Hwaspyun, etc.: missing scenes from Ep. 75

[HumbleStudent]

Actually there were only a few missing scenes in Tuesday night's broadcast and they were mostly dispensible. They are early in the show - actually there is a pattern developing, where the missing scenes tend to be early in the episode, right after the scenes that wind up the crisis from the previous episode.They come after the scene where Han-Soon comes over to bicker with Grandma Wey about the dowry, ring, etc., and mostly they explain how Young-Joon ended up over at his Grandma's house getting yelled at again.

(a) Grandma Sohn's house: a doctor is there giving her an injection. The doctor tells her to preserve her strength and then leaves, shown out by Hyun-Ji. Grandma then has a fit, bringing Hyun-Ji back into the room, accusing "that brat" of making her sick. She accuses him of giving her a case of hwaspyun, which my dictionary defines as "a nervous disorder caused by pent-up frustration". Pent-up - HOW? I never got the impression that Grandma Sohn was exactly keeping all her emotions bottled up inside her!!! Anyway, HJ tries to calm her down...

(b) Cafe. Young-Joon comes to meet with Hyun-Ji... yet again... (sigh). Hyun-Ji explains to him that his grandma has collapsed. "It's not like a stroke, but her strength is completely gone." She then points out (of course) that her chances of improving would be much better if it weren't for YJ/JY. They argue for a bit, then HJ leaves, telling him to see for himself. He calls the house and the housekeeper confirms that his grandmother is ill. He says he'll be over.

(c) But first there is a scene in Ja-Young's office. Her co-workers are mostly talking among themselves about design stuff. Then Kyung-Jin asks Joo-Yun if there is any gossip (I think), and Joo-Yun responds by telling about a "Father Gibbs" (Appa Kipeusseu) who sustained a fracture. "Where?" asks Ja-Young, "a little aghast". (This is her only word in the scene.) Joo-Yun explains that he was in an "ornaments market" (jangsikjang) when someone threw a piece of pottery out of a building and it broke his arm. Kyung-Jin, horrified, says that it could have just as easily hit him in the head and killed him or given him a concussion. Joo-Yun wonders whether the assailant was looking where he was throwing or not. End of scene. If there is a point to this scene, it escapes me, unless "Father Gibbs" is going to appear in a later episode with a cast on his arm. Or maybe YJ will get hit in the head by a thrown bowl and lose his memory and turn up with amnesia in a ski resort in another drama ;D

(d) YJ shows up at his Grandma's house and is let in.

All for today,

hs

[Soju]

Today we heard reference to Joo-yun & spouse being involved in a domestic violence situation. It seemed so out of the blue; I've been real busy the past few days, and have only been able to give a cursory check to this board. I re-read this now, in light of what I watch today, and am so jealous of the people of South Korea, who don't have to worry about spoilers, translations, and missing scenes, and who understand the cultural refeences that are totaly lost on us Americans!

[HumbleStudent]

There was a missing scene on Wednesday or Thursday which had a reference to Joo-Hyun removing sunglasses and revealing a bruise by her eye.

I am now reasonably certain that I completely misunderstood that whole 'Father Gibbs' business at first glance and also in my second glance. On rereading the scene it seemed that they were engaging in a lot of banter about Joo-Hyun wielding a pitcher as a weapon and so on, but it seemed to be just imaginative goofing around.

There was some other stuff that was equally mysterious to me about some person or entity, real or imaginary, referred to as ttotto appa. The word ttotto is of course not in any of my dictionaries. After some searching around, including searches on the Korean Yahoo site using a Hangul input device, I hesitantly conclude that it refers to a breed of dog. But in the scene with the sunglasses Ja-Young asked Joo-Hyun, maybe, if I got it right, if she "reconciled" with ttotto appa, so maybe it referred to her husband...? The arm-breaking reference must have been to her husband too. Somehow.

All this might be explained by other references in other scenes of office banter that got deleted from previous episodes, or that were in the 40 episodes that I missed. Ultimately we are just not meant to know some things

[galacticchick]

"ttotto appa" is referring to Joo-Hyun's husband. If anybody saw Who's My Love, you will remember the time that Hana and Sangsik got punished because Hana kept calling her husband by his first name instead of by his honorific title. In this case, Toto is her son, so her husband is Toto's appa or father.

Also, when you listen to Mi-ryung's mom talk to Tae-young's grandma, if you listen very carefully you will hear that they don't refer to each other by their first name. Although the subtitles show the character's first name, you will hear them say Mi-ryung's omma (mom) or Tae-young's halmoni (grandma).

[HumbleStudent]

Oh! OK, GC, that makes perfect sense... I didn't realize that Joo-Hyun had a child named Toto, that's all.

hs

[Soju]

H S -

Toto is probably the person most responsible for Jae-young still carrying her child.

I remember you saying you missed some earier episodes. Jae-young was set to get an abortion, at the urging of Joo-hyun (whose relative is a OB-Gyn), but Joo-hyun picked up family snapshots from the photofinisher, and went on about how dear her son was, to Jae-young. This helped change JY's mind.