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시맨틱 에러 #4
Semantic Error (comic), Vol. 4
After many, many bumps in the road, Sangwoo and Jaeyoung have finally reached a great point in their relationship—so great that Jaeyoung can almost forget about his study-abroad plans looming over him. But as the end of the school year steadily approaches, the two must begin to seriously consider the not-so-distant future, and whether there is one for them at all...
264 pages, Paperback
Published November 18, 2025
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November 14, 2025
The 🐓 went into the 💩r! I repeat, the 🚀 went into the 🕳️!!!
November 25, 2025
This series leaves me feeling like an addict every time I finish a volume. Shaking. Crying. Throwing up. Desperate for my next fix. They need to stop playing with my heart like this 😭
It wasn’t the first time, and it certainly won’t be the last, but the last chapter of this volume had me reading chapters online because I needed a RESOLUTION. What do you mean Jaeyoung is ghosting Sangwoo? This is absolutely UNACCEPTABLE and INTOLERABLE. I needed PEACE to be able to sleep tonight.
ANYWAY.
I’m absolutely obsessed with the fact that canonically Jaeyoung looks better in Sangwoo’s clothes than Sangwoo does 🙂↕️ And the fact that we got Jaeyoung getting Sangwoo clothes that suit him more? Ugh YES MORE OF THIS PLEASE. I absolutely need Sangwoo to give in and let Jaeyoung choose his outfits for him because he’d look so slay 🤩
It was also delightful to have both Jaeyoung and Sangwoo so desperate to spend time with each other in this volume. They’ve both truly have gotten so used to spending a lot of time together, and it makes them so emo to be apart. Be still my heart! They need to be together forever 🥺 I adore them! They’re so happy when they’re together 💖 They truly find so much comfort in one another 😭
I had to mention as well that I love that we got to see Sangwoo’s competitive side when Jaeyoung invited him to play basketball. It was even sweeter that Jaeyoung couldn’t even play that well because he’s so fucking SMITTEN with Sangwoo. UGH I MELT FOR THEM.
As for the spicier scenes? 😏 That was delicious. My favorite bits were when Jaeyoung was so feral for Sangwoo he desperately wanted to suck his dick despite never having done that with a man 🙏🏻 EAT HIM UP, JAEYOUNG! And let’s not even speak of when Sangwoo saw Jaeyoung in a suit and wanted to get down and dirty with Jaeyoung while he was still wearing the suit *fans self* BE STILL MY HEART!
Anyway! I await the release of the next volume more calmly now since I got to read several chapters online to tide me over 😂 I may have in fact read all the chapters that will be in the next volume, but I can’t find it in me to give a shit 💁🏻♀️✨
It wasn’t the first time, and it certainly won’t be the last, but the last chapter of this volume had me reading chapters online because I needed a RESOLUTION. What do you mean Jaeyoung is ghosting Sangwoo? This is absolutely UNACCEPTABLE and INTOLERABLE. I needed PEACE to be able to sleep tonight.
ANYWAY.
I’m absolutely obsessed with the fact that canonically Jaeyoung looks better in Sangwoo’s clothes than Sangwoo does 🙂↕️ And the fact that we got Jaeyoung getting Sangwoo clothes that suit him more? Ugh YES MORE OF THIS PLEASE. I absolutely need Sangwoo to give in and let Jaeyoung choose his outfits for him because he’d look so slay 🤩
It was also delightful to have both Jaeyoung and Sangwoo so desperate to spend time with each other in this volume. They’ve both truly have gotten so used to spending a lot of time together, and it makes them so emo to be apart. Be still my heart! They need to be together forever 🥺 I adore them! They’re so happy when they’re together 💖 They truly find so much comfort in one another 😭
I had to mention as well that I love that we got to see Sangwoo’s competitive side when Jaeyoung invited him to play basketball. It was even sweeter that Jaeyoung couldn’t even play that well because he’s so fucking SMITTEN with Sangwoo. UGH I MELT FOR THEM.
As for the spicier scenes? 😏 That was delicious. My favorite bits were when Jaeyoung was so feral for Sangwoo he desperately wanted to suck his dick despite never having done that with a man 🙏🏻 EAT HIM UP, JAEYOUNG! And let’s not even speak of when Sangwoo saw Jaeyoung in a suit and wanted to get down and dirty with Jaeyoung while he was still wearing the suit *fans self* BE STILL MY HEART!
