Best Love: Episode 8
by girlfriday
Is it possible to love two men at the same time? I really think my heart might explode from trying to decide. I might perish in the metaphor soup that is this drama first, but whadduya gonna do? I love metaphor soup. It’s hearty and delicious, and good for the writer’s soul.
EPISODE 8 RECAP
The reporters swarm as Dokko Jin appears with the glass slipper purple sneakers that are the subject of Ae-jung’s latest scandal. He gets down on one knee and puts them on her feet, rising to tell the reporters that he was the one who bought them, for the purposes of donating to a show where someone special to him (referring to Se-ri) is the MC.
The reporters ask why he didn’t bid on Se-ri’s bag instead then, and he says that he had intended to quietly also donate running shoes as part of the deal. Feigning modesty all the while quoting his own nicknames like “Wingless Angel Dokko Jin” (pfffffft), he sighs that he REALLY didn’t want all this attention drawn to his charitable giving, but OH WELL.
Then with a snap of his fingers, three truckloads of the same brand of running shoes appear behind the reporters. Gah. I half want to kick him and hug him at the same time. He actually apologizes for making such a fuss over his donation when he wanted to do so quietly. Keh. It’s so clear why he’s the golden boy (and such a comment on how the star machine turns) – he packages everything for the cameras pitch-perfectly.
And then? We see his smug self-satisfaction, as he imagines his wings spreading beneath his halo. HAHAHAHA. Oh, Dokko Jin. Your ego knows no bounds.
Safely inside and away from the reporters, Jin checks the reaction online and generally finds it favorable, even considering parlaying it into a CF. Ae-jung says she was shocked when he came, thinking that he was going to announce…
Jin: “That I bought the shoes because I like you? My heart may be slightly broken because of you, but to create a scandal like that? My brain isn’t broken.” LOL. I love how delightfully honest that is.
She worries that getting entangled with her means that he’ll drop down to her level, and finds it burdensome. He counters, “I’ve decided to acknowledge my one-sided love.” Whoa. He tells her not to worry about getting entangled with him because he’ll just keep it out of reality (and therefore scandal-free).
She tells him not to do things like this (buying her sneakers) anymore, and he answers simply, “I’ll take care of my own business. That’s the upside to unrequited love. I get to do what I want.” Heh. That’s true. Can’t argue with that.
He walks out and Se-ri is there waiting for him to ask if Ae-jung’s got something on him, to make him act this way. (Note: in Korean, when you have an opponent at a disadvantage, you say you’ve “grabbed a weakness.”) I love that she’s so vain that this is the only logic that fits, in her brain. He says yes she’s grabbed one all right, secretly meaning it in the she’s-got-my-heart-on-a-leash kind of way. Aw.
But to his surprise, Se-ri is smug and carefree because today is the day that Ae-jung gets voted off the island. The PDs ask Pil-joo to oust her, citing that there’s no dramatic tension for the other contestants if he just keeps choosing Ae-jung all the way through.
That’s the reason they give him, but methinks once the scandal broke, no matter how it got rescued, it was enough to stain her image. But they leave the final choice up to him in the end.
When he comes out of the meeting, Jin is waiting for him. Are they gonna duel? They look like they’re gonna reach for their pistols any minute now. Sometimes Cha Seung-won is in a different drama, I swear. I know it’s not intentional but sometimes I think he’s going to pull out a semiautomatic and start lighting up the place.
They sit down for a friendly chat between mortal enemies, and Pil-joo notes that he might think what he did today was heroic, but he’s just caused Ae-jung more grief. Jin in turn thanks “Just Anyone” for raising the auction price so high so that he could give so much for a good cause.
Pil-joo counters that if he had it his way, he’d take Ae-jung away from this world forever. (Omg, I’m kind of swooning right now. The implication in his world is marriage, in case the intent isn’t clear.)
Jin tells him that if he really wants to do something for Ae-jung, who risked everything on this show, to stay in this world, he just needs to give her one flower to keep her on for another week.
On the set, Pil-joo apologizes to Ae-jung for not being able to do anything for her earlier today, and tells her that he doesn’t know how to protect her in the ways of this (the celebrity) world. “I’ll just have to protect you my own way.” Aw. Love the dorky doctor. So. Much.
Ae-jung tells him that even if he has to cast her off the show today, not to take it to heart or let it weigh on him.
Time for the rose ceremony. Pil-joo approaches the ladies with three roses in hand, and with a determined look, goes to Ae-jung first and gives her a rose. The PDs and Se-ri sigh that he doesn’t listen, while Jin looks on, pleased, and turns to go.
Except then Pil-joo just continues to stand there in front of Ae-jung… as he hands her a second rose. Eeeeee! Stompity feet. The crowd of reporters and staff all gasp, making Jin turn around.
He stares agape, as Pil-joo then hands her a THIRD rose, like a stubborn smitten puppy. Kills me. Everyone’s eyes turn to saucers and the whole crowd freezes, and finally the PDs motion for Se-ri to cut for a break.
The reporters swarm the couple, still frozen there. Se-ri steps down from the stage, but stops when she notices Jin, eyeing them tensely. He looks on angrily, muttering to himself that he told the doc to give her ONE flower, grumble grumble, eventually raising his heart rate to danger blinky zone.
Se-ri sees this, and the lightbulb FINALLY goes off in her brain. “The weakness that Ae-jung grabbed… was his heart?”
In the green room, Ae-jung sits down with Pil-joo and asks why he did that, because now it can’t be undone, what with the reporters and such. He just reminds her that he said he’d do things his way.
He tells her that she lives in this world where front and back don’t match up, and all he can do is watch. “So I wanted to take you away from that world.” He knew that the only way to do that would be to take one step closer to her, to take her away from the person who keeps pulling her back in.
She’s shocked to realize that Pil-joo knows about Jin. He looks over at the three roses, and says, “This is… my honest, my way… to tell you my heart. Now, instead of treating you, I’ve come to want to protect you first. Gu Ae-jung-sshi, I like you.”
Marry him, NOW!
Dokko Jin, meanwhile, complains to Jae-seok that the doctor went overboard, putting Ae-jung’s status on the show back in jeopardy. Jae-seok thinks that the show is now peanuts, if you consider that she could become a doctor’s wife.
Jin reasons that Ae-jung put her life on the line to do this show, because she has to do stay afloat in showbiz to eat and live… and if eating and living get taken care of… waitaminute… Heh. It finally dawns on him that Pil-joo DOES have a means to steal her away from him, and it’s quite a doozy – if he takes showbiz as her means of survival out of the equation, then Jin is, well, S.O.L. is what.
The Couple Making PDs have an emergency meeting to do damage control, and decide to roll with it and turn the next episode into a “Will She Accept?” concept. Down in the parking garage, Ae-hwan asks Ae-jung if she didn’t secretly like receiving “them” in real life.
He means the roses, but when she looks down at them, her eyes wander down to her feet. She thinks of the moment when Jin knelt down to put the sneakers on her, and answers, “Yes.” Aw. Sneakers for the win.
While Ae-hwan gets the car, she paces back and forth, debating the two men in her mind. Two steps one way, then back again. It turns out Jin is sitting in his car watching her, and in his eyes it looks like she’s all giddy from receiving the roses.
He decides to show her how totally over it he is, by driving right past her, leaving her in the dust. He pulls out swiftly, true to his plan, but then when he pulls up next to her, the car slows to a ridiculous crawl, while he makes crazy determined faces, as if he’s speeding past her. HAHA.
She looks at him curiously, wondering what he’s doing, as he continues to inch forward as slow as humanly possible. God, I love how childish he is. It seriously makes me giggle like a fool.
She knocks and asks what he’s doing, so he pulls down his window, replying that he’s in the midst of zooming by her (HA). But now that she’s here, she might as well get in the car since he has something to say. She wonders what it’s about, but he doesn’t tell her, pointing out, “Doesn’t that make you curious? Get in.” Pffft.
He wants to tell her a flower story, and she asks worriedly if this is another Camellia tale. This time, he says it’s Azaleas, which she recognizes immediately as a reference to the famous poem by Kim Sowol:
When seeing me sickens you
When you go
I will send you without a fuss, without a wordYongbyun’s Yaksan Mountain’s
Azaleas
I will scatter by the armful in your pathYour parting steps, steps
On those flowers
Tread lightly as you goWhen seeing me sickens you
When you go
I’ll die before I shed a tear
It’s probably one of the most famous Korean poems, retold as folk songs and such. The phrase “scatter flowers” comes from this, and is used colloquially to represent the duality of sending someone you love away – letting them go coolly by appearance, despite your ever-breaking heart. You could basically call it the Manifesto of Noble Idiocy. (If this is one of the most famous poems to survive for over a century, you can see why noble idiots are still THE k-drama heroes to this day, yeah?)
