Hi there @pkml3! Thanks for this thread and for remembering when it will be my birthday. It’s sweet that my friends tend to remember it more than I!

As you’ve been posting more of your analyses on some current shows, I’ve come by to read bits and pieces. I’m not sure if I can really pick up something to watch in earnest, but I might choose something light.

I’ll be reading you!!

Hi @WE, thanks for the early Birthday wishes. Actually, my birthday is next Saturday on the next rewatch day!!! So it will be a double celebration party time with the rewatch… or triple if we include Halloween.

My, my … you are quite enthusiastic about Korean food, having watched so many Korean dramas! I’ve had a few kinds of kimchi over the years. Some of the best were actually homemade by a friend. We also have more Korean markets now. As my family members are not really into Korean food, I have not tried much, but one of us likes the pre-cooked soups.

Once in a while the Catholic Korean Community set up a little food fare and I go around to try the food. Doekboekki can be super spicy hot!!!

Then we have loads of Korean restaurants to visit, so we are never short of the taste of Korea.

Hi @IB, I hope this post goes through. I’ve suddenly encountered an inability to send out my messages to BOD.

Otherwise I’m very well, thanks!! 🙂

Hi @IF!

@GB, it’s difficult to get korean food here. I tried a bit in the past (had to order it online) but it was expensive and I couldn’t do a lot with that, not practical. So, I live in perpetual frustration each time I see people eating in kdramas. At least I’ll be able to prepare some famous dishes now!! 😉

Hi @WE, you are indeed early… Certainly you can start now and we’ll catch up in our own time.

Hi @WE and @GB I am ready set..started!

@WE @IB… that starting scene is well crafted. Our couple stare at each other through the ‘bars’ of prison that they themselves created… then HM opens the door of the prison and steps out.

This is a nice reunion scene.

Pggy back!
He can easly dedramatize: “I even bring back stray cats at home”.
BOoOBbbOOo scene, bandage!!
One big cliché to put in any kdrama!! MANDATORY.

@WE, that’s okay… Now I’m at the kisses.

IH has the mark of her guilt in the blood stained socks from her blisters. A sign of her commitment to helping HM get the proof that the video was edited.

No more hiccups: she fell asleep, it’s why. ^^

@IB and of course when our couple are being totally innocent in HM’s place, dad and grandpa have to come.

IH who does not want to even be found in HM’s house, let alone spend the night there, ends up fast asleep. A sign that she totally trusts him and has let 2 days and nights without sleep take its toll.

@IF, I will be avenged later about the meals, I plan to do Jajamgyun this evening. 🙂

After seeing the photo with HM and his brother, IH just cannot stop hiccuping. It’s the guilt thing again.

This time it’s guilt over her mother and the fact that his brother is in prison.

This makes me ponder that many times we may feel guilt at least for a while, and then put it aside easily since we do not hiccup incessantly. IH has no choice but to make things ‘right’ in order to have a non-hiccup-ing relationship with HM!!!

@GB, sure, a hiccup during a kiss would be problematic. 🙂

@GB, re the usefulness of being forced to be honest. This.

@WE, @IB so the olympic games are going to be used to overshadow the investigation instead of having the black box info aired… and this will leave poor policeman friend as the ‘guilty’ party.

Timing in news reporting is everything… even to clear the name of the innocent. A few days later and public interest has died and no one notices that the accused was exonerated. All they remember is that he was guilty.

But it could be just the main situation? Everybody just want to talk about Olympic games, except few people.

Great comic role by M.Hairband, Jang HyunGu (played by Min Sung Wook). He was obsessed with his hair and now with his fur collars and foxfur hat. And a chance to say bad words under the cover of ‘spasiba’.

And then he actually straightens out and does serious reporting.

@WE,… yes that’s right. Everyone wants to report only the Olympics like the way everyone praised the stupid emperor. Only the few who wanted to reveal the truth are bothered that the Olympics gets to be reported but not the truth about Ahn Chan Soo’s innocence.

@WE, yes I just watched that part… HM gave the News crews the right way to think about how to decide what news to investigate and report.

However our hair-band reporter gets sidelined and can’t go to Russia to become a foreign correspondent. Instead he has to become a ‘real’ reporter.

Something realistic here: If you delete datas from a hard drive, there is a possibility to restore it (if no hard reformat and not too much new data over it). Here it’s more difficult because the phone is an older model.

@WE yes, we can retrieve data from a drive.

Bum Jo gives money to Chan Soo to make things a bit right and confronts his mother. She refuses to confess her role.

Big revelation with phone messages, flahsbacks and IH expressions, as well as rich boy. It hits hard!! Cha Ok is worst than expected, fully complicit with rich boy’s mother for the two crime situations. End on this cliffhanger.

Yes another great episode!!

See you @IB and @WE!!!