Warm and Cozy: Episode 2
by girlfriday
Now I think they named this show pretty well, because it’s all about giving you the warm fuzzies at every turn. Warm and Cozy isn’t fast-paced and there’s no central conflict beyond two young people trying to find their way in life, but it’s full of such sweet, lovable characters that it makes you feel good while watching it. The second episode rounds out our main characters and brings the heroine down to Jeju Island so that small town hijinks—and romance—can properly ensue.
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EPISODE 2 RECAP
After being dumped by her two-timing ex-boyfriend and laid off via phone call, Jung-joo focuses all her anger on washing the horse dung out of her shoes, so lost in thought that she doesn’t notice Gun-woo picking it up downstream.
He walks over and contemplates her for a moment before plopping the shoe down at her side, then announces that he was going to leave without her until he remembered that he got a beauty salon coupon for his birthday, which is also her birthday.
He offers to make her dinner too, but Jung-joo warns that she’s in no mood to celebrate—she’s so angry right now that she might misdirect all her spite towards him. Gun-woo rolls with that and offers to be her punching bag as a birthday present, and when she doesn’t hit him, he extends his arms and changes his tack: “If you need comfort, then I’ll be your teddy bear. You can hug me if you want.” Um, WANT.
Jung-joo is startled by that, and reminds him that she hasn’t changed in ten years—she isn’t the type to turn down empty offers or feel bad about it. Gun-woo counters that he isn’t the type to make empty offers—he means everything he says… “It’s just that the shelf life on that sincerity is short.” Heh.
They head back to his restaurant Warm and Cozy where he starts cooking up a meal for her, and he looks a little plaintive as he points out the bottle of pills and maps she left in his car earlier. We know they’re mints, but he doesn’t.
His sole employee Poong-san assumes that she’s the Mok Ji-won, the first love that Gun-woo rushed to Seoul to see. They introduce themselves and he thinks it odd that Jung-joo insists on cleaning because she feels uncomfortable eating for free.
Just then, another customer comes in with a couple in tow, chatting away about how this is a good restaurant. Jung-joo freezes when she sees that it’s her cousin Jung-min with his girlfriend, and runs after them swinging her purse wildly like a weapon.
They run and run and run, finally stopping when they’re all too tired to keep up the chase. Jung-joo wants to know what he did with her apartment money, and he says he already put it down on the new house.
He points to the dilapidated monstrosity behind her repeating that it’s a fixer-upper, and she assumes he must be mistaken. Her friend peeps, “It looks more houselike on the inside.” Sure, houselike about three generations ago.
Jung-joo steps inside to find weeds growing out of the floor, and the doors crumbling around her—literally, as one falls on top of her head. She finally lets her anger out and screeeeaams, and her cousin scurries away like the coward that he is.
Gun-woo has followed her here and learns about the house deal from the town’s real estate agent Gong Jung-bae. They watch from a distance as Jung-joo cries out by the ocean, and Jung-bae tells him that the cousin is headed to Brazil soon to work with coffee. That gives Gun-woo a chance to curse him out using non-swear swears.
Jung-bae asks if that’s his girlfriend, and Gun-woo says no—it’s just someone he’s concerned about. He watches her pop another mint in her mouth and thinks back to earlier, when he first discovered the pill bottle in his car.
He asked Poong-san about them because he was once in pharmacy school, and learned they’re really strong painkillers (the label reads Oxycodone), taken by people in lots of pain, like terminal cancer patients. Ha, he thinks she’s going to die.
His sympathy and concern is very real, which makes it all the funnier. He takes her to the airport and hands her the dinner he packed for her, and when she says that she won’t be coming around to Jeju for future birthdays, he thinks she means that she won’t live to see another one and gets adorably speechy about how she WILL come back and see him on many birthdays.
It makes her smile and she thanks him for saying it even if they’re empty words, and he reminds her to eat well, looking so sad as he watches her go.
Jung-joo returns to her rooftop room in Seoul, where she fights to keep her tears in check. She opens up Gun-woo’s dinner to find birthday soup, and again has to tamp down her tears as she eats. She tries to keep a stiff upper lip and tells herself that the house in Jeju will sell in no time and she can buy an apartment then, and she’ll find a way to get her job back.
On cue, her noisy rooftop neighbor (cameo by Muzie) starts singing, “No, you can’t, you can’t,” and it’s the thing that makes her snap. She stomps out to ask him to stop, and when he doesn’t comply, she flies off the handle and starts ranting expletives about his terrible music, his penchant for walking around in boxers, and the likely size of his wiener.
He scuttles away, embarrassed enough to stop, and for a second Jung-joo is riding high from the tiny victory. She shouts from her rooftop, “I’m not a loser! I’m not a loser!” But of course that’s the thing to finally trigger her tears.
Some time later, Gun-woo swings away in his hammock, idling his time away as usual. The bus arrives in town and out comes Jung-joo, carting a bunch of luggage. She breathes in the sea air with a big smile on her face, and happily greets all the townspeople she meets. One man in particular stops to gaze at her curiously.
Gun-woo is shocked to see her waving from the street as she walks up. There’s this awesome beat where he tries to get out of the hammock gracefully and just kind of topples out.
He asks if she’s here on vacation, but she says that she’s here to live: “I’m going to live here until I die.” To him that’s another meaning entirely, and he looks concerned as she just beams and shakes his hand as his new neighbor.
Jung-joo heads to her new house, and she tries her best to be positive about the place that her life savings has been sunk into. She comes up with: “You have a roof. That’s houselike,” and “Of course there’s no electricity. I guess the bill will be low?”
Gun-woo comes by the house, worried about what it means for a terminal cancer patient to suddenly move down here. He tries to shrug it off like it’s not his concern, but then he hears Jung-joo screaming from inside the house and goes running in to check on her in case she’s in pain.
But the second she cries, “Snake!” he skedaddles out of there so fast you’d think his shoes were on fire. He’s already outside when he calls for her to hurry up and come out before she gets bitten, and tells her that he’s going home. You are such a coward. I can’t stop laughing.
Jung-joo refuses to leave because she has to live here, and braces herself before grabbing a stick to try and kill it. Gun-woo can’t actually bring himself to leave and snaps a reed in half to go help her, but when he gets inside he hangs back and starts reciting statistics on poisonous snakes. LOL.
She’s determined to kill it herself, but when it falls on her, Gun-woo rushes to the rescue and stomps on it repeatedly before running out… when he smacks right into the wall and falls like a board.
It’s only afterwards that Jung-joo discovers that it wasn’t even a snake at all (though that doesn’t keep Gun-woo from jumping at the power cord he killed). She says she’d have been grateful for the rescue if it’d been a real snake, but says that he’s responsible for his own injuries in this case.
He doesn’t see how she could be so calm about a snake, but she answers nonchalantly that the worst that could happen is you get bitten and die. This just feeds his suspicions that she’s facing imminent death, and she fuels it further by saying that this house is the end for her. She means financial rock bottom, not that he understands.
She says that she’s going to pour every last penny she has, down to her severance package from work, into fixing up this house. He calls that a risky gamble, but she says that she trusts him, reminding him of his big speech to her about this town being Jeju’s next big destination. Er, back when he was trying to sell you his failing restaurant? Uh-oh.
Gun-woo listens nervously as Jung-joo outlines her plans to set up a café. She’s under the false assumption that he started his restaurant because his chaebol brother’s connections give him the inside track on sound investments.
