Oh Hae-young Again: Episode 7
by LollyPip
There’s more to a relationship than simply attraction — there has to be mutual respect and understanding as well, and those things are a lot harder to come by. And one person can’t shoulder all the burden… both have to be all-in, or it will never work out. Unless both people in the relationship are willing to be open and honest, all the chemistry in the world won’t help them be happy together.
EPISODE 7: “I wish I was the only woman in the world”
Hae-young lies in bed contentedly watching the lamp from Do-kyung clicking on and off, until he calls through the walls that it’s noisy. On his side, Do-kyung suddenly has another premonition of Hae-young, soft-eyed and smiling, and saying that his hand is warm.
Way too early the next morning, Hae-young creaks out of bed and tiptoes out to do some grocery shopping. She takes it to her parents’ house and starts frantically making a packed lunch, and Mom immediately knows it’s for that handsome neighbor. She rushes to help, and even Dad pitches in like a pro chef. They send her home again, wondering if sending out two wedding announcements in one year is tacky.
Hae-young presents the lunch box to Do-kyung, calling it thanks for the lamp and an apology for breaking his window. She’s adorable about it, and after she leaves, Do-kyung pokes at the lunch box like it might bite him.
He leaves for work without the box, then has this hilariously awkward minute on his steps where he waffles over whether to go back for it, but nah… then rushes up to grab it. Awww, so cute.
Hae-young falls asleep at work, exhausted from her busy morning, and she nearly topples out of her chair just as Soo-kyung is walking past. She doesn’t see her boss behind her and asks Sung-jin to wake her up again when she arrives. She lays her head back down, and Sung-jin immediately gooses her awake.
She lays down again so Soo-kyung knocks on her desk and whispers that she’s here, giving Hae-young a little neck-rub, ha. Once she’s truly awake (thanks to the help of some PPL coffee), Hae-young’s coworkers notice that she’s in a particularly good mood today.
Do-kyung and the guys are in the field recording some sound when it comes up lunchtime, and he hems and haws about going to a restaurant to eat. When Hoon presses him he finally shouts, “I have a packed lunch in the car!!” Smooth, buddy, smooooth. He shoves Hae-young’s lunch box at them and stomps off, embarrassed, pretending not to be the slightest bit interested in what’s inside.
Impressed by the food, the guys correctly guess that it must have been made by the woman they saw him twirling outside the restaurant that time. Do-kyung says it’s not like that and refuses to eat, and Hoon quips that there’s two things Do-kyung won’t do — wear a party hat on his birthday, and eat a packed lunch made by his girlfriend.
He points out that Hae-young will ask if Do-kyung liked the food, so he’d better at least taste it. He does, which only makes the guys tease him more, but apparently the food is delicious because soon Do-kyung is tucking in with gusto.
Hae-young made enough to take to work to share with her friends, and Sung-jin astutely guesses that she did this for a guy. He even guesses who the guy is, and gets all hurt about it. He definitely has a crush.
The other Hae-young joins them, and they all talk about our Hae-young making food for a guy. The other Hae-young knows it must be Do-kyung, though she covers well and just says that Hae-young’s box lunches have been famous since grade school.
But when she gets home that night, she digs into her box of memories and pulls out that cell phone again, the one with the message that Do-kyung’s mother sent her before the wedding. She plugs it into her laptop, looking determined.
Do-kyung is still playing it cool when he and Hoon arrive home, but Hoon makes him take the lunch box back to Hae-young to tell her it was good. He doesn’t look thrilled about it, but then he sees Hae-young right across the street looking shy. (And ooohh, the way his eyes go soft when he sees her makes my tummy all melty.)
As they walk home (slowly, I notice), Do-kyung manages a curt “Thanks, it was good,” but Hae-young knows that that’s high praise coming from him. They find themselves under a magical fall of cherry blossoms, and it’s so beautiful that Hae-young tears up.
The moment is nearly ruined by drunk Soo-kyung stumbling towards them, so Do-kyung grabs Hae-young’s hand and they run to hide in a dim alley. Hae-young notices that Do-kyung is holding her hand while they hide, though he seems oblivious.
Just when they seem to have avoided being caught, a scooter comes by and lights up their faces in its headlight. Do-kyung swings around in front of Hae-young, their faces and bodies very close together, and he stays there for a minute even after Soo-kyung moves on.
“It’s warm… your hand,” says Hae-young, and Do-kyung sees another vision come to life. Hae-young asks why they had to hide from his sister, but before he answers, another hidden figure breaks away from the wall and lumbers up behind them. HAHA, it’s Jin-sang.
He’s caught sight of the lunch box and when Do-kyung gets home, he walks right into a lecture about the stupidity of getting involved with that woman, of all people. Do-kyung swears nothing’s happened, that they were just hiding from Soo-kyung, but Jin-sang has a good point — if there’s nothing going on, why hide?
Jin-sang doesn’t buy it, he knows Do-kyung too well and he can tell there’s something going on. He calls him crazy, and reminds him about Tae-jin sitting in jail ready to kill him when he comes out, and that’s before he finds out Do-kyung has been dating his ex-fiancee.
