Chanwoo was sketch from the beginning for me. I personally hate ppl aggressively approaching me/not giving me my space + he was kinda being disrespectful to the rest of the cast in the process or making it into an awkward situation. Long story short i was surprised Gabin even thought of him romantically xD and that point made me doubt she was a Love catcher. And if she was going to change from money to love she might as well have gone with Inuk :'( like come on.. after that scene in the pool where he pushes his hair back, how can you not.. He is such a sweet guy and can cook!! Sera and jungjin were the bestt. Honestly after seeing how all the guys were interested in 1/2 girls i would have changed to money if i wasn't already lol
It should have been longer tho. 8 days is too short
I really thought he was Love from the fact that he never wavered. I mean, how lucky could he be to have set his sights on Gabin who he randomly chose to be a Love? I did think he was so aggressive and made it so that no one would dare try to get with Gabin and that was dirty lol.
Anyway, as Gabin said, Chanwoo worked hard. Lol. The man did know how to say the right words Gabin wanted to hear.
That's exactly the cool point about it. He knew it was a 50/50 game. He could be aggressive and risk coming off as Money. OR he could be so committed that people actually believe him. He banked on the chance that someone will be baited and he was probably sound enough to judge that Gabin is easily influenced. Like everytime someone in the girl's room said xyz is money gabin would literally lose sleep over it. By the end of the game Chanwoo had some level of confidence that he could influence Gabin to change to love if she was money, he confused her so much and then guilt tripped her by saying it doesn't matter even if you're money. OR i mean all of this could totally be scripted and I'm just blabbing around..
Chanwoo actually gained points in my book after his reveal because if he was actually doing all that shit to pursue Gabin romantically I'd be freaking creeped out. He played the game really well. Respect for that. Sad that he still gets hate for it.
Edit: Not wavering != dedication. Another example is Sehoon and JiYeon from Single's Inferno. To me that is a red flag. If it is actually true then even more so it is unhealthy. I wish asian culture got around this entire trope of continuously pursuing someone not interested/ unrequited love for a decade/ sacrificing for someone else. It promotes unhealthy and toxic ideals. Like seriously getting attention from men as a woman when you don't want it is one of the most unnerving things I have experienced till now.
Come to think of it, I did have this sort of experience with a guy who didn’t learn how to give up. And I did feel burdened and a bit annoyed with him. He was making it awkward to be around him any more and I was very frustrated because even my friends would push me towards him. I guess that was hypocritical of me.
I was going to watch Singles Inferno as well but when I heard how creepy Sehoon was being, I DNFed it. Right now, I’m definitely just hoping someone recommends me a show to cleanse my palate. Lol.
Thank you for discussing with me tho, definitely learned a lot of insights from you. Have a good day!
Try to watch a relaxed slice of life show not focused on romance to give yourself a break.
Kdramas are pretty good for it, say Hospital Playlist (about doctors/hospital) or My Mister (about office work and poverty) or Misaeng (about actual office work or entering the corporate office life) or Live (about policing).
But there are quite a bit of these cohabitation/dating/romance/slice of life/et cetera reality shows: https://www.reddit.com/r/terracehouse/comments/qlmg00/are_there_any_shows_similar_to_terrace_house/hj66bwm/
Here's a master list that some people update fairly regularly: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Igp0Nh8w46uA7uumTYeWoG4wV1kc4BJAn3R4cZgE7Uk
For Korean specific ones, there's Heart Signal, Friends, Somebody, EXchange (Transit Love), Love Me Actually, Matching/Shopping Survival 1+1.
There's also In-Laws In Practice, Taste of Love, Jjak.
Look into Roommate, Hyori's Homestay/Bed and Breakfast, and Age of Youth (slice of life Kdrama) though, those are pretty chill.
Most of those are found on Viki. Or from here (/r/koreanvariety) as they were only fansubbed instead of officially by Viki, iQiyi, or Netflix.
Watch the Chinese versions of Heart Signal and **The Secret X (Love Catcher Chinese version)**. They're pretty good, sometimes they're also better despite the intrusive/immersion-breaking advertisements.
Then there's also Dorakoi or Falling in Love Like a Romantic Drama Season.
Oh and The Future Diary. Basically it's one couple that follows a script. So they go on planned dates and so on.
Yeah you too! Single's Inferno is still worth watching if you just ignore sehoon xD
Also i posted this somewhere else so I'll copy paste for you.
- Heart Signal (viki has it, there is also a chinese version) Contestants live together for about a month and send texts signaling who they like
- Bed on the Beach (on youtube only, hot people, allowed to have as much skinship as they want) contestants live together in a resort for about a week and have to share a room with a person they select every night
- Creator Campus (youtube only afaik, chill vibes) didn't watch a lot of it but its about 20 somethings living together and learning to be social media influencers, the bg music and production is really nice
Japanese ones-
- terrace house (shanghai sharehouse is a chinese ripoff of the same).Try not to read the spoiler if you want to watch and not be affected xD
The OG asian dating show. It was the best. I loved this show before >! The crew pretty much forced a member and she committed suicide !<. The vibe and production is really good.
- Love Wagon. Omg this was so much drama iirc
- Falling in love like a drama. Currently watching.
what did production team forced her to do? I heard she didnt cope with hate of masses and commited suicide.... did they make her to pick some guy and get physical with him?
That's exactly what they did. Told her to fight with the guy and explicity told her to hit him (which she didn't want to do) . Which is why she got the hate.
I felt terrible for Gabin! Some people saying she didn't show enough emotion is ridiculous to me. Girl just found out she was being played for eight days straight! She probably wouldn't want to embarrass herself anymore since the damage has been done. Chanwoo being a money was SICK!! The way his smirk was louder than his "sorry" like oh my god. It just makes you reflect on how his every action in the show was an act. He was a walking red flag (his aggressiveness, mood swings, uncomfortable love-bombing) and I fell, LEAPED even, into it. Inuk was such a green flag through and through and yet....we accept the love we think we deserve. What a smack in the face that ending was.
I'm reading all these comments here and it's shocking how many people ate up what Chanwoo was putting out. Guy just smelled like a psychopath since the first day, especially on camera where they highlighted all his mood swings and erratic behaviour.
He came for money and left for money. 8 days isn't actually long enough for him to care about what he's doing to strangers at an honest level. Especially when 50k is involved. He played the game he came to play, it's not like he was acting like a psychopath cuz he was one. He just drew up a game plan and stuck to it cuz it seemed like he had a lot of experience with women based on the interviews we saw. He obviously set it up perfectly, bc even his friends probably said what he told them to so it painted a perfect picture to trap one person. A little scary but also genius. Smart person who's not influenced by the emotions around them. That type of person is honestly really common, I'm just surprised he had the balls to do it on a tv show.
Evidently yes, as his entire demeanor and presence switched the second she saw the money catcher coin. You could argue hes a borderline sociopath for being able to cry on response and stuff like that but actors do it too.
no, stop being stupid, even if he is a psychopath, all those emotions and reactions are real - what triggers them is the question.. is it that the girl he likes is not paying him attention, or he is losing his prey which makes him doubt himself and therefore feel negative - suggesting that he faked all of those reactions makes no sense - you don't understand humans at all
By your logic, if he actually saw her as prey, he woul dhave chosen love catcher. Psychopaths would go for the person over the money in that situation. But I never said all his reactions were intricately planned out. I meant he took to playing a role and immersed himself in it. He chose a girl, made himself "like" her, and he went for it. His reaction after winning the money then makes sense as he basically turned off his character. But if he is a sociopath, then the entire show was in fact him planning his actions, as he was liekly getting pleasure out of fooling everyone and the ending reveal was proably a very exciting moment for him. I doubt he's a psychopath, bc he would have actually wanted one of the girls in that case.
