Upset by the verdict but not all trials get the perfect justice T_T There's some cases in real life that made…
As far as the episode is concerned, the verdict was fair. If it wasn't proven that they do love each other, he would have gotten a life sentence, instead he only received 2 years.
The judge balanced his decision. He acknowledged the daughter's capacity to love which her mother and her brainwashed allies are ignoring. You'll also notice how the judge kept reading his verdict despite the fact the daughter was crying … the judge perfectly understood the situation.
At the same time, while she is capable of loving, it was not easy to determine if she was fully in control of herself mentally at the moment they slept together. The judge also already suspected her mother coerced her to say a false statement to the police … but since that was not the topic of the case, he can not address it. Considering these, 2 years prison time + barred from joining any institution for disabled/disorder people.
My only feedback, that I find worth mentioning, is how adults treat children.
I've read a lot of news and listen to commentaries about the Korean education system and how children today are already thinking about passing the national exam instead of playing, as compared to a few decades ago. This episode is more about that, the current situation of the Korean education system and the culture it inadvertently molded in Korean society.
For that, I have nothing to say about it. It is their culture, it is their society, it is their education system. Yes, I do have an opinion about it, I agree with the message of Episode 9. But at the same time, I also do admire the education system they built. There are pros and cons to it.
Instead I'd like to say something about "adults".
Globally, we often hear from parents: "I am doing this for you", "I am doing this so you will have a better life", "I am always at work so you can have a very good education and get a high paying job or start your own company", right?
There is nothing wrong with that. Who wouldn't want their descendants to have a better life, especially in today's world when things just get harder and harder? No matter how "evil" one is, it pains us to see our descendants to not have a better life than what we had.
The problem is, it has become an excuse and a justification for the parents' absence in the life of their children. Children need their parents. If their children grow up "bad" because of "bad influence", parents' will blame their children. Your children grew up that way because you were/are always absent in their lives. They want to feel loved. So they searched for it and found it elsewhere … from other people … from their friends … worse, from drugs and vices.
And the process will repeat again once these kids have their own families.
The message of this episode about children no longer playing, it is also true in other nations and in other families. We have become so focused on the future that children are forced to understand the world around them instead of enjoying their lives and learning things their way.
These will be important memories when these children grow up. It will their silent source of happiness. It will shape them unconsciously. The experiences, lessons, and memories, we create as little kids will always be with us once we are adults. We often dismiss these are "useless" but it will define and mold us as adults.
You don't believe it to be so? Look into yourself. Barring psychological factors, what made you who you are as an adult? Was it not the entirety of your experiences, lessons, and memories when you were a little kid?
Two people were born and grew up in the slumps. One became a very successful businessman and the other not. What prompted for them to have different paths in life?
Two people were born in a wealthy family. One became a very good, and upright citizen who helps other less fortunate people; while the other grew up looking down on everyone who is not of their level. What were the factors which influenced them taking different paths in life?
More often than not: 1. The presence of their parents … and being wise parents at that. 2. Having good experiences, lessons, and memories when they were young.
Life only gets harder and harder. Should we not let children build up gather as many happy memories, positive experiences, and good lessons, while they can so they have a storehouse to pull from when needed?
I find it truly ironic that they filmed the episodes long before people started arguing about certain things.
1. Is Woo Young Woo "classic autism" or "asperger's syndrome"?
In other communities, people have been arguing if Young Woo is "classic autism" or "asperger's syndrome", many are claiming she's "classic autism", that she can not be "asperger's syndrome". Yet multiple times now, under the old classifications they want to use, she's clearly "asperger's syndrome".
In one such thread, I even said that it doesn't matter because it's all autism. Especially true under DSM-5 and ICD-11, it's all "autism spectrum". Secondly, for #ActuallyAutistics these classifications are offending yet they insist on doing it this way.
2. There are people who are "disgusted" about having a relationship with people who are different, have a disability or disorder.
But look, they filmed these episodes long before these toxic "normal" people started leaving their comments everywhere against such relationships and they are going to address it in episode 10.
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This just shows the level of discrimination, prejudice, stigma, about #ActuallyAutistics and the entire PWD community.