At the same time, Poong-san tells the real estate ajusshi that Gun-woo opened Warm and Cozy for one reason only: to impress a girl. Of course you did. They agree that it won’t sell easily, since there’s hardly any tourism on this side of the island and the restaurant is failing.
Jung-joo tells Gun-woo that she wouldn’t have had the courage to drop everything and move down here if it weren’t for him, and he doesn’t have the heart to tell her that he’s full of crap. He cheers her on nervously and sighs at the mess he’s made of things.
Up in Seoul, first love Ji-won stops Gun-woo’s hyung SONG JUNG-GEUN (Lee Sung-jae) to say hello. He’s busy rushing off to Jeju and promises to talk to her later, and Ji-won seems awfully interested when a staffer tells her that he’s expanding the Jeju resort and could use her on the team.
Meanwhile Gun-woo plans to just pack up and leave without trying to sell his restaurant, then stops to wonder whether Jung-joo’s café would do well here. Poong-san scoffs.
Jung-joo is encouraged when she sees two tour buses stop right in front of her house. They’re filled with Chinese tourists, and she counts all the money she’d make with multiple buses daily… only she doesn’t understand what the tour guide is saying: “There is nothing to see here, nothing at all, but we’re stopping in case you need to use the restroom.”
Gun-woo can’t stop worrying about Jung-joo’s gamble, saying that even in horse races you never go all-in on one horse. Poong-san suggests telling her the truth now, before she ends up penniless. Yes, dude, listen to your waiter! He seems smarter than you.
Gun-woo shakes it off and says that she’s an adult and has done all her market research, but is haunted by a vision of her using her last breath to swear vengeance on him as a ghost.
He heads back to find Jung-joo brushing away the cobwebs from her house, and is horrified to learn that she plans to sleep here while fixing up the place. When she heads out in search of a working restroom, he leads her to the house that he rents—right across the street.
She worries about leaving her bags in the street, but he assures her that there are no thieves in Jeju. Uh, that’s going to bite you in the ass later, isn’t it? He hands her a spare key and happily offers up his place for whatever she needs while she’s fixing up her house, insisting that it won’t make him uncomfortable.
He asks her to consult him before making any major decisions about her house too, and she agrees. She accepts the key and stands around awkwardly hoping that he’ll leave so she can poop in peace, and he gets the hint and heads out, though not before making multiple references to her pooping freely, which makes her cringe.
Gun-woo runs into that man on a bike that we saw earlier, and they exchange forced smiles. This is the town’s mayor, HWANG WOOK (Kim Sung-oh), who’s enough of a busybody and a stickler for rules that he regularly reports Gun-woo for mishandling of trash and slaps him with fines.
Gun-woo forces a laugh and says that the town must have a considerable amount of money collected from the fines he’s paid, and says happily that he’s leaving for Seoul soon. Wook seems genuinely happy at that news, and Gun-woo drops the fake smile to snipe that the mayor’s failure to get the main road extended to their town has crushed someone’s dream.
A text from Hyung sends Gun-woo reeling: It’s just a picture of him with Jung-joo and the ominous statement that he’s going to report her for marriage fraud. He realizes that Hyung has jumped to the wrong conclusion that she seduced him and ran off with his money, and Gun-woo goes into a full-on panic when he calls Hyung and hears that he’s outside his house right now.
Gun-woo takes off running, and meanwhile Hyung discovers Jung-joo in the house, looking quite suspicious as she drops to the floor to scoop up loose change that she dropped.
Hyung confronts her and totally gets the wrong idea—that she’s moved in with Gun-woo and is a golddigger—but then when she shows him the 100-won coin that she worked so hard to find, he’s suddenly very curious.
He points out that most people would give up on a 100-won coin, but Jung-joo says that money doesn’t just appear in the ground if you dig, and she’d never give up.
She points out that if she were a con artist, she’d have sold Gun-woo’s expensive furniture instead of dig for her coin, and it’s clear that Hyung is impressed with her. Gun-woo stays outside like the coward that he is and smiles to see that Hyung likes Jung-joo, though he goes overboard and asks if Hyung wants to date her. You earned that knee to the bum, buddy.
Hyung lays down the law that Gun-woo isn’t stepping one foot off this island until his debt is paid back, and he’s cutting off his credit cards too. Gun-woo then gets chastised for a second round with Jung-joo, who can’t believe he turned her into a con artist.
He explains and apologizes for the lie, though he doesn’t seem all that sorry. He’s mostly upset that his plans to head back to Seoul have been derailed now. Jung-joo holds out his spare key, not wanting to get caught up in more misunderstandings, but that makes him pout because she’s always twisting his gestures sideways.
That just makes her defensive and she accuses him of giving her the key for some nefarious reason, and he sputters that he did it because he felt guilty about leaving her alone. The argument actually devolves into: “I have plenty of other places to poop!” She returns the key and leaves in a huff.
She returns to her house only to find her luggage missing, and blames Gun-woo for telling her that there are no thieves in Jeju. He points out that she’s blaming others (which is what she just accused him of doing), but feels bad enough to help her look.
She gets a call from the mayor who found her bags and reported them in case they were illegally disposed trash. She’s huffy about it when she arrives to claim them, and he stares at the bras and underwear sticking out as she digs through her bags.
But when she hears someone call him the mayor, she quickly changes her attitude and thanks him for keeping her stuff safe. Wook offers to let her introduce herself to the town elders since they’re here for a meeting, and the first greeting is met with icy indifference, until she remembers her bag full of underwear.
She dumps it out and tells them that they’re all new items from her last company, and tells them to take whatever they want. That gets everyone smiling and chatting, and Wook is startled to see the label from Sunghan Apparel. He’s familiar with the company and Jung-joo notes that he seems familiar to her too, but he insists that he’s never worked outside of Jeju and deflects her questions.
And in case we missed the brief shot in the first episode, we cut to Jung-joo’s old company where their top seller in men’s underwear is being showcased, and Wook is the model in all the campaigns.
The ajummas ask in their impossible-to-understand Jeju dialect about Jung-joo’s age (29) and marital status, deciding that she could marry their mayor. But the real estate ajusshi tells them that she’s Gun-woo’s girlfriend (he calls her Warm and Cozy’s girl, so she can’t understand in the least).
The one ajumma with laser eyes who can speak both languages, KIM HAE-SHIL (Kim Hee-jung), translates for her here and there. Jung-joo sees everyone’s sour expressions at the mention of Gun-woo and swears that she’s not his girlfriend.
But when she says that she’s here to open up a café, they all sigh and refuse her gifts. To top it off, Gun-woo bursts in and throws his arm around her to introduce her as his friend, and Hae-shil eyes them both warily, deciding that they’re all alike. So much for getting off on the right foot.
Gun-woo helps her carry her bags back, and she asks cautiously if he isn’t very liked around here. It cracks me up that he agrees readily, though he’s legitimately confused as to why: “I’m not the type to be outwardly disliked at all.”
He offers to take her stuff to his place so that she can at least keep her valuables locked up. But he’s surprised when it basically amounts to a small bag of a few things, including an award from her company for seven years of service, which she plans to sell for the gold. Jung-joo sighs to see that it wouldn’t have mattered if she’d been robbed.
Ji-won is disappointed to hear that her chaebol boyfriend is getting married because of a family merger, not that she lets it show. She remains cold and distant as she says that she never thought of him that way, which I’m beginning to see is a pattern with her.