Ae-jung: “You needn’t scatter flowers.” Jin: “No, I WILL scatter flowers. We’ll see if YOU can tread on them or not.” Ha. Leave it to Dokko Jin to turn a dignified romanticized gesture into a challenge.
It turns out he’s taken her to an elementary school, and he starts to open up about his past. He tells her that he never got to go to grade school like other children because he was always sick. Does that explain why you’re still a child? ‘Cause seriously, it explains a lot. Can we send you to the fourth grade now?
She doesn’t remember hearing about this before, and he admits that hardly anyone knows that he was a sickly kid. She asks what was wrong, and he tells her that it was his heart, hence the constant effort to live within 60-90.
She wonders if it’s true, and then he starts unbuttoning his shirt… rawr…
And then he splits it open with a big “Rawr!” himself, like a crazy lion. “My heart is ripped. Heaaaart. Breaaaaak. [in English]” Pfft.
She jumps back but then sees the scar, and reaches her hand out to touch it. His heart starts beating faster and he takes her hand and puts it on his chest, but that scares her off.
She asks why he’s telling her all this. Jin: “To have it weigh on you. I said I was going to scatter flowers. My heart is the azaleas I’ve scattered in your path. My heart hurts sooooo much that it might break with one step… can you trample my azaleas?” Hahaha.
She asks if he’s really that sick, and he turns on the dramatics, telling her that he’s sooo siiiiick, and pleads with her not to step on his heart on her path to go to “that guy.” Awwww.
It really does start to weigh on her, which he notices right away with a devilish grin – my plan, it’s working! Heh. But then some kids interrupt the moment with a stray soccer ball and ask him to return it. He can’t resist the urge to show off, with an overhead kick into the goal…
…which totally outs the fact that he is in no way sickly. Ha. Brought back to reality, Ae-jung crosses her arms and starts to remember that he bragged about doing all those stunts in Fighter… “To be playing innocent azaleas… isn’t your body too beastly for that?” LOL.
Jin: “This is just ornamental.” Hahahaha. So true of actors, and thus hilarious to admit.
She tells him not to try and hold onto her with an old surgery, but he lays it on thick, insisting that every time she thinks of going to that doctor, she’ll have to think of his sick, frail heart and thus feel so bad that she can’t go. Siiiiigh.
The Couple Making PD asks Pil-joo to do one more show, to hear Ae-jung’s answer to his proposal. He says that thanks to him, he’s had the biggest ratings of his career. Pil-joo wonders if Ae-jung will agree to do it, and flashes back to her side of their conversation earlier:
She says that she would’ve understood if he hadn’t given her a flower, but now that he’s given her three, she doesn’t know what to do. He tells her that he doesn’t know either, since this is the first time he’s ever done this. Aw.
He then asks in a panic, “Does that mean I might get shot down, right now?” Haha. That’s so adorable. She smiles at him and asks for some time. They decide on three days, all or nothing.
Se-ri comes to tell Pil-joo that Ae-jung was the person who got between her and Dokko Jin, and is surprised to find that he already knows. “You knew, and you still gave her all three flowers?!” Pil-joo just tells her not to make things even harder on Ae-jung, and leaves. Oh, snap.
Later that night, Ae-jung looks up the poem Azaleas and reads it aloud, as Jin tends to his broken heart at home, and Pil-joo ponders the two identical pens that have returned to him.
After she reads it, Ae-jung muses, “Azaleas isn’t a poem about sending someone off well. It means you’d rather die than send them away comfortably.” Heh. Word.
The next day, Couple Making airs (oy, the live shoot system), and the entertainment world is ablaze with the shocking turn. It turns out to be a hit, and the show decides to continue with the couple, giving them their own segment. Yay, finally the We Got Married stuff begins!
The agency president tells Ae-jung that this is her chance to break out of her bad image, and that if she dates successfully on the show, it’ll revive her career. She encourages her to date him for real too, while she’s at it.
Dad wonders how to clear up his little er, misunderstanding with Pil-joo’s mother, his guilt now piling up over the medicine and the beef. He goes to the clinic to try and find a good way to break the news, except when they meet, she’s so upset about the show that she rails about Ae-jung not being up to snuff.
That raises Dad’s temper, and before he knows it, they’re having a shouting match over their two kids, neither being good enough for the other. Well, at least you outed your lie?
Jae-seok finds Jin re-watching the last Couple Making episode ad nauseum, and gives him the good news – that Ae-jung and Pil-joo will be doing their own docu-dating show, following them on dates. Jin: “Dates?”
Horrified, Jin starts to imagine all the dates they’ll be on for the show, all cutesy and romantic, leading all the way to their “first night.” He screams, bursting his own nightmare bubble, and arches the hell out of his eyebrow in a show of annoyance at Jae-seok for being the bearer of such evil thoughts.
Pil-joo, meanwhile, is a nervous wreck at work, sweating bullets while waiting for Ae-jung to give her answer to his proposal.
Ae-jung wonders if she ought to talk out her decision (whether or not to do the show) with Pil-joo, and Jin eavesdrops nervously. He lights up like a little boy when he finds her still at the agency later, autographing pictures for the sneakers they’re donating. Omg, it’s so cute how excited he is that he gets to hang out with her. Kyah!
He lauds her professionalism at the shoot, saying that she kept her cool really well when she received the roses. She smiles, “Really? I was shaking so much.” That knocks the wind out of his sails in two seconds flat.
He grumbles that it must be nice that lying about that pen had its rewards after all, and she doesn’t bother to clear it up, agreeing. He starts to sign his photos rapidly in anger, and she notes that they’ll be out of here in no time.
Uh… his eyes dart back and forth hilariously, as he realizes the error of his ways, and then he starts to sign ever so slowly. Hahaha. I love how transparent he is. She sees it too, and can’t help but smile at the adorableness.
Jenny delights in Ae-jung’s recent turn upwards, and Ae-hwan and Jae-seok take the opportunity to ask what she’d do if, yunno, hypothetically, two men were to fight over her. She sighs gleefully, “I’d have them both!”
Jin notices that Ae-jung signs her autograph with a four-leaf clover at the end, and asks what it is. She tells him about Mina finding the lucky clover the day they debuted, and she admits to believing in its luck.
He asks why when all four of them started off so well, Ae-jung ended up at the bottom. She says it happened just like the press reported – she hit Se-ri, and to this day she feels bad about it and therefore uncomfortable around Se-ri.
At the same time, Se-ri goes to visit Jenny, who greets her coldly. Jenny tells her like it is, from her point of view: that Jin likes Ae-jung, but things will work out well with Pil-joo. She asks Se-ri to never officially break it off with Jin, so that they stay out of Ae-jung’s way.
Se-ri counters that if they break up, she’s going to pin it on Ae-jung. Jenny marvels at her nerve, asking if she doesn’t remember how much Ae-jung took care of her. Se-ri: “I only remember her hitting me.” Jenny: “Why did she hit you? What about what you did to Mina?”
She adds that Mina collapsed because of her, and that’s why Ae-jung got so angry. Se-ri just defensively tells her not to dredge up old stories without any proof or witnesses. Notice that innocent people never say that?
Pil-joo sees a patient that night by the name of Han Hye-jin, who he suddenly remembers from that day that Ae-jung hid behind him, not to be seen by her. She confirms it and tells him that her name used to be Mina, and that she wanted to tell him something, because she thinks he’ll be an important person to Ae-jung.
Jenny shows Se-ri the package that they all received from Mina recently, and tells her that the second she does anything to threaten Ae-jung, Mina won’t just stand by. She adds a threat of her own: that she will find Mina herself and reveal the truth.
Flashback to their KBSN days, when Se-ri had put some sort of medicine in a drink and slipped it to Ae-jung. Only Ae-jung was busy with her mind elsewhere, and gave the drink to Mina when she walked in, complaining of nausea.
Mina drinks and instantly collapses. Ae-jung realizes what Se-ri has done and slaps her, only seeing the cameras pointed at them after the fact.
Back in the present, Se-ri counters that she was just playing a joke, and that she didn’t know that Ae-jung would disband the group like that in retaliation. Clearly there’s something bigger behind it, and I’m thinking Mina’s nausea’s a big clue. Pregnancy scandal is a big possibility why Ae-jung took the fall for the whole group, though it’s just a theory.
