[[Drama 2016] Descendants of the Sun 태양의 후예]

@bibiyl he said 방법이 없진 않죠 which directly translated as = it's not like there is no other way

[[Drama 2016] Descendants of the Sun 태양의 후예]

10 hours ago, themarchioness said:

With my work project ending this afternoon, I spent this evening completing the story I'd started before I had to sideline it for work stuff.  It's a big on the longer side, but hopefully you'll find that to be a good thing.  As always, please let me know what you think.  (I'll be posting it to Asianfanfics immediately after I post it here.)

Just in Time
Summary: As Kang Mo Yeon enters the final stages of her pregnancy, she waits anxiously for Yoo Shi Jin to return from his mission.
 

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Doc Pyo, also known as Pyo Ji Soo, was just pouring herself a cup of tea when her colleague and best friend, Kang Mo Yeon, came lumbering none too gracefully through her office door.

“Yah, what are you doing here?” she asked. Last time she’d checked the clock it was already 8 pm. The only reason she was still at work was because she was on night duty that week.

“I’m on call tonight,” Mo Yeon sighed. She settled herself as best she could in the chair across from her friend’s desk and tried not to look too uncomfortable. Even if she did feel like a freight train had settled somewhere on her back. Hips. Bladder. Ankles. Pretty much everywhere and anywhere. The only problem was if she dared to voice those complaints, her colleagues would send her home, which was the last place she wanted to be. Although it meant walking around in discomfort, she much preferred being at work.

“Again?”

Mo Yeon shrugged. “Are you going to share your tea with me or not?”

“What’s wrong with your department,” Doc Pyo asked. She dug out another mug for her friend. “You’d think they’d cut a pregnant woman some slack.”

“Don’t be mad on my behalf.” Mo Yeon accepted the cup of tea and took a sip of the warm liquid, letting it soothe and relax her insides. “They wanted to cut me from the on call list this last month, but I insisted they keep me on.”

“What’s wrong with you? You could have your baby any day now and you look like you’re about ready to burst. You shouldn’t even be working let alone handling on call duties.”

“At least I’ve given up operating for the time being.”

“I suppose you think you should get points for that. Good job, Dr. Kang, good job.” Doc Pyo let the sarcasm flow from her as she lifted her own mug for a sip. “But seriously, as a doctor, you should know how important it is for you and the baby to get rest.”

“You sound like my mother,” Mo Yeon grumbled.

“You should listen to your mother. This time, at least,” Doc Pyo added.

“Don’t nag me. Let me work. There’ll be plenty of time to rest once the baby comes.”

“Once the baby comes, you’ll be running around after the baby,” her friend wisely predicted. “I really think you should go home. Call another doctor to take your place tonight. What about Dr. Song? I bet he’d take your shift for you. Or better yet, call Dr. Kim. There’s no way she can say no to you in this situation. You should milk it while you can.”

Mo Yeon shot her friend an incredulous look. “And risk the lives of all our patients? Never! No thank you. I think it’d be better for me to stick it out.”

“Where are you going to sleep tonight? In the call room again? How can you possibly be comfortable in one of those tiny beds? Will you and your stomach even fit?”

“Yah! I’m not that big.”

“Want me to get out my measuring tape?” Mo Yeon answered the question by sticking out her tongue. “I’m serious. If you won’t take care of yourself, who will?”

“Let it go.” Mo Yeon sounded tired all of the sudden. “Let me be. It’s better for me to be at work where I can stay busy. The distraction . . . it’s good for me.”

Doc Pyo reached for her friend’s hand. “Still no word?”

Mo Yeon shook her head wordlessly and Doc Pyo patted her hand sympathetically. “Drink up,” she told her.

#####

Having children hadn’t been on their radars.

It’d been on their parents radars, naturally. But not on theirs. At least, not for now. Mo Yeon was busy trying to make a name for herself at the hospital where she worked. And her husband, Major Yoo Shi Jin, well, he was busy trying to save the world. At least, that’s how she liked to put it.

But things didn’t always work out as planned, and about eight months earlier, they’d received the surprise of their life when Mo Yeon took a pregnancy test and it was returned positive.

The revelation had started ironically enough with dinner at her mother’s house, where they’d been pestered to death about having kids.

“Yeh, is there still no news?”

Mo Yeon and Shi Jin looked at each other. The latter shrugged his shoulders and shot her a questioning look. The former rolled her eyes before turning back to her mother to answer. “Nope, no news.

