Thanks javabeans. This will my first and last k-drama that I'll be watching post-live just as it is being broadcasted in Korea. My formerly insatiable curiosity has been somewhat quashed by this pretty scary forum and blog culture. Maybe I should stick to the safer subject of clinical research. I will visit your blog till you finish the series and hope AirCity won't give any of us bad indigestion. Cheers!

Hanizah, I have mixed feelings on watching things live (or nearly live) too. On one hand, it sucks when something you've been enjoying takes a turn for the worse. But there are benefits too... If you don't watch something live, you'll miss out on a lot of the great conversations and analyses that are difficult to carry on once the drama has finished airing -- and in the case of some really great shows, the discussions are fascinating. I loved the discourse brought up by Que Sera Sera, for instance -- you can just look at the comments (and comment counts) for QSS versus all the other summaries here and get an idea.

So despite the disappointment, I don't think it's all bad. It's just a little tricky predicting what kind of drama something will turn out to be.

Shoot. I hope Lady Doctor does not get terminally ill.

Thanks for the summary. Actually I quite like the part when they tricked the hackers to the planeless gate. I didn't expect that.

p.s. Javabeans, I saw that you added a new link to support fansubbing, which I think is very worthwhile. Can you let me know how does the group use the fund raised?

hey emily, wanna answer ginnie's question? my answer would be that our coordinators frequently use money out of their own pocket to keep the fansub group running smoothly, like providing resources for the team members to enable us to work on files quickly and easily, server space and costs, etc. i believe withs2 also donates quite a bit to d-addicts and soompi, which both have very demanding server loads and costs. those groups also have donation links (i can't post them b/c wordpress only allows one link, but you can find them at their sites).

it's basically to break even so that people don't actually LOSE money fansubbing (frankly i think time is precious enough, without adding money to the equation!) although I think our lovely coordis are willing to put in the time and money.

Javabeans...thank you so much for all your writeup on various series. I enjoy the discussion more than the AC drama, which is sad because it started with so much potential. The only good thing is that it introduces me to LJJ's acting skill.

In terms of supporting WithS2 fansub, I was wondering what is the net $ the group gets based on different method of contribution. For example, $100 contribution, do you get the entire amount or is there a charge based on the payment method chosen.

sarahbeans.. yay!! you managed to finish this off - * pat pat*.. just stopping by to cheer you on!!!!

"four more episodes" ...??? I thought it was originally going to be 20 episodes long. Was it wishful thinking on your part...or is MBC giving up on this also??? lol

Ep 12 + 4 more = 16 total episodes?

sarah.. yes yes.. I'm here.. to answer ginnie's question.. as sarah has mentioned.. all the donations will go straight to the withs2's resource fund.

Up to very recently, every expenses related to withs2 has been funded by me.. but as withs2 grows bigger ( with over 120 + members to date)- we constantly need to expand & upgrade to meet our members' needs.. Beside donating to d-addicts & soompi.. we provide our members w/ various resources -we have own tracker for direct HQ links, premium accounts for hosting services to ensure that our members download the files they need in a timely manner. We run our own forum & upcoming website and have multiple gift drawings constantly to award the hardest working group of members.. etc.

Please understand that no matter what amount you donate, every dollar will help to keep WithS2 going and all donations will be used solely for the benefit of with S2 fansubs. * and dinner/ norabang gatherings for me and javabeans*- J/K * lol* !!!!

jtranla - paypal does deduct a fee from the total amount.

mily2 - for clarity..if I chose the payment via credit card, then you will get the entire amount as oppose to using paypal, correct? Just want you guys to get the most of the money, instead going to the transaction fee.

jtranla, i think paypal always charges a fee, so don't worry and please do whatever you are most comfortable with! and thank you for your generosity!!

Thank you so much! Really, there's only 4 more episodes left? I think that there should be more scenes of Ji Sung and Do Kyung together, just like when they were on the island ALONE! lol. I'm going to miss your summaries when I leave! I'm not going to be able to use the computer, because I'm going to be on a vacation! I LOVE you javabeans! Thanks a lot for writing the summaries for us! I love this website SOOO MUCH!!!

Ha! You hit the jackpot when you mentioned about finishing food that wasn't great but you finish because you spent money on it, exactly what I feel right now. I just read these summaries instead of watching the eps now, watching it only lulls me to sleep. Thanks again for the great summaries!

bravo sarah for yet another episode of air city!^^ oh well.. i have nothing else left to say. i stopped dling this and started to just read. i cant help it. i mean really that thing with the SWAT just made me laugh. plus they will put in the sick storyline now? where is the entire summation of this drama going? it had a beginning, clearly the middle is missing and the end nowhere in completion. sigh.. why oh why.

hahaha that would be mind blowing if it turned out both women were sick. priceless. anyways, i feel so sad coz i really thought Aircity had new material and stuff going for them. it was just up to them how they'd utilize it. at least there is still eye candy there. hahahaha

Hi Javabeans,

I stumbled across your blog while I was google-ing for some Air City related stuff few weeks ago. Ever since then, I am constantly visiting your blog to check on the summary you write for each of the Air City episodes.