Anyway! I await the release of the next volume more calmly now since I got to read several chapters online to tide me over 😂 I may have in fact read all the chapters that will be in the next volume, but I can’t find it in me to give a shit 💁🏻♀️✨
December 5, 2025
Guys, help, this series is holding me hostage.
December 4, 2025
A little lost for words with this volume. It was...incredible?
The chemistry continues to be absolutely off the charts. I don't really understand how it's leaps and bounds above any other manhwa I've read so far. It perfectly captures the intensity of those early stages of relationships from your youth - the college setting is perfect, because it's exactly the time in your life when you're starting to really figure out who you are and what you might want from your future, and shedding a lot of the expectations you've carried with you.
Sangwoo is, in a lot of ways, pretty straightforward. He has a clear vision for his future and his career, with both the skill and stubbornness to back it up. He's open about who he is and what he wants and isn't swayed by anyone else's opinions of him. The one wrench in all of this is this absurdly attractive, frustrating classmate whom he simply can't get enough of...
And it becomes very, very clear that not only is he sexually attracted to Jaeyoung, he's definitely getting romantically attached. Which is a problem on a number of levels. A major one, beyond all the traditional ideas of families and marriage and all that, is the fact that Jaeyoung is leaving the country in a few months, which leaves no future to their relationship.
Both of them are well aware of this; Jaeyoung is doing his best to ignore it, having convinced himself anyway that Sangwoo won't particularly care about him being gone. Sangwoo has gotten so wrapped up in the steamy, heady passion of spending so much time with Jaeyoung, he's forgotten to put any safeguards in place. Like, for instance, an insurance policy that would make it less devastating to lose someone who's quickly become such an intrinsic part of his life.
This self-preservation aspect of Sangwoo's personality leads to an absolutely devastating rift between the two of them, because the far more emotionally aware Jaeyoung can't handle Sangwoo's matter-of-fact assertion that he'll simply find someone to replace him once he's gone. It's the obvious solution. But does he have to say it so calmly and so coldly? When Jaeyoung is telling him, through his actions every single day, how in love with him he is?
This volume ends on a brutal note, with Sangwoo overrun with all those emotions Jaeyoung wouldn't have thought him capable of. He hasn't even left the country yet, and Sangwoo is already unable to function without seeing him.
The whole situation with Jaeyoung's family was surprising but added so much depth to the story. I was kind of horrified by his grandfather...he was presented as the one person Jaeyoung cared about, a doting family member who truly cared about him and who made family gatherings worthwhile. And he is...but he's also a horrible human being? I really have to wonder what Sangwoo would say if he found out about the times Jaeyoung's grandfather brutalized him - literally beating him with a golf club - for straying from the family's values and good name.
Yet Jaeyoung still loves his grandfather and wants to continue being loved by him. Even though he knows his current status, dating another man, would be one of those unforgivable things.
It's such an interesting dynamic that explains a few things about his personality and how he can be so open and caring and yet incredibly closed off. None of his relationships have ever lasted more than a month, and even with Sangwoo, he'd initially assumed he'd get over him once he satisfied his curiosity. A lot of that is his form of self-preservation, I think, because he's never actually felt truly free - which includes falling in love with someone and tying his life to them, which would require untangling himself from his horrible family.
The scenes with him talking to Sangwoo on the phone while he was at the funeral were utter perfection. Such a beautiful depiction of two people who care about each other deeply and who gain so much from simply being in each other's lives.
The only thing that's making me worry at this point - because even the brutal parts of the story are being told so well - is Jaeyoung's twin brother, who is apparently also (and more openly, maybe?) attracted to men. I know a little bit about future spoilers from the novel version, although not in enough detail to remember if Jaeyoung's brother is involved with Sangwoo at all, or if anything happens that would pull me out of how much I'm loving this story.
So far, though, this is really seeming like it might turn into my #1 favorite manhwa. It's just that good.
The chemistry continues to be absolutely off the charts. I don't really understand how it's leaps and bounds above any other manhwa I've read so far. It perfectly captures the intensity of those early stages of relationships from your youth - the college setting is perfect, because it's exactly the time in your life when you're starting to really figure out who you are and what you might want from your future, and shedding a lot of the expectations you've carried with you.
Sangwoo is, in a lot of ways, pretty straightforward. He has a clear vision for his future and his career, with both the skill and stubbornness to back it up. He's open about who he is and what he wants and isn't swayed by anyone else's opinions of him. The one wrench in all of this is this absurdly attractive, frustrating classmate whom he simply can't get enough of...
