@wishfultoki I’m just finishing ep 5 of Do You Like Brahms and I’m confused about why Moon Suk wants Hyun Ho to apply for the teaching position?

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    After 6 eps all the characters are confusing. They do very little, then do something crazy, say something enigmatic, play some music and then start all over again.

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    I’m here not because I know anything about Do You Like Brahms but I miss seeing @wishfultoki on DB. She’s been somewhat absent lately. 😔

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      Aw, it’s good to be missed. I was dealing with some real-life problems, but hopefully I’m back… I have nothing to post on Episodes 5-6 though, because there wasn’t any classical music. Disappointing 🙁

      @ndlessjoie your guess is as good as mine. No idea. All I know is I don’t quite like her.

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    I think she wants her daughter to take over the foundation or something like that (why, I’m not entirely sure). If her daughter gets a position as a professor, she won’t take over the foundation (or so I surmise, anyway). So Director Nah wants Hyun-ho to apply for the positions; if he does apply, she indicates she’ll use her influence to support him in getting the professorship.

    Aside from this, I do think she has some deeper motive about effecting the dynamic between Hyun-ho, Joon-young, and Jung-kyung, although I’m not sure what it is. Whether she meant it honestly or not, her comment about relative standing within adult friendships was quite illuminating and also has, IMO, a measure of truth to it

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      Yes, she’s definitely manipulating everyone, but to what end? I don’t understand why she’s keeping them all in the same orbit, unless that’s the only option in their professions? Who is it she has in mind for her precious granddaughter?

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        I suspect there is some overthinking involved and that maybe this drama spends a lot of time chasing it’s own tail because it doesn’t really know any of it’s characters like it should. She isn’t some mastermind with a big scheme but only another cold CEO that exists to remind characters to fulfill their place in their little society. I don’t think she cared enough whether they were actual friends and she thought their inability to escape would always take them to this place, which should have happened 3 eps faster.

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        I’m not sure she thinks she has any control over whether they remain in the same orbit — she’s been trying to exert some influence over her granddaughter for quite a while now (or so it seems) and yet she largely seems to have been unsuccessful in that goal. As for what she wants to accomplish, I think part of it is definitely has something to do with getting Jung-kyung involved in the company. There also seems to be some unrevealed history between Jung-kyung’s mother and her grandmother. However, at the risk of sounding too idealistic, I think she might a simpler character than we think. That is, I think she might just be trying to meddle in a positive way. I think she really does care about Joon-young, for instance, although I think she dislikes the idea of him ending up with her granddaughter (although not because of some odd concern about status — I think she just views Joon-young’s personality as incompatible with her granddaughter’s, as illustrated by her concerns about Joon-young’s indecisiveness).

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          I’m having hold over feelings about her from WWW:Search so I might think she’s more sinister than she is. If she’s doing positive meddling then we can expect her to not make it to the end of the drama.

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