Do-kyung stays calm until Jin-sang insults Hae-young for dating so soon after her wedding was called off, and that’s more than Do-kyung can take. He screams for Jin-sang to stop, but when Jin-sang asks if he likes Hae-young, Do-kyung’s silence is all the answer he needs.
That night, Hae-young sits watching her lamp and music box, innocent of Do-kyung’s internal struggle. She calls out a “good night” when she hears Do-kyung come in, while he stares at her door and wonders what to do.
Hae-young is practically giddy the next day as she tells Hee-ran all about Do-kyung, and Hee-ran wonders out loud how he could seem so innocent when he dated the other Oh Hae-young. Our Hae-young shuts down that line of conversation quick.
Do-kyung finds an email from the other Hae-young and debates whether to open it, but curiosity wins out. It’s a copy of the recording that his mother sent to Hae-young on the eve of their wedding, and we finally hear what caused her to disappear without a word.
It’s Do-kyung’s voice, sounding angry, yelling, “How would I know what love is? I was never loved!” He’d been arguing with his mother, who’d said that at least one of them should know what love is before getting married. Hae-young doesn’t know, because her parents basically abandoned her to her grandmother.
Do-kyung had responded, “I can’t dump her, because I feel bad for her. How could I dump someone whose parents abandoned her?” He’d gone on to say that she’s extremely kind to other people so she won’t be abandoned, and compared her to a playful puppy.
His mother had says that wasn’t love but pity, and he’d screamed, ”I don’t care if it’s pity!” Oh nooo, that’s terrible, and we see that Hae-young had been devastated when she heard it. Now Do-kyung collapses in pain and regret, to know that this is why Hae-young never showed up for their wedding.
In the email, Hae-young says that triggered her first panic attack, to feel that her greatest weakness had been exposed to the one person she wanted to hide it from. She’d pretended to have had a happy childhood and loving parents, and desperately smiled her way through life. But he’d seen right through her.
She goes on to say that after she left, she would get angry every night from the humiliation, but in the mornings she always cried from missing him. She’s spent the last year thinking of the person she loves most as her most humiliating memory. But now, she says, she can’t do it anymore.
Our Hae-young practically skips home from work, stopping to buy vegetables from a sweet old granny and smiling to see Do-kyung’s name on a movie poster. A man randomly stops and asks her to eat with him (hi there, Yeon Woo-jin! And HAHA at the familiar music).
Hae-young assumes he’s some sort of religious nut and declines, but the guy seems to be sincerely interested, if a little… intense. He says she’s just his type and offers her his business card if she wants to check up on him, which says his name is Gong Ki-tae, PFFT.
Hae-young finds herself agreeing to eat with him out of sheer shock, honored when he says this is his first time approaching a woman this way. She asks what he likes about her and he starts talking about vibes and connections, and Hae-young agrees with him though she’s clearly thinking about someone else.
She admits that she really only came because it was so awesome being asked out right on the street, but she’s already got a man at home. Ki-tae says he didn’t hear anything about a boyfriend, and wait… what? He looks suddenly nervous, and Hae-young asks if it was really a coincidence that he asked her to eat.
Oh wait, he’s a lawyer! Jin-sang set this up, didn’t he, that rat. Hae-young marches Ki-tae into Jin-sang’s office and demands some answers, specifically whether Do-kyung was in on this little scheme.
Jin-sang admits that he acted alone, but he fibs that it was out of concern for his old friend. When he claims that he just wanted Hae-young to date someone more attractive than Do-kyung (what??), she stops him right there — if that’s so, why make the guy pretend to meet her in the street?
For whatever reason, she knows that he was just trying to get her away from Do-kyung, but Jin-sang sticks to his story that he was just trying to fix her up. Hae-young grows angry, accusing Jin-sang of looking down on her, and Jin-sang finally admits that he thinks she and Do-kyung are ill-suited.
Hae-young pushes until Jin-sang yells that she has the same name as his ex-fiance, implying that that’s the only reason Do-kyung is drawn to her. That hits Hae-young right where it hurts. Now that his true love is back, Jin-sang claims, it will be over with our Hae-young.
Hae-young screams, just wordlessly SCREAMS in Jin-sang’s face, just to make him shut up. It works, and she storms out of his office, leaving him to voice his own frustrated scream.
Do-kyung asks Soo-kyung for the other Hae-young’s phone number, but just as she sends it to him, he gets a call from our Hae-young. Her voice is soft, and all she says is, “Don’t go see Oh Hae-young.” She steps out of their entryway in front of his car, and asks him not to start seeing her again.
Do-kyung asks why she cares, and Hae-young says it’s because she hates her, and she might end up hating him. He asks if everyone should hate someone just because she does, and she says that she would hate anyone he hates. Do-kyung asks why she would do that, and Hae-young is bluntly honest: “Because I like you.”
Do-kyung gets out of the car, and reminds her angrily that he told her not to be so forward with men, and that he’s not so fickle as to go from one Oh Hae-young to another. Our Hae-young asks if he’d date her if she had a different name, but he says no man would date a woman whose life was so tangled up with his ex’s. He would always be reminded of the other woman.
