Seems the show really caught you off guard that you gave a short weecap.

For him to grow career wise, there must have an opening in the same department.
For her to resolve that inkling of doubt in her heart, she has to make that move, for her not to doubt herself and if their relationships are as solid as she thought it would be, it's another milestone of growth.
To simple enjoy their relationships without addressing the growth obstacles..thats not how her character are written.
We all grow with different ages and time of our lives, the relationship has to grow together within those challenges to be stronger.
I love that they address how her career grow and how she manages her relationships around her, and how he reacts to the relationship and career growth, is an epitome of the new age career society regardless of gender.

I didn't mind her going to Europe. Anybody who has watched the show knew it was going to happen - this show has not done one original thing so why would it change now,

But I do mind what clearly appears to be a break-up during those 3 years. It's like dramaland has no concept of mature, long-distance relationships. Everyone acts like moving to another country means you will never see that person again for X no. of years. As if flights don't exist, vacations don't exist 🙄

True Beauty already did the "someone goes abroad and they break-up and you only find out why in a flashback" thing. It didn't make that show more interesting and it's not making this show any more interesting either. I'm only sticking around to get my completion bean and to find out how our Director/Big Sis couple are faring 😑

These episodes show us how the Chae's siblings have a big heart and the beautiful love they can give to others.

In this drama, there isn't a big villain but people have to make some choices. It's kinda hart to watch because we can't blame someone for his choice (I mean except Jae-Shin, he messed up). I think the drama did well to express the characters' feelings.

We know Song-Ah, her job is very important, her passion for it was one of the reason Hyun-Seung fell in love with her. She said she couldn't be like her mother giving her whole for a relationship. So I can understand why she's interested in the offer in Europe. Leaving with her ex wasn't ideal but now she will leave withe her mentor, a person she respects a lot and she will live a great experience.

Hyun-Seung knows Song-Ah and doesn't want to stop her dream. But I don't think his way to love is made for a long distance relationship. She wasn't leave yet and he already hide things from her because he didn't want her to be worried.

Song-Ah can stay but will she be bitter about this and will blame Hyun-Seung for it in the future or be happy with this choice? She can have a long distance relationship knowing Hyun-Seung will suffer from it. She can break up and leave. The issue is she can't know what will happen, people change.

The end was a cliffhanger I wasn't expected. Looks like they did have a long distance relationship but what happened? Their couple wasn't really well balanced, Hyun-Seung being the one giving the most, so I will be happy to see Song-Ah fight for him for once.

I didn't have the continuation of episode 12 I was exptecting! (I feel cheated) But I'm happy that we got the conversation of Chae Yeon-Seung and Kang Woo-Hyun. Seeing Chae Yeon-Seung so sad when she's so energetic usually was hard. It's nice to see she has her sister to help her. She was really brave to accept the situation like this and to offer her help to her husband.

Even there were a lot of hard moments, we still got happy and funny moments like Lee Jae-Woon learning about Hyun-Seung, the mum who is trying to be a good mum to her daughter and cute dates.

I really liked these eps. I liked how Song-Ah struggled with the decision to stay or go. A part of me wishes she had told Hyun-Seung sooner i instead of letting him find out by mistake but it was HER decision to make. The two had barely started dating, barely weeks after her breakup with her long term boyfriend when suddenly shes in another deeply committed relationship. I love the otp but I thought when they first got together we needed a time jump between her breakup and their getting together. Everyone talked about how hesitant she seemed when they first got together. It seems like the show did it on purpose-sure, she loves/is falling in love with him but is she ready for that? Does she want that? And if a part of her does and a part of her isnt ready even if she could tell that to the giant squish in front of her how does she tell him to wait x amount of time until she is ready? Hes a hot commodity. Someone would have snapped him up.
I think leaving was for the best, even if it broke both of their hearts. I do wonder about the breakup though. Well before they broke up she was clearly putting her job ahead of him. Did they just peter out and he/she thought the long distance wasnt worth it? Did one of them succumb to an outside party? Hyun-Seung never seemed to be hurting for cash so I believed them when he said that he could come visit her every few months. I wonder if one too many of those visits ended with him dosing in his car outside the company with a book waiting for her that he or she decided it was pointless to keep making the trip.