As I hardly understand any Korean language, I rely on the Chinese subtitle. That's where I found there are some discrepancies between that what I understand from the Chinese subtitle version and your summary. For instance, in one of the earlier episode, I understood that the lady doctor got a life-threatening sickness, which is the reason she choose to break up with Ji Sung. She still needs to go for regular check-ups.

So, it does make sense to me when this latest episode of Air City showed the lady doctor collapsed. I am guessing that Ji Sung will found out about her illness in the next episode, thus creating some suspense to the audience as of whether who will Ji Sung choose at the end of the day, the lady doctor or Do Kyong.

Same goes with the luggage plot. I understand from the subtitle I read that “if there's unattended luggage left in the airport for more than 2 hours, the airport officials will suspect the luggage could contain bomb.” Then the normal procedure will be to call for the EOD squad (not sure if I recalled the name correctly) to check on the luggage. One of the bad guys happened to work in the IIAC security department before, so he understands perfectly all the security measures, thus decided to drop a luggage here and there to create diversion to get the security personals occupied with checking on those false alarms, making it easy for them (the bad guys) to carry on with their activities.

aish......do they need to venture into sick chick episodes now? We have only 4 episodes left and please don't tell me they will waste at least 3 episodes on the lady doc and her terminal illness. Oh maybe HDK will also have a brain tumor?? why not? They have been dropping hints from the beginning with all those pills and head ache. JS will have a hard time choosing between 2 terminally ill patients :-)
This should keep them busy for the rest of the show.

I knew this is coming (the sick doc scenario) but I still was hoping it will not happen, I guess wishfull thinking eh?

Thanks so much for continuing your summary Javabeans, despite everything like you I just can't dropped this one quite yet. But the last scene of this ep seems to make me loose hope about the rest of AC.

acid_pops, I don't see any discrepancies in your examples. Yes we do know that the doctor had an illness before. I believe i mentioned it in a prior recap. I think most people who are unhappy with the storyline are reiterating their prior dissatisfaction with the illness line as a story point, but no, it's not a surprise.

As for the luggage, I'm complaining that the culprit actually left TWO separate suitcases, and they only addressed one. Why bother with the first one if the second one is the one with the bomb? My (sarcastic) point was that the airport officials were so busy attending to all the false alarms that strangely, nobody bothered to find the first suitcase. Or maybe it just disappeared.

I also think it's highly negligent to have treated the first bag (the woman's suitcase) with such delayed concern. In this post-9/11 world with terrorist bomb scares everywhere, i'd think such a glaring threat would be dealt with much more swiftly.

I wonder if that clears things up.

blue_rose, i would LOVE it if Do Kyung were sick too!!! Seriously. That would push this into the "so ridiculous it would HAVE to have a sense of humor about itself" territory. HAHA. I did wonder if they were going anywhere with her pill-popping, but they haven't really.

Ah, Ji Sung with two sickly damsels in distress. Soooo much mocking potential.

Seriously, I wonder what gonna happen to the doctor. Is Ji Sung going to come back to her ??? I don't understand Ha Joon. He needs to do something. Don't just watch Ji Sung and Do Kyung. If he wants to pursuit her, he will need to do something, instead of observing and keeping irritated without saying or explaining anything. Nobody gonna understand it. *___*

javabeans, thanks for clearing things up for me. perhaps i've missed out some out the details in your summary.

about the FIRST luggage, was it my eyes that are fooling me? but i thought they did found it at Level 1 area C??? and it turns out to be a false alarm too. it was the 2nd luggage that has the real bomb, right?

i could be wrong with the details, as i don't have the clips with me now.

nonetheless, i must say, i really do enjoy reading every post you made. although i may not be able to understand all your scarsm, but i can definately laugh on those i managed to understand. :)

and i like those storylines that you proposed. it kind of make the drama better instead of just being mediocre. too bad eh, the script writers don't think like you think.

Thank you mily2 for the explanation!

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Ji Sung with two sickly damsels in distress. Soooo much mocking potential. --Javabeans

---Ah. Javabeans...That will be something I'll look out for if that really comes true.

I am concerned for some of the customers of Air City that imported this series into their respective countries..Will they get their investment monies worth? Were they just banking on the Korean Wave and the series' megabudget status? Korean Wave is in trouble if the Korean Wave stars are churning out less than quality work and still expect to sell their work at exorbitant prices. Bae Yong Joon has a megabudget historical epic in the works. If his work is also done like Choi Ji Woo's Air City, I am afraid people won't be that silly to buy their work at sky high prices again just to get mediocre work.

Javabeans, It is understandable of you to blame the plot of the AC. but
Do not use your sarcasm to the fact that you don't know perfectly.

"The hackers prepare for their next move as they crack into the database of security personnel and substitute their photos in for real officers. Then, they pose as construction workers to stop the real SWAT squad, then easily subdue them and steal their uniforms, weapons, and transportation. So I've learned from Air City that (1) Korean intelligence agents are super-effective (episode 11), but (2) but Korean SWAT team members are pussies."

they who were beaten by the swindlers is not Korean SWAT teams but just staffs of the private security firm

Your 'sarcasm' is one of the reasons I keep coming back for more. Don't tone it down just because.

