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Answer Me 1997: Episodes 5-6

This show really knows how to take your heart through the wringer, but in the best way. It conveys that perfect smallness of adolescence, when that new pair of jeans or that one moment with your crush is your entire all-consuming world… But then life comes around once in a while to burst that bubble, and remind you that there’s a bigger universe outside of you.

SONG OF THE DAY

Sechskies – “사랑하는 너에게 (To You, The One I Love)” [ Download ]

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Shhh… don’t tell Shi-won!

 
EPISODE 5: “Life’s Counterattack”

Fall, 1997. Dad and Shi-won have another epic shouting match in the car, this time over clothes. Shi-won HAS to have new designer jeans and Dad screams that if HE were last place in school, he wouldn’t have the gall to ask for a new anything.

He tells her at this point she’d be better off just giving up on school altogether and earning her own living, and the argument devolves into a screamfest. Mom sighs and suggests they stop for red bean fishes to take to Yoon-jae.

Shi-won gets out to buy some from the neighborhood vendor. (A cameo by MC/gagman Lee Yoon-suk, who’s hilariously playing a kid one year younger than Shi-won. He actually calls her noona.)

She alerts him to the fact that he can’t be wearing an H.O.T. hat with a Sechskies sweatshirt (The horror!) and orders him to take it off. He takes her literally, so I’m thinking he’s either the village idiot or afraid of Shi-won noona’s wrath.

Dad says he’d rather take in and raise that kid, while Shi-won’s jealous he has no parents, and back and forth they go again. She swears if he buys her these jeans she’ll study hard. Dad: “All I have to do is buy Yoon-jae one new pair of underwear and he gets first place all the time!”

Shi-won says she’ll swap families with Yoon-jae then, and Dad says they’ll go right now and change the family registry. Thank goodness Mom’s around to tell both children to shut their pieholes.

She tells them to calm down before they get into a car accident… about two seconds before they get into a car accident. Luckily it’s just a fender-bender, and Mom and Dad tell Shi-won to stay in the car because she can’t act.

They get out of the car doubled over in fake back and neck pains, and Kim Jong-min gets out of the other car? Ha, this show is like ’90s Celebrity Where’s Waldo. I’m sad his cameo isn’t with Eun Ji-won though.

Mom falls over in the street and Jong-min panics. He takes out his GIANT brick of a cell phone, “Oh no, I have to call 119 (emergency)! What’s the number?” Dad: “Call 114 (information) to ask!” Pffft.

While that’s going on, Shi-won turns up the radio in the car, where they’re running a contest for listeners to send in their stories to win the pair of jeans that she happens to be dying for.

Next thing you know, the radio host is telling Shi-won’s story about living every day in tears because her dear friend Yoon-jae was caught in a fire and suffered third-degree burns. As the story plays over the radio we cut to a hospital room…

And Yoon-jae sits up in a bed, eating a popsicle and scoffing. Ha. But all Shi-won wins for her entry is a toothbrush cleaner, and Yoon-jae spits a laugh.

Shi-won arrives and drops the pastries on the ground in disbelief at the measly prize her sob story got her. Apparently Yoon-jae isn’t the first of her friends to suffer a life-threatening accident in an attempt to win the jeans, and Shi-won ponders what a stronger entry would be.

At the same time, Mom and Dad get checked out in the emergency room. Even though the doctor says they’re fine, Dad insists on any and all acronym tests he can think of.

Yoo-jung joins the group and they ask if Shi-won did the big homework assignment due tomorrow, to transcribe 3000 phrases in both hanja and hangul. Dude. Apparently this teacher is famous for this epic assignment and its equally epic consequences: one hit per entry you didn’t complete.

Oops, she forgot. She makes her best puppy eyes at Yoon-jae, and looks over at his broken arm. “Can you… write with your left hand?” Ha. He narrows his eyes and calls her sub-human.

She helps him pick around the beans according to his little boy taste buds, and Yoon-jae notices that the bags have changed—now they feature a missing persons ad with a reward. Shi-won just sighs thinking of all the jeans she could buy with that much money.

He asks after Mom and Dad and she says they’re still touring the hospital, telling Yoo-jung that her parents are expert con artists when it comes to accidents. Yeah I’m getting that. Dad bursts in with drinks for all of Yoon-jae’s hospital bunkmates, in good cheer.

Later that night, Shi-won washes up and puts on her glasses. She comes out and sits on Yoon-jae’s bed, startling him. She says she’s staying here tonight since no one’s home anyway, and tells him (the patient, ha) to sleep in the cot down below.

He just stares dumbly. Shi-won: “Why are you looking at me like that? Am I so pretty you won’t be able to sleep?” Yoon-jae: “No, you’re so ugly I’m in shock.”

But once she falls asleep, he’s up all night, just staring at her. “How can you sleep?” He looks at those old familiar glasses on her face, and it takes him back to the last time he saw them.

1996, the first day of high school. Shi-won nervously puts in her contact lenses for the first time and revels in shedding her glasses for high school. Yoon-jae comes to get her and goes slackjawed. He narrates:

Yoon-jae: Bumping into someone on the street, reaching for the same book at the library, or running under someone’s umbrella… I thought that falling in love would be special. I couldn’t imagine… that I’d fall because of something like this. Spring of 1996. My first love began that suddenly.

I love how both grand and ordinary it is. Back in the hospital now he laughs as he mutters aloud: “Back then she was pretty because she took off her glasses. But now she’s still pretty even when she wears them.”

He gently pulls the glasses off her face and tucks her hair behind her ear. And then he leans in to kiss her ever so softly on the cheek.

The next day, Dad goes to take the trash out…oh noes, Daaaad, are you wearing the Club H.O.T. uniform as a raincoat? LOL. I’m already dying and the scene hasn’t happened yet.

Sure enough, Shi-won comes racing out in a panic, barefoot in the rain. She screams at Dad to takeitoff, takeitoff, TAKEITOFF, and he argues that all raincoats are the same and he’ll give it back to her inside.

But she pitches a fit that it’s one-of-a-kind and cries that he has to take it off this instant… and accidentally yanks the sleeves right off. HA.

Even Dad knows this is bad, and quickly peels if off and runs away, leaving her sitting in the middle of the street to get drenched and wail over her precious.

