I’m just going to rant for a minute.

So I’m weird(?) about personal space, and hugs and physical contact. I gave my mum my first proper hug when I was 13 and she was dropping me off at boarding school(not the one arm one). To this day she is probably the only person I hug without reservation. I also prefer waving to handshakes and handshakes to hugging. Nodding is also perfectly acceptable. I used to go to this church where you had to hug EVERYBODY and their mother and I think it’s one of the main reasons why I left. I don’t like it when people I’m not friends with touch me.

All this exposition(and tmi, sorry) to say I hate it when Chi hong touches Songhwa. I really, genuinely hate it. To me it feels like he is training her: if I touch you x number of times, you will eventually fall for me too.

He promised not to make it weird and I think he made it weird. She looks uncomfortable and I don’t get why he keeps doing it. They are friendly but I wouldn’t call them friends. I just want to shout “DON’T TOUCH HER!! every time he does it. So yeah, I’m not rooting for him at all. Aslo, also she said she wasn’t interested dude.
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    I totally get this. It’s always felt very overfamiliar to me the way he thinks he can touch her like a close friend. I keep thinking, she’s your BOSS, man. Back off!

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      Yes! She has always kept that professional line between them but he keeps (literally) putting his little finger across it in the hopes that she will change her mind.

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    I felt for Song-hwa this entire episode. She seemed so uncomfortable with not only Chi-hong being the way that he is but also Ik-jun’s practically-confession.

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      Ik-jun’s confession did come out of left field. Not that he wasnt feeling it all this time but I never thought that’s how he’d say it. Poor Songhwa.

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    Yes to this. I also don’t prefer hugging or well even holding hands when you can wave but one doesn’t need to understand that to clearly see how SH was so uncomfortable in this moment. I hope Chi hong stops this, he’s nice and all but he’s clearly pushing it now, I thought this was creepy but SH also didn’t look comfortable getting a sorta confession from IJ so this wasn’t a good episode for her, let this girl be you guys.

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      He is becoming a little creepy. I honestly thought his confession was cute. Then they had the talk. She said never going to happen. He said I totally respect that. And now he is making it weird.

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        Yes i actually felt heartbroken for him. Not that I rooted for these two but because he just gathered courage and asked her and then respected and understood her but now idk if this is just there to confuse the viewers but they’re becoming a NOTP. It doesn’t look like SH feels a thing for him except for discomfort.

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        He was not just crossing the line with his touching, but he was so jealous of Ik-joon being close to Song-hwa, that he had to put a wedge in their friendship by forcing that confession. Chi-hong wanted to satisfy his own feelings, and he didn’t care how Song-hwa would feel about losing her comfortable relationship with one of her best friends.

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          Such a jerk move. He made it seem like Songhwa was some sort of prize to be won by the one with the biggest stones 🙄

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    I’m the opposite. I love hugging people and I make it a point to touch (through handshake) people I just met. But this scene with Chihong is uncomfortable even for me.

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    As a Chi-hong shipper I cringed at the shoulder touching. He should have just stayed with the banmal.

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    That shoulder patting does cross the line – badly!

    Does he want to speak banmal or plan out the shoulder pat under the banmal guise on his birthday? I can’t help but think he wants to do what IJ did in the lift.

    I do like CH as a person and doctor. SH has made it very clear on more than one occasion she’s not reciprocating his feeling. I let it slip when he remove the hair from her jacket, thinking he maybe an OCD – but this? He should have noticed how uncomfortable SH is. So many marks deducted in my book.

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    I’m with you on the personal space boundary. Shouldn’t have crossed that line.

    What I hate the most is that all of a sudden, the atmosphere between these 3 people changed drastically. Ik-Joon losing his cool is the most unpleasant thing to watch.

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