#and outright saying she's going out with Ji Ho

[detectiveships]

they could have left us with a honeymoon phase until next week no???

ugh I honestly am tired of this 'third party old flame comes back and meddles with ML and FL's relationship by creating misunderstanding as soon as things start moving between them' trope LET ME ENJOY THEM JUST BEING HAPPY OKAY

I like a drama but this is tiring 🙄 it's one of the few things that put me off in Her Private Life as well even though it was one of the best comfort dramas personally.

[gwenchana-gwenchana]

Even more things that I will never be over, in no particular order.

part: 1 2 3 4 5 6 8

10.) One of the very first scenes in You're All Surrounded-- spoilers for anyone who hasn't watched it-- but jesus christ I cried so hard. The bad guy kills the main guys mom right in front of him and she keeps him secret until the end and he has to just watch her die while trying to keep quiet under the bed. My heart. Also just look at Lee Seung Gi’s sad sad pretty face.

9.) Black & White-- an old Twainese drama that kept me guessing until the end. But it was excellent and got me back into dramas after I got burnt so many times-- there was a period where every drama ended with death or that open-ended bullshit they try to pass off as a happy ending and it seems like dramas are trending back towards those stupid endings again. Frowny face.

8.) I just watched Mission Possible and that shit was cute and hilarious and I love a good action scene. I really liked Kim Young-Kwang's character in it. Go watch it on Viki before I spoil it for you by saying too much.

7.) That scene in Vincenzo, in the first couple of episodes, where he confronts the wimpy gang leader guy and throws his ass out of the window. I was shocked and did not expect it. It was great. Also-- the brutatilty of the main bad guys endings was insane. I loved it and it was very much desereved but Jesus Christ it was brutal.

6.) Park Bo Gum and his beautiful innocent face who looks like he could do no harm to anyone ever and then he does that evil smirk in I Remember You and is actually evil. Shocked to my core. Also that man is very pretty when he is evil.

5.) The scene in Kill Me Heal Me where Shin Se Gi makes that wheel were it is like grossly and disporportionally in his favor and it still lands on Cha Do Hyun and he throws a fit about it. Killed me. Can I just say, again, how much I love Ji Sung and his face.

4.) Lee Min Ki. That man is beautiful and I love his face. He does a great evil guy and adorable romance guy.

3.) The Lover -- kdramas are usually wholesome and sweet, or used to be, whereas kmovies tend to be more raunchy and explicit. So it was a weird kdrama when The Lover came out and was more explicit than other dramas. It was good and like the first outright mlm romance-- that was still not outright. lol still 2015 for the alphabet mafia in korea and especially in korean media was rough. Still is but its a wee bit better. Also the Lover was where I discovered Jung Joon-young!

2.) There are many scenes from Legend of the Blue Sea that I really enjoyed but my favorite was in the beginning when she is just quietly kicking all of the ass and Lee Min Ho thinks he's being such a badass taking on the three guys at the end of the chase. All the while looking at her for approval-- are you impressed, wouldn't I make such a good boyfriend? And she's taken out a small army of guys without him noticing. It was hilarious.

1.) Jun Ji-hyun is gorgeous and I love her face. Especially the freckle on her nose-- so fucking pretty.

[tellywoodtrash]

immj2 30.10.20 lb

lol ishani is suchhhhhhhhh a messy bitch. not even pretending to look less than outright gleeful.

le, iska rona shuru. god sis, you knowwwwwww these bitches have it out for you, then why do you give them the satisfaction of seeing this reaction???

yeh aadmi hai ya bhagwaan? koi bhi jagaah koi bhi time marzi se prakat ho jaata hai.

THAT FUCKING STUPIDASS SCARF IS RUINING THE WHOLEEEEEE LOOOK. GOD WHY DO THEY DO THIS TO HIM?????????

