Grandma has the best line!!

They were always very close to being a couple. So though it sounds delusional, it's not really.

What are your thoughts on the MBA Film School scandal?

I'm again loving EVERYTHING!!

I also fully understand her frustration with our 2ML. She has been upfront with him about how she sees him and what was stopping her. It would be one thing if he actually did not desire her and care about her.

I am wondering if it was really pride that made him hold back or an unwillingness to acknowledge what he really feels.

Maybe the reality is that he is just as insecure as she is.

It was indeed really neat to see her hugging her aunt and telling her she did the right thing.

This episode, I actually felt like the show was slightly cruel in its depiction of Cha Rim. Her need to find a financially stable guy as not to struggle like her mother was perfectly reasonable. After finding out that the guy she liked forever lied to her and essentially treated her as a gold digger who could be repaired, I expected her to be hurt and angry and for the show to treat it respectfully. Instead, Cha Rim screaming on the rooftop in frustration was so comical and the phrase "it is unfair" sounded so irrelevant to the situation, it seemed like she betted on the wrong horse on the horserace.

To be fair, she never said "financial stability" but always "a rich man" etc.
If she had said "I need to see that you worry enough about money for a family of more than just us two to live. (and since it's Korea, also: ) And when we have children and I will need to go half-time or no-time, I need to not worry about ending on the street, I don't want my child to be found in a laundry box,"
then he might have thought differently about it.

Secrets are what put the drama in K-dramas. Almost always someone finds out and exposes them before the ones keeping them are ready to disclose them sometimes causing more problems than the secret. Now the family feels lied to.

I am waiting for Tae Ung's explanation as to why he kept his wealth a secret from the family.

I guess I will remain in the minority on Cha Rim. Her desire to marry a rich guy is her issue and Tae Ung is not under any obligation to solve that for her.

I loved seeing the connection between Cha-Rim and Aunt. A much needed perspective. I feel like we're seeing a multi-generational reaction to the divorce - women keeping other women in-line, etc.

Ooooh, that's a twist I totally didn't think about!
And here I was having a pity on her during that phone call fit of Airhead Mom...

There's an obvious reason that police woman/mother in law is so hooked on status. She's clinging to it.
And she is probably afraid that the chairman will kill her if he finds out where she is.

I don't think she is simply a villain. But she might have said she was sick to get her son out of the way and get a chance of ... whatever.
I'm not wrong that it is police-mother-in-law, am I? Or am I falling in the "they all look alike" drench? I don't think so, because it makes so much sense that 1) she would long for the opposite of being a hostess and 2) that she would be annoyingly concerned with status. And maybe even that 3) she would want to have laundry mother's son in her house as ... retribution? apology? some kind of symmetry, at least.

I think she is really sick and she is the one that spilled the tea on ML. Set up her son within the company.

Airhead Mom has very simple views, typical. On the other hand... Bio Mom has been living in the lie for 3 years?? That's a bit too long.

If there had been an orderly qeue to slap him, I definitely would have gotten in line. He wasn't slapped nearly enough.
But the best slapping would be a truth bomb, puncturing his holier-than-though position.
I think what would really be a slap in the face for him was to be called out on his coldheartedness and hypocrisy.
He could ask himself why he let laundry girl behind just because a pretty girl was carrying some sheet music. Wasn't it disloyal? Or was it even love or did he just want the status that followed along?
He can ask himself what right he had at getting angry in that way with her. If she had told him, would he have provided for her and her family?
He can ask himself how he would treat his stepson if he actually loved him. And if he does love him, why he has never shown it.
He could ask himself what his biological son has done to him, since he feels he must even bother him to tell him he doesn't want him.
He could ask himself why he hasn't been approached to pay alimony or anything. Didn't he participate at the boy's conception? So how is it none of his business?
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WHat he did to his stepson after the discovery was unjust, but I suppose he did it, not because he would have done the same to any other employee, but because he obviously would be accused of nepotism, so it hurt the company's reputation more.
But the rumour that spread did not include the fact that the boy actually studied in his spare time. If the chairman had taken a deep breath, he could have announced that, and *then* pushed the boy in the direction of his actual talents.
I am beginning to wonder if airhead mum has maybe at some time been a more reasonable person that has been driven to desparation by that horrible man.