“Why not? Is there something wrong? Are you having problems? Or is it Yoo-seobang? Yoo-seobang, is everything okay? You’re not having any problems are you?”

Shi Jin started choking on the rice he’d just taken a bite of.

“Eomma!” Mo Yeon slapped her husband on the back and handed him a napkin as she glared at her mother, but her mother was not to be deterred. Plus, she had the innocent act down to a pat. “You’ve been married for almost a year. Isn’t it only natural to wonder? Yoo seobang, have some more of this kimchi. I made it special, just for you. I know how much you like my kimchi.”

“Thank you, Eommoni.”

Mo Yeon knew exactly what her mother was up to and wasn’t about to be sidetracked either. “There’s nothing wrong, with either of us, and there’s no need to ask such pointed questions. We already told you; it’s not that we can’t have kids. We’re just not ready for kids right now.”

“Alright, alright, I heard you the first time. There’s no need to yell. Yoo-seobang, have some more of this beef. I made it just for you. You need to keep your strength up at a time like this.”

“Thank you, Eommoni.” This time, it was his turn to be on the receiving end of Mo Yeon’s glare. Later, in the car, she turned to him and asked how he could have just sat there eating as if nothing was going on.

“What was I supposed to say?” Shi Jin asked.

“You could have agreed with me.”

“You were doing a good job speaking for the both of us. And it’s not like I can talk to your mother in the same way,” he pointed out. “It’d be disrespectful.”

Mo Yeon crossed her arms and turned away huffily. “Oh, whatever, I give up. I don’t care. If you want to keep on getting harassed that’s fine by me. Just don’t expect me to say anything the next time we’re have dinner with your father.”

“My father never asks us when we’re going to have kids.”

She hated when her husband was right. “No, but I bet he’s thinking it.”

Shi Jin laughed good-naturedly. “You’re probably right.”

A few seconds later, Mo Yeon shifted in her seat.

“Is everything okay?”

She clamped a hand over her mouth. “Yoo Shi Jin-ssi.”

Her husband looked over. “What’s the matter? Are you suddenly not feeling well?”

“I think I’m going to throw up.”

“What? Right now? You can’t! Just hold on for a few minutes. We’re almost home. Think of Big Boss; you don’t want to ruin another car.”

If she’d been feeling better, Mo Yeon would’ve hit him for the last comment, but all she could do was nod her head in agreement and do as instructed.

The minute Shi Jin pulled the car in front of her house, now their house, she was unbuckled and running for the front door. After parking the car, Shi Jin found her huddled over the toilet. He asked if there was anything he could do for her, but she waved him away. When she finally emerged from the bathroom, her husband had lit some candles, which he knew would help soothe her, and poured her a glass of water. “How are you feeling?” he asked.

“It’s weird,” she said, rolling up the sleeves of the shirt she’d changed into and walking over to join him at the kitchen island. “I feel better now that I’ve thrown up.”

He put a hand up to her forehead. “Any signs of a fever? Are you sure you’re not coming down with something?”

She shook her head. “I feel fine. In fact . . . I’m kind of hungry.”

Shi Jin stared at her. “Come again?”

“I could really eat right now. Would you order something for me?”

“Yeobo. We just had dinner.”

“I know, but I could really go for some dolbi right now.”

Though he could hardly believe her, he did what any good husband would do under the circumstances and ordered her a carry out order of dolsot bibimbap. He then watched in amazement as she polished off the entire bowl. “Feel better now?”

“Much.”

The next night, it was a near repeat of the day before, except this time, she’d craved ramen. Army style. “I don’t have any night vision goggles on hand, but I’ll call up Kim Gi Bum Ha-sa and see if he can come over and cook the ramen for you.”

The third night, after he’d had to call up Kim Gi Bum Ha-sa again for a refresher on how to make samgyetang, Shi Jin put his foot down. “Something’s not right. You’re a doctor. You have to realize this is not normal. I think you’d better make an appointment and get checked out.”

Which is how they found out that instead of morning sickness, Mo Yeon was suffering from night sickness and pregnancy food cravings.

To say that they were shocked would have been an understatement, but they weren’t exactly unhappy either. At least, one of them wasn’t.

“Daebak,” was Shi Jin’s response, as they sat across from Dr. Song and took in the news.

“That’s impossible,” was Mo Yeon’s.