TUMNE JITNE TELLYWOOD FANS KO KHOOOON KE AANSOON RULAAYE HAINNNNA SHIRALI, BHAGWAN TUMHE IN PAAPON KE LIYE KABHI NAHI MAAF KAREGA!!!!!!!!!!

also, just noticed the set and production design credits and finally have names to put on all the hate mail i wanna send.

naaaah jk, i think it's really nice that they got employment in this pandemic, even with their OBVIOUS lack of taste. so much so, that it seems to be a medical condition! 

anyway, he said he got this sargi for ishani on behalf of angre, but since she's got hers anyway, this one can be given to riddhima. noice. this fucker be worming his way into my heart with shit like this.

inka phir se popat bann gaya.

mummy biting out and giving the worst blessing of all, “sadaa suhaagan raho.” which is just an elaborate way of saying "hope you die before your husband does, because life without a man is worse than death itself!!!!!!"

“thank you mummyji. aapne ~~sachchi neeyat~~~ se sargi taiyyar kii thi toh dekhiye, mere haath khaali nahi hain!”

lmao nice. where was this riddhima allllll along?????? i've been waitinggggg for this snarky bitchhhhh who doesn't take shit!!!!!

le, aadarsh bahu mode is back on. sab ke liye koi paath ka intezaam kiya. chanchal chachi was right, she's suchhhhh a annoying suck-up to dadi, honestly.

husband is like here, no one's looking; sneak some almonds, come on. yes, i approve. this the kinda man* you want ladies. one who's willing to have a few hours taken off his lifespan so you don't get hangry.

(*T&C strictly apply: only in this feeding waala criteria wrt this dude. baaki sab toh disaster hi disaster hai iss mein.)

“kaisi baat kar rahe ho??? vrat sachchi nishtha se kii jati hai. koi nahi dekh raha par bhagwaan dekh rahe hain!”

lmao, the most appropriate response. 

wait you guys genuinely need a gif of this moment, coz it’s priceless:

i can't believe they don't let this dude move his face in this show when he is the MOST ENTERTAINING when he doessssss.

he's like dude i'll adjust with the 2 hours less in my life, but dharampatni is i won’t let you escape a minute of suffering existence in this flesh prison we’re all trapped in, so help me god!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

who the fuckkkkkkkkk is this????? and you know you didn't need a needle on the syringe for this whole thing, don't you???

vansh's "baaz ki nazar" toh i've long given up on, but riddhima's peripheral vision also seems to be completely shit if she didn't notice a wholeass person wrapped in all black skulking around directly in her eyeline, not 10 feet away.

lmaooooooo dadi is like tf you doing here, and the hasty retreat he beat. scaryass men soft for their sweet old grandmas is a trend i really do love in tellywood.

oh i like ishani's outfit.

blah blah blah KC gyaan idgaf.

riddhima has lit diya and instant cough attack from the smoke.

it's her. she's the one who did this. looks like she's okay with bhai dying a few days earlier than fated, as long as it means she knocks riddhima down a few pegs.

mummy rubbing it in saying dekho yeh akhand paath hai, beech mein rukna nahi chahiye, apshagun hota hai. godddddddddddddd.

I HONESTLY CANNOT WATCH HER COUGH AND CHOKE THROUGH THIS THE SHEER RIDICULOUSNESS OF THIS IS FUCKING KILLING MEEEEEEEEE

yeh lo ji, parmeshwar prakat ho gaye to save the day and read the paath himself.

all dudes in the world should be in whatever business this guy and angre are in. ki biwi mil gayi toh it manages itself while he devotes himself to her.

lmao the sheer earnestness with which he's narrating the KC paath. both wholesome and fucking hilarious. looks like those primary school kids at their first public speaking contest.

i am ishani. god, why won't this scene just endddddddd already, i'm dying of cringe.

whoooooooooooops. bhai is pointedly asking ki how riddhima's throat got messed up when she was fine like 3 min ago.

behen is giving earnesttttttt excuses and he's really "sure jan"-ing her.

dadi's all no matter what issues crop up in these two's lives, i'm sure they'll win over it with their lurrrrrrrrrrrrrrve. yeah, it looks that way rn, but i wouldn't be quite so optimistic yet, dadi.

literally no one is surprised by this revelation.

