I hate Im Chul Soo’s character (Chung Gu) so much. Usually he plays quirky, chaotic but morally upright, lovable…
Chung-gu is so annoying and his ruthless pragmatism is kindof scary. Im Chul-soos finally broken free of his typecasting...his villain in MSM had his moments but his roles were being mainly zany comic characters in every drama.
Honestly, I like Mirae and I’m not trying to dismiss her experience but would her case be considered sexual…
Everything matters in context. The whole thing is it's not like she went out of her way to lodge a harassment case against him. She got called by HR and was told off for behaving "unprofessionally" and to conduct herself befitting a public corporation, i.e. told to her face "you are not an innocent party in this incident", i.e. you were having an "affair" with a married dad and she set the record straight as rebuttal that she was harassed by him(there was no other "relation" that it would be an inappropriate affair-like relation). And of course HR being HR, she follows it up is how the first case is lodged in the first place. (Now which person would just sit and take being insulted like that(if nothing had happened at all you defend by saying so) and she didn't even make anything up because he did do something that would be classified in majority workplaces and even universities as textbook harassment(power imbalance is another factor).
An unwanted advance of a sexual nature. Boss called his female junior at night when he was drunk instead of a proper cabbie or a male junior or friend, misreads the air and tries to kiss her. Its not an affair or her trying to have one with him. At this point when it actually happened and she was shocked, she was fully willing to deal with it between themselves personally and go back to normal because she was giving him the benefit of the doubt as he reminded her of her dad. Had he handled things differently after this, she would have put it out of her mind as an honest mistake and been able to move on same as him too even if both cut each other off. But mature handling is the key which is lacking here. He turned the situation abnormal and throws her to the sharks unwarranted and she lets it slip to HR. This first complaint wasn't about a major incident between the two as compared to how far things can go so the complaint in itself be mediated with less penalties than the societally accepatable "serious case of workplace SA". Its not like they sacked him right? It was more serious than a wolf-whistle and slightly below full-blown SA. It was NOT a situation where she approached HR and went- "hi bad sunbae did this to me and now he is being mean I want to retaliate". No, she wouldn't even have filed it if he had done far worse to her becuase she is that type not to and the only reason she did was because she was confronted by HR first.
There would be no legal complaint against him that first time if not for his not handling the situation the way he did. His face saving tactics were what made their relationship seem like a relationship where she was pursuing him to others. No one saw them that night, he should have just been normal about it and kept to being mildly apologetic the next day and have a mature conversation about setting boundaries from now on and tapering off their conspicuous closeness(that mind, he'd created by being friendly to her at the start). Instead he blames and gaslights her about her being inappropriate when she was being normal(he was the one who told her to bring him coffee and the coffee had nothing about being "special friends") and then is the opposite of mature to her face. He let things get to the point it spawned rumors he'd been seduced into an affair with Mirae and his wife(an ex-employee of the same corp) created a scene in their building and thus HR called Mirae to give her, the party in the "wrong"- the single female going after her married boss- a talking to about workplace code of conduct. In fact the scene is cut as if we aren't told what it was that the interviewer told her the topic of the incident report was about and is only implied to be "affair". But for all we've seen of him in ep10, they might've garnered from their prelim interview with SY that she got her signals crossed and not him. And it is what the office thinks that this detestable whistelblower was taking advantage of his kind nature. In any case hes a married man who just had a baby so him liking her "that way" was morally wrong of him first of all(even though its common enough people brush things like this off as par for the course) and what maybe fuelled his guilty-looking overreaction(which it turn reeks of ulterior from the start; and also suspicions if he acted out due to rejection too other than just for face-saving).
Contrast with Hosu's female senior- she so far acted as a proper friend and senior. Miji and Tae-yi. Normal adults would deal with this awkward situation normally. Like say Gyeon-gu hadn't been gay and was Miji's on-off boyfriend. Would he have turned the car around and started beating a drum in their small town about how Mirae led him on but he was only faithful to Miji? Nah, you sort things out. Miji's reaction about forgetting it happened was a wrong way to be dealing with things in the long run but it was a stepping stone that could have been used to make things right by someone who was decent. He likes her? Those who didn't need to know, didn't need to know. In this situation Sang-yeong created a mountain out of a molehill by mishandling things afterwards despite having the opportunity for things to never go that far because he wanted to be ahead in this "game of reputations" i.e. he never believed she'd keep it to herself and was calculating and cold and made himself the victim just in case. To "victim-blame" him, he was the "victim of his own folly".
Now for the second time- which turned into a full blown harassment case reported with the police- he turns up at her house, physically assualts her(her wrist bruise is proof, the way he was shaking and threatening her is legal assault and her sister who defended her is a witness). If there was a cctv somewhere in their building or the guard box it'll show him intimidating her and shaking her. The fact that she was taking a voice recording he deleted it isn't in his favour. Stalking, assault, harassment, etc, etc, etc. And the things he says. "You can do this all you want no one will believe you. This isn't some truth telling game. It's a battle of reputations....No matter what I do, you'll get blamed for everything" Is this an innocent case of guys will be guys?
Got slightly weird in places towards the end. The noble idiocy😒al to follow the novel's setting...but then🫣😳
Alls well that ends well.
Frankenstein's Sa-eon got his sad doomed ending, his damned mom hers. Old man got away too easy(even with being murdered) but I believe he'll torment grandpa in hell for all of eternity and is waiting for his parents too. Damned dad shouldn't have survived😒. Dear Mr Min survived though thank god and got a light sentence.
The fisherman dad's scene warmed me up. Hee-joo's real dad has the most adoring son-in-law. Park Do-jae poor lad got closure and a happy ending back to being the perfect right-hand. Mr Kang is a pure ray of sunshine, gets to dote on them all for life and his Tom&Jerry bromance with Do-jae is my everything(I bet the prison guards died laughing watching their meetings). The whole dinner scene was sweetness. Reporter Jang is the MVP of the drama! Sang-woo and Yu-ri were the most gentle second leads ever and get to live happily ever after. In-a is best sister and can finally move on with her life(take over the world!). Side-eyeing the mom a bit but ok, one step at a time. Chairman Hong was equally weird with all his children so I accept his being a nice stepdad(plus I loved his aesthetic). Hee-joo eonnia is the boss queen forever. This was good TV 😂😊
Looking at the preview - poor Mr Kang too, his sad puppy expression.. Mr Kang and director Han Jin-e finally met and lead the search team for Hee-joo together with literally everyone🥲 He dotes the most on the leads and she is the only real mom-figure to Hee-joo. The reporter best friend is the mvp of the drama. In-a should oust her dad and take over. It was fortunate Mr Min also seems to have a soft spot for the leads and helped and I really hope he isn't dead/shot. He can take Park Do-jae under his wing in prison...
The kidnapper's story to Park about being drowned for seeing his face means he must have known what happened to the Hongs from the beginning. (Also apparently Sa-eon not helping or screaming about the grandfather drowning him is changed from the novel...) Its equally chilling coz grandfather could have drowned kids for the same or killed some orphans who saw too much himself... Sang-woo had a real lucky break as a child escaping death narrowly in all directions. I'd thought he'd meet the kidnapper at least once but I feel like the easier ending is kidnapper got shot down. Though with how undead the dramas characters are he and his dad might both survive being shot(plz no dad deserved it)
iam just curious for people who wanted sa eon to run the psycho Wouldn’t he just get shot him or hee joo or…
I know thas why Hee-joo is real Sa-eon's only true nemesis. Neither she nor the psycho think too hard but just do it, she'd have stepped on the accelerator like every time before this.
On another point, I know we hate the kidnapper and all, but we can't deny how amazing the actor was. I really…
His actor is definitely brilliant! All his quirks and sinisterness are so well done. He's also hot. And I love his voice. I adore the kidnapper too. Absolutely chaotic Frankenstein's lil psycho...
We’ve known for many episodes who fake Saeon’s father was. Any guesses as to who his mother is?And why was…
Chairman Hong, his deal and why he wanted the marriage of the families at any cost all feel cagey. I kindof get the sparing the grandpa side of the deal and guess the deal part was 'insurance' but I'm not sure something seems left unexplained.
TF THIS MAKES THE MOST SENSE THE REASON HE DISAPPEARED OH MY GOD MY HEART IS TEARING APART 😭😭
But thats not what happened in the drama- In-a's story is different about how her brother was crying in the yard with the real Baek Sa-eon standing over him and she never saw the kids face as he fled their yard. And the accident occurs before the much taller Sa-eon she sees for the first time arrives.
Problem with the theory is that this Sa-eon actually had nothing to do with it since they changed things from the novel. Reason for the accident was real Sa-eon bullying his neighbour the younger bro of the Hongs and him seeing his face and their accident occurred months before the swap of Sa-eons takes place. It'll be a pothole.
An unwanted advance of a sexual nature. Boss called his female junior at night when he was drunk instead of a proper cabbie or a male junior or friend, misreads the air and tries to kiss her. Its not an affair or her trying to have one with him. At this point when it actually happened and she was shocked, she was fully willing to deal with it between themselves personally and go back to normal because she was giving him the benefit of the doubt as he reminded her of her dad. Had he handled things differently after this, she would have put it out of her mind as an honest mistake and been able to move on same as him too even if both cut each other off. But mature handling is the key which is lacking here. He turned the situation abnormal and throws her to the sharks unwarranted and she lets it slip to HR. This first complaint wasn't about a major incident between the two as compared to how far things can go so the complaint in itself be mediated with less penalties than the societally accepatable "serious case of workplace SA". Its not like they sacked him right? It was more serious than a wolf-whistle and slightly below full-blown SA. It was NOT a situation where she approached HR and went- "hi bad sunbae did this to me and now he is being mean I want to retaliate". No, she wouldn't even have filed it if he had done far worse to her becuase she is that type not to and the only reason she did was because she was confronted by HR first.
There would be no legal complaint against him that first time if not for his not handling the situation the way he did. His face saving tactics were what made their relationship seem like a relationship where she was pursuing him to others. No one saw them that night, he should have just been normal about it and kept to being mildly apologetic the next day and have a mature conversation about setting boundaries from now on and tapering off their conspicuous closeness(that mind, he'd created by being friendly to her at the start). Instead he blames and gaslights her about her being inappropriate when she was being normal(he was the one who told her to bring him coffee and the coffee had nothing about being "special friends") and then is the opposite of mature to her face. He let things get to the point it spawned rumors he'd been seduced into an affair with Mirae and his wife(an ex-employee of the same corp) created a scene in their building and thus HR called Mirae to give her, the party in the "wrong"- the single female going after her married boss- a talking to about workplace code of conduct. In fact the scene is cut as if we aren't told what it was that the interviewer told her the topic of the incident report was about and is only implied to be "affair". But for all we've seen of him in ep10, they might've garnered from their prelim interview with SY that she got her signals crossed and not him. And it is what the office thinks that this detestable whistelblower was taking advantage of his kind nature. In any case hes a married man who just had a baby so him liking her "that way" was morally wrong of him first of all(even though its common enough people brush things like this off as par for the course) and what maybe fuelled his guilty-looking overreaction(which it turn reeks of ulterior from the start; and also suspicions if he acted out due to rejection too other than just for face-saving).
Contrast with Hosu's female senior- she so far acted as a proper friend and senior. Miji and Tae-yi. Normal adults would deal with this awkward situation normally. Like say Gyeon-gu hadn't been gay and was Miji's on-off boyfriend. Would he have turned the car around and started beating a drum in their small town about how Mirae led him on but he was only faithful to Miji? Nah, you sort things out. Miji's reaction about forgetting it happened was a wrong way to be dealing with things in the long run but it was a stepping stone that could have been used to make things right by someone who was decent. He likes her? Those who didn't need to know, didn't need to know. In this situation Sang-yeong created a mountain out of a molehill by mishandling things afterwards despite having the opportunity for things to never go that far because he wanted to be ahead in this "game of reputations" i.e. he never believed she'd keep it to herself and was calculating and cold and made himself the victim just in case. To "victim-blame" him, he was the "victim of his own folly".
Now for the second time- which turned into a full blown harassment case reported with the police- he turns up at her house, physically assualts her(her wrist bruise is proof, the way he was shaking and threatening her is legal assault and her sister who defended her is a witness). If there was a cctv somewhere in their building or the guard box it'll show him intimidating her and shaking her. The fact that she was taking a voice recording he deleted it isn't in his favour. Stalking, assault, harassment, etc, etc, etc. And the things he says. "You can do this all you want no one will believe you. This isn't some truth telling game. It's a battle of reputations....No matter what I do, you'll get blamed for everything" Is this an innocent case of guys will be guys?
Otherwise Mr Kang would come knocking right when they're about to🙊 ;P
Alls well that ends well.
Frankenstein's Sa-eon got his sad doomed ending, his damned mom hers. Old man got away too easy(even with being murdered) but I believe he'll torment grandpa in hell for all of eternity and is waiting for his parents too. Damned dad shouldn't have survived😒. Dear Mr Min survived though thank god and got a light sentence.
The fisherman dad's scene warmed me up. Hee-joo's real dad has the most adoring son-in-law. Park Do-jae poor lad got closure and a happy ending back to being the perfect right-hand. Mr Kang is a pure ray of sunshine, gets to dote on them all for life and his Tom&Jerry bromance with Do-jae is my everything(I bet the prison guards died laughing watching their meetings). The whole dinner scene was sweetness. Reporter Jang is the MVP of the drama! Sang-woo and Yu-ri were the most gentle second leads ever and get to live happily ever after. In-a is best sister and can finally move on with her life(take over the world!). Side-eyeing the mom a bit but ok, one step at a time. Chairman Hong was equally weird with all his children so I accept his being a nice stepdad(plus I loved his aesthetic). Hee-joo eonnia is the boss queen forever. This was good TV 😂😊
While improbable for this one, this would have made for a great pure thriller kdrama XD
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GxBdTxS244o
Mr Kang and director Han Jin-e finally met and lead the search team for Hee-joo together with literally everyone🥲 He dotes the most on the leads and she is the only real mom-figure to Hee-joo. The reporter best friend is the mvp of the drama. In-a should oust her dad and take over. It was fortunate Mr Min also seems to have a soft spot for the leads and helped and I really hope he isn't dead/shot. He can take Park Do-jae under his wing in prison...
The kidnapper's story to Park about being drowned for seeing his face means he must have known what happened to the Hongs from the beginning. (Also apparently Sa-eon not helping or screaming about the grandfather drowning him is changed from the novel...) Its equally chilling coz grandfather could have drowned kids for the same or killed some orphans who saw too much himself... Sang-woo had a real lucky break as a child escaping death narrowly in all directions. I'd thought he'd meet the kidnapper at least once but I feel like the easier ending is kidnapper got shot down. Though with how undead the dramas characters are he and his dad might both survive being shot(plz no dad deserved it)
I adore the kidnapper too. Absolutely chaotic Frankenstein's lil psycho...
All this while I felt like she was having an open affair with Ui-young right in front of her husband
(nah seriously tho they can't make it that!)