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Post by ginnycat5 on Jan 13, 2006 12:41:19 GMT -5
Yikes, the boy has a two-month job, gets paid for one month's work, and apparently blows his whole salary in 3 days! He going to have bag lunches, if he's lucky, and have to walk to work. He doesn't seem mature enough to get married, imo. It's probably a good thing Hae-in is toying with him; if she accepted, I can see him on a leash, the way her father has her mother.
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Post by BAE on Jan 13, 2006 17:40:45 GMT -5
Hae-in can sense that an ordinary nam would not go to such great lengths to feed his "friend" sushi. That maybe he actually cares for her as more than just a friend. She just keeps brushing it off. Why can't she just point out his weak points like the lack of money and his irresponsible nature and such, instead of breaking his heart after what he's done, you know? It is just too evil.
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Post by meian on Jan 13, 2006 21:26:48 GMT -5
off topic: does anyone of you know what kind (brand & model number) of cellphone Kiwoong has? any ideas what it is?
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Post by BAE on Jan 17, 2006 19:28:49 GMT -5
Sweet guy worked so hard to get hae-in the tickets and then he gave suk-hyun the credit? He must really want hae-in to be happy with whomever she's with.
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Post by Teresa on Jan 18, 2006 8:39:11 GMT -5
I love Kiwoong's sunny personality and optimism. It seems external forces (Haein, Sukhyun and Nara) are always conspiring to dash the joy out of him, but he keeps bouncing back, brimming with enthusiasm. I'm anxious that one of them will have squashed him like a bug one too many times and he'll turn grim. Hey, maybe that's what happened to grumpy Byung-doo? Can we see a younger Byung-doo as a romantic, optimist wooing his future wife?
Nah... didn't think so.
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Post by galacticchick on Jan 18, 2006 11:39:15 GMT -5
Kiwoong is actually pretty cute too. I mean out of the two of them Suhyuk (sp?) is the more stricking, but Kiwoong is a handsome guy and has the personality to match!
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Post by Lucy on Jan 18, 2006 11:46:00 GMT -5
I agree about Ki-woong. He is a good guy and cute to boot.
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Post by BAE on Jan 18, 2006 21:26:24 GMT -5
I found it cute how he couldn't believe that Sukhyun would do such a thing to someone. By locking them in a studio and taunting them, I mean. what, has kiwoong been oblivious to Sukhyun's behavior all these years?
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Post by Teresa on Jan 19, 2006 2:39:57 GMT -5
The whole Kiwoong/Sukhyun relationship is interesting to me. As I understand Korean culture, Sukhyun is supposed to show a certain level of deference to Kiwoong, him being the oldest grandson. Sukhyun would do well to follow in Kiwoong's footsteps regarding how he treats other people, but too much emphasis on how much money he makes seems to impede Sukhyun and his family from seeing Kiwoong's great qualities. I'm an optimist though. I'm thinking there's a hidden "good guy" in Sukhyun. Maybe the combination one-two punch of the bubbly and irrepressible Kiwoong and Jongnam will knock the coldness out of his heart.
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Post by ginnycat5 on Jan 19, 2006 13:26:31 GMT -5
I thought he's been showing some softness lately, smiling to himself when he watched the tape of Jong-nam in his office, and returning to his grandmother's to give her the gift after he'd already been there once. Also he did listen to Ki-woong in the hallway. And he's trying to make his cousin happy by arranging to keep the dog for her. He started out as a jerk, so this receptiveness to others seems to be a hopeful sign.
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Post by BAE on Jan 20, 2006 11:17:09 GMT -5
HI doesn't seem like she can help SH become a better person, because she also displays some of the cold-heartedness that SH possesses (like the scene about the ring in JEJU-do where she inconsiderately listed all of Ki-woong's "bad" qualities). If KW brought out HI's good side before, I'm pretty sure that he can do that for her again. I wonder why she's so calm and receptive around SH?
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Post by Lucy on Jan 20, 2006 12:23:02 GMT -5
I wonder why she's so calm and receptive around SH? I hope this doesn't sound too rough, but I think she is a typical passive, kind of dumb K-drama heroine. By "dumb" I think I mean clueless. She only looks on the surface and doesn't pick up on cues about what peoples' behavior means. As long as people are being "nice" to her, she will smile happily and go along politely. This is a case where I feel sure that it's a cultural difference and I may be misjudging her. For example, it might be understood and recognized by Koreans, but to me it's annoying. I think that this type of character is there for a reason, sort of like a commedia dell'arte thing (in my poorly understood version of it) where you have the same characters all the time acting out their prescribed roles in different situations. Look at characters like In-young ("My Sweetheart"), for example, and the lead character in "The Phoenix." If a guy presents himself to her and basically says, "Let's date," she'll date him, and she'll go along with things with that conciliatory smile on her face until she finally learns that he's not the guy for her (which we've usually picked up on from the beginning).
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Post by ginnycat5 on Jan 20, 2006 12:38:36 GMT -5
I like how different people have been reminding her of how good Ki-woong has been for her-she keeps getting "pinged" like sonar and she comes alert: KW coaxed you out of crying, KW made you smile, and, her memory, KW got me over my shyness. I guess there's hope in the far future. Meantime, I keep shouting at her to wake up.
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Post by Lucy on Jan 20, 2006 13:28:36 GMT -5
I think it's going to take a long time for her to wake up. She probably has to get engaged to Sukhyun, or close to it, and then maybe he'll get together with Jongnam and she'll go to Kiwoong. Just my thoughts.
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Post by BAE on Feb 17, 2006 19:49:00 GMT -5
I found it rather uncalled for when KW punched SH today. It's not something you would punch somebody over. *rolls eyes* I think it's probably all this pent up anger he has towards SH, for snatching HI and stuff.
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