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The observation seems to hit close to home. Then I want to taste too. Jang-mi bangs her head against a wall at work the next day, calling herself crazy.
But then she starts giggling and tells Hyun-hee excitedly that she kissed someone last night. Nearly expired ingredient soup! Mom asks how much Ki-tae paid her to go along with this charade, and offers to pay her more. She turns on a recorder and asks her to admit that it was all an act. She tells Mom to talk it out with her son instead of doing things like this.
Agh, I feel so terrible for her. She accuses him of giving Jang-mi ammunition against her, but Ki-tae lies that he told her for his own benefit—so that he could breathe and talk to someone openly. But then as soon as Yeo-reum walks away he has more, wondering how the waiter made a soup this good.
But Ki-tae arrives to yank her away to dinner before she can even protest. Dude, let the girl go to the bathroom. Yeo-reum is surprised to see his soup pot emptied and asks the chef if he ate it all. Judging from his rumbling stomach, he totally did, but he lies that he threw it away.
He flashes back to his childhood, when his mother made him a kimchi pancake one night and then abandoned him while he was eating it. She tells him to stop pestering his mother, and starts to tell him what happened at the department store today. Hoon-dong follows Jang-mi and tries to apologize for his mom, and she just shoves his face away, desperate to get to the bathroom. But the chef beats her to the door, equally desperate to get to the one working toilet in the restaurant. She stands outside the door crossing and uncrossing her legs, trying not to have a meltdown.
Meanwhile, because the chef is otherwise occupied and Hoon-dong is getting impatient, Yeo-reum decides to cook. Yeo-reum berates himself for trying and tosses the rest of the kimchi out, not knowing that eventually the ladies taste it and love it.
He admit the next day thay it was a mistake on his part because he didn't even remember doin.. I cried with JangMi when she was talking to her dad about the reason why she let the show go on for longer than she should have I just feel that their story isn't necessary, really. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit, sed diam nonummy nibh euismod tincidunt ut laoreet dolore magna. In some angles, Han Groo looks so much like Go Hyun-jung:
Jang-mi tries to say her goodbyes and leave, but they insist she stay for the wine at least, so she sits back down. The room starts to spin as her stomach grumbles more fiercely than before, and she breaks into a sweat just trying to keep it together long enough to drink a glass of wine. But they keep pushing her to eat and have another glass, so she stuffs her face as fast as she can.
She stands up, declares that she did indeed pay a fine for being a stalker, and gulps down the rest of her wine before walking out. Is this the typhoon? The one brewing in her intestines? Ack, her steps grow more frantic as her stomach growls with terrifying urgency, and she goes every which way looking for a bathroom. She gets as far as across the street… and then lightning strikes. She just pooped her pants.
Title: 연애 말고 결혼 OST Part 1 / Marriage, Not Dating OST Part 1; Artist: Ben; Language. [Eng sub] Marriage without dating ep 1 (Ki tae & Jang Mi cut) 1/3. by Fearless .. (INDO SUB) Kim Na Young 바라고 바라고 Marriage Not Dating OST. by Pipik.
LOL, this is the opening scene? How can something be so sad and so funny at the same time? She screams for him not to say a word. Se-ah comes out and asks if this was the sort of thing Ki-tae was angling for, calling him childish. Something that exploded without your consent or will? When Ki-tae comes in Jang-mi tells him that she wants to call it quits now, and says that she confessed her feelings to Yeo-reum. But she finds Jang-mi so personable and was pleasantly surprised to know that Mom could be so open-minded and forgiving.
Hoon-dong gets drunk and calls Hyun-hee out to meet him, slurring that he thought he could tell her everything. At the same time, Jang-mi tells Ki-tae that she thinks Yeo-reum is someone she can tell everything to.
Are you going to tell him that too? She chases after him in protest when he threatens to tell, but they stop when they spot Se-ah and Yeo-reum outside the restaurant. She says that she finally knows what Ki-tae is up to now and hands over an envelope, and Yeo-reum smiles back at her.
Oh no, poor Jang-mi. This was the best use of the cold open yet, with the four previous episodes having set us up for a very straight reading of events, laying the groundwork for the surprise twist in this episode. But this episode builds toward the reveal so effectively, complete with signs of an actual storm brewing as we go along, only to be slammed with the most unexpected reason for a tear-filled love spat imaginable. Of course the typhoon gets you the initial metaphor: Yeo-reum confuses me, which I guess is the point of him. But Yeo-reum is weirdly cagey and waaaay too smooth to be trusted fully, and yet, at the same time, it does seem like his feelings for Jang-mi might be genuine.
The funny thing is that the contract relationship is making her appear to have become the player, stringing three guys along like a pro. A rose is just a rose… except when your fake boyfriend gifts it to you and suddenly the damned thing makes you swoon. Your email address will not be published. But the drama will have to stay on its toe to keep the supply fresh and flowing or we will wake up with terrible hangover. The major premise that has taken the drama this far is getting stale by the minute. Get us to the next hook that will sustain the drama for a few more episodes, until it goes all in for the finale.
Unless it goes all flat and middle class halfway, like so many tvN dramas did. In Witch's Romance, that happened when the photographer ex returned.
Well that's what actually I'm worried me about. Since eps had been a hit to me, maybe the middle eps could fall into bland and boring hopefully not and it's a pressure for the writers to keep up the intensity. We have all seen so many dramas start to lose their oomph and have a lot of filler, especially after the first few episodes. So far this has done better than most - Trot Lovers started going downhill for me at the 4th episode.
Given how this has gone so far, I am expecting a wild ride in the next 2 episodes, and will be really disappointed if it loses it's way. It's my favorite drug! And it is the only drama that I watch ongoing, and every week keep refreshing until the subs are out! I just hope they will keep the pace and there is not going to be the infamous 13th episode slump!
And you're right about the writing of this episode being totally genius in using the "crappy" situation as the opening only to learn it's higher Just keep on messing our OTP okay? They are going to be BFFs. Jang Mi seems to be the only one empathising with the mom and the mom is definitely warming up to her. I bet you she is going to turn out to be Jang Mi's biggest supporter in the future. I can see this happening also, even though Mom now acts like she hates Jang Mi, I think she also sees what she wishes she could be or could have been, so perhaps she is also a bit jealous, or maybe just starting to question herself about her priorities.
I love your comments about Jang-mi challenging Mom's ideas about her own choices and priorities.
Rather than being accident-prone or a pushover, I get the sense that Jang-mi is a revolutionary who speaks truth to power--or perhaps more accurately, that she is the revolutionary who speaks emotional honesty to a severely repressed, messed-up system. That's why I absolutely love details like in the last episode, when Jang-mi took grandma to task for remaining silent even though grandma knew Jang-mi and momma were being taken advantage of.
And I loved even more that even though grandma was affronted at first, the comment really made her stop and think, "was I complicit in this? Should I have said something? She can't help but speak her mind, and she is in touch enough with her own emotions that she is able to call out the small injustices around her. Most families have some form of dysfunction or repression that is only visible from an outside perspective. Good post - and even beyond about cutting through the family cover-up bullshit, I think it is also taking a slam at the whole Korean system of "elders - right or wrong, they are always right" Confucian way of thinking.