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Answer Me 1997: Episode 15

Fallout time. Now that everyone knows everything (thanks Truth Chair), it’s time to face the music. The love triangle finally comes to a head in this episode, and though it’s not my favorite plot thread, this show does what it does so well. It subverts expectation and stabs me in the heart, over what else, but family.

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EPISODE 15: “While You Were Loving”

Summer 2005. Yoon-jae gets to his desk in the morning to find a stack of resumes… for a bride. Pfft. How’s that for a good morning? He rifles through them and asks his assistant what they’re for.

She says his sunbae left them, insisting that with his specs, he could get a giant apartment and a nice car out of it, like he’s going dowry shopping or something. Yoon-jae throws them in the trash, and says with a huge smile, “I already have an apartment, a car… and a girlfriend.” Squee.

He gets a call from Hyung asking for a favor to meet someone’s daughter. Yoon-jae refuses, thinking it a blind date, but Tae-woong insists it’s not and urges him to go. Yoon-jae says he has a girlfriend, but Hyung laughs that he has nothing of the sort and won’t take no for an answer.

Hm, is he doing this before or after the big revelation?

Tae-woong then takes a call from Shi-won, and he’s still in his hospital bed after the surgery. She tells him about the contraband can of peaches she put in his drawer and he grabs it to go eat somewhere secret, and then Joon-hee arrives just a minute behind him with a tray. Ah, so before then.

Tae-woong sits down in the stairwell with his secret peaches, as Joon-hee answers the call from Shi-won. He smiles at first to see Joon-hee, but then overhears the thundering words: Yoon-jae likes you… first kiss… eight years… he thinks you’re pretty…

And then the nail in the coffin: “Shi-won-ah, I have another call, I’ll call you later.” Oof. It was already painful the first time.

He flashes back to all the times Yoon-jae had avoided going home for holidays—the sick excuses, the last-minute work. And how Shi-won had seemed unsurprised and resigned every time.

He once tried to have dinner just the three of them, and kept waiting for Yoon-jae’s call. Shi-won told him that Yoon-jae wouldn’t come, and said they’d had a fight. Now it dawns on him just how much was going on between them that he never knew.

In the days that follow, Yoon-jae, Shi-won, and Tae-woong each brood in their own corners, worried about the others. Tae-woong avoids a call from his brother, not ready to talk to him yet.

Shi-won has a work emergency when the guest they cast for a talk show segment (geared towards high school students taking their college exams) falls through at the last minute. The PD and writer ask if she doesn’t know anyone successful who could fill the spot. She smiles.

Enter Yoon-jae, getting primped to go on the air. Everyone fawns over him and they wonder if he really came because Shi-won called him. The show’s MC declares that she’s going to seduce him in under ten minutes, and Shi-won just smiles to herself. Heh.

Yoon-jae joins them and show’s host pulls out all the stops in her tiny dress to impress him, but he just looks right past her and talks to Shi-won, grabbing the drink out of her hand and sipping it in his usual familiar way.

They ask how they know each other—family? Friends? Yoon-jae: “I’m her boyfriend.” They gape. Shi-won blusters that he’s kidding, but he repeats it, adding that there’s no other reason he’d push a case to show up here.

I love the bitter look on the host’s face. Yoon-jae sees the marker streak on Shi-won’s face and licks his finger to wipe if off in front of everyone, and Shi-won grabs his hand to drag him away in embarrassment.

Yoon-jae returns to his hometown accent the second they’re alone and he’s nagging her. So cute.

Hak-chan and Yoo-jung hang out at the same café where he once ditched her with her friends, and even still he darts around to make sure her friends aren’t going to pop out from somewhere.

She complains about his inability to act normal around her friends, and he promises that he’ll be good about everything else, just not that one thing. Hak-chan heads downstairs first, and then runs into Mom. Again?

Haha, it cracks me up that he asks the same thing we’re thinking: Why do I keep running into you here? She says her friend lives down the street.

Yoo-jung comes running down and links her arm in his, and then shrinks back when she sees Mom standing there. Mom asks who it is, and Yoo-jung hangs her head nervously.

But this time, Hak-chan takes her hand and links it back on his arm, “She’s my girlfriend.” He introduces them to each other, and Yoo-jung beams.