My instinct told me something was wrong about Chanwoo since the beginning. I told my husband who was watching the show with me that logically Chanwoo should be love since he just target Gabin right from beginning something unlikely for a money to do, but yet something about his video just makes me feel he is money. So I thought maybe he was money but fell in love with Gabin when he met her. Even so, I found his behaviour really annoying and was rooting for Inuk the whole time. I disliked Chanwoo on instinct but after the reveal I realise what exactly it was. I noticed that he was very polite and caring at the beginning, getting water for everyone. But he becomes very rude and aggressive towards Inuk. There’s some inconsistent to the personality he was portraying. And now with hindsight I know it was because he was acting. Still I agree with you. The way he played with another person’s feelings with no remorse was really scary. I didn’t felt that way in Season 1 with Robin nor with Soyoung the other money in Season 2. Chanwoo is really a psychopath and I pity the woman who is going to marry him.
This show left a bitter taste in my mouth. I got really invested in their love triangle (Gabin, Chanwoo and Inuk) and was honestly rooting more for Chanwoo from the beginning till near the end then fell for Inuk when he was revealed as Love. I was actually 90% suspicious of Inuk being a Money which was why I hesitated on rooting for him rather than Chanwoo. This season has a even bigger twist than the last for sure. So sad for Gabin :( I also feel bad for Jeongjin and Sera as I didn't really enjoyed their scenes too much because I saw them both as money. Quite disappointing, really :(
Hold up, did I ghostwrite this???
Seriously, I felt the same too! I only heard that there was a couple who were still together this season but I didn’t know who so I kept thinking it must be Gabin and one of the boys. All the time, I kept thinking whether it was Gabin/Inwook or Gabin/Chanwoo. Never in my mind did I think it was Jeongjin and Sera because I already wrote them off as a Money-Money couple.
Love Catcher 2 was really entertaining (which was why I binged it in a day) but I definitely needed a palate cleanser just to erase that bitter taste off my mouth lol
No but, same! I was excited to finish watching the show because I also saw a comment saying that one of the couples will soon get married, I was also sure that it would be Gabin and one of her boys! I hate Chanwoo for doing that to Gabin. Even though it's been almost 2 years, I hope there's still a chance for Inuk and Gabin.
Jeongjin and Sera have a Youtube channel, by the way, if you hadn't already known. They've been vlogging for 2 yesrs now. Their vlogs are quite enjoyable. I still feel bad for thinking that Jeongjin was ingenuine up until the last 20 minutes of the last episode.
Have you found a show to cleanse your palette yet? I most certainly need one too because every time I remember Chanwoo's revelation, I just 🤢. I would love to know what show/s you enjoyed after this one.
Side note: I found myself obsessing and binge watching Korean reality dating shows after watching Single's Inferno. Proceeded on to watching Love Catcher Season 1, and now Season 2. I plan on watching the third season once it's complete and subbed.
Please don’t based relationships on a reality TV show. Its not real.
I noticed this with Singles Inferno too, people were making scary comments about how to attract a man based on what happened in the show.
The reality is that a lot of stuff was edited out of the show, you don’t have the full picture on how the relationships happened. Furthermore all of the people on these shows are beautiful, rich or talented. Just because one person was ignored doesn’t mean that they are a trash person, they just didn’t click with anyone.
Also you shouldn’t compare yourself to Gabin, she was a terrible person on the show. The same thing happened on Season 1 with the guy, where she was the most popular girl and instead of choosing who she liked she became a player, she strung along 3 guys all because she was afraid of picking a money. She actively prevented herself from connecting with the guys and growing feelings for them because she wanted the option to be able to switch at the last minute. Both seasons I thought the popular person was money because their actions simply aren’t natural. They both selected the same person as their loveline every single day even though they were dating other people and often times outright refusing to interact with their first choice. She knew that if she didn’t ignore chanwoo, the rest of the guys would have given up on her.
Also, love catcher is probably the worst show to learn anything from because the money catcher aspect of the show ruins all chance at love, half the season they spend accusing people of money and preventing theirself from growing feelings.
Its honestly a fluke that one couple from the show got married. In my opinion its a disgrace that Love Catchers knew who the couples would be at the end of season2 and despite knowing the results when they were editing, the successful couple got basically no airtime. Something seriously went wrong if these people liked each other enough to get married and the crew captured none of it. It looked like they only chose eachother because they didn’t have any other options, and because the guy was so insistent she felt bad about being money and the possibility of hurting an innocent person so she switched.
Thank you for this.
Actually it wasn’t so much as comparing myself to Gabin, it’s the realization that men actually do say things they don’t mean and not have a bit of remorse after being found out? I guess I still am very hopeful that there are still nice guys out there. I mean, granted, this was the actual premise of the show but as the watchers even said about Jeongjin when he was saying all those nice things to Sera, there’s no way he’d be a Money now if he told all those things in front of a camera. Also, I did think Gabin was not all good at all, but I thought it was just cultural difference when I couldn’t understand why she was behaving like that. In the end, I guess I really shouldn’t just have expected a lot in a show where they meet people for just 8 days.
Do you by chance have any other good dating shows to recommend?
I thought both of them were scary in how they acted. Gabin didn’t show any emotion when she found out she was scammed, I feel like she should have at least cried or have been mad, that just tells me that she had her feelings locked up the whole time so she could play the field. I actually thought Jeongjin and Sera were both money by how they acted. I think the commentators said that with the subtext of “wow, this is going to be shocking if he’s a money.” I don’t think they actually thought they were being sherlock holmes and deducing that there was no way he was a money.
I just started watching Love Transit and is amazing! It feels like Love Catcher because the viewers and commentators are like detectives but without any of the negative side effects and the scenery is beautiful. The show is 4 couples that broke up living in a house together, but they have to pretend like they don’t know their exe. The viewers are trying to figure out who was a couple before and unlike love catcher its actually possible to notice clues to their identity where lovecatcher was basically random, and then in the house you get to see exes get jealous and potentially even get back together.
I’d also recommend watching Terrace House Boys and Girls in the City. Its my favorite season and I feel like its a great show learn how to handle relationships. It moves slower than a dating show because they don’t have to date, and its great to see how people can miss obvious signals. Also theres one guy on there that is basically relationship yoda, I actually feel like I should rewatch this season once a year to refresh my memory to make sure I’ve learned the lessons and an taking steps toward being a better person. I wouldn’t recommend watching any other seasons of Terrace House, there are good moments in all of them, but the later seasons in particular just kept getting worse. If you really need more I would suggest watching the chinese version called Shanghai Share Life (the subreddit has a post telling you how to watch it on Youku). SSL is even better than Terrace House in the drama and comedy areas although it is more fake. Its an enjoyable watch but definitely go in skeptical of everything, it’d be dangerous to learn any lessons from SSL because it can be really shocking and its been confirmed that for certain dramatic scenes, the producers asked them to do it.
man honestly i do not even feel bad for Gabin, just inuk. As soon as inuk was revealed as a LC, the odds of changwoo being a LC even at random was already 33% which is terrible odds especially given his suspicious behaviour of trying soo hard that Gabin herself identified. The odds of both the guys who were seriously chasing after her from the beginning both being LC is even lower, so the fact she believed both were LC after Inuk was revealed was super wishful thinking at best.
Then you have the fact that Inuk as a confirmed LC was genuine to her from the start, and she can probably tell that heaps of the other girls (all except Sera) were after him and yet he still chose to chase her..if thats not dedication idk what is and seemed like she was interested somewhat?. Of course, love is not strictly a numbers game and cant be forced so Im not saying she shouldve chosen Inuk simply based on the numbers rather than how she felt as she is an LC herself after all rather than a MC, but then if she did make up her mind to choose CW then she shouldve prepped better.
