Injung

[sandra]

Is it just me or is Injung one of the most annoying characters in Korean drama. She has the same expression on her face, dead--slightly pained, all the time. She does not talk or smile. Why these two guys are crazy about her, I have no idea. She gave up her music without hesitation because of a guy? By the way, I bet Miso turn out to be her daughter. Talk about contrived and phony!
sandra

[Lucy]

Hi, Sandra. Yep, I've noticed this type of character a lot in these "heavy" romance-dramas. It's quite a stereotype. I'm with you all the way. I usually call them "purse-draggers," because these female characters mope around with the dead expression you noticed, walk slowly, and hold their shoulder bags forlornly at the end of the strap and let them hang down to the ground as they walk. Injung doesn't carry a purse, but she's a purse-dragger nonetheless. So annoying!


I missed the first episode, but it's my understanding that her music career was ruined because Suhwan's wife slashed her wrist and she couldn't play anymore. Not sure if I've got that right, though.

[HappyCamper]

I gotta agree that Injung is annoying but she didn't give up her music because of that jerk. When jerk's wife magically realized that Injung was the girl her husband was having an affair with (by noticing that he had Injung's CD in his office ), she went to where the orchestra was rehearsing. She threw a hissy fit, smashing Injung's instrument and then slashing Injung's wrist with part of the broken instrument. Apparently that cut some nerves and Injung is no longer able to play.

[sandra]

Thanks. Missed the scene abt. the injury.

[Lucy]

And that woman STILL thinks Injung owes her? What a monster.

[teacher]

Also, Injung had a miscarriage, therefore Miso is not hers. There's been no indication that she was ever pregnant again.

[zorro]

I'm glad I'm not the only one for whom Injung's lost her luster. But none of the other characters are exactly shining now either.

I don't really know what to think anymore, but at tonight's ending, couldn't she have at least made an attempt to clear her throat or cough rather than just continue staring at Yonggi and Cloneanne?

And I still don't buy the injury ruining her music career. If it was her fret hand/wrist, maybe, but it's the bow hand.
She uses knives, pots and pans as a fry cook, and functions just fine in everyday life with no hint of disability, but can't move a bow back and forth?? Lame.

If she was ostracized by her orchestra and music company for her scandal I could understand that better. That would help explain why she isn't making money from CD royalties sales instead of running a chicken shack.

But in defense of her mopiness, she has had a pretty rough time of it. Some could argue she got what she deserved, but I'm not sure I would agree with all of it.

I just hope those stomach pains that come "once in a while" doesn't mean she's going to get cancer now. Stereotypical indeed.

[latinadramaaddict]

Hi,
I am new to this discussion group, I am glad to have the chance
to discuss this drama. I am the only one amongst my friends
who watches Cruel love. As far as Injung is concerned, I know
her new "attitude" is annoying, but we have to remember that
she carries this guilt from her past. I think she has a better
perspective on what Yoggi's and Injung's future will really be like
considering how closely tied all four characters are. I do feel myself getting annoyed with her, but I also try to understand
where she is coming from. She once was a happy girl, even
when she and Yoggi first met she still had a spark to her. She can't let go of her past, because it has not let go of her. This
is why I think that she feels that she doesn't deserve Yoggi. It is out of love that she is letting him go, no matter how much he loves and needs her. Those are just some of my thoughts on Injung. Thanks

[badtz]

She is a very tragic figure, but she doesn't seem to rise to anything. She shows no energy at all for anything which seems annoying since it has lasted so long. It did make me laugh though when she started being Yonggi's secretary and he told her all she needed to do was bring him water. That's what I do for my boss!

I don't want to see he fight the other girl for Yonggi, but she should have called to him when she opened the door not stood there watching them.

[Lila]

I haven’t followed this drama because, every time I tune in for 2 minutes to check it out and see if I want to give it a real try, there she is, schlumpfing along like somebody pulled her plug. Yet somehow, having no personality makes these purse-draggers (perfect, Lucy!) wildly attractive to a few men. The first time or two you see this, it’s kind of interesting. After that, not so much.

Any soap opera depends for its existence on a nerve-wracking lack of communication between its characters. The American soaps can make you yell at the screen, “Just tell him/her already!!” We’re a relatively casual society where communication between the genders and the age groups is pretty free and open, and authority does not always go unchallenged. Maybe in a society where those conditions don’t apply, people learn to express their feelings in non-verbal ways, at least until they’ve attained enough status to be able to speak and behave more freely without fear of being challenged or contradicted or have to suffer silently through somebody's harangue. Or am I over-thinking and it’s simply lazy writing?

Question to this drama’s regular viewers: Have any of the other characters noticed that she might, you know, be feeling a bit peaked, or are they treating this as normal?

[zorro]

Another stark contrast in cultures is that if Injung had been involved in a scandal in this country, it would have most likely provided her a nice windfall due to our preoccupation with notoriety and our media's tabloid mentality.

Case in point is the "gaeseng" for Spitzer, the deposed NY Gov. who as a struggling musician, reportedly had one of her songs downloaded over 1 million times in just the last week. She now has offers from skin mags, Hustler included, which will pay $1,000,000.00 for her to "pose". I'm presuming book deals and naturally a movie will soon follow.

Of course her lawyer is outraged, but I wonder to myself if she's walking around dragging her purse these days.

[Lila]

Mar 15, 2008 9:22:11 GMT -5 zorro said:

Another stark contrast in cultures is that if Injung had been involved in a scandal in this country, it would have most likely provided her a nice windfall due to our preoccupation with notoriety and our media's tabloid mentality.

Case in point is the "gaeseng" for Spitzer, the deposed NY Gov. who as a struggling musician, reportedly had one of her songs downloaded over 1 million times in just the last week. She now has offers from skin mags, Hustler included, which will pay $1,000,000.00 for her to "pose". I'm presuming book deals and naturally a movie will soon follow.

Of course her lawyer is outraged, but I wonder to myself if she's walking around dragging her purse these days.

(Italics mine.)

Thanks for the laugh, Zorro. This was a very clever, not to mention apt, line. (It's more likely that she can now hire somebody else to drag her hefty purse for her.)

[Sandy]

I am currently on the last episode of this and I admit, the first 10 episode were really enthralling I was like WOW...then it just completely died after awhile.

InJung has to be soooo annoying. And YongGi is....I can't even describe. I really just can't watch the last episode. >_>