Someone prepares for a memorial, and judging from the insane amount of food on the table, it has to be Shi-won’s parents. Holy crap, that’s a lot of food.

It turns out to be for Shi-won’s grandpa, and Dad says his father will explode from all this food and die all over again. Mom wonders if they should expect Uncle to come, but Dad figures he won’t show.

He prods her to do the ceremony early so they can go see the fireworks and *wink-wink* have some alone time, so they finish up quickly and grab some of the octopus off the table to take with them. Heh.

But just when they’re ready to leave, Uncle walks right in the door, spoiling the party. (Cameo by Go In-bum.) He plops himself down on the couch, and Mom and Dad cringe. He even decides they should hurry and do the thing so they can see the fireworks after. Well there goes their night.

Yoon-jae drops Shi-won off at home, and he climbs out after her (I just love that he has to use the passenger door to get out). She yanks him by the collar this time to ask where he thinks he’s going.

He asks why he can’t go upstairs to have a cup of coffee and she laughs and calls bullshit. He gets all defensive and his accent comes back, as he accuses her of overreacting, all why can’t we have a cup of coffee and aren’t we close enough for coffee. All this coffee talk is making me blush.

She points out that his accent comes right back when he’s backed into a corner and asks if he thinks she’s an idiot. She knows what coffee means.

She calls him out for being pervy and they go through this hilarious round of nuh-uh, uh-huh like little kids. His what-omg-I’m-SO-NOT face cracks me UP.

She tells him to stop spinning his wheels and pings him in the forehead to go home, and he finally gives up. He leans in, “Then a kiss instead.” He closes his eyes and puckers up, just standing there waiting. It’s so adorable.

He waits and waits and she cups his face in her hands, and then turns his head away and hugs him.

He’s still got his eyes closed and his lips puckered, and she points out that he should probably stop, ’cause it’s bound to be embarrassing by now. Pffft. She slaps him on the lips and runs off.

Yoon-jae comes home to find Joon-hee already packing up his things, and he sighs at the thought of having to live alone for the first time ever. Aw, they’ve been roomies for so long.

Joon-hee says that it’s probably best for Yoon-jae to have the place to himself—wouldn’t it be more convenient if he were to have Shi-won come over? Yeah… he couldn’t even manage to get invited up for coffee, so I think that’s a ways off.

Yoon-jae lights up at the thought and jokes that he should leave right now, and Joon-hee threatens to stay forever. Stay!

Joon-hee asks why he doesn’t just move her in right now, and Yoon-jae says he’d love to, but his heart sinks, “There’s something I have to do first.”

Shi-won gets a call from Tae-woong that night, asking her to dinner tomorrow. She agrees to meet him, though it’s clearly a conversation she’s not looking forward to. He tells her to dress up and look pretty, and tells her where to meet him.

Dad sets up the memorial all over again, and Uncle complains that there’s no octopus, which was his brother’s favorite thing. He starts to complain that it’s useless having kids, and Dad quickly says it’s on the way.

Cut to Mom and Dad staring at the octopus, legs already chopped off intending to be snacked on. Dad gets the bright idea to put the legs back on with chopsticks, insisting that Uncle won’t notice. They are so cute.

It doesn’t go as planned, but they manage to hide it amongst the other dishes and get on with the ceremony. Uncle takes out one simple loaf of pound cake and puts it on the table.

Yoon-jae shows up unannounced at Tae-woong’s office the next day, asking to go get coffee. Tae-woong braces himself, knowing what’s to come.

They sit over a pair of those friggin’ extra-whip mochas, and Yoon-jae admits he has something to say. He hedges, and then finally starts, “Actually…”

But Tae-woong says it for him: “You like Shi-won?” His jaw drops. Tae-woong says he found out only recently—that he likes Shi-won too, that he liked her first. Why didn’t he say something?

Yoon-jae asks what he would’ve done if he did tell hyung: “Would you have given up on Shi-won? Like me? Did you give up on her?”

Tae-woong: “No.” Oh damn. Not the answer he was expecting. He continues, “You’re the person I love most in this world and I’d give up everything for you… but not a woman.” That floors him.

