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Post by sandy on Mar 11, 2005 23:18:13 GMT -5
Didn't this secret lurk in the back of our minds that Min-Sup is not Grandma's biological son? It started soon after Jae-Hae became infertile, then Grandma running away to an old people's home. It was just a matter of time before Grandma told Min-Sup before she becomes a victim of dementia or dies of old age. The thought that Jee-Hae and Jae-Mins adopted baby might be taken away from them affected Grandma.
It was very emotional, but Min-Sup is someone to be proud of. He didn't rant and rave, accusing her of not telling him the truth in the past, but just told her that she's the only mother he knows. In his art studio, he burns the picture of his birth mother, though I think we would have liked to see what she looked like. Grandma said that his daughter was the image of his birth mother.
I just wonder if something is going to happen to Grandma, a really lovable character. The secret she held inside for years is finally out.
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Post by bettyboop on Mar 12, 2005 2:38:59 GMT -5
i'm not quite sure but i think there was this episode awhile back that did show the picture of min-sup's mother... which was just basically a black and white photo of the actress who plays jee-hae... im almost positive this happened or i could have just dreamed all this up hehe... ;D but i don't remember what episode this was so that is quite possible that i dreamt it all up...
dramatic irony - gotta love it...
anyways, who else knows about grandma's secret besides jeehae...? i don't remember if anybody else was told...
even if nobody else but jeehae knew im sure everybody had in the back of their minds just as we did that something was not quite right about grandmother's relationship with her husband and im sure that everybody else around them was able to infer that another woman was involved so its quite possible that they also thought, as we did, that min-sup might not be her biological son...
i really hope nothing happens to grandmother. ITA with sandy that she is such a sweet and loveable character... makes me wish that she was my grandmother ;D
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Post by mikey on Mar 12, 2005 10:43:05 GMT -5
i'm not quite sure but i think there was this episode awhile back that did show the picture of min-sup's mother... which was just basically a black and white photo of the actress who plays jee-hae... im almost positive this happened or i could have just dreamed all this up hehe... ;D Yes, I recall that too. A while back, Grandmother (in one of her less lucid moments) suddenly began violently beating on an astonished Jee-hae, all the while calling her a “red fox” (which I guess is the Korean equivalent of “sneaky little vixen”). Apparently, she momentarily mistook Jee-hae for the woman who had seduced her husband 40 years earlier. In the photo, this “other woman” was indeed a dead-ringer for Jee-hae – almost certainly the same actress. |
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Post by panther on Mar 12, 2005 12:48:31 GMT -5
im wondering if min sup knew all along  like, he didint even have one question it just seemed to me that he could have found out on his own years ago but he loved his mother so much that he figured why bother her with questions of a woman that he doesent even know. either way, i think that was sooo good of him to say "your my mother" i never really liked min sup in the past but hes a good guy. btw. i saw the picture a couple of episodes back. it was the picture of the actress that plays jee-hae in the traditonal gown that korean women where on special occasions. |
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Post by sandy on Mar 13, 2005 0:30:54 GMT -5
I came onto this drama back in September, so I don't remember seeing a picture of Min-Sup's mother. It seemed that Grandma needed to reveal this secret when she talked with her friend at the old people's home. Yes, it was so good of Min-Sup to love her as his real mother for raising him.
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Post by Soju on Mar 13, 2005 19:20:58 GMT -5
I've had the feeling for a while that Min-sup kind of suspected this, but was so devoted to Jum-soon that it didn't matter. Like he said, blood is thicker than water, but love is thickest of all.
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Post by sandy on Mar 13, 2005 22:58:41 GMT -5
I've always liked Min-Sup because under his gruff exterior, there's a warm human being. He wouldn't have given art lessons to Jin-Soo if didn't feel that he'd make a difference in J/S's simple life. The way he hugged his mother, telling her that she was his only mother, was a tear-jerker. Sometimes, though, I don't feel that he always appreciates his wife, Sung-Ae, who is the bread-winner of the family. Maybe he resents the fact that she's out working and he's not.
