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   I like it. I like the moral dilemmas they face, I like how idealistic she is and how everything is not so black and white and forces her to meet in the middle and find suitable solutions. I like how her pushiness in turn makes her colleagues consider more the individual and not go by the textbook law and give in a bit and show some kindness and humanity on the rulings. I also enjoy how they tackle a different social issue each week and how the resolution is not perfect and they second guess and regret their rulings, even if they came to the conclusion that rationally, and abiding the law it was the right decision. The way they all have their moments of doubt in the system and whether they are doing what's right, or if they are actually making a difference or if it is all meaningless... it's great to watch and I love how the characters are so well fleshed out that they work through their self doubt but remain true to their personality and ideals, while improving because of their interactions with each other.    The female lead (and the kdrama) sometimes feel a bit too preachy and on the nose, but the point is, you need people like that in the world... they might look too radical and sjw in their approach, but they do end up shaking things up just a bit when they go head to head with cynical bureaucrats and the people who "are just used to the way things are", and the middle ground they reach is certainly not an utopia, but it is definitely an improvement on the world, little by little. Without idealistic people like her, nothing changes for the better, and if there is no change, stagnation will inevitably lead backwards, changing for the worse. I didn't see the ahjumma harassing the guys scene as "funny" and I don't think the drama meant for it to be taken that way either. For me, the point of that was NOT that it was OK for it to happen because they were old ladies catcalling and grabbing younger guys, but it was so that they'd experience and understand how embarrassing and humiliating it was and how helpless they felt (albeit for different reasons). I actually think it was a subtle and effective way for the drama to prove a point, although It might have been interpreted otherwise. The guys felt trapped because they couldn't express how wrong what was happening was and ask the old ladies to stop or get mad at them for their behavior... all because of the cultural belief that you should "respect" the elderly woman, regardless of their  wrongdoings. Also, adding to it, they would look to outsiders as jerks for getting into an argument with "those sweet frail ahjummas". For all these reasons, they felt like they couldn't speak up and stop the old ladies, they had to endure it quietly. And that's the main point for me. The Female lead designed this as a sort of controlled experience so that the guys could understand how workplace harassing felt like for woman (they were in no danger of things escalating to full on assault from those ladies, unlike a real life situation with the opposing gender, plus she knew them and they toned it down afterwards, so she might have given the ladies a heads up and give them permission to go full out). I think it was just a way to make them understand how most times women feel helpless and have to play it for laughs and put up with it instead of speaking up, because of that same cultural constrains of "respecting their  male co-workers/ superiors", worrying that society will label them as hysterical or disrespectful if they complain about a harmless comment our touch. Same goes for the comments on how exposed you are dressed and how that is somehow a sign of flirtiness and consent, which is not. None of this is funny, neither was that scene for me, I just think it was meant to give the viewer an idea of how harassment can be taken lightly when you put a bunch of old ladies as the perpetrators, and in doing so see how lightly it can be taken on a work environment from the perspective of the male workers, who will think catcalling a female co-worker is harmless, but on both cases none of that matters because the victims still feel ashamed, humiliated and helpless.

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