You know, outside of the fact that it’s not what Yoon-jae wants to hear or that it’s extra heartbreaking for Tae-woong who’s bound to get crushed, I find his reasoning compelling. It’s what I would’ve wanted Yoon-jae to do, six goddamn years ago. You don’t give up on love. Because doing that to be noble does no one any good.

He says that the choice is up to Shi-won, and that he’ll make one last effort, and if she says no for good, he’ll give up cleanly, and even let Yoon-jae tease him for the rest of their lives.

He’s good-natured about it, though he speaks with the confidence that he’s always had—that it could go either way. And it’s that assured confident side of Tae-wong that sends Yoon-jae back to his teenage self, suddenly terrified that he’s back to square one and his hyung will win the girl.

He reminds Yoon-jae about meeting his teacher’s daughter tonight, and leaves. Yoon-jae sits in that same spot for hours and hours until nightfall, reeling.

He gets a text from Shi-won saying that she’s meeting Tae-woong for dinner tonight, which feeds into his worst fears. He chucks the phone to the ground in a rage.

Dad takes his uncle to the bus terminal, and they reminisce about his father. These two actually look like they could be family; they’re so cute together. Dad remembers how close Uncle and his dad were, and how much Uncle cried at the funeral.

He asks now if Uncle loved his hyung that much, and Uncle sighs, “I hated him.” Pffft. It’s equally poignant and funny.

Yoon-jae sits in his office stewing in the dark at his hyung, and then finally decides to go on that not-a-blind-date after all.

Shi-won visits Joon-hee in the hospital and he greets her bleary-eyed from working a double shift. He’s tired, but says he gets cursed at a lot less these days, and Shi-won marvels that anyone would curse at him, while Yoon-jae getting cursed at, she gets.

She asks when Hak-chan and Yoo-jung are due up for their visit, and wonders if they aren’t too sorry to face their friends (for being so happy with their first loves and all). Joon-hee counters they’re not as bad as her and Yoon-jae. Touché.

He says Sung-jae’s coming too, so all four guys will be staying together. She laughs that they won’t get any sleep, not with all that porn to watch. She names Hak-chan’s latest movie that she saw on Yoon-jae’s computer last time, and Joon-hee is stunned silent.

“How did you know? Does Yoo-jung know?!” She laughs and says Yoo-jung doesn’t suspect a thing, and says coolly, “What does it matter if you guys watch? You’re not kids.”

He gives her an Oooooooh, impressed. She says Hak-chan is one thing, but she didn’t expect it of Joon-hee. He admits he doesn’t care for them (obviously) but there’s someone who likes them a LOT.

She guesses Sung-jae, but he corrects her—Yoon-jae. Suddenly her smiley demeanor hardens, “Aiiiiiisssssh.” Hahaha. She grabs her phone muttering, “You’re dead.”

He laughs, reminding her that she said it was fine, but now she’s up in arms about how he’s always attached to that damned laptop of his, and calls Yoon-jae. But he doesn’t pick up, and hasn’t all day. We se him driving, having taped his phone back together, but still not picking up.

Shi-won tells Joon-hee about meeting Tae-woong tonight, and he asks, “Are you going to tell him?” She nods yes, but admits she doesn’t know what to say, or how.

She says that Tae-woong oppa is really important to her, and she doesn’t want them to be awkward or distant because of this, but can’t lie either. Joon-hee starts to say, “The teacher that I know…” but doesn’t finish the thought.

As Shi-won leaves, he says to himself, “…isn’t the average person.”

Uncle tells Dad about how much his parents favored his hyung, and how as a child the day his hate went full-force was when Mom brought home a loaf of pound cake just for Hyung, who wouldn’t share even one bite.

He swore to be better than him, and while Hyung took the civil service exam, he started his own business and was so proud, having become more successful. But it only lasted a month and he went belly-up, having been conned.

With no way to repay the money, he went to jail, and a month later Hyung visited him there to ask he wanted to come live with him. He had repaid all his debts. Uncle says that even then, he hated his brother, and said all manner of horrible things to him, accusing him of showing off.

Uncle: “Do you know what Hyung said? Do you know what he said to me?”