Jin asks her what secret led to such misunderstandings, and Ae-jung replies that it’s a SECRET. She sighs that she thought she could handle taking the fall on her own, not realizing then that it would lead to ten years of being at the bottom.
With a surprising amount of sincerity and empathy, Jin tells her that it must’ve been difficult, and that she did a good job of surviving it all. Ae-jung, “Are you praising me? With that mouth?” Heh.
He admits to always being fearful of landing in her position (something she’d asked him before) and they share their first real moment of understanding. She gets flushed and puts a water bottle to her face. It’s the same one she had used in his car way back when he had found it annoying for her rub her face against his photo.
This time he gets up to turn his photo towards her, saying, “The side with the picture is cooler.” Hahahaha. SO. CUTE.
Se-ri arrives at the agency to meet with the president, and sees them being adorable together. She grits her teeth and decides to dig her heels in, never letting go of Dokko Jin. She makes her position clear to his agent, that she’ll go straight to the cameras and cry the second he breaks contract.
Back in his office, Pil-joo gets a helpful tip from Mina about something that Ae-jung likes, so he calls her. Jin sees the call from “Perfect Man Yoon Pil-joo-sshi” and scowls, pretending not to care.
She answers and just says “Yes” three times, and hangs up. He starts to imagine what the other side of the conversation was. Pil-joo: “Why can’t you come? Is Dokko Jin keeping you there?” Ae-jung: “Yes.” Pil-joo: “Is he still hanging on to you, pathetically insisting that he’s ill?” Ae-jung: “Yes.” Pil-joo: “Ay, that jerk. Just get rid of him and come out.” Ae-jung: “Yes.” Hahahaha. I think I like their relationship in Jin’s imagination better than their real one.
He sees her checking her watch fretfully, and then tells her to answer yes three times. Jin: “I told you that my heart was azaleas, right?” Ae-jung: “Yes.” Jin: “I told you not to step on it, right?” Ae-jung: “Yes.” Jin: “But you’re standing on top of it right now. It’d be better if you walked quickly over it instead. So… just go.” Ae-jung hangs her head, “Yes,” and walks out.
She hesitates, and we see that the real conversation was her telling Pil-joo that she was busy and would be running late, aw, but she turns to leave. Jin’s heartbroken expression once she’s gone just about kills me. He puts their autographed pictures side by side with a heavy sigh.
Pil-joo waits outside Ae-jung’s house with a box of her favorite red bean pastries, the tip that Mina had shared with him. He surprises her with them, and she lights up, remembering her favorite bakery from back in the day fondly.
He gives her one and she says that luck has to be shared, and shows him that the bread is shaped like a clover, natch. She breaks it in half and gives it to him, and he smiles, asking if that means something good will happen to him now.
She thanks him for thinking of her as good luck, but tells him truthfully that in her heart, camellias are blooming, and azaleas are being scattered… so much so that she can’t really see a clover, despite knowing that it’s what is best.
He understands her meaning and adds, looking down at his clover bread, that this really is plain-looking and not the kind of thing to move hearts… but that it’s the best kind of bread, when all is said and done. Aw.
She says that her heart must’ve lost its mind because of the flowers, agreeing that “stuff like this [bread] is the best.” Ack, I don’t know what’s worse—his heartbroken reaction or her heartbreaking reaction to breaking his heart. Gah.
After a moment, he suggests that maybe they extend the waiting period then, for her to answer. He suggests that they do the show as their beginning. “And I have nothing to lose. Because if you wait and see, in the end, [holding up his clover bread] things like this are the best.”
Aaaaaaargh. I love them both! What am I gonna dooooooooooooooo?
At home, Jin looks at his potato plant, talking to it: “You’re growing faster than I thought. But if you grow poison that quickly, won’t you die?” He gets up and clutches his heart in pain, surprised to find that he’s still within 60-90. He wonders aloud if unrequited love is poison too, and if he’ll end up dying this way. Heh. Melodramatic to the core.
He goes to see the doctor (his heart surgeon, not the adorkable one) and while waiting around, discovers his penchant for girl group pop music. Heh. The nurse explains that the doc is unique that way—he listens to girl groups during surgery, instead of the standard classical music most docs cut to.
Jin’s eyes widen as he rushes out, dramatic music playing. He mutters that this explains everything. It’s just so funny that it’s played as this dramatic moment, like he’s discovered some mystery that changes everything. Except it doesn’t. Heh.
He gets confirmation from the doc that it was the song playing during his surgery, and on the rooftop he flings the CD into the air, declaring that he was under a spell all this time. He shouts triumphantly, “Restored!” [keuk-bok = restored, revived, also a pun on kukbo = national treasure, aka Ae-jung].
Ae-jung receives the script from the studio on her proposed segment, so all she has to do is decide. On her way out she runs into Jae-seok who mentions that Jin went to the hospital.
Ae-jung sits contemplating her feelings, and asks her sneakers:
Ae-jung:You can’t step on that person, can you? You’re worried that that person is sick, aren’t you? You want to see him, don’t you? Ding dong!
And she rushes off to see him. She hesitates outside his house, wondering if the 60-90 code will still work, and he finds her there. Smugly secure that his feelings were nothing but a hex, he calls her phone to make sure. (She’s saved his number as “Azalea” now.)
The song plays and he checks his heart monitor. Safely in the seventies. He smiles, saying that everything has returned to normal. He says it’s good news for her too. “My heart no longer beats faster because of you.”
She wonders why, and says there’s only one answer. She asks, “Does that mean you no longer like me?”
Jin: “Ding dong.”
Oh NOES!
COMMENTS
Gah, I love the push and pull of this couple, because there’s so much to contend with even beyond just egos and childishness (though that’s the amusing part). It’s poetic and sad one minute, then ridiculously petty the next, but these actors carry the moments with such earnestness that I get carried along for all of it. Love. Just love.
What can I say, other than being so torn over both the love interests is a testament to one of the most engaging love triangles I’ve encountered in a long time. Kudos. I now love and hate you, all at the same time.
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Tags: Best Love, Cha Seung-won, featured, Gong Hyo-jin, Yoo Inna, Yoon Kye-sang
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1 Fiona
May 26, 2011 at 9:00 PM
Thank you for posting!!!! I always love your recaps, they're so witty and fun to read.
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nonski
May 26, 2011 at 9:36 PM
always! whether it's GF or JB, it will always be awesome recaps.
is it possible that you could love a drama more and more with each new episode. gaaah! i'm like that right now!
i love Pil Joo but could you love him more than our Dokko Jin? hah! not a chance! i adore Ding Dong so much, lols! :)
guys, english softsubs of this drama is available at:
http://www.darksmurfsub.com
linky to the drama:
http://www.darksmurfsub.com/forum/index.php?/topic/1203-the-greatest-love-2011/
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aquastarr92
May 27, 2011 at 2:08 AM
Yup, they're really awesome recappers! I was laughing like crazy (and that's BEFORE I actually watch the episode). Oh Jin, I like you more but I like bread better than flowers... (Kkot boda bbang?) <--Ooh, I like that... I bet it comes out soon...
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MJP
May 26, 2011 at 9:47 PM
Yes, Thanks for the recaps!!!
I have to say that my favorites are when JB and GF have the conversations together during the recaps!!! Absolutely hilarious when that happens. Often new nicknames emerge from these writings.
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gustave154
May 27, 2011 at 6:57 PM
woot massive thanks to the recaps they are the best recaps in the world!!!
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czak
May 26, 2011 at 10:01 PM
agree thanks for the recaps!!!!
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Kiara
May 27, 2011 at 1:20 PM
BEST LOVE #1 YaY.
