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I don’t mind watching him do this all day.
Let’s enjoy the show.
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I don’t mind watching him do this all day.
Let’s enjoy the show.
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Thanks for the thread @pkml3!
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@packmule3 I agree about being able to watch him patch books all day too 😂😂😂
Ep5
We get
– DB’s sad history 😢. Poor boy was the first to find his strangled genius sister and the. testified that he saw his father leaving the billiard hall before the act. His mother took her own life in the same billiard hall as a result.
– Bom’s sad plight. Bullied at school. Father is good for nothing. Mother’s run off. Brother seems to just want to block everything out.
– Lady librarian JiYoung passed the civil service exam and plans to move to Seoul. Asks DB to go with her. Seems to be jealous of YR?
– YR seems to have found her inner peace. And she and DB share awkward moments together. Nothing particularly noteworthy. I just like how he watches her from behind the bookshelves in the library. It’s cute. 😂😂😂
Oh? The subs are out already? Wow! The subbers broke a record!
@nrllee, thanks for the updates. I couldn’t get the latest by the time I went to bed last night, so am looking forward to it.
@packmule3, thank you and yes, I could watch that scene for a long while, too.
Addendum to Ep5. YR gifts potted flowers to DB. They look like baby’s breath?
Ep5 title – Someone to talk to
Ep6 – Things you realize only when it’s too late
Ep6
– Bom and YR bond.
Question I have – it’s been mentioned more than once that the only 2 visitors to the library are YR and Bom. So how is it DB seems to need to put away borrowed books? 🤔. Who is borrowing those books?
– YR runs to hospital because Bom has been hospitalized.
– DB runs to the hospital because of the garbled message from Joon about who was seriously injured.
– I must say I do not understand why the family wants to keep dad out of prison for hurting Bom. The insurance for the hospital stay for one. And the fact that a spell in prison may do him good? Even if he did seem to show signs of remorse by asking to be admitted to rehab for his alcohol addiction.
– another question I have is why the boys seem to run wild. Don’t they go to school?
– DB “gifts” YR with books to read whilst she’s hanging out at the hospital to pass time.
– the actress who plays Bom is superb. I was tearing up when she reminisced about the good times with her dad.
– the cake in the face…wae?? 🙄.
– I am guessing DB somehow paid the hospital bill. Did he get an advance from Prof? And agreed to publish the paper with him in return?
– preview seems to have a show down between JY and YR over DB. But we know who DB fancies.
Concluding comments
YR is growing on me these past 2 eps. She’s sober for one. 😂😂😂. And has achieved a level of gravitas and level headedness in the midst of the Bom crisis. She was a good older sister and friend to Bom. She gave of herself and was generous with her money. DB is just his usual quiet reserved self. Helping out in the background. I am not entirely sure JY actually likes DB as a romantic interest? She is just reacting to YR because she’s afraid to lose his quiet steady presence in her life? That’s my impression anyway.
Episodes 5 and 6
This show is another drama that’s coming along to be more serious than originally anticipated. We get to see the other sides of our Angok characters, so we know who’s interested in whom. We get an idea of what motivates them. We wait for the next episodes to get greater clarity about DB’s and Ji Young’s relationship. For some reason she wants to keep him with her even when she goes to Seoul. Partly it’s because she feels he is wasting his potential in Angok, but the preview suggests that there’s another reason.
YR and bags of money don’t seem to go well together. She keeps wanting to rid herself of the bag, bills and all!
It was nice to see the Bom looks up enough to YR to listen to her. She needs a mentor.
The reason I don’t care much for Ji Young is that she seems to lack emotional intelligence. She continued speaking, saying what would get Bom upset at the restaurant when everyone was trying to stop her. Either she refuses to see or really can’t tell how she was spoiling the party. She walks roughshod over well-meaning Sung Min’s feelings and efforts over the celebration, forces YR to drink with her and wants to interfere in DB’s life.
Question on Practical issues:
How much schooling is Bom getting?
Where did YR get over $4,000 dollars?
What was the interview for, and is YR getting paid to take over someone else’s job?
How could the one in charge of the library just run out of it, leaving it in the hands of children?
Unknowns:
Did DB pay the hospital bill? Or did Sung Min’s call to someone we do not see pay off?
We still did not get any backstory about the restaurant ahjumma and her son.
We do not know if DB’s father is still alive and in prison.
The preview hints that DB may have odd episodes of his own that YR knows nothing about.
What happened to Sung Min’s wife/Bae Joon’s mother.
@pkml3, I seem to be encountering a strange issue where my posts are not being posted to this thread. I think there’ll be a duplicate post.
Here yo go, @GB. This went straight to the spam box.
