Is she Catholic?
Or maybe the set/prop director is Catholic?
Because that’s the Mary statue on the table. I’ve never seen that used as a prop before. This scene is from Episod 10 at 40:23
Edited to add this: Thanks, @tsutsuloo! From Episode 8, at 34:35.
I’ve only noticed it now. I am not sure.
As far as I know YEH is a Christian. Not necessarily Catholic.
Someone enlighten us please.
Thank you 🙂
The beads wrapped around the statue is probably meant to be a rosary but I’m not sure if that thing was actually a rosary. The spacing between the beads are different.
Wow—well spotted!
In Ep. 8 (34:35), where Woo-Hyun’s step-bro and sister-in-law hosted dinner to allow WH and YJ to reconcile, you can see Christian iconography in step-hyung’s living room.
I haven’t noticed anything else suggesting other characters were Christian. Was Yoo-Jung’s mother’s death anniversary coming up? It will be interesting to see how her family will observe together, now that they’re reconciled. I wouldn’t be surprised if they just end up visiting the big tree and spritzing the bonsai. There’s a lot less cooking involved, for sure.
Note: My own maternal family is nominally Buddhist. We’re not huge on the ancestor worship though my brother and I did burn incense before our great-grandparents tablets not far from the Then Sze Temple (Centipede Temple) in Seremban, Malaysia. Our uncles will have to tell us what they want us to do, when they leave this earth.
It can be a rosary definitely but the spacing is not very clear to me. It can be a big rosary too. But if the spacing is different I’m not sure what it is.
@tsutsuloo That’s very interesting. Thank you for sharing. 🙂 I wish my Grandmother will tell us too what she wants us to do 🙂
That’s right! I forgot about those! I noticed them, too and I thought it was odd.
There was the Marian statue, a crucifix (a crucifix has Jesus on the cross while a cross is bare cross), and a Sacred Heart of Jesus picture (I’m not sure about this one, though). Put together like that, this table looked like an altar.
Except that there was also a fruit and an offering on a plate?? So it’s like an offering for the ancestors.
Your story of the Then Sze Temple reminded me of one of my trips to X Country (I won’t name it; it isn’t SKorea). I told my colleague that I love visiting the temples and taking pictures; I thought the temples were magnificent. But she looked at like as if I was such an ignoramus and said that in her native country, China, Buddhist temples were everywhere, and more impressive. So why should she go to Country X for the temples?? Perspective really is relative. lol.
I believe Eun Hye is a Protestant Christian. I also notice the image of Mama Mary in the bedside table during the scene where both YJ and WH were invited by the doctor stepbrother and his wife into their home. Being a Catholic myself,I was also curious since I think that was the first time I watch a korean drama where catholic images were placed minus scenes where they took in churches.
Thank you for the info.
Yes, I’ve seen dramas take place in Catholic churches. Goblin is one. In the early episodes, the lead female character (I forgot her name) went to church to pray and light a candle, et voila! Goblin popped up because apparently lighting candles were her way of summoning him.
Of course, she thought it was odd of him, a goblin, to appear in a CHURCH of all places. lol.
I tried to reason out in another forum that the Goblin, despite the theme of karma and reincarnation, could be re-interpreted from a Christian perspective.
There was purgatory/hell for instance. Goblin was consigned to spend his days in oblivion in the cold place, THAT was hell.
Conversely, paradise was discussed as well. Though they had to suffer loneliness and death, that was still “paradise” because they had each other. The lead female character even mentioned being in a big mansion with lots of room where they could live together forever (if I remember correctly) which for many Christians is a metaphor for that “big castle” up in the sky.
That’s why I said that the ending could either be interpreted from 1) a perpetual reincarnation point of view, that is, the girl will die yet again after she comes back from the dead, and Goblin has to wait for her again. Rinse and repeat. Repeat reincarnation for 7 more times then dead for good.
or 2) Christian afterlife. She dies after the getting hit by the truck, then she goes to afterlife in heaven as a reward. She visits her dead mother in heaven for a while (because she misses her mom and wants to see her again) but then CHOOSES to spend eternity back down on earth with Goblin. After all, before they separated, she told him to wait for her because she’d talk with the gods to let her go return to him and live with him on earth.
Their last encounter on the hillside in the final episode is the definitely “LAST” one. She isn’t going to die and be reborn over and over and over again.
To me, the Goblin highlighted the difference of perspectives of the viewers. The viewers who believed in reincarnation all thought that the Goblin had a crappy life and that the writer was grossly unfair to write Goblin’s character because he’s punished forever to lonely.
Goblin was doomed to have a lover who would come back and die, then come back and die for 9 times ONLY. (IIRC, the limit was 9 times of reincarnation). After the 9th time, that’s it. Kaput. lol.
But from the Judeo-Christian perspective, they both have a happy ending. She went to heaven after her accident and she begged with the gods (like Goblin did himself and buried himself in the cold tundra) to let her return to Goblin on earth.
lol. Sorry. I don’t know why I talked about Goblin instead of Fluttering Alert. I must be very tired.
Geez! Chill to your colleague 😄 So much for open mindedness 🤷♀️
I’ll try to look at that episode and see the altar. I’ve never noticed it before in any dramas that I’ve seen except this one.
She’s Christian.
She even a has a cafe called Jacob’s Ladder. And pretty sure some of the pillows in YJ’s house were from her personal collection.