For them to be able to film these episodes before these threads and vile comments were left everywhere in relation to EAW, is proof that people like them exists to this very day.
It was a simple, nice, and feel-good ending. It's a good way to end this show after all the killings and the violence and the kidnapping and the pain.
There is also a very good message they left the audience: life is short to worry too much about the future, live your life by being healthy and happy, and say the things that matter to the people you love today, now, while you still can.
I think it's Yoon Ah. She's suspicious right at the beginning when she returned. She isn't acting like she used to in the previous challenges. Too quiet. Too reserved. She's always observing, calculating, listening, planning.
But only Bu-Yeon has direct contact with ice stone so I am not sure that Uk and Naksu inherit any. If Bu-yeon…
Uk was conceived when the soul of the former king was in the body of Jang Kang.
Since you need the ice stone to perform AoS, and when a shifter siphons energy they are using the power that came from the ice stone, there is a possibility that the king inadvertently also transferred a portion of the power of the ice stone (that came from the AoS).
That was probably why Jang Kang (while in the king's body) was so afraid of and panicked about after reading the king's message that he will sleep with his (Kang's) wife.
It was not only because the king is practically going to rape his wife but magic and AoS/ice stone too.
Again, just speculation.
Basically, in fantasy, what is possible in science is also possible in magic.
As it goes, "magic is science not yet understood" or "science is magic not yet understood". What it means is that magic and science are one and the same, just different approaches/understanding.
Uhm, question. How can the power of the ice stone be inherited? Inherited biologically? I thought the ice stone…
The ice stone is key when performing AoS. A part of its magic is possibly retained after shifting.
But as soon as the soul is returned to the original body (in the case of Jang Kang and the former king), this power is returned to the ice stone.
It's why when a shifter goes 'wild' they need to use their ability to siphon energy. When they're siphoning energy, they're using what part of the ice stone they acquired (otherwise they can not siphon energy). The clue is the special effects they use is consistent.
#2: Then there is Bu Yeon. She was already dead. Her soul was called back to her body (in the womb) by Jang Kang through the ice stone.
Later, Jin Moo (quite possibly) kidnapped her to find the ice stone. Bu Yeon found it and tried to use it, then she was killed.
It is still unclear how she survived. One possibility is that she did die but since a part of her probably acquired power from the ice stone, she returned back to life. It was probably the only way to stick her soul into her dead body, so she is _maybe_ a little immortal.
#3: Jang Kang while in the former king's body, saw the message of the king about his plan. It scared Jang Kang to the point that he called Jin Moo (his apprentice) and told him how to do AoS (since Jang Kang can not do it because the king's body is dying).
After 7 days, as agreed, Jin Moo used AoS (and the ice stone) to return the souls of the former king and Jang Kang back to their bodies.
#4: The king's plan was to have a heir. If he is in a different body, then the heir is still not his biologically speaking, nothing is connecting them.
The king wasn't talking about a biological heir but rather an heir magically speaking. He knew that magic can be passed on just as DNA is biologically.
And since Jang Kang also understood something about AoS, he got really scared at the plan of the king. To the point that when Jang Uk was born he sealed his magic.
Jang Uk not only acquired the magic of Jang Kang (they're still biologically related so he automatically inherits magic as well); not only did he inherit the king's magic; but he also inadvertently acquired the portion of the power of the ice stone because the king, at that moment, is full of it because of the AoS.
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These are only speculations based on what we know so far.
Jang Kang panicking when he read the message of the king doesn't make sense unless the power of the ice stone is also transferred whenever AoS is performed. (And when a shifter siphons energy, they're using the power of the ice stone.)
Are they going to make crown prince a villain? I hope not because i love him
Probably not. However, it is possible he will be tricked by Jin Moo and used for a short while before the Crown Prince realizes he's being used.
His character doesn't seem to be one who hates people just because; nor is he one who looks down on others because he's Royal family.
He banters with everyone, especially those of his age range. He doesn't abuse his power. He knows when to be serious and when to have a friendly match (with Jang Uk specially).
