Well, I don't mind with an open ending for JA and DK relationship. But what the heck with other characters from Hae-sung from Mom, Auntie, and Grandpa who magically turned into a good person???

I understand there's a time jump for one year, but what??? The Haesung turned to be a really happy family; the Father forgave the Mother just because the mother admitted that she made a mistake in the past; Jisoo lived with her biological family at the end (although it's clear in the episode 51 she said that she's going to live in Baebang-dong forever).

It seemed like the writer needed to make a tie-end with all characters had their happy ending (regardless the fact Daddy Seo died). Well, it's not easy. But it's all too rushed.

The lasting impression I received from the ending of the show is that Jian has to deal with an obsessive stalker, Do-kyung. As the last two episodes showed, DK manipulated family and friends to put himself back into Jian's life when she returned from Finland. It was not a coincidence that he outside the art gallery, buys bread at Jian's brother's bakery, or happens to run into her. It shows a continued selfish pattern by DK to win over Jian. But as Jian recognized time after time, DK is seeking a one sided relationship; that he has never truly helped her. Nothing has changed since the first or second time they broke up. It seems the plan has always been to wear her down with his smirky smile.

The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again hoping for a different result. DK left HG to show he could be independent of his rich family to impress Jian. But he was brought up in an environment of excessive, arrogant privilege. That is part of his character that will not change. When he went back to HG, it was to save himself and his family's wealth. After Jian leaves, DK sets the same blueprint in motion by leaving HG to run his wood pellet company until Jian returns. He starts showing up around her to confuse her or stir up forgotten memories. Jian tries to be nice to him and let him down, but he takes it as a green light to continue to pursue her. When he shows up in Finland on the farce of a business trip (VP Yoo said the business was just breaking even so it made no sense to expand with expensive overseas products), the same manipulation pattern is started all over again: I am a changed man, I have your love of wood, we should start over again, if you have feelings . . . etc. But DK does not have the worries of an average person: lives in a large apartment, drinks fine wine, he has his family's wealth and probably kept open his return to the chairman position once he uncle retires. I cannot see anything good happening with a DK-Jian relationship since DK is destined to return to HG and his family.

The one person who was truly nice and supportive of Jian was Hyuk. He listened to her; respected her decisions; trusted her judgment; and would have made her an equal partner in a relationship. It is a stark contrast to how DK treats Jian. The main story line would have been better if there was a love triangle between Hyuk, Jian and Jisu. The question of whether wealth equates to happiness could have been explored between the character's principles, ideals and emotions between the two sisters.

If one looks at the show as landscape of fate, poor Seo-Hyun, the youngest HG daughter, returns home after a flop arranged marriage to find herself having to apply for an entry level job at the company. She has no prospects since Jiho works with his new girlfriend. She was never in control of her life.

So whose "Golden Life" was it? If you define life as a beginning, middle and end, it was Tae-soo's. His death brought...