She asks why he was so nice to her then, and Do-kyung says he felt bad for her. Ooof. But Hae-young accepts his explanation, and figures that at least he felt something. But Do-kyung wants to be perfectly clear, and yells, “I’m saying I don’t like you!”
Hae-young calls him a fool, as if pitying him for not being able to feel normal feelings, and Do-kyung has another premonition of her saying, “You will cry because of me someday. I want you to cry.” And immediately, she says those exact words.
She heads inside and Do-kyung starts to follow her, but he’s hit by another vision, this time seeing all of his past visions at the same time. It takes his breath away and he doubles over, gasping for air.
As soon as he collects himself he storms up the stairs after Hae-young and demands to know: “Who are you? Why do you keep showing up? Why?!” he insists that she move out or he will, and Hae-young calls him childish and slams the door in his face. Good for her.
Do-kyung goes down to his siblings’ place to stew in his fury, while Hae-young meditates to regain some calm. She assures herself that there’s no shame in loving someone, but she can’t quite convince herself, and cries from embarrassment.
Her parents show up (dressed to the nines in hopes of running into Do-kyung) and scare Hae-young half to death when they just let themselves in and start cooking up pork belly. They all freeze when they hear Do-kyung slam into his place, and he can hear the sound of the cooking pork belly. He stomps over to barge through the door and finds himself right in the middle of family dinner, pointing an accusing finger at Dad, whoops.
Mom and Dad don’t take no for an answer and insist he join them, literally dragging him through the door, and for a moment Dad and Hae-young are actually playing tug-o-war with him. Mom finally yells and Do-kyung sits, while Hae-young snarls at her parents.
Mom spends the meal fawning over Do-kyung, but when she pretends their family isn’t poor, Hae-young bursts out that they most definitely are. Dad presses Do-kyung to have a drink, and he’s forced to accept even though he doesn’t want it.
Hae-young explodes and yells that he doesn’t like her, and after a long, long uncomfortable silence, Mom asks if Hae-young likes him, though. She can tell by her daughter’s face that she does, and Mom reaches across the table to smack her upside the head, yelling at her for liking a man who doesn’t like her back.
Then she turns on Do-kyung and demands to know why he doesn’t like Hae-young, so angry that Dad has to drag her out. Such a Mama Bear, I love her. On the bus ride home she’s so upset that she rips several buttons off her shirt, then forbids Dad to pick them up.
Do-kyung is back on his side of the door, but he paces and frets, and finally snaps through the wall that guessing wrong about someone must run in Hae-young’s family. Now that was just mean. She doesn’t respond but storms out and gets on her bike, but she doesn’t get far before she’s nearly run over by a car.
It’s Jin-sang, and Hae-young orders him not to mention their argument to Do-kyung. He agrees, relieved to let the whole thing go.
Hae-young rides for hours, singing along to her music, and thinks to herself that she wants every other woman in the world to die. That way she could be the only woman in the world.
Do-kyung waits on his balcony for Hae-young to come home, worried about her despite what he said to her earlier. But he sees another vision of Hae-young, seeming drunk and saying that she ran into her ex-fiance. The reminder of what he did to Tae-jin is not a pleasant one.
In the morning, Soo-kyung is squeamish about Jin-sang walking around in his undies, though he swears it’s his pajamas. She flips her top over her head, baring her bra, and chases him around the house ordering him to “look at it!” HAHA, these two are hilarious.
Do-kyung asks Jin-sang to check if Tae-jin has been released from prison, while Hoon is more worried about food and wants Hae-young to pack them another lunch. Soo-kyung overhears and asks Do-kyung who he’s dating, guessing that it’s Oh Hae-young, though nobody will give her a clear answer.
There’s a mix-up at work when a package for the other Hae-young is delivered to our Hae-young, which doesn’t make our Hae-young feel any friendlier towards her nemesis. The other Hae-young sees that her email to Do-kyung was read, but she’s disappointed to have received no response.
Do-kyung’s mother grabs one of his employees to ask how her son’s been lately, confused when she hears he’s been in a good mood. But she overhears another employee say his bad mood is back, but the guy is smart enough not to give her any details.
Do-kyung is truly in a black mood, yelling at Hoon for using wave sounds from the wrong coast. He apparently took An-na on a romantic getaway to the West Coast when he was supposed to be recording on the East Coast. Wow, his hearing is really incredible.
The other Hae-young texts Do-kyung to ask why he hasn’t called her yet, and he remembers having the fight with his mother that she heard recorded. Yeah, it still sounds pretty bad. He agrees to meet with Hae-young, and she smiles like nothing ever happened between them.
Meanwhile, our Hae-young replays the humiliating evening last night, beyond upset and frustrated. A car pulls up beside her and the driver gets out – it’s Tae-jin, who has indeed gotten out of jail. Hae-young is shocked to see him but stands as he approaches her, his heart in his eyes.