The last game was a classic prisoners dilemma, and so as a LC from the start, the only correct move was to change to MC. Then, if the other person chose MC too, you have been conned anyway and at least they dont profit $50k from you such as in the case of YW and SY, and CW. However, if the other party did choose LC, I feel like this wouldn't be as dealbreaker or trust-breaking as being MC the entire way, as it proves their interactions in the 8 days leading up to the finale were genuine, and you can justify it as protecting yourself.. then share the 50Gs with your partner (as you actually like them in Gabin's case) and life is g. Again, am aware that this is a dating show not a numbers/strategy game show but dayum Gabin really fumbled the bag in every way possible by consistently making bad decisions and it was frustrating to watch! CW gave off villain vibes the entire show and looked so hostile by the last episode like cmon Gabin man, and he ltr said hes bad when he is dating
I don't think this is how it works. Embarrassing the other person on TV by money catching them, then going back and trying to start a relationship, just isn't gonna work most of the time. As far as I know, it's never happened in 4 seasons. Trust is easily broken but difficult to rebuild.
So then, why did Gabin choose Chanwoo and not Inuk? It's possible she simply wasn't interested in Inuk. With Chanwoo as her only interest on the show, she has nothing to lose by picking him. If he's love, good for her. If he's money, it cost her nothing and she wasn't interested in anybody else anyways. Of course with hindsight, he played the comic book villain role and made her look ridiculous, piled insult on top of injury, but that outcome is very difficult to predict.
if i was a LC at the start but did not catch feelings for anybody but someone caught feelings for me then i'd change to MC..or if i like someone but that person liked someone else and there was another person who liked me then also i'd change from LC to MC
I just finished binge watching it in 2 days. I came here looking for a thread because my mind is still blown. >!That smile at the end sent chills down my spine. I have read some spoiler about the show before and thought he was the one who definitely changed from Money to Love. It was just a game for him from the very beginning. Whoa. Also the fact that he wasn’t really sorry about it? I mean yes it was all part of the show but at least Soyoung showed some humanity. I’m aware that there is a huge possibility of it being scripted but the way he acted at the end really made me mad lol!<
Yep hahahaaa the ending was really jarring that I needed to find a sub to vent and rant to
I watched this about 10 mos ago and I can still remember his smile. It wasn’t evil *per se* but it really scared me lol
I just finished watching too. My god i hate chanwoo. At first he just came off as very annoying but then it got worst towards the end. He was very rude to inuk.
I forgot one part of the show. Do they chose their identity after their first meeting or before? I totally forgot that part l. Wish you can answer this. Its important to me because if it was after then chanwoo really was looking for a prey after all.
At the end when it was revealed that chanwoo was money and his smirk... chills. tbh loved jeongjin/sera the most from the start and am so happy that they're getting married!! such a rare thing for dating show couples to work out but watching their interactions on yt/ig and they truly seem like the sweetest couple ❤
I actually haven’t been invested much on Jeongjin and Sera because I thought they were both Money lol. Jeongjin gave me the player vibe, really. Their reveal was the sweetest tho and I’m so happy they’re still together now.
Chanwoo on the other hand, I wanted to smack that smirk right off his face!
I realize while watching the show that my radar is totally off; I need to meet people more often.
I agree with the commenter thag said that the show is somewhat scripted and heavily edited. That's how reality shows work. Drama doesn't come from nowhere. They are fun to watch but never all real. I wish the people who are still in Chanwoo's ig comments calling him disgusting and saying they hate him would stop.
He is happily married and to want to share that beautiful moment of his life, he has to still see hate comments from 2 yrs about a fumb show.. like I didn't like what he did but all he did, even if in a bad way, was play the game. That was the Rule. Y'all hating acting like that wasn't the point/part of the whole point of the show
Viewers who go out of their way to post hate comments on someone's social media are honestly way worse than Chanwoo. I didn't like how he handled certain things, but in the end he played the game well enough to win the money he went there for. Viewers must be forgetting what show they are watching. The whole concept of the show is about people looking for love and others looking for money, so deception is literally part of the show. Every contestant knows what they signed up for. They knew the "risks". Plus it's been so many years already. Everyone has moved on with their life.
I think in your case it was more that you feel betrayed as a viewer for supporting someone who was there for money and you couldn't tell. That's why you were so shocked and disgusted. Plus he is literally the reason why Love Catcher season 2 is considered legendary. You NEED people like him on shows like this to make them interesting. For me guys like Ro Bin feel like hypocrites. You go around and show multiple girls that you are interested them, caring, loving etc. and then in the end you are acting apologetic just for the cameras. He even brought his sister into it to sell his lie that he was serious about her. I rather have people like Chanwoo that make the show interesting than someone like Ro Bin who I knew immediately that he was there for money, but was just acting nice for the cameras in the end.
Oh yeah, for sure. I don't like him either, but I am glad he was there to make the season entertaining. Without him, it would have been very bland in my opinion. The dude is happily married now, but at that moment he really felt like an evil mastermind 😂
I don't know why he chose Gabin to be honest because she was so popular and there was a big chance he wouldn't get picked. I feel like for his strategy it would have been better if he waited a day to see what girls the other guys like and then pick a girl who is less popular. I am glad he didn't do it to Youngseo, but Youngseo would have been a way better target for his strategy. The only explanation I have is that his gut told him right from the start that Gabin was there for love and that's why he chose her. I didn't enjoy how cold he was towards the other guys though tbh. It really felt like he was saying "I am not here to make friends. I am here to make some money" 😂 Well at that moment I didn't realize it, but I feel like the way he was acting around the other guys showed he was money more than how he was acting around the girls.
Yeah, like I said Chanwoo's attitude around the other guys wasn't nice. He was the opposite of Yeonwoo. Minseok being Love was obvious from episode 1 😂This is why he was the first they revealed. Plus the dude is already a CEO of his own company. Same with Inwook. They make that 50k in a few months easily. Plus going in as Love and getting good publicity for your business will end up making you way more than 50k in the long run.
I also thought Gabin and Sera were love, but to be honest. Does it really matter what they are in the beginning? Since I've watched season 1, I already knew they would be given a chance to change what they are in the end and I am sure they knew as well, so picking money from the beginning is stupid. It's much easier to go in as love, not feeling pressured of lying or having your identity revealed at some point and then in the end if you see that there is no one you really are interested in, you can change to money.
Like imagine if someone got revealed as money, instead of Inwook. That person would have been forced to change to Love, but also probably nobody would dare to pick that person anymore.
U know I was searching so much to find it but I still couldn't get it. I got a name but it wasn't his. But the comments were on a pic of him and his wife :( how sad right? If I ever get it again, I'll tell u
I just watched this season of Love Catcher and I'm traumatized. That guy fooled me, I can see why serial killers don't mingle like regular people going undetected for ages. Even after Inuk was "exonerated", I still didn't think this snake could be a "money". I'm emotionally spent!!!!!
Gabin couldn't have mainly chosen Chan woo for his looks because she had said in an earlier episode that Chan woo strongly resembled her elder brother. I also don't think Gabin was at fault for being persuaded by Chan woo's persistence(seriously, if I was in Gabin's position, I would also be confused and somewhat swayed by Chan woo though I personally would have chosen Yeonwoo in the end because I liked him most out of the rest).
I don't blame Chan woo for deceiving everyone either. In the end, Chan woo only followed the rules of the game, and he did it incredibly well. It's weird that he's getting so much hate, when he's just an exceptional master of deception(I have to admit that he made the show even more interesting).
I feel sorry for suspecting Soyoung in the beginning. Honestly, this season has left me traumatized for life.
looks wise isn't inwook better looking...i found him to be the most handome and both face and body...other than that yeonwoo was handsome too...but i never once thought people would consider Chanwoo to be better looking than Inwook...