This time the boys come to visit Yoon-jae. He complains that all they brought was popsicles and asks if Hak-chan doesn’t have anything else for him. He peels open his jacket to produce a dirty magazine, which Yoon-jae promptly hides under his pillow. Hee.

But Joon-hee has a way better gift—the big homework assignment, which he’s already done for Yoon-jae. How cute are you? Yoon-jae motions for Joon-hee to come closer… and throws his arms around him. “You know I love you, right?”

Squeeee. You can just see Joon-hee’s heart skip a beat. He blinks awkwardly and breaks away with a smile. Yoon-jae figures if he hadn’t broken his arm, he’d have been writing 6000 entries—his and Shi-won’s.

Cut to Shi-won at her desk about two minutes into the assignment: “This is impossible. It just cannot be done.” Dad comes in, still feeling really bad about the H.O.T. raincoat, and asks how much the jeans are.

She lights up but as soon as he hears that they cost nearly 300 bucks they’re right back to disowning each other.

Mom tells Tae-woong that she’s sending Shi-won to the hospital with food, and that Dad has paid Yoon-jae’s hospital bills. Aw. Shi-won shows up in her torn raincoat in a foul mood.

It only gets worse when she gets to Yoon-jae’s room and they watch the news on tv: the red bean pastry boy turns out to be the missing child on the bags, and now he’s suddenly a chaebol heir. (Haha, is he playing both father and son?)

They gape and Shi-won sighs at the reward money that could’ve been hers. Tae-woong tells them that’s life—you never know when it’ll turn on you. Shi-won narrates that it’s true…

She comes home to a dark house and the phone rings. Something about the sound gives her pause. She narrates that it wasn’t a noise, but a cold wind, a nasty feeling…

She answers, and it’s Mom. She asks calmly if Shi-won has enough money to take a cab. Ohgod… Mom tells her not to be shocked.

Shi-won (voiceover): “Human beings have superpowers. That horrible telephone ring. It was an alarm from the gods.”

Mom: “Your father… has cancer.” Damn. The air goes still and her legs give out. She falls to her knees with a thud as Mom keeps talking. She says not to cry. “If you cry, Dad will go crazy.”

She rattles off a list of things to bring and tells her again not to cry. Finally the shock wears off and the tears start to come. Mom tells her not to cry and that she won’t too, her voice shaking as she cries on the other end of the line.

Shi-won breaks down, wailing: “What is this? What is this? Daddy! How can it be this way?” I’m screaming and wailing right there with her. It’s not fair!

The taxi ajusshi keeps looking back her, worried, and asks if there’s something wrong, if someone is sick. But she just cries silently and shakes her head no. He turns up the radio.

The final entry for the radio contest gets broadcast, and the winner is Shi-won, who wrote in about her father, a man who sacrificed his whole life for his family, and then was diagnosed with cancer. OH NO. You wrote this in yesterday, didn’t you? Oof. So that’s what a punch to the gut feels like.

She hears her own horrible lie being told back to her in this moment, and then the kicker: she wins the grand prize, the pair of jeans she was willing to disown her father for. She breaks down in the taxi, as the radio host tells her to be strong, and plays The Cranberries’ “Ode to My Family.”

Dad changes into scrubs for his surgery, and Shi-won can’t contain her tears. Mom does her best, and turns away as she starts to cry again, and he just hugs them close.

Tae-woong comes to take him to surgery, and Dad of course tries to make Shi-won feel better, telling her that if she cries like that he can’t go into surgery comfortably. She just wails into his shoulder, “Daddy I’m sorry.”

Aw. He smiles and chuckles that she’s finally grown up and hugs her again reassuringly. Augh, Sung Dong-il is so good at this—you can see the moment of heartbreak and fear in his eyes for that split second as he hugs her, that he blinks away before anyone can see.

The nurse comes to check his name and his age. Something about the way he says “forty-eight” just kills me. He’d better not die, ya hear me Show?

Tae-woong tells Mom and Shi-won to stay behind, and Dad takes Tae-woong’s hand. “Tae-woong-ah, you’re this family’s eldest son.” No, don’t say that! It’s his way of asking him to look after them if he doesn’t make it. *TEARS*

As he gets wheeled down the hallway, we flashback to earlier that evening, when he had gone down to the hospital’s chapel. He sits in the dark room and apologizes to God that it’s his first time.

He says that he has a daughter in high school, who’s physically big but really still a baby. She won’t realistically get into a great college or be really successful, so the only one who can take care of her is Dad.

“But if I go suddenly, what will she do? If I’m not here, who will hold her hand at her wedding?” *whimper*

He says he knows it’s a lot to ask, but pleads to be alive just until the moment he can walk Shi-won down the aisle. And then the second she does, he promises he can drop dead right then without looking back.

He starts to say that then he’ll go… to meet his daughter Song-joo who left this world before him, but can barely get the words out as he breaks down in sobs. Oof. Daaaaaaaad. How am I supposed to recap if I can’t see through my tears?

He begs, “Please…” and then we cut to him at the end of the hallway, as he enters surgery.

Mom and Shi-won sit on Dad’s hospital bed still in shock, and Mom tells Shi-won to go home—isn’t she going to school tomorrow? She reaches into the nightstand and passes Shi-won a notebook, saying, “You two always fight to the death. But he must not want someone else hitting his daughter.”

Shi-won opens the notebook to find that Dad did her homework for her. AW. She flips through the pages and starts to cry, and Mom sighs, “No matter what he says, you’re everything to your father. You be good to him.”

Yoon-jae narrates: “Life always comes when you least expect it to hit you on the back of the head. It can be a cruel sadness. It can be a cruel fear. At times like this the only thing we can do…”

We watch as Shi-won cries in the hallway, and as Dad cries a tear before going under. And then the surgeon comes out. Mom and Shi-won look up with bated breath… and the doctor unmasks his face. It’s Jong-min!

Mom recognizes him and immediately bows to the ground, feeling terrible for everything. But he sweetly tells her the accident was his fault anyway and starts to give them the news with a long face… and then a fakeout Just kidding! Haha, are doctors allowed to do that? I forgive you because you’re just Kim Jong-min, and I like the full-circle karma thing.

