Start-Up: Ep 16 Final Rewatch Saturday, May 1

“All’s well that ends well.”

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Starting next week, we’re having a rewatch of Hospital Playlist. It’s “Flower Gardeners” -centric. For now, I’m planning to open the thread with a password.

We’ll only do 6 episodes. Eps 1, 2, 5, 10, 11, and 12 were suggested.

172 Comments On “Start-Up: Ep 16 Final Rewatch Saturday, May 1”

  1. These wedding pictures are divine! DoDal couple will occupy a special place in my kdrama heart. See you all in our last Start Up rewatch! 🍪 🍪 🍪❤️❤️❤️

  2. GrowingBeautifully (GB)

    Thanks for opening the thread so early @pkml3. See you and everyone here tomorrow!

  3. Thanks. I hope that I can attend. I liked Start-Up very much.

  4. I really wish they released the video bts for this wedding photoshoot

  5. Why didn’t they? They had the BTS when the two were just playing badminton (or was it volleyball?).

  6. GrowingBeautifully (GB)

    Hi @Ella and @pkml3. I took a glance and am FFDing through Unexpected Business while waiting.

    It’s only when you mentioned it, that I realise I never bothered to look for BTS for Start-up. I did get hold of the OSTs though.

  7. Ella knows all the good BTS clips of Start Up

  8. GrowingBeautifully (GB)

    @pkml3 that would be useful, or I might just do a blind search and see what comes as a top search.

  9. @packmule they played badminton! and actually they kinda give us hope that there will be another content of both of them.. (they said maybe they wanted to do rope jumping if im not mistaken.) lol..

    @Ella: oh me too Ella!! I always excited watching NJH and Suzy bts on start up, it’s like “Start Up extended version”.. lol..

  10. Hello and have a nice month!

    I do hope you are all okay!

    I just wanted to say Hi to all of you! Enjoy the conclusion of Start Up!

  11. Moonstar512.

    All I remember is Dosan actor was hit on the face by something while they were playing.

    It couldn’t have been a volleyball bec that would have given him a bruise the following day and they were still filming so a shuttlecock made more sense. 😹

  12. Hey you’re here, Ella! Missed you these days. Have a blessed Easter tomorrow!

  13. Hello everybody!

  14. Hello everyone!!! I’m ready as I can be for our last rewatch of SU.

    Same here, I kept looking for BTS of the wedding photoshoot. Like the director did, these 2 look good together.

  15. GrowingBeautifully (GB)

    Hi @Cleo, will you be joining us?

  16. Thank you @Packmule3!

    The First Ressurection has happened already. Later on we will celebrate His Resurrection!

  17. Hi Cleo!!
    I wish you have a great holyweek with your family..

    @packmule3
    But It makes me imagine, it will be great watching them playing volleyball together.. I was happy seeing them in BTS because they seem comfortable to each other like close friends..

    @WE
    Hello WE!!

    Let’s get started everybody..

  18. GrowingBeautifully (GB)

    It’s time to start!!!

  19. It was badminton and he got hit in the face with shuttlecock hahaa..

    I have plenty, if you guys want i can give you a list and link later.

    @packmule I haven’t watch any kdrama lately and binge watching us procedural lol so i can’t join in on the discussion 😢 but I’m planning on joining HP rewatch party

  20. I quickly share a link.
    Finaly my article about Sishypus is published:
    https://mydramalist.com/article/impacting-kdrama-industry-sisyphus-the-myth

  21. Thanks for the link, @WEnchanteur. Will read it later. 🙂

  22. GrowingBeautifully (GB)

    First thing we see is this ‘dirty’ reporter. I dislike that smug face of someone who was out to besmirch a company who never did anything wrong.

  23. GrowingBeautifully (GB)

    Hey @WE! Congrats on completing it. I’ll look at it later.

    As usual JP is going to be too late to be of material or any help.

  24. Hey @GB,

    I will be here for now, but I have to go and prepare our Easter meal later on!

    It was unexpected, but I can be around for some time.

  25. GrowingBeautifully (GB)

    That’s great @Cleo.

    You know I kept missing the title, but now I see it. “The Growing of a Business.”

    DM and team have also grown. They can tackle dirty reporter on their own.

