Ahhh yes, Mob Boss. In his ginormous house he has an atelier and is painting a woman's portrait which for some reason leads him to have a total breakdown/ragedown and trash his studio. No, I have no idea.
Mob Boss raged because he couldn’t recall that woman’s feature. Not until… (I won’t spoil it) did he can complete the painting.
IRIS(2009),SWALLOW THE SUN(2009),THE KINGDOM OF THE WINDS(2008) and LOBBYIST(2007) are all created by writer Choi Wan Kyu and his team(or Choi in charge, other writers specifying the details). So you can assume what you can get from this drama.
Okay, tell me I'm not the only one getting major Bali vibes. Money-loving heroine, terrible parents, lots of rich people with issues...
In his ginormous house he has an atelier and is painting a woman's portrait which for some reason leads him to have a total breakdown/ragedown and trash his studio. No, I have no idea.
Was the portrait not his baby mama? Mi Yeon?
I'm actually finding him quite sympathetic (for a mob boss) because he so clearly parallels Jung Woo -- messed-up criminal driven by circumstance to become worse than he actually is. He's like Jung Woo's future if Jung Woo doesn't shape up.
I don't know - I am not getting Bali vibe - maybe in ep 3-4 a little but it feels a lot less claustrophobic than Bali - Jung Woo is miles more adjusted than the Bali guy and heroine may be money-grubbing but with her head on straight. I do see a 'decandent messed up rich people' thing going.
Was the portrait not his baby mama? Mi Yeon?
Yes it was but we weren't supposed to know it yet :P
Re: Mob Boss. I see the similarities with JW but I don't know - I still don't like him - he's clearly evil. He loved Mi Yeon a lot but as a person he's so very rotten. There may have been hope for him 25 or however yrs ago but there isn't now.
Yes it was but we weren't supposed to know it yet :P
But there was no one else it could be. (Or maybe it just seemed obvious to me because I'm still shipping him and Mi Yeon, death be damned.)
You know, I hadn't realized until this comment just how much the first ep messed me up -- seeing Jung Woo's parents' OTP and shipping them so hard without realizing they were doomed -- it's made me connect with them so strongly I'm almost more into the vestiges of their story than what's happening with the current generation. I loved the younger MB and his strained morals and friendships and lovesickness and I'm fascinated with how it's still affecting his character to this day. He made a kingdom in a place where he could get anything he wanted, except the one thing he wanted most, which was gone forever. D'you think he knows Detective Guy is the one who busted him? Or that Mi Yeon had a child at all? I'm wondering if he came back to Jeju post-makeover, grand and rich and ready to start anew, only to discover the love of his life had died
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Hmmm, I knew going in that the story was going to be set in modern Jeju and star JS ans SY so I knew it was a backstory ep and I still thought it was awesome - I honestly wanted the whole drama about the two (surely there must be a drama out there somewhere about a tough gangster who runs away from the cops and a village girl who hides him! Sort of like a mix of Fashion 70s, Seoul 1945, East of Eden and All In. I want it!)
I don't think he knows about Mi Yeon having a child - it was a total secret from everyone - only the cop knew whose kid it was and I doubt he went telling. I cannot wait to see when he does discover it.
The only difference, so far, is that Jung Woo keeps getting lucky breaks whereas MB didn't.But it's all relative - nobody made him become an opium dealer in Vietnam and kill bunches of people. And certainly, once he became rich he didn't have to keep on doing all that stuff. It's sort of like IRIS - everyone and everything tried so hard to make HJ into a monsster but they couldn't - it takes a certain kind of
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In a way, it's what East of Eden should have been and wasn't.
Plus - Ji Sung. I have such a thing for him!
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Mob Boss raged because he couldn’t recall that woman’s feature. Not until… (I won’t spoil it) did he can complete the painting.
IRIS(2009),SWALLOW THE SUN(2009),THE KINGDOM OF THE WINDS(2008) and LOBBYIST(2007) are all created by writer Choi Wan Kyu and his team(or Choi in charge, other writers specifying the details). So you can assume what you can get from this drama.
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I loved every single drama you listed there so ooooh, I am in for a treat!
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In his ginormous house he has an atelier and is painting a woman's portrait which for some reason leads him to have a total breakdown/ragedown and trash his studio. No, I have no idea.
Was the portrait not his baby mama? Mi Yeon?
I'm actually finding him quite sympathetic (for a mob boss) because he so clearly parallels Jung Woo -- messed-up criminal driven by circumstance to become worse than he actually is. He's like Jung Woo's future if Jung Woo doesn't shape up.
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Was the portrait not his baby mama? Mi Yeon?
Yes it was but we weren't supposed to know it yet :P
Re: Mob Boss. I see the similarities with JW but I don't know - I still don't like him - he's clearly evil. He loved Mi Yeon a lot but as a person he's so very rotten. There may have been hope for him 25 or however yrs ago but there isn't now.
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But there was no one else it could be. (Or maybe it just seemed obvious to me because I'm still shipping him and Mi Yeon, death be damned.)
You know, I hadn't realized until this comment just how much the first ep messed me up -- seeing Jung Woo's parents' OTP and shipping them so hard without realizing they were doomed -- it's made me connect with them so strongly I'm almost more into the vestiges of their story than what's happening with the current generation. I loved the younger MB and his strained morals and friendships and lovesickness and I'm fascinated with how it's still affecting his character to this day. He made a kingdom in a place where he could get anything he wanted, except the one thing he wanted most, which was gone forever. D'you think he knows Detective Guy is the one who busted him? Or that Mi Yeon had a child at all? I'm wondering if he came back to Jeju post-makeover, grand and rich and ready to start anew, only to discover the love of his life had died ( ... )
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I don't think he knows about Mi Yeon having a child - it was a total secret from everyone - only the cop knew whose kid it was and I doubt he went telling. I cannot wait to see when he does discover it.
The only difference, so far, is that Jung Woo keeps getting lucky breaks whereas MB didn't.But it's all relative - nobody made him become an opium dealer in Vietnam and kill bunches of people. And certainly, once he became rich he didn't have to keep on doing all that stuff. It's sort of like IRIS - everyone and everything tried so hard to make HJ into a monsster but they couldn't - it takes a certain kind of ( ... )
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