He says the surgery was a success and Dad will make a full recovery, and Mom jumps up to hug him and bows at his feet again and Shi-won cries in relief.

Yoon-jae (voiceover): This life that might leap anywhere—there’s no use avoiding or ignoring it. There’s just facing it and getting beaten to a bloody pulp. But at times life can surprise us with gifts that make our hearts flutter. And if we endure sadness, we are rewarded with happiness.

We get another glimpse of the moment Yoon-jae’s first love began, and the red bean fish cake Cinderella story… followed by the breaking news of the IMF crisis.

2012 Reunion dinner. Sung-jae announces that the groom will be buying the next round. Both he and Dan-ji ask if the soon-to-be-married couple will be buying a new place, and they argue back and forth about whether it’s better to rent or to own in this economy. Tae-woong marvels at how much they’ve grown up.

Sung-jae and Dan-ji ask twice if the wedding will be in Seoul or in Busan (effectively taking them out of the running). Annoyed, both Shi-won and Yoo-jung shout, “BUSAN!” Well, it’s something, but I’m pretty sure we knew the bride would be one of them.

 
EPISODE 6: “Love Makes You Do Things You Didn’t Do Before”

SONG OF THE DAY

H.O.T. – “너와 나 (You and I)” [ Download ]

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Mom tends to Dad in his boisterous hospital room, as he complains that he has to share it with a bunch of ajummas. But times are tough (literally overnight) and they can’t exactly afford a private room.

Hak-chan gets on the bus to go to school that morning, and Yoo-jung waves at him excitedly from the back. He panics and throws on his headphones and beelines for the first seat he sees. She frowns.

At the hospital, Mom tries to coax Dad into eating and exercising, but he’s in a dour mood because they’re still waiting for the test results after the surgery, and he’s sure something else will go wrong. He tells her to be straight with him if he’s going to die.

The other ajummas coax her into watching the latest big drama with them, and Dad just stays in his funk.

It’s nearly lunchtime at school, and Shi-won and a classmate rev up like they’re racing the Indy 500, each holding a videotape at the ready. As soon as the teacher announces class is over, they take off running for the VCR and shove their tapes in simultaneously.

Shi-won’s like, We gonna start something, Eun Dokki? [Eun Dokki = Eun Ji-won fangirl.] The girl gets right up in Shi-won’s face, Let’s go, Ahn Seung Buin! (Tony fangirl, already established as Shi-won’s nickname.) This. Cracks. Me. Up.

It’s name-calling and tell-your-oppa-to-stop-copying-my-oppa back and forth, and soon there’s hair-pulling. Fangirl War!

The boys play basketball outside, and Yoon-jae is killing me with his affection towards Joon-hee, because I can just feel Joon-hee’s inner omg-omg-omg.

Yoo-jung runs onto the court and Hak-chan freaks out, literally running in the other direction. But she runs up screaming that the fangirl war turned into a brawl, and they need to hurry up and help Shi-won.

Yoon-jae and Joon-hee take off running. How much do I love that they run to her at the speed of light?

They get to the classroom but Shi-won doesn’t need saving, exactly – she has Eun Dokki in a wrestling hold. Yoon-jae picks her up and yells at her to stop but then gets startled by her bloody nose. That just sends her after the girl again in a rage. Ha.

This time he throws her over his shoulder and carries her out the door. Hak-chan and Sung-jae run up behind them and Yoo-jung motions for Hak-chan to go help the other girl. He awkwardly makes his way over to check on her.

In a daze, Eun Dokki chirps, “J-j-j-ji-won oppa?” and faints. HAHAHAHAHA. Yoo-jung tsk-tsks that she’s officially lost her mind. Or she’s the only sane one!

Back at the hospital, the doctor comes by to tell Dad that he’s cancer-free, but Dad has a weird reaction: blink-blink, “You’re lying.” The doc insists that he’ll be fine and he should exercise, and Mom tells him it’s true.

They join the ajummas as they watch their drama… which suddenly turns dire: “It’s cancer.” Everyone sighs and turns over in their beds. Lol. Oh, dramaland, why have your tropes remained the same, fifteen years later?

The group heads out of school that night and the boys get excited about having tickets to a basketball game. Joon-hee says he can’t go because he promised he’d stand in line with Shi-won for concert tickets, and the girls bound up.

Shi-won links her arm in Joon-hee’s, ready to steal him away, and the boys complain that it’s a waste of a ticket. So Yoo-jung links her arm in Hak-chan’s, giving him another jolt, and says she looooooves basketball. She’ll go instead!

It’s a win-win for everyone, except of course for Yoon-jae, who watches Shi-won and Joon-hee walk off arm-in-arm like the universe, and basketball, has betrayed him.

At the hospital, Mom tries to convince Dad that it was just a drama and he’s not going to die. Dad: “Don’t you know that dramas are based on real life?!” Ha, have you seen a drama lately?

While Yoo-jung gets snacks, Hak-chan rattles off statistics like an expert, and then clams up as soon as she gets back. She impresses them with basketball terms and knowing players’ names, and we see in flashback that she stayed up all night studying. Man, the things you do for a crush.

Back at the game, she asks Yoon-jae which player he likes. But his mind is elsewhere entirely, of course.

He asks Yoo-jung where Shi-won and Joon-hee are, and makes the excuse that he forgot he was supposed to bring Shi-won to the hospital tonight. He runs off, leaving Yoo-jung heartbroken. After all her studying! To impress you!

Yoon-jae finds Shi-won and Joon-hee in line and comes bounding up with the excuse that he came to see Joon-hee. He squeezes in between them and shares his pastries with a smile.

He asks if they aren’t bored waiting here all night, and they’re both like, “Bored?” The whole line breaks into song while waving their H.O.T. balloons, and Yoon-jae looks around him muttering, “The things I do…”

Dad wakes up in a coughing fit and asks for water, only to find Mom gone. She’s downstairs at the payphone, making a call to someone who’s working furiously at a typewriter.

Mom: “Are you going to write like that? If you just write that he has cancer and it suits you, is that all?! Are you that out of ideas?!” HA. Did you seriously look up the drama writer’s number to rant at her over the phone? Priceless.