  26. @Packmule3, that give me a better idea of the hardwork you do here. Writing articles is really something I can’t make often, pfuuu. I prefer to write drama. 😉
    As I said, I put it on MDL because the drama needed more understanding on others platform. For unknow reason, many people missed some points I talk about (even If they like or don’t like the drama).

  27. Hello @Moonstar512, @WEnchanteur, @Ella and @Janey!

    I will be a bit quiet than usual! I have missed you too!

  28. JP running but sorry, too late. He is not the person the “Running” song is for.

    I like the layering of the scenes here with the journalist 🐍 and how they found out about the twin hackers hacking their own company. TsK, tsK.

  29. I know, right? For me it was his smirk, and his belly. He looked like a reporter who spent his days eating donuts instead of going after hard news. Ha! I try not to judge people by their appearance, but I do “profile” a reporter right away in the same way I profile a potential juror.

  30. So here, resolution of the journalist situation. Of course, no more suspens now.
    Fun fact: JP arrive too late, he was useless, the team made the job. 🙂
    Poor JP, even when he try to do good, the writer forbid him to have sucess.

  31. “Because they’re handling it pretty well..”

    I like When Injae said this with proudly.. like she saw her baby finally grow up..

  32. But I like his effort: he RAN!

    There’s a BTS (Or was it a fancam?) of the JP actor running, too, in case you’re interested.

  33. I mean that reporter is all kind of shady of course samsan tech can see through him.

  34. GrowingBeautifully (GB)

    Heh! I like how the reporter realises that he’s being had, and the tables are turned against him, and he’s being used by both Sang Su whom he has to ‘betray’ in order to do what Cheongmyeong wants, or be seen as corrupted. He’s a ball being batted back and forth over the fence.
    q(❂‿❂)p

    Good summary on what his article would be like from DM.

  35. Oh goody, @Cleopatra!

    I like Dosan in his black leather jacket. Makes him look like a bad guy for a change.

    He certainly “scaled up.”

  36. GrowingBeautifully (GB)

    LOL @pkml3 you bothered to check out the BTS. Poor chap must have had to run several times for the shoot.

  37. Aww, unnie is proud of her little sister and how she is handling things! She has been more of a mentor to DM than JP in reality.

  38. Use of montage during live action, with flashback about how the plan was made. hey hey.
    Made me think : any scene should be considered as, is it better to tell it now, or to tell it later in a flashback. 🙂

  39. @Packmule3,

    I am sending over some Easter cookies!

    The reporter was handled pretty well from our shiny team! 🙂

  40. The funny thing is, Samsan Tech could see through the reporter, but JP couldn’t see through Samsan Tech. He still saw them as “newbies” and incompetent. 🙂 I’m glad that InJae let them handle the reporter on their own.

  41. GrowingBeautifully (GB)

    That’s true @Janey. In Jae has also grown up. She became a far better CEO and mentor than her ex-step-dad.

    Hah! JP is disappointed that he’s not needed. Hit his ego. Now he’s feeling more lonely than ever.

  42. GrowingBeautifully (GB)

    Love Dong Cheon’s question: “Is he too young for menopause” instead of saying that isn’t it strange this guy is going through menopause. LOL.

  43. JP disapointed : he didn’t helped, his help was not needed. For a guy who pretended to help as sunbae during all the drama.
    CRAP, it’s like to say to him : you was never helpfull but just a pain. Now we do without you. lol!

  44. The actor’s a good sport anyway. I’ll make it a point to watch at least the first episode of his new drama. 🙂

  45. DoSan and his cactus! I like this scene but also the next one!

  46. Dosan new drama ?
    I don’t remember the name. (bad memory)

  47. GrowingBeautifully (GB)

    @pkml3 Yeah, the actor is OK. I did like his dimples too but I’m not crazy like his fans or stans.

    The knitted cactus that looks like Dalmi LOL. Is there a message here … she’s a thorny cactus?

    I like that instead of fussing about the money plant that JP unfairly kept for himself, DS makes his own plant, a soft cactus for Grandma to hug and to warm her. So sweet!

  48. I love love the scene in Halmoni corndog shop 🥺🥺

    Halmoni is happy but she’s worried about JP too..

  49. Cactus scene! I’m really glad that DS continues to knit. Some things never changed. And his hands openly receiving and enclosing grandma’s was also emphasized.

