It's sad he couldn't save his mother when he could save Chairman Jin from a plane crash... I wonder what is the logic behind his new life as Do-Joon. Two rich people survived but not his mother...

I was sure that he would use the IMF crisis for his own benefice. It had so much impact on Korea's economy.

Mo Hyun-Min looks more interesting than the official FL...

"The question is, can he actually change the future, or is he only creating the future he’s already lived?"
I'm thinking we're watching a "how we got here" type of story and everything that's happening has already happened/will happen. Unless it was explicitly mentioned and I don't remember, it was never mentioned that Chairman Jin narrowly avoided an ill fated flight, only that he didn't die that day. To me, this means this could've have always been the case and it wasn't due to Do Jun's influence.
Just like his mom was always meant to die and give his original self some resentment towards his father and motivate him to work at Soonyang and make a lot of money (despite whatever mistreatment and degradation he received). Then again, who know if he's still resentful towards to his father since the circumstances changed.

I'm wondering how Do Jun & Hyeon Woo are connected because there *HAS* to be some kind of reason why Hyeon Woo came back as him. Maybe the same person is responsible for what happened to both of them.

I have no clue if something is going to develop between Do Jun & Min Young. At first I thought they might have some kind of relationship and whatever happened to him led to her having a strong desire to bring the company or the family members down. Considering they're also money hungry and shady, it's hard for me to tell how much is her being a righteous prosecutor trying to fight corruption and make guilty, entitled people pay for their crimes and how much is due to personal reasons. I feel like the show wants us to believe Do Jun will join forces with Hyun Min, whether it's for mutual benefit or he's playing to use her somehow but I don't think it will play out like that. I think Hyun Min will see him as an equal or someone worthy of her but he won't be interested which will just intrigue her more. I could be totally wrong haha

I'm thinking Do Jin ended up being too much competition and that's why whatever happened to him happened. He's crazy insightful on multiple levels and members of the family would feel threatened by him, whether he were a part of the family business or outside of it (like with Miracle)

I love the way real and fictional elements are used. It really and truly makes me smile when future events are mentioned such as Korean entertainment is going to be huge, music albums being able to fit in your hand like an apple, or about a little online bookstore. I love how he uses his future knowledge to stay financially secure (it's once again things I fantasize about haha) or to help his new family.
I wonder what other future things will be mentioned. I'm cheesy so I wonder if someone is going to be a fan of a drama about a woman who pretends to be a guy to attend an elite school in the joseon era or a special forces soldier & a doctor (at least I think that's what it's about, I've never watched it).

Thanks for the recap @mistyisles. Quite a task managing to cover all the themes in 3 long episodes!

I really like the way the story ties in real-events with the passage of time - from Seo Taiji to Titanic to the IMF Crisis. Best way to have fun with a story set in the past. Hyung-joon accidentally guessing stuff that will definitely come to pass, but not believing his own vision, is hilarious.

I was wondering why ML didn't take a more simple/cruder approach to helping his family - such as sending them a gift/ windfall through someone else? Given that he's doing a lot of things that never happened with OG Do-jun (one would assume!), he doesn't seem particularly worried about how it will affect future events.

I feel the storyline is not very convincing. For someone who is supposedly very smart, Do-Joon seems to go through very convoluting way to safe his mum. His original family issue is surely their economic hardship. DJ has the money and the means to help. Buy his mum store building earlier, get his dad employment somewhere, give great health insurance do his mum can get her health in check,... So many options... All would be much simpler than it will be much simpler than trying to manipulate a whole bunch of Chaebol to do his bidding. It just seems like a way to force a 'revenge' type of motivation to our hero.

" A villain is just a hero on the other side" GRRM

Honestly, I can't determine if Jin Do Joon is the villian or not. I know it sounds crazy but a small part of me understands why Grandpa is a little weird around him, I mean he has had one goal since he was like 8 years old and its been to take over Soon Young. He has been scary since he was a kid..lol.. ( still love him though). He is literally a younger version of his grandfather in some way, even better actually. Grandpa is without a genius, he doesnt have insight into the future and he really is out here making power moves for his family to be at the top BUT he is biased against his children which is his biggest weakness. Also, Grandpa made a point ( although I dont agree). He told Jin Do Joon that you cant give servants too much because they will start to think they are owners and fast forward and his SIL has won Mayor and the first thing he does is FLEX on Grandpa. Grandpa can no longer control him. I thought that was interesting because I think he purposefully kept the SIL down to avoid him getting too much power.