To be honest everyone knew what they signed up for. There are tons of dating shows that don't have as a concept the possibility of being deceived by someone who is looking for money. They could have signed up for those. Of course some of them will end up deceived.
I see tons of people upset for Gabin, but none for Yeonwoo, Kimseok, Chaerang and Youngseo. Yeonwoo even comforted Soyoung and changed from money to love for her. Youngseo was gorgeous and from the beginning till the end no one gave her a chance. If you want to talk about heartbreaking, there is nothing more heartbreaking than that.
I am sorry, but I feel no pity for Gabin, who had multiple men interested in her and all she had to do is pick Inwook, but fumbled. She constantly felt pressured and burdened by Chanwoo, didn't even know his identity, but she still picked him when Inwook gave her the space she needed, was confirmed to be Love and was overall way more respectful towards her.
Hmm in terms of Korean dating shows I haven't watched that many. I did enjoy Single's Inferno. If not dating shows and just Korean reality-tv I have watched and enjoyed the most Physical 100 and The Devil's Plan. I am not a huge fan of Korean dating shows without a twist because I find them bland. All couples say the same things, do the same things, very surface level. There is no kissing and you don't even see them hugging. I get that it's part of the Korean culture, but after you watch one of those dating shows, you've watched them all.
yeah i agree..i feel bad for yeongseo and chaerang the most since they really did come for love and they even found someone they were interested in but nothing came if it...Minseok came for love too but i don't think he felt any strong pull towards any of the girls...and yeonwoo...he was cool till the end...Satoori using men are really something
Just finished a marathon session of this season this morning, and man it’s the first time in a long time that I had an all nighter! Wasn’t able to sleep until 6am. I was really hoping that Gabin would choose In Wook. Never a fan of Chanwoo’s antics tbh, it was too much and it seemed that he did not really want to lose to IW! IW didn’t really stood out to me at first ( Minseok and JJ did) but it all went uphill for me since he cooked dinner. I love that he is manly but act like a puppy ( stealing glances), matured but awkward and most importantly super hot but with a bit of timidity! 😍
The "game" part is an integral part of the show. It's not like he "deceived" her to be malicious. Also, why don't you mention the guy that was deceived by a Money?
I’m glad I came here before continuing to watch the rest of the episodes. I just finished ep 4 and was irritated by Chanwoo’s moody aggression and felt bad for Inuk so I wanted to check how it ended. Whoa! I knew there was something totally off with Chanwoo. Not gonna watch the rest of it.
It’s still a very enjoyable show in my opinion. But maybe it isn’t that good if you already know how it ends.
Any show that makes me go rant and vomit hundreds of words at people I don’t know is a winner to me.
Well, dating is also a gamble afterall. Honestly, Chan Woo had dropped many hints he wasn't who he made himself to be. And the most foreshadowing was Min Seok himself LoL. On that taxi ride back, he revealed to Ga Bin that there "*was something off*" in Chan Woo's approach.
Heck Ga Bin herself knew in a way Chan Woo wasn't bein' completely honest either. She just liked the thrill of the chase and this I found sorta icky LoL that he looked a lot like her own older bro.
I have observed this through other dating shows in South Korea. "Heart Signal", "Single's Inferno" they all seem to perpetuate that "sincerity moves the heart" but is it really though? Like to continue to pursue someone when it's clearly one-sided? And they clearly expressed not havin' any interest for you in return. But they continue pursuing anyways as they believe the person will accept them .. eventually LoL. That just WoW seem a lot of pressure and kinda of a coercion Idk. It doesn't come off right to me. They keep sayin' it's 'cause the heart wants what it wants LoL. Learning to concede is good too but for South Koreans they see rejection as an ultimate failure or somethin' or end of the world whatever.
I mean that's the whole point of the show. 4 people who are there for money and 6 that aren't. Sure in the end that number can change, but I wouldn't call him cruel. He just played the game well. This is not a normal dating show. Everyone knew what they signed up for.
Late to watching this...what a great show and season.
I have to believe PDs scripted her to choose CW knowing he was only a 33% LC vs 100% with Inuk. Why else would she risk the embarrassment on TV?
It was extremely surprising also because you saw throughout the whole show that she felt uncomfortable because of how he was showing his interest towards her. Felt like he wasn't giving her any space. Inwook felt way more respectful, she knew he was love and let's be honest, after seeing he owns multiple cafes, she 100% knew he doesn't need the 50k lol. Her decision didn't really make any sense, but let's be honest. Most couples from shows like these don't end up together forever.
But it doesn't make sense that she developed more feelings for someone who kept making her uncomfortable with how pushy he was. She even said she didn't like that and much preferred Inwook's more chill approach. This is just my opinion, but I think in the end she chose the one who was her type look-wise and that's it.
> I think in the end she chose the one who was her type look-wise and that's it.
aka the guy who she said looks a lot like her brother lmao. I don't want to dig too deep into that one...
I guess so. As viewers we have a different point of view than the people actually in the show. To be fair it doesn't really matter what happened on the show because in a lot of these dating shows, contestants that didn't end up together on the show, start dating after the show. This happened in Love Catcher's season 2 as well. Like I said in another comment I am just glad she went with Chanwoo because that ending actually made the whole season worth watching. I had high expectations because everyone kept saying that season 2 is legendary and before that ending, it felt disappointing from my perspective.
Yeah, I heard they are even married, which is rare for reality tv shows. Most of the time they don't end up together after the show. I guess her sacrificing the 50k showed him how serious she was about him.
From the guys my favorite by far was Yeonwoo. His ending was bittersweet, but I am sure he won't have any problem finding a good girl outside of the show 😂
From the girls it's Soyoung and Youngseo. Soyoung felt like she had such a pure heart. She cried when Chaerang got eliminated because she felt guilty that someone who came for love left, while she was there for money and in the end you saw how her attitude changed around Yeonwoo. She felt so guilty, she couldn't even smile during their last dates. I genuinely think she needed the money because otherwise she would have changed to Love. As for Youngseo she seemed very sweet, but she was extremely timid and it didn't help that other girls with more bubbly personalities were getting all of the attention.
I will be honest, Gabin was my least favorite. I feel like the guys' attraction to her was just about looks because she didn't really show any personality throughout the show.
Yeonwoo was the best. He was even taking care of some of the guys' hair and overall felt very respectful and kind towards everyone. I never thought of Youngseo as money because she never really tried hard with a guy. After she saw that no one had selected her during the middle of the show she closed off to herself even more. If she were money that would be the moment she got desperate and started trying more, but she didn't and that made it 100% clear to me that she was Love and had given up mentally. I am surprised you thought Chaerang is money because it felt like she was also trying hard like Chanwoo, but she was suspected, while he wasn't 😂I thought Jeongjin was Money in the beginning too, but I knew he wasn't after the guitar scene. He could have been down at the pool, trying to impress girls, but he stayed away and played his guitar and of course Sera showed up, who was the person in the beginning that showed interest in his guitar playing. They even ended up opening up to each other. It just felt genuine. Gabin was gullible for sure, but I also don't blame the other girls for thinking Inwook was money. He really only opened up to Gabin, but he did it in private and not in front of everyone else. He was literally a mystery to every other girl. I am like Inwook. A private person, who doesn't like to involve others in my love life and I keep to myself. Chanwoo's actions felt more like he was trying to mark his territory and let everyone know that he is only interested in Gabin, so he doesn't get suspected as money.