TNS MEDIA RESEARCH
NATIONWIDE RANK / SHOW / NETWORK / NATIONWIDE RATING / SEOUL RATING + RANK {if different from Nationwide}
1.Women in Our House, Our Women (KBS1) - 17.6%, 14.4%(#2)
2.Best Love (MBC) episode 8 - 15.2%, 18.0% (#1)
3.KBS News 9 (KBS1) - 13.7%, 13.2%
4.What An Amazing World 순간포착세상에이런일이 (SBS) - 11.9%, 12.6%(#5)
5.You Are So Beautiful (MBC) - 11.1%, 12.3%(#6)
6.Every Morning (KBS1) - 11.1%, 10.6% (#6)
7.Human Theater (KBS1) - 11.0% , 10.0% (#11)
8.Happy Together (KBS2) - 11.1%, 12.8%
9.City Hunter (SBS) episode 2 - 10.0%, 12.2% (#7)
10.Romance Town (KBS2) episode 6 - 9.7%, 9.8% (#12)
http://www.soompi.com/forums/topic/198078-box-office-and-tv-ratings/page__st__1240
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gustave154
May 27, 2011 at 7:01 PM
omg thats sooo awesome!!! the ratings are the best love xD
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Lenita
May 28, 2011 at 9:32 AM
yep, great recap, thanks dramabeans!
btw, how perfect is that lipstick shade on au-jung? the one she's wearing on stage while receiving the flowers?
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2 peach
May 26, 2011 at 9:00 PM
love the hong sisters!
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MJP
May 26, 2011 at 9:47 PM
This is my first Hong sisters drama and I have to say, it is VERY good!!!
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amberscube
May 26, 2011 at 10:19 PM
Hong Sister's are my favorite. Last year's My Girlfriend is a Gumiho is on the top of my list but i have to agree that Best Love is really good.
MJP, You have to see the other Hong Sisters' drama. They keep getting better and better.
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MJP
May 26, 2011 at 10:32 PM
Amber's Cube,
I started watching MGIAG based on everyones recommendations. I watched up to episode 4 and then jumped to episode 16 to watch end. It was cute, but I got tired of the repetition after watching four episodes and just wanted to get it over with... The storyline was very predictable and didn't keep my attention.
I sure hope that in Best Love, the Hong sisters don't give all the secrets away too fast and can keep it interesting the whole way through.
Drunken to Love You, Lie to Me, Rebound, Shining, You're So Pretty, Mary Stayed Out All Night, are just some of the current dramas that I lost interest in due to the storylines lacking in one way or another.
Who knows, maybe I am picky wanting every drama to be written as good as You're Beautiful, It Started With A Kiss/Playful Kiss, Fated to Love You, Sunny Happiness, The Woman Who Still Wants To Marry, Biscuit Teacher and Star Candy, Hotaru no Hikari, and 49 Days?
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amberscube
May 26, 2011 at 10:36 PM
You're Beautiful is a Hong Sisters' drama.
MJP
May 26, 2011 at 10:43 PM
Ding Dong! I love that one. Watched it many many times!!!
Yeah!!!!!
Thanks Amber's Cube.
Come on, name some more... Let's see if I watched them.
amberscube
May 26, 2011 at 10:51 PM
You had me laughing with the Ding Dong!
My Girl is another Hong Sisters' that i like..well, it's special because it's the first kdrama i have seen.
I have seen City Hall recently and i love it.
MJP
May 26, 2011 at 11:05 PM
Hey!!!!
I saw that one too! It was a spin off of a Jae Hee movie and he did a cameo appearance in the last episode. That was the one where they met at the top of some building all the time. That was a good one too.
So they must have done Delightful Girl Choon Hyang then *checks Dramawiki*, Yes they did that one too. I didn't like that one so much. I did the beginning and ending on it.
amberscube
May 27, 2011 at 12:34 AM
List of Hong Sisters' Drama
Delightful Girl Chun-hyang, KBS 2005
My Girl, SBS 2005-06
Fantasy Couple, MBC 2006
Hong Gil Dong, KBS 2008
You’re Beautiful, SBS 2009
My Girlfriend is a Gumiho, SBS 2010
Best Love, MBC 2011
http://www.dramabeans.com/2009/11/profile-on-hong-sisters-writing-duo/
Tweetiebird
May 27, 2011 at 12:05 PM
I loved MGIAG, except the end dragged a wee bit, maybe its cause everyone say's its great and if you go in thinking something is great it ends up being not s great as you thought it would be. Really? Sunny Happiness I thought it was awful really really hated it couldn't get past bad acting and a story line that basically put in elements from famous dramas (i.e. fated to love you, autumn's concerto and many more) hated hated hated it. But I like the others you liked.
MJP
May 27, 2011 at 3:05 PM
Amber's Cube,
Thanks for the list!!!!
Twitiepie,
Seems like we have similar taste in shows. :-)
floren
May 28, 2011 at 5:18 PM
it seems that we like the same dramas...YAB and FTLY are my top favorites ...and im loving best love, the best so far this year...i got interested with Gong Hyo Jin, so i watch her old dramas, pasta, thank you and hello my teacher and she is really awesome...her tandem here with the 2 male leads is great
MJP
May 28, 2011 at 11:36 PM
floren,
Another really good one that she was in is:
Sang Doo, Let's Go To School
With Bi/Rain as the male lead and Lee Dong Gun as second male lead.
Gong Hyo Jin is one of my favorite Korean actresses!
hong sis FAN
May 30, 2011 at 5:14 AM
its incredible im yet to not like a hong sisters' drama *touch wood* though i tend to be quite picky generally :D each is exceptional in its own way i watched them all & loved them all the way (except delightful girl which i cudnt stand the last 2 episodes of but it was soo good in the beginning)
my favourite till date has got to be Hong Gil Dong because they just did so much with that drama its their most underrated yet.. loving best love as of now (even though dokkojin is CRAZZYY wow since when did i start going for the madhatter types? (who am i kidding im for yoo pil all the way xD )) but hong gil dong would still have to be my fav one of theirs :DD
amberscube
May 31, 2011 at 1:40 PM
The only Hong Sisters' drama i havent seen yet is Hong Gil Dong...
I have to see it to complete my list.
Wish
June 2, 2011 at 10:25 PM
i agree Hong Gil Dong is one of the most unrecognized/underrated dramas. YOU MUST WATCH IT!! :)
lolcoolcat123
January 8, 2015 at 2:43 AM
Me too! I watched till episode 6 and then got bored of it and just read the recaps! It was not very addicting. It WAS addicting, no doubt about that but still I just couldn't watch it. Please don't get offensive or anything (to the MGIAG fans) it's just an opinion of mine! I am loving this drama day by day. Even though I am watching it in 2015 and can watch the whole show in one day, I sadly can't do that because of my stupid studies!!! [Me: I hate you school!!!.......School: Same to you!!]. I am sorry for the hideous joke but just wanted to show how amazingly insane I've been since I've watched this drama. I love the Hong sisters and wish that they take Gong hyo jin only for the next drama. Love your recaps too gf and jb ;D
3 zodd
May 26, 2011 at 9:01 PM
Nice. Good review
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floren
May 29, 2011 at 1:34 AM
@MJP.. thanks for the info...it maybe late discovery, but GHJ is one of my favorites now..she is versatile in the sense that she's very good in both rom com(pasta ) and melodrama (thank you)...
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4 lunargen
May 26, 2011 at 9:01 PM
Lol Dokko will be in a world of regret for saying that. Can't wait for more angst!
Thanks for the recaps~!
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5 butterbacon
May 26, 2011 at 9:01 PM
y'all are hardcore. damn top for distracting me.
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kay
May 26, 2011 at 10:08 PM
oh top... why so beautiful?
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MJP
May 27, 2011 at 3:21 PM
He looked very dapper in his purple jacket at the awards!
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6 peppy
May 26, 2011 at 9:03 PM
suffering from a severe case second lead syndrome =( THANKS FOR THE RECAP!!
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Kiara
May 26, 2011 at 9:52 PM
I want to have his babies....100 of them.
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kay
May 26, 2011 at 10:07 PM
as much as i love dokko jin, it would be kinda awesome if cutie doctor gets ae-jung in the end. for once, have guys that were nice and treated girls the right way the whole time actually get the girl please!!!
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Kiara
May 26, 2011 at 10:26 PM
I love Dokko Jin but Pil-Joo is a doctor in every way. Heart , body and Soul. I'm so rooting for him.
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amberscube
May 26, 2011 at 10:32 PM
Perfectly awesome!
I want Ae Jung to pick Pil Joo too. That would be a great ending for a change. Pil Joo is perfect. He is the most consistent, compassionate, romantic and totally hot. What else can you find in a man?
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MJP
May 26, 2011 at 11:00 PM
But, but, but... if she does, then what will Dokko Jin do with his heart broken a second time. He might DIE!!!
NO!!!!!!! NEVER!!!!!!!!! PANTYMAN MUSN'T DIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
*MJP schemes to become evil extra on set... zzzzzzzzzz
Hmmm, puffy clouds.....
