s01e02 — Episode 2

As in Korea, everything is difficult and difficult in terms of studies and exams.
There are frequent cases of suicide among schoolchildren, not to mention physical and moral overwork and exhaustion..
Their secondary education system is "too much".

What a lovely slap in the face at the end of the episode. Bravo!

This drama raises an important highly social topic. Although we are talking about the Korean education system, I think the "excellent student syndrome" is a very urgent universal problem of all time. I liked how the characters and heroines are very skillfully revealed in the plot. You can't exactly call someone "bad" or "good." It's just like in real life... ordinary people with their variety of characters and life misconceptions, leading to mistakes and disagreements.

I feel like it's going to be a tough drama.

If you don't graduate from a decent university, it means people will look up to you. I wonder how the new neighbors will live among these rich people.

It's too early to judge the characters, I'm sure every family will have a lot of secrets. Youngjae is of course very sorry...

It's not the education system that surprises me, but the family system. Why are these rich women forced to realize themselves in life only as mothers and drink tea from a tea set with their girlfriends? They have money to start their own business, charity, creativity, after all. Is there something I don't know about Korean society, the rigidity of these social strata and the difficulty of moving from one to the other? Maybe Korean society is very patriarchal? Because husbands are all fulfilled, working, pursuing a career.

I don't know, I felt sorry for the boy.… After all, he lived like a robot, did what his parents wanted. What about him? They give birth to children so that what? Assert yourself? Of course, I feel sorry for my mother. But I am glad that my son has found the strength to start a new life and live for himself. But I'm afraid that his mother's suicide will weigh heavily on his shoulders, and he won't be able to live normally again. …

How interesting it all turns out 🌪️

When we came to the 10th grade after the summer holidays, there was not one student, the class teacher said she hanged herself because of the grades. I decided at that time that I would never burden a child with academic performance in the future. Moreover, I saw that these are most often cramming students, and not really interesting interlocutors, as here the Kan is clearly inadequate.
The most important thing is for a person to live happily, so the generations of our ancestors suffered.