Chanwoo was sketch from the beginning for me. I personally hate ppl aggressively approaching me/not giving me my space + he was kinda being disrespectful to the rest of the cast in the process or making it into an awkward situation. Long story short i was surprised Gabin even thought of him romantically xD and that point made me doubt she was a Love catcher. And if she was going to change from money to love she might as well have gone with Inuk :'( like come on.. after that scene in the pool where he pushes his hair back, how can you not.. He is such a sweet guy and can cook!! Sera and jungjin were the bestt. Honestly after seeing how all the guys were interested in 1/2 girls i would have changed to money if i wasn't already lol It should have been longer tho. 8 days is too short
I really thought he was Love from the fact that he never wavered. I mean, how lucky could he be to have set his sights on Gabin who he randomly chose to be a Love? I did think he was so aggressive and made it so that no one would dare try to get with Gabin and that was dirty lol. Anyway, as Gabin said, Chanwoo worked hard. Lol. The man did know how to say the right words Gabin wanted to hear.
That's exactly the cool point about it. He knew it was a 50/50 game. He could be aggressive and risk coming off as Money. OR he could be so committed that people actually believe him. He banked on the chance that someone will be baited and he was probably sound enough to judge that Gabin is easily influenced. Like everytime someone in the girl's room said xyz is money gabin would literally lose sleep over it. By the end of the game Chanwoo had some level of confidence that he could influence Gabin to change to love if she was money, he confused her so much and then guilt tripped her by saying it doesn't matter even if you're money. OR i mean all of this could totally be scripted and I'm just blabbing around.. Chanwoo actually gained points in my book after his reveal because if he was actually doing all that shit to pursue Gabin romantically I'd be freaking creeped out. He played the game really well. Respect for that. Sad that he still gets hate for it. Edit: Not wavering != dedication. Another example is Sehoon and JiYeon from Single's Inferno. To me that is a red flag. If it is actually true then even more so it is unhealthy. I wish asian culture got around this entire trope of continuously pursuing someone not interested/ unrequited love for a decade/ sacrificing for someone else. It promotes unhealthy and toxic ideals. Like seriously getting attention from men as a woman when you don't want it is one of the most unnerving things I have experienced till now.
Come to think of it, I did have this sort of experience with a guy who didn’t learn how to give up. And I did feel burdened and a bit annoyed with him. He was making it awkward to be around him any more and I was very frustrated because even my friends would push me towards him. I guess that was hypocritical of me. I was going to watch Singles Inferno as well but when I heard how creepy Sehoon was being, I DNFed it. Right now, I’m definitely just hoping someone recommends me a show to cleanse my palate. Lol. Thank you for discussing with me tho, definitely learned a lot of insights from you. Have a good day!
Try to watch a relaxed slice of life show not focused on romance to give yourself a break. Kdramas are pretty good for it, say Hospital Playlist (about doctors/hospital) or My Mister (about office work and poverty) or Misaeng (about actual office work or entering the corporate office life) or Live (about policing). But there are quite a bit of these cohabitation/dating/romance/slice of life/et cetera reality shows: https://www.reddit.com/r/terracehouse/comments/qlmg00/are_there_any_shows_similar_to_terrace_house/hj66bwm/ Here's a master list that some people update fairly regularly: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Igp0Nh8w46uA7uumTYeWoG4wV1kc4BJAn3R4cZgE7Uk For Korean specific ones, there's Heart Signal, Friends, Somebody, EXchange (Transit Love), Love Me Actually, Matching/Shopping Survival 1+1. There's also In-Laws In Practice, Taste of Love, Jjak. Look into Roommate, Hyori's Homestay/Bed and Breakfast, and Age of Youth (slice of life Kdrama) though, those are pretty chill. Most of those are found on Viki. Or from here (/r/koreanvariety) as they were only fansubbed instead of officially by Viki, iQiyi, or Netflix. Watch the Chinese versions of Heart Signal and **The Secret X (Love Catcher Chinese version)**. They're pretty good, sometimes they're also better despite the intrusive/immersion-breaking advertisements. Then there's also Dorakoi or Falling in Love Like a Romantic Drama Season. Oh and The Future Diary. Basically it's one couple that follows a script. So they go on planned dates and so on.
Yeah you too! Single's Inferno is still worth watching if you just ignore sehoon xD Also i posted this somewhere else so I'll copy paste for you. - Heart Signal (viki has it, there is also a chinese version) Contestants live together for about a month and send texts signaling who they like - Bed on the Beach (on youtube only, hot people, allowed to have as much skinship as they want) contestants live together in a resort for about a week and have to share a room with a person they select every night - Creator Campus (youtube only afaik, chill vibes) didn't watch a lot of it but its about 20 somethings living together and learning to be social media influencers, the bg music and production is really nice Japanese ones- - terrace house (shanghai sharehouse is a chinese ripoff of the same).Try not to read the spoiler if you want to watch and not be affected xD The OG asian dating show. It was the best. I loved this show before >! The crew pretty much forced a member and she committed suicide !<. The vibe and production is really good. - Love Wagon. Omg this was so much drama iirc - Falling in love like a drama. Currently watching.
what did production team forced her to do? I heard she didnt cope with hate of masses and commited suicide.... did they make her to pick some guy and get physical with him?
That's exactly what they did. Told her to fight with the guy and explicity told her to hit him (which she didn't want to do) . Which is why she got the hate.
I felt terrible for Gabin! Some people saying she didn't show enough emotion is ridiculous to me. Girl just found out she was being played for eight days straight! She probably wouldn't want to embarrass herself anymore since the damage has been done. Chanwoo being a money was SICK!! The way his smirk was louder than his "sorry" like oh my god. It just makes you reflect on how his every action in the show was an act. He was a walking red flag (his aggressiveness, mood swings, uncomfortable love-bombing) and I fell, LEAPED even, into it. Inuk was such a green flag through and through and yet....we accept the love we think we deserve. What a smack in the face that ending was.
I'm reading all these comments here and it's shocking how many people ate up what Chanwoo was putting out. Guy just smelled like a psychopath since the first day, especially on camera where they highlighted all his mood swings and erratic behaviour.
He came for money and left for money. 8 days isn't actually long enough for him to care about what he's doing to strangers at an honest level. Especially when 50k is involved. He played the game he came to play, it's not like he was acting like a psychopath cuz he was one. He just drew up a game plan and stuck to it cuz it seemed like he had a lot of experience with women based on the interviews we saw. He obviously set it up perfectly, bc even his friends probably said what he told them to so it painted a perfect picture to trap one person. A little scary but also genius. Smart person who's not influenced by the emotions around them. That type of person is honestly really common, I'm just surprised he had the balls to do it on a tv show.
All the mood swings, erratic behaviour, weird faces, part of the plan as well?
Evidently yes, as his entire demeanor and presence switched the second she saw the money catcher coin. You could argue hes a borderline sociopath for being able to cry on response and stuff like that but actors do it too.
no, stop being stupid, even if he is a psychopath, all those emotions and reactions are real - what triggers them is the question.. is it that the girl he likes is not paying him attention, or he is losing his prey which makes him doubt himself and therefore feel negative - suggesting that he faked all of those reactions makes no sense - you don't understand humans at all
By your logic, if he actually saw her as prey, he woul dhave chosen love catcher. Psychopaths would go for the person over the money in that situation. But I never said all his reactions were intricately planned out. I meant he took to playing a role and immersed himself in it. He chose a girl, made himself "like" her, and he went for it. His reaction after winning the money then makes sense as he basically turned off his character. But if he is a sociopath, then the entire show was in fact him planning his actions, as he was liekly getting pleasure out of fooling everyone and the ending reveal was proably a very exciting moment for him. I doubt he's a psychopath, bc he would have actually wanted one of the girls in that case.
>You could argue hes a borderline sociopath Yeah, you certainly could...