“Why is it impossible?” Dr. Song asked, popping an almond. “When two people get married, they do certain things together, and when two people who are married do certain things together . . .”

That’s when Nurse Ha stepped in stop him mid-sentence. “I don’t think Dr. Kang needs you to explain that to her.”

“But she said it was impossible and unless she and Major Yoo aren’t doing certain things together, she should know it’s not impossible.”

“You’re hopeless,” Nurse Ha muttered, giving up and walking away.

“We’re definitely doing certain things together!” Shi Jin’s unnecessary comment earned him a slap to the arm from his wife.

Later, as they sat across from each other in their favorite coffee shop, they took some time to process the news privately. “This is crazy. I can’t believe I’m pregnant.”

“Is it such a bad thing?”

“It’s not bad, it’s just . . . we’re not ready for this.”

“Is anybody ever ready for a baby?”

“How are we going to take care of a baby? Who’s going to take care of a baby? I practically live at the hospital and you . . . well, you know. You . . .” she waved her hand in the general direction of the air. “And what about our house? There’s no room for a baby in our house. We only have the one bedroom. There was barely enough room for your things when you moved in. Where are we going to put a baby? Babies come with things, and those things take up space! And . . . .”

Shi Jin grabbed Mo Yeon’s hands to keep them still. “Stop. Take a breath. Relax. We only just found out about the baby, we don’t have to plan out its entire future right now. There’s plenty of time to figure everything out.

“What I’d rather know right now is how you really feel about the baby. Are you disappointed? Do you not want to be a mother? Are you really not ready?”

Mo Yeon considered the question. It was true she hadn’t expected to become a mother this soon, but it wasn’t as if she never wanted to be a mother. Of course she wanted children. And above all, she wanted Shi Jin’s children. The timing of this pregnancy had simply caught her off guard and she wasn’t used to being off her game; she was used to being in control. Mo Yeon took a deep breath. “No, I’m not disappointed. Of course I’m not disappointed. How could I be disappointed? You’re right, I’m just freaking out because we hadn’t planned for this.”

“That’s okay then.” Shi Jin let go of her hands. “I know we didn’t plan for a baby right now, but it’s going to be fine. We’ll be fine. Think of all the things we’ve encountered together so far. Is there anything we haven’t been able handle?”

Mo Yeon laughed. “You’re right.”

Shi Jin held his right fist out. “What are we?” he asked.

“Comrades!” she responded, returning the fist bump.

“That’s right! And because we’re comrades in arms, we are so going to rock this parenting thing together.”

And they did.

The first person they told of the pregnancy was Mo Yeon’s mother. Shi Jin still liked to joke that he was suffering from hearing loss as a result of that day. Her excitement knew no bounds and she immediately offered to move in with them, to help care for the baby. Recognizing that this was a solution to half of their problems, Shi Jin and Mo Yeon agreed.

Shi Jin’s father was the second person they told, and though his response was less effusive than Mo Yeon’s mother’s, it was not any less enthusiastic. “Good job, son, good job,” he kept telling Shi Jin, clapping his hands against Shi Jin’s upper arms.

To Mo Yeon, he simply gave his thanks. And then he turned back to his son to tell him to be good to his wife.

“Did you hear that?” Mo Yeon asked him. “Your father says you have to treat me well.”

“When have I ever not treated you well?”

“Hm. Let’s see.” Mo Yeon started counting on her fingers. “There was that time you went out with that airplane stewardess behind my back. And then there was that time you lost your mind over an idol girl group. Oh, and let’s also not forget . . .”

Shi Jin clamped his hand hurriedly over his wife’s mouth and looked at his father with a nervous laugh. “She’s just kidding. It’s not how it sounds. Honest!”

His father merely smiled in response. He was pleased to see how happy his children were.

#####

For the next six months, those happy children cheerfully planned for a child of their own. Their first order of business had been to find a new place to live, one that was big enough to accommodate their growing family and Mo Yeon’s mother. Once they found an apartment building to their liking, they had the harder task of packing up two different households to merge into one.

There’d been a bit of an adjustment there too, learning how to live together in one house. Shi Jin still cringed to think of that one morning when he’d walked out of the bathroom from his shower, thinking he was home alone.

Mo Yeon’s mother, on the other hand, still thrilled to think of how fine her son-in-law had looked that morning. Mo Yeon, herself, had been of absolutely no help in that department. As Shi Jin had shared his embarrassment with her, instead of sympathizing, she’d started recalling all those mornings in Uruk when the “doves” had conducted their morning runs around the base camp.