Then we cut to the big night, as Tae-woong, Shi-won, and Yoon-jae each head out to dinner. We see Yoon-jae’s not-a-blind-date (cameo by G.NA) waiting at her table.

Yoon-jae stops and calls Tae-woong. “I’m not going to give up either. I won’t give up.”

He says that he folded right away when Hyung told him he liked Shi-won, without a second thought. Because he’s his hyung. And even when they broke up, he knew he wouldn’t give up on Shi-won so easily, so he ignored his feelings.

Tae-woong just listens steel-faced, and asks, “So?” Yoon-jae: “A person’s heart can’t be turned on and off like a switch. Once it’s turned on… it won’t turn off. I like Shi-won. I sincerely want to marry her.”

And then he repeats what he learned by watching Hyung: “You’re the person I love most in this world, and I can give up everything for you, but I won’t give up on Shi-won.”

Good for you. He says that he’ll go on this date tonight because he promised he would, but to stop setting him up from now on. He hangs up.

Yoon-jae and Tae-woong each head inside their respective restaurants. The two girls wait at their tables.

A door opens, and Tae-woong arrives. Shi-won looks up. Yoon-jae arrives. His date looks up…


Back to Uncle and Dad. Uncle: “Do you know what Hyung said? He said sorry. ‘Hyung is sorry.’ That’s what he said!”

Shi-won looks up at her door in surprise. And standing in her doorway of course, is Yoon-jae. Awwww. I knew Tae-woong would do something to make me cry!

He just stands there, stunned, only now realizing his hyung’s love. At the same time, Tae-woong arrives on Yoon-jae’s date, making apologies for the bait-n-switch.

Yoon-jae just sits at the table, crying without a word, suddenly understanding so much with that one gesture. And then he gets a text: “Hyung is sorry.” *TEARS*

He bursts into sobs.

Back to Uncle’s story: after saying sorry, his hyung took a pound cake out of his bag and handed it to him. He said after all those years, that he was sorry about eating the whole thing when they were little kids.

He sighs, “I didn’t know. But Hyung loved me a lot. I just hated him alone. Just me.”

Yoon-jae breaks down in tears, now realizing the exact same thing.

Fast forward to 2013. Mom and Dad pace in the maternity ward, and then finally the doctor comes out and asks for the father. Shi-won keeps asking for him. Dad frets, and then Tae-woong comes bursting down the hall, out of breath.

And then Yoon-jae arrives just behind him.

Are we still playing this game?

 
COMMENTS

In general I like the framework of the overarching who’s-the-baby-daddy mystery, but I do feel like we’ve been going through the motions on that front, pretty much as soon as we find out where Shi-won’s heart is. But it’s the macguffin they set up and when you build your show around something like a How I Met Your Mother meta-question, there are casualties you get in exchange for the fun, whether it’s because we already know the answer or because the audience gets tired of waiting.

Thankfully the reason I love this show has nothing to do with that, so it’s been a fun mystery, mostly because it’s clear that the writers are having fun with the infuriating clues. Once we see Tae-woong’s choice in this episode, it seems silly to remind us that he might still be the father, but with one episode left we’ll all play along.

While I am glad that we get more of 1997 if just by splitting Episodes 15 and 16, I do think this episode could’ve been trimmed to its usual length and been better for it. Part of what I love about this show is the economy of its storytelling, and it seemed less impressive when allowed to meander for longer than necessary. If there’s one thing I wish they would’ve fixed from the get-go, it’s that tvN should’ve just aired it like a regular 45-minute Monday-Tuesday drama.

I missed the ’90s flashbacks and the characteristic narration in this episode, though I understand the choice to focus on the immediate fallout between the brothers in the present. It just didn’t have the same color as the rest of the series, which I think could’ve been salvaged with one short voiceover from Yoon-jae.

What I did love was the way the Uncle/Grandpa story dovetailed so nicely with Yoon-jae and Tae-woong, which is what this drama does so nicely, without being overly saccharine or bombastic. At first when Uncle puts a measly little pound cake on the table for Grandpa’s memorial we think he’s being cheap, in comparison to Mom’s gigantic spread and after all that nagging over octopus. But then his story is so great—poignant, but not delivered emotionally. He just tells it like a story an old man would tell his nephew, in that gruff fatherly way that gets at my heart because it’s the most realistic.