MJP:
Gets jiffy Passport and shots
Buys plane ticket to Seoul, South Korea
Withdraws money from ATM
Find babysitter for toddler
Packs bags
Kisses family goodbye
Boards plane
Arrives in Seoul
Gets money exchanged
Uses TV Korean to find set(aka broken Korean learned from watching kdramas)
Takes taxi to set, but can't get hired as an extra because she's not Korean and there is no need for American's on set
Hides in bushes on the set
Sees Yoon Kye Sang alone and ambushes him
Security calls police and carts crazy MJP away to loonybin as she yells "NO!!!!!!! NEVER!!!!!!!!! PANTYMAN MUSN'T DIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
Security increased on the set and no crazy ramen haired foreigners allowed
MJP Hubby and toddler very sad
zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz, Snort, zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz, Huh???
Oh, it was just a dream...
amberscube
May 27, 2011 at 12:47 AM
LOL...im so glad it was just a dream.
MJP, Im now worried of your heartbreak than Dokko Jin's.
yegods
May 30, 2011 at 5:21 AM
PFFTTTTTTT BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAA thats the most hilarious scenario yet!! maybe they'll like the incident so much they'll want you to redo the whole thing for a drama scene where a crazy american fan arrives chasing dokkojin lmao im so gonna watch that episode (even better ill join u on that trip) i agree pantyman's death will be a loss to the great undergarment industry we can NOT let that happen *nod nod*
Bori
May 27, 2011 at 8:34 AM
you're not alone...
i want him to get the girl ;~~~~~;
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7 78446
May 26, 2011 at 9:04 PM
It's official. The Hong Sisters are trying to kill us.
More episodes like this and my family will have nothing left to scrape off the floor but a squealing, palpitating, blubbering mess.
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Mia
May 26, 2011 at 9:13 PM
I screamed - numerous times.
Thank god I'm alone in the house or else I will sound like some maniac: flailing her hands, screaming, going "cuuuuuuttteee" every five seconds, fanning herself.
As I said - thank goodness I'm currently hermit-ing.
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Fiona
May 26, 2011 at 9:29 PM
I did that numerous times reading the recap too! I grinned like crazy during the roses part, my heart wrenched during the red bean bun part.....everything else in life right now is inconsequential~
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Mia
May 26, 2011 at 10:00 PM
AWWWWW The red bean bread killed me! This episode....for me....was won by Pil Joo - his acting, his lines, his ardor.
Is second lead syndrome deadly?!?
I'm in love with them both. I refuse to decide. They can rotate or something.
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Chris
May 27, 2011 at 2:31 AM
Agreed!!!
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Osiasta
May 27, 2011 at 10:50 AM
haha maybe hong sisters should make an alternate ending so both DJ and PJ gets AJ in the end =)
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Mia
May 27, 2011 at 5:17 PM
OMG!
Why does that sound so bad it's good!?! At this point it seems I will genuinely be upset at BOTH of their "refusals" - How can this be!?!
.....Maybe they can just share......
MJP
May 26, 2011 at 9:49 PM
78446,
LOL! LOL! LOL! LOL!
You are funny!
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78446
May 26, 2011 at 9:55 PM
GF is waaaaay funnier but thanks!
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8 Mia
May 26, 2011 at 9:08 PM
so~ love this drama!
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9 travelcrazy
May 26, 2011 at 9:08 PM
*look at the clock..tick..tock..* refresh DB * look at the clock..tick..tock..* refresh again...YAY best love recap come out! ... *off to read the recap*
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Niki
May 26, 2011 at 11:52 PM
Me too! i was hitting the refresh button for 4hours straight. This is definitely a first for me!
Jin...why so cute? i really can't stand it. He's been giving me impromptu heart palpitations all week and it's slowly killing me.
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10 eidyei
May 26, 2011 at 9:10 PM
hahaha! I refreshed the page like every minute waiting for this on the featured window!! Now it's here.. I'll read the racaps before taking my lunch.. hahah! thanks javabeans! this will definitely make my day..
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eidyei
May 26, 2011 at 9:14 PM
thanks girlfriday!! love you for doing a good job recapping this!!!
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11 Quarki
May 26, 2011 at 9:10 PM
i have second lead fever!
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MJP
May 26, 2011 at 10:01 PM
Pil-joo so ruled this episode and got some serious "Brownie Points" didn't he?
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kay
May 26, 2011 at 10:12 PM
so adorable with glasses and so swoon-worthy when he does his hair up and squints his eyes all smoldering. ack how can he be so perfect!
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Celest
May 26, 2011 at 10:47 PM
If I ever in this world meet a guy like Pil Joo, I'm gonna run up to him, grab his arm and make him run away with me [reverse arm grab kdrama style]
It's official. Pil Joo is my favorite second lead EVER. I melted watching the roses scene.
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Bori
May 27, 2011 at 8:35 AM
SAME HERE!!
he's breaking my poor little heart :<
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12 lala
May 26, 2011 at 9:11 PM
Thanks for the recap!!!!!!! Finally a viewable drama~~~~~
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13 Mia
May 26, 2011 at 9:11 PM
Oh.My.Gosh.
Pil Joo is the best thing.....ever.
I love how they surprise me AGAIN! Usually the bachelor will "like" someone but keep the other contestants present for "clarification" (or whatever the hell the logic is to those shows.)
This....giving her three roses, telling her he likes her. It caught me off guard. And I love being caught off guard.
*SIIIIGGGHHH*
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14 coollady
May 26, 2011 at 9:12 PM
oy vey, i know how you feel. I already loved Yoon Kye Sang before this drama so it was a guarantee that I was gonna have second-lead syndrome, but now the Hong Sisters have made it even worst!
every episode, I switch between the crazy but endearing Dokko Jin and the oh-so-awesome, dorky Dr. Pil Joo. why can't there be two Ae-Jungs so both guys can be happy?!! haha. this drama's just awesome.
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L
May 26, 2011 at 9:28 PM
I knowwww I'm dying here :(
I never had second lead syndrome before this :(((
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15 JAM
May 26, 2011 at 9:15 PM
*shriek*!!!! its up! you gals are seriously bad influence. Just when I have told myself to stop stalking your website and start some work, I have to see this. sigh.. thank you! thank you! for the recaps!
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Mia
May 26, 2011 at 10:02 PM
If I didn't get all my worked done in an all nighter Wen-Th. I would probably be dead right now. Arrrggg I just can't focus when THIS conflict is so much more interesting (mind you their competing against Carbon Bonds and a stack of Acid Base labs to grade - BUT STILL)
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Ani
May 26, 2011 at 11:53 PM
I think we need to admit at this point that there's no cure to our addiction to this website. We might as well let them sweep us away. HAHAHA. I'm grateful too.
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16 Birthday girl
May 26, 2011 at 9:16 PM
THANK YOU--but where's the song? I actually just started listening to the music y'all post and it's awesome ^^
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MJP
May 26, 2011 at 10:36 PM
Is today actually your birthday or is EVERY DAY your birthday?
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Birthday girl
May 26, 2011 at 11:17 PM
lol, it actually is
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MJP
May 26, 2011 at 11:34 PM
Happy Birthday to you!
Happy Birthday to you!
Happy Birthday dear Birthday Girl!
Happy Birthday to you!
And many mooooorrrrrrreeeeee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Belated Birthday girl
May 27, 2011 at 9:32 AM
<3 <3 <3 :D Thank you~ ^^
Mia
May 27, 2011 at 5:18 PM
OH! Happy (belated) birthday!!!
17 sb
May 26, 2011 at 9:17 PM
Gah, all this Heart. Break.
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18 Anh Nguyen
May 26, 2011 at 9:18 PM
OMG what to do? Excellent script + awesome acting = WIN WIN WIN!
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19 LL
May 26, 2011 at 9:18 PM
I think I'm glad the Hong sisters didn't put much effort into the love triangles before now... It's too painful!
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Mia
May 26, 2011 at 10:04 PM
Awwwww - I know! I'm starting to regret being all,
"Yeah their second lead is so good this round - really IMPROVED"
I deserve a smack *smack*
Why!?! WHY!?! WHYYY!?! Did we wish this upon ourselves??
I am finally seeing the merits of an unloved (and usually unlovable) second lead!
Still....the pain feels a bit good.
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Sethe
May 27, 2011 at 8:16 AM
Hey, Mia, are you jumping ship? What's with all the Pil-joo love, suddenly? Don't you care that you're trampling DJ's azaleas? (And as much as I wish it did, I don't think that phrase sounds suggestive. Anybody else?)