Shi-won and Joon-hee sing “You and I” along with the crowd, eliciting stares of disbelief from Yoon-jae. They’re interrupted with an announcement from the Busan Club H.O.T. president (an awesome cameo by Shin Bong-sun), who says that an officer spot has opened up, since one member got her head shaved and shipped off to the States. Ha.

She says that normally they’d have an election, but since everyone’s here, they’re going to choose the person who can demonstrate that they love their oppas the most. Hands shoot up in the air.

Fangirl: I pitched a tent in front of Kang-ta oppa’s house for a month! Prez: Stalker! Next! Fangirl: I skipped my college entrance exam to go to an H.O.T. concert! Prez: You should have gotten into college to bring more converts! Pass!

This is awesome. The first one that gives them pause is: Well my unni’s boyfriend’s noona is an H.O.T. coordi! Shi-won sees the opportunity slip away and throws her hand up: “I can write a pledge in blood!” The boys gasp.

She writes a sign for Tony oppa with a pricked finger as Joon-hee and Yoon-jae just shake their heads like, nuh-uh… that’s going too far.

But it earns her the coveted little Club H.O.T. officer ID card. Joon-hee goes to get coffee and Yoon-jae wraps his scarf around Shi-won, asking if he and Tony both fell into the water, which guy she’d save first.

She thinks about it for a moment and says Yoon-jae, and he lights up. Shi-won: “Because Tony oppa knows how to swim.” He blames himself for asking and then tells her not to take that scarf off: “I’ve been wearing it all day. It’ll smell like me.” He kills me.

He wonders how the basketball game went. I don’t know about the game, but things are certainly looking up for Yoo-jung and Hak-chan. She’s asleep on his lap and he doesn’t move a muscle, even as janitors sweep up the stands around them. Adorable.

Dad finds Mom missing from his bedside again and complains but she’s so wrapped up in this drama that she goes livid when the hero gets told he doesn’t have much longer to live. She’s back at the telephone to scream another tirade at the drama writer, who’s now just taken to letting her rant while she works.

Yoo-jung waves Hak-chan down on the bus the next morning, and he ignores her yet again. This time she won’t be deterred, and sits behind him to ask for a favor. She got four tickets to another basketball game and wants them to go as a group again.

He says sure. But there’s a caveat: she’s also got two tickets to see Next, and she wants Hak-chan and Sung-jae to go to that, after agreeing to go to the game. Oh to leave you alone with Yoon-jae? Sneaky! Also, very elaborate. He stammers that he wants to see the basketball game, but she threatens: “Then I’ll just kiss you on the lips right here!”

Hak-chan: “Next! Next! I’ll go see Next!” Hahaha. But then she hugs him in delight and fondles his face, and he melts. Aw. The birth of Love Triangle Number 3?

Shi-won spends the morning asleep in class after pulling an all-nighter for the concert tickets, and Yoo-jung tells Eun Dokki that Shi-won is in a new class of fandom now, and tells them what she did.

In the boys’ class Joon-hee and Yoon-jae are both asleep too, side by side. Why so cute? They’re listening to “You and I,” and Joon-hee opens his eyes for just a moment to sneak a glance at Yoon-jae. Aw.

Shi-won finally wakes up in the afternoon to listen to Tony oppa doing a radio interview (in the middle of class, natch). The host asks if there’s anything a fan has done that he didn’t appreciate, and he mentions with horror in his voice that a fan from Busan sent him a message written in her blood, and says it was the worst thing by far.

Uh, yeah. Gonna have to agree with you there. But also, a heartbreaking realization for Shi-won. She buries her head in shame, as Eun Dokki laughs out loud.

Joon-hee comes by, worried, and finds her just sitting at her desk numbly. He tries to make her feel better, but she’s so devastated—to hear those crushing words from her oppa, just ooouuuuch.

The rest of the group heads toward the classroom to try and cheer her up, and Yoon-jae opens the door…

…to find Joon-hee holding her as she cries. Oh no. And… is he wearing the scarf Yoon-jae gave to Shi-won? Ack. Heartbreak. He shuts the door quickly and turns back.

As they head out, Yoo-jung presents the boys with the tickets to tomorrow’s game, saying that she won them for free, and convinces them all to go with her. Yoon-jae hesitates, and then asks her if he can have the tickets to take Shi-won. Oh noes.

She says she has four tickets so Shi-won can come, but he asks if he can have them all, making the excuse that he wants to take her parents too. Oh, you ass!

Yoo-jung gives them up with a smile, while Hak-chan watches, knowing what lengths she went through to get those tickets, all in an effort to be alone with Yoon-jae. This is one serious merry-go-round of teenage pain.

Yoo-jung leaves first before she bursts into tears, and Yoon-jae goes running off with a skip in his step, not knowing what a terrible move he just pulled. But Hak-chan knows, and he sends a basketball flying at the back of Yoon-jae’s head.

Yes! Hak-chan for the win! I love you right now. His eyes light up with anger.

Dad finds Mom missing yet again. She’s at the payphone of course, but this time she’s not calling the drama writer to rant anymore. She admits that her husband has cancer and says that the writer is brilliant and that everyone loves her work, but lately, ever since the hero of her story became sick, no one in the hospital watches anymore, and there’s no more laughter.

She pleads through tears for her to let that hero live, because right now that’s the only thing she can do for her husband, to give him hope. *tears*

She hangs up and then we see that Dad has heard the whole conversation. And now I’m a blubbering mess. Why are these two so good?

Yoon-jae (voiceover): The easiest thing we can do for the person we love is to throw ourselves away. The strength to do things that aren’t in our nature—that’s love.

Dad sits down next to her as she quickly wipes away her tears. He asks where she’s been—he asked her to always stick to his side. “You know I can’t sleep unless you’re using my arm as a pillow.”

He swings his arm around her and they have a tender moment… which he ends by telling her to wash her hair from time to time. Ha.

Yoo-jung runs onto the bus and then the tears come. Gah, I love you Yoon-jae, but right now, I just want to hit you!

The bus takes off but then stops to pick up one more passenger, and Hak-chan runs up. This time, he gets on and walks straight to the back of the bus, with purpose. Why is that so swoony?

He sits down next to her! Squee.

She can’t stop crying, and he doesn’t know what else to do, so he just silently puts one earbud on… and then puts the other in her ear. Omg. He touched her without freezing up.