oh god, she has something more planned. man who are these ppl with so much energy in their lives WHILE PREGNANT, to do such scheming and plotting??????? just my period cramps have me taking 2 hours off work to curl up on my heat pad and cry about ouchieeeeeee.

great. ragini ko ab daure pad rahein hain.

and poor angre is saddled with getting her treatment. WHY DOES HE HAVE TO DEAL WITH ALL THESE TROUBLESOME WOMEN IN YOUR LIFE VANSH?!?!?! EK ADIYAL BEHEN ISKE SAR PE BAANDH DI HAI WOH KAAFI NAHI THA, KI AB INVALID EX KO BHI ISKE HI HAATH MEIN THAMAA DIYA. i know you got your hands full with that disaster wife of yours, but come on man.

oh god is he gonna blow up at her again for eavesdropping!?!!?!?!?

thank the lord above, she had airpods in. (also lmao, ofc she's literally the airpods meme.)

isn't HE supposed to give HER a gift today???

i liked his other watch better. but this watch is supposedly riddhima “ke dil ki dhadkano se judi hai” so........ i'm no expert in cutting edge watch technology, so sure. sounds like something that would be available for the wives of billionaire gangster’s wives to buy.

oh man she got herself a matching one. which ofc is “tumhare dil ki dhadkano se judi hai.” lord, she CHEESY CHEESYYYYYYYYYYYY. and i'm mildly lactose intolerant, so 🤢🤢🤢

this dude is not though. he falling for this hard and fast. which is....... unexpected. nice, but also suspicious.

“yeh ghadiyaan chahe rahein naa rahein riddhima, lekin tum mere dil mein hamesha rahogi.”

that's sweet. and i'd believe and squee over it if this was any other show. i would. but in this show, literally everyone other than dadi/siya is out to fuck each other over and i don't trust a single goddamn word out their hissy snake mouths.

aaaaaaaaaaaaand ofc he's vrat-ing for her too. BECAUSE THIS IS A FEMINIST SHOW WITH THIS VERY FEMINIST HERO OK?!!!!!!?!?!!!!?!? THIS ONE EPISODE ABSOLVES ALLLLLLLLLLLL THE OTHER 98 EPISODES FILLED WITH HOT FLAMING TRASH!!!!!!!!!!!!

“apni umar badhaake kya karoonga main, agar tum saath nahi ho. main chahta hoon ki tum meri zindagi ki aakhri saans tak mere saath raho.”

again, very very sweet and all, esp. with these soft melty eyes; but it's this show. and we saw the upcoming promo. sooooooooo, kill bill sirens in my head, i'm afraid.

both mann hi mann mein deciding to tell each other the truth about their backstories after the vrat. which should work out splendidlyyyyyyy.

lo ji dream sequence shuru. voot blocked the music but colors put up the scene with bol na halke halke on instaTV so i watched it there.

yesssssssssss you messy trainwrecks. get it onnnnnnnnnn.

this is literally alllll i am watching this show for. the moment y'all bang in canon, i'm outttttttttttt. it's always the best time to quit a tellywood show. always. take this protip from wise, old TT. quit the show the episode the lead couples fuck. just trust me on this.

idk WHOSE dream sequence this is, but lmao it's got the vibes of a not-that-great wedding "promo" thing ppl have got going on these days. which one of y'all is binging these on youtube and thus has their subconscious filled with it/??? it's gotta be riddhima, but it would be absolutely fucking hilariousssssss if it was in fact, vansh.

yup. it was her dumb ass. i bet she had the exact video in mind for kabir and just cut-copy-pasted vansh's face in there from the last week onwards.

oh chachi's back from maayka for vrat kholing.

mans literally do be looking like the chand today. because they eased up on his yellow foundation, thank god.

poor ishani. god, this is why we need feminism. so our sisters don't get pushed into shit like this against their willllllllllllllllll.

dadi and siya shipping riansh to the point of making ppl uncomfortable. what next, you gonna be writing mature fanfic about them on IF????? BACK THE FUCK OFF, YOU WEIRDOS.

