Why am I thinking they won’t explain Coach Kim’s motivation? I just don’t get how she would go from feeling guilty about her daughter to deciding to punish kids and their families for greed which was her own sin.
I don’t think she wants to punish the kids. She feels miserable about what happened to her daughter, so she wants the parents to feel miserable like her. She wants to see them hurt and be tormented, the same way as she feels, sort of her revenge on the world. She feels unfair that this happened to her, so she wants the other parents to know that pain. She is targeting the parents not the children. When she picked who she will teach, she wasn’t picking the students. She was picking the parents, the ones that are so devoted to their children and would be willing to do anything to make them succeed, in other words parents similar to her. Then she hurts them using their children.
She has to want it. She knew YJ would regret leaving but she still manipulated him to go. She was controlling YS making her an even worse selfish girl, she has killed HN, who despite the blackmailing, was still a kid, she has framed WJ. That’s 4 kids she has planned to mess up one way or another.
I don’t think she has a motivation; in fact, I’m not even sure how guilty she feels about her daughter. She’s so selfish that I think she feels angry that she no longer has a prodigy for a child. I don’t think she has a motivation, she simply takes pleasure in other’s misery. And I think that she disguises it in this drive to get these kids into SMU because of her daughter. Before her daughter was the focus of this unhealthy obsession, and it clearly was weighing on the child (per the flashbacks with the husband) but she didn’t care. Coach Kim is the worst part of all the parents distilled into one person.
Yes, I don’t know if she feels guilty either which I guess makes it even more weird? I hope she has some reason besides this insane desire to destroy what she wanted for herself, a trophy child, and punish the parents for doing what she did. I would only believe that if she considered herself a victim of this greed but it’s not there so it seems like show is just saying she’s crazy and that’s the explanation.
But I don’t think the show is saying she’s just crazy and leaving it. I think it’s more nuanced than that. This woman is clearly a sociopath. That’s what makes her so uncaring and explains why she takes pleasure in the pain of others.
I think the fact that she uses these kids and their parents is more that it’s a form of pain that she understands and wants to inflict on others. A normal person’s reaction to what happened to her daughter would be to still love and value the child. She clearly is incapable of that. Instead, this tragedy triggered something in her that just made her turn her anger on others and makes them feel the same thing. I don’t think she cares whether they deserve it or not. She just likes making them hurt.
She just likes hurting people who were as greedy as her? Without any moral reason? No judgement? It’s too planned, she has to have a reason to target these people.
Her reason is they’re easy targets — they are essentially who she was. It’s easy to destroy what you know.
And it’s not just that she likes destroying people who are as greedy as her — it’s that she takes pleasure in it. That’s what a sociopath does. Morality isn’t part of the equation. Maybe she judges them, but ultimately it’s about her own sociopathic desire to destroy. It’s planned in that she enjoys taking her time to break these people down.
I think that she want some kind of reassurance…to not feel guilty … That any other parent would have done the same or even worse if they were in here shoes.Her husband wanted his daughter to live like a normal kid and that s why he wanted to take Key with him And since she saw this as a treat in the way she wanted to use her daughter to fulfil her own desire so she killed him. So she pick this kind of mons who would do anything even murder to “protect them”
Lixie
January 21, 2019 at 10:31 AM
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Why am I thinking they won’t explain Coach Kim’s motivation? I just don’t get how she would go from feeling guilty about her daughter to deciding to punish kids and their families for greed which was her own sin.
KDFL
January 21, 2019 at 11:18 AM
I don’t think she wants to punish the kids. She feels miserable about what happened to her daughter, so she wants the parents to feel miserable like her. She wants to see them hurt and be tormented, the same way as she feels, sort of her revenge on the world. She feels unfair that this happened to her, so she wants the other parents to know that pain. She is targeting the parents not the children. When she picked who she will teach, she wasn’t picking the students. She was picking the parents, the ones that are so devoted to their children and would be willing to do anything to make them succeed, in other words parents similar to her. Then she hurts them using their children.
Lixie
January 21, 2019 at 12:48 PM
She has to want it. She knew YJ would regret leaving but she still manipulated him to go. She was controlling YS making her an even worse selfish girl, she has killed HN, who despite the blackmailing, was still a kid, she has framed WJ. That’s 4 kids she has planned to mess up one way or another.
KDFL
January 21, 2019 at 1:10 PM
That’s true but I think the end game is the parents.
SnarkyJellyfish
January 21, 2019 at 12:21 PM
I don’t think she has a motivation; in fact, I’m not even sure how guilty she feels about her daughter. She’s so selfish that I think she feels angry that she no longer has a prodigy for a child. I don’t think she has a motivation, she simply takes pleasure in other’s misery. And I think that she disguises it in this drive to get these kids into SMU because of her daughter. Before her daughter was the focus of this unhealthy obsession, and it clearly was weighing on the child (per the flashbacks with the husband) but she didn’t care. Coach Kim is the worst part of all the parents distilled into one person.
Lixie
January 21, 2019 at 12:53 PM
Yes, I don’t know if she feels guilty either which I guess makes it even more weird? I hope she has some reason besides this insane desire to destroy what she wanted for herself, a trophy child, and punish the parents for doing what she did. I would only believe that if she considered herself a victim of this greed but it’s not there so it seems like show is just saying she’s crazy and that’s the explanation.
SnarkyJellyfish
January 21, 2019 at 1:01 PM
But I don’t think the show is saying she’s just crazy and leaving it. I think it’s more nuanced than that. This woman is clearly a sociopath. That’s what makes her so uncaring and explains why she takes pleasure in the pain of others.
I think the fact that she uses these kids and their parents is more that it’s a form of pain that she understands and wants to inflict on others. A normal person’s reaction to what happened to her daughter would be to still love and value the child. She clearly is incapable of that. Instead, this tragedy triggered something in her that just made her turn her anger on others and makes them feel the same thing. I don’t think she cares whether they deserve it or not. She just likes making them hurt.
Lixie
January 21, 2019 at 1:25 PM
She just likes hurting people who were as greedy as her? Without any moral reason? No judgement? It’s too planned, she has to have a reason to target these people.
SnarkyJellyfish
January 21, 2019 at 1:33 PM
Her reason is they’re easy targets — they are essentially who she was. It’s easy to destroy what you know.
And it’s not just that she likes destroying people who are as greedy as her — it’s that she takes pleasure in it. That’s what a sociopath does. Morality isn’t part of the equation. Maybe she judges them, but ultimately it’s about her own sociopathic desire to destroy. It’s planned in that she enjoys taking her time to break these people down.
gumino
January 21, 2019 at 3:21 PM
I think that she want some kind of reassurance…to not feel guilty … That any other parent would have done the same or even worse if they were in here shoes.Her husband wanted his daughter to live like a normal kid and that s why he wanted to take Key with him And since she saw this as a treat in the way she wanted to use her daughter to fulfil her own desire so she killed him. So she pick this kind of mons who would do anything even murder to “protect them”
mugyuljoie is preciousss
January 21, 2019 at 11:47 PM
Yes, the coach is an ultimate sociopath.