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Mia
May 27, 2011 at 5:21 PM
We can make it suggestive Sethe,
I believe in us!
....I don't think I'm jumping ship.....I still want both (bad yoja, bad bad bad)
CAN YOU trample on his roses Sethe!?!? Look how cute he is...and a dorky doctor....sure he's not ripping shirts open and oozing passion and sexuality and more passion and.....
....See!?! Totally on-board just....stormy.
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Sethe
May 27, 2011 at 11:19 PM
You know, I SHOULD love Pil-joo. He has everything that, on paper, I'd look for in a man. And yeah, he's even not wussy, having declared his feelings pretty clearly (to AJ and the public). I really don't understand why I'm not feeling the love here. Trying to sort out, I guess, my INSANE attraction to CSW from his actual character, and the character of PJ on the show. And to what extent is it that I'm just a sucker for the types I think I (and I alone, natch) can "rescue?"
mihinikki
June 11, 2011 at 8:20 PM
See, I do feel bad for sweetie-hottie-Dr. Yoon, but BL sends me on such a Dokko-high that the second lead angst isn't killing me yet. Sometimes, "Dokko!" will pop in my head and I'll smile like a loon :) Plus, this is a Hong Sisters drama and I'm determined to guard my heart against the devastation that awaits the more deserving second lead and all AJ/PJ shippers. When it happens remember the pressure points!
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20 ahjummabunny
May 26, 2011 at 9:18 PM
okay I just looked at the photos but didn't read because I'll be bored at work tomorrow. Is there a kiss-eu?
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LL
May 26, 2011 at 9:19 PM
I haven't watched the episode yet but I don't think there is.
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ahjummabunny
May 26, 2011 at 9:23 PM
kiss-eu! kiss-eu odi ga???? I'm so happy to be alive to watch and read dramas!!!
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danni
May 26, 2011 at 9:42 PM
Nope, better luck next week
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21 Molly
May 26, 2011 at 9:21 PM
Noooooo, the second lead syndrome is killing me! But Dukko Jin, he's so...zany and hilarious! But there's Pil-Joo, the quiet hottie! Oh! No!
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22 june
May 26, 2011 at 9:21 PM
Oh no! I can't wait till next week for the upcoming episodes! Hong sisters are really killing us, especially with this ending! I wonder what will happen to Jin's feeling towards AJ. Swoon..
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23 ...
May 26, 2011 at 9:22 PM
they've really made it hard this time to decide who to love more... pil joo is so sweet, charming and considerate, while doko jin just keeps growing on me. don't know who i support more. developing a very bad case of second lead syndrome... probably worse than in skks :D
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24 TTP
May 26, 2011 at 9:25 PM
been waiting for it the whole day!!! Thank you thank you thank you, now i jst gota wait for the subs =(
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MJP
May 26, 2011 at 10:41 PM
I love the people who do the subbing, but I sure don't like waiting for the subs to get done!
Hey! Maybe I'll become a genius and invent something like "Bing Translator" that really works?
What, someone already did that? On darksmurf? Bummer...
But to give Bing it's due, it sure does help out when using tudou and 56 trying to find the current episodes when all else fails me.
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25 Afuro
May 26, 2011 at 9:25 PM
THIS IS CRAZYYYY - i've been squealing in my room all throughout LOL just when i think the show's going in one direction, it pulls back and goes the opposite direction >< really, i've never wanted to root for the second male lead this much before, that rose scene is perfect.
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26 crazedlu
May 26, 2011 at 9:25 PM
dude, pil joo is such a cutie.
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tomboy26
May 26, 2011 at 9:28 PM
yes .. yes he is. I love him and all his adorkableness .. more so when he wears his glasses .. I love guy's with glasses and that look like him lol
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Mia
May 26, 2011 at 10:07 PM
tomboy26,
I hear you. I'm such a sucker for anything: male, lanky, glasses, socially inept.
This doctor is the bane of my drama life - WHY do we not have more cute (sexy sexy sexy) geeks who know what they want and aren't disheveled in their own ineptitude for ten episodes.
Pil Joo....I adore him.
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tomboy26
May 27, 2011 at 7:45 AM
You took the words right out of my mouth .. but for my part I would have included another 'sexy' in there.
Man, usually I have a small dose of second-lead syndrome (or what I considered to be second-lead syndrome) but this drama has just taught me what it really is: feelings of longing, swooning, fast heart beats when he's on screen ... oh, and the 'kyaaaaa'-ing whenever he does something completely adorable.
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Mia
May 27, 2011 at 5:23 PM
I think we are going to need exponents whenever we use the word 'sexy' now - for both male leads, of course.
27 ray
May 26, 2011 at 9:26 PM
Thank you soo much !
i just hate the enging being like that
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28 tammu
May 26, 2011 at 9:29 PM
Arghhhhhh, who to choose? Gahhhh, I'm so glad I'm not AJ. Unless I could be like Jenny and have both of the them.
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29 nixxochick
May 26, 2011 at 9:30 PM
this episode only made me a bigger fan of team Jin...this character is just so annoyingly cute
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antonia
May 27, 2011 at 7:28 AM
me tooo. team aejin forever. Jin is getting cuter and cuter....and sexy
HEARTBREAK!!!!
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gustave154
May 27, 2011 at 10:52 AM
TEAM AEJIN FTW!!!! anyway KBSN rocks xD
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30 moomincandylalala
May 26, 2011 at 9:30 PM
I'd have them both too! Tho slightly leaning towards Team Dr. ~Swoon ~
Too bad his sad fate is sealed.
Dokoo is really like a 4th grader... some of his childish antics are a bit over the top for such a grown man... sometime reminds of a Hwang Tae Kyung.
Can't wait to see how this pans out next week.
Thanks so much for the recap ^^
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jomo143
May 27, 2011 at 3:30 AM
I like how that fact came out - that he may have missed some developmental milestones, as they say, because of ill health. It doesn't explain away all his selfishness, but could be why "he doesn't play well with others."
I love that DJ recognizes and verbalizes that AJ is his sunbae when it comes to surviving in the "public eat famous" world of entertainment. From the second she met his hands at the van, she has been sincerely trying to help protect him from himself. Her comments to him have never been about his treatment of HER, meaning she never said, "You can't act like that around ME!"but how he has to straighten up and be honest so he doesn't become a laughingstock.
She watches and maybe marvels at how good he has become at hiding his true self. She KNOWS he is going down some day.
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Sethe
May 27, 2011 at 9:24 AM
I agree about DJ missing some developmental milestones. It would be likely that, as a child with a serious illness, he'd be extremely protected, and taught to fear and avoid anything that could make his condition worse. And I think that goes a long way toward explaining his attitude toward AJ... he's genuinely, legitimately scared, and even angry, that something he can't understand and can't control is threatening his maintenance of his "safe range."
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31 ishrooroo
May 26, 2011 at 9:30 PM
Can't she marry both? Or better yet, she can have Jin and gimme Adorkadoctor :)
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Shin mi rAe
May 27, 2011 at 4:52 AM
Nyah... You cant have adorkadoctor.. You have to fight us for him... Round 1 anyone???
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osiatas
May 27, 2011 at 10:56 AM
anyone wished the couple making show was real with pil joo as the bachelor? swoooooooooooon
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32 1bloghopper
May 26, 2011 at 9:31 PM
the funniest recap ever. watching it later would be better. people might think i'm slightly off somewhere, reading while holding in the laugh alone...muahahahahahaha. thanks jb.
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1bloghopper
May 26, 2011 at 9:31 PM
thanks gf. :)
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33 rumba lumba
May 26, 2011 at 9:31 PM
ahaha i love this ep.
although City Hunter is actually more interesting, but they said it came from the City Hunter manga but it's totally different.
anyways, can not wait for the next ep!
on a side note, Seunggi will appear on ep 9.
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78446
May 26, 2011 at 9:39 PM
what?!? say again? you meant LEE SEUNGGI, right?
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rumba lumba
May 26, 2011 at 10:06 PM
duh. there's no other celebrity that's named Seunggi, you know.
unless you meant Daewoong. XD
dunno if he'll appear as Seunggi or Daewoong
or Hwan?
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78446
May 26, 2011 at 10:17 PM
eeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!
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junaly
May 27, 2011 at 6:21 AM
I loved hwan...and daewoong...
But I love seunggi more ;)
Can't wait for the cameo!!
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danni
May 26, 2011 at 9:45 PM
Seung-gi!? Really? I will do backflips if that happens.
