Hee Kyung's status within the group was threatened from the moment Mu Yeol carried the unconscious Eun Jae into the agency. Do you remember the camera focusing on her reaction when she saw how enthralled Mu Yeol was? Though it might seem like Hee Kyung was chiding Mu Yeol for his naivetivity, that was her response to realizing that other women will come into the guys' lifes. And the guys certainly got a taste of this when they saw Hee Kyung with a guy who weren't either of them.

Eun Jae, as geekgal mentioned, hasn't given much of herself to the gang. And with the certain turn of events at the end of EP 12, it will definitely be much more difficult...

Also, anyone think there has got to be something up with Kang Mo's mom? She's not in many scenes, but she is there.

aww, i want to see MORE of Chun Jung Myung... but now his enlisting!! 2 years is sooo long.

looks like 25-27 is a popular age to enlist. they should've done it when they were much younger.

Has to be counting on the MV to sell her song, while not racy in western terms, her outfit is still rather sexy.
No harm done, if she wanted to just have a go for fun and not try and become an actress/singer. For another Jang Nara she certainly is not.

Another thing that contributes to the overall feel of the drama and offsets any depressing effect is the photography and camera direction, which is of the usual superb standard we have maybe come to take too much for granted from Korean productions.

Javabeans' screencaps above of the near-suicide scene inevitably can't convey the effect of the way the camera tracks sideways as Insoon steps slowly towards the yellow line, and pauses at a point, still the "right" side of that line, where all the perspective lines gather around the straight edge of the canopy edge directly above her head, with everything suffused with light from the glass roof spilling over one of those wonderful Korean color schemes (how come only the French and the Koreans can turn subway stations into works of art rather than hellholes?) reflected in the gleaming stainless steel safety rails and the brilliantly polished platform floor. Then she takes the last segment of her journey, from standing behind the yellow line to balancing on the platform brink and the camera tracks again, through the safety barriers - and all the color and opalescent light and gleaming surfaces are suddenly gone. There's just the barriers, now out of focus to the extreme right of shot and looking now like slabs of concrete , the gritty matt beige platform margin, the tracks with their grey gravel ballast and a forest of skeleton-like power gantries against a murky-hazy sky, and of course the approaching train, with a sort of sardonic faint sun-gleam just ahead of it. Then Insoon's feet advance to dominate the shot and get the focus, the train now just an ominous blur. Finally, an abrupt cut to a more distant wide-angle view, bringing the station roof canopy back into shot, but now the grey of the tracks and the underside of the opposite platform predominate, the angle hides the natural light from the canopy glass and we see just the roof ribs as apparently solid cast-iron with the strip lights down the middle. This really is the threshold of the shadowlands.

This would be impressive enough in an art-house movie that had been months in the making, but Korean production teams turn out work of this quality night after night, week after week and often on rival channels simultaneously. What astonishing talent!

Yes, thundie, I agree. I think Hee-kyung used Eun-jae as her punching bag and let out her unfair jealously towards her, but the big hurt was the idea that her romance wasn't real and that her friends somehow doubted her. I felt sooo terrible for her when Min-chul broke up with her. I loved it when Mu-yeol goes after him because it confirmed the emotional ties that the original 3 have for each other. I liked this episode because it had a bit of seriousness and is a nice balance to the comedy. SZA, I am reminded of Lee Byung Heon too!

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i will miss Gong Yoo...

Not really a fan of the actors up there..but I think I will miss Shinhwa the most, because they're really adorable. Love it when they're on shows and when they act crazy and all.. definitely going to miss their crazy antics.

Lee Dong Wook is also enlisting next year..this one I'm definitely going to miss - and really badly too. =(

I kind of agree that Moon Sori is miscast. Perhaps as Kiha she was a perfect fit but as the tragic, demure & delicate Kiha ...er ... Although she is a fine actress she is just too sturdily built, stoic and gestalt to be convincing as Kiha.

Also, and here I am not trying to be rude because I am probably older than both of them (but then I am not trying to act like a 17-yr-old), both her and Bae Yong Joon simply look too old to be playing 17-year-olds in the early episodes. It just made me crack up. The only one that was a credible looking and acting teen was Sujini.

Sometimes I htink it would be smarter to use age-appriate younger actors/actresses for such episodes till the characters become more mature instead of making the obviously mature-looking actors look ridiculous.