
I've seen you a lot in the comment section just now and just felt the need to talk to you lol.
I don't think Seheon's dad used his position to get close to a student. The way he is portrayed shows that he really felt dearly for him if not loved him, I mean the way he looks at his photos says it all.
I think he was aware of the situation, that he has a family and that he is a teacher but still loved Taejun. It seems as if he had been torn between the reality of not being allowed to be with Taejun and his love for him. Try putting yourself in his situation: you love someone but you know you can't be with them...but you love them. One moment he gave in to his feelings and the other moments he realized it was a mistake. Yes, he was the adult (technically Taejun was an adult too) and should have made a decision to either stay away from Taejun or go through with it, tell his family about it and love him with all his might.
That was the mistake he made: being wishy-washy and not making a decision. He somehow wanted both, his family and Taejun but couldn't decide and lost everything in the end.
I can imagine what a situation like this must feel like and I hope to never have to experience it.
Anyways, yes, Seheon's dad made a mistake that had ...consequences but I don't think he should be blamed for Taejun's death, rather it was a bad situation and a bad time for such poor decision making skills.

i think the reason i feel so strongly towards seheons dad is because my father was a cheater. my parents were married for many years. The thought of a man abandoning his wife, and children for such selfish reasons. i just dont understand that.
even if he was in love with taejun, it didnt mean he had to act out his feelings. he was much older that him, and should have used his common sense.
when people tear apart their own families and others just because of their own selfish desires, it causes so much damage that never really goes away.
i think its really my own personal experiences that makes me judge him so harshly. cheaters tend to be incredibly indecisive, just the way seheons dad was portrayed. he may have loved taejun, his wife at one point, and his children. but he loved himself the most and only cared about what would make HIM happy.
anyway, thank you for responding, its interesting to see this story from someone elses perspective. <3

My father is also a man who has not been faithful to my family. It hurt that he cheated on my mother but for some reason I understood to a point. For both the father in this manga and my dad they should have first told the family if they fell in love with someone else before acting on these feelings. I mean is it fair for worthier of them to continue being with someone if they are in love with another? To me that ain’t really selfish. In the end helix actions resulted in some horrible consequences but I don’t hate on him for falling in love with a student.

Instead of spending time with other people, I think people should focus on their marriage and kids and not spending all this alone time with some one else. Personally I don't ever see an excuse for cheating. I think people put themselves in situations like the one in this manga. When he realized his feelings he should have walked away and spoken with his partner. At one point he was in love enough to get married. I've yet to see a cheater settle down. They're never happy and will continue cheating well into their old age.
Regardless im sorry for what you went through. It's only now that I've managed to mend my relationship with my dad now that I'm a grown adult.
Anyway, have a good day. =) heading into work.

for one, 19 -20 is an adult. no matter how much you say they don't have any "experiences" you can be 19 and have too much experiences with many people and life so, he wasn't a teenager at all.
it's like saying until you get to the age of 50 you not an adult - which again is BS.
second, the comic show it was mutual relationship with a lot of guilt and a little abuse - the father dump the student, the student follow him and conviance him, they have sex and the circle go on. I don't see it has a healthy relationship but did was mutual one. so I don't really agree the father use him. but I do feel that he should not have play with him the way he did - doing things like this with his student while been married, lying to his wife and son - is the worst shit ever to do! and I will never ever feel pity for him for that! he cheated so he should take responsibility for what he did.
I do agree that the father run away after his lie was revealed which again make him the worst father and husband of the year! fuck this dude. and he left a very young man heart broken AGAIN which in turn made him kill himself. which does not help this father look any better.
so I do agree that the father character was the worse but at least, now, after a lot of years he does try to take some responsibility. it was lame, but well that what we got ╮( ̄▽ ̄)╭
@local grandma
note: didnt realize this website allowed you to block users lol. i wrote this out after realizing someone blocked me because i said the father, as the adult was the one to blame in this story. posting this as i took the time to type it out.
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Did you forget that the brother wanted to kill himself while he was in his best years?
- most teens and even adults are suicidal and have fatalistic thoughts like that. doesnt mean they'll kill themselves for real. doesnt change the fact that he killed himself after the father ran away after being discovered.
It has been stated several times. The father didn't "use" him.
-he used him for sex, he was attracted to him and gave into the boy hitting on him. he was a teacher (had a position of power) and slept with his student anyway.
Brother wasn't a teenager either, he was in college, therefore 19 or 20.
- nineTEEN is still a teenager, and a 20 year old is still a young adult, without the life experiences of a man in his 30s. a married man with sons his same age.
He too pursued the father all his life, knowing well that he was married and had a kid so... Don't make a victim out of him because he knew what he was doing.
- again, he was still someone extremely young. i dont care if he pursued him, as the person that is older, the father should have flat out rejected him.
I was in my comment also referring to the way his son also attacked him and didn't even bother to stop for a moment and think about the way his father felt.
- yeah, he just found out that his father played a part in his suicide, anger tends to make you act the way that he did. he was hurting, and feeling the pass of loss that his partner has been expressing throughout the entire manga. taejuns passing affected so many people. at the end of the day, a grown man in his 30s cheated on his wife and destroyed his family and took advantage of someone that was young and inexperienced.
I suggest you to check yourself because this amount of cruelty in a simple comment over a fictional character is concerning me.
- cruelty??? this is a manga. i am expressing my opinion. just like you are. i never said he didnt deserve a second chance, but he knows very well that he holds the most responsibility thats why he didnt find peace in the end. he knows what he did, and has to live with that choice.
in the end taejun took his life, but the fathers actions pushed him into a choice he may have never made. im sure you can find many people that have been suicidal and said dark things, and never went through with the actions. i have been there myself.
the adult in the situation ran from the situation he created, so he took his own life.