“humaare plans kamyaab hote toh vansh iss waqt riddhima ko zeher ki pyaali pilaa raha hota. hmph.”

lmaoooooooooooooooo mummy is an eternalllllllll mood.

this one is getting overly emotional about her first completed karwachauth vrat. eat a snickers, bitch.

dadi overpromising and saying shit like evennnnnnnnn god himself can't shake your love for each other, tumhari prem kahaani billlkulllll pooori hogi and what not. oh dadi, did YOU not see the promo?????

this one got the footage she needed and has duly handed it over to bhai. both of vansh's sisters have the trait for going straightttttt to him with their sordid discoveries, albeit for completely polar reasons.

lmaoooooo the way she peaced out.

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaand he's started growling about how all this KC naatak was fake and and vowing revenge and games for her dhokaaaaaaaaaa. i hate to say it but............ i told you so.

also abbe oh gobar ganesh. itna CCTV footage mila hai kahin se, toh baaki ka bhi toh dhoond, where you see how she got into the bloody dickey?!?!???! nahi, 2 out-of-context second hi dekh ke paagal saand ki taraah bekaabu ho jaana hai. shit for brains, literally everyone in this show has.

anyway, if i was vansh’s murti maker, i’d be expecting a call righhhhhht about now. riddhima yahaan rahe na rahe, uski murti zaroor rahegi, which vansh and his next paramour will demolish together as a bonding/foreplay exercise.​

[thisguyatthemovies]

Social commentary with bite

Title: “Parasite”

Release date: Nov. 1, 2019

Starring: Song Kang-ho, Lee Sun-kyun, Cho Yeo-jeong, Choi Woo-sik, Park So-dam, Lee Jung-eun, Jang Hye-jin, Jung Ji-so, Park Myung-hoon

Directed by: Bong Joon Ho

Run time: 2 hours, 12 minutes

Rated: R

What it’s about: The four members of a poor South Korean family manage, through deception, to get jobs working for a wealthy family, but things go horribly wrong when their now comfortable existence is threatened.

How I saw it: Forty-five minutes into “Parasite,” and it seems you’re watching a quaint South Korean farce.

Meet the Kims. The father, Ki-taek (Song Kang-ho); mother, Chung-sook (Jang Hye-jin); and grown children (Choi Woo-sik as Ki-woo, the son; and Park So-dam as Ki-jeong, the daughter) are living together in a crowded apartment in a dense and busy part of the city where drunks frequently urinate outside their window. We are introduced to the Kims as they try to piggyback off neighbors’ Wi-Fi. They are barely getting by. The four of them fold pizza boxes for income, but they do it so poorly that their meager wages are docked.

Then good fortune arrives in the form of a friend of Ki-woo. He brings the family a large rock that supposedly will bring them riches. Then the friend offers Ki-woo his job – teaching English to a high school sophomore girl from a rich family, the Parks. Ki-woo, though not exactly qualified, does the job well, and the girl (Jung Ji-so) falls in love with him. Soon, through outright deception and some underhanded tactics, the other three Kims are working for the Parks as an art therapist, chauffeur and housekeeper.

The Kims are paid well, and they enjoy their new lifestyle. And they display no remorse about having lied their way into a much better situation and taking advantage of their new employers. When the Parks leave for a family camping trip, the Kims have the run of the mountaintop mansion and get drunk in celebration.

Then “Parasite” takes a twisted turn.

The previous housekeeper, Moon-gwang (Lee Jung-eun), returns to the Parks’ home during the Kims’ party, and she seems unhinged. Though the Kims had gotten her fired, they let her into the house, as she says just wants to retrieve something she has left behind. But she has left more behind than just a few personal possessions; she has been hiding a dark secret from the Parks all along. The Kims realize she jeopardizes their newly comfortable existence, and when Moon-gwang threatens to expose them, “Parasite” gets to where it was going all along – a razor-sharp, bloody and brutal but darkly funny commentary about class warfare and how even those far down the socioeconomic ladder will stop at almost nothing to protect what little status they have.

Bong Joon Ho, who directed and co-wrote, covered similar ground in “Snowpiercer,” but here he is an artist at the top of his game. “Parasite” is a brilliant piece of filmmaking and important slice of social commentary, and a movie deserving of many awards across several categories – performances, directing, cinematography, writing, editing, the works.