Ugh, and of course the first thing she does is call Gun-woo. Ugh. Ugh. He decides to ignore her call, which I’m taking as a sign of maturity. Gun-woo helps Jung-joo clean up her house a bit, and tells her that he really wouldn’t be uncomfortable if she stayed with him.
She doesn’t want the townspeople to get the wrong idea about her though, when she plans to stick around here long-term. Gun-woo argues that being connected to him wouldn’t be the worst thing: “Someone as young and pretty as you will have all of the ajummas trying to set you up with every aging bachelor here, like that Hwang Wook!”
I love the dreamy look she gets as soon as he calls her pretty, though she argues that the mayor seems like a nice guy and really great catch. Much to his horror, she calls Wook prime marriage material, and says that she’d be lucky to meet a man like that before dying.
At the mention of her dying again, Gun-woo gets super earnest and clutches her hand as he leans in close: “Don’t sell yourself so short, okay?!” Aw. He gets distracted by her long eyelashes and leans in even closer to get another look, and Jung-joo fidgets uncomfortably.
He still doesn’t feel right about her sleeping here, but she informs him that she won’t be staying here for her first night. She plans to head to a lighthouse so that she can watch her very first sunrise in Jeju.
She packs some gear and heads out that night, and is startled when Gun-woo drives up, ready to take her. She thanks him and offers to take pictures of the sunrise for him, but he says he wants to see it for himself, and suggests that they sleep in his car until an hour before sunrise to make the hike.
She has a hard time falling asleep at first (who could, with Gun-woo sleeping so close), but by the time she wakes up, it’s only half an hour till sunrise. Gun-woo says that they’ll miss it by the time they get up there, and Jung-joo looks like she might burst into tears.
She sighs that she told herself that if she caught her first sunrise in Jeju she’d hit the jackpot and if she didn’t, she’d fail. She berates herself for always failing everything, and Gun-woo can see how much this means to her.
He decides that he’ll find a way for her to see the sunrise, and races down the highway to get to a different lighthouse that’ll only require a five-minute hike. They run up the hill, gasping and laughing, and he takes her hand to help her up to the top, just in time to see the sun rise above the ocean.
She’s near tears as she looks out at the horizon, and turns to thank him. She admits, “I was in the dark… but things are looking brighter now.” She gets her emotions in check and closes her eyes to make a wish, and his eyes well up with sincerity as he watches her for a while, before joining her to make a wish.
COMMENTS
Augh, every time I think Gun-woo is infuriatingly childish or too lackadaisical to be taken seriously, he busts out those tiny moments of genuine concern with those… those EYES, and I’m a pile of mushy goo. I do really like the terminal illness misunderstanding in this drama, because it gives an otherwise shallow character a surprising amount of depth. The moments are fleeting because he usually finds some way to brush off his concern and bring things back around to himself, but the way he looks at her in those small moments really sells the potential romance for me. It doesn’t even matter that it’s based on a misunderstanding, because maybe he should take death more seriously, or rather life and what he’s not doing with his.
He’s overall a great guy with genuine concern for Jung-joo as a friend and a sweet disposition that makes him so easy to like (why do I love so much that he’s such a scaredy cat?). But I think that without the fleeting moments of sincerity, he’d also be easy to dismiss as entirely shallow. He certainly acts that way, and I have this feeling like Jung-joo is equal parts relieved and exasperated whenever he pisses her off, like she’s grateful for more practical reasons not to fall in love with him. Because come on, she’s already like three toes in, right?
The second episode better showcased their easy rapport, and I’m really enjoying the natural flow of their camaraderie, from angry and defensive one minute to friendly again the next. Jung-joo is especially easy to root for because she feels so real—not so downtrodden a Candy that it makes me roll my eyes, but a regular girl who works hard and picks herself up when things don’t go her way. Her cousin flittering away her life savings is too convenient a trope, naturally, but where would dramaland romance be without shady real estate contracts and financially irresponsible family members? I like that she moves down with the intention of turning her lemons into lemonade, while to Gun-woo it fits with his misunderstanding that she’s come here to die. I hope for comedy’s sake that he spends most of the drama in the dark about this.
The townsfolk will likely be a great source of fun, and from what we’ve seen of Kim Sung-oh as the mysterious model-turned-persnickety-mayor, I’m going to love the jealousy it induces in Gun-woo every time Jung-joo looks his way. I like Hyung too, because he seems to genuinely love his little bro and is clearly trying to act like a father figure in some way, plus he gets points for taking Jung-joo’s side. I think we could up the zany factor a bit for a Hong sisters drama, but I already love the characters as they are, so I’m hopeful that the laughs will catch up. Because yunno, it’s such a hardship to watch Yoo Yeon-seok offer himself up as a teddy bear.
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1 hanje
May 14, 2015 at 8:26 PM
This second episode really won me over. Not that I didn't like the first episode, I thought it was perfectly fine (with the exception of the the initial twins meet-cute thing which was just confused the hell out of me) but this one really solidified my love for our leads. I love their dynamic, it's not antagonistic, it's actually quite sweet and I find that refreshing. I love that underneath the laziness and the privileged and the immaturity Gun Woo is actually just a really decent nice dude. Yeah, a part of the reason he's being nice to Jung Joo is because he think she's dying, but I get the feeling he'd probably just as nice and helpful even without that fact because that just seems like the kind of guy he is. And Jung Joo is wonderful because yeah, she's not exactly different from the down-on-their-luck heroines we get in kdramas but that's not a problem for me because there's a strength in the way Kang Sora portrays her that shows me that she's someone capable of picking herself back up even when things aren't going her way.
I'm interested to see the other characters in the island fleshed out! Also, really loved that Gun Woo's older bro was totally Team Jung Joo. For a minute there, I thought they might get all cliche on me and have him accuse her of being a gold-digger after Gun Woo's money or something. I'm happy they didn't go that way.
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2 dae_bak
May 14, 2015 at 8:26 PM
AHHHHH I'm already in love with how this is going
I really wish the Hong sisters would up their second female lead game though...I thought there was hope with Master's Sun but this feels like regression
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Nicolette
May 14, 2015 at 8:55 PM
I was thinking the exact same thing. Their second female leads are always so bland and unlikable. Tae Yi Ryung was also unlikable but at least her character brought some quirkiness and humor to Masters Sun. This girl is just so uninteresting that I'm already tempted to skip every scene she is in.
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Scarlett
May 14, 2015 at 10:09 PM
I'm already skipping her parts!
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Kiki
May 15, 2015 at 7:30 AM
Yeah me 2! I'm like girl why r you here lol.
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nomad
May 15, 2015 at 10:04 PM
I think I'd start doing that.
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pigsnout
May 15, 2015 at 1:21 AM
Master's Sun at least used an actress with good comic timing and acting abilities. I reallyenjoyed Little Sun and Kim Yu Ri's performance.
this secon lead in Warm & Cozy though, the actress is totally bland, she just sounds and looks like she is reading from a textbook. No charm, completely uninteresting.
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Jon G.
May 15, 2015 at 2:10 AM
Yep, Kim Yu-ri did a very good job in Master's Sun, but the female second lead roles in the writers' dramas are very ungrateful. They make the actress luck much more bland and boring than necessary.
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3 anglvue
May 14, 2015 at 8:27 PM
i'm so excited for this drama. thanks for the recap!
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4 Peter
May 14, 2015 at 8:29 PM
You guys are so biased lmfao, the first two episodes were not Good.
