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Koreans and their strange thing with family. If one member of your family isn't good for your own health, just cut them out of your life and move on. And that father is a good example for someone who isn't good for him.
(This isn't the first webtoon I'm reading/read with fukked up family relationships and the "we are family" blahblah.. or maybe it's an asian people thing?)
Pisses me off every time, literally felt like slapping the shit out every one after reading this! How stupid and weak to you have to be to be taking shit like that ? Family means shit when they’re bad to you, CUT THEM OFF!
I dont wanna generalize so this is from my exp. As a korean from childhood ive been told that family is super important. Luckily i didnt grow up in korea where your judged by society harshly on your familial relationships. So there is a lot of putting up fronts that ur family is fine and perfect. Its hard for mc to cut his dad off cuz that his family. Hes probs feeling responsibilty,pressure, and guilt from the manipulation the dad has done. And cutting family off makes u seem rly disrespectful. Esp if its child to parent because respecting your elders and taking care of family is seen as super important. Its hard to cut off ppl when ur living in korea where you will be judged on your relationships with your family. This is why it comes up in webtoons and dramas a lot. Its because these are real life situations and in most cases ppl will react like mc so being able to express that cut off in webtoons is a way for ppl to express those feelings. I guess its like korean ppl wud relate to it and its nice seeing characters be able to do smth that is hard for u to do. Idk if that made total sense. I didnt want to make the reply way too long lol
YEAH ITS EXACTLY THIS in my culture too!!
Is it really just a Korean thing, though? It’s a freaking annoying trope, but sadly a very realistic one I think.
Recently I was watching a Turkish dizi where the whole plot is basically this guy wanting revenge on his mom for abandoning him and his sister as kids. They do awful things to each other in the name of revenge, but at the end, he asks her if she ever loved him and apparently commits suicide making the mom have a nervous breakdown. The story ends 5 years later where everyone is living happily ever after.
Throughout the whole story the mom character was awful she even tried to kill him at some point, and in the end it’s all forgiven. To me, it was a cheap ending.
Maybe it’s because I had relatively good parents that I could see from the outside looking in in a rational manner and I can say f* ck them, but i know first hand from someone I know how hard it is to break away from a toxic parent and how damaging they can be.
Dear "father", just take this bento box and leave the scene forever =___=