow he was a passenger in the plane. Difficult to get illegally in a plane but on the other hand, he knew everything about when Hae-Young will depart, on which plane, etc. It felt a little forced.
Also, the fact that we couldn't see what will happen to them next. I would like to see Hae-Young meeting Jin-Ho's father and the opposite, and perhaps their life in the next years. (Like, would they get married? Would Jin-Ho become a director like he wished?)
Lastly, I thought that there would be more interaction between the Chairman and Hae-Young. It was said that the chairman had a crush on Hae-Young's mother when he was a student and she was a teacher and so I thought that he'd become Jin-Ho's rival. Ah, but I was wrong, although it would have been interesting to see Jin-Ho's jealously.
Other than that, a very good read, better than the other generic crap that Im-Dal Young offers.