And then we realize that this episode is really about the love of a hyung. So maybe the title isn’t a bitter While you were in love I was a fool, but from a little brother to his hyung, after realizing that he never knew the extent of his brother’s love: While you were loving me, I was hating you.

It dawned on me that I never once doubted the choice Tae-woong would make, until the moment they pulled the misdirect at the coffee shop. And even in that moment I didn’t hate him even though I was surprised. His attitude towards love being the one thing you don’t give up on was great; it’s just that I had expected him to realize Shi-won’s choice sooner. We know in retrospect that he does, because he’d have to be a dummy not to. And there’s a fine line between giving something your all and hanging on past the point of reasonable denial.

But when we revisit the events knowing that Tae-woong has already set the two of them up to meet that night, the conversation turns into something else entirely—a hyung teaching his little brother about what you do and do not give up on in life, and how he should’ve fought for her then, and now. It’s beautiful, and lovely, and not at all the thing you expect to come out of this awkward love triangle.

So when Yoon-jae makes that call, it’s both awesome and horrible. He finally, FINALLY does the thing he should’ve all those years ago and says that nothing will make him back down or give up on the love of his life. But he does it angry at his brother, hating how much he’s always lost to him his entire life. And then of course it’s another blow when he comes to find out that a little brother’s complex toward his perfect older brother is a one-sided hate. Hyung has loved him unconditionally all this time, and will say sorry, even when he’s the one whose heart is ripped to shreds. That’s family. And the fact that the brothers’ relationship is what we walk out of this episode with is why I love this show.

 
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Thank you!

Love how they framed a story within a story. I cried while watching the show and still cried after reading the recap.The way this show tackles family matters and the bromance is inspring.

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Ahh. Your recap makes me teary when the show itself does not. I find the show sentimental, and I enjoy watching the interplay of the characters, but your recap just brings it all together in such a lovely way. :)

Thank you.

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I felt that a lot in this episode absolutely rocked. I've got my qualms about that it seeming that Joon-hee is headed for a Sad Gay Ending, but on the whole this episode was enjoyable.

I do however think that the Uncle plot was kind of unnecessary. YJ and TW have gotten a sizable chunk of attention in this drama, and having to a parallel to their relationship take up so much time was a bit much. We get it they're brothers and sometimes they fight but in the end they are still brothers who ~love~ each other. I would've liked them to follow Joon-hee (give us a budding office romance or something! I would've eaten that up) or hell any of the other characters.

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They did a great job with correlating the relationship between brothers. It was very moving. I was, however, a tad annoyed with the ending. My reaction was - Urggh. We're doing this again? But love the drama.

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OMG...you have given me the best recap I have ever read..nothing else much to say coz you said it all !! brilliant and superb..

writers of this show surely are thinkers and overthinkers and I luv how they always surprise and tease us...

am hoping they'll have a narrative with SJ's voiceover -yes you didn't read it wrong... reply and answers to our questions from SJ's point of view..SunJae telling us the backstory of it all -he is our closest eye to everyone else's private moments, right.. also considering he's the only one who didn't have the "true/first LOVE" story no??!! well, he did have a one-time crush/lust on that girl though..hehe..but I still want him to do a voiceover (hmmm...maybe becoz hearing SJ saying a bit of the last ep's title makes it more nostalgic) coz it would make sense (for me at least) that the silly and dumblooking SJ would have all the replies to what really went on during all those years..he might be oblivious and obnoxious - but he would make side comments all the time without us even paying much attention to them coz he's just SJ..those moments that we'll need to relive and re-watch the episodes again and again for us to realize the "OH yeah - uhuh - makes sense moments" ...but its just me raving ...

thanks gf for this wonderful friday moment..luvin this show is one of my life's amazing experience !

clap..clap..bow..bow.. to the show - the actors - the writers - the spazzers (mhhhehhh -that me mimicking the cow sound) the subbers and the recappers !!! ^-^

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Every day since Wednesday, I've been watching my favourite parts of Ep 15, then all the other episodes, the frustrating present day cuts, and then the damn preview for Ep 16.