COMMENTS
I’m concerned for our Hae-young, because while it’s been obvious for some time that she likes Do-kyung, this episode showed that right now, it may not be a very healthy emotion for her to be having. It’s easy to forget that she’s very recently out of a serious relationship, so serious that she was getting married, and she fell for the very next guy who was nice to her. Whether or not they’re meant to be together, the way things are right now isn’t good — Hae-young is so fixated that she’s actually wishing death on every woman in the world, while Do-kyung has a lot of repair to do with what he did to Tae-jin, and with his own past regarding the other Hae-young.
But at this point in the story, I’m about ready to tell both Hae-youngs to kick Do-kyung to the curb. He’s pretty much being an ass in every possible way, and it’s so frustrating. I get that he’s got reasons for not wanting to get involved with our Hae-young, but he didn’t have to be so cruel when she told him she liked him. She’s a mature and intelligent woman, she doesn’t need to be hurt in order to understand… if he just said he didn’t like her that way, she would have accepted it. But he had to be mean about it, when there was no real reason to be, and I think he’s just still twisted up about his own bad breakup and taking it out on our Hae-young. And as for the other Hae-young, I don’t blame her one bit for being horrified at hearing him say he pitied her. That’s a terrible thing to say about the woman you’re about to marry and are supposed to love. I think that both Do-kyung and our Hae-young need to back up, handle their past relationships and get closure, then find each other and start over in a healthy way this time.
That said, I commend the show yet again for subverting yet another trope, of the fiance who leaves without a word and just expects to be welcomed with open arms when they finally decide to return. It seems like they always have a terrible reason for it, and for once, instead of finding the excuses flimsy and frustrating, I agree that the other Hae-young had every reason to no-show her wedding and disappear. Now that we know her personality and how fragile she is, her instinct to escape makes total sense. What she heard him say that he felt pity for her and not love, it must have injured her to the core and I don’t blame her for just running. It still would have been nice if she’d left a note or a message, but for someone as sensitive as she is, I completely understand why she would just want to get as far away as she could, as fast as she could.
The other Hae-young is such a great second lead, in that she’s not bad, or evil, and she has no nefarious intent or ulterior motive. She’s just a girl who’s lived a really lonely life, whose heart was shattered when she learned that the man she loved didn’t love her. What she wants more than anything is to be liked, but she’s so busy making sure she’s likeable, she has no idea who she really is. She’s created this persona that she acts out constantly, pretending that nothing is wrong, but this time it’s caused more problems than it’s solved. By pretending to have the perfect life, she shut out her innermost secrets and fears from Do-kyung, so there was never a chance for him to love her — he’s never known who she really is.
Which is another reason why I think our Hae-young is so amazing — she’s been speaking her ugly inner truth from the beginning, telling Do-kyung all of her hurtful secrets and letting him in to the core of who she is. No wonder he’s fallen for her, because she’s been giving him her true self from the very beginning. The problem is that he won’t admit it, or give her the same of himself. Which brings me back to what I said before — the way things now between Do-kyung and our Hae-young is very unhealthy. It’s time to take a break, handle their individual issues, then try again if it’s what they both want.
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51 rowanharper
May 25, 2016 at 5:25 AM
Did anyone else notice that the other OHY's email address was againOh@wiki.com ?
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Kestrel
May 25, 2016 at 3:24 PM
Yes. I cracked up...
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loveblossom🌸
May 25, 2016 at 9:50 PM
Hahahaa dang I did not catch that!!! XD Thanks for pointing it out. Lol
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52 Enz
May 25, 2016 at 5:56 AM
Thanks for the recap. I really feel Dk had real opportunities to tell our HY what actually happened and why he is so closed up despite being so obviously drawn to her AND HE DIDN'T !! I'm getting frustrated with him for this.
Love the show and curious to see how it all works out but agree that before any of them, esp our leads can get together, they need to resolve internal and external issues.
I am finding the SK story a bit OTT but tolerable.
Can't wait for next week.
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53 lolalarue
May 25, 2016 at 6:12 AM
I'm so hyped from episode 8 that I don't know what to say about episode 7. I barely remember it. I was soo frustrated with Do Kyung this episode. But Oh Hae Young called it. Fool.
I still love him though. And Oh Hae Young continues to be one of my favourite people on a kdrama ever!
And I officially do not dislike No Hae Young, who regains her title as "Pretty" Oh Hae Young but retains the quotation marks. I believe you can become a real girl POEY (oh dear) but you have to be willing to be seen. And to be less than perfect.
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loveblossom🌸
May 25, 2016 at 10:56 AM
Haha I'm the same. Watched EP 8 last night, couldn't wait for EP 7's recap.
Can't make many comments now because I don't want to accidentally have any spoilers.
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54 lolalarue
May 25, 2016 at 6:20 AM
Okay I didn't realise until this week that when she's upset Oh Hae Young will binge eat, and I'm guessing it started right after he broke up with her by telling her he couldn't stand they way she eats. So sad, but such a tiny exquisite detail that just shows how quality this production is.