Once Jang Uk becomes stronger, that's when Jin Moo will probably twist him and whisper things like "Jang Uk will become the next king", specially if they finally discover the AoS between Jang Kang and the former king (and the king's star). Because that means Jang Uk is the true king.
But if Jang Uk will declare he has no desired for the throne, that may change the Crown Prince's mind.
Heh, was replying to a thread in another community and I realized something.
Since you need the power of the ice stone to perform AoS …
When Jang Kang performed AoS with the former king; and the king slept with Jang Kang's wife, Jang Uk not only inherited the magic of Jang Kang (as his biological father), the king's (as his second magical father), but also the power of the ice stone.
This is similar in a way to Bu Yeon. She was already dead and her soul was returned through the power of the ice stone.
In other words, there are two people with the power of the ice stone in them: a. Jang Uk b. Bu Yeon
And both can not "unleash" their powers.
This would also explain why Bu Yeon "saved" Jang Uk during an AoS attempt against him. Bu Yeon recognizes the power of the ice stone in Jang Uk. Since the magical expertise of the Jin clan is "sealing" and Jang Uk doesn't know how to use his hidden power, Bu Yeon intervened to ensure the power of the ice stone hidden in Jang Uk remains in the correct body.
Imagine if Bu Yeon did not intervene. Jang Uk in a different body may go wild with the power of the ice stone. Or, the power of the ice stone remains in Jang Uk's body and someone else will be able to use it. Both scenarios are dangerous, very dangerous.
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Now, there's Nak Su.
There is something about Nak Su's birth. Bu Yeon wouldn't just absorb her soul.
We do not know when her father was soul shifted. Was her father already soul shifted before Nak Su was conceived? If so, then it means Nak Su's birth was from a soul shifter thus Nak Su is also carrying a portion of the ice stone in her.
And could it be the reason Bu Yeon absorbed Nak Su because part of her came from the ice stone?
If so, then Jang Uk + "Bu Yeon / Nak Su" is one very scary combination and CAN truly match Jin Moo's plans.
It may sound like a stupid question. But it's Jang Wook or Jang Uk? I've seen both.
Depends on which transliteration system a translator is following. As far as I know, Korea doesn't have an official transliteration system like China and Japan. (side note: Event the Hebrew language doesn't have an official transliteration system).
It means, transliterate however you want. Haha.
Anyway, Korean characters pronounced as "Woo" or "U" are transliterated like that, "Woo" or "U".
Thus, "Wook" and "Uk" are both correct. Similarly, "Attorney U Young U" is also correct but it looks weird that way, so "Woo" is more popular.
There is also the "k" and "g". The actual pronunciation is "kg" but English speakers wouldn't know how to pronounced "kg".
So …
Jang Kang or Jang Gang Kimbap or Gimbap
(Note: I could be wrong, this is only based on what I know so far of the Korean language.)
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The judge balanced his decision. He acknowledged the daughter's capacity to love which her mother and her brainwashed allies are ignoring. You'll also notice how the judge kept reading his verdict despite the fact the daughter was crying … the judge perfectly understood the situation.
At the same time, while she is capable of loving, it was not easy to determine if she was fully in control of herself mentally at the moment they slept together. The judge also already suspected her mother coerced her to say a false statement to the police … but since that was not the topic of the case, he can not address it. Considering these, 2 years prison time + barred from joining any institution for disabled/disorder people.
Also, her favorite subject is whales.
I'll definitely watch the sequel if they decide to green lit it.
Nothing re: autism.
My only feedback, that I find worth mentioning, is how adults treat children.
I've read a lot of news and listen to commentaries about the Korean education system and how children today are already thinking about passing the national exam instead of playing, as compared to a few decades ago. This episode is more about that, the current situation of the Korean education system and the culture it inadvertently molded in Korean society.
For that, I have nothing to say about it. It is their culture, it is their society, it is their education system. Yes, I do have an opinion about it, I agree with the message of Episode 9. But at the same time, I also do admire the education system they built. There are pros and cons to it.
Instead I'd like to say something about "adults".
Globally, we often hear from parents: "I am doing this for you", "I am doing this so you will have a better life", "I am always at work so you can have a very good education and get a high paying job or start your own company", right?