I LOVE HYO-JOO! I love that when she got it through her thick head she wasn't going to manipulate Lee Jae Shin into caring for her, or at least marrying her without affection (girl, why? To win?) she decided to give all of that love to herself and her business. I hope she finds someone in our 3 year time jump. I loved her awkward "IM DOING GREAT!" to Lee Jae Shin before ahe scurries to her car and drives off only allowing herself one long look in her rearview mirror.

I hope the love triangle with the sister snd the chef turns out for the best. The chef sold his restaurant and ran away-after the marriage was broken up. I hope the wife finds someone who loves her as much as she loves them and not just gratitude for loving them. And the husband was never a bad guy. Just hurt. I hope he makes peace with himself.

I LOVE JAE-WOO. I love that his threat to destroy Jae Shin and be a true chaebol eas based on Jae Shin hurting his sister and not ever being a real friend. I love that hes good at his job and respected by his employees. I love his relationship with his Hyun-Seungs sister. (Was I the only one who thought our puppy eas going to pull new brother in law strings to get Song-Ah to stay?) I hope the time jump shows those two cuties married with a Ha-Eun of their own. I loved their sweet courtship.
I thought last week was boring but they really brought me back this week!

Lol missvictrix! I understand why you didn’t like it. I didn’t like it but I am glad she chose to go. It was not callous. The first time she declined this offer was a wrong move. She gave up an opportunity And she most likely regretted it. And when the opportunity strikes again she went for it. She made the decision to pick the one she would least regret. I am perfectly fine with it. If that’s how she felt about it.
What I was shocked is with the ending. I need to know what happened.
As someone who personally managed a 3 year long distance relationship before marriage, I was expecting them to show that their love grew stronger and not this. No no no. not this. No. I was expecting them to make this work.
Like you said, may be it’s her turn to show she really loves him and pursue him.

Too much sadness this episode. The middle sister broke my heart. Really. She didn’t deserve this. Her kindness to her husband and that she wants him to accept himself shows how big her heart is. The daughter will handle this well right. I hope she will be ok with the divorce. I hope they talked to her.

I love the siblings.

I love Jae Woo (ceo). He is such a wonderful brother. A good boss. And a great boyfriend. I am so happy he is soon joining the siblings family. The boy needs love too.

Yess, I can predict song ah will accept the offer because when she rejected the offer before, the reasonable excuse maybe she didn't want to go with jae shin. Now when Jae Shin has resigned, ofc she would go to pursue her dream.

Last week I wrote they never breakup because Hyun Seung loves her so much, but maybe too much love for someone until you ignore your feeling is not good either. The last scene of ep 14 shocked me and fron the preview we know that at least, they did LDR for 2 years before something big happened. Hope next week we can get a full stories about this.

Note: can we give an applause and a hug for Yoon Seung? She's totally represent strong woman and has a big heart, all of her scenes made me cry in the last 2 eps

Note #2: I love Hyun Seung and Song Ah kisses in his apartment, aakkk >.<

I think Song-ah deciding to go was the correct move for her part. The show always portrayed her as ambitious and competent. I think her decision this time around was influenced by her mentor. Everything was just right about this job offer an amazing mentor to work with, new and better job opportunities and challenges. Good opportunities are hard to come by and for Song-ah it came twice. It shows her how good she is.
She chose what she would regret least.
I really liked Yeon-seung’s story. The conversation between her husband and her was quite moving.
At the end Yeon-seung’s promise to help her husband to find himself, shows how warm-hearted, caring she is. I hope she would find her happiness as well.

I hate time jumps especially this one. I would have loved to see them work out the long distance relationship. Can't think of what might have happened to make Hyun Seung pissed.

I thought it was petty of the director to pull stops on Jae Shin since he considered him a friend in the first place. Didn't peg him to be the revenge-y kind. Loved his reaction when he learned of his future brother-in-law though.

And I will miss seeing little Ha Eun. They can't possibly use the same actess after 3 years right?

As others have commented, Song-ah deciding to go was definitely the right move. She worked her way through college, is known for her competence at her job, and is clearly someone who values her career immensely - especially given how being fully devoted to a man panned out for her mother. There is no way Song-ah wouldn't go, even her earlier decision to not go when Jae-shin was the BM was regrettable. Why let him ruin this wonderful opportunity she's getting?

Also, from her vantage point, without the passage of those years, this is an opportunity she'll never get again. But a relationship with Hyun-seung is something that - while it is difficult - may stand the test of distance. Can she not have both? It's greedy but it is the right decision. On the other hand, Hyun-seung asking Song-ah to sacrifice her ambition to stay with him is what didn't sit well with me. She'll clearly come to resent him for it, he should know that better than anyone else (but of course, he's not being rational atm and that's understandable).