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55 yoobitna
May 25, 2016 at 7:02 AM
Totally agree with Lollypip on Other Hae Young's low esteemed personality. but i still don't like her when she just feels that she needs to handle all the talk for Our Hae Young. Did anybody realized that Other Hae Young cuts off Our Hae Young when Sung Jin asked if her parents runs a restaurant? Like Our Hae Young was the one who was asked, why the hell Other Hae Young needs to answer for her, and act like she knows it all. Even tho I pity her for what happened but I hate it when she feels like she needs to be in charge of Our Hae Young's social life. Which that was what hurts Our Hae Young most with Other Hae Young's existence. Please staph itttt.
Andddd I really like the scene when Appa and Omma send off Our Hae Young in the taxi, like it's her first day of school, they just had to go all out to support her for the best. LOVEEEEE
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PakalanaPikake
May 25, 2016 at 6:27 PM
starnger,
Yes -- I was really fried when NOHY cut off OHY just as she opened her mouth to reply to team leader Sung Jin. GRRR!
It was more of the same telling tales out of school that she did when she told everyone at the HS reunion about Mama Hwang rending her garments in public. NOHY was so busy being the center of attention by dispensing anecdotes about someone else's family that it never registered that it could have been construed as embarrassing. Talk about your own family already!
I've come to the conclusion that she cannot stand the sound of silence, hence her compulsion to butt in.
She might also keep asking OHY to go drinking because she cannot bear to be alone with herself...
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56 clau
May 25, 2016 at 7:17 AM
Why on earth no one is talking about what is inside that lunchbox??? It looks delicious!! I need dish names people!
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loveblossom🌸
May 25, 2016 at 10:57 AM
Hahaha it did look good!
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PakalanaPikake
May 25, 2016 at 3:47 PM
What are those shrimp thingies? Are the wrappers made with buckwheat or taro?
Looking at those goodies reminded me of chowing down on pepeyau and manapua in Hawai'i. And steamed gyoza.
*blisses out*
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57 bunny
May 25, 2016 at 7:27 AM
I'd never thought that plastic surgeon can change job into a lawyer (or vice versa)! Gong Gi Tae must be really really smart. Hahaha. Love the Marriage Not Dating ost. So hilarious. The team surely knows how to bring good memories and draw smile. I am truly happy that the mood and tone of OHY Again and Marriage Not Dating are similar, and hence made this shared scene seamless. Love it.
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58 bunny
May 25, 2016 at 7:31 AM
I hope they change our OHY hairstyle soon. She deserves to look prettier with that strong personality.
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59 Ichayuz
May 25, 2016 at 8:20 AM
I've been being a silent reader in dramabeans and this is the my 1st comment ever. This drama is really great! It makes me smile, cry, and laugh in just 1 episode. Eric is so adorable! I couldn't finish discovery of romance because I just couldn't stand his character but in this one I just love him.
For me, our OHY is not clingy, she's just being honest with her feeling which is why I love her. Beside, I love how she doesn't let people bully her, high school was just enough and it makes her strong even she still feels uncomfortable around the other OHY.
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Oshi
May 25, 2016 at 9:54 AM
Yay! I just started commenting last week as well. yahoo for good dramas bringing people together ^.^
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loveblossom🌸
May 25, 2016 at 10:59 AM
Yay, keep on commenting! Welcome. :D This show makes me smile and cry too.
I haven't seen or heard of Eric until this drama. I was actually going to give Discovery of Romance a try sometime, but now I don't know. LOL!
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Oshi
May 25, 2016 at 3:26 PM
It's actually worth a look and it has kim seul gi omg so cute! I enjoyed the full run of it.
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60 mvl
May 25, 2016 at 9:42 AM
again great recap!
so i have some thoughts i like to share.
1. isn't it interesting that our hae young is the only main character that has both parents who are supportive & loving.i believe this informs her character with her own strengths & what may be lacking in our other characters. i'm including in this do kyung's syblings.
2. ok, so what's with the sudden multi-flash back of premonitions? i understand the impact on do kyung but why at this time? was it because they were fighting? does he addresses this with his therapist?
3. speaking of premonitions, is our hae young having her own? how does she know he was going to visit the other hae young?
4. & what is do kyung doing to help tae-jin, not only get out of jail but compensating him?
i didn't read any of the comments this time so maybe these issues where addressed. i will be reading the comments now. but how i do love this drama & how it gives me the same feeling i had when i watched my lovely sam soon. i'm finding it hard to wait for each episode.