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amberscube
May 26, 2011 at 10:44 PM
Lee Seung Gi?
Omo omo..my heartbeat just went outside the safety zone!
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MJP
May 26, 2011 at 11:13 PM
*Dramawiki's name*
Oh, I know who that is! So, we have to wait a whole week before we see him... Sigh, this waiting thing is a bummer.
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laya
May 27, 2011 at 1:44 AM
Seunggi-ya!?! O_O Oh, you've done it, now I can't hardly wait for Ep. 9 O_O
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34 Viola
May 26, 2011 at 9:33 PM
Thank you GF for the lovely recap! :)
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MJP
May 26, 2011 at 10:04 PM
Viola!!!!!!
I love you!!!!!!!!
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35 Camille
May 26, 2011 at 9:34 PM
I can't imagine how anyone can choose between Dokko Jin and Pil Joo. D: It feels like instead of being lucky you're wanted by two guys, it's too confusing and complicated to be able to choose one. >_<;
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36 ar
May 26, 2011 at 9:34 PM
Thanks for the recap, girlfriday!!!!
I have yet to watch this episode, but the angel wings just killed me!! They have really upped the comedy this time!
I can't wait till Jin realizes that he likes Ae-jung for Ae-jung not because of her association with the song that played during his surgery!
Gosh, why are both guys so freakin' cute?!!
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37 jomo143
May 26, 2011 at 9:38 PM
I am not panicking. DJ is in denial. He has no chance in heck that he is actually OVER her now.
Someone at another place said, "Of course it's not only the song, silly! If it were, why doesn't his heart speed up for Seri, too?
Here is my "DJ in Denial" fanvid. Sorry it is a little sad, but I had to work with what was in the show!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_HuH0pzfQMU
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Mia
May 26, 2011 at 10:15 PM
JOMO! I loved it!!!
Awwwwwww I had only seen it in bad quality before - it's all so romantic when Jin's face isn't pixilated.
Loved the choice in song too!!
I agree, he's simply in denial. I would think that QUITE obvious.
I think he is in SO much pain over his first love (first love is unrequited and at the age of 37? Yeah, it would hurt and confuse me too!) that he is springing on ANY explanation and chance to get rid of the pain.
This is why the "anti-climatic" discovery is so great - because we all clearly know that he is so far gone. (Maybe the heart monitor is actually broken? It kept showing 75 without fluctuating)
This also lends us more potential for second lead syndom, jealous fits (YEAAHHH), and the "We Got Married" hyjinx to ensue.
Smart move Hong sisters, smart move.
(P.S. - I love how it's now his habit to "force himself to look away" with literal force - like his hand while signing autographs. SO CUTE!)
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th em
May 26, 2011 at 10:30 PM
"Maybe the heart monitor is actually broken? It kept showing 75 without fluctuating"
And it didn't make a peep when he ran several flights of stairs to the roof of the hospital, all the while looking like he was going to die. But maybe it was just set to "useless" mode then.
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Mia
May 27, 2011 at 5:25 PM
OOoooh,
You're really "close watching" aren't you! It has to be malfunctioning, or some other creative explanation. Either way it makes no sense that his heart doesn't actually "shift" anymore.
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Sethe
May 27, 2011 at 6:12 PM
Yeah, there've certainly been moments when DJ was angry or otherwise aroused (ooh, aroused...) and his HR certainly should've increased... guess it's a heart rate watch/monitor that can be programmed to screen for only certain triggers?
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antonia
May 30, 2011 at 7:27 AM
i'm afraid it's really broken. and i'm sooooo afraid of him being sick, please hong sister don't make him sick!!!!
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MJP
May 26, 2011 at 11:16 PM
Jomo,
You're account got closed at Youtube!!!
I can't see the video!!!
Bummer!!!
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jomo143
May 27, 2011 at 2:47 AM
Yes, they were bound and determined. No more fanvids!!
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jomo143
May 27, 2011 at 3:00 AM
Let me clarify - no more fanvids on YouTube!
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antonia
May 27, 2011 at 7:32 AM
you scare me!!! cause i love your mvs
Yvonne
May 29, 2011 at 3:54 PM
Hi Jomo,
If not on youtube, can you please tell me where I can find your mvs?
Thanks!
jomo143
May 30, 2011 at 9:45 AM
I started moving some over to megavideo
I don't know if you can find me, but I'm Jomo143 there.
Here are two:
PS loves AJ and all our hearts will break:
http://www.megavideo.com/?v=2SOLZ8U0
DJ is not at all in love with AJ, at least not at this second:
http://www.megavideo.com/?v=H9T3N0NV
Sethe
May 27, 2011 at 8:46 AM
First of all, love the video. Thanks for your hard (but undoubtedly enjoyable) work.
Also, regarding DJ's apparent moment of understanding and clarity that what he thought was that feeling that he's heard called "liking someone" (evidenced by his elevated HR around AJ/her song) is actually all explainable by the fact that her song was playing during his surgery, and that he actually has no feelings at all for her -- does anyone else feel that we (the audience) could totally buy that from his character in earlier episodes, but that we've actually seen him grow and develop beyond where that's believable from his character?
(Sorry, that was a mess of a sentence.)
Anyway, I just think that DJ as a character has been shown growing and maturing to a point where it seemed fairly clear he acknowledged his feeling for AJ for real, rather than just thinking that he must "like" her because of his elevated heart rate around her.
I mean, of course he's in denial, I guess I'm just saying the reaction doesn't seem to quite fit with the current DJ, after the character progression we've seen over the last few episodes.
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jomo143
May 27, 2011 at 9:33 AM
Your honor, I submit for the court's review the
"Three steps forward, one step back" defense:
As we get a better idea of what makes DJ tick, we cannot say all of his actions have followed a logical progression of growth.
One minute he declares his distinterest in AJ, the next scene he is driving ever so slowly (and hysterically) by her in slow motion. (I'm still laughing at him.)
He never totally accepted that this love makes sense, because after all, he is Dokko Jin. So when he sees a possibility that the logical solution is not ART but SCIENCE, he seizes it with both hands. I am afraid that thread of hope he is holding as proof of "not love" will slip quickly out of his grip as soon as he sees the Doc with AJ.
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Sethe
May 27, 2011 at 10:33 AM
Oh, you hit the nail on the head with the "three steps forward, one step back." That describes EXACTLY what was bugging me about this whole development.
I think I was looking at the overall arc of his character development, and trying to think of it as a consistent line, but it's much more accurate to describe it as an uneven, broken, punctuated trajectory... still in a certain direction, but with a lot of sputters and backsliding.
And yeah, I also hope/believe that seeing PJ and AJ together will give him some deeper understanding of his reaction/feelings toward her.
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th em
May 27, 2011 at 1:00 PM
Actually, I don't have a problem with this in terms of character consistency.
This is the guy who, even after admitting he has feelings for Ae Jung, was batting around the possibility that she's a witch.
It is a little repetitive to have two weeks end with Jin shutting down Ae Jung's feelings when she came to his house to see him. Like others have pointed out, though, we really needed to get this surgery-song revelation over with. So I'm also okay with that.
And really... Jin was right.
Jin: Doctor, could this song be affecting my heart rate?
Doctor: No, silly boy, you're just in love!
[5 episodes later...]
Jin: Wait, did you play this song during my heart surgery?
Doctor: Oh, that song? Now that you mention it...
Obviously Jin will end up realizing his feelings for Ae Jung weren't all some Pavlovian response, but there is a certain logic to his conclusions now. At least more than with the witch thing.
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Sethe
May 27, 2011 at 11:47 PM
I dunno. Something about the whole development still just doesn't seem to sit right with me, and I'm having trouble figuring out why. I can totally understand his character as someone who'd always lived a very sheltered life, warned (for a lot of reasons) not to let his HR go outside a certain safety zone, and how he'd be incredibly relieved to have a "scientific" explanation for the physical reactions that have been so disturbing to him, recently (and that he can't control, even more worrisome-ly). But then, why hint at the development of his character at all?
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38 Daniela
May 26, 2011 at 9:44 PM
NOOOOO!! The last part, just...NOOOO!! I cant wait for episode 9! She will accept the contract of course and Jin will see that the thumps of his heart aren´t entirely because of the song.
I love the conversation between Jin and Ae-jung about why her group split up. He was sincere, calmed, cute when he was signing photos. It was good to watch them talking like that. And the Doctor, awww he is nice.
