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Actually in Japan, you're a legal adult by the age of 13, but you go to school until around the age of 19. So yeah I agree with you, people need to stop freaking out since the comic said earlier that it's only a couple weeks until he turns 20.
The 13 yo thing is just so young teens can sleep with other young teens without getting in trouble, it’s not the legal adult age and it doesn’t mean adults can sleep with 13 year olds, there are separate laws about that, I’m pretty sure it’s also 18+
I truly cannot understand why people are having an issue with this particular pairing. Yeah Dongho is in high school, but hell, even in the US there are 18 year old seniors, meaning they're in high school, but are technically adults already. So an 18 year old high school senior can't date a college sophomore just because they're still in high school? Suddenly there's this freak out over 23 year old Jaehwan trying to make a move on 19 year old Dongho. Dongho might be considered a minor in Korea, but I have not seen this type of freak out over other 18 year olds in Yaoi mangas having sex w/ men much older than them and last I checked in Japan you're not an adult until you're 20, right?
Another thing, people keep throwing around the whole "minor" and "age" thing because they consider Dongho is being manipulated because he's a minor, but in reality even if in most of the world 18 is considered "adult" the brain doesn't truly mature until the mid- twenties, so then, should 18 year olds not legally be able to date a 30 year old because their brain is not fully developed even though the law says they're an adult?
I don't care if Jaewhan/ Dongho materializes or not, I just find it so odd that people are freaking out over a 19 year old.