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Post by CaptainVideo on Feb 1, 2006 3:23:08 GMT -5
Hey, I may be waaaaay off here, but I was getting the sense that perhaps Ilho and Ms Kang had an affair which produced Sungmin. This could be the reason that Ilho does not want his daughter to marry his "son". Ms. Kang made some reference at the end of the show (or was it in the upcoming scenes) about Ilho having to deal with his guilt in the affairs of Yeojin and Sungmin. Sort of like this joke I heard on NPR about a young Native American boy that falls in love with a girl at a pow wow. After confiding his new love to his father, his father explains that they can never be a couple because she is, in fact, the product of an affair he had many years ago and is, in fact, his half sister. After a week of acting sullenly around the house they boy's mother implores him to tell her what the trouble is. After confessing to the mother of his dilemma and of the father's transgression which created all of the trouble, the mother gets angry for a bit and then tells her son to go and marry that girl, and don't give it another thought. After all, his "father" isn't really his father!
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Post by pharaoh on Feb 1, 2006 11:36:45 GMT -5
It's a possibility. Perhaps that is how they know each other.
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Post by ginnycat5 on Feb 1, 2006 12:08:46 GMT -5
But Ms. Kang said Ilho maybe had guilt over ______ and that's why he can't face them marrying. I took it to mean guilt over how he had ripped off Sungmin's family.
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Post by TheBo on Feb 1, 2006 13:43:55 GMT -5
Hey, I may be waaaaay off here, but I was getting the sense that perhaps Ilho and Ms Kang had an affair which produced Sungmin....Sort of like this joke I heard on NPR ....After confessing to the mother of his dilemma and of the father's transgression which created all of the trouble, the mother gets angry for a bit and then tells her son to go and marry that girl, and don't give it another thought. After all, his "father" isn't really his father! That's hilarious, cappy-v! But I think you really are way off on the Sung-min matter; Sung-min is not her son. They were all her stepchildren, not her biological children. If she were Sung-min's mother, I think at least HE would know her. The only son she ever mentions is Jung-woo. If Sung-min were her son, she'd talk about him, too. Bo
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Post by chi8 on Feb 1, 2006 14:43:29 GMT -5
But Sungmin said last night that he always like Ms. Kang--that she was a good "mother" to him. And why else is she buying up stock in Ilho Foods, becoming its largest shareholder, unless she wants to use her position to get her revenge.
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Post by ginnycat5 on Feb 1, 2006 15:21:45 GMT -5
Sung-min was the youngest child when Ms. Kang was their stepmother. He probably has the dimmest memories of his birth mother. So he was only 8 when Jung-woo was born, and Sung-mi was 16. They have really different perspectives on Ms. Kang. She was old enough to articulate her resentment and betrayal, where Sung-min probably just mostly missed her.
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Post by TheBo on Feb 1, 2006 16:31:07 GMT -5
She is their mother, Chi8, she mothered them. You don't have to give birth to someone to be their mother or for them to think of you that way or to call you "mother"--I got the feeling they all (except possibly the two oldest boys) had called her Mother. I am always bothered by people who insist on delineating which is the adopted child and which is the stepchild and which is the "real" child (my mother does this). It is cruel and really unnecessary. (Not trying to pick on you Chi8, I know you are just trying to tease out the relationship--it's just something that happens to get on my nerves.) This is another reason I think Ms Kang must have been a good, kind person at one time, because the children were so surprised and betrayed by her behavior, and children don't trust that easily. Even a child who will not think twice about helping a stranger find a dog will look askance at someone who is trying to be a replacement parent. Also, I think she is still a good person, because she's so adamant about making Ilho pay for what he did to her family. You're right, Chi8, she doesn't have to, so she must still care about these children of hers. She must love them. Like a mother.
Bo
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Post by CaptainVideo on Feb 1, 2006 22:53:40 GMT -5
Actually Bo, now that you have put it that way, I have no clue what I was thinking. It seemed that Mr. Park's objections toward Sung-min were based mainly on his being divorced, but it now seems that it's more deeply rooted and I apparently jumped to a wrong conclusion. Man, these stories are good!
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Post by thebounlogged on Feb 2, 2006 9:02:32 GMT -5
LOL, Cappy V, when he talks about the "divorced guy" he's really talking about Seo-yeong's cousin, who is also Yeo-jin's friend, whom she brought to meet her father (and pretended he was divorced with kids) to get her dad off her back about getting married.
Oh, IITL.
Bo
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Post by ginnycat5 on Feb 2, 2006 12:25:54 GMT -5
Actually Bo, now that you have put it that way, I have no clue what I was thinking. It seemed that Mr. Park's objections toward Sung-min were based mainly on his being divorced, but it now seems that it's more deeply rooted and I apparently jumped to a wrong conclusion. Man, these stories are good! Did you see that horror scene where Ilho was beating Sung-min to the ground, and later he chopped off Yeo-jin's hair? That was like 10 years ago, and he hated Sung-min then. Such a wretched excuse for a human being.
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Post by FlowerLady on Feb 2, 2006 22:52:33 GMT -5
--Boy, I have watched this drama from Episode 1 and you all have certainly done a better job of figuring out the "Who's Who" in this than I have! ---And I call myself a K-fan!
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Post by CaptainVideo on Feb 3, 2006 1:04:54 GMT -5
Well, that's kind of what I was eluding to in my failed premise. This Ilho guy has some real bad feelings toward Sung-min that obviously pre dated the divorce, but the divorce is just the reason of the moment for hating the guy. So, Bo, what is "IITL"? Isn't it the life? I don't know! I'm so clueless
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Post by TheBo on Feb 7, 2006 11:45:14 GMT -5
IITL -- "It is to laugh." I made that one up, it's not one I see usually on the web. Well, I didn't make up "it is to laugh"-- LOL.
Bo
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Post by CaptainVideo on Feb 7, 2006 13:29:51 GMT -5
Arrah so, Bo. IITL, I haven't had this much fun in too long of a time! By the way, how does one manage to keep track of the locations of all the different posts one has amassed?
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Post by TheBo on Feb 7, 2006 16:56:14 GMT -5
Captain V, click your own name (you must be signed in). It takes you to your profile, and at the bottom, it lists some of your recent posts, with a little box you can fill in and view "X" number of posts. Click submit, and there's your prize.
Bo
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