Long-distance relationships are extremely difficult- and I think that I had the same thoughts and feelings about this as MissVictrix. In this case it may be that it was the right choice for Song-ah but it was too soon to try given how little time the new couple had really had together before she went.

Hyun-seung was the one who put himself out there and while Song-ah had fallen in love with him she had really not yet invested emotionally in the relationship. This may be why it did not work out- we shall see what actually happened in the next episode. Obviously Hyun-seung is deeply hurt. After year of break-up I only wonder if he would not be ready to love someone else.

This has really made me take a second look at Song-ah and her former relationship with Jae-shin. Jae-shin was certainly using her but there may also have been an element of carelessness on Song-ah's part. If she places her career over her personal life then it is easy to see how that relationship happened- it was easy. And her decision to go to Europe was also consistent with her character. But if that is the case then she is simply not the right woman for Hyun-seung, who deserves someone who will love him back as much as he loves her. The writer will no doubt disagree and give us some sort of re-union for the two of them but, quite frankly, I disapprove.

I am not down on Song-ah as such. She has a dream and she should pursue that dream. She made a choice and had she made the other choice she certainly would have been very unhappy in the long run, and the relationship would have soured with Hyun-seung trying but never able to make it up to her. I am glad he asked her to stay- and that he respected her decision to go. Writers seldom give us such a forthright character- from the beginning Hyun-seung has been my very favorite character in this show- a wonderful example of how to be a real man.

I too got a "he protesteth too much" vibe in Woo-hyun's response to Yeon-seung. It was a stark reminder of just how the lies we tell to ourselves may be the worst lies- leading to bad choices and hurt. Yeon-seung certainly does not deserve this and neither does their daughter.

I WHOLLY dislike time jumps too, but I can understand the need of one in this drama. We see Hyun-Seung always being the one who steps toward Song-Ah, and she even agrees that she doesn't give as much love as she receives. The last two episodes will allow her to take that big step toward him that will balance their relationship. THREE years is a long time though, so I can see how their relationship fell apart somewhere along the way. I actually liked the cliffhanger of episode 14 as a storytelling technique. I am really curious as to what happened between them (work, distance, new lover that wasn't really a lover, just a coworker???) because Hyun-Seung's emotion-filled face was so stricken when he saw Song-Ah.
I hope Haeun's dad finds himself and dives into the inner workings of his own heart. I just feel very bad for Yeon-Seung because her whole life is centered around domestic affairs and she's lost a big part of it: her husband. One thing I like about the story is that we see Hyun-Seung and Ji-Seung are just naturally closer AT THE START of the drama so it feels more natural that Yeon-Seung misplaces her anger and fear on them during their meal. I would like to see more interactions between the siblings that aren't just meals, like a sibling outing with Haeun.
Unfortunately, Hyo-joo's character wasn't brought out perfectly, so there's so much the audience doesn't know and doesn't understand about her. At this point, Hyun-Seung's sisters seem like they should be the main supporting characters instead of Hyo-joo. I'm happy to see that she's grown, though I feel that she will never find a partner that suits her particular ways.
Overall, I look forward to the final episodes!