Jin do Joon... OMG.. I think he can change the future but not pre-destined events? Hmm in the 1st episode the Aunt was arguing with the Uncle about how she didnt support his political career so that has changed right. Because in this future she did support and he is now the Mayor of Seoul. So that changed no? I think HW mom it was her time no matter what.. However, I have a weird theory that Jin Do Joon is mistaken and that he isn't HW but JDJ (even in the future but he doesnt know it yet). ITs weird how he has no memories of 4-2 except that he disappeared..lol.. I want JDJ to have a bigger loveline ( controversial I know) but he needs something to occupy him besides trying to take over Soonyoung and attend law school ( how is he doing both btw). I am excited though to see how it all goes down.

Lee Sing Min is beautifully serving strong old man energy. He is great in this. As for DJ saving his mother, I knew she would still die. I do like that he found some understanding of his father though.

I like Shin Hyun-bin, but the drama really doesn't need her character. Her feelings for Do-joon aren't very believable. Hyun-min could have been the FL. She seems interesting.

Do-joon isn't very interesting to me either. I hope he becomes more interesting later when he isn't going around acting all carefree. That doesn't really suit SJK's acting. Chairman Jin and the rest of the family make the show for me. This week, Chang-je and Hwa-young had my attention.

There were better ways for Do-joon to help his former family.

I wish we saw more of Do-joon with his mom, dad and brother in this life, especially if something is going to happen to Do-joon. Does he feel anything for them? They are nice people.

The reveal in Episode 6 fell flat to me because Do-joon basically revealed he was the majority shareholder in Episode 5 when he had Se-hyun repeat Chairman Jin's words to Do-joon that righteous management equals profit. I don't know how Chairman Jin didn't pick up on that.

I'm not watching this show yet, just skimming the comments to decide if I should put it on my list, and I noticed that beanies seem to be upset that the ml hasn't saved his mother although he knows the future.

I wanted to say that this seems to be a theme in nearly all time-slip dramas that I have watched. That however much you try to manipulate the past, most major events will not change.

I have always found this very interesting. It is like inasmuch as people yearn for time travel and being able to go back and change the past, when it comes to actually writing it down, they are wary of going all out on it.
Maybe the writers start with selecting what can be changed and what can't, and they push themselves into a corner and the same conclusion every time: that nothing major can be wholly changed because then the rules of the world might collapse.

Mistyisles, thanks for the recap.
I like how the founders of two industry giants, Daeyoung and Soonyang throw barbs at one another.

It kills Soonyang’s chairman that his sons are inept. Now he knows Do-Joon is his adversary.

The interaction of Do-Joon and Min-young to this point is not very compelling . Cautiously looking ahead for next week.

I hope Do-joon has a plan for dealing with Hyun-min because he certainly got her attention ..... and it may just backfire on him.

I'm finding it quite interesting that in this new life as Do-joon, he signs business papers with the initials H.W., just as he used to sign when he was Hyun-woo.

He was able to prevent the Chairman's death but not his mother's. So now I'm wondering if Do-joon is speculating whether he'll be able to prevent his own demise.

I’ve been thinking about the real end goal for this unexpected second chance for our hero, because reincarnation or time-slip story always have one. And yet, things seemed awfully murky on that front even after years of this complete redo (which, frankly, was worrying for our hero’s continual happiness). To sum it up, there are 3 possible reasons for this rare opportunity to happen.

1) A venue for Do-joon to find out the truth behind his unjust death. The caveat, I think, is that it was counterproductive to have him reborn as another person, with completely different circumstances. His former enemy wouldn’t have the same reason to strike him now, and he could very well has his own set of different enemy this time. It would be nigh impossible for him to crack that mystery, unless the answer is simply pointed at Soonyang as a whole. (Which was reasonable given the generally unfair and borderline immoral principles Grandpa taught to his family.) Or, the death he has to uncover was that of the original Jin Do-joon instead.

2) A second chance for Do-joon to give his family a better life. At first, this seemed to be Do-joon’s personal goal from the beginning. The very reason he chose to play seemingly unreasonable long game with all his investment, which cumulated in his extreme wealth at such young age that he could then used to ensure job and life security for his birth parents and sibling. Same with the way he “paid back” his new family’s kindness by nudging their career towards brighter path.

And yet, if this was truly the end goal of this journey, Fate seemed unreasonably cruel to arrange Do-joon’s reborn circumstances so that he couldn’t even publicly got in touch with his birth family. What a cold and lonely second chance this was, that Do-joon was the only one who felt the loss of this connection. Not to mention that he apparently could only change the path directly under his influence, which means a lot of future tragedies would probably still happen unless he has complete knowledge of all the factors at play to run interference for them. Which was not promising at all.