  50. This scene has adlip! 🙂

    And now let’s go to JP and Halmeoni!

  51. GrowingBeautifully (GB)

    @Cleo I always tear up at this scene between JP and Grandma. She’s his only ‘family’. He should have let Dong Cheon into his life but he refused all offers of friendship.

    In the end, the other love story was the one between Grandma and JP. *sob*

  52. Dear All! Sorry I can’t join tonight. We have a small celeb here at home. Will be reading all your comments later. Can’t believe this is the last watch party!

  53. @Cleo, this episode is full of warm scenes. ahah!
    I’m sure it could be made < 15 minutes if really needed. I don't say it's fan service, but I watched that in Pinnochio too. Normaly, action stop as soon as possible in movies. But this writer is quite succesfull to make something enjoyable just about tender and optimistic scenes at the end. There is high risk here to do something boring.

  54. every time i watched this scene i’m reminded of packmule commenting on how Dosan make sure to greet Dalmi’s mom as well.

  55. GrowingBeautifully (GB)

    JP always so brusque: “If you’re sick of it, just let me pay you back. If I were you, I’d have gotten it over with already.”

    That’s JP’s attitude. I owe you, it’s a burden, so you should let me pay you back so that I can be rid of it and you can be rid of me … and you have no more hold over me. … Don’t know whether to commiserate with him or give him a good slap.

  56. @GB,

    Same over here…
    He is already emotional by the time she gets to his apartment…
    Halmeoni understands behind the words, how JP is feeling.
    In his loneliness, she is the only one that was always there for him…

  57. JP ugly cried here. I like the emotional scenes with him and grandma. Wouldn’t JP have turned different if grandma obliged him to contact her regardless if he is happy or not? Now she said it here in their last scene together.

  58. True. He didn’t really care about the money plant. He just used it as leverage for the letters. JP was more attached to the money plant because he tended to it.

    I’m glad Dosan had knitting as an outlet. It sends a positive message that IT guys are not just coding all day and can be really creative, too.

    I like how Dalmi had her hand in Dosan’s arm. “All mine!”

  59. GrowingBeautifully (GB)

    @Ella @Cleo @Janey
    I like how DS uses his nice big hands to comfort and make connections with others. Later… he even does it with JP.

  60. @WE i think what packmule means is HJP actor his real name is Kim Seon Ho. He will have a new drama with Shin Min Ah..

    @GB: i quite liked the actor too before Start Up.. but of course NJH stole my whole attention in this drama.. lol

  61. This scene with granma and JP is good. Make me feel JP was the main character. T___T
    The actor can act in another way (crying scene). This actor will have huge success now, he will go on main roles next I’m sure. 😉

  62. We all want someone to say: “I’m here for you…”

  63. @GB,

    I agree 🙂

  64. @Cleo – happy Easter soon!!! Glad you can join us for a bit.

  65. GrowingBeautifully (GB)

    LOL, I like how JP is softer now after Grandma offered unconditional love and time to him. He’s open to the ‘charity’ organisation that Dong Cheon kindly pushes to him.

    Everyone says they won’t win the bid and don’t expect to, but now can’t stop trying to win LOL.

  66. @WEnchanteur this last episode is so satisfying. No matter what the other fans say against the writer and the plot, for me she did a good job in tying all loose ends in a nice bow. Everyone got their happy ending.

  67. Is there anyone who understand the koran language here? Im just curious about the explanation when Dalmi said Her goal is Level 5.. what does it mean..

  68. GrowingBeautifully (GB)

    DS is asking DM how far Jane wants Tarzan to go.

    DS is Tarzan. He’s asking her what he can do for her, he’s learning from Jane, according to his original story to her, when he explained what AI is.

    He sure learnt well and it’s so nice to make whatever his girl wants come true.

  69. @WEnchanteur,

    Already Kim Sun-Ho (JP) has signed for a new series with Shin Min Ah. It is called Seaside Village Chachacha.

    As for Nam Joo-Hyuk, his next Series “Here”, will be a all Star one :

    https://mydramalist.com/48949-here

  70. 🙂 I try NOT to remember actors’ names because of my limited memory storage. I’ve to reserve storage space for the really good actors. ~~~ the shade ~~~~

    I didn’t like him in 2D1N. I thought he wasn’t pulling his weight with the jokes and banter because he was protecting his image too much. This happens a lot to other actors in variety shows. They have to shed their “good boy” image to be really good at variety shows.