“Parasite” succeeds, in part, because Bong presents this tale of haves and have-nots with little judgement. A more routine film would try to play upon the audience’s sympathies for the Kims, but if we root for them, it’s uncomfortably. They only briefly consider the plight of the Parks’ employees they got fired, they are proud of the daughter’s ability to forge documents, and they seem a little too eager to resort to violence. The Parks (Lee Sun-kyun as Mr. Park and Cho Yeo-jeong as Mrs. Park) are evil only if you see wealth as evil. They are nice, but they seem too dependent on their workers and unsympathetic to those less fortunate than them.

Both the Kims and Parks have little understanding of those on the opposite end of the socioeconomic spectrum. Ki-taek talks of how wealth “irons out the creases” of life, but he assumes the Parks have had their wealth handed to them. The Parks (including their young son) notice that the Kims smell different, and when they try to pinpoint what the odor is, it is clear they are talking about how the poor smell. When Mr. and Mrs. Park have sex on a sofa, Mr. Park asks his wife if she has put on a cheap pair of underwear they had found in their car, and Mrs. Park role-plays by asking her husband if he will buy her drugs. It is, they assume, what the poor do when they have sex. It’s as if they long to be poor at least for a while, just as the Kims long to be wealthy.

The climactic scene of “Parasite” is bloody, emotional and beautifully surreal. The almost whimsical nature of the first 45 minutes of the film are long gone, and what we are left with is a movie that will leave you not only entertained (and possibly unnerved) but thinking long after the final credits have stopped rolling. It is must-see cinema.

My score: 98 out of 100

Should you see it? Yes. This is a film worthy of many accolades and one that begs to be seen.

[overthinkingkdrama]

Hi, i might be reading wrong the last developments betwen Hi Jeon and Woo Kyung but to me it seems they are parting away. She took care of Eun Ho when he was beaten but didn't seem to have gone to see Hi Jeon at the hospital or called him. He didn't look convinced by her words that he did the right thing by saving her and killing Eun Ho. He accused her subtly too of leading on Red Cry with Si Wan and she was offended and had to remind him that he made up the story for her to tell to Red Cry. 1/2

She’s keeping him in the dark about her current connection with Red Cry and while he knows she’s nervous and lying, he didn’t ask why. He supported her when she was looking for the little girl in the green dress, she used to keep him update about her discoveries Now the subject has been dropped completely between them. This distance seems more obvious when compared to the attention he gives recently to Soo Young: he literally ran to protect her and arrest the man who assaulted her. 2/2

So i wonder if this means that this gap is going to grow bigger in the final to the point where they could be on opposite side and fighting each other? 3/3

I can definitely see where you’re getting your reading from. I also see the distancing between Woo Kyung and Ji Heon in these past couple of episodes, but I don’t see it in quite as dark a light, I think. I see it more as a heightening of tension and conflict right before the finale.

You raise a couple different points and I want to address them in order:

As far as the parting of ways is concerned, I see what you mean. I was personally really hoping for a scene of Woo Kyung visiting Ji Heon in the hospital after his injury, and was slightly disappointed when we didn’t get one. However, I have to admit that I’m viewing this from a shipper’s point of view, so of course I want my favorite pair to share more screen time where they bond and worry about each other.

The problem is, this is a thriller and not a melo. The focus is the suspenseful story line and the murder mystery, so there’s less leisure time where we get scenes that purely explore character relationships. If this was a romance then I would expect those, as in a romance character relationship is the plot in many respects. As it is however, all or nearly all of Woo Kyung and Ji Heon’s interactions are directly in service to the plot and their friendship or whatever it is that’s going on between them is left firmly in the realm of subtext that we can unpack or ignore as we like.

That’s a long winded way of saying that we get scenes of Woo Kyung caring for Eun Ho’s wounds because Eun Ho’s trauma and home life directly feeds into the Red Cry arc, whereas a scene of her visiting Ji Heon would not service the plot, but only develop the character relationships. This is a pacing decision, not necessarily a sign that the two characters are drifting apart.