I really like the doctor, but Jin wins over him, just by a little and because Ae-jung likes Jin. But things can change in the next episode!
Counting the days.
Thenk you for the recap!
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Daniela
May 26, 2011 at 9:51 PM
ThAnk you for the recap!
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39 MJP
May 26, 2011 at 9:45 PM
PANTYMAN!!! What are you doing to my poor heart? Not HEART BREAK??? Ke Ke Ke
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jomo143
May 27, 2011 at 3:32 AM
Mr. Potato Head now!
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Sethe
May 27, 2011 at 9:43 AM
potato... head??? (I shouldn't go there, should I? ;) )
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jomo143
May 27, 2011 at 10:28 AM
Better not .... Where's Swui?
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swui
May 27, 2011 at 10:40 AM
I dunno...you can go anywhr you want with the potatoes Sethe...oh you guys...LOL..
You guys are all over this place...LOL
Sethe
May 27, 2011 at 10:41 AM
Haha. No innuendo here, I swear!
Mia
May 27, 2011 at 5:30 PM
Oh Sethe!
You put Shakespeare to shame (really, how hard is it to make a suggestive sexual comment about "unsheathing your sword")
Now potatoes...that's creative license material.
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Kiara
May 27, 2011 at 8:04 AM
Your poor heart, his poor panty. Oh noooes.... what to do.
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40 blueangel
May 26, 2011 at 9:51 PM
Man just because of dorky doctor I need to watch his other drama 'who are you?"
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MJP
May 26, 2011 at 11:20 PM
I watched it when I read the article stating he would be in this show. I liked it.
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41 danni
May 26, 2011 at 9:54 PM
Oh Jin, you are so crazy and whacked out and childish and Pil-joo, you are so swoon-worthy and perfect and adorable. Darn you Hong Sisters, you finally make a second male lead that we can root for and he's practically perfect. Ae-jung just needs to be like Jenny, take both.
I haven't been exactly rooting for Jin as much as just enjoying all of his crazy antics, but I really liked that scene where he and Ae-jung were talking and signing their pictures. Dokko, you can be cute AND normal at the same time.
Thanks for the recap, gf
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42 izocha
May 26, 2011 at 9:58 PM
Thanks, GF! This was a really enjoyable recap! So glad for the complexity of the choice between the two men, it makes it more edge of the seat problem solving, fo' sho'.
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43 ck1Oz
May 26, 2011 at 9:58 PM
Oh yaH!! Greatest Love is going to kill me.
I am so in love with Pil Joo and he is so A.D.O.R.A.B.L.E.
Are the girls blind????
Then Dokgo Jin does his thing and puppy dog eyes ( no not that; heartbreaking eyes) and I am all his again.
Ergh..
Thank you for the recaps.Excuse while I go gaze at the rose scene again.SQUEAL :-)
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44 amberscube
May 26, 2011 at 10:00 PM
Doc Pil Joo, you are awesome. I'm loving you more every minute...well, more like every episode. I'm squeeing and swooning more and more!
In real life, he is the great catch. He is the perfect husband material.
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45 Pela
May 26, 2011 at 10:00 PM
Why I'm still rooting for Jin? Cos while the Doctor is a knight in shining armour, Jin is a true partner of equals. The doctor saw her vunerabilities and wants to save her, Jin saw her strenghts and admired & respected her.
And sigh, finally a life time of watching Hindi soaps, just makes me want the heorine to run as far as possible from screechy, class conscious mother-in-laws, even if it means leaving behind a really good guy.
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Noi
May 26, 2011 at 11:17 PM
EXAAAAACTLY, omg, I couldn't agree more with you. The fact that Jin admires her and respects her is one of the many reasons that keep me rooting for him.
Pil-joo is fantastic, but Jin is definetly something else.
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antonia
May 27, 2011 at 7:35 AM
'The doctor saw her vunerabilities and wants to save her, Jin saw her strenghts and admired & respected her.'
love what you said!!!! and the most important thing is AJ likes Jin not PJ.
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Yvonne
May 29, 2011 at 4:03 PM
WORD!
You couldn't have said it any better!
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Asa
May 31, 2011 at 10:20 PM
Jin started out exactly the same way. Driving her off from her night club performance to "save" her. Why give him a free pass to learn to let her manage her own life and the doctor is set to remain the white knight forever?
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46 th em
May 26, 2011 at 10:04 PM
First, Pil Joo:
Welcome to the game, though you've already lost it. I mean, I figured this was where your character type would take us, but I didn't expect they'd lay the whole thing out in the same episode where you finally got your chance to step up.
a) You want to rescue a grown woman from her career.
b) She's already doing the "on paper, you're better" thing.
Yeah, that's not gonna end well. Really, really nice try with the rose bit, though.
Second, Jin:
Um... All emotional games aside, I'm thinking maybe you should be focused on finding another cardiologist and getting another round of tests. Random chest pain is actually kind of a problem. And maybe get that wrist monitor checked out, because having your heart rate suddenly stuck on the exact median between 60 and 90 is freaking me out a little.
Third, Ding Dong:
You're awesome, and your thought bubbles are awesome. Keep up the good work!
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Mia
May 26, 2011 at 10:21 PM
Oooh! Nice chart!
We are getting scientific in our thesis' aren't we!
Pil Joo)
Unfortunately the whole, "he's better for me" never actually does play out in our masochistic loving dramas. I would actually like to see this change but for now it's quite evident he's fated for weeks of infecting viewers with The Second Lead Effect - poor thing.
Jin)
The heart monitor has ALWAYS fluctuated - for it to be frozen in one spot after making him bend in pain at the mere thought of her - Pil Joo should totally treat him (I would love to see that happening!)
All in all this "denial" is clearly his way of trying to find ANY means at leaving this love behind (I said in an above comment: first love at 37 AND unrequited - I'd go insane too)
It also gives us more time with the second lead which at this point seems to be doing unabashedly well. So well my heart hurts....now I have to add red bean paste buns to my diet of potatoes and Vitamin water?....*SIGH*
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tari
May 26, 2011 at 11:08 PM
yup I think it's broken, so the watch-monitor-thing is broken, the heart is broken, the man is in total denial.
Great recap GF.
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MJP
May 26, 2011 at 11:38 PM
LOL!
This is great!
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antonia
May 27, 2011 at 7:41 AM
love it:
1. PJ: yes it's like you're so good, you deserve someone who really really loves you... nice try but i'm Jin's. (don't know if it's AJ talking or just me ;))
2. Jin: noooooo don't scare me with heart issues. he will be fine, please please... and of course in time he will notice it's not the song but AJ who makes his heart race or hurt (don't like the hurt) HEARTBREAK
3. Ding Dong. me too love Ding Dong bubbles, they're adorable!!!!!!!! want more of DD.
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47 Rachael
May 26, 2011 at 10:04 PM
Jenny is saying what all Best Lovers are saying: I'd have them both!
1st and 2nd lead clash. I've never found myself so conflicted before! The Hong Sisters finally have a super compelling triangle going on here.
Haha, I wonder though how long it'll last before Jin realizes he really does like Ae-Jung. I'm thinking two episodes max with how they're breezing through all of this. Watching Pil-Joo and Ae-Jung on that couple show will eventually crack this latest drama queen rationalization.
If only this was twenty episodes!
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swui
May 26, 2011 at 11:27 PM
Oh can't agree more...can we have BOTH?
It's great PilJoo is getting a lot of screentime with AeJung...means he's a force to be reckoned with...
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MJP
May 26, 2011 at 11:40 PM
If Ae-jung had them both then this would be like Queen of Reversals. We would need 30 episodes to cover that type of material.
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Saa
May 27, 2011 at 1:41 AM
I'd like 30 episodes of that. :D
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gustave154
May 27, 2011 at 10:58 AM
count me in i can watch Ae Jung-Dokko Jin-Pil Joo love triangle forever lol
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antonia
May 27, 2011 at 7:44 AM
more episodes please!!!! though i read GHJ didn't want an extension cause she was exhausted :(
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48 QueenPiNAY
May 26, 2011 at 10:06 PM
waaahhh! can't wait for the eng sub. thanks for the recap :) this is sooo interesting!
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49 Heej
May 26, 2011 at 10:14 PM
He is such a naive little man for thinking that the entire reason he likes her is because of a physiological reaction a song. What an emotionally stunted dork.
Every week, I'm put on a cliffhanger and left to die. Hong Sisters, why do you do this.
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50 Brummel
May 26, 2011 at 10:15 PM
Thank you! You're the best!!
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