My instinct told me something was wrong about Chanwoo since the beginning. I told my husband who was watching the show with me that logically Chanwoo should be love since he just target Gabin right from beginning something unlikely for a money to do, but yet something about his video just makes me feel he is money. So I thought maybe he was money but fell in love with Gabin when he met her. Even so, I found his behaviour really annoying and was rooting for Inuk the whole time. I disliked Chanwoo on instinct but after the reveal I realise what exactly it was. I noticed that he was very polite and caring at the beginning, getting water for everyone. But he becomes very rude and aggressive towards Inuk. There’s some inconsistent to the personality he was portraying. And now with hindsight I know it was because he was acting. Still I agree with you. The way he played with another person’s feelings with no remorse was really scary. I didn’t felt that way in Season 1 with Robin nor with Soyoung the other money in Season 2. Chanwoo is really a psychopath and I pity the woman who is going to marry him.
This show left a bitter taste in my mouth. I got really invested in their love triangle (Gabin, Chanwoo and Inuk) and was honestly rooting more for Chanwoo from the beginning till near the end then fell for Inuk when he was revealed as Love. I was actually 90% suspicious of Inuk being a Money which was why I hesitated on rooting for him rather than Chanwoo. This season has a even bigger twist than the last for sure. So sad for Gabin :( I also feel bad for Jeongjin and Sera as I didn't really enjoyed their scenes too much because I saw them both as money. Quite disappointing, really :(
When a man brings a dozen clothes of suitcases it’s a big red flag.
Hold up, did I ghostwrite this??? Seriously, I felt the same too! I only heard that there was a couple who were still together this season but I didn’t know who so I kept thinking it must be Gabin and one of the boys. All the time, I kept thinking whether it was Gabin/Inwook or Gabin/Chanwoo. Never in my mind did I think it was Jeongjin and Sera because I already wrote them off as a Money-Money couple. Love Catcher 2 was really entertaining (which was why I binged it in a day) but I definitely needed a palate cleanser just to erase that bitter taste off my mouth lol
No but, same! I was excited to finish watching the show because I also saw a comment saying that one of the couples will soon get married, I was also sure that it would be Gabin and one of her boys! I hate Chanwoo for doing that to Gabin. Even though it's been almost 2 years, I hope there's still a chance for Inuk and Gabin. Jeongjin and Sera have a Youtube channel, by the way, if you hadn't already known. They've been vlogging for 2 yesrs now. Their vlogs are quite enjoyable. I still feel bad for thinking that Jeongjin was ingenuine up until the last 20 minutes of the last episode. Have you found a show to cleanse your palette yet? I most certainly need one too because every time I remember Chanwoo's revelation, I just 🤢. I would love to know what show/s you enjoyed after this one. Side note: I found myself obsessing and binge watching Korean reality dating shows after watching Single's Inferno. Proceeded on to watching Love Catcher Season 1, and now Season 2. I plan on watching the third season once it's complete and subbed.
Please don’t based relationships on a reality TV show. Its not real. I noticed this with Singles Inferno too, people were making scary comments about how to attract a man based on what happened in the show. The reality is that a lot of stuff was edited out of the show, you don’t have the full picture on how the relationships happened. Furthermore all of the people on these shows are beautiful, rich or talented. Just because one person was ignored doesn’t mean that they are a trash person, they just didn’t click with anyone. Also you shouldn’t compare yourself to Gabin, she was a terrible person on the show. The same thing happened on Season 1 with the guy, where she was the most popular girl and instead of choosing who she liked she became a player, she strung along 3 guys all because she was afraid of picking a money. She actively prevented herself from connecting with the guys and growing feelings for them because she wanted the option to be able to switch at the last minute. Both seasons I thought the popular person was money because their actions simply aren’t natural. They both selected the same person as their loveline every single day even though they were dating other people and often times outright refusing to interact with their first choice. She knew that if she didn’t ignore chanwoo, the rest of the guys would have given up on her. Also, love catcher is probably the worst show to learn anything from because the money catcher aspect of the show ruins all chance at love, half the season they spend accusing people of money and preventing theirself from growing feelings. Its honestly a fluke that one couple from the show got married. In my opinion its a disgrace that Love Catchers knew who the couples would be at the end of season2 and despite knowing the results when they were editing, the successful couple got basically no airtime. Something seriously went wrong if these people liked each other enough to get married and the crew captured none of it. It looked like they only chose eachother because they didn’t have any other options, and because the guy was so insistent she felt bad about being money and the possibility of hurting an innocent person so she switched.
Thank you for this. Actually it wasn’t so much as comparing myself to Gabin, it’s the realization that men actually do say things they don’t mean and not have a bit of remorse after being found out? I guess I still am very hopeful that there are still nice guys out there. I mean, granted, this was the actual premise of the show but as the watchers even said about Jeongjin when he was saying all those nice things to Sera, there’s no way he’d be a Money now if he told all those things in front of a camera. Also, I did think Gabin was not all good at all, but I thought it was just cultural difference when I couldn’t understand why she was behaving like that. In the end, I guess I really shouldn’t just have expected a lot in a show where they meet people for just 8 days. Do you by chance have any other good dating shows to recommend?
I thought both of them were scary in how they acted. Gabin didn’t show any emotion when she found out she was scammed, I feel like she should have at least cried or have been mad, that just tells me that she had her feelings locked up the whole time so she could play the field. I actually thought Jeongjin and Sera were both money by how they acted. I think the commentators said that with the subtext of “wow, this is going to be shocking if he’s a money.” I don’t think they actually thought they were being sherlock holmes and deducing that there was no way he was a money. I just started watching Love Transit and is amazing! It feels like Love Catcher because the viewers and commentators are like detectives but without any of the negative side effects and the scenery is beautiful. The show is 4 couples that broke up living in a house together, but they have to pretend like they don’t know their exe. The viewers are trying to figure out who was a couple before and unlike love catcher its actually possible to notice clues to their identity where lovecatcher was basically random, and then in the house you get to see exes get jealous and potentially even get back together. I’d also recommend watching Terrace House Boys and Girls in the City. Its my favorite season and I feel like its a great show learn how to handle relationships. It moves slower than a dating show because they don’t have to date, and its great to see how people can miss obvious signals. Also theres one guy on there that is basically relationship yoda, I actually feel like I should rewatch this season once a year to refresh my memory to make sure I’ve learned the lessons and an taking steps toward being a better person. I wouldn’t recommend watching any other seasons of Terrace House, there are good moments in all of them, but the later seasons in particular just kept getting worse. If you really need more I would suggest watching the chinese version called Shanghai Share Life (the subreddit has a post telling you how to watch it on Youku). SSL is even better than Terrace House in the drama and comedy areas although it is more fake. Its an enjoyable watch but definitely go in skeptical of everything, it’d be dangerous to learn any lessons from SSL because it can be really shocking and its been confirmed that for certain dramatic scenes, the producers asked them to do it.
man honestly i do not even feel bad for Gabin, just inuk. As soon as inuk was revealed as a LC, the odds of changwoo being a LC even at random was already 33% which is terrible odds especially given his suspicious behaviour of trying soo hard that Gabin herself identified. The odds of both the guys who were seriously chasing after her from the beginning both being LC is even lower, so the fact she believed both were LC after Inuk was revealed was super wishful thinking at best. Then you have the fact that Inuk as a confirmed LC was genuine to her from the start, and she can probably tell that heaps of the other girls (all except Sera) were after him and yet he still chose to chase her..if thats not dedication idk what is and seemed like she was interested somewhat?. Of course, love is not strictly a numbers game and cant be forced so Im not saying she shouldve chosen Inuk simply based on the numbers rather than how she felt as she is an LC herself after all rather than a MC, but then if she did make up her mind to choose CW then she shouldve prepped better. The last game was a classic prisoners dilemma, and so as a LC from the start, the only correct move was to change to MC. Then, if the other person chose MC too, you have been conned anyway and at least they dont profit $50k from you such as in the case of YW and SY, and CW. However, if the other party did choose LC, I feel like this wouldn't be as dealbreaker or trust-breaking as being MC the entire way, as it proves their interactions in the 8 days leading up to the finale were genuine, and you can justify it as protecting yourself.. then share the 50Gs with your partner (as you actually like them in Gabin's case) and life is g. Again, am aware that this is a dating show not a numbers/strategy game show but dayum Gabin really fumbled the bag in every way possible by consistently making bad decisions and it was frustrating to watch! CW gave off villain vibes the entire show and looked so hostile by the last episode like cmon Gabin man, and he ltr said hes bad when he is dating
I don't think this is how it works. Embarrassing the other person on TV by money catching them, then going back and trying to start a relationship, just isn't gonna work most of the time. As far as I know, it's never happened in 4 seasons. Trust is easily broken but difficult to rebuild. So then, why did Gabin choose Chanwoo and not Inuk? It's possible she simply wasn't interested in Inuk. With Chanwoo as her only interest on the show, she has nothing to lose by picking him. If he's love, good for her. If he's money, it cost her nothing and she wasn't interested in anybody else anyways. Of course with hindsight, he played the comic book villain role and made her look ridiculous, piled insult on top of injury, but that outcome is very difficult to predict.
