I don’t think this story was ever supposed to be considered a “love story”. Yes it involves a “romantic” relationship, but it’s not about love at all, and that’s ok. This is more about understanding. They are not in a “loving” relationship, but they’re in a very “stable” (as stable as a psychopath can be), understanding relationship. Now for the people freaking out about this story “romanticising” psychopaths, I don’t think the story/author did that, but the readers did. Honestly, even in story, most people don’t necessarily “like” Kang Moo. I think he’s shown throughout the story as a bit unaproacheable. He’s not really “charming”. I seriously don’t think the author was trying to make him a “romantic” lead at all. As for the whole issue about loving a killer and how could Kirin so easily accept that fact, well I’m reality nobody knows how they would react to being in a situation like that. We would all like to think that we’d be rational and never do anything out of bounds, but if faced with a situation where either you or a loved one was raped and it was just brushed aside, could we really remain “pure” and believe in the justice system? I watch a lot of true crime, and it is infuriating to see cases where the perpetrator has been in and out of jail multiple times for rape/sexual abuse/molestation and they get a slap on the wrist. Usually these people are finally put away until they kill someone. Has anyone read/watched A Time to Kill? In that story a 10 year old girl was brutally raped and left for dead and her dad knew that no justice would be done and decided to take the law in his own hands. Should we condone vigilantism? No, of course not, but sometimes when there is a gross miscarriage of justice, people stop thinking rationally. And lastly, to the ones complaining about the unrealisticness of not being caught. If you pay attention, it was somewhat brought up in the story. At some point (can’t remember the exact chapter) Kang Moo did mention that killing someone without a plan is bound to leave traces. Every and all murders that took Place in this story we’re meticulously planned. And another thing, I feel the author kind of left the story open ended. Like it’s never stated that Kang Moo won’t kill again, it’s in his nature after all, but I think that if he does decide to kill again, it won’t be some random person. I think he might go the Dexter route and go for people that might have fallen through the justice system’s cracks.
I don’t think this story was ever supposed to be considered a “love story”. Yes it involves a “romantic” relationship, but it’s not about love at all, and that’s ok.
This is more about understanding. They are not in a “loving” relationship, but they’re in a very “stable” (as stable as a psychopath can be), understanding relationship.
Now for the people freaking out about this story “romanticising” psychopaths, I don’t think the story/author did that, but the readers did.
Honestly, even in story, most people don’t necessarily “like” Kang Moo. I think he’s shown throughout the story as a bit unaproacheable. He’s not really “charming”. I seriously don’t think the author was trying to make him a “romantic” lead at all.
As for the whole issue about loving a killer and how could Kirin so easily accept that fact, well I’m reality nobody knows how they would react to being in a situation like that. We would all like to think that we’d be rational and never do anything out of bounds, but if faced with a situation where either you or a loved one was raped and it was just brushed aside, could we really remain “pure” and believe in the justice system?
I watch a lot of true crime, and it is infuriating to see cases where the perpetrator has been in and out of jail multiple times for rape/sexual abuse/molestation and they get a slap on the wrist. Usually these people are finally put away until they kill someone.
Has anyone read/watched A Time to Kill? In that story a 10 year old girl was brutally raped and left for dead and her dad knew that no justice would be done and decided to take the law in his own hands. Should we condone vigilantism? No, of course not, but sometimes when there is a gross miscarriage of justice, people stop thinking rationally.
And lastly, to the ones complaining about the unrealisticness of not being caught. If you pay attention, it was somewhat brought up in the story.
At some point (can’t remember the exact chapter) Kang Moo did mention that killing someone without a plan is bound to leave traces. Every and all murders that took
Place in this story we’re meticulously planned.
And another thing, I feel the author kind of left the story open ended. Like it’s never stated that Kang Moo won’t kill again, it’s in his nature after all, but I think that if he does decide to kill again, it won’t be some random person. I think he might go the Dexter route and go for people that might have fallen through the justice system’s cracks.