I’ll admit some disappointment too that Ji Heon and Woo Kyung aren’t discussing her hallucinations and the girl in the green dress anymore. I was pulling from the first half of the show that Woo Kyung would eventually confide in Ji Heon all about her mysterious past and he would become instrumental in her unraveling the mystery. That didn’t end up happening. Instead Woo Kyung ended up using Red Cry to dig deeper into her past and uncover what happened to the real Se Kyung. It’s not exactly what I wanted, but I think it’s thematically appropriate, since Woo Kyung has always been suspended on bridge between Ji Heon’s lawful good and Red Cry’s chaotic vigilante justice, not coming cleanly down on either side.

I think that might be another explanation for the distancing between these two characters. The drama has essentially laid a false dilemma before Woo Kyung. She’s in a position where she feels trapped between the police investigation into Red Cry and the opportunity she has to use Red Cry to find out about her past. She feels that if she opens up to Ji Heon about her contact with Red Cry, she will lose her opportunity, perhaps forever, to find out the truth about the girl in the green dress. Red Cry actually presents it to her as two alternatives: to find out who he is or to find out what happened to her sister. And Woo Kyung consciously and definitively chooses the latter.

There’s a motif in this show regarding intuition. Our conscious and unconscious perceptions about other people. We see it between Eun Ho and Ji Heon. We see it with the little girl in green showing up as a hallucinatory representation of Woo Kyung’s intuition, showing her when children are being abused. And we also see it in the relationship between Ji Heon and Woo Kyung.

There’s a lot of unspoken suspicions between the two of them. I think Ji Heon knows that Woo Kyung is hiding something from him, but has for whatever reason has decided not to ask her for the truth from her directly. I like to think of this as a sign of the trust between them–he believes that Woo Kyung has her reasons to hide things, as she has many times in the past, and will come clean when then time is right. Similarly, I think Woo Kyung subconsciously knows that Ji Heon is right about her sunbae, Dr. Yoon Tae Joo, that he is most likely Red Cry, but she’s rejecting her intuition because a) she doesn’t want to accept the idea that the solution has been so close to her all this time and b) she needs Red Cry in order to solve the mystery of her past and c) on some level she sympathizes with Red Cry’s actions.

To be clear, I don’t think all of these are conscious thoughts on Woo Kyung’s part. Like when she used Si Wan’s story to lure Red Cry, she may have on some level really wanted Red Cry to do something about Si Wan’s situation, but she is far too conflicted about it to have done it with a conscious intention. I think that was the idea Ji Heon was poking at. And even though she did get very defensive when Ji Heon brought it up, and tried to put the matter back on him, and even outright rejected on two different occasions that Yoon Tae Joo might be Red Cry, we actually see later that she is seriously considering the idea that Ji Heon might be right. She asks Tae Joo several oblique questions about whether he desires to kill people who abuse children. That shows me that even though she is defensive to Ji Heon’s face, his words and suspicions are having a serious impact on her.

As for the comparison of Ji Heon’s relationship with Woo Kyung in the past couple of episodes vs his interactions with Soo Young, I do see what you mean. But I don’t necessarily think the two things are related, at least not in the way you’re implying they are. I don’t see his connection with Soo Young on the same level as the one he has with Woo Kyung, or as being of the same nature. I see him much more as a big brother figure toward Soo Young. And that’s been consistent throughout. The way he looks after her, but also tells her off. When he ran over to help her, I think he would have done that in any case, regardless of who it was. But especially because it was his hoobae, his partner, and he has a direct responsibility for her. Think about when he picked her up the morning after she spent the night in the drunk tank and fed her hangover soup. I personally see it as Soo Young having a shitty, abusive oppa and Ji Heon is stepping in as a replacement, protecting her. A found family kind of thing.

Naturally, I could be wrong, and my bias is obvious.

