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17 years ago
Posts: 1310
Quote from NightSwan
Personally, this manga is starting to get annoying...
I mean, come on... Who's ever heard of a 19 year old acting like that?
And the teacher saying "huge age difference"...The class president turned from "cute puppy in love" into a "rabid stricken animal"
I think those are real issues in Korea, and seems that 8 (or was 6) years is quite uncommon in there... I didn't do any research YET, but it wouldn't be the first time I say something like "come on there is no way that happens in real life" but in the end culture corrected me and gave me a kick in the ass
17 years ago
Posts: 4764
Quote from Chaoswind
Quote from NightSwan
Personally, this manga is starting to get annoying...
I mean, come on... Who's ever heard of a 19 year old acting like that?
And the teacher saying "huge age difference"...The class president turned from "cute puppy in love" into a "rabid stricken animal"
I think those are real issues in Korea, and seems that 8 (or was 6) years is quite uncommon in there... I didn't do any research YET, but it wouldn't be the first time I say something like "come on there is no way that happens in real life" but in the end culture corrected me and gave me a kick in the ass
What are you talking about?...
I went to a highschool that had those 2 additional years.
What can't happen in RL?...
What are you talking about?
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Did I say something?...
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17 years ago
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When you said that the age shouldn't be a problem... than again I am drunk right now... care to elaborate?
17 years ago
Posts: 4764
Quote from Chaoswind
When you said that the age shouldn't be a problem... than again I am drunk right now... care to elaborate?
I said nothing of the kind.
I only said that they don't have a big age difference.
But I don't think age is a big problem. Knowing people with 20 years age gap...
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16 years ago
Posts: 16
I believe that one of the main reasons she resisted him for so long was because of her passion for teaching (maybe not passion) I mean throughout the manga she talks about wanting to be a great teacher like her mother and the whole student/teacher goes against her beliefs as a teacher. She really does like him but her beliefs were holding her back. A lot of people symphathize for Jin-Ho but i symphathize for the teacher. thats just what i think... and yes that was a lot of run-on sentences
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16 years ago
Posts: 4
I symphatize for the teacher as well, but I think that if you're trying to get her psychologically, you mustn't cling onto these social circumstances. I think Jin-Ho is right when he points out that the teacher is only try to avoid him (with these social status problems as well), her real problem is that she cannot open her heart enough to trust a man, especially not a man this superior to her.
Ihr glaubt, dass ihr down mit mir seid, Vertrauen braucht Zeit, und wenn ihr aufrichtig seid, tausend Mauern aus Eis.
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"trans.: You think you're down together with me? Trust needs time, and if you are honest, thousand walls made of ice."
16 years ago
Posts: 11
Come on, the main character is not that "superior". He is terribly annoying most of the time and he is not the kind to bother for other people. It's good to be straightforward and all but he goes overkill with it.
Though, then again, anything I say falls short to the moment when he bitchslapped that chick in early chapters. GOD WAS THAT AWESOME!?
I still want him with Azuka (whatever the class rep is called in Korean). And I want my lesbo back, she was illegally hawt.
16 years ago
Posts: 1
Even though no one posted on this forum in a while i wanted to say this to help put the story in better perspective.
The story was originally written for Korean readers. One of the things that I discovered after some research is that Koreans use a different way to calculate age then westerners do. The day you are born you are considered 1 year old. You are then considered 2 years old when on the next lunar new year which happens on 7th of February. So in an extreme case if you were born on the 6th of February by the 7th you are considered 2 years old even though you are only 1 day old. This is common in a lot of Asian cultures China being another major example. Japan is an exception to this, using the western way to calculate age for quite a while now starting around 1902 and then exclusively past the 1950's.
This makes Jin-Ho actually only 17 or 18 years old. This came about looking up the legal drinking age in South Korea and their school system. Drinking age is 18 by western calculation but would be 20 by Korean age which also coincides with the age for the mandatory military draft men have to go through mentioned in the story and the scanalator's notes. When looking at the school system i was seeing to sets of age ranges one Korean the other western for the same school bracket.
This also makes the other characters with given or assumed ages that they are little bit younger also.
The drinking age came up because I thought i discovered a plot hole in the story. The argument at the bar that occurs in chapters 7-8 because of Jin-Ho being underaged. If he was 19 by western calculation he wouldn't be underaged and Hae-Young would have no real argument. The incidents that happened afterward are extremely crucial to the story and if they didn't happen we have a pretty boring story.
Now with this in the proper perspective Hae-Young puts up three barriers to separate herself from Jin-Ho.
Teacher/Student-kind of self-explanatory.
Age Gap- Though its mentioned its physically only 6-7 year difference, to the Korean mindset its a bit bigger because of one factor. Korean men tend to marry in their late 20's early 30's because of mandatory military service, college and taking time to get their career established. While most Korean women usually marry shortly after college. So Korean husbands are almost always few years older or more than their wives. This comes up when Hae Young's friend pokes at the fact that it's been a couple of years since college and she hasn't even been dating never mind get married yet. This happens Again when Caroline is telling Hae-Young the western mind-set of age gap doesn't matter as long as your in love with each other.
The final barrier is Jin-Ho is still a child and Hae-Young is an adult. Throughout the story the two of them argue over this point several times but in the end by Korean standards he's not an adult until he reaches the Korean age of 20.
Sorry for the long post but I hope people have read it and it helps them.
16 years ago
Posts: 2
Didn't she give Jin-Ho a choice, and that was to make he fall in love with him completely, and if didnt make it. She would decided if she would leave the school depending if he could make her fall in love with him. So why would she be leaving the school? Maybe its just me who thinks this, but there have been a lot of problems concerning their age, so maybe if she tells him then she will quit school, so she can get the relationship started. I dunno this is just a random rant thats been going around in my mind. I do think they should start their relationship as soon as possible because in Korea they have a drafting age right?
If they do get together by the time they get married and have a child she will be like in her 30's. So she should settle down right now and have a kid or something.