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lifoser
May 14, 2015 at 8:49 PM
Wow, not good for you. You can't make up other people's mind you know?
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MariD
May 14, 2015 at 9:13 PM
I'm completely ok with people having a different opinion then mine. Yet I always feel that if you are going to say something. You should give more info for your opinion, otherwise it just sounds trollish, no? Anyways it's a free country & we all don't all have to be the same :)
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kalel
May 15, 2015 at 12:10 AM
De gustibus et coloribus, my dear Pete...Everyone's thoughts come from their own heads! There's not such a crime as being biased or being fond of something. Otherwise the world would have been full of "robots" who share the same taste and think alike. Thank God we're not machines; instead we're flawed human beings intitled to our own opinions...all of us.
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hilarious
May 15, 2015 at 3:11 PM
You say it Peter! Unnis will eat you up now! Unless you hate what the majority hates, this is not a very good place to rant without giving reasonable explanation. Sometimes, to call a spade a spade you gotta circumvent it through the other suits! Tiresome and true.
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anabear
May 18, 2015 at 6:22 AM
yeah, I just watched the first two eps and THEY ARE NOT GOOD. I was willing to forgive the cliches, but even the emotional scenes are half-baked. how can you quickly empathize or deeply root for a person you just met once in a birthday party? stop with that fast food romance, please. also, at the moment, I can't see the sincerity of Gun-Woo's affection other than a misconstrued bourgeois guilt.
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5 calicali
May 14, 2015 at 8:35 PM
again I will ask... WHEN DID THEY STOP BECOMING LONG LOST SIBLINGS
this is already driving me nuts and it's only episode.... two? lol
why even introduce that and then have them all flirty and zippy chemistry the very next scene?
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julie
May 15, 2015 at 12:25 AM
I thought they decided that they could not be twins the moment GW's mother dismissed JJ's picture but still there is that secret about GW's father that we do not know of. Nevertheless if GW are aware that JJ is his real twin I think he would have told her. But I could be wrong though
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windsun33
May 15, 2015 at 9:57 AM
If they really wondered about it, it now takes like 2-3 days to get a DNA test done.
But like many k-dramas, they seem to bring these odd points up and then all the characters just forget about them. Makes me wonder if Koreans in dramas ever ever have any curiosity about anything, because they seem to miss so many obvious clues and never follow up on them.
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windsun33
May 15, 2015 at 9:54 AM
Yeah, I am still not getting that part. It was like they went from actual twins to lovers in one episode. And what was with that 3 second flashback scene at the end of ep1 where the mother was looking at the photo?
Not sure where this is going, but so far lots of holes to fill in.
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6 Jehphg
May 14, 2015 at 8:39 PM
those EYES indeed. Jesus! I'm loving it right now, it can get better of course but i was really needing some warm and light rom-com. Besides, yoo yeon-seok right? Loved the recap!
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7 Calzeralzer
May 14, 2015 at 8:40 PM
I liked the second episode much more than the first but I don't think I am completely on board yet, have to watch more to see where it all goes.
The only thing that worries me is that the whole "we're related" thing will come back later and ruin everything in the most cliched way possible. They should have just done the paternity test ten years ago to just be 100% positive and then we could all happily move on with life and not have to worry that in episode 10, after they have completely fallen in love, they pull the twincest into play. This is what's been on the back of my mind through the first two episodes.
Anyway, Thanks for the recap!!
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Jon G.
May 15, 2015 at 2:03 AM
I'm with you here. Knowing a little bit about the writers, I had low expectations for the pilot and was still a bit disappointed, but I was positively surprised by the second episode.
The strange thing is: Many of the things that bothered me about the first episode were completely unnecessary for the second episode:
If you cut the whole twin story from the pilot, that has zero effect on the second episode. Why did they crammed that into the first few minutes if they don't need it in this stage of the show anyway? Either it was supposed to be a throw-away joke playing with the Fauxcest trope (then it didn't work for me); or they will get back to that later, but why waste your pilot time and tempo on that?
Jung-joo's long, deep crush on Gun-woo, extremely clumsily introduced in the pilot, is completely redundant by now. The episode would work just as well (or even better) if you omit that whole part from the first episode.
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Lixie
May 15, 2015 at 8:45 AM
>they will get back to that later, but why waste your pilot time and tempo on that?
Both. The Hong Sisters love to make fun of tropes and quite often they have sacrificed logic in the name of a joke. I wish they wouldn't but that's part of their game. It will also obviously come back later but I hope it will play a very small part in the plot.
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8 KDaddict?JCW
May 14, 2015 at 8:43 PM
I don’t need to empathise with everyone in a KD, but if I can’t empathise with the heroine, then everything that happens on screen is just white noise to me.
I have a Qn or 2:
1. Would You send sb to buy your 1st home for you? I don’t know anybody who would, but maybe I just don’t know enough ppl.
Let’s say, you don’t care about seeing it w your own eyes before buying (really?), still, when the person you send signs the purchase agreement, doesn’t that make it His property, Not yours? Wow, in what way can that turn out well for her?
OK, let’s say he signed, payment isn’t immediate, is it? So when you find out you don’t like the property, you just don’t pay. Don’t tell me you’ve given him the CASH that is your life savings in a tote bag to pay up right then and there. IDK, I just can’t get over this ‘little detail’, so that when she moves to Jeju into that abandoned hut, instead of feeling n rooting for her, I just sit wide-eyed w disbelief.
2. She planned, collected evidence and saved up for 6 months to go meet her ‘maybe birth mom’. Her best plan is to ambush her at a party, where there are Other People. How is That supposed to go well? She will want to admit that she has an unknown child hidden somewhere, face and reputation be damned?
And she spills the beans and offers up all her evidence to her ‘maybe twin brother’ 10 secs after seeing him, NOT the mom she’s been wanting to confront. If it’s him she wanted to talk to, why not do so on campus? He said that Mom winters on Jeju, summers in Hawaii, and they live in Seoul. She must have been able to find out their Seoul address from his blog. What’s wrong with quietly waiting to talk to mom outside their Seoul residence, thus saving herself a hard earned plane fare?
I know, without the above 2 “Plot points", we can’t get her to move to Jeju, which is really the star of the show. We can’t forget That. Is the Jeju Tourism Dept financing this show?
I’m not getting my "panties all twisted”; I know full well not to take KDs seriously, esp. sthg as light and breezy as this one, but when the writers start with ridiculous plot holes too large for me to transverse, I find it difficult to follow where they want to lead me emotionally. And I want desperately to be able to follow.
Also agree w others that:
1. Kang So Ra is strangely unengaging in this role. I love her more than most actresses of her cohort, but here she gives me the feeling that she has wandered onto the wrong set;
2. YYS’s char is sweet and warm, but YYS is just Too thin. Every time he is on screen, it pains me to see him having no flesh on his face. Is this about that Korean obsession over a “small” face again?
But then, you can’t beat the visuals. If all else fails, I'm going to mute the sucker, and just watch for the cinematography. That scene of the sunrise makes me want to move to Jeju too. Who needs Logic when everything looks so beautiful.
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smileovermyface
May 14, 2015 at 11:10 PM
for the first one -> power of attorney.
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KDaddict?JCW
May 15, 2015 at 2:54 AM
I was going to say, Ok, IF she had given him power of attorney, but so far, she doesn't seem that kind of person, and this doesn't seem like that kind of script.
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Jon G.