There is nothing wrong with that. Who wouldn't want their descendants to have a better life, especially in today's world when things just get harder and harder? No matter how "evil" one is, it pains us to see our descendants to not have a better life than what we had.
The problem is, it has become an excuse and a justification for the parents' absence in the life of their children. Children need their parents. If their children grow up "bad" because of "bad influence", parents' will blame their children. Your children grew up that way because you were/are always absent in their lives. They want to feel loved. So they searched for it and found it elsewhere … from other people … from their friends … worse, from drugs and vices.
And the process will repeat again once these kids have their own families.
The message of this episode about children no longer playing, it is also true in other nations and in other families. We have become so focused on the future that children are forced to understand the world around them instead of enjoying their lives and learning things their way.
These will be important memories when these children grow up. It will their silent source of happiness. It will shape them unconsciously. The experiences, lessons, and memories, we create as little kids will always be with us once we are adults. We often dismiss these are "useless" but it will define and mold us as adults.
You don't believe it to be so? Look into yourself. Barring psychological factors, what made you who you are as an adult? Was it not the entirety of your experiences, lessons, and memories when you were a little kid?
Two people were born and grew up in the slumps. One became a very successful businessman and the other not. What prompted for them to have different paths in life?
Two people were born in a wealthy family. One became a very good, and upright citizen who helps other less fortunate people; while the other grew up looking down on everyone who is not of their level. What were the factors which influenced them taking different paths in life?
More often than not:
1. The presence of their parents … and being wise parents at that.
2. Having good experiences, lessons, and memories when they were young.
Life only gets harder and harder. Should we not let children build up gather as many happy memories, positive experiences, and good lessons, while they can so they have a storehouse to pull from when needed?
1. Is Woo Young Woo "classic autism" or "asperger's syndrome"?
In other communities, people have been arguing if Young Woo is "classic autism" or "asperger's syndrome", many are claiming she's "classic autism", that she can not be "asperger's syndrome". Yet multiple times now, under the old classifications they want to use, she's clearly "asperger's syndrome".
In one such thread, I even said that it doesn't matter because it's all autism. Especially true under DSM-5 and ICD-11, it's all "autism spectrum". Secondly, for #ActuallyAutistics these classifications are offending yet they insist on doing it this way.
2. There are people who are "disgusted" about having a relationship with people who are different, have a disability or disorder.
But look, they filmed these episodes long before these toxic "normal" people started leaving their comments everywhere against such relationships and they are going to address it in episode 10.
-------
This just shows the level of discrimination, prejudice, stigma, about #ActuallyAutistics and the entire PWD community.
For them to be able to film these episodes before these threads and vile comments were left everywhere in relation to EAW, is proof that people like them exists to this very day.
There is also a very good message they left the audience: life is short to worry too much about the future, live your life by being healthy and happy, and say the things that matter to the people you love today, now, while you still can.
Since you need the ice stone to perform AoS, and when a shifter siphons energy they are using the power that came from the ice stone, there is a possibility that the king inadvertently also transferred a portion of the power of the ice stone (that came from the AoS).
That was probably why Jang Kang (while in the king's body) was so afraid of and panicked about after reading the king's message that he will sleep with his (Kang's) wife.
It was not only because the king is practically going to rape his wife but magic and AoS/ice stone too.
Again, just speculation.
Basically, in fantasy, what is possible in science is also possible in magic.
As it goes, "magic is science not yet understood" or "science is magic not yet understood". What it means is that magic and science are one and the same, just different approaches/understanding.
But as soon as the soul is returned to the original body (in the case of Jang Kang and the former king), this power is returned to the ice stone.
It's why when a shifter goes 'wild' they need to use their ability to siphon energy. When they're siphoning energy, they're using what part of the ice stone they acquired (otherwise they can not siphon energy). The clue is the special effects they use is consistent.
#2: Then there is Bu Yeon. She was already dead. Her soul was called back to her body (in the womb) by Jang Kang through the ice stone.
Later, Jin Moo (quite possibly) kidnapped her to find the ice stone. Bu Yeon found it and tried to use it, then she was killed.