Despite those initial hitches, over time, the three members of the family settled into a routine and it was surprisingly easy how well they got along. Shi Jin’s father had even started joining them on Sunday evenings for family dinners, and with Shi Jin enjoying an unexpectedly good run of not getting called away on any major missions, he’d been able to help with setting up a nursery for the baby and had even been on hand to experience all the changes that were going on in his wife’s body.

He still remembered the first time he’d felt the baby kick. It had been so unexpected and so exciting. It was as if, with that one gesture, the baby had gone from a notion they were planning around to something very real. Shi Jin had wanted to go out and buy the baby a soccer call after that first kick, absolutely convinced it would be the next Park Ji Sung, but Mo Yeon, ever the killjoy, had assured him it was nothing out of the ordinary.

Shi Jin was convinced otherwise. He was sure there’d be no baby bigger, better, or stronger than theirs. And to make sure of it, he read up on a lot of baby books. One of his takeaways was that talking and reading to the baby in the womb was something to be encouraged. After he’d learned about that he made it a part of their nightly ritual to share stories of their day with the baby. He also read countless numbers of books to the baby.

One night, Shi Jin even produced a pair of headphones from behind his back. When Mo Yeon asked him what that was about, he said he’d read that music was also good for developing babies. Though she rolled her eyes, she allowed him to place the headphones over her ever growing belly. It was only after the third night when curiosity finally got the better of her that she decided to sneak a listen as to what Shi Jin had been sharing with the baby. What she heard made her eyes widen and wrench the headphones from her stomach. “YAAAH!”

Down the hallway from their bedroom, Shi Jin bent over in laughter. When Mo Yeon’s mother, who was with him in the kitchen, asked what was so funny, Shi Jin told her that Mo Yeon had finally figured it out. The recording he’d been playing for the baby was the one he’d saved of her car-hanging-off-the-cliff confession.

Somehow Mo Yeon refused to believe his excuse that he’d only wanted the baby to learn its mother’s voice, and from then on, she insisted on checking his musical selections before allowing him to play any recording for their baby.

For six months, they spent their time thusly. Building a nest. Watching it grow. And being happy.

But eventually, duty called.

When Mo Yeon answered her phone and heard her husband’s request to meet in the Haesung Hospital parking lot, she knew. It might have been months since they’d had one of these meetings, but that didn’t mean she’d forgotten what it felt like. There was only one reason Shi Jin would seek her out in the middle of the day like this. The only other times he came to see her at the hospital was if he was picking her up at the end of a work day, or on a weekend afternoon when they had a prearranged date. This was the middle of the week.

As Mo Yeon passed through the hospital’s automatic doors she steeled herself and willed herself to be strong. As expected, Shi Jin was waiting for her with his soldier’s beret in his hand. His expression was one of both resignation and apology, and her only response was to walk up to him and give him a hug.

“How long?”

“A month.” Mo Yeon started to run the calculations in her head, but Shi Jin already had. “You’ll be entering your ninth month.”

Knowing how much he hated having to leave her behind, Mo Yeon usually tried to avoid saying or doing anything that would add to his layers of guilt. But this time, the hitch in her breath came reflexively. She hoped he wouldn’t notice, but of course he did. Shi Jin noticed everything about her. “I’m sorry,” he told her. “I promise I’ll be back before the baby comes.”

“Just make sure to come back.” Babies were unpredictable and came whenever they liked. Sometimes they came early, sometimes late, and sometimes right on time. It was too hard a promise to make to say that he’d be present when they baby arrived. But to return alive, and to see his child grow, that was the only thing Mo Yeon wanted. “Whatever it takes and however you do it, just promise me you’ll come back alive.”

Shi Jin hugged Mo Yeon as tightly as the belly in between them would allow. “I promise.” Then he pulled away and handed her something from his back pocket.

“What is this?”

“It’s a voice recording I made for the baby. Will you play it while I’m gone?”

Mo Yeon looked away and wiped the tears that had sprung into her eyes. Unable to speak, she nodded her head and clutched the recorder tightly against her chest. “Alright, I will.”

“It’s only one month,” he told her. Mo Yeon nodded. “I’ll be back before you know it.” Mo Yeon nodded again. “Eat well, sleep well, and don’t work too hard when I’m away. You have to take care of yourself and the baby.”