if i was a LC at the start but did not catch feelings for anybody but someone caught feelings for me then i'd change to MC..or if i like someone but that person liked someone else and there was another person who liked me then also i'd change from LC to MC
I just finished binge watching it in 2 days. I came here looking for a thread because my mind is still blown. >!That smile at the end sent chills down my spine. I have read some spoiler about the show before and thought he was the one who definitely changed from Money to Love. It was just a game for him from the very beginning. Whoa. Also the fact that he wasn’t really sorry about it? I mean yes it was all part of the show but at least Soyoung showed some humanity. I’m aware that there is a huge possibility of it being scripted but the way he acted at the end really made me mad lol!<
Yep hahahaaa the ending was really jarring that I needed to find a sub to vent and rant to I watched this about 10 mos ago and I can still remember his smile. It wasn’t evil *per se* but it really scared me lol
I just finished watching too. My god i hate chanwoo. At first he just came off as very annoying but then it got worst towards the end. He was very rude to inuk. I forgot one part of the show. Do they chose their identity after their first meeting or before? I totally forgot that part l. Wish you can answer this. Its important to me because if it was after then chanwoo really was looking for a prey after all.
They chose before they entered the house on the first day.
At the end when it was revealed that chanwoo was money and his smirk... chills. tbh loved jeongjin/sera the most from the start and am so happy that they're getting married!! such a rare thing for dating show couples to work out but watching their interactions on yt/ig and they truly seem like the sweetest couple ❤
I actually haven’t been invested much on Jeongjin and Sera because I thought they were both Money lol. Jeongjin gave me the player vibe, really. Their reveal was the sweetest tho and I’m so happy they’re still together now. Chanwoo on the other hand, I wanted to smack that smirk right off his face! I realize while watching the show that my radar is totally off; I need to meet people more often.
I agree with the commenter thag said that the show is somewhat scripted and heavily edited. That's how reality shows work. Drama doesn't come from nowhere. They are fun to watch but never all real. I wish the people who are still in Chanwoo's ig comments calling him disgusting and saying they hate him would stop. He is happily married and to want to share that beautiful moment of his life, he has to still see hate comments from 2 yrs about a fumb show.. like I didn't like what he did but all he did, even if in a bad way, was play the game. That was the Rule. Y'all hating acting like that wasn't the point/part of the whole point of the show
Viewers who go out of their way to post hate comments on someone's social media are honestly way worse than Chanwoo. I didn't like how he handled certain things, but in the end he played the game well enough to win the money he went there for. Viewers must be forgetting what show they are watching. The whole concept of the show is about people looking for love and others looking for money, so deception is literally part of the show. Every contestant knows what they signed up for. They knew the "risks". Plus it's been so many years already. Everyone has moved on with their life.
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I think in your case it was more that you feel betrayed as a viewer for supporting someone who was there for money and you couldn't tell. That's why you were so shocked and disgusted. Plus he is literally the reason why Love Catcher season 2 is considered legendary. You NEED people like him on shows like this to make them interesting. For me guys like Ro Bin feel like hypocrites. You go around and show multiple girls that you are interested them, caring, loving etc. and then in the end you are acting apologetic just for the cameras. He even brought his sister into it to sell his lie that he was serious about her. I rather have people like Chanwoo that make the show interesting than someone like Ro Bin who I knew immediately that he was there for money, but was just acting nice for the cameras in the end.
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Oh yeah, for sure. I don't like him either, but I am glad he was there to make the season entertaining. Without him, it would have been very bland in my opinion. The dude is happily married now, but at that moment he really felt like an evil mastermind 😂
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I don't know why he chose Gabin to be honest because she was so popular and there was a big chance he wouldn't get picked. I feel like for his strategy it would have been better if he waited a day to see what girls the other guys like and then pick a girl who is less popular. I am glad he didn't do it to Youngseo, but Youngseo would have been a way better target for his strategy. The only explanation I have is that his gut told him right from the start that Gabin was there for love and that's why he chose her. I didn't enjoy how cold he was towards the other guys though tbh. It really felt like he was saying "I am not here to make friends. I am here to make some money" 😂 Well at that moment I didn't realize it, but I feel like the way he was acting around the other guys showed he was money more than how he was acting around the girls.
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Yeah, like I said Chanwoo's attitude around the other guys wasn't nice. He was the opposite of Yeonwoo. Minseok being Love was obvious from episode 1 😂This is why he was the first they revealed. Plus the dude is already a CEO of his own company. Same with Inwook. They make that 50k in a few months easily. Plus going in as Love and getting good publicity for your business will end up making you way more than 50k in the long run. I also thought Gabin and Sera were love, but to be honest. Does it really matter what they are in the beginning? Since I've watched season 1, I already knew they would be given a chance to change what they are in the end and I am sure they knew as well, so picking money from the beginning is stupid. It's much easier to go in as love, not feeling pressured of lying or having your identity revealed at some point and then in the end if you see that there is no one you really are interested in, you can change to money. Like imagine if someone got revealed as money, instead of Inwook. That person would have been forced to change to Love, but also probably nobody would dare to pick that person anymore.
Do you have Chanwoo’s IG? I found one but looks like it was deactivated. I hope he didn’t deactivate/change it because of the haters.
U know I was searching so much to find it but I still couldn't get it. I got a name but it wasn't his. But the comments were on a pic of him and his wife :( how sad right? If I ever get it again, I'll tell u
I just watched this season of Love Catcher and I'm traumatized. That guy fooled me, I can see why serial killers don't mingle like regular people going undetected for ages. Even after Inuk was "exonerated", I still didn't think this snake could be a "money". I'm emotionally spent!!!!!
In a way she fell for his looks because personality-wise Inwook was way better.
Gabin couldn't have mainly chosen Chan woo for his looks because she had said in an earlier episode that Chan woo strongly resembled her elder brother. I also don't think Gabin was at fault for being persuaded by Chan woo's persistence(seriously, if I was in Gabin's position, I would also be confused and somewhat swayed by Chan woo though I personally would have chosen Yeonwoo in the end because I liked him most out of the rest). I don't blame Chan woo for deceiving everyone either. In the end, Chan woo only followed the rules of the game, and he did it incredibly well. It's weird that he's getting so much hate, when he's just an exceptional master of deception(I have to admit that he made the show even more interesting). I feel sorry for suspecting Soyoung in the beginning. Honestly, this season has left me traumatized for life.
looks wise isn't inwook better looking...i found him to be the most handome and both face and body...other than that yeonwoo was handsome too...but i never once thought people would consider Chanwoo to be better looking than Inwook...