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61 jvang
May 25, 2016 at 11:01 AM
The entire time our OHY was smiling sweetly over PDK I was like "NOoooo don't do it, don't fall in love!" but of course she did (Who wouldn't with how sweetly he was treating her recently). The one thing every character needs to do is communicate more! No one is willing to tell all the truth and sit down to talk it out. That is why it was refreshing for other OHY to reveal the audio and put it all out there: why she came back, why she wants to talk, and why she feels they both need closure. I agree with a lot of the thoughts on here about how other OHY must have felt so hurt to hear her fiance say he pitied her and, due to her own self-defense mechanisms, she ran away in a moment of extreme distress. Though, 1 year of no communication is much, she's trying to truly put it to rest, and I believe she is being honest in her intentions, though feelings definitely still linger~
My heart aches for the Oh family, they are all too good for these things to happen. I too kinda wish Our OHY could just drop all of these drama-filled people from her life and just work on picking herself up now, but even if PDK says he wants nothing to do with her, he always finds a way get involved again. It was sweet for a bit when they were just two hurt people who found a kindred spirit within eachother, but it is obviously not as simple due to what Jin sung and PDK did to her ex-fiance...and PDK's lack of addressing the truth at all.I totally agree that our OHY is a considerate and intelligent woman and doesn't need to be hurt to understand something. She accepted her wedding cancellation when Taejin said he didn't love her enough and she accepted that PDK said he didn't like her in that way, but the added comments of how the way she ate was ugly by TJ and that PDK only pitied her were unnecessarily harsh. To see our OHY put her heart out there so much to be rejected and played with by everyone is almost too much to bear, our OHY's words that PDK will cry over her is definitely foreboding. I love that she called him out on being emotionally damaged that he couldn't even admit his own feelings. He's gonna be jealous for sure once TJ enters her life again.
I wonder how they can resolve all these intertwined relationships and conflicts without becoming too ridiculous or makjang-y. I wrote so much.. I just want to talk about this drama!
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62 jvang
May 25, 2016 at 11:07 AM
Also! Does anyone know the name of the song our OHY sings along with when she went on her bike ride after the family dinner fiasco? The lyrics were so good! I am also excited for the next OST release, I relly like the new slow song they recently started using, sung by a man.
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mita.n
May 28, 2016 at 12:24 AM
if you find it out plz plz plz let me know too
i'm dying to listen to it
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soomsoomie
May 28, 2016 at 11:45 AM
Could it be Kim Yuna's '봄날은 간다'?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vf6TWmxJZxY
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63 ista79
May 25, 2016 at 11:19 AM
What if the conversation between Do Kyung and his mother was a complete setup?
His mother could have asked his for whatever reasons his help to repeat a text for one of her role. She could even have said that she needs to record the conversation to hear herself.
I don t know if anyone already proposed this theory, but, for me, it seems very unlikely for Do Kyung to talk really of his feeling for pretty Hae Yong with his mother…
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PakalanaPikake
May 25, 2016 at 4:03 PM
Nini,
As soon as I heard there was a recording from Evil Mom, I figured she was up to no good, and had doctored a secret recording. I just hadn't foreseen that she'd finagled an "admission" by PDK that he was marrying NOHY out of pity and recorded it on her iPhone. We haven't seen the beginning of the conversation, or what followed the killer soundbite.
I'm sure she had a script in mind when she manipulated him into speaking. I agree that it's unlikely that he would otherwise have discussed his feelings for NOHY with his mother.
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64 just_in
May 25, 2016 at 12:05 PM
I hope that the next episodes would give justice to the hurt our heroine felt because of Do-Kyung. I also want him to cry. For many episodes.
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65 Hk
May 25, 2016 at 12:15 PM
Hi,
I dont know why I have feeling that Do Kyung & our OHY relationship is getting too aggressive/toxic for each other .
They have such a effect on each other that they do such a aggressive response (breaking window, dashing car) that can be deadly for each other once they are in relationship.
I want them to take a break b'coz it looks a ride without break which gonna crash.
I dont know I feel bad for Do Kyung for having those visions which is like hunting which is not allowing him to take reasonable decisions or giving him time to take any proper way to approach any situation .
Happy with progress and feel bad for our OHY for going through so much pain where actually is not the case. So she is hurting herself for something which is not true in 1st place.
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66 niniko
May 25, 2016 at 12:20 PM
There was lot of complain about how our ohy fell for DK so fast, so there's what i think about it:
1. the drama started after 1 month from ohy's wedding cancellation, so from that must be 3 to 4 months passed. i think it is more than enough time to like another person, especially for someone who was badly dumped before wedding, especially if that "other person" is DK (i think my subjectiveness is showing here ^_^ )
2. I think that, when our OHY just accepted Tae jins excuses, it was not from lack of love but from her insecurities. i don't remember exactly when, but our ohy mentioned that she felt like DK was out of her league, so i think that she has the same opinion about tae jin too ( that she didn't deserved him or something like that), therefore it makes perfect sense that she just walked away
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jvang
May 25, 2016 at 12:58 PM
I have a theory on how much time has passed thanks to younger bro Hoon's romance with An Na, haha. So, they started dating at the beginning of this drama and when our OHY was dumped, yet it hasn't been their 100th day anniversary yet, so I'm guessing it has been almost 3 months since her wedding was called off. It seems really soon. but seeing how our OHY was in a very low, dark place and received a lot of support from PDK I don't think it is really all that ridiculous for her to like him as much as she does now. I think the writers/director aren't trying to ignore that it was been such a short time, rather that PDK and our OHY's connection was so strong that they didn't need months and months to start really liking each other. Our OHY resolved to love until she was kicked aside and even though it is unlike her, we see she is kind of sticking to her resolution, though it pains me to see her pushed around ;-;
I think she accept her wedding cancellation for the same reasons too! Not that she didn't love Taejin, but because there was always little voice in the back of her head telling her she wasn't good enough and that she should brace herself for the "reality" got to her. I mean just recall the way she was wailing when she was walking home in the first episode. Because she doesn't know the real reason Taejin said those things, she went through her own mourning and just recently began to pick herself up and start liking this nice, somewhat-sad-like-herself guy next door, but it all blew up, or will soon enough.