And it becomes very, very clear that not only is he sexually attracted to Jaeyoung, he's definitely getting romantically attached. Which is a problem on a number of levels. A major one, beyond all the traditional ideas of families and marriage and all that, is the fact that Jaeyoung is leaving the country in a few months, which leaves no future to their relationship.
Both of them are well aware of this; Jaeyoung is doing his best to ignore it, having convinced himself anyway that Sangwoo won't particularly care about him being gone. Sangwoo has gotten so wrapped up in the steamy, heady passion of spending so much time with Jaeyoung, he's forgotten to put any safeguards in place. Like, for instance, an insurance policy that would make it less devastating to lose someone who's quickly become such an intrinsic part of his life.
This self-preservation aspect of Sangwoo's personality leads to an absolutely devastating rift between the two of them, because the far more emotionally aware Jaeyoung can't handle Sangwoo's matter-of-fact assertion that he'll simply find someone to replace him once he's gone. It's the obvious solution. But does he have to say it so calmly and so coldly? When Jaeyoung is telling him, through his actions every single day, how in love with him he is?
This volume ends on a brutal note, with Sangwoo overrun with all those emotions Jaeyoung wouldn't have thought him capable of. He hasn't even left the country yet, and Sangwoo is already unable to function without seeing him.
The whole situation with Jaeyoung's family was surprising but added so much depth to the story. I was kind of horrified by his grandfather...he was presented as the one person Jaeyoung cared about, a doting family member who truly cared about him and who made family gatherings worthwhile. And he is...but he's also a horrible human being? I really have to wonder what Sangwoo would say if he found out about the times Jaeyoung's grandfather brutalized him - literally beating him with a golf club - for straying from the family's values and good name.
Yet Jaeyoung still loves his grandfather and wants to continue being loved by him. Even though he knows his current status, dating another man, would be one of those unforgivable things.
It's such an interesting dynamic that explains a few things about his personality and how he can be so open and caring and yet incredibly closed off. None of his relationships have ever lasted more than a month, and even with Sangwoo, he'd initially assumed he'd get over him once he satisfied his curiosity. A lot of that is his form of self-preservation, I think, because he's never actually felt truly free - which includes falling in love with someone and tying his life to them, which would require untangling himself from his horrible family.
The scenes with him talking to Sangwoo on the phone while he was at the funeral were utter perfection. Such a beautiful depiction of two people who care about each other deeply and who gain so much from simply being in each other's lives.
The only thing that's making me worry at this point - because even the brutal parts of the story are being told so well - is Jaeyoung's twin brother, who is apparently also (and more openly, maybe?) attracted to men. I know a little bit about future spoilers from the novel version, although not in enough detail to remember if Jaeyoung's brother is involved with Sangwoo at all, or if anything happens that would pull me out of how much I'm loving this story.
So far, though, this is really seeming like it might turn into my #1 favorite manhwa. It's just that good.
December 9, 2025
I waited so long for this one and it’s already over this time around and I’m not ok. This book was even thinner than the last one. I need more. I want February already damn it. Okey!? This was everything and I repeat I’m not well. I’m not well at all.
November 23, 2025
The chemistry these two have is just mmmm *chef’s kiss*!!!
December 31, 2025
honestly was interested and so I just picked vol 1 up and started reading and ohhhhhhh myyyyyyy goddddddd i love sangwoo and jaeyoung soooo much im obsessed
aside from them hustling to do college work and make this cool mobile game and sangwoo learning more about jaeyoung and becoming friends with benefits but slowly but surely becoming friends!! with benefits even if sangwoo is still coming to terms with his feelings and understanding himself and they talk on the phone more and sangwoo starts to miss jaeyoung and he gets jealous when others are looking at him and his feelings are starting to show!!!! and jaeyoung is head over heels for sangwoo, he’s ready to fully commit, he’s in loooooooove and now sangwoo is worried from not hearing from jaeyoung and he thinks it’s over but surely!!! it’s not!
im obsessed i bought all four volumes in a span of like two weeks and i need vol 5 yesterday so i could get it tomorrow but alas i will wait til february
ahhhhhhhhhhhh i love jaewoo so much
aside from them hustling to do college work and make this cool mobile game and sangwoo learning more about jaeyoung and becoming friends with benefits but slowly but surely becoming friends!! with benefits even if sangwoo is still coming to terms with his feelings and understanding himself and they talk on the phone more and sangwoo starts to miss jaeyoung and he gets jealous when others are looking at him and his feelings are starting to show!!!! and jaeyoung is head over heels for sangwoo, he’s ready to fully commit, he’s in loooooooove and now sangwoo is worried from not hearing from jaeyoung and he thinks it’s over but surely!!! it’s not!
