I have a question, since I don't speak or read Korean.
The English captions say the father's company is "Sanpo Sinks." However, they don't actually make sinks, they make the cabinets the sinks go in and install them. "Sanpo Sinks" seems to be a pun in English which implies that the family is living in a sinking village.
Is the Korean name of the company the same as the English name? Or is it something different in Korean? Is it still a pun in Korean?
Mr.gu character just getting plain boring. I even losing interest in whatever his past if they drag it too long…
I love this show, and I'm drawn to Mr. Gu. But I do agree with you. They need to move the MJ / Gu storyline along a bit faster. I also find MJ boring, but she's supposed to be. I'm hoping she grows more interesting as she becomes more liberated. I want a hot kissing scene between MJ and Gu so badly, but I'm afraid they'll keep the relationship platonic like they did in My Mister.
The older brother and sister originally annoyed me, but now I love them. They've gotten funnier and better every episode. Same with the 2 guys in the Liberation Club and the older sister's boss.
I think you are half right since in both cases, while they did not like how the other acted, the reason why they…
Yes, I agree. I think both Liberation club members want to deal with the "problem" in their own way and not have the more assertive potential lover handle it for them.
To me, I thought KJ's outburst was weird. But then later in the show, when Gu practically says the same thing to MJ, I thought, "Ah, there's a symmetry to what the writer did here." They want us to compare the relationships. While Mr. Gu's suggestion seems romantic, KJ's seems overbearing.
since this is an anthology, do I necessarily have to watch the whole show or can I just jump over episodes?
I'd say no, you cannot skip episodes. It's not an anthology. In an anthology, each episode is a separate story. This is more like a soap opera where most of the characters show up and most the stories progress in each episode. It's just that one or two of the stories will have prominence in certain episodes. But there is a lot of overlap between the stories.
I liked the juxtaposition of the following interactions.
1. Ki Jung texting Tae Hoon to tell her who beat him up so she could go after them and curse them. He appears to be turned off by this.
2. Gu telling Mi Jung to tell him who her scumbag ex boyfriend is so he can have someone go after him and beat him up. She is turned off by this.
In the first case, I got the feeling that KJ was nuts, and TH had the expected response. In the second case, I got the feeling that Gu was great and MJ was being unreasonable.
And yet, both scenarios were exactly the same, and both TH and MJ had the same response.
The English captions say the father's company is "Sanpo Sinks." However, they don't actually make sinks, they make the cabinets the sinks go in and install them. "Sanpo Sinks" seems to be a pun in English which implies that the family is living in a sinking village.
Is the Korean name of the company the same as the English name? Or is it something different in Korean? Is it still a pun in Korean?
The older brother and sister originally annoyed me, but now I love them. They've gotten funnier and better every episode. Same with the 2 guys in the Liberation Club and the older sister's boss.
These are people struggling to save money.
Have we seen anyone "rich" in this show with a more current phone. I haven't been paying attention to that sort of thing.
Fremdschämen is the act of being embarrassed for somebody else who is behaving in an embarrassing way.
To me, I thought KJ's outburst was weird. But then later in the show, when Gu practically says the same thing to MJ, I thought, "Ah, there's a symmetry to what the writer did here." They want us to compare the relationships. While Mr. Gu's suggestion seems romantic, KJ's seems overbearing.
1. Ki Jung texting Tae Hoon to tell her who beat him up so she could go after them and curse them. He appears to be turned off by this.
2. Gu telling Mi Jung to tell him who her scumbag ex boyfriend is so he can have someone go after him and beat him up.
She is turned off by this.
In the first case, I got the feeling that KJ was nuts, and TH had the expected response.
In the second case, I got the feeling that Gu was great and MJ was being unreasonable.
And yet, both scenarios were exactly the same, and both TH and MJ had the same response.