3) A revenge opportunity for Do-joon or Fate borrowing Do-joon’s hands to teach Soonyang a lesson for their impudence. By the end of eps 6, I think this is the only sensible reason left (unless my imagination conjured up something else later on). This seemed to be the most straightforward path, especially with the combination of Do-joon’s future knowledge and business savvy.

I was tickled at the way Do-joon methodically used Grandpa’s own words and teachings (from his future autobiography or otherwise) against him. Do-joon seemed to get a thrill from this action even if no one understood the gravity of his words choice. Using it to stoke Grandpa’s arrogance and recklessness, justify his “wayward” action and decision, fake-innocently point out Soonyang hypocrisy right to Grandpa’s face. At first glance, it felt like a simple petty act,...

Just saw this note on the Reborn Rich page on AsianWiki:
Ep. 7, which was originally scheduled to air Friday, December 2nd, 2022, will instead air Saturday, December 3rd, 2022. A rerun of ep.6 will air in its place on Friday, December 2, 2022.

This show should be renamed The Chairman instead, because Lee Sungmin's character and scenes are enthralling to watch, much more so than the reincarnation storyline.

I previously wrote that one sign of good acting is effortlessness. Another sign is the ability to breath life into the character, and boy is LSM doing it here. On paper, the grandfather is a larger-than-life figure, veering on cartoonish, but LSM's acting humanizes the grandfather and makes him so multi-dimensional. The grandfather is a ruthless businessman who deals in a zero-sum world view; but he is also a father who feels (to a degree) deep guilt and sorrow over making his sons fight each other for succession; and he is also a misunderstood creative genius, who is frustrated that no one "gets him".

Episode 4 was beautiful to watch because you saw the Chairman's heartbreak when his racing car exploded in flames, his desperation at not having "5 of him" in his family, his despondency at no one understanding the importance of Sunyang motor division, and then his resilience at picking himself back up and forging ahead. I find the Chairman to be a very lonely, almost sad figure. No one understands his vision and he has no intellectual equals around him.

Now the follow may be blasphemy to some, but SJK's acting is not wowing me yet. He's not doing badly, but he's not giving the WOW factor. I feel like he shows two expressions so far (1) smirk and (2) blank face. I also think they put way too much filter and foundation on his face, because there's this blur effect that makes it hard for me to see any nuances in facial expression. I don't get what Dojun's motive is right now. Is it to find out who murdered him? Take over Sunyang? Save his old family?

My far-fetched drama dream would be to see the Chairman go up against Succession's Logan Roy. The screen would explode from the intensity.

The mood certainly took a nose dive in episode 6. DJs ability to change his perceived future seems to have morphed into setting up his previous life all over again in a different flavour.
The pace seems to have slowed down in these episodes also.

I find Do-joon revealing his plans that early to Yang-cheol interesting as it will only get the battle more intense. It is a game of wits between a formidable foe and a smart man who has an edge of knowing the future and that is what I came for. I am really in for more challenging face-offs between those two.
As for the twist regarding Hyeon-min shifting her eyes on Do-joon, I find that compelling as on one note it will cause Do-joon and Seong-joon to be rivals in both love and business which can't get more intense. Not to mention, Hyeon-min is smart enough to turn the tables and bring changes to the fate of both men and Sooyang. I find her character more charismatic and has more potential with Do-joon than Min-young whose role we have yet to see.

How does Do-joon's family have no idea what he's doing? He sent Driver Ha away, but no one knew that he opened a company, except Hyun-min who was smart enough to put two and two together. When the prosecutors raided his office, did they not see his "COO Do jun Jin" name plate?

Lee Sung-min is amazing, but I was worried that the drama would get repetitive with an acquisition of the week from Hando Steel to Ahjin Motors, so I like that the secret's out to watch Do-joon one-up Chairman Jin in the open.

Since Do-joon couldn't prevent his mom's death but was able to save Chairman Jin from the plane crash, I think that he can only change the Soonyang family's fate. As soon as Chang-je became mayor, Chairman Jin ought to have known that Soonyang couldn't win the project or else the public would riot that he gave his family favors. I finally understood why Chairman Jin said his four sons failed to get into Seoul National University because he treats Hang-jae as a son.

I'm glad Do-joon's new family with his dad, mom, and older brother get along well. Hyung-joon is hilarious every time he predicts the future like Parasite, Apple, and Melon. Min-young has no importance to the story. She's just there.