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Is There Only One Acceptable Form of Society?

A Soompi member responds to the Inchon Business Article: If It’s Love, Then Even Phone Tapping is OK?  My Ajusshi Should Have Been Rated Age 19 by arguing that no one gets to dictate the way a society takes form.

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A Love Story Minus the Romance

Picking up on the discussion on a modern taboo, i.e. age gap relationships, @akhenaten concurs that if the age gap were smaller, Dong Hoon’s dilemma wouldn’t have been as complex. Dong Hoon, the paragon of morality, finds himself in a situation of temptation with a woman who seems to be everything that’s wrong for him… yet she becomes his pillar, his soulmate, the air he needs to breathe. Continue reading A Love Story Minus the Romance

Blurring the Lines of a Modern Taboo

A contemplation on the love between Dong Hoon and Ji An. Is it transcendent love, transcending physical and sexual needs? Or is it romantic love, minus the romance tropes? @40somethingahjumma thinks that it’s the latter, and that this drama is blurring the lines of a modern taboo… age gap relationships.

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If It’s Love, Then Even Phone-Tapping Is OK? My Ahjussi Should Have Been Rated Age 19.

Source | Translation by @chickfactor from Soompi

Inchon Business

If It’s Love, Then Even Phone-Tapping Is OK? “My Ahjussi” Should Have Been Rated Age 19

[TV Review] Thoughts after Drama is Over

by Kim, Sun-Hee, 5/28/2018
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An Age Gap Romance?

Discussion on the 20-something age gap between the My Ahjussi leads by Soompiers ~

@sadiesmith:

The production knew from the beginning where the relationship would go, but they deliberately said things that were confusing, things like “this is not a romance drama but a human drama.”  You saw romantic trajectory, so did many here.  But there are many who see only platonic feelings.  I am tickled pink that 12 episodes done, we are still in the same place as far as this issue is concerned. Hahaha..

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