I agree that the perspective on women who do not want to be poor or even who do not want to starve is distasteful. And always with the slutshaming.
But maybe this was a part of the thing that goes around, exposing the flaws of every person - laundry mum is of course not objective in this matter. As I recall, what'shername was fairly neatly dressed?

What a lovely foreshadowing moment for Aunt when we saw her nestling into the chest of Bom's dad to avoid being spotted by her Unni. She is going to be lot happier with such a real gentleman.

The first close encounter of the aunt and Bom’s dad is certainly a pleasant surprise - how gentlemanly it is!! I approve.

I thought the bio mom was behind the film degree exposure - until TW said to DR that “I got crooked”. If he was the one, then it’s an act of revenge rather than a takeover.

Love, love the heart-to-heart talk between TW and DR’s mom. If anyone deserves the best, it’s this woman whose generosity and kindness is with no bound.

I absolutely love the storytelling!
(I think I say it every week 😄)
I usually talk about the good balance of humour and serious moments. This time I want to mention the beauty of the small moments - this week for example, I loved how we didn't need any dramatic music, just chairs outside on the street and Haraboji and Halmoni with Bom sitting there and nagging and writing messages to Taeung. And you knew that underneath they were anxious and waiting for Taeung to return.
Or Aunt sitting on the street... being lonely... and Bom's Appa coming out of the grill restau and noticing her... I just love these little moments.

Which is exactly what she meant by this being her only "inheritance" from her- but Tae-ung does not want this.

i think we are going to see the Chairman really just wanting Kang Ju to do what makes him happy, and if that is film, to follow his heart. He commented on how Kang Ju won an award! He is upset now but i really do think his heart is in the right place. I am optimistic anyway.

I have zero respect for the chairman's trauma. I could understand that being lied to for three years is traumatic, but it is at one time obvious why someone would lie about being a hostess, ... and that would be for him to accept her, not because she was "cheating" with those men.
So while it is not nice to be lied to, the really hurt person in that situation is *obviously* her. And his "love" was shallow, conditioned by her not being in a hard situation. Or otherwise he thought that she was in love with the men she had to drink with? That's the fantasy of a john.
His reaction was to threaten to kill her, and after that, he has had the same arrogant disgust with everybody else.
When we meet her, as her son has travelled to see her, she seems kind of inauthentic, but if she is traumatised to be a superficial peoplepleaser, I can understand that better than him hardening to (wo)mankind.
ML has been irrational all the time in his love for his stepdad. But I guess, compared to his toddler mum, the stone-in-a-suit seems like someone he can rely on and look up to. Anyway, ML can't see that he shouldn't put up with this, because his stepdad has his undeserved admiration and loyalty.

But one thing that we did get to see is that our ML has not been as useless as we thought- in his absence his team is actually helpless.

I was so deeply glad that this happened. Everyone seems to think everything was handed to him on a platter. And, even if it was, we learn that he worked hard to measure up to what was given to him and he is still working. I was so surprised that he is also a wear designer that sells the market like crazy. I'm more surprised that his team members were shocked that he's been the one handling it. He isn't sitting pretty. And, it provides more reasons as to why he reacted the way he did to Cha Rim's actions last week.

Now I hope this disheveled state of their planning and production stage gets to the ears of Ji. I, for one, did not like how he handled things. Didn't even let him say a word. I was disappointed. Ji is making it all about him. I understand why he's so particular about people lying to him but he can't just shut people out like that. I didn't even like the way their chat in the sauna went. I don't think that was a chat at all. There was no difference between that and the conversation that occured when it was first revealed.

I'm glad that we could finally see also the competent side of Kangju! 🤸‍♀️

I am pretty sure Tae Ung is supposed to have that kind of stoneface. He is stiffling all his feelings up in a mix of anger, pride, and self-righteousness, and that gives him one expression that only changes slightly, but definitely not have emotions flickering over it the way Kang Joo's face has.
When Tae Ung (or -wong) is angry, he looks stern. When he is hurt, he looks a little bit more stern. When he is aroused, he looks frightened for half a second ... then stern, with a little extra sternness.
It comes from being hurt, but he ends up being an inconsidereate A-hole, very much like his biological father.