@GB good questions. I too was startled at the $4K that materialized. I thought the interview was YR stepping in for JY? I am not sure what the whole thing was for. Local paper? 🤔. You would raise an eyebrow about leaving your post at the library and letting the children run riot… do they even go to school? 🤔. I am putting my money on DB paying the bill – possibly an advance from the Professor with the understanding that DB will return to Seoul to help him publish the paper. As for why JY seems to suddenly have developed a romantic interest in DB, I get the feeling she just wants his steady company which she has become accustomed to. She reminds me of Julia Roberts in My Best Friend’s Wedding, who became obsessive about “keeping her best friend” when he decided to marry someone else. Other question I have is about Joon’s mother (SungMin’s wife? Did she die early? Did she leave too like Bom’s mother?).
Things that disturbed me
– how SungMin tried to “steal” from his father? 😑🙄. Why not just ask?
– how the boys seem to run feral
– how policeman 1 was so rough with a child witness.
– the whole Bom accidental stabbing which miraculously caused her father to decide to head into rehab and how everyone seemed torn about revealing what really happened.
@Growing Beautifully and @nrllee, I concur with all of your points above. As to the Bom stabbing, she was in a 4 bed ward, with everyone else listening in. How could the father’s guilt be kept hidden? No one wants to see their child sent to jail because of the effects on employment in the future, but he could have pleaded accidental injury. If a rape charge can be reduced due to inebriation in SK, why can’t bodily harm, particularly as she was struggling to take the knife from him? He didn’t come after her. But perhaps it’s apples and oranges with the different crimes.
I wondered if Jae Hoon (high school friend) paid. His parents had sent him to high school in the USA, so they may have been wealthy. Dae Bom may have saved consistently since coming to Angok. He doesn’t seem to live an expensive life, but looking at the events, I think you are right that he got a payment from the professor. I don’t trust his mentor, however. I wonder if the work will be published under both names or only the professor’s. I know it’s normal that work is published under the mentor’s name until a researcher becomes independent, but the researcher should still be listed as an author. I’m probably overthinking it.
I dislike how Ji Young keeps manipulating and tricking Dae Bom into meeting with the professor.
So Dae Bom’s father went to prison because of Dae Bom’s testimony? Is he still there? I wonder how that affected Dae Bom and if the father will appear in the drama.
Agree – Shin Eun So who plays Bom is doing really well.
I am rather taken by the billiard hall open plan style living 😂. Kitchen is a tad tiny for my liking though. There was a time where I was dreaming of living in a warehouse converted home (same concept) with no walls, and this drama brought all those memories back.
@nrllee, yes, the open plan got much more appealing once the furniture arrived. The kitchen is tiny, but not enclosed, so even adding a table or free-standing counter would make it workable. I stayed at an Air BnB last year that was a former office space. The main level was open plan, albeit more trendily furnished. Kitchen on one wall with an island opposite. Everything else was spread out with bedrooms upstairs.
Another thing that perhaps I need help to understand. Why did Sung Min suddenly go from paying people, including his son and son’s friends, to make trouble for Yeo Reum to being her staunch ally? I understand that his son found her money, and like any kid, thought it was a gift from above. I get that he didn’t want it to be known that his son didn’t bring it to the police or to his parents immediately. But his son DID bring it to a trusted adult and the issue got sorted. It seemed out of character for him to suddenly get moral qualms about anything related to Yeo Reum. Could it be that I missed something in the translation?
@Fern yeah I didn’t understand his sudden change of heart either. 😑🤷🏻♀️. I can’t remember who mentioned that he had a soft heart in a recent episode? His behaviour towards YR in the earlier episodes certainly didn’t allude to that at all. She was a lone woman in a strange neighborhood and he was hardly the picture of human compassion when the realtor rented the billiard hall to her. I was of the impression he wanted the sale of the billiard hall because the money he would pocket from the sale would settle some of his debts? If so, he’s still got those debts? The writing in this drama hasn’t been particularly tight or noteworthy.
@nrllee, it’s his father’s building, so the money wouldn’t even go to him, unless his father paid him a commission or gave him a loan with the proceeds. I suppose it’s possible that the subs aren’t getting the whole idea. It may be that he is very influenced by Bom. She was the first to go against the bullying by returning his money. Then she scolded him at the shop about the state of the rental while he was up on the ladder. Would he have become kinder to Yeo Reum without the scolding? When I heard him described as always having a soft heart, I was waiting for the camera to record a surprised look from YR, but it didn’t happen.
But yes, it seems like another plot hole unless the subbers are holding back. Perhaps someone who understands Korean could add to our thoughts.