And asterion, javabeans is currently recapping/summarizing THREE dramas for us insatiable folks. That's A LOT to do so you can cut her some slack if she gets 1 or 2 teeny-weeny details wrong (I'm not saying she did since I didn't watch Ep 12 and don't plan to).

acid_pops, the first luggage i'm referring to is the one left by the hacker at end of episode 11 -- outside by the curb. the one with the bomb is the second bag left by the hacker in episode 12. Do kyung says they dealt with seven (false alarm) cases of luggage being unattended that day. i'm just wondering what the point of that first bag was if it didn't have a bomb and wasn't a threat.

asterion, okay so they're not SWAT. my point still stands.

This show had a lot of potential, but the writers don't know what they're doing at all. It's like a chicken running around without its head, anyway, I think this show is better off as 30 or 40 episode drama series because so far there's been very little character development considering there's only four episodes left.

The drama so far has a bunch of characters assigned to the cliche roles seen in other dramas such as the guy who has a one-sided love, and the girl attracted to the bad boy, and the ex-girlfriend who's too passive for her own good, and the guy who denies his feelings about the main girl. AHHHHHHHHH! Usually this combination , though repetitive, is amusing to watch if done right, but NO ONE has actually dived into the pool, instead everyone is dipping their toes into the water and immediately back away because they think the water is too cold. Like that one time, where the main couple kiss, but not much happens after that. Bugged me to no end. The writers forgot that something in the relationship should drastically change after that, just more amusing to watch. I'm only mentioning this because the drama is running out of episodes to fit in a love triangle, conspiracies, random illnesses, and oh maybe occasional bomb or two. This show really needed a lot more character development, and maybe then I would have forgiven some of the lame sequences.

Just a few thoughts, thanks again Javabeans for summaries!

blah. that illness that made her shun ji sung?
-_-

It's always amazing and amusing for me to come here and read Javabeans' summary/analyses. The same goes for the comments left by other people. My goodness, how many times does it need for repeating? It's not the details but about the storyline, folks! SWAT, Private Security Firm, tomatoes, tomahtoes, you know? The fact that it was the private security firm instead of the SWAT team made no difference in how the storyline played out. OK? The storyline (or in this case, the lack of one) is why I've stopped watching. It's just not worth it to me. I'm just grateful to Javabeans that she's able to continue watching. By the way Javabeans, what happend to the "strictly summaries sans sarcasm?" I, for one, am entirely too happy you didn't stick by that one. It's your analyses that has reassured me that my watching taste hasn't gone completely to the dogs. I knew there HAD to be a reason I kept going, "HUH?" so often during these episodes. I'm also reassured that I'm not the only one who's realized the lack of relationship development between JS and DK. And with only 4 episodes to go, how are they going to handle the rest of that one? I suppose, with the lack of direction and creativity from the writers (wow, they're really going for a double whammy here), it is plausible to have both DK and MW have a terminal disease and kill them both off, thus never having to properly manage a true relationship between DK and JS. You know, this really does sound like a bad combination of "Winter Sonata" and "Stairway to Heaven" all rolled in one. Yikes! Oh, Javabeans, I will hope that the last 4 episodes are brilliant so that it'll be easier for you to watch. Hey, I can still dream, right?

"By the way Javabeans, what happend to the “strictly summaries sans sarcasm?” I, for one, am entirely too happy you didn't stick by that one."

soonjap, I stuck it out for one recap and that was it.

"I knew there HAD to be a reason I kept going, “HUH?” so often during these episodes."

Yes. Totally agree. Part of the reason i may have gotten that detail wrong ^^ above is because there's so much that makes little sense that it hurts my head trying to figure it out -- which leads to misunderstandings, because I'm not trying as hard to distinguish what makes sense from what doesn't. Once you've lost your viewers' faith that you can tell a logical story, you're going to lose them even when you're supposedly making sense.

Once again, thank you for continuing with your writeups Sarah. I find myself enjoying your summaries more than the drama itself, like everyone does it seems. :D

I agree with somebody's comment that AC could be better if it was a 40 pr 60 ep drama. Since they should be able to address both airport operations and relationship issues in more depth. What we've seen from the past 12 eps have merely been a mere touch on the surface of different issues, which isn't really my style. But yeah...now I don't even care who ends up with who already. Do your best AC, I'll still follow you till the very end. XD

patiently waiting for subs to appear on d-ad....s :-)

Man. I've been waiting for your summary on Air City ep 13 and 14. I don't know Korean. Therefore, I kinda understand part of the episodes. However, your summary on those episodes will be a big help for me. I am eagerly looking forward to reading your summary.

Even though I know this show is two or more years old, and no one else will prob. read this post, I feel the need to say NCIS-LA totally ripped off Air City! They, too, had a story about some really good conterfieters swapping fake money for real money, only this way via the US military. Further proving my feeling that NCIS-LA is a mediocre show not worthy of the NCIS name.