May 15, 2015 at 2:26 AM
(1) Yes, that was rather irresponsible of her. It's not impossible though: You can authorise another person to sign contracts for you. And once the contract is signed, well, if you don't pay, that doesn't exactly help you. You still owe that money.
Like you, I would be inclined to think: "Well, stupid you, you had it coming." I'm not completely sure whether that IS what I am supposed to think (or the writers try to invoke "the one who suffers is always right" clause), especially that now in the second episode, she continues with her very short-sighted and failure-prone practices. Gun-woo even calls her out on that one.
It doesn't really change the fact that I'm willing to root for her though. I'm an equal opportunity rooter, I root for "stupid" people too.
(2) That was so extremely clumsily written that I cannot deduct any points for that from her character.
KSR acting was, for me, much more enjoyable in this episode than in the pilot. Much less scenes that screamed "Dream High 2" in my face, much more scenes that allowed her to show some of her skills instead just her lackings. I'm still not completely convinced with her casting, but I see that the role deviates from the stock Hong-female-lead in the right direction for KSR.
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KDaddict?JCW
May 15, 2015 at 3:02 AM
Given how she planned and then executed her attempt to contact her mom, arranging a power of attorney would be quite out of char for her, and for this type of writing so far.
You are a good person for being an Eq O Rooter. My parents taught me to always look where I'm going, mind my step, etc. They've instilled in me a sense that one is responsible for the consequences of one's own actions. But I'm sure that given all the cuteness, I'll forget about her digging her own hole in the ground soon enough, that is If the writers don't keep piling on more.
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riri123
May 15, 2015 at 10:48 AM
For the first question, LJJ has been described as a reckless character which you can see from her action planning to invest all of her money to a house when she hasn't even done a proper market research, so I think her that might be done on purpose to both describe how LJJ's character is and to make the plot flows easier at the same time. BGW and Poong San even pointed out at how reckless she was for doing that. If BGW wasn't being so nice and caring to tell her to consult to him first, LJJ might be a beggar for real (though it's partly his fault to not tell her the truth)
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KDAddict
May 15, 2015 at 3:57 AM
My understanding from the first episode is that she had seen property (when her cousin said the view was the best in Korea, she said there was supposed to be another property blocking her view) before but needed her cousin to sign the contract because she had to be at work. Remember she was speculating about her job trying to fire her. She even had a floor plan hanging on her bedroom wall, making me think her intended property was different from the dump. The cousin instead went to the dump. The view made the dump the dream place for his cafe.
BTW, I know people who have had someone else sign off contracts on their behalf because of work schedule.
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KDaddict?JCW
May 15, 2015 at 7:19 AM
@KDAddict,
I just want you to know that my handle has always been KDaddict. It's bcos of you that I tag on the
"?JCW" at the end now. I'm really surprised that this blog allows 2 persons to register with the same handle.
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windsun33
May 15, 2015 at 10:05 AM
I agree, especially with #1. At the very least I would expect her to ask for some pictures (which could be faked, but at least SOMETHING). Yet here she is buying what is probably in the $100K to $300K range, and she never bothers to actually go look at it, despite the fact that she can barely afford shoes. It just makes zero sense.
She does not seem to be real big on planning anything, doing any basic research, or even actual logic. Somehow she extrapolates a Chinese group pee-break into delusions of swarms of tourists.
So far this is looking more like a travelogue of Jeju than a real drama. like with an actual plot and stuff.
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KPopCurious
May 15, 2015 at 3:05 PM
I cannot understand how everyone is going ga-ga over the drama already, it is actually slower than many other dramas that have openly been hated for their pace here on Dramabeans. Plot is full of holes, actors do indeed look out of place, and there is very little happening on scree (except the beautiful Jeju!). I am all up for boat rides and cozy twosomes, sunsets & conversations (think Linklater), but this just doesn't shiver me timbers! I will hope that Hong Sisters would have something appealing set-up for this story and live up to the standards they have set in the past. We'll make up our mind won't be, in the next few episodes!
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windsun33
May 15, 2015 at 4:55 PM
I certainly am not going ga-ga over it. So far it looks like a typical k-drama with nothing really new or especially original about it. The girl seems to be really stupid, and I hate stupid leads.
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KPopCurious
May 15, 2015 at 6:44 PM
@windsun33 was just agreeing with KDaddict?JCW. Surely this drama will see better days in future! Jeju Land, work thy magic!
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ara
May 18, 2015 at 2:33 AM
1. simply it is a rural area and her brother, she didn't knew he would do that and the document will out later
most village just buy under other name that been given authority, I mean it is easy to just sell it and get the money because in village, we believe each other
2. I think of it in simple way, she wants to live like him, she wants to be affordable and she believe she will be accepted
but after seeing that she realize people life is like how we life, it's not about randomly being a family but yeah why if she would not be welcome and she is in high school, she needs money for college and had hope to her mom but then she might think it was not relevant anymore
the writing is sloppy, and the editing is rush but then I feel that the show point on the lead interaction which is my meat, ^-^
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9 songsong
May 14, 2015 at 8:46 PM
Thank you JB for the recap of episode 2!
I am with you, at the end of ep 2 when YYS gave KSR that look.I just go jelly! Ah he's great, such expressive eyes & feel.
I love KSR expression when she was trying to hold back when YYS was going closer to her & taking notice of her eyelashes... & both that relief & happiness feeling that she showed at the end when she gets to see the sunrise.
How not to like these two leads?! The other characters like the mayor & Geun Woo hyung were great too. Mayor is also very likable & his facial expression is priceless, so funny. The story is moving along....&I am really warming up to this drama & the characters, can't wait for next week episodes.
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10 fgb4877
May 14, 2015 at 8:47 PM
Thanks GF for this recap. Pacing in this one seems to be very relaxed, hope it gives us more time to experience the characters until the craziness begins ;) .
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11 kobrakiddo
May 14, 2015 at 8:50 PM
Thanks for the recap!
Just done with this episode, still not buying the whole plot yet, it feels jarring to me. Due to the lack of a proper backstory maybe? But since it's a rom-com I'm going to just enjoy the scenery and the chemistry between those two which TOTALLY won me over in this episode. Gun-Woo is way too adorable and nice! I wouldn't care if he's lazy and incompetent, because honestly which girl wouldn't fall for his gazes ah.:'D
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12 songsong
May 14, 2015 at 8:54 PM
DB your recaps and comments are such a great read that I have told my friends about this space. Hope they will enjoy the ride as well.
Warm & Cozy fighting!!!
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13 mitta
May 14, 2015 at 8:56 PM
Haven't had a chance to start this one yet thought it is on my watch list. Was really looking forward to this one until early reviews of episode 1 got me worried. :(
Glad to see redemption in episode 2! Catching up this weekend!
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14 maddragonqueen
May 14, 2015 at 9:03 PM
I think I might be in trouble. I've always had the biggest crush on Kim Sung Oh and I already love his underwear-model moonlighting mayor character. I think I am headed straight into second lead syndrome... =(
I am loving this show though! Hong sisters will forever and always be the best!! And Kang So Ra is kicking butt!!! Her character is not what I expected based on the descriptions, and it's fantastic!! I was thinking she'd be this shrill, overwrought, work-until-you're-dead type(which I've seen in many a drama... although to be fair, I should've given Hong sisters more credit; they write strong heroines). But I love her. She's just emotional and ineffective. Story of my life.