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Post by bettyboop on Mar 13, 2005 23:24:22 GMT -5
...Sometimes, though, I don't feel that he always appreciates his wife, Sung-Ae, who is the bread-winner of the family. Maybe he resents the fact that she's out working and he's not. i just wish that they would show a LITTLE love towards each other... i know i've said this before, but i still wonder how it was that they got together and got married... |
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Post by galacticchick on Mar 14, 2005 10:39:37 GMT -5
i know i've said this before, but i still wonder how it was that they got together and got married... I guess all it took was a "Hey kid, you're really pretty" and that was it. Darn, I missed this episode! |
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Post by Lucy on Mar 14, 2005 13:20:49 GMT -5
Min-sup wasn't surprised because he and Sung-ae figured this all out a long time ago, and it didn't matter to him even then. His only concern was that the secret was eating up his mom. Of course, they didn't guess the details--that halmonyi was treated so badly by her husband's family because of her infertility and that the baby she was given to raise (MS) was the product of an affair between her husband and the Red Fox--but I'm all but positive that there were several conversations between MS and SA in which they talked about the possibility that MS was not grandma's natural son. There have been several times since that MS and grandma themselves talked around the subject and MS reassured grandma that she was his real mother, no matter what. I was thrown for a loop when grandma got so upset about saying that his biological mother was dead, because it wasn't as though she had blurted out something he had had no idea about.
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Post by panther on Mar 14, 2005 15:10:32 GMT -5
i just wish that they would show a LITTLE love towards each other... i know i've said this before, but i still wonder how it was that they got together and got married... LOL what if hee soo and jin kook end up like them. i can totally see hee soo takin over the buisness and jin kook sittin at home with eun soo writin scripts. |
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Post by sandy on Mar 14, 2005 23:53:17 GMT -5
I do wonder how Min-sup and Sung-ae got together. They seem so out of place with each other. Maybe Sung-ae was charmed by Min-sup's artistic side, and maybe, just maybe, he saw Sung-ae as a professional woman who could support the family so that he could paint.
Min-sup seems more devoted to his mother than to his wife. Having Grandma there may have made it easier for Sung-ae to have an important job. Now that Grandma's old, Min-sup takes care of his mother so that Sung-ae doesn't have to.
I came into MPC back in Sept. Did Jee-hae and Jae-min elope? I remember them trying to evade a woman who recognized Jee-hae as being Dr. Kang's daughter. Why did they try to keep their marriage a secret? I remember the scene when Jae-min was fed up with Jee-hae's jealousy when he talked very friendly to female customers. He ran out of the store, then was hit by a car. I missed a few episodes after that, but by then, I became "addicted" to MPC.
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Post by bettyboop on Mar 15, 2005 12:44:00 GMT -5
I came into MPC back in Sept. Did Jee-hae and Jae-min elope? I remember them trying to evade a woman who recognized Jee-hae as being Dr. Kang's daughter. Why did they try to keep their marriage a secret? I remember the scene when Jae-min was fed up with Jee-hae's jealousy when he talked very friendly to female customers. He ran out of the store, then was hit by a car. I missed a few episodes after that, but by then, I became "addicted" to MPC. nah they didn't elope. their marriage was in the earliest episodes... possibly around the first? can't quite remember. the point where you started was when they "ran" away from home because there were problems between the in-laws and i guess they were suffocating jee-hae and jae-min (somebody correct me if i'm wrong - it seems so long ago haha)... they moved into a small apt in another side of town where they opened their store. they didn't want dr. kang's friend to recognize them because they didnt want to be found by their families... |
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Post by panther on Mar 15, 2005 21:05:19 GMT -5
yea and all of that heart ache they caused their families they still ended up moving back in with the parents.
i dont understand why two grown working married people HAVE to live with their parents. i know its a different culture and its like the norm but if there are problems (which there was in the begining for thoes two and is for jin kook and hee-soo) why cant they just move out?
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Post by sandy on Mar 16, 2005 0:31:20 GMT -5
It still confuses me why married adult children are living with parents, even expected to in today's culture. Years ago, a woman moved in with her in-laws when she married their son. This was common even in European cultures. Perhaps it was a womans' duty to care for her in-laws once they became old, and a way for in-laws to help them raise their children.
In MPC, we clearly see the clash between modern and traditional. Hee-soo's mother had problems with Young-lan because she wanted to lead a professional life. Her husband makes a lot of sense when he tells her that things have changed.
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