Aramintai

I'm struggling to find any justification for FL's mom. Sure, when she was young she may have been pressured to by her chaebol family to get rid of the child because of planned wedding to some rich guy/FL's father being unfitting husband material/career/etc. But after all this time, after she became her own successful and independent woman living a good life she never did once make any inquiries about her daughter, she wasn't interested in her existence at all. And now that she's learned she has a daughter they try to make the audience sympathize with her. So far I'm not buying it, sorry. But props to FL for handling it very maturely, I sympathize only with her in this situation.

I think they will make up and become all chummy with each other by the end of the show, but I wanna see FL's mom making big efforts to come back inside FL's life, not just "here I am now, let's be family because you always wanted a mom".

Also, I'm getting kinda annoyed how perfect ML is, there are no such guys irl. And I don't like flawless characters. I'm waiting for some flaw or some backstory to be revealed about him.

Yea, that looked like it hurt actually. Sometimes there are real accidents when filming a scene. Like, for example, in another ongoing drama - Alchemy of Souls, FL was supposed to fall from a small cliff into the arms of another character, and she actually irl slipped and fell, good thing that other actor caught her.

She didn't. She said he's still finding himself and doesn't want to follow in her footsteps (meaning he's not a lawyer), and spends most of his time on the computer. That's it.

He just wants to oust her to increase his chances of getting a permanent position at the law firm. And he can't use the merit card because she's better than him in results, and was better than him at the university with her grad and bar exam scores being exceptional. And instead of trying to show some good results too he chooses to resort to despicable tricks.

It's hard to say with kids, especially Korean ones, they're even tinier. Hence I put a ~ sign. She didn't look more than 10 though, but definitely more than 4-5.

Min Woo clearly mentioned FL directly or mentioned a person with disability - judging by the preview the rumor mill has started at the law firm.

There is a person here with autism who leaves feedbacks, I recall they said that it's not that autistic people can't look in the eye, but they find it stressful due to various reasons, especially with strangers. So FL may've been looking into his eyes because she likes him. FL also may've been looking between his eyebrows, not at his eyes - autistic people learn to do that to look more normal in conversations. She already tried it in the earlier episode in the car.

He said that not all rookie lawyers will stay after their one year contract will expire. So instead of proving his worth, he wants to oust FL to increase his chances of getting a permanent job at the law firm. Just a dirty scum of the earth.

Yea, especially in SK. Where every drama teaches us how nepotism and connections is the way to success. Preach, my dude Min Woo, lol.

I can understand a normal person with same or better grades/skills/etc. getting upset that he wasn't hired due to all the vacancies being taken by quota people. Or that disabled people get preferential treatment. It is understandable un frustrating.

However, FL here didn't even know why she was hired, she didn't take anyone's place and she already showed her worth to the law firm much more reliably than the other two rookies. That Min Woo character is just a sad loser and a bigot.

For most successful shift they must be close, but she was in a hurry and then something went wrong. Naksu is older than Bu-Yeon, she was already ~10 years when her father was killed, which was 20 years ago.

Naksu is ~10 years older than ML. She was already ~10 years old when her father was killed, which was 20 years ago. Naksu is in her late twenties. Yul is about the same age as her.
Bu-Yeon was ~10 years old when she found the Ice Stone, she's been missing for 10 years. So Bu-Yeon is about the same age as ML. Bu-Yeon and ML are about 20 years old.

Everyone gets hired to law firms through connections in my country, lol. And if you want to practice criminal law then it's for lawyer/prosecutor/judge families members only.

That Min Woo character is such an annoying trash. I hope he'll get fired in the end.

Also, it seems that inclusionism is underdeveloped in SK. In the west FL would have been hired in many places just for promotion sake (she even made it into the news!) or to fill the quota for the disabled people. But in this show it is shown that even though FL got the best scores and exceptionally passed the bar, much better than her peers, nobody's looking past the disability. Even though she could have at least gotten a job at a law firm not involving going to courts, but involving analytics and paper work. If it takes connections to fight discrimination then I'm for it in this case. And again, Min Woo is total trash.

There definitely was nothing about og Naksu returning. It was just assumed she’ll be FL because Jung So Min contract was not confirmed for part 2. Og Naksu’s agency also refused to confirm or deny her part in part 2.

Was it a rumor from set? From what I've gathered the rumor started because Jung So Min so far officially signed only for part 1, while other actors for both parts from the get go.

She definitely will cause trouble. The villain will use her as fake lost daughter of Jin clan to gain that clan's support. He and the queen are plotting the destruction of Songrim.

Some episodes are quite fast paced, with blink and you miss it big hints being dropped. Some are more slow paced. But none feel like the plot is dragging, everything is very well thought out so far.

Yea, they won't confirm anything until part 1 ends. So we'll have to keep agonizing over this until the end of August.

Because that would spoil part 1's ending. Gotta keep people speculating who's gonna die.