@Agni
The friend is legit 20 year old. He is a classmate from college preparatory school, not her old high school classmate.

So all her friend goes young again? This guy whose sat behind her at high school now 20 year. But his son 22.

@darara The lack of the romance tag honestly doesn't matter. A lot of the tags on sites like this are added as parts of the story reveal themselves. If you actually look at how the publishers or authors are genre tagging their own stuff, they never have nearly as many as we like to put on them for sorting purposes or even as red flags. Fantasy and drama tags are the only tags this has in common with the raw site, for instance.

Here's another for instance. Same website this is originally on also has Noblesse. On there, that literally has one relevant tag: fantasy. But what we have it tagged for on here also includes action, comedy, drama, mystery, tragedy, school life. It's actually not even using the fantasy tag here, but does have supernatural instead. Those can both be applied to it fairly enough I suppose, I think it's kind of funny we don't have the one tag the series is definitely supposed to have though. Actually lends more credence to the point I was making than I even intended it to I suppose.

@Tensei21 I guess when your currency has such inflated numbers everything sort of sounds more expensive than it probably should? Or maybe a 0 got dropped accidentally in translation. That may even be likely because one more 0 makes it about 165 dollars, which isn't really outside the realm of what someone might find when clothes shopping, and that would usually make them act like she did here.

@godpingzxz

lol thank you so much for posting that made my day

Ohhhhh~ is that Hyo-chan's new stepfather-to-be?

Bruh 20,000 South Korean Won isn't even 17 bucks and she is freaking out lol

Mom is hilarious lmao

Thank youuu

@givemersspls

idk what more you want... just go search it on naver with the original title "맘마미안" and translate it by yourself if you're that skeptical about the official translation...

https://m.webtoons.com/id/drama/mamamaaf/list?title_no=1698

sue him.

@reijou Fair enough. By any chance, do you know if that actually is said in the original Korean as well?

I admit that I am wrong in this case, then. In my defense, I could not have known that based upon the information I had available to me in English.

Also, I forgot to say, but I bring up the last line of your first comment, "it's common case in korea when a guy will ask out a girl for a drink until she's completely intoxicated so he can take advantage of her / bring her home to spend the night...". To be fair, that happens in a lot of different places all around the world. It's kind of unfair for you to say "it's common case in korea" because that implies it's not common elsewhere, even though it is.

@givemersspls

idk why the translation here didn't mention it but this webtoon is officially licensed in indonesian and i read both... in the official translation, the cram school guy said that he sit behind her because she has such a nice body as you can literally see it from his face and hand gesture in chapter 5... after that, the son asked him a tricky question and it's clear that the cram school guy only lust after her... that's why in this chapter the son purposely talked about "soju cocktail" and "hotel lodging" because he knows what the cram school guy intent to do with her...

@karolyn I didn't mean to imply that it was a procedural issue. It's a practical issue. The applicant reviewers would see that there's a 50-something year old applying. She gets accepted. That information is almost certainly going to be published in some form, even if it's not linked to her actual name. This year, the class of 20XX accepted people of these age groups. People will start wondering.

Let's say that even that's not a problem. The news could still easily get out. Maybe the applicant reviewers just talk to other people about how a 50-something year old was accepted. Word spreads around.

The son doesn't want any such attention. Sure, they were able to fool that one car driver and the police officer by just playing it off, but imagine if the news got out that there was this sincerely 20-something year old looking woman who is supposed to be in her fifties. Someone would certainly want to investigate. They could very readily find out that they're not rich. They couldn't afford plastic surgery or anything like that.

All of that introduces a bunch of dangerous risks and variables that the son is seemingly aware of, hence why he tells the mom not to tell other people about her true age. And yet, this is a fairly straightforward way in which that doesn't make sense.

@firosahoge Feel free to like what you like, but I just don't take that attitude because it's too dismissive, for me at least.. Lack of logic and plot holes is can easily make a story not enjoyable. Sure, obviously there's magic/supernatural stuff that allowed the son to exchange his lifespan for his mother's. That doesn't mean you toss everything out the window. Imagine if this suddenly became a space robot story with no transition. It just seems really shallow to say oh, there's one upfront and clear unrealistic element, so anything else that's unrealistic doesn't matter.

@reijou Disagree. I think the way you described it is not correct.

"just so he can stare at her body from behind" It does not say that. It says that he purposefully sits behind her. That is established. It does not say why. Maybe it's to get help on the study subjects. Maybe he actually likes her personality and wants to be near her. Those are both realistic possibilities. Even if it is more likely that he's just looking for her body, that still doesn't explain the son's baiting behavior.

Look again at the previous chapter. The son is the first one to bring up the subject of going out for drinks. The guy agrees with it, but the son is literally the one who brings it up first.

The ending is more supportive of my point. Let's excuse/ignore everything else. At the end, the son has established that the guy is interested in the mom. At that point, why not just say don't go near her? The son instead says "Why not?" Why not ask her out for a drink? The son goads the guy into wanting to do it. That's just baiting the readers.

Actually it has no romance tag

@karolyn makes sense, but I don't know anything about korean colleges so I can't say for sure. Also, if school officials know her age and then see her in person, it's going to be national news. However, I'm sure the author will probably just bury this possibility. Author is probably just making her hide her age so that there can be some dumb drama where someone romantically interested in her finds out her real age. Like I said, I don't care about the logic or plot holes, I just enjoy the story atm.

@givemersspls @firosahoge There are very few colleges with a set upper age limit. If you want to, you can absolutely apply for college even in your 50s, it's not an issue.

I'm pretty sure the son only meant that she shouldn't reveal her age to other students so they don't look at her weird. It doesn't matter if the school officials know her age.

Here comes! Dad candidates No.1

I thought this would be worse. Quite decent actually

@givemersspls

go reread chapter 5... he's determined to be a supportive son at first but you can see his face gradually changed when the cram school guy admit to purposely sit behind her just so he can stare at her body from behind... the final word was when the cram school guy didn't deny his question "so you will ask her out for a drink?" because it's clear as day the cram school guy just lust after her... it's common case in korea when a guy will ask out a girl for a drink until she's completely intoxicated so he can take advantage of her / bring her home to spend the night...