Sechskies’ “To You, the One I Love” starts to play (posted up above) and he just sits there next to her while she cries, without a word. It’s my favorite thing, in a show full of favorite things.

He digs out the tickets to Next and asks if she wants to go with him, and she admits she doesn’t like them. Ha. He promptly rips up the tickets and tells her to meet him in front of the mall tomorrow.

Hak-chan: “We’ll go do whatever you want to do. Not basketball. Not Next. What YOU like to do.” How could any girl on this planet not fall in love with you??

She kisses him on the cheek, surprising even herself. He freezes, his eyes like saucers.

Reunion 2012. Sung-jae reads the wedding invitation for…

Hak-chan and Yoo-jung! Whooo!

Sung-jae asks if the wedding is so soon because they made a baby, but Yoo-jung balks, “We haven’t even kissed!” Everyone groans.

Hak-chan belatedly informs her that everyone knows they kissed the day they started dating. Ha.

They get ready to toast the couple but Shi-won whines that she has to drink juice (Omo!) and everyone sighs that the big drinker can’t join in because of…

The baby! One mystery solved, another begins. She sighs, “Jagi-ya, can’t I just have one?” Tae-woong, Yoon-jae, and Joon-hee reply in unison: “No, it’s bad for the baby!” Lol.

Shi-won says in voiceover that today Yoo-jung and Hak-chan announced their wedding, and that her husband is sitting at this table too. Dun DUN!

Back to 1997. A month passes and the hospital ward is quiet. A nurse comes in to turn on the tv—it’s the last episode of that drama. They all watch as the doctor announces that the hero is cancer-free and it’s a miracle.

The room bursts into cheers, and Mom is moved to tears. Dad just asks cheerily if they’re not going to exercise now, and shows her his empty bowl of rice. Yay.

As the closing credits roll, Yoon-jae sits at the basketball game. Is he alone? Serves ya right.

He murmurs that he knows saying this makes him really uncool and he’s mortified, but… could she stop hanging out so much with Joon-hee? ‘Cause it really concerns him…

Shi-won stirs awake in the seat next to him: “Did you say something?”

Yoon-jae: “No.” HAHAHAHA.

 
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I love the Yoo-jung/Hak-chan pairing so much. I’m glad it’s their wedding announcement, though I’m really surprised they revealed it so soon. But that’s what this show does so well—it undercuts what you expect, whether it’s turning a melo scene into a comic one, vice versa, or delivering the answer to a series mystery this early in the game. Now we have one couple secured, and get confirmation that another survives. Time to place your bets.

Hak-chan took a while to come to the foreground, since he was the new kid and was less of an established character, but the way he reacted to Yoo-jung’s crush on Yoon-jae just stole my heart. He really surprised me, and I thought it was actually quite funny that it was her crush on Yoon-jae and her heartbreak that brought them together. I guess I just like the silent stoic guys who have random bursts of basketball-chucking anger to express their emotions. So funny, so simple, so sweet.

The Shi-won/Joon-hee/Yoon-jae triangle continues to hurt my heart a thousand ways, of course, but that’s a long-term conflict we’ll be riding out till the end. What took the limelight in this pair of episodes was really Mom and Dad, and for me, Dad and Shi-won. The daddy-daughter stuff is the thing I identify with the most on this show—I just feel every moment of Shi-won’s teenage strife with her father. And I appreciate that the family is the emotional heart of the show, not just for those of us who were horrible rebellious daughters once upon a time, but because Mom and Dad as a unit ground the comedy and the fleeting teenage whims.

They can be silly too, but man, can they deliver on solid gut-wrenching drama when it counts. I just love that Mom was so hung up on the idea that Dad needed that fake drama hero to live, when what he really needed was her. All it took to turn him around was to see how scared she was to be strong again, for her.

The passing of objects from character to character worked so well in this pair of episodes. The homework: Joon-hee does it for Yoon-jae, Yoon-jae would have done it twice for Shi-won, Dad does it for Shi-won in the end. The tickets: Yoo-jung to Hak-chan, revealing her crush on Yoon-jae, then giving them to Yoon-jae who can only think selfishly of Shi-won, and Hak-chan reusing the Next tickets to ask Yoo-jung out. The scarf: Yoon-jae giving it Shi-won, Shi-won thoughtlessly giving it to Joon-hee… all of it just tells us so much about the relationships, without needing to spell it out. We know exactly who loves whom, and whose heart is getting ripped out in the process. How can heartache be this good?

 
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If Yoonjae doesn't turn up to be Shiwons husband, I think I"m going to die. This drama will be the death of me. It will totally creep me out if she end up with the brother, I mean wouldn't it be awkward if she ends up with her dead sister's ex-boyfriend? Plus I think he's too old for her, she's in high school, he's already a teacher and he's even older than her sister. And she can't possibly end up with Joon hee because he's definitely gay, you can clearly see it with the way he reacts to Yoonjae, there's no way he will end up bisexual in the end. As for Yoonjae, I think the "you gained weight" statement was definitely a joke. I think it was meant to suggest something to the viewers but we didn't know that yet during the episode. The smile/reaction Shiwon gave to him when her tshirt falls off of her shoulder was also an indication of something. The way Yoonjae gave her a backrub without her battling an eyelash was a very husband thing to do. I mean Yoonjae has been inlove with her for ages! He truly deserve it!

I also love Mom and Dad. They are awesome. And the scene where mom handed over the notebook to Shiwon was just so heartbreaking. And also the taxi scene where her fake letter was announced as the winner of the pair of jeans she's dying to have was so painful because the lie she created suddenly turned into reality. Can you imagine the guilt she must be feeling during that time? I hope she treats dad well from now on.

Dad's scene at the chapel had me bawling in to tears. And also the scene where dad heard mom calling the writer.

And who wouldn't love Hak chan? He's so adorable.

Why does every episode turn out to be my favorite? And why do I find myself so entertained even if I'm watching it raw and I don"t understand korean? I swear, this show, is definitely THE BEST.