I AM DYING HERE.

I love how Reply 1997 manages to make the viewer's jaw drop so many times throughout the series, but it's beautiful in it's understatement. Nothing big happens, not really, but because it's like we're living their life, we understand how the smallest things can seemingly break a person at one time in their life. Only to realise, just hours or days or years later, that it was nothing to have cried/panicked/hated about.

In that coffee shop scene, I was like 'Wow Taewoong you're an ass' but I was impressed. He'd always been like that, I thought, people around him had always said he was one of a kind (now I have the image of gdragon slapping a barbie doll gr8), he doesn't back down easily - how can you, when you enter politics. There's got to be a steely backbone. And then, you know, that last scene happened and it was like.

Ah.

I thought after I finished this episode that it wasn't overall as great as the others, and maybe that's the first feeling you get when the mystery's totally and finally solved, even though from the get go Yoonjae is the answer. But it's the little things about this drama that warms my heart, and that's where the soul lies in this.

I'm so excited for the ultimate episode. Can it please involve all four guys sleeping over watching porn, Shiwon walking in on them, and tugging his hair (for one of the many times) and screaming at him pleeeeeeeease.

One thing I've been confused about this whole drama's run is that the coupons haven't been used, except for that one time in Ep 1 when he's all 'Should I not see her?' I thought it'd be a continuing theme, but. Yeah. And then I tried to reason with myself that Yoonjae wouldn't force/pretend her feelings with a coupon, so that made sense. But then Shiwon knew, and hadn't done anything. Can they at least bring it back for 'Marry me' or something, from Yoonjae's side. I mean HE KEEPS EVERYTHING, LOOK AT THAT S SOBSSSSSS. I feel bad for even questioning the writers because they've been so amazing the whole way through, but. Yeah. Going to be pretty disappointed if it doesn't make a comeback.

Thanks for the recap!

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I feel yah!

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Pure Awesomeness!!
Many Thanks girlfriday

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I'm not an emotional person but I reared up when uncle told his story and we cut to yj. The ultimate sibling live- not noble idiocy. TW didn't give up bc he found out yj also loved sw but bc he finally realized sw and yj loved each other. So at that point he gracefully bowed out.

And I teared up again reading the recap. GF u r awesome!

Speculation about ep 16. I think yj sleeps over at sw- perhaps after some heavy drinking. Finding half naked yj in her bed in the morning she freaks out nd start beating him with her pillow. Hehehe.

Don't know how pervy yj has kept to together to long wo a girl. Russian movies can only do so much for a boy.

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aww man! i know that in dramaland, the noble idiocy of giving up is sometimes too overused. but i can somehow understand that Yoon Jae made the decision from years ago because his knows by heart that his hyung gave him everything and gave up everything for him. as the little brother, it seemed like the only thing.he could give his hyung in return. And also that he thought he could never measure up to his brother as a love rival. he was young and naive, he didnt know better. but six years has done a lot to him - all of them. both yoon jae and shi won are able to affirm that their feelings for each other are genuine as can be. and that at this point, both of them have to work at making this relationship possible.

and I MUST agree that Tae Woong had done the coffee talk in a way to show Yoon Jae that despite being brothers who could give each other everything, there is a line that should be.drawn and that is you dont give your love just because the other person's your hyung. in a way, he IS saying that he wouldnt but in another way, he's being the hyung he has always been to Yoon Jae - teaching him that there are things that you have to fight for no matter what or who your against.

beautiful episode!!! cant wait for ep16 :')

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Can someone please help me, kindly tell me what the title of the of song or the singer at around 8:15 of this episode. Thank you in advance.

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린 (LYn) - 사랑했잖아 (We were in Love)

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Thank you so much! :)

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LOL so at the end when tae-woong ran inside i just paused it and started cussing. and then i ran screaming out of my room yelling "NOOO IT HAS TO BE YOON-JAE" my my aunt and uncle looked up like wtf is wrong with the girl this time? lol so i calmed down and went back to finish the last two minutes and saw yoon-jae there too. and then my day felt magically more peaceful ^_^

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Hii, pleaseee, I just love this drama so much!, plesee could someone tell me the name of the song at the 0:07 ???