“We’ll be waiting for you,” she told him.

Shi Jin kissed her and the baby before climbing back into his car. As he drove away, he spared one last glance for his wife and unborn child in the rearview mirror and then looked ahead, towards the mission.

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Back in the present day, Mo Yeon finished her cup of tea and bid her friend a good night. “Where are you going?” Doc Pyo asked.

“It’s time for another round and I should check in with the emergency room too, to make sure there haven’t been any patients who have come in who need my attention.”

“You’re going to get some rest tonight, right?”

Mo Yeon threw up an arm in answer and waved.

“Don’t make me come hunt you down,” Doc Pyo yelled after her. What Mo Yeon didn’t know was that well before his last mission, Shi Jin had come to visit her at the hospital. He’d asked her, as Mo Yeon’s best friend, to be there for her if he was ever called away. To make sure she didn’t overwork herself. To make sure she ate her meals on time. To make sure she rested properly. To make sure she didn’t worry too much.

Everything Shi Jin had asked of her, Doc Pyo would’ve done regardless. But she appreciated that he’d thought of his wife in that way.

As Mo Yeon rode the elevator back down to the first floor and the emergency room, specifically, she tried not to think of how many calendar days it’d been since Shi Jin had left her side. She tried also to not think about how the one-month mark had passed eleven days ago, bringing her eleven days closer to her due date. She knew that Shi Jin’s estimates were just that; estimates. But it was still hard to not worry when he didn’t return by the promised date. She reached instinctively for her phone and checked it for messages one more time. There was nothing still.

Mo Yeon walked through the doors of the emergency room and tucked the phone back into the pocket of her white coat. Shoving all thoughts of Shi Jin to the side, she asked for the patients’ charts to be brought to her and tried to ignore the twinges in her back and the aches in her ankles as she visited each bed. When she reached her last patient of the night, a little girl recovering from a bad allergic reaction, Mo Yeon adjusted her IV drip and reassured the worried parents that their daughter would be fine.

Then, she returned to the nurse’s station where she handed them the last of the charts and told them she was going to rest in the call room. “Page me if I’m needed.”

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Alone in the call room, Mo Yeon hung up her doctor’s coat and sat on the bottom bunk of a bed. She checked her phone and saw again that there were no waiting messages for her. She hate when Shi Jin’s missions took him out of cell phone range.

The baby wanted a donut today. So I had one.

Yoon Myung Joo came to visit me at the hospital this afternoon. Don’t tell her I said so, but she’s definitely bigger than me. And she’s got two more months to go!

Did I tell you? My mother bought a little soldier’s uniform for the baby. It’s really cute.

After she sent the third text message, Mo Yeon tossed the phone onto the bed beside her. “What am I doing?”

She lay back in the bed and stared at the bottom of the top bunk. Her brain wouldn’t turn off. She checked the time on her phone again. 11:23 pm. She hated this time of the day. There were no patients to see. Nobody to talk to. It was just her alone with her thoughts. This was the time when missed Shi Jin the most.

Rubbing her hands across her stomach, Mo Yeon spoke to her baby. “Aga, what do you think appa’s doing right now?” When the baby kicked out in reaction to Mo Yeon’s voice, she smiled and closed her eyes, and fell asleep with her hands cradled around her stomach.

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Shi Jin strode through the automatic doors of the hospital. It was by pure luck he stumbled almost immediately upon Nurse Choi who was working the overnight shift that day. “Yoo So-ryeong! Thank goodness, you’re back. Dr. Kang will be so happy.”

“Dr. Kang? Where is she?”

“She should be in the call room.”

“Thanks!”

Shi Jin and his men had arrived at their base late. Both he and Seo Dae Young had been eager to finish so they could go see their pregnant wives, but first they’d had to unload their equipment, report in with their commander, put everything away and get cleaned up. It was later still because Shi Jin had already been halfway home when he received Mo Yeon’s texts. That’s when he’d figured out she wasn’t home, but at the hospital.

“What’s up with this woman?” he asked himself. “Did I or did I not tell her to make sure she took care of herself and the baby while I was away?”

Now that he was home, he’d make sure that Mo Yeon got the rest she needed.

At the door of the call room, Shi Jin entered the passcode that Nurse Choi had been kind enough to share with him and then, stepping through, locked the door behind him. Mo Yeon lay curled up on the bottom bunk of a bed with her back to the door. A shaft of light from the hospital’s corridor passed through the darkened room from the glass window in the door, illuminating her just enough for Shi Jin to drink in the sight of his wife.