I know it's just playing to the (somewhat lazy) timeskip trope, but I'm glad Song-ah chose her career. I just always hate the laziness of using it to avoid the harder task of writing out the character development/conflict. It seems they did long distance, and from the preview it seems like it's been a year since the break up so math says they lasted for 2 years (which is no small feat for an LDR on different continents; we did transcontinental for 1.5 years and everyone thought we were nuts and it wouldn't work). I hope they actually *show* what went wrong rather than some lame exposition dump.
I definitely don't agree that just because jobs aren't permanent, to choose relationships. Relationships are at least as impermanent as jobs. Besides, the choices you make in one job - even if it goes away - can have deep repercussions on the rest of your career. Before it became illegal in most states, not taking every pay raise could have long lasting repercussions on your compensation for years to come.
How quickly you get promoted is definitely visible and "tells a story" for the next time you interview at a different firm. The corporate world is not a forgiving one; turning down opportunities, turning down promotions - in a world that already penalizes women for having the gall to get pregnant and expecting a woman to do the brunt of child rearing - is a quick way to get marked as "not having the right attitude". Korea, as far as I know, is even worse in this respect than in the West, where it's already far from equitable. And while it's easy to say "love matters more than money", financial strains are also a leading cause of failed relationships. There are literally billions of people in this world; there are a lot you will meet that you can form good relationships with or have a satisfactory physical relationships. You don't need a romantic one; having a lot of strong friendships and/or family relationships is equally viable. A romantic partner should never be your only source of support. But you don't get that many second chances when it comes to your career. And I'm sure that matters for someone as ambitious as Song-ah.
I've also been in a long distance relationship for 8 out of 9 years I've been with my partner. We have no plans of living together any time soon because it doesn't make sense for our careers; frankly I'd be fine doing this for decades longer. There's benefits to being long distance.
We learned very quickly there's no time whatsoever to spend on pettiness or insecurity or bad communication or irrational expectations. You figure out the real deal breakers and value mismatches pretty fast - and these are not always the ones that the other person tells you they are - and you figure out quickly if you can live with it or not. There's a lot of alone time, and nothing kills a relationship faster than when someone doesn't really know or like themselves. And I'm sure everyone's known...

The first thing that came to mind when their eyes met is that she didn’t tell him she was back. Why do I picture Jea shin lurking somewhere in the Paris shadows? And if so (though I hope not), why Song-ah, why? “To his eternal credit, Hyun-seung is a champ.” Yes, a champ and more. He is definitely in thw top running for the nation’s boyfriend. Seriously. Let’s hope whatever happened, it is a misunderstanding that Song-ah works her hardest at to fix. And that she returns the love she’s received to our deserving Hyun-Seung.

Okay, I know there is alot of Song Ah bashing but I think she always wanted the Europe TF job. Of course, she did, it was the opportunity of a lifetime as pointed out by several people. However, she didnt take it because her ex JS was leading the project. If JS was not in the equation at the time ( like he was during the 2nd offer), I am sure she would have taken it.

The middle sister stole my whole heart this episode when she said she wanted to be there for her husband when he accepted who he is. Regardless if he is gay or straight, I hope he doesnt date the Chef.

I am not mad at the Director for what he did to JS unlike many because JS deserved it . Can you imagine how hurt the Director was when told that his bestie never thought of him even once as a friend in over 20 years. That had to hurt, deeply but I am glad that he has the older noona now.

I am DESPERATE to know what happened between Song Ah and HS. I love these two.

I am sorry, give up one of the biggest opportunities of my career to be with a guy I started dating a few months ago is not me. I completely get Song Ah. I saw a women who has worked hard, is confident and takes great pride in her work. I don't see her being happy with anybody while giving up an opportunity such as the one offered. Hyun Seung to needs to grow out of Song Ah's orbit. I actually liked the way both made decisions. Sacrifices are made in a relationship. I am not debating that. But I doubt Song Ah, who basically is dating Hyun Seung on rebound and Hyun Seung with his almost angelic devotion to his Sunbae are emotionally there. They needed to grow separately and for once I can get behind forced separation because it felt organic to me. I can also see them breaking up over this time period. In fact, Song Ah doesn't seem like a heroine to give up Paris. She feels like she'd get a better offer and move around to climb corporate ladder to me. But this is drama so I can see if the two lovers reunite by the end.

I personally don't mind time jumps so much as long as the next few/couple episodes properly explains what happened with that skipped time.
I am in agreement with several of the comments that while some of HS and SA's actions/decisions maybe distasteful to some, like with HS "selfishly" asking her to stay and SA "selfishly" choosing career over him anyway, it is somewhat needed for both of their characters to grow. We already know Song-ah is a driven girl with big aspirations, based on that it is kind of a given that her decision will be career. Hopefully with this time skip and separation we can get to see her growth in terms of how she will now handle her love life/relationship. If she can find that balance and not just choose one over the other. On the flip side, we also already know how big hearted our Giant Squish is, who gives his everything when it comes to love to the point that he's willing to be the only one to sacrifice. Or in his own words in ep. 10 camping scene "It's ok, I'll be the one, I'll risk everything for love." I am hoping that he has learned to think of himself as well. I am hoping for him to be the one on the receiving end of such deep and beautiful love that he so generously offered to her before. I do wanna see SA pursuing him a little this time around.

Sidenote: Song-ah will now always be known as "The Girl Who WENT To Paris" (a little shout out to Lauren Conrad in The Hills).