im obsessed i bought all four volumes in a span of like two weeks and i need vol 5 yesterday so i could get it tomorrow but alas i will wait til february
ahhhhhhhhhhhh i love jaewoo so much
November 19, 2025
Das war so ein guter Band, ich liebe die Geschichte und die Charaktere einfach! Sangwoo macht echt emotionale Fortschritte, auch wenn er sich die Lage noch nicht ganz eingestehen will. Und Jaeyoung ist einfach viel zu tief in dieser Sache drin. Da die beiden in diesem Band echt so einige Schritte wagen, ist es daher auch verständlich, dass Jaeyoung nicht mehr jedes Verhalten so einfach durchgehen lässt; Sangwoo jedoch versteht oder erkennt diese ganzen Gefühle aber nicht. Vor allem, wo Jaeyoung am Anfang des Bandes sich ja selbst noch nicht ganz eingestehen wollte, wie die Lage wirklich aussieht. Ich finde es auch gut, dass wir noch mehr über Jaeyoungs Hintergrund erfahren. Das Ende ist natürlich ein echt heftiger Cliffhanger, auch wenn es erfrischend für die Story ist, dass Sangwoo nun hinterherläuft. Kann den Abschlussband gar nicht abwarten, das der wahrscheinlich/hoffentlich ein emotionales Bad der Gefühle wird.
December 3, 2025
An honestly enjoyable volume in a series I've been kind of struggling with. I really liked how Sangwoo and Jaeyoung's relationship developed this volume, and they're really cute together. I also liked learning more of Jaeyoung's backstory, and hope we learn more of it and he gets to leave his awful family (including his shitty grandfather). Love his brother but I imagine this will open the door for twin miscommunication subplots with Sangwoo.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
December 24, 2025
I don’t have much to say other than this book hurt so much more than the others. The angst is going to kill me I just know it. Sangwoo learning his way through his emotions is as heartwarming as it is heartbreaking.
Also this book was honestly so poetic. “I’ll carve pleasure into the deepest parts of you so that you’ll never be able to forget me.” That’s an insane sentence Jaeyoung.
Also Jaeyoung’s grandfather is the most attractive man I’ve ever seen oh my GOSH.
Also this book was honestly so poetic. “I’ll carve pleasure into the deepest parts of you so that you’ll never be able to forget me.” That’s an insane sentence Jaeyoung.
Also Jaeyoung’s grandfather is the most attractive man I’ve ever seen oh my GOSH.
November 21, 2025
Ahhh..
I know this just released but can February hurry up & get here! Sangwoo opened up so much to Jaeyoung in this volume 🤗. The ending had me all in my feelings! & the preview of the next volume 😩🥴🥺 omg my heart! Seeing Sangwoo in tears because he’s trying to get Jaeyoungs attention just broke me. I’m so glad I stumble upon this series!
I know this just released but can February hurry up & get here! Sangwoo opened up so much to Jaeyoung in this volume 🤗. The ending had me all in my feelings! & the preview of the next volume 😩🥴🥺 omg my heart! Seeing Sangwoo in tears because he’s trying to get Jaeyoungs attention just broke me. I’m so glad I stumble upon this series!
July 28, 2025
impromptu online reread because these are my emotional support dummies apparently
(can't wait to buy a physical copy)
(can't wait to buy a physical copy)
November 10, 2025
Sangwoo you are so autism to me
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
November 16, 2025
I laughed so much. The misunderstandings were painful but they paid off. I'm salty none of the side stories got drawn. The perfect enemies to lovers honestly.
November 25, 2025
That escalated quickly from lust to all the feels. Watching Sangwoo figure out his feelings for Jaeyoung is a lot of fun; the poor little robot is so confused.
December 6, 2025
[★★★★.5]
December 13, 2025
OMG this volume went crazy. Love how obsessed they are with each other.
December 17, 2025
no stopppp why did this one end this way 😭 my baby
December 17, 2025
Cho Sangwoo is really changing a lot, it's very clear in this book. I can't wait for him to realize, or fully realize, that he's in love with Jan Jaeyoung.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
December 26, 2025
(2.5) ⭐
December 29, 2025
Jaeyoung Jang is still my babygirl. He's doing his best. But like girl, both of you need to talk so bad...
January 2, 2026
4.5
What can I say? I love the progression of Jaeyoung and Sangwoo’s relationship
What can I say? I love the progression of Jaeyoung and Sangwoo’s relationship
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