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Gosh , reading the recaps for the father-daughter scenario where dad is praying brought tears to my eyes :"((( GAAAHHH

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I love this show! This is the only drama I ever watched raw, didn't understood a thing but I just couldn't wait for subtitles. BTW the first episodes have terrible subs, but 3/4 has very good subs.
Very happy with HC and SJ engagement, I thought it was brilliant how they started to like each other.

And oh my, how much I hope that Yoon-jae's efforts don't go to waste...!

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Wow. There are so many arguments one could make in favour of Joon-hee, Yoon-jae or Tae-woong being the dad that I honestly have no idea who the dad could be, and apparently, neither do the cast!
Although there is a slightly lower chance that Joon-hee is the dad...

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Joon hee is gay and Siwon is supposedly married...

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thank you for the recap,girlfriday.

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Read this in a car and was sniffling in the back seat and laughing during other times. My mum and my sis in the front must have thought I'd lost my marbles for sure!

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I love love love this drama! Thank you so much for the recap! The country accent makes this drama particularly hard to understand for me so the recaps really help! And you're so funny and such a gifted writer, girlfriday! :)

I love how the story moves so fast and unexpectedly. I love how it captures so many details of my own teenage years! I personally loved Jang WooHyuk. Good times...

I can't wait to see what happens next! Never thought Suh InKook was cute before but that hot shirtless scene in ep 2 did wonders on my perception of him. Hahaha.

I'm so curious how the JoonHee and YoonJae story will play out. I will be so sad if YoonJae is not the dad! That kiss on the cheek at the hospital was the sweetest thing... <3

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I LOVE this show. If these episodes are as good as this recap, I need to read the recaps after I see the them. I have a habit of finding out what happens prior to viewing on K-Dramas: Dr. Jin? easy, peasy; Gatiskal? Required in the action packed show... 1997 is the first show that I can gather the strength to wait and watch what happens first. ?

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Ahhh I don't want this drama to end! And it won't be easy to make a sequel... Can we have a new storyline with the same cast? I love this drama way too much for it to end :(

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thanks for the recap..
aaaaahh why I'm feeling that Shiwon's husband is Taewoong? aaaaaa I'm dying of curious ;A;

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wouldn't it be a complete shocker if her husband was actually Joon Hee? like, he only lied about liking Yoon Jae because he really was in love with Shi Won? omo, that would be a twist, but i don't know how they would justify him lying and then her still falling in lvoe with him,

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I LOVE THIS DRAMA ♥ To be honest, I wanted to watch it because I love A Pink's Jung Eunji, but boy this drama it too honest.

&& I shouldn't have probably read this recap while Park Ji Yoon's Afternoon was playing in the background.

Great show, great show! Best out of the 2012 dramas I've seen so far ♥

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The actress playing Shi-won is an idol?! It doesn't show at all. She's awesome in this.

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Yes, the girl playing Shiwon is Eunji of A-Pink. I'm not a fan but out of all of the members, she's the best singer and has the most charisma out of all of them.

Some cuts of her singing:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyd5zEFIl8g
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_nlad1pJwo

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I have never cried while reading a recap before. That was some gut-wrenching father-daughter moment. I'd probably bawl once I watch the episode.

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i think yoonjae is the husband. there are subtle hints, like yoon jae fixing shi won's bra strap or massaging her shoulders like a reguler dad to be will do for his wife ,but then their intimacy could be due to their very close and long friendship.

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Thanks for the recap! I so love this show. It brings back so many memories lol. I love how they use sound. The sheep sound when something embarrassing happens or the Roseanne Show song used during the a lot of the parents transition scenes.:) It brings back all the things I loved as a teen in the 90s: Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Dawson's Creek (Joey and Pacey Shipper), Felicity (Felicity and Noel Shipper), and Roswell. Waiting for Darian and Serena to figure out that Rini is their daughter lol. Arguing over who was better Nsync or The Backstreet Boys (Nsync of course), Going to Summer Jam and Six Flags Great Adventures every summer with the fam.:) Getting greasy Chinese and Monster Cookies from Starbucks to watch Sex and the City with the girls. Rocking my overalls and shell toe Adidas.lol Fun Times:)

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Awwww, I love that they've put Slam Dunk manga in this drama (see ep.3). It must have been really popular even in Korea at that time.

I wish I could see Yoon-jae and Shi-won together, more that other options. But hey, she might have dated more people, not just one from the bunch ;-)
In the end, I hope to see a proper boyfriend material for Joon-hee. It'd be strange if he didn't date for so many years ;-)

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heh. It would be a brilliant twist if in the end her husband is none of the ones shown/the friends- but someone she met later.

I also really hope joon hee ends up with someone...preferably yoon jae but it would be nice if he was paired up with someone else too. ;)

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How come in this episode her hair is long again ? How did it grow so fast ???????

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OMG LOVELOVELOVE THIS SHOW.
man these two eps were an emotional rollercoaster

teared up during the scene when the father was diagnosed with cancer and when he was in the chapel

omg kimjongmin! yep karma can be a bitch
gonna let the whole justkidding bit about the father's surgery slide only cus its kimjongmin..
too bad he didnt have a scene with eun ji won

HAKCHAN AND YOOJUNG <3 LOVE IT.
surprised they revealed their wedding bit early, but was pleasantly surprised :) :) love the pairing!

thanks for the recap!!!

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I pray to the drama gods to please not make Tae-Woong Shi-won's husband because the only way that could work is if her sister was still alive, but she's not so any "feelings" he might develop for her are simply tranference of emotions from her sister to her.

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Someone please tell me where i can watch this episode with english subtitle.

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you can watch ep 1-4 with proper english subtitle in dramacrazy.net under reply 1997 tag :D

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the eng sub is also available in epdrama.com

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Love the scene with Dad! it really touched your heart!

and it's good news that there are 10 more episodes!!!!!

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I root for YoonJae and Shi won.
Firstly if Tae woong is her husband, Yoon Jae wont touch his sister in law out of respect with reference to touch her bra and massage her.

Secondly since Shi won is married to Yoon Jae, she doesn't have to greet Tae woong as teacher as Tae woong is her brother in law and close family member already.

I am curious how Shi won finally accepts Yoon Jae since she is so dense.

Well joon hae happens to be Yoon Jae's best friend and Shi Won's listening confidant,I won't be surprised he and Yoo Jung would be the next ones to know about her pregnancy beside her family members.