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songsong
May 14, 2015 at 9:23 PM
Yeah Kang Sora is better than I thought as Jung Joo. I think it she will get even better as the character Jung Joo transforms.
And Yoo Yeon Seok is nailing it as the manchild Geun Woo.
I just love Kim Sung Oh, such a delight to watch here as the mayor & ex-model?? Haha....
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maddragonqueen
May 14, 2015 at 9:38 PM
Agreed. It's not really that Yoo Yeon Seok isn't great and adorable in this. It's just that my enormous crush on Kim Sung Oh is so long-standing that I am powerless against it. I will love him. I will ship with him Jung Joo. And I will have my heart broken. (sigh)
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Stephanie
May 15, 2015 at 9:35 PM
I am right there with you in second lead syndrome already. I am doomed. I don't hate YYS, he is actually really sweet so far, but the embarrassed ex model seems a more interesting character overall. I love that he is purposely fining the rich inlander whenever possible. Hah!
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15 MariD
May 14, 2015 at 9:09 PM
Call me bias!! I don't care. I like the slow pace of the show. I love the scenery. I love the leads! There was so much cute in today's episode! Also how hilarious is that the mayor used to be an underwear model?
I'm very amused by the big misunderstanding, but it helps in showing us that our boy is not just a lazy rich bum. He cares, he's just slow in his caring process...
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smeebean
May 15, 2015 at 6:54 AM
Agree completely! I love the slow relaxed pace and the cute. And the misunderstanding! Perfect drama to relax after a stressful day.
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nomad
May 15, 2015 at 10:29 PM
I actually enjoy the slow pace too. I just finished Unkind women, which is a really slow paced drama, and totally enjoyed the ride...so it's nice to have something like this to replace it. No urge to have to see the next episode, but enjoyable nevertheless.
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alcoholicbubbletea
May 16, 2015 at 5:01 AM
+1
Bahhahahaha one of the main reasons why i enjoy reading DB is bc they ARE biased. Anything with YYS/LSG in it they will like it. And i happen to like them both.
Also why are people so bothered with DB being biased? I just avoid DB when i dont agree with them. Its their blog anyway.
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16 panshel
May 14, 2015 at 9:41 PM
Cliche or not, I am enjoying the heck out of Gun Woo's terminal illness misunderstanding. It is adorable seeing him falling over himself to help a cancer patient. The only downside is Jung Joo is going to fall even harder for him from all his sweet gestures. Who can resist a guy who offers to watch the sunrise with you? Or one who stretches his arms out for a hug when you're covered in horse manure?
Gosh I hope his sales pitch comes true, and this town becomes the next big Jeju-do tourist attraction. I can't bear to see her cafe fail. How could he willingly rent a house next to a rundown home, though? I would be terrified of what is living inside, and I'm not talking about snakes. It is surprising Jung Joo did not recognize the town mayor since she had been scrubbing his underwear picture for the past seven years.
Thanks for the recap, girlfriday!
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mary
May 15, 2015 at 2:44 AM
Maybe she wasn't looking at his face. Heeheeheeeee~
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songsong
May 15, 2015 at 7:06 AM
Haha true because the face is not the main star of that picture!
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Z
May 15, 2015 at 10:14 AM
His head is tilted down in the picture as well so you can't see his whole face.
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rjyuggy
May 15, 2015 at 6:10 PM
She's looking at head...not on the face. If you know what I mean.
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Stephanie
May 15, 2015 at 9:39 PM
It is beginning to look like she will be helping out at the restaurant instead of starting the cafe. At least for now. What she needs if she DOES set up a cafe is gear it towards the locals, not the tourists. The diver women walk by at least twice a day. I'd actually like to see her get to know the townspeople better and build a place specifically with them in mind.
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17 crazedlu
May 14, 2015 at 9:45 PM
Need... bear..... in my life. Guhhhhh. Liking it so far. :D
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18 lifoser
May 14, 2015 at 9:46 PM
The way he looked at her at the end.. ME DEAD!! And that butterfly song from the ost..my god
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songsong
May 15, 2015 at 2:17 AM
I like both the OST - Butterfly and Thank U.
There is another one played when Jung Joo was taking the seaweed soup from Geun Woo. Don't know the tittle. Sonds great too!
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mil
June 12, 2015 at 3:17 PM
do you know what is the song when Jung Joo was taking the seaweed soup from Geun Woo?
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19 talen
May 14, 2015 at 10:21 PM
Thanks girlfriday for yet another enjoyable recap.
I really liked the first two episodes and although it's still early days yet, it's the first show in months that I'm eagerly waiting for the next episode.
Sure, there are plot holes, but this show is so light and fuzzy I don't think it's worth analysing them at the moment. I love the slow pace, the beautiful scenery (the production is doing a great job in promoting Jeju island, I would love to go one day), and the leads are really cute together (Yoo Yeon-seok sweetie-pie!).
As other people have mentioned. I'm iffy about this whole twin story line and hope it gets resolved quickly. I know they are not related but just the slightest implication doesn't sit comfortably with me.
I'm enjoying all the characters so far (hot bod Mayor was a nice surprise), even the clichéd second female lead. I despise her so much that even a missed call to Gun-woo makes my blood boil.
I'm looking forward to the relationship development and hope for a warm and cosy feel all the way through to the finale.
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20 Z
May 14, 2015 at 10:28 PM
1) Second episode was much beet than the first, though I enjoyed them both. Still waiting for a little more of the Zany because that's my wheelhouse.
2) That Staring Ahjumma is somebody's Mother. You heard it hear first.
3) The Terminal Illness is pure gold! I hope they don't clear that up until the second ro last episode. His bouts of sincerity art the thought of her dying are both hilarious and sexy.
4) I Love Hyung and the Mayor already, I hope they both fall for her and we get an Epic Love Polygon of Comedy.
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Chandler
May 14, 2015 at 10:34 PM
"That Staring Ahjumma is somebody’s Mother. You heard it hear first." - Oh totally. LOL, it's so obvious.
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Redge
May 14, 2015 at 10:55 PM
Re: #2
Absolutely! Lol. Those lingering shots, I know what you're up to, PD!
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jomo143
May 15, 2015 at 7:55 AM
Unless,they want us to fall into that belief, and we find out it is her brother's kid, or sister's? I know it still a cliche, but at least it wouldn't be as OBVIOUS .
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Z
May 15, 2015 at 10:16 AM
Could be... but she shares some DNA with somebody on this show... and I bet she totally knows it already.
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21 stars4u
May 14, 2015 at 10:59 PM
Please don't tell me I'm the only one who stretched out my arms when Gun-woo offered up to be a teddy bear!!!
Who would refuse that?
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songsong
May 15, 2015 at 2:18 AM
Me too! Hahaha...
I am bitten by this pair of ant & grasshopper! Love this couple!
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lhej
May 15, 2015 at 4:12 AM
When he offered himself as a punching bag, I said no way! But when he stretched his arms for a hug...I shouted at JJ to go for it! When she didn’t, well I stretched my arms instead. Thanks GF for the recap!
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22 Khule WY
May 14, 2015 at 11:06 PM
If I didn't know this show Is a hong sisters drama, I would never have guessed there is no meta or zany response, bit dissapointed
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23 cheekbones
May 14, 2015 at 11:19 PM
The Hong Sisters and their inclination to poopy jokes. I should have known, I read the recap while having my lunch.