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UoYFyJgo2nI

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이정봉 (Lee Jeong Bong) - 어떤가요 (How are you doing)
http://youtu.be/H2Vs6ae1AC8

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Oh that’s right. Thank you so much!!!! X'D!!!!

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"And the fact that the brothers’ relationship is what we walk out of this episode with is why I love this show."

Yes, I couldn't agree enough. I love this show so damn much. Cannot. Wait. Until. Tuesday......

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Screenwriters: Lee Sun Hye (이선혜), Kim Ran Joo (김란주)

I have to hand it to you, this episode would be really hard to sum up because of all of the quiet little moments that string things together, but you managed to catch them all.

At this point I have to admit I feel bad for Yoon Jae. :P For some reason after 15 episodes people still insist on getting his name wrong... 윤윤재 It's YOON Yoon Jae. O.o; It's got to be one of the easiest names in K-drama history, yet more people are spelling Tae Woong's name with more accuracy at this point. O.o;; Isn't that harder. Uhh... just wondering.

No, it's NOT Yoon Je 윤제
용재
영재

No wonder he hates his Hyeong. It's clear that even after he became a famous judge that he was in the shadow of his brother and they started to call him the Ice Judge because, ya know, he'd turn cold every time someone would spell his name wrong. And his frown would deepen like the two prongs of his name in hangeul. He'd probably also say "Yooooo" every time someone got it wrong.
Lawyer: "Noh?" (Meaning You in Korean)
YoonJae: Tangshin.
Lawyer: Your name is Tangshin?
YoonJae: Annieyo. It's Yoon Yooooon Jae...
Lawyer: You 'n' Jay? Your honor, You and Jay did what? Did you stutter?
Yoon Jae: (slips into Kyeongsang Saturi), Ah, just get on with the case.
Lawyer: Hey, your brother is Yoon Tae Woong, right?
Yoon Jae: (thinking) I hate him. Everyone gets his name right.
Yoon Jae: (super cold voice like Gyeongsang men... :P Personal experience) Get on with the case. Just call me Ice Judge or whatever.

I hope everyone gets it right for episode 16... :P Especially since he doesn't hate his Hyeong anymore. And I presume is a father given the preview... (Guesses... because of the reason for the hitting thing.)

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His name is NOT 윤재 (Yoon Jae). The tvN official hompage confirms that it is 윤제 (Yoon Je).
http://reply1997.interest.me/

Also, its main writer is 이우정 (Lee Woo Jung). Other 2 writers --이선혜 (Lee Sun Hye) and 김란주 (Kim Ran Joo)--are assistant writers. They made Sung Shi Won character modeled on the youngest writer Kim Ran Joo who was the real fan of Tony Ahn (H.O.T.) All of them were engaged in KBS real variety show "1 Night 2 Days" season 1.

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Ah, you're right, top of Episode 15, confirms the spelling of his name, which means the Dramabeans recappers should have buckled and spelled his name right from the get go.

It's a bit hard to tell in Saturi...

Maybe they'll spell it right for Episode 16??? or will they continue with the spelling mistake?

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Oh and I still feel bad for him. No wonder he has an older brother complex.

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Hmm..I dont remember if the nurse said "the wife is asking for her husband?". If the name Shiwon is not spesifically mentioned, then the woman can also be Taewoong's wife :-) As he is the one that came first in the hospital. My presumption is that Shiwon and Yoonjae got together in 2005, while Taewoong either hooked up with his doctor or the daughter of the man he respects O.o Shiwon's father called them his sons, because both of them are married ;P

This drama is the best so far for 2012 and I hope it gets the recognition it deserves :-)

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Thanks gf. this episode is great. their brotherly love is so refreshing, both willing to give in for one another. in kdrama where brothers fight and screw each other, this drama is so great to focus on family and their love for each other. even after last episode's ending, i never doubted tae woong's love for yoon jae. remember episode 12 when tae woong ran home to yoon jae despite being worried for shi won's safety (serial killer prowling)... I knew then tae woong will pick yoon jae over shi won. i love tae woong for that... that guy needs a hug.