    Hmmm…is this why Lee MinHo doesn’t do variety??

    Anyway, NJW appears to be the same in variety shows and in this “Start Up.”

  71. GrowingBeautifully (GB)

    LOL Most embarrassing almost kiss scene ever!! Poor DS got such a hard push off. LOLOL. Chul San was envious!!!

  72. @GB,

    So true! I like how are they communicating, until CHul San is killing the scene! 😛

  73. @Cleo – I read that “Here” is shelved for the time being given COVID travel restrictions. They have to do international shoots for the NGO, I guess. The writer has shifted to a new drama and retained most of the cast, except NJH though. 😔

  74. Lol I always laugh for the “almost kissing scene”.. the facial expression of Dalmi towards Chulsan when disturbing them is so hilarious ..

    @Cleo. I really wish NJH will confirmed in the drama project of 25 21 together with Kim Tae Ri. Omg omg pray pray *fingercrossed*

  75. GrowingBeautifully (GB)

    This scene with Yeo Jin Goo is so cute… it looks almost like JP has fallen in love with his voice and totally can’t help himself. It’s so good that with Grandma’s help, JP has finally ‘grown up’. At last and for the first time he’s giving without conditions, not expecting anything in return.

  76. @PM3, as I code, I can say there is something creative into that. The way you choose how, or the unexpected ideas. Instinct to debug. I can even debug non-code problematics, with a method to be cold-blod at look at it step by step. As it need rigor to do that, it’s also very helpfull for other creative activity, music, writing, etc. it need some discipline and looking for perfection. Code need to be clean with normalisation, short, well presentation. It’s an activity that spread easely to help anything else you do, creative activity first. Because a creative activity can quickly be something you do without more thinking and you drop it easely, or you do it without rigor. Writing specialy. Need to think about words and sentence, like it’s code. At least for scripting, screenplay. Maybe not so for novels. It also help a lot to structure or imagine a story, because a story need to be logical, cause and effect, and then you use to think about consequences. There is also the alternatives process, “if then, else if”, trying more possibilitys. And also the recursion, like algorythms, and finaly how you cut the code into functions, like it’s a story cut into scenes. General organisation of the code need some preparation before. You think about all the project will be made. It’s the same for preparation of a story, before start writing.
    Of course, if you have really no other activity, it don’t help. Let’s say, if your freetime is just playing video-game, it’s full geek combo. 🙂

  77. Chulsan robbed us of that almost kiss! LOL!
    DS and DM – they did not really say “I love you” in this drama directly to each other but they have the same wavelength and understand each other. And you can feel and see the love in action.

  78. @Janey,

    I thought he was participating in the new one as well…I have read the article but I guess I wasn’t remembered it right!

    @moonstar512, I shall see. There are articles on Soompi that come out everyday!

    Finally, we get to see Yeo Jin-Goo, our precious “Jang Young-Sil”
    The beautiful voice, hence the reference “moksori”

  79. GrowingBeautifully (GB)

    DS just uses his height to intimidate guys who look like they will attack DM. He never had to raise a hand or fist to defend her.

  80. @Moonstar512

    Correction: We shall see. There are so many articles on Soompi, I guess we will know, right?

  81. @Cleo, thanks. HERE here here.
    Now, I like this actor, his performance was very good in start-up. I didn’t check him so much in school2015.

  82. Here is not happening, so the writer rework the script with the same cast. Kim Woo Bin will replace Nam Joo Hyuk, the schedule clash with Nam Joo Hyuk next drama 2521 with Kim Tae Ri.

  83. GrowingBeautifully (GB)

    And here we see that Sa Ha is not at all ashamed to have CS as her boyfriend. He still feels inferior to her but she deliberately introduced him to her sister as her boyfriend. So Sa Ha too has grown. Adds to the warmth of the show.

  84. @PM3 – I have not watched 2D1N but in Unfinished Business, NJH seems like Dosan but in a grocery store – humble, safe effacing and always trying to help. Same temperament.