I do really like that our main characters aren't perfectly likable all the time; our OHY threw that rock which made me smh so bad! And PDK really is emotionally handicapped in the way he hurt our OHY and what he said about other OHY. But I'm glad that PDK is not the perfect, sweetheart-stoic guy since that would be too simple, right now I don't even know what he's thinking of doing about the taejin incident and I'm even wondering if we even know his entire personality yet, usually very quiet and thoughtful, but also capable of being really impulsive. (especially in ep 8! but that's for another discussion!) It is interesting. I just want our OHY to be happy or at least content that things will get better; she's trying not to crumble under what other people say and that's commendable :)
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PakalanaPikake
May 25, 2016 at 3:33 PM
jvang,
Thanks for the reminder that Hoon and AnNa started going out in the first episode, and that we can use the countdown to their first 100 days as a timer. I think there's two weeks to go... So it's a whopping ten weeks since Tae Jin pulled the plug. In contrast, it's now been nearly 15 months since NOHY left PDK waiting at the church.
As for the enigma that is PDK, I've been noticing that he's a perfectionist and control freak when it comes to work, but seems to be pretty tolerant of imperfection in other spheres of life. I suspect that it's his adaptation to growing up with Evil Mom. Sure, he's an artist with extremely high standards, but pouring himself into his work can also be an attempt to escape the emotional desert of his family. If he's following in Dad's professional footsteps, there may be a reason for his perfectionism... such as trying to get approval from a cold and demanding parent.
Also, I'm still wondering about his father's absence and its effect on him and his siblings -- and maybe Evil Mom as well. Much as I loathe her character, there might just be extenuating circumstances in her back story as well.
In response to DK's "How would I know what love is? I was never loved!" all I can do is cue up Foreigner and the New Jersey Mass Choir. It hits the nail on the head.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=raNGeq3_DtM
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jvang
May 25, 2016 at 8:21 PM
HAHA! Thanks for the the link. I'm literally listening to it as I read these comments! *directly forwards to PDK's email*
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PakalanaPikake
May 27, 2016 at 12:17 AM
Aloha, jvang!
Glad you like it! It was Foreigner's only #1 hit. Thanks for forwarding it to that dude. ;-)
New Jersey Mass Choir also have their own gospel version of it, with lead singers Donnie Harper, Donald Malloy, and Sherry McGhee.
"I Want To Know What Love Is" (1985) New Jersey Mass Choir
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLztU3tMNJY
Enjoy!
PakalanaPikake
May 25, 2016 at 2:45 PM
Hi, niniko...
Re: OHY's quick acceptance of wedding cancellation
I think that OHY was just plain shocked out of her gourd when Tae Jin dropped his bombshell. She was with it enough to ask why he wanted to call off their wedding, but not to contest his decision. How could she argue against it, really? Her bethrothed had just told her that he didn't want to marry her because he had come to loathe her table manners. The main reason she didn't put up a fight was precisely because she was so shocked.
I agree that her acknowledged status as a third-tier loser in comparison to his first-tier status was a factor lurking in the background that we didn't find out about
until later. Plus, we know virtually nothing about Tae Jin himself... We need those pieces of the puzzle, and now that he's back, things should start falling into place. (Yeah, right. I expect Writer-nim to fake us out but good.)
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Oshi
May 25, 2016 at 3:29 PM
God after what writer-nim did with the Other Hae Young I'm bracing mysef to love Tae-jin even if he doesn't show his abs (don't you dare not do it show!)
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67 Vemasi
May 25, 2016 at 12:26 PM
I loved that scene where our Hae-young did the sassy package switch. Even at this low moment, or maybe even because of it, she's finding the strength to stand up for herself, just a little bit. It's not healthy to be so mad at the other Hae-young and it doesn't make her feel much better, but she's moving past the point where she just shuts down whenever they're in contention, which is a good step.
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Rhubarb
May 25, 2016 at 7:49 PM
Oh hell, that scene was all too real. Gives me the shivers how the executive backtracks.
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68 lunatic4kd
May 25, 2016 at 1:21 PM
Hi @ Chandler! You're probably not going to see this until we get into the recap of episode 8. Today is May 25th for me and I've just watched episode 4 after starting to watch this yesterday. As always, I've enjoyed your comments and look forward to being on the same page at the same time!! Thank you for reminding me about mydramalist.com! I totally need to do that...now over 170 watched and my excel list longs to be shared. LOVE this drama so much! This one and Beautiful Gong Shim are my addictions right now.
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Oshi
May 25, 2016 at 3:30 PM
What's mydramalist for?