Who wouldn't fall for Gun-woo ? And I just read the recaps. :)
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24 dramafan100
May 14, 2015 at 11:48 PM
Just curious. I am assuming you all watched masters son. If Masters son was 10, how would you score this one? 8? 9? 5?
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Redge
May 15, 2015 at 12:21 AM
I think it's too early to tell right now. A clear rating would be done when all the episodes of WAC has aired.
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windsun33
May 15, 2015 at 10:11 AM
Masters SUN.. but so far not overly impressed. Too early to tell, but so far seems pretty predictable. Just based on 2 episodes would give it 6 or 7.
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bd5
May 16, 2015 at 3:02 AM
MS was a 7, maybe an 8.
This, thus far is a 2.
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25 Redge
May 15, 2015 at 12:18 AM
YYS has seriously mastered the longing look, my achilles heel in watching drama. I'm in love.
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Elena
May 15, 2015 at 11:11 AM
Yep, his gaze is one of his strongest points, you can feel his desire when he is around the girl he likes. It feels real, and it's so sexy...I think this is why I fell for Chilbonggie, and now for Gun-woo :D
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26 churrah
May 15, 2015 at 1:46 AM
Usually dramas with a slower pace aren't really my thing, but I'm really enjoying this one. Somehow, this show manages to keep me engaged (or maybe it's YYS who is unbelievably cute!!!) Also can I say, how GORGEOUS is this drama? The vivid scenery and colour is stunning.
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27 Jon G.
May 15, 2015 at 1:50 AM
Wow, gf, you write your recaps faster than I can watch the show.
The misunderstanding trope, I agree, is used pretty neatly in here. Instead of a divergent force in the second half of the drama, it is used as a subtle convergent force at the very beginning. The double meaning dialogue can now be used for touching comic purposes (instead of frustratingly unnecessary tragic ones, as the much more popular use of the trope does), and it proves surprisingly effective for character establishment.
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28 PeepsLeAwesomePotato
May 15, 2015 at 3:02 AM
HAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAA! He is a fool, he is an idiot, he is such a teenager, I luff him! Even the way he runs screams "immature mommy's boy".
I watched the episode and at the end there's a recipe for Jeju-conch-seaweed soup and Yoo YeonSeok narrates the segment. But somehow, I think he narrates it IN CHARACTER, as in I don't see/hear Yoo YeonSeok narrating it but GeonWoo.
I am stoked for Kang SoRa and her character from now on.
I know some are complaining about plot holes, but I'm just here for the warm and cozy. My brain isn't even recognizing those plot-holes as they appear. Although for some reason, I don't feel like the scenes mesh smoothly together... ...
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29 tura
May 15, 2015 at 3:20 AM
I love GW so much and this drama reminds me of y I love Korean dramas. Model Mayor, Hyung and the locals, *squeals* this is going to be so much fun, can't wait for next week.
YYS oppa saranghae
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30 smileovermyface
May 15, 2015 at 3:42 AM
so far it's look like they're making fun/parodying all typical makjang dramas moments.
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songsong
May 15, 2015 at 5:46 AM
Yup those were brilliant lol.
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risa
May 15, 2015 at 6:12 AM
Yeah, it seems the tropes of yore are getting their own cameo appearance.
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31 ihur
May 15, 2015 at 4:00 AM
This show could be renamed from warm and cozy to 'lazy and breezy'.
The second ep was a little more coherent than the first. But I'm missing that fun and bubbly flavour and that I expected. I guess they are not aiming for zippy and swoosh anyway so will have to live with it.
The thing is that sometimes it reminded me of the vineyard man, one of the first dramas I watched which was rather silly in the beginning but really tugged my heart towards the end. It left a sweet aftertaste. I guess this show will be somewhat similar in tone.
Hoping it gets better with each successive episode now that the Jeju cohabitation plot is settled.
Btw Yys looks so pale overall in this lighter hair color, really wish he could do something with his hair. A girl can only wish, right.
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32 Sam
May 15, 2015 at 5:31 AM
Thanks no end for the always great recap! I too am in heavy "Like" with this Kdrama! Actually I'm loving it!.. except for this Very Uncomfortable Feeling I have about the two leads biological relationship. The "fear" that they Might have this biological connection is distracting my emotions from comfortably cheering the adorable couple on! :) I love the Hong sisters and I'm already impatient to see the next episode! :) lol
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songsong
May 15, 2015 at 5:49 AM
Cast away your fear & just enjoy the drama at the moment. Later if the worse happens then we go cry together lol. Can't wait for next Wednesday & Thursday!
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33 risa
May 15, 2015 at 6:04 AM
Gun-woo is such a big ol' softie! Our poor hearts are gonna be absolute mush by the end of this, arent't they?! And yay for getting so many OTP moments in this episode. It's refreshing to have an OTP made up of two nice people who treat each other well from the get-go.
I'm sure it's super expensive, but they really should base more dramas in Jeju. The view porn adds so much. I'm dying to go there and to eat at The Warm and Cozy restaurant!
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Elena
May 15, 2015 at 11:23 AM
Yeah, I also feel like packing my things and flying to Jeju, so I can spend my days hanging around with YYS and the diver ahjummas. I don't mind to live in a rickety shed :D
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34 mj22099999
May 15, 2015 at 6:25 AM
Really love this episode, btw anybody knows the ratings ? For episode 1 and 2 ?
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Jon G.
May 15, 2015 at 7:54 AM
The ratings are worse than "Angry Mom" before, too low to show up in the top 20. I guess somewhere in the 7% area (Nation-wide).
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soapbox
May 15, 2015 at 8:09 AM
Episode 1: 6.3%
Episode 2: 5.6%
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mj22099999
May 15, 2015 at 9:29 AM
Too bad, hope it will improving XD.
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35 apple Pie
May 15, 2015 at 7:43 AM
hv viewed several times to see how YYS run away from snake, did not think he made this reaction , can't stop from laughing , HA HA HA !!!!
how he can act like this way !
also saw the make up film, how YYS made KSR laughing and made her embarrassed when he put the underwear close to her , HA HA HA !!!!
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songsong
May 15, 2015 at 8:14 AM
Yeah YYS or rather Geun Woo running away rom the "snake" was priceless and the expression from Sora was pure gold lol.
Started feeling warm & cozy from episode 2.
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songsong
May 15, 2015 at 8:15 AM
* from* not rom (typo)
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lifoser
May 15, 2015 at 9:19 AM
Lol i know when he took a bra and started measuring it on kang sora and she started hitting him with her script!!! Soooo funny
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Apple Pie
May 15, 2015 at 10:10 AM
YES ! love this more natural even funny then the script ah
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songsong
May 15, 2015 at 8:43 PM
Really? You guys are killing me! You mean they are already so close in real life haha.
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lifoser
May 15, 2015 at 11:00 PM
Yes, my babies, are so cute together. Ship them so hard!!
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Maru Hime
May 18, 2015 at 4:52 AM
what's the link, pretty please?
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36 kanz
May 15, 2015 at 8:26 AM
Where can I find my own Geon Woo?? Seriously Baek Geon Woo is really boyfriend/husband material! Even though he seems lazy and ignorant, he's actually really kind and considerate! And he's cute too! :)
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fishfingers_fb
May 17, 2015 at 4:02 PM
and rich
you forgot rich
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37 masquerade
May 15, 2015 at 8:44 AM
Wonderful fuzzy warm episode. Can't waiiiit for more. Mmm. I see hints that the translator lady is Jung-joo's mother though ...