  85. @Moonstar512,

    On Dramalist, Twenty-Five Twenty-one has as main cast:
    Nam Joo Hyuk and Kim Tae Ri

    https://mydramalist.com/695149-twenty-five-twenty-one

  86. Yes. I like that Halmeoni had always been steadfast.

    You know if you watch “Navillera” you’ll see that the grandpa there resembles the grandma here. They’re both warm-hearted people who just want to take in the outsiders. The teenager in “Navillera” at first resisted the grandpa’s friendship but he later opened up. That made all the difference.

    Here, JP resisted the grandma’s friendship until late in the game. But better late than never.

    I like how these two Korean dramas showed grandparents and senior citizens in a favorable, and compassionate light.

  87. Mmmmh look like Saha officialize her relationship, and her boyfriend isn’t still aware he’s her official boyfriend. Am I wrong or I missed something ? 🙂

  88. Accomplishement and optimistic Song!!! 🙂 🙂 🙂

  89. Thank you @Ella! I remembered that Kim Woo Bin will play as well and I am happy that he is okay.

  90. GrowingBeautifully (GB)

    I want those cakes too and to celebrate with the team! LOL.

    What did DS do? He stopped CS from taking the strawberry Sa Ha takes revenge for her boyfriend LOL.

  91. @We – Saha officilized her relationship with CS but to her sister only. It’s still a secret in the workplace.

  92. Ahhh they’re happily screaming again.. seeing that they’ve passed the 2nd screening.
    Does Saha pull the party hat rubber too hard? Dosan looked hurt, poor him.. hahaha

    @Cleo: yes we shall see later.. hoping for the best. I like Kim Tae Ri too so it will be a great pair of them.

  93. SaHa will protect her bf from DoSan…. LMAO!

  94. Park Hye Run wrote Dosan with Nam Joo-hyuk in mind, after watching him in The Light In Your Eyes. Nerdy, tall, handsome with big hands 😁

  95. @Janey, but did he knew he was his boyfriend ? I don’t think. Until now she was hidden it. 😉

  96. GrowingBeautifully (GB)

    @WE CS and SH were officially a couple but were supposed to keep it under wraps. So now SH is showing that she does not mind showing him off as boyfriend to her family. That’s a big step. It means she’s very serious about him.

  97. @GB,

    We wrote the same again!

  98. Short discursion about work between the two sisters. Who is right ?

    Owwww, elevator! again ! 🙂
    But it jump on the bridge.

  99. Thank you @Janey!

    I just was your message! 🙂

  100. GrowingBeautifully (GB)

    This scene between JP and DM is interesting.

    JP says : “Even after reading your letters, I didn’t look for you for 15 years. Mr. Nam, on the other hand, went to you the day he read them. So I’m not the Nam Do San of the letters. There’s no reason you should feel sorry or blame yourself.” He admits that he’s not the person that he’d made himself out to be, whereas DS had taken the trouble to really act like DS of the letters.

    In the end, although DM had wanted to speak to JP, she didn’t have to say anything and since he didn’t want thanks or apologies she just kept silent.

  101. Correction:

    That was *saw*

  102. @moonstar512

    the confirmation will happen with the table read i think, the 2521 pd is currently still filming a movie, i saw the announcement for staff recruitment already.

  103. NJH was in another variety show, Janey. Three Meals a Day: Gochang Village.

    He was with noonas and that young actress who was in “Parasite.” I only watched a few minutes of it on YT. He didn’t know much but once he was told to do something, he was on it right away. Kinda like when he did NoonGil or the cactus stuffed toy for grandma.

    I like that he wasn’t a complainer…just like Dosan didn’t complain when JP mistreated him in the beginning.

  104. On the bridge, JP said to all his fangirl : “Hey, I wasn’t the male lead in this drama, I know it now”. ouuuuchhh. 🙂

  105. Yup, everyone is scaling up
    In bother relationships and business.

    DS +DM with the smart car bid, proposal and wedding. CS + Saha on their relationship. And more… the episode titles have been really good and appropriate in this kdrama. Now I try to look for episode titles I. Other shows but it’s not common practice ?

  106. GrowingBeautifully (GB)

    Yes @Cleo, we just click in our comments!

    Hah! In Jae dares to confront ex-step-dad in public. CS is so funny he proposes the question and replies to it himself.

    The talk on dad trying to make her ‘obedient’ was a lesson she took and chose to NOT apply with DM.

  107. She publickly reject her adoptive father.
    Damn.

  108. Dosan and Dalmi are cute, their energy match each other, they can be silly and honest with one another. I really like their dynamic.