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Chandler
May 25, 2016 at 4:59 PM
Hey, lunatic4kd! I'm so happy you're going to be joining us on the recaps for this lovely drama. It really hasn't been since Healer that I've commented like this, haha. I'm so glad that you've enjoyed them :) I'll look for you on mydramalist! I'm also enjoying Beautiful Gong Shim and will hopefully find some time to comment there too.
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69 Kestrel
May 25, 2016 at 1:57 PM
You've really hit on this in the analysis. This is about flawed characters and a really messy rebound relationship that is really unhealthy. Putting aside drama logic where everything works out happily ever after between the two leads, I could really see OHY regretting this relationship as much as her relationship with the ex-fiance because she is making some really poor decisions probably brought about by way too much emotion. She's firing off in all directions right now emotionally.
PDK, on the other hand, is probably caught between terror (wtf is happening to me, I'm seeing the future!), attraction (when she's not being nuts, OHY is cute and is very pretty despite not being the pretty OHY), and guilt (because of what he did to her fiance and the other OHY).
I think what we need to remember is that neither of these characters is behaving logically and is being driven by a lot of stress and emotion that's often being misplaced.
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70 yayabean
May 25, 2016 at 3:26 PM
LoliPip, thank you for the recap. Can't wait for ep 8 recap?
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71 mvl
May 25, 2016 at 9:35 PM
i don't understand why folks have a problem with what they think is to fast for our hae young to fall in love with do kyung. if our hae young's parents are ready to marry her off to him what's the big deal?
although i would not have reacted like our hae young in throwing the rock, i understand her sentiments! she all in it & expects the same they are comrades in this love battle & he is betraying her beliefs, because she would stand by his side & not allow the hae young hurt him again.
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72 nincyayu
May 26, 2016 at 12:48 AM
Hi! is anyone know the song that hae young sing when she ride her bike? i've been searching it for sometime T.T
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73 mita.n
May 28, 2016 at 12:12 AM
who knows the song oh hae young sings along with while riding her bike?
plzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
i'm in love with the song but i can't seem to find it
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74 bluelysia
July 1, 2016 at 6:28 AM
Our Haeyoung character is a little bit imbalanced for me.. If she supposed to be a grown woman with full of confidence, why would she grows hate to some extent to pretty Haeyoung? and pretty didn't even evil or mean or anything.. she is just an ex of Dokyung and our Haeyoung just hate her.. I know pretty can be dense and just throw herself happily to our haeyoung, but that didn't give any reason for her to feel some hatred..
I would agree and relate more if our Haeyoung is pictured with sadness or timidness because insecurities..
and I don't like how fast her feelings is growing for Dokyung.. it's like everything is too fast and in a rush.. she should be more slowly or grew cautious because of her failed marriage literally only 1-2 months ago..
I'm not hating our Haeyoung, but it's just the show slowly made me feel more and more difficult to relate to her..
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bluelysia
July 1, 2016 at 6:44 AM
and what's with "don't meet oh haeyoung again"
whattttt
and then the romantic music played....
is that supposed to be romantic? sigh
our haeyoung didn't even start dating him or anything, it's just too brazen of her to do that.. it's like she claiming him like some thing of hers
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75 Charlotte
October 12, 2017 at 6:04 PM
I wish I could agree with you about our leading lady, but I don't admire our 'let-it-all-hang-out' Oh Hae Won as much as many others seem to for some reason. Maybe because she has absolutely no filters which can seem like refreshing honesty, but often comes off as a lack of emotional intelligence, especially in her dedication to drinking her way out of her pain. Especially since there are also no filters for her pettyness--pulling Do-kyung into pretending they are dating for revenge, throwing a rock through his window. You called her a 'mature, intelligent woman'--I'll give you 'intelligent', but I truly think she has a long way to go before she matures. You described the 'pretty' Oh Hae Young's wound quite well: "She’s created this persona that she acts out constantly, pretending that nothing is wrong, but this time it’s caused more problems than it’s solved." I think this works both ways: the blunt honesty that our lead, Oh Hae Young, keeps dishing out to everyone that she meets (especially at work & with her Mom's family & friends) is also an act . Otherwise this 'honest ' woman wouldn't have had to pretend that she was the one who dumped her fianceé first. She is full of bravado. Do-kyung at this point, pities them both. When he was talking to the psychiatrist about the girl in his visions, he said that he wanted to help her to heal and then have her leave. He recognizes her pain because it mirrors his own. He felt her loneliness and wanted to help. Yes, he's quiet, but also thoughtful, and I like the way he doesn't promise anything he can't deliver. Now THAT is honesty. Hard on her?Yes again--but rightfully so when she keeps burdening him with her emotions & calling him on feelings that he doesn't recognize yet. She's also telling him how to live his life--not to meet the woman who hurt him, throwing rocks through his window, crying about him at night to come home. A soft 'no, I don't like you' against such an insistent and agressive 'yes, you do like me!' would never work. Still...I would like to see them together at the end....
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76 Donna
June 8, 2020 at 9:23 AM
Could someone please explain, what was that Insta pic of Pretty OHY with a guy with glasses after jilting PDK? Who was that guy?!!!
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