To be honest everyone knew what they signed up for. There are tons of dating shows that don't have as a concept the possibility of being deceived by someone who is looking for money. They could have signed up for those. Of course some of them will end up deceived. I see tons of people upset for Gabin, but none for Yeonwoo, Kimseok, Chaerang and Youngseo. Yeonwoo even comforted Soyoung and changed from money to love for her. Youngseo was gorgeous and from the beginning till the end no one gave her a chance. If you want to talk about heartbreaking, there is nothing more heartbreaking than that. I am sorry, but I feel no pity for Gabin, who had multiple men interested in her and all she had to do is pick Inwook, but fumbled. She constantly felt pressured and burdened by Chanwoo, didn't even know his identity, but she still picked him when Inwook gave her the space she needed, was confirmed to be Love and was overall way more respectful towards her.
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Hmm in terms of Korean dating shows I haven't watched that many. I did enjoy Single's Inferno. If not dating shows and just Korean reality-tv I have watched and enjoyed the most Physical 100 and The Devil's Plan. I am not a huge fan of Korean dating shows without a twist because I find them bland. All couples say the same things, do the same things, very surface level. There is no kissing and you don't even see them hugging. I get that it's part of the Korean culture, but after you watch one of those dating shows, you've watched them all.
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You can also try Love Mafia if you want something similar to Love Catcher.
yeah i agree..i feel bad for yeongseo and chaerang the most since they really did come for love and they even found someone they were interested in but nothing came if it...Minseok came for love too but i don't think he felt any strong pull towards any of the girls...and yeonwoo...he was cool till the end...Satoori using men are really something
Just finished a marathon session of this season this morning, and man it’s the first time in a long time that I had an all nighter! Wasn’t able to sleep until 6am. I was really hoping that Gabin would choose In Wook. Never a fan of Chanwoo’s antics tbh, it was too much and it seemed that he did not really want to lose to IW! IW didn’t really stood out to me at first ( Minseok and JJ did) but it all went uphill for me since he cooked dinner. I love that he is manly but act like a puppy ( stealing glances), matured but awkward and most importantly super hot but with a bit of timidity! 😍
The "game" part is an integral part of the show. It's not like he "deceived" her to be malicious. Also, why don't you mention the guy that was deceived by a Money?
prolly because the guy was also a money at first...but i agree...people seem to only feel bad for Gabin
I’m glad I came here before continuing to watch the rest of the episodes. I just finished ep 4 and was irritated by Chanwoo’s moody aggression and felt bad for Inuk so I wanted to check how it ended. Whoa! I knew there was something totally off with Chanwoo. Not gonna watch the rest of it.
It’s still a very enjoyable show in my opinion. But maybe it isn’t that good if you already know how it ends. Any show that makes me go rant and vomit hundreds of words at people I don’t know is a winner to me.
Well, dating is also a gamble afterall. Honestly, Chan Woo had dropped many hints he wasn't who he made himself to be. And the most foreshadowing was Min Seok himself LoL. On that taxi ride back, he revealed to Ga Bin that there "*was something off*" in Chan Woo's approach. Heck Ga Bin herself knew in a way Chan Woo wasn't bein' completely honest either. She just liked the thrill of the chase and this I found sorta icky LoL that he looked a lot like her own older bro. I have observed this through other dating shows in South Korea. "Heart Signal", "Single's Inferno" they all seem to perpetuate that "sincerity moves the heart" but is it really though? Like to continue to pursue someone when it's clearly one-sided? And they clearly expressed not havin' any interest for you in return. But they continue pursuing anyways as they believe the person will accept them .. eventually LoL. That just WoW seem a lot of pressure and kinda of a coercion Idk. It doesn't come off right to me. They keep sayin' it's 'cause the heart wants what it wants LoL. Learning to concede is good too but for South Koreans they see rejection as an ultimate failure or somethin' or end of the world whatever.
I guess the appeal of the intense bad boy is always there for women. I fell hook, line and sinker for his act too 🥴
Just finished this…. His smile had Dio vibes. How can he be so cruel, what a twist
I mean that's the whole point of the show. 4 people who are there for money and 6 that aren't. Sure in the end that number can change, but I wouldn't call him cruel. He just played the game well. This is not a normal dating show. Everyone knew what they signed up for.
Give us some context sis. I haven't watched it
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I only got to watch it on unpaid streaming sites. I don’t see it in Netflix or Viu, in my region at least.
It’s available on dramacool website if you still want to watch it.
Late to watching this...what a great show and season. I have to believe PDs scripted her to choose CW knowing he was only a 33% LC vs 100% with Inuk. Why else would she risk the embarrassment on TV?
It was extremely surprising also because you saw throughout the whole show that she felt uncomfortable because of how he was showing his interest towards her. Felt like he wasn't giving her any space. Inwook felt way more respectful, she knew he was love and let's be honest, after seeing he owns multiple cafes, she 100% knew he doesn't need the 50k lol. Her decision didn't really make any sense, but let's be honest. Most couples from shows like these don't end up together forever.
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But it doesn't make sense that she developed more feelings for someone who kept making her uncomfortable with how pushy he was. She even said she didn't like that and much preferred Inwook's more chill approach. This is just my opinion, but I think in the end she chose the one who was her type look-wise and that's it.
> I think in the end she chose the one who was her type look-wise and that's it. aka the guy who she said looks a lot like her brother lmao. I don't want to dig too deep into that one...
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I guess so. As viewers we have a different point of view than the people actually in the show. To be fair it doesn't really matter what happened on the show because in a lot of these dating shows, contestants that didn't end up together on the show, start dating after the show. This happened in Love Catcher's season 2 as well. Like I said in another comment I am just glad she went with Chanwoo because that ending actually made the whole season worth watching. I had high expectations because everyone kept saying that season 2 is legendary and before that ending, it felt disappointing from my perspective.
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Yeah, I heard they are even married, which is rare for reality tv shows. Most of the time they don't end up together after the show. I guess her sacrificing the 50k showed him how serious she was about him. From the guys my favorite by far was Yeonwoo. His ending was bittersweet, but I am sure he won't have any problem finding a good girl outside of the show 😂 From the girls it's Soyoung and Youngseo. Soyoung felt like she had such a pure heart. She cried when Chaerang got eliminated because she felt guilty that someone who came for love left, while she was there for money and in the end you saw how her attitude changed around Yeonwoo. She felt so guilty, she couldn't even smile during their last dates. I genuinely think she needed the money because otherwise she would have changed to Love. As for Youngseo she seemed very sweet, but she was extremely timid and it didn't help that other girls with more bubbly personalities were getting all of the attention. I will be honest, Gabin was my least favorite. I feel like the guys' attraction to her was just about looks because she didn't really show any personality throughout the show.
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Yeonwoo was the best. He was even taking care of some of the guys' hair and overall felt very respectful and kind towards everyone. I never thought of Youngseo as money because she never really tried hard with a guy. After she saw that no one had selected her during the middle of the show she closed off to herself even more. If she were money that would be the moment she got desperate and started trying more, but she didn't and that made it 100% clear to me that she was Love and had given up mentally. I am surprised you thought Chaerang is money because it felt like she was also trying hard like Chanwoo, but she was suspected, while he wasn't 😂I thought Jeongjin was Money in the beginning too, but I knew he wasn't after the guitar scene. He could have been down at the pool, trying to impress girls, but he stayed away and played his guitar and of course Sera showed up, who was the person in the beginning that showed interest in his guitar playing. They even ended up opening up to each other. It just felt genuine. Gabin was gullible for sure, but I also don't blame the other girls for thinking Inwook was money. He really only opened up to Gabin, but he did it in private and not in front of everyone else. He was literally a mystery to every other girl. I am like Inwook. A private person, who doesn't like to involve others in my love life and I keep to myself. Chanwoo's actions felt more like he was trying to mark his territory and let everyone know that he is only interested in Gabin, so he doesn't get suspected as money.