  109. GrowingBeautifully (GB)

    YS goes to apologise to In Jae.
    She’s big enough to admit: “Come to think of it, without your insult I wouldn’t be where I am now.” “It made me angry but it also motivated me.” So In Jae grew from the bad experiences.

  110. GrowingBeautifully (GB)

    The SST guys are nostalgic … they even enjoyed suffering together. So JP was wrong on that score as well, DS did not need to apologise to them for wasting the years in SST. Even I feel for them LOL.

  111. @Janey, it make me think a season 2 of this drama could be possible. Some years later. Big companies fight.
    How start the story ? I don’t know, but it could be the usual painfull things : Dosan and Dalmi are separated, for a reason we will learn in the drama.
    Damn, it’s a so bad idea, cliché. Sorry!

  112. Yes, @GB.

    Saha realized that CS was sticking to her terms of nondisclosure despite their agreement chafing him. I’m glad that she found another way of “proving” to him that she liked him. The nondisclosure only applied to the workplace, anyway. She wasn’t restricted from telling family about her new relationship.

  113. I just realized the actor that played “new samsan tech guys” is the one who is Chaerok’s friend in Navillera !!

    Ahhh the scene in their old office here makes me teary eyed. It’s a blessing to work with bestfriends who have the same frequency.. i love them 🥺🥺🥺

  114. GrowingBeautifully (GB)

    Written as a typical screenwriter @WE. Start with the difficult conflict and try to make a nice story out of it. LOL.

  115. @GB, Yep!

    BTW, Kim Do-Wan (Yong San) will play on “My Roommate is a Gumiho!”

    What a lovely scene, SamSan Tech boys are reminiscing from where they started…and DoSan lets his regret out that JP inflicted on him, but learns a valuable lesson from his boys!

  116. Musketer team. 😉

  117. @GB, season 2, JP get the girl. 🙂 🙂 🙂

  118. I loved this scene, @Cleopatra. Saha protecting her man!!

    Where’s Dalmi?

    It would have been funny if the two women went at it to “protect” their men, but I’m glad that Dalmi took the high road and didn’t retaliate. She couldn’t be seen as favoring one guy over the other.

  119. SST OG in their rooftop office. They really have a good relationship- they can cry with each other and also enjoy their victories together. while DS feels bad about the years they spent there (no Thanks to JP’s insinuations), YS and CS miss the place and their experiences there – hardships and all.

  120. Wechanteur, season 2 will have to go with brand new faces lol

  121. And here Seo In Jae finally came home……

  122. GrowingBeautifully (GB)

    @WE I expect the PD to add a few more females to the acting team. Poor YS has no one. Wonder why In Jae is always alone too.

    Here’s In Jae, finally coming ‘home’. She’s a brave actress to appear with smeared mascara LOL.

  123. GrowingBeautifully (GB)

    Same comment @moonstar512!

  124. @Packmule3 I liked that scene as well!
    It made us laugh, but it was satisfying to see that Sa-Ha matured too!

  125. Hahaha. Which girl?

    Not InJae!
    And not another ex-orphanage resident.

    Go ahead and write a fanfic, WEnchanteur.

  126. Hahaha yes GB!!
    🙌🏻🙌🏻

    I cry again in this scene.. when halmoni imagine her son living and bring chicken for his family.. makes me miss my late father too.

  127. GrowingBeautifully (GB)

    IJ opens up the music box. The box was broken but it fixed itself? I think DM fixed it but wouldn’t admit it to IJ.

    I like that In Jae returns the 10,000 Won and says DM should scale up. Changed her mind because she does not want her to be obedient, ie does not want to treat her the way ex-step-dad did, trying to break her and keep her on the leash.

  128. @WE – I’ll read your SU Fanfic! Keep us posted if you get it done. And I’ll also read your Sisyphus article after the rewatch.

  129. I really like Injae’s confidence in Dalmi, both of them are their father’s daughter after all

  130. @Ella, nooooooooo! noooo!
    Not the same story with new faces. Not that again. T__T
    Season 2 : granma die. (or she die before beginning ?). I imagine the scene : it’s first time Dalmi and Dosan see each other again, after a long time.
    There is a lot of possible plots.
    Maybe the big plot-twist is when JP get the girl. But in the end ? ah ah, suspens. If Dalmi and Dosan reconciliate, there will be mass suicide of JP fangirls.
    The problem to start with a separation is about how it is about the company. Who work with who ?