I sincerely hope that the two leads don’t end up fighting against each other in the end. I’ve definitely seen a few people worried that the drama is going to have a downer ending, and I don’t think those fears are completely unreasonable. But I’m still holding out hope for a happy resolution to everything. Part of the reason I don’t think we have to worry about Woo Kyung siding with Red Cry in the end, is because she has already basically gotten from him what she needed. The denouement has happened. She has confronted her step mother about her lies. We still don’t know the complete truth, but Woo Kyung has already started pulling on that thread and the whole web is well on its way to unraveling. I suspect fairly early in the upcoming episode we will know all, including whatever horror happened with the fireplace in that creepy house.

I really don’t have any idea what to expect from the finale, but I’m holding out hope for a satisfactory resolution for all of these characters who I have become extremely attached to in the past weeks. Thanks for sending me this ask. I hope my reply was worth the wait. Have a good night!

Jona

[myechoecho]

My Id is Gagnam Beauty, ep 9

This episode was mainly about Kyung Soek and I was really proud of him. He did really well this episode. Let’s list the things:

He’s taking his agreement to do the chores seriously.

He’s learning about how to handle his finances. Yes, he shouldn’t have taken the cab but he’s learned his lesson.  You see him in class working out his expenses which is a good thing to do.  I can’t read Korean so I don’t know if he’s figured in his tuition/textbooks or not.  I don’t think he knows about that yet.

He’s not too proud to accept a meal from Woo Young.  Kyung Soek knows his finances right now and he’s not outright asking for handouts but he’ll accept a meal from Woo Young.  And his mom, though that was more to spend time with Mi Rae and his mom.

He wants to be independent.  I’m sure he realized that his mom would give him spending money or that he’d be able to stay with her but he wants to be independent and live on his own terms. But again, he’s not too proud to take the money that Hye Sung gave to him for “Mi Rae”. He buys the bus pass, and the hangover medicine for Mi Rae. Since I don’t know much about Won, I don’t know much Hye Sung actually gave him but I’m guessing he’ll have some left over that he’ll spend carefully.

Speaking of his mom, their relationship is progressing nicely. It’s awkward of course, but I think he appreciates that she’s letting him dictate the pace.  Hye Sung didn’t call him when she found out he left home because she didn’t think he’d want her to.  She asks if it is okay to hug him and he lets her, even if he can’t quite hug her back yet.

He’s accepting help from everyone to find a part time job.  But when he realizes the job Soo A got for him meant someone else would be fired,  he refuses to take it. No matter how much he needs the job, he won’t hurt someone else.  After all they need the job too.  He’s even less impressed with Soo A right now, because since she didn’t see the problem with one of her co workers losing his job just so Kyung Seok could work there. She plays innocent, but she knew exactly what would happen and she tries to turn it around “You’re so mean” “Is this my fault too?” “I was trying to help”. Kyung Seok tells her not to bother with him anymore.

Lastly, and possibly most importantly: he does not tell Chan Woo where to find Mi Rae. This guy is a creep who assaulted Mi Rae. Kyung Soek flat out doesn’t answer his question and walks away.

The text message that Ji Hyo got from Won Ho was pretty innocent.  I don’t think what the big deal is about asking for a study guide?  It’s not particularly flirty. But of course, Soo A can’t stand for that so in her shady, passive aggressive way she makes it so that Won Ho is focused on her again. Interesting that Sung Woon seems to see a bit through her too (I mean, she shouldn’t be giving you empty hope like this. This isn’t right). Now, Won Ho has always been crushing on her but I’ll be really disappointed if Tae Hee’s boyfriend drops Tae Hee for Soo A subtle (false) hints. He seemed really nice and liked Tae Hee for who she was. But the fact that they are hiding it seems suspicious.

The more I think of it, I honestly believe that Soo A doesn’t like Kyung Seok despite what she says and how she acts.  It’s more that Kyung Soek doesn’t worship the ground she walks on and she cannot manipulate him.  This is not acceptable to her so this is why she’s going after him so hard. If she were to ever get Kyung Soek, she would do to him what she’s done to all the other boys so far: toss him away like garbage.

Actually, I don’t think Soo A likes any of the boys. Or the girls for that matter. Everyone is just for her to use and manipulate.