It had been a long and difficult month and he finally felt at home.

Climbing into the bed behind her, Shi Jin carefully curled his body around hers and wrapped his arms around her. In her sleep, Mo Yeon stirred.

“Shhhh.”

“Shi jin-ssi?” Mo Yeon asked drowsily.

“Were you expecting someone else?” he asked against the curve of her neck.

Mo Yeon turned her head back, saw her husband looking back at her, and then thanks to her protruding belly, moved her body awkwardly around so that they could face each other. “You’re home.”

“I came as soon as I could. I’m sorry I’m late.”

“You’re home,” she repeated. “That’s all that matters.” After a second, she struggled to sit up, as if she was suddenly remembering something.

Shi Jin helped her to sit up and then sat up with her. “What’s the matter?”

“The light. I need to turn the light on and see if you’re okay. Did you hurt yourself anywhere? Do you need me to take care of anything?” She started to run her hands across his body to check for injuries, but Shi jin kissed her on the forehead before taking her back into his arms and lying down again with her.

“Stop worrying. I’m okay. There’s not a single bruise on my body.”

“That’s a relief.”

“Go back to sleep,” he told her. “It’s late and you need your rest. We’ll talk more in the morning.”

Mo Yeon nodded and closed her eyes. She’d just about fallen back asleep when Shi Jin suddenly spoke from behind. “Wait a minute. I just realized. How come you weren’t shocked or scared when someone suddenly got into bed with you and hugged you from behind? You weren’t even surprised. What kind of woman are you? Does this happen to you that often, or something?”

Mo Yeon smiled against the darkness. “Are you being jealous again?”

“You’re not denying it,” Shi Jin growled.

Mo Yeon laughed. Turning around again so she could snuggle better into her husband’s arms, she corrected him. “The reason I wasn’t scared or surprised is because I’d recognize your embrace anywhere.”

“Really?”

“Really.”

“Well that’s alright then.”

With their arms around each other, and smiles on their faces, Shi Jin and Mo Yeon finally drifted off to sleep.

The End

 

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Would you have wanted to them experiencing the birth of their first born?  Because of the way I'd started this story, which was with KMY waiting for YSJ to come home, the story ended for me once YSJ came home.  But I can't help but also think it'd be fun to imagine what KMY and YSJ might be like when the baby comes.  Do I write an epilogue?  Or just let it end here?  Thoughts?

 

Tag: @Jalhanda

 

love your fanfics, very beautiful written, very close to real YSJ and KMY's, you should not only write an epilogue for this baby fanfic, but also keep writing more about their life  

 

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33 minutes ago, gilaswan said:

Here @Yippeuni: 

The assignment! Next week is Ep 3 & 4 re-watch!

hehe, I won't join the assignment, even if the waiting for DOTS back when it aired was real good, but I just don't want to go through that again, the cliffhanger every week, the trolling... Whenever I re-watch DOTS, I re-watch from ep 1 to 16, the satisfied feeling is excellent  

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3 minutes ago, utkim said:

dc

 

ahaha, Miracle straw from Urk 

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@gilaswan what did you just say? take what out? I mean, hahaha, your mind is great far from us, I think we have a minor here  

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1 minute ago, CatWhiskers said:

Can I super duper like your post @SkyKid ? Except there isn't such function? Lol. 

Can I just add we were also troll?!!  Where is our footsie scene frm the tent? They were sure having such a fun time playing footsie under covers in the preview! And it is cold...pretty sure they did more than just snuggling. 

Hahaha, did you just read my PM conversation too? Or merely great minds coincidence,because I'm discussing about the camping footsie scene with fellow member here too. We're pulling our hair finding the suitable word for their foot's action or whatever happen under that blanket, hahaha

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Haha, they did or did not's discussion is back  I still stay with my guess, they sure did it. Reasons:

1. YSJ thinking about kissing KMY thousand times before he finally kisses her, and that was only her 1st week in Urk = thinking about kissing her 200 times/day. Knowing how imaginative soldiers are, YSJ is sure thinking about the futher step too.

2. We was showed one edited out scene in ep 11, before YSJ went for diamond exchange, KMY came looking for him when he was with his team, but later he two of them were saying their goodbye in his room.