  131. How I like this scene, with Halmeoni remembering a time when her son was alive.

    From Start Up I got to live even more, the actor Kim Joo-Hun, who plays their Dad, Seo Chung-Myung.

    How I like that they are focused to show us in this episode, how to fix human relationships.

  132. GrowingBeautifully (GB)

    @Ella, yes, I like that In Jae no longer minds DM following her around, and accepts DM as independent and different, but capable.

  133. GrowingBeautifully (GB)

    Dir Yoon wants to invest in Cheongmyeong herself… So in the end Dir Yoon couldn’t invest in the father’s company but she invests in his children’s company. What a nice completion of the circle.

  134. That was a great closure for Grandma’s story – to have her family together again. ❤️❤️❤️

  135. WE, your Start Up fanfic seems interesting!! Lol..

  136. GrowingBeautifully (GB)

    For the first time also, JP is not arrogant but asks for a favour quite humbly. He cops out of approaching DM directly and asks to speak to DS instead, hah! So hard for him to be humble.

  137. @GB,

    So true! For Director Yoon would be interested to see them start from the beginning and grow as persons but also as entities!
    In Jae and DalMi are their father’s daughters after all…

  138. @pm3, noooo I will never write a fic about that.
    To the max, a starting situation, like I did with TKEM.
    Here :
    https://www.asianfanfics.com/story/view/1450841/the-king-eternal-monarch-season-2-short-beginning

    I’m not competent on Start-up, I didn’t get the drama enough. And it could become more makjangesque. 🙂
    But it’s fun to throw ideas. 🙂

  139. GrowingBeautifully (GB)

    A real investment and not charity…

    JP is so petty he can’t even shake DS’s nice big hands but only one of his fingers. In the end they actually give each other a hug LOL, couldn’t believe it!!

  140. Yes @GB – Dir Yoon did close the loop on her investment with the daughters of the Sand Box “creator”.

    And DS’s shake hands with JP. Not charity but investment. Big hands 🙌 WIN !!!

  141. GrowingBeautifully (GB)

    The praying scene is so cute. I agree with DM… first we pray, but we also make it happen. We shouldn’t pray and do nothing, but work towards what we pray for.

    DS was so bashful about her forcing that kiss on him LOL. Almost looked like he was struggling in the kiss.

  142. Finaly JP become more and more a good guy.
    He invest because he really believe in the company. 😉
    Quite easy, he got all proofs it was accurate during the drama.

  143. @Janey @GB,

    JP and DoSan came to a full circle and I liked that they managed to get along in the end!

    Btw, I am really happy that I managed to watch the last episode with all of you…

  144. Pray first and then make it happen..

    Okay Dalmi sshi 💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻

  145. GrowingBeautifully (GB)

    @Cleo, I’m super happy to have you with us too!

    Now we head in for the close. The presentation which we do not need to see the whole of, and back to the reasons for launching their start-up.

  146. GB,

    In greek we say” “Συν Αθηνά και χείρα κίνει”, which means you may ask for the Goddess Athena’s help, but you should move your hands as well…!

  147. Small hairs aegyo from Dalmi. 🙂
    Rainbow.
    Accomplishment music !!

  148. GrowingBeautifully (GB)

    That’s an interesting way of saying it @Cleo.

  149. @GB,

    I wasn’t to be around, but things changed the last minute, so I took some alone time to be with you guys…! <3

  150. GrowingBeautifully (GB)

    Her old reason for the start-up: “I want to take the upper floor elevator.” That was a personal thing.

    But now she’s grown and she writes: “I want to change the world.” Feel so warm!

    DS came and wrote “Follow your dream” and he took the hand of DM, his dream and it’s true he’s been following her lead, following his dream.
    *happy sigh!*

  151. @GB,

    It is a saying that survived for many many years as you can imagine, but the meaning is the same!

  152. pray first and then make it happen.
    change the world. follow your dream.
    Sail without a map.

    Start Up words to live by.

  153. I see really no possibility or idea for this couple to separate. 🙂
    They are agree about professional as well as private relationship. 🙂

  154. @GB his reaction to that kiss is so genuine I was wondering if it was an adlib by suzy lol

  155. GrowingBeautifully (GB)

    @WE Yes, the music so appropriate!