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Thank you for the recap! this drama has my heart so much, the story of granpa killed me....i was used effectively.

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.. I was wondering if withS2 is subbing Reply 1997? :3

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thank for the amazing recap!

Just a couple of thoughts. No matter whose baby it is, I am glad that we already know that in the future, the brothers and Shi Won appear to have a great relationship. (and not to forget her parents!) They are incredibly close and comfortable with each other, despite this painful past and that is why we still can feel that twinge of doubt as to who Shi Won ends up with... The three of them and the parents are such a sweet little family, so it would have been heart breaking if that had fallen apart (as it apparently did the six years that Yoon Jae was avoiding Shi Won)

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This recap made me cry. Also, am craving for octopus.

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Yes yes yes. This show just shows us we should no longer have stupid noble idiot plots. I love the way the love triangle or live square , including Jun Hee wad explored here. Awesome stuff. And yes, family is family :)

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does anyone know what this song is?? It's the song that plays when TW realizes that YJ has like SW for a long time.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9imMi1C-fU&list=UUijkeUf2Sq2csekFx8T6LJw&index=1&feature=plcp

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Coldplay - The Scientist

http://youtu.be/EqWLpTKBFcU

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where can I watch this drama?

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*in my whiny voice* no episode 16 recap yet :-(

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Thank you SO much for the recap! This was such an amazing episode, and I got to enjoy it even more by reading this recap :)

Does anybody know where episode 16 has been uploaded to? It's not up yet on DF....

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YES. I love "Doll's Dream" ever since I heard it in episode 13 and I've been looking for it everywhereeeeee. But once again, girlfriday just knows what I'm thinking. How can you deny how fatedness?!

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The first part of the episode was indeed draggy, but wow was I impressed by the latter half, especially how Go In-bum's character talked about his relationship with his brother, and how that mirrored the Yoon brothers'. Plot - SO GOOD.

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This show is so great. I'm late in reading this recap, but here I am, and I am not disappointed. I look forward to reading the last one.

The relationship between these brothers is a sad and wonderful thing. I'm happy with how it's turning out.

That ending is so annoying. Is it really necessary?

Thanks for the recap, Girlfriday!

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I jut love this drama sooo much ♡
Does any of you know the song that played at the background when shiwon hugging yoon jae, after he asks for a kiss? (In front of shiwon house)
Please please guys tell me if you know ^^

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Yoon Jae is definitely blessed with his friends and family.

- His best friend Joon hee decided to help Yoon Jae with his love for Siwon..

- Tae Woong gives up his pursuit of Siwon for Yoon Jae's love.

Both sacrifices are unconditional gifts for Yoon Jae.

(I KNOW THIS WONT EVER HAPPEN... ) >>> Perhaps its not too late for TW + JH to become lovers?? they both love YJ and SW but in different ways.. it would make the love square even more bizarre..

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OMG I am so excited hhhhhh.... its 04:09 AM right now and if my mother catches me I'm done...........

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you know sometime's up when you cry reading the recaps...

on that note, it's not the 1st time, i cried reading the cancer episode, and i didn't even watch anything at that point (i was reading all the recaps before decided if i wanted to watch the rest)

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Thanks so much for doing these recaps! I actually really enjoy watching the episode and reading your recaps simultaneously haha. Sometimes the subtitles can be misleading or the episode may contain references that I just don't understand, so reading your recaps help me understand whats going on so much better!

I also appreciate your analysis. For example, I didn't totally understand why tae-woong would set them up and yet still tell yoon-jae he wasn't giving up in the coffee shop. But your explanation about how tae-woong was showing his little brother how he should value love makes so much sense and makes me love this drama even more! Ahh, you just have a knack for hitting things spot on! Thank you again!

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I think I'm about to cry. It's just really so disappointing and such a let down from the drama for me. The directors could honestly have done better - there was no reason to tempt me so much.

WHY DO THEY ALWAYS LEAVE THEIR DELICIOUS DRINKS BEHIND?!?!?!?!?!

First, Hak Chan and Yoo Jung's orange bliss. Then the "friggin' extra whip" ice caramel mochas. WHY?!?!?!??! I'm drooling over here :((

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leaving a comment so I can rate the episode ...

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