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Post by jenny on Jun 4, 2004 11:40:27 GMT -5
Soon-ok has been mentioning over and over how she now has to "burn her fingers" because of what she said to Myun-joo (sp?) that I've been wondering what that means. Is it just an expression, like "I'll eat my hat!" and now she's afraid Myun-joo will show up with a bottle of ketchup (or a bic lighter  ), or did people burn their fingers in the olden days if their nephew forgot his true love and went on an arranged date?  Burning your fingers seems a lot worse than eating your hat, though. Or is she just so appalled that HK saw another woman that she is is upset by her nephew's lack of devotion to HR? Just wondering if that expression had a story behind it, it's probably nothing though. Any thoughts? |
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Post by galacticchick on Jun 4, 2004 12:32:14 GMT -5
She's just ditzy enough to believe it and EA evil enough to demand it of her!
She's still w/her little girl POV of "Love must conquer all" and I guess sees a reflection of her relationship w/Tae-ho in those two (HK & HR). If HK, which she thought to be the epitomy of a man who would do anything for love, gives up and moves on, what can she expect of Tae-ho? You just know she "secretly" (although obvious) still has feelings for her and would even be willing to run away w/him.
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Post by TheBo on Jun 4, 2004 15:45:59 GMT -5
It seems to me just the sort of mangled expression Soon-ok would blurt out, like a little child says, I'll hold my breath forever. It was probably the worst thing she could think of, working in a restaurant. She's an adorable character. I hope she gets her man--even though I like the real estate man (swwooooon) so much better, she's worked hard to change her life, she should get the man she wants.
Bo
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Post by jacques on Jun 4, 2004 16:52:38 GMT -5
She's just ditzy enough to believe it and EA evil enough to demand it of her! She's still w/her little girl POV of "Love must conquer all" and I guess sees a reflection of her relationship w/Tae-ho in those two (HK & HR). If HK, which she thought to be the epitomy of a man who would do anything for love, gives up and moves on, what can she expect of Tae-ho? You just know she "secretly" (although obvious) still has feelings for her and would even be willing to run away w/him. The Soon-ok character in more ways than one epitomizes the restaurant hostess/waitress stereotype. We've seen the American equivalent of this type in any show featuring a diner--the long-suffering lady waitress who's swallowed more pride than she has said "And what can I get ya?"  It really is a statement on her and Tae-ho's relationship that she has to look at HK & HR as the MODEL for their own relationship when they clearly should have been the more mature couple with, Godforbid, MATURE ways of resolving their own differences.  Then again if Soon-ok had learned from the school of Oprah self-improvement, this melodrama wouldn't have needed to go this far. |
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Post by TheBo on Jun 4, 2004 21:40:21 GMT -5
The Soon-ok character in more ways than one epitomizes the restaurant hostess/waitress stereotype. We've seen the American equivalent of this type in any show featuring a dinner--the over-suffering lady waitress who's swallowed more pride than she has said "And what can I get ya?" She's hardly the equivalent of the type of diner waitress you are describing. (A dinner? A dinner? Ribs getting cold, Jacques?) Soon-ok started out trying to 'get over' by pretending to work in the restaurant, just to get money out of In-huan, but now she's learned the business and she feels confident and able to run a restaurant herself one day. She may have swallowed a lot of pride, but it manages to bubble out of her at inopportune moments; she's hardly beaten down to that pitiful harridan with her heart of gold. And what does Oprah have to do with it? If she'd learned at Oprah's knee, all she'd have to show for herself would be a "dream notebook" filled with magazine cutouts. Even Oprah did not succeed in the sappy manner she advocates on her TV show, because it's not how people succeed in life. Sorry for snorting. Bo |
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Post by jacques on Jun 4, 2004 21:47:43 GMT -5
She's hardly the equivalent of the type of diner waitress you are describing. (A dinner? A dinner? Ribs getting cold, Jacques?) Soon-ok started out trying to 'get over' by pretending to work in the restaurant, just to get money out of In-huan, but now she's learned the business and she feels confident and able to run a restaurant herself one day. She may have swallowed a lot of pride, but it manages to bubble out of her at inopportune moments; she's hardly beaten down to that pitiful harridan with her heart of gold. And what does Oprah have to do with it? If she'd learned at Oprah's knee, all she'd have to show for herself would be a "dream notebook" filled with magazine cutouts. Even Oprah did not succeed in the sappy manner she advocates on her TV show, because it's not how people succeed in life. Sorry for snorting. Bo Hey, you guys in Chi-town should b PROUD of Oprah! ;D |
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Post by TheBo on Jun 4, 2004 21:57:10 GMT -5
Hey, you guys in Chi-town should b PROUD of Oprah! ;D Who's not proud of Oprah? I just say, she does NOT give out the goods on how to succeed. She just spreads a lot of preposterous prattle and tries to say, that's how to do it. Nuts to that. Bo |
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Post by jacques on Jun 4, 2004 21:58:19 GMT -5
Who's not proud of Oprah? I just say, she does NOT give out the goods on how to succeed. She just spreads a lot of preposterous prattle and tries to say, that's how to do it. Nuts to that. Bo You do have a point there.  |
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), or did people burn their fingers in the olden days if their nephew forgot his true love and went on an arranged date? 
Burning your fingers seems a lot worse than eating your hat, though. 
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