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38 onyxx
May 15, 2015 at 10:00 AM
hmmm... this sounds promising. maybe i'll check out the next episode as well :)
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lifoser
May 15, 2015 at 10:58 PM
Yes, definitely check it out
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39 Yuki
May 15, 2015 at 12:01 PM
Thanks GF for the recap! I agree with most of it, especially the parts about YYS's charms, haha!!
I am here for the warm and cozy feeling, and mainly YYS :D so I do not care much about plot holes, Gun-woo offering himself as a teddy bear compensates for everything, haha!!
And I already forgot about episode 1, which was not very consistent...Anyway, I have to confess that I keep some faith in the Hong sisters. Even in their worst shows they made me laugh and feel butterflies in the stomach during the romantic moments...I hope they have not lost all their talent and this will be at least a funny and romantic ride.
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40 lifoser
May 15, 2015 at 10:59 PM
YYS and KSR really look alike, this is sooo cute.
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alcoholicbubbletea
May 16, 2015 at 5:10 AM
I think hongsis did the whole twin thing only to channel our thoughts when we found out theyre leading actors. So alike they could be twins!
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41 bd5
May 16, 2015 at 2:59 AM
The 2nd ep was a bit better, but still hardly something noteworthy.
W&C would have been better served starting off w/ Jung-joo moving to Jeju and skipping the horrible 1st ep and the 1st 3rd of the 2nd ep (where Jung-woo goes back to Seoul).
Still the whole premise of Gun-woo being nice to Jung-joo in part due to thinking she has cancer over a misunderstanding (already w/ the misunderstandings, not to mention way too many coincidental meetings already) is a pretty weak one (mints in a painkiller vial).
And I know the Hong sisters went w/ the dilapitated house for comic effect, but they went too far (too obvious) and the whole water hose mistaken as a snake gag - c'mon now.
And the whole scene w/ the underwear and the town elders was just weird (for someone moving to a new place w/ all her worldly possessions in 2 bags, why the heck would JJ bring all those undergarments from her previous employer?).
Kang So-ra is overacting a bit here (I'm guessing that she or the PD thinks that comedy, not that there has been much here, requires over-exaggeration).
And all that fuss over missing the sun-rise when Gun-woo could have just driven there in the 1st place? (Btw, the stylist needs to do a better job w/ YYS's hair.
Seems like "Producer" is off and running w/ a bang and laughed more during the opening sequence of Ex-GF Club than the entire 2 eps of W&C.
If the Hong sisters stop trying to force in weak jokes and ridiculous circumstances and just concentrate on the natural and steady growth in the relationship btwn the 2 leads (don't know what the point is w/ the other girl) - this could be pretty decent.
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alcoholicbubbletea
May 16, 2015 at 5:08 AM
Heh i dont like ex gf club at all. And i thought KSR did a good job playing jung joo. Hongsis romcoms are great because of the overacting leads imo (chunhyang, my girl, gumiho).
Good thing theres producer so you can leave your frustration and drop this drama!
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bd5
May 16, 2015 at 2:13 PM
"My Girl" was annoying as heck due to the overacting by LDH and for MGIAG. Shina Mina's natural and charming acting saved it from LSG's overacting.
And there's a big difference btwn overacting (bad) and a character being over-the-top (to show the ridiculousness of the situation) such as Dokko Jin (which was a great character) in "Best Love."
While the character Dokko Jin had his more outlandish moments/character traits/mannerisms - CSW being the adept comic actor that he is was able to keep the character from being a mere caricature, in addition to keeping the emotional moments true by his realistic acting.
Same goes for Gong Hyo-jin in "Master's Sun" - her character was eccentric but she brought a realism and real emotion to it.
This is what gifted comic actors can do.
The others are just bad overacting (can add in Sung Yuri in HGD as well to the long list of bad over-acting in Hong sister dramas).
And the blame for this is mostly the writing and the PD.
Take Yoon Eun-hye in "Coffee Prince" and in "Goong" - she horribly overacted (esp. overdoing it w/ the fake cutesy stuff) in Goong probably due to the writer and PD thinking that was cute/funny and did her best acting in CP - which also was a lot funnier than Goong since it actually had funny lines/moments which is all due to the superior writing.
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anabear
May 18, 2015 at 7:03 AM
exgf club > w&c
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42 Sur
May 16, 2015 at 6:45 AM
I get it why it was supposed to be called Jeju Island Gatsby! Didn't the guy build the Cafe for his first love? And then I suppose our heroine is playing the part of admirer Nick! But if that was the analogy they wanted to build, its not working XD
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43 alcoholicbubbletea
May 16, 2015 at 7:04 AM
Im crossing my fingers so hard for this drama. If this one fails i have no other drama to watch T.T im liking the first two but i hope it wont be cut short bc rating is lowww :(
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44 Apple Pie
May 16, 2015 at 8:16 AM
Sorry, I always concentrated on the pictures, I just want to say that there were too much close up and the close up [ the angle ], not shown the best of the actors especially YYS , still thinking that the crew not very good at catching the best look of the actors >.< can't they make change of their way of filming .........
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45 riarallahssi
May 16, 2015 at 11:19 PM
I'm joining the wagon on this one because it's so flat, warm and cozy and I'm at that point where I'm looking for a drama that's just that ---no overeager plot twists, whatsoever. The Master Sun cameo was totally crazy for me. Seriously Hong Sisters. And then there's our female lead in a Russian sales team which is most definitely a joke cut out from the first episode of Misaeng. Ha. Ha.
Some points of the directing were a little bland, almost close to being boring but I like the visuals in this drama so I'm sticking around. I still totally like the YYS-KSR pairing. I just wish the directing geared for more comedy, as in the type that blows heads off. It has a lot of potential for a great comedy if perhaps the PDs would loosen up a bit? But that's just me. Some parts of the drama felt stiff and connived and both YYS and KSR strike me as heavy drama actors so that's difficult to shrug off. Anyway, still watching and I hope they go to the set drunk just so there'll be more fun. LOL.
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46 kim45
May 17, 2015 at 3:19 AM
Aww I was kind of bored...I loved So Ji-Sub's cameo last episode and was looking forward to another one...since the articles all said he would be in the first TWO episodes :(
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47 ara
May 18, 2015 at 2:40 AM
maybe it just me but I don't quite care since it just a lovely drama,
I just love the characters than the plot, they all already been flesh out for me
even the 2nd lady who is going after rich men to marry and being expressionless, never satisfied and like to say sweet false promise
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48 aerecho
May 18, 2015 at 6:11 PM
<333
Finally the Hong sisters flavor that I like is back. Haven't liked their drama so much since Best Love.
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49 yayabean
May 19, 2015 at 10:32 PM
Woo-hoo! I'm in! This second episode won me over...and just in time for ep 3.
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50 Boon Ang
July 13, 2015 at 6:56 PM
Thanks for accurate recap and insightful comments. I have always enjoyed reviews and recaps on this site, especially by you and javabeans.
In this episode, the Hong sisters have managed to develop the plot and characters further. Besides the leads, I also find the character Ji Won interesting. As a non-Korean, I observe the food motif (food as love symbol) again in this drama. Seems like food and feeding another is "message of love" in Korean and other Asian cultures.
I guess that's what gets us "salivating" for Kdramas. And I mean it literally - all the yummy "see-food" (ooops, it was a Freudian slip. I mean "seafood") noodles, especially the abalones.
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