    The Epilogue!!!

    We see that they did indeed win the bid and they did all that they promised they’d do after that win.

  156. @Janey,

    Wise words to remember!

  157. Yes Cleoo !!
    We’re happy that you’re here too..
    I really want to give my biggest gratitude to all of you. Start Up is special for, and so all of you..
    I never thought rewatch drama could be this fuunn..

    Let’s enjoy the epilogue..
    their office is so biiig. But i’m glad that the CEO and CTO having their desk side by side not in the different rooms like the usual higher management office..

  158. This writer have a specialisation about “make your dreams come true”. 😉

  159. GrowingBeautifully (GB)

    What a nice way to end … JP and DM hand-in-hand walking into the future with the support of IJ and JP. They have gone public and are a listed company. So much to look forward to after being a start-up just a few short years previously.

    Love how they cast long shadows. Nice shot!

  160. I match JP + Injay. 🙂

  161. GrowingBeautifully (GB)

    @WE I had the same thought. I felt JP and IJ would make a good match but they never gave each other a second look.

  162. Omg noo WE….not them…..
    Injae seems cute with Yongshan..
    Lololol

  163. It was again a “make your dream come true” drama from this writer. 🙂
    She’s the one to watch if you need optimism, warmth and tenderness.

  164. GrowingBeautifully (GB)

    True @Janey, so many nice phrases in this show to take with us into real life.

  165. Love the epilogue!!!
    Love the SU rewatch and early Saturday mornings with all of you.
    Start Up is very special to me and I’m happy to have found this BoD community.
    Very grateful for the time and sharing.

    Cheers to you all!

  166. @Moonstar512,

    That is so true! To enjoy and love something with someone else makes the experience worth remembering!

    I really cherished all the time we had with each other!

    So, I wanted to say thank you to all and I do hope to continue to rewatch parties for more shows in the future!

    I have to go for now!

    Lots of love and kisses to our Queen: @packmule3 that made this Rewatch party happen!

    To @GB, @Janey @Ella, @Moonstar512, @WEnchanteur…

    Have a great day or evening ahead! See you all in another thread!

    <3 :-*

  167. @moonstar512 : the next battle fan just started. 🙂
    JP or Yongshan ? 🤪

  168. Bye bye alls, have a nice day. 😉

  169. WEnchanteur,

    Back in the day when the soompi site was still fun (hahaha), some friends and I wrote “tag” fiction online.

    I started a story about a couple, and ended it with a cliffhanger. Another person on the team picked it up where I left off, then another person continued her story and on and on. It’s called “tag” because you attach your story onto somebody’s previous story, and you call out the next person to continue your story. I don’t know what happened to it, though.

    So, if you tend to write makjang, the person following you can suddenly twist the situation and make a comedy. If I remember correctly, I always set the story up so the couple would die together, and the person writing after me was always rescuing the couple from the “jaws of death.” 🙂

    Anyway, you can’t make Start-Up makjang for Dosan and Dalmi. They have one of the best and satisfying HEA in kdramaland.

  170. GrowingBeautifully (GB)

    Yes, @Cleo, and to you and @pkml2, @Janey @Ella, @Moonstar512, @WEnchanteur, and even @Janey who couldn’t join us today. Thanks for a fun rewatch all these 16 weeks!!! Saturday nights were made special because of you.

    I hope to be with you again on other rewatches, like maybe Hospital Playlist’s rewatch!!
    ♪~♪ d(⌒o⌒)b♪~♪

  171. @PM3, it’s a cool idea, entertaining.
    But I don’t watch makjang like these one : I choose stories with structure. You can’t throw plot-twist from nowhere. Of course it happened like that on some older dramas (daily dramas mostly), some writers did that. But that’s not the good way. 😉
    For a forum story, it’s still nice. ^^
    Maybe there is a way to check the whole story after and spot what was the good points. Then rewrite all more seriously. Then, as you are a specialist, you can put many Easter Eggs. 😉

  172. It’s been such a journey for me living StartUp here, I will miss these rewatch. I hope I can find a new kdrama that got me interested again to join another discussion. I will join the Hospital Playlist rewatch for the time being. Thank you all.

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