So .. I don’t get how Yeon Woo can afford to live in this place. Is it his drug dealer friend’s place? Is he paying rent? How much? It’s such a nice pad and it looks it’s by a canal. Darn it!
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    MTE. This place is too good for someone who just recently got a job. Even if he share it with his drug dealer friend who officially works as a waiter.

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      The only way I can make sense of it is that his dealer friend is renting the place with the money he makes illegally and Yeon Woo stays there for free/pays minimal rent.

      Ohmygosh, I just realised Suits has a double meaning. It can stand for suits as in clothes.. just as it can stand for lawsuits. What a dumbo I am.

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        I also thought suits as in clothes 😄, because the posters, both in us series and kdrama, showed two guys in suits.

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          yea and also because Jang Dong Gun and Park Hyung Sik kept talking about the suits. Lol, I was just talking to a fan of the US series and she was like, “Yea, what else could it be other than a double reference?”

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      We missed something. Remember those early scenes when he took those big fat checks for reciting random facts to the junkie chaebol? We also know that he took the bar exam for other people. They probably paid him a lot too. I bet he did a lot of these side gigs to earn money.

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        I’m not sure there’s enough money to rent a nice pad from side gigs. Those English teachers/YouTubers in korea can only afford small apartment.
        Well it’s kdrama after all, where a bankrupt public attorney could have Furla handbag and rent a place with a living room.

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          I do think Yeon Woo’s living situation needs to be clarified.. We don’t know whether his dealer friend bought that place and Yeon Woo’s freeloading/whether they’re sharing it with Se Hee…
          I feel like the drama writers are expecting us to read between the lines. It’s a mystery that’s almost as interesting as the cases Kang Seok and Yeon Woo are working on.

          Who’s that bankrupt public attorney with the Furla handbag you mentioned? What drama is that? Lol, maybe she found it at a thrift shop or got it at a warehouse sale. I looked up Furla bags online and they’re not as expensive as I thought.

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            I think the writer and PD was just trying to make the property look like the US version. The pad does look like the one in the US series. IIRC, Mike shared it with his drug dealer friend, his girlfriend lived somewhere.
            I don’t remember the character name, it’s Lee bo young’s in I Can Hear Your Voice.

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            ahh maybe they had to include this in the drama when they bought the rights to remake Suits. Maybe it’s in the contract.

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    Six episodes in and I’m still kind of unclear as to his living situation, unless I missed something. Does he live with drug-dealer friend or does he have a place of his own to go to ….. or does he pay rent along with his friend ….. or does the friend own the place and he just hangs out there?

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      And Se Hee, the girlfriend/ex-girlfriend of the dealer friend whose name I cannot remember lol.. She seems to be living there too. Who’s staying there? And what? How?

      I think Yeon Woo’s definitely living in this spacious pad but he prob pulls all-nighters at the office too. The question is: How can he afford to stay there?

      It’s possible that the friend owns the place since he prob makes a lot of moolah from dealing.
      Well, thinking back to those scenes when Yeon Woo would do side gigs like taking the bar exam for others and showing off his sexy brain, I think Yeon Woo can afford to pay a bit of the rent. That’s prob also how he got the money to pay for his grandma’s hospital bills. Yeon Woo has a sexy brain!

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        It does make sense that they would be able to afford such a place with funds acquired from illicit activities.

        Then again, it’s a drama and you know how it is …. even the one-step-away-from-being-destitute characters have the latest electronics and fancy wardrobes ….. we’re simply not supposed to be asking these questions! *laughing*

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