3. Jealous bf because of YoonKi oppa, KMY came to YSJ's room again and declared her love for him, and then they will just "talk", who are you kidding here, hehehe 

4. When they are back to Korea, YSJ is seen spend more time in KMY's house than in his barrack, and will they just drink beer, sit on sofa and "talk".

5. KMY said the smaller the bed the better, and she got that idea from YSJ

6. The way they continuously talk about "sexy". 

THEY DID IT FOR SURE . 

just one reason they didn't give us the bed scene was because with them two hugging, kissing each other we're already on fire because of their tension, if there was bed scene, smartphones, laptops of few million people around the world will explode, mine for sure will, hahaha 

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OMG, you guys are on fire, now I have 7 pages to back read, did I miss the fun?  was too busy with getting points for Baeksang award 

SJK and SHK are nominated for Best Actor, Best Actress, and Popularity Award, but we can only vote for the Popularity Award, let's vote for them  The app is available in both IOS and Android 

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try to stay away from the thread, failed eventually  I think at this rate, if I keep re-watching DOTS, I might be able to memorize all the line of the characters, even the line of that diamond jerk 

@vu_hoa1983 agreed and love everything you said so far in this thread,  KMY is YSJ's everything, haha, but when I read this, can't help myself but ROFL, I wonder if KMY know how YSJ and SDY used to look at the girl at the bar in Urk, how would she re-act? In another word, I just love to see both of them being jealous 

 

14 hours ago, vu_hoa1983 said:

Ever since he knew MY, his life really revolves around her. He helps her find back her true self. He cares about what she cares. He helps her uphold her oath as a doctor by telling her to save Argus. He always has his eyes on her, even during the earthquake: he  looked for her first and foremost when he came back to Uruk, smiled while listening to her conversation on the radio channel, exchanged eyes with her before going to the ruin. He saves and protects her. He lets her know beautiful, charming and special she is. In their relationship, he lets MY have the upper hand. And he just loves her so much that he asks her to forget him soon when he is gone. He has complete faith in her. The fanboy incident with Red Velvet is just a minor one - when he has her in his heart, she is the only one.

Because of how SJ loves her, MY comes to accept what his "everything" means, It is something he never promises but she knows it. It is the price she accepts for loving a honorable man like SJ.

 

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so in the attempt to move on from DOTS, I tried to watch other dramas, and all they left me is to wonder "they had 16 eps too, and why did they have bed scenes, yes, scenes not scene, and all I got in DOTS were a camping scene with nothing happened and a kiss that shoot from "you know where". Other OTPs they kisses, they hugs, the main actor even got to carry his girl, why our Captain and his Doctor spent most of their time saving other people, DOTS too is a melodrama, give us bed scenes, more kisses and hugs  keep watching and thingking, then "bamm" I realized I'm back to DOTS's thread  

huhu, they at least should let Captain and Doctor kiss, use their body to say "I Love You" more in ep 13,14,15,16 

 

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18 minutes ago, princessmantou said:

 

If he's a Seoryeong means he's not in the field anymore @winterbubbletea... Its so screwed because he's too young obviously... haha... But after Daewi he needs to get a job promotion to be Tae Dae wi(Squadron Leader) to be a Seoryeong(Lieutenant Major) after. Seoryeong usually have to be age 40 something with 20 years of experience in the military. So its kind of 'impossible' for YSJ to be a seoryeong... production crew is screwed... because the difference of a Dae wi and Seoryeong is vast. 

If he's a seoryeong means his job scope is basically staying in the office giving instructions, yellling at people, writing reports and shaking his leg. My dad is a Jungryeong (same as Park Byung Soo) and thats all he does... Seoryeong earns about 6.7K usd per month.

Can you give me some time I will check out those scenes for you... then get back to you.... He said it a few times very casually and briefly. 

thank you, about the rank, hehe, maybe production team refers to this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparative_military_ranks_of_Korea

according to this chart, it makes sense, also in my country there is no Tae Dae Wi, you go from Dae Wi to Seoryong, so it also makes sense to me  but tbh, I like the word Captain more than Major, I think it sounds cooler 

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in last ep, YSJ has been promoted to Major ( 소령 - Seoryong), he now has one flower ^^

ok, so I have a day off today without DOTS  so I do rerun of DOTS from ep 1 to 12 without sub, but guess what still can't catch YSJ calling himself "oppa" @princessmantou please do me a favor, enlighten me, which scenes are those YSJ calling himself "oppa", because I really want to cach that, doing Korean