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I root for YoonJae and Shi won.

Firstly if Tae woong is her husband, Yoon Jae wont touch his sister in law out of respect with reference to touch her bra and massage her.

Secondly since Shi won is married to Yoon Jae, she doesn't have to greet Tae woong as teacher as Tae woong is her brother in law and close family member already.

I am curious how Shi won finally accepts Yoon Jae since she is so dense.

Well joon hae happens to be Yoon Jae's best friend and Shi Won's listening confidant,I won't be surprised he and Yoo Jung would be the next ones to know about her pregnancy beside her family members.

Rooting for Yoon Jae and Shi Won

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i think yoon jae ended up with joon hee (aka gay couple). i mean idk, it was highschool right. who knows yoon jae just had this crush on shi won but that's prolly cus they grew up together and then he realized he actually likes joon hee. and so since hes gay its ok to touch a girl's bra strap, esp when she's his oldest friend.

BUT IDKKKK.

i'd cry a river if tae woong is the father. it's just too creepy for me. i want yoon jae with shi won but i dont think i'd be able to stand joon hee's heartbreak.

this sitcom is killing me.

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NOOO it can't be Taewoong!!! Doesn't anyone else find it weird because he used to be in love with her older sister?? Just doesn't sit right with me lol.

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it's def yoon jae! LOL they just added the brother to make the plot exciting.

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Ok so can someone explain to me if next week ep's 7 and 8 are the last ones??

This is a 16 ep drama but each ep last 30mins and they show 2 per week so does that mean there's only two more left??

please explain someone!

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it's 16 episodes that are 30 mins each. They show 2 episodes every week, so it's really only 8 weeks of the show.

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Alee

Each esp lasts 30mins. So two esp forms one hour slot each week

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According to TrackID, the song featured in the kiss scene in ep. 5 is called 널 사랑해, by 김정은.

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I think the husband will be yoonjae's brother. But Idk, I just hoping that yoonjae and joonhee will be couple.

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Eun Jiwon CRACKS ME UP!!!

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so ok, me and and my cousin were watching this (we both love this show). and when we find out Dad has cancer, i was all teary eyed and so worried they (the show) were going to kill him.

but then my cousin looked over and said "uh, hello, he can't die." i asked her why she was so sure, and she said "um, did you forget that the very first scene of the drama was of Shi-won singing in a karaoke cafe with her parents?"

I TOTALLY FORGOT ABOUT THAT SCENE! lol. i totally slapped my self in the forehead for that one. it was such a quick scene, and it was so long ago, that you totally forget that you've already seen both her parents alive and breathing. anywho, just thought i'd share that with everyone. heheheehhehe..........

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Omg hahahaha I also forgot it! DUH!

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I'm liking this drama a lot ^^ thanks for recapping it.

I read the comments and I see everyone is shipping Yoon Jae and Shi Won. I understand why. They are cute together and all.

But if Shi Won ends up with Tae Woong I'm okay with it.
I read so many comments of people that said they would be creeped out if they end together because he is a teacher or because he is too old for her.

And I disagree.

I mean, there are so much Hypocrisy and double standards in these comments.

I mean, take for example Big. Everyone shipped the young student with Daran teacher! Everyone wished they ended up together. Almost no one was creeped out by her being his teacher. And he being underage! (And DR was what, 26?)

The same for Flower Boy Ramen Shop, everyone ok with the couple!

What I see is that when it is about a male teacher everyone gets creeped out and dislike it. But when it is a female teacher almost everyone is okay with it.

Even when they aren't teacher and student people like Noona romances with young guys but when it is the other way around people get creeped out and dislike it.
When the guy is older than the girl people don't like it (I mean when he is like 8-10 years older).

Take ghost for example, everyone disliked the mad cow and reporter couple. Saying he looked like her father.
Most of times they say how the guy looks like her father/uncle and say the girl should date someone at her age/younger. But when it is a noona romance and she is 8-10 oldr everyone ships it and root for the girl go for it! I just don't get it.

There are couples with the guy being a lot older that works! See A gentlemen dignity. MaeRi and Yoon, he being 17 years older! See A thousand of years second couple, the girl had 22 and the guy 31/32? and they worked.

Why people are so much against young girl with older man but okay with young boy with older woman?

Tae Woong is older, that is true, but I don't have nothing against it, being older is not a problem.
Plus he isn't that older.

Shi Won has 18 (Korean age), Tae Woong must have around 24/26 (does anyone know how old is he?)
He isn't that old imo.

Plus, maybe I got it wrong but Tae Woong teaches the guys not the girls, the girls have another teacher, right? Or he also teaches them? Because I don't remember seeing it.

Then, comes the, but he is Yoon Jae's brother! How he can do this! Well, it isn't his fault but YJ's! He was the one who liked Shi Won for a long time and still didn't confess, if Tae Woong confess first and gets the girl... it isn't his fault. You have to to fight for what you want. And YJ has to step up. For example he doesn't know Joon-hee likes him and still doesn't do much about it. If Joon-hee liked Shi Won he would get the girl so fast and easily because YJ is slow.

Then comes the 3 thing people don't like about Tae Woong with Shi Won: He was her sister's boyfriend.

Well, this one I understand why some are against it. It is a complex/complicated situation. But her sister died 5 years ago and I also don't see nothing that wrong about it. I have heard so many stories about people end up with the sister/brother of their ex...

Plus is not like she is alive, she died.

Well.

So that is it.

I don't bother with Tae Woong liking and ending up with Shi Won.

Btw I'm dumb or what but just now I realized he is the Myun from Princess Man! LOL I'm blind!

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Oh yeah, and it isn't like Tae Woong knows Yoon Jae likes Shi won, he isn't stealing her from his younger brother. His younger brother who never said anything about it or confessed. I bet if he knew he wouldn't confess to Shi won and let his brother get the girl. He is a good hyung who has doing everything for his brother since their parents died. Tae Woong deserves some love too^^

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Does anyone know what happened in episode 7-8? HAHA i watched it in RAW so no idea whats going on T__T

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So poignant sw cries a thousand tears over her torn h.o.t rain jacket and coveted designer jeans but is stoic over her dads cancer.

And can I say who hasn't thought to track down kdrama writers and giving them a piece of your mind for turning a perfectly lovely escapism tv into wtf death ending. I like to know what I'm getting myself into when I start watching. Reply 1997 has been full of laugh and tears and I hope writers won't pull stupid ending stunts that seem so popular eg rooftop prince, high kick thru the roof, fashion king.

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omg this drama is really daeeeebaaaaakkkk!!!!!!! /////////<

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omg! just saw ep 7-8 raw..I want subs/ recaps fast!!
no pressure :P :)
but seriously..

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Thanks for recapping. This show is just the epitome of doing it right. Stellar writing, stellar acting. Sung Dong Il is knocking out of the ball park, pun intended. Who do I want to hug more, Dad, Mom , the brothers, Joon-hee, Dak-chan? Why isn't everyone jumping on this bandwagon? Why is this sitting in sub waiting rooms for a week? Really, people, watch this show, it's just wonderful.

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thanks for recap, I am crazy for this drama now, this drama is so damn good, which I did not expect that much, the only reason I want to see the drama at the beginning is because of Hoya, but now I am fall in love with this drama.

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I truly truly live this show so much. It brings back so much memories of myself as a teen. Not caring how much something costs but wanting it because it is cool. And the writer has succeeded in making us care for all the characters, even the supporting ones.awesome

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I love this show!!! It's heartbreaking, heartwarming and complicated. Thinking about who the hubbbie is makes my head spinnn and really puts me on the edge of my seat. Thanks so much for the recap. I usually read over the recaps just to make sure I don't miss anything and the theories and speculation are really interesting on here. Really didn't notice some of the stuff. Off to watch the raw eps!! i just can't wait anymore for the subs.

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I don't know who her husband is, but I still think it's Yoon-jae, cuz i ruled out the guys :P

I don't think its tae-woong, cuz won't he have residual feelings for her sister? and then everything will be kinda emotionally messed up and I don't think this drama will go that way. and also, he is yoon-jae's older brother, sho more love triangles? and he would be guilty cuz he would had stolen chi-won from him... :/

then I don't think joon-hee will turn non gay or bisexual O.o
sho....

thats leaves yoon-jae. ^__^

and I like joon-hee better as a hot yet gentle gay friend^^

Or... Shi-won and Tae-woong is indeed having a baby, and yoon-jae discovers that he is actually gay so then joon-hee and him will be in gay paradise^^ LOL

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some small errors in the recap;

joonhee did not do the crazy homework for yoonjae. he was just lending him his notes from hakjoo(the korean history teacher that is known for always filling the board with copious notes for everybody to copy down)'s class. when he handed over his notebook, yoonjae asked him if he didnt need it for himself, and joonhee replied that he already looked it all over. then yoonjae pulls him in for a hug, and tells him "you know that i love you, right?".

shiwon did not give joonhee yoonjae's scarf. they just look similar becuz they are both dark and plain.

anyways, i hope shiwon ends up with yoonjae. i initially was sure that she would end up with taewoong and was all upset about it, but now that i have seen episode 7-8 i am confused. they are giving us hints to confuse us on purpose. at least we know it has to be one of the two brothers.

also i dont consider joonhee "gay". he just happens to have a crush on yoonjae only. he does not like all men...

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About Joonhee, I also don't think he's gay - I think he just likes Yoonjae for who he is. Although the next two episodes aren't recapped yet, ep. 7 seems to show Joonhee as liking Yoonjae because he finds the parts of Yoonjae's personality that he doesn't have extremely awe-inducing, which seems to have lead to idolization and then his crush on him. Even if Joonhee doesn't end up with Yoonjae in the end, I hope the writers have some sort of happy ending coming up for him. I hate to see him hurting ):

And I really hope I'm not the only one who doesn't think it's incredibly creepy if Shiwon ends up with Taewoong. Although he did date her sister - which is the only thing that trips me up - he is a very nice guy, who deserves to be happy, I believe. Although it would be very strange if Yoonjae's character lived up to the synopsis and still liked Shiwon at the time of the reunion - liking your sister-in-law? Ick.

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I think Siwon’s husband is the brother, there are lots of clues show that Yunjae is not the one, eg: the beginning at 2012 meeting the way when he greeting Siwon; and when Siwon asking for a little drink, look at the three men in front of her, the brother’s expressions is so different from Yunjae and Junhee; also when Yunjae broken Siwon’s cellphone case, the way she punch him is not like sweet couple relationship, and when the brother went outside of the dinner, Siwon call him for her jacket in their car, this obviously show they are the couple, and in high school Siwon asked the brother:” oppa, please marry me”……
Thus, Yunjae and Siwon’s relationship seems not change, they are just friend. from what I see in the past ep,Siwon does not has any feeling for Yunjae I am sad about Yunjae’s unrequited love. but this is the life.

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thanks for the review. I do like your review, esp about this drama. lately, I'm a bit sick of korean drama coz they are too drama. but, when I tried watch this drama, unexpectedly i'm fallin' in love with this drama, whole of this drama. seems really realistic, from the story to the actor's acting. for the acting debut, eunji does really good job! and I can't be patient to the next episode everytime I watch this. once again, thank you for the review, there're many things that I want to tell about this drama. hahahaha

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What a good analysis!

"I just love that Mom was so hung up on the idea that Dad needed that fake drama hero to live, when what he really needed was her."

Hit the nail right on the head :)

Thanks for the recap!

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Thank you so much

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Delurking to say that this episode hit me right in the heart. I wasn't 18 in 1997 (but not long past it!), but my dad died of cancer when he was 48, the year I turned 18. He was a yeller and from Chullado, and we fought all the time. Watching Shiwon and her dad together before and after he got sick was like time travel. In a bittersweet way, and I cried my eyes out, but in a sort of great way too. It was like seeing my dad and my old self too, for a moment.

Great show.

(Great website too!)

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This is one of the best dramas that has ever come out!! The script is just so well-written that it puts almost all of the big 3 channels' dramas to shame.

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I getting more interested with this sitkom...love this..but can i ask something? i get a little confused about the timeline this sitkom..it tells that september 1997 shi won's hair cut by her dad..but in this episode shi won's hair got long again..how? and i want to know when timeline hak chan move into their school? thx..i love Joon-hee character..^_^

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