Extraordinary Attorney Woo / YMMV

Alternative Character Interpretation:
- Young-woo has apparently never had a crush before Jun-ho, and only develops a romantic interest in him after they've been friends for awhile. This could potentially point to her being demisexual (or possibly demiromantic and asexual, since her feelings seem to be much more romantic than sexual).
- Are Han Seon-young's actions against Tae Soo-mi motivated purely by professional rivalry, or did something happen when they were in school together that motivated Seon-young's dislike of her? Is it possible that, when they were all in law school together, Seon-young was also in love with Gwang-ho, and was/is jealous of Soo-mi?
- The client in Episode 10. Not-too-bright young guy who fell in love and got in way over his head? Self-involved jerk who nonetheless isn't a rapist or abuser? Outright predator? Even Young-woo isn't sure what she thinks by the end.
Designated Hero: Han Seon-young uses some very underhanded and unsavory tactics to sabotage Tae Soo-mi, including digging up information from her personal life and attempting to reveal that Woo is her illegitimate daughter right before her confirmation hearing, despite knowing full well of the attention it would bring Woo and the stress it would put on her as a person with autism, not to mention jeopardizing the rest of her legal career. She only relents from doing so when an even more incriminating piece of information comes along.
Designated Villain: Tae Soo-mi is presented as an undue candidate for South Korea's Minister of Justice because her husband is the head of a company, but is never actually shown acting corrupt apart from this. Other things intended to paint her in an unsavory light, such as her giving up Woo as an infant have pretty reasonable justifications considering she was under a lot of pressure from her family to succeed her father in a legal career and originally was going to abort her pregnancy early on, but only relented for Gwang-ho's sake as he wanted to keep the child, not to mention she went out of her way to put her legal studies on hold to give birth Woo. It's also worth noting she's one of the few characters in the series to not show any prejudice to Woo and even offers her a place at Taesan based solely on her merits, whereas even Han primarily recruited Woo to use her as a pawn against Soo-mi.
Ensemble Dark Horse: Despite being Young-woo's client in a single episode, Bang Gu-ppong has been extremely well received. This is in large part thanks to the charming and charismatic performance of his actor, Koo Kyo-hwan, who does a fantastic job mixing the comedy and audacity of a self-admitted kidnapper who manages to delight the children he kidnaps, with his tender and dignified moments as a committed political activist and fierce defender of children's wellbeing. His warm reception is also due to his case examining a very real social issue of the harm Cram Schools can cause to students' emotional and sometimes physical wellbeing, especially in Korea. Real life protests against the Korean education system's practices have even had demonstrators carrying signs bearing Gu-ppong's slogan ("Children must play immediately. Children must be healthy immediately. Children must be happy immediately.") and saying the Education Minister could learn from him.
Fan Nickname: Fans dubbed Jung Myeong-seok "Substitute Dad" for how he tries to nurture Young-woo at Hanbada.
Jerkass Woobie: Tae Soo-mi is clearly far from a perfect person, and sometimes makes questionable choices to advance her career, but she seems to be fairly nice on a personal level, and it's made clear that giving up Young-woo was not easy for her, nor was her becoming pregnant and deciding to carry to term in the first place. She seems to have a lot of regrets, even if she had understandable reasons for a lot of what she did.
Memetic Mutation: Young-woo and Geu-ra-mi's unique greeting quickly won fans, with people all over Korea copying it to greet friends.
Misaimed Fandom: Park Eun-bin's performance drew raves but also spawned a trend of neurotypical influencers posting videos of themselves imitating Young-woo's speech patterns and mannerisms, not realizing that it's offensive and insulting to do so.
Moe: Young-woo is a really adorable autistic young woman and her quirks (such as her love for whales and the law) make her an especially endearing main protagonist in general.
Spiritual Successor: The Good Doctor^note as a Courtroom Drama.
Unintentionally Unsympathetic: In-cheol, the Raon co-CEO in the two-part finale, is meant to be seen as a sympathetic figure in the face of the backlash his company receives after their customer user data is hacked, but while the hack was ordered by his co-CEO behind his back it still only occurred because of a legitimate security failure within the company (one of his top employees failing to recognize an email containing malware), meaning that had the hack actually been from North Korea as originally assumed the consequences could have been much greater. As such, his constant crying and whimpering makes him come off as a coward Playing the Victim Card and refusing to accept any responsibility. His other actions like trying to bribe the judge of the case to rule in his favor don't exactly endear him either.
Values Dissonance: Certain things seen shocked western viewers when the series hit Netflix. For instance, in a flashback to Young-woo's time in high school her classmates trick her into saying something offensive to their teacher, who hits her and walks out. In much of the US and Europe, doing something like that in front of so many witnesses would be grounds for immediate firing and assault charges even if the person being hit had said something very offensive. Leaving students unattended without knowing that another adult is going to arrive soon outside of a dire emergency is also not seen as acceptable in much of the US and Europe.

YMMV / Extraordinary Attorney Woo

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