It is still unclear how she survived. One possibility is that she did die but since a part of her probably acquired power from the ice stone, she returned back to life. It was probably the only way to stick her soul into her dead body, so she is _maybe_ a little immortal.
#3: Jang Kang while in the former king's body, saw the message of the king about his plan. It scared Jang Kang to the point that he called Jin Moo (his apprentice) and told him how to do AoS (since Jang Kang can not do it because the king's body is dying).
After 7 days, as agreed, Jin Moo used AoS (and the ice stone) to return the souls of the former king and Jang Kang back to their bodies.
#4: The king's plan was to have a heir. If he is in a different body, then the heir is still not his biologically speaking, nothing is connecting them.
The king wasn't talking about a biological heir but rather an heir magically speaking. He knew that magic can be passed on just as DNA is biologically.
And since Jang Kang also understood something about AoS, he got really scared at the plan of the king. To the point that when Jang Uk was born he sealed his magic.
Jang Uk not only acquired the magic of Jang Kang (they're still biologically related so he automatically inherits magic as well); not only did he inherit the king's magic; but he also inadvertently acquired the portion of the power of the ice stone because the king, at that moment, is full of it because of the AoS.
-------
These are only speculations based on what we know so far.
Jang Kang panicking when he read the message of the king doesn't make sense unless the power of the ice stone is also transferred whenever AoS is performed. (And when a shifter siphons energy, they're using the power of the ice stone.)
His character doesn't seem to be one who hates people just because; nor is he one who looks down on others because he's Royal family.
He banters with everyone, especially those of his age range. He doesn't abuse his power. He knows when to be serious and when to have a friendly match (with Jang Uk specially).
Once Jang Uk becomes stronger, that's when Jin Moo will probably twist him and whisper things like "Jang Uk will become the next king", specially if they finally discover the AoS between Jang Kang and the former king (and the king's star). Because that means Jang Uk is the true king.
But if Jang Uk will declare he has no desired for the throne, that may change the Crown Prince's mind.
So I think it will only be for a short while.
Since you need the power of the ice stone to perform AoS …
When Jang Kang performed AoS with the former king; and the king slept with Jang Kang's wife, Jang Uk not only inherited the magic of Jang Kang (as his biological father), the king's (as his second magical father), but also the power of the ice stone.
This is similar in a way to Bu Yeon. She was already dead and her soul was returned through the power of the ice stone.
In other words, there are two people with the power of the ice stone in them:
a. Jang Uk
b. Bu Yeon
And both can not "unleash" their powers.
This would also explain why Bu Yeon "saved" Jang Uk during an AoS attempt against him. Bu Yeon recognizes the power of the ice stone in Jang Uk. Since the magical expertise of the Jin clan is "sealing" and Jang Uk doesn't know how to use his hidden power, Bu Yeon intervened to ensure the power of the ice stone hidden in Jang Uk remains in the correct body.
Imagine if Bu Yeon did not intervene. Jang Uk in a different body may go wild with the power of the ice stone. Or, the power of the ice stone remains in Jang Uk's body and someone else will be able to use it. Both scenarios are dangerous, very dangerous.
---
Now, there's Nak Su.
There is something about Nak Su's birth. Bu Yeon wouldn't just absorb her soul.
We do not know when her father was soul shifted. Was her father already soul shifted before Nak Su was conceived? If so, then it means Nak Su's birth was from a soul shifter thus Nak Su is also carrying a portion of the ice stone in her.
And could it be the reason Bu Yeon absorbed Nak Su because part of her came from the ice stone?
If so, then Jang Uk + "Bu Yeon / Nak Su" is one very scary combination and CAN truly match Jin Moo's plans.
It means, transliterate however you want. Haha.
Anyway, Korean characters pronounced as "Woo" or "U" are transliterated like that, "Woo" or "U".
Thus, "Wook" and "Uk" are both correct. Similarly, "Attorney U Young U" is also correct but it looks weird that way, so "Woo" is more popular.
There is also the "k" and "g". The actual pronunciation is "kg" but English speakers wouldn't know how to pronounced "kg".
So …
Jang Kang or Jang Gang
Kimbap or Gimbap
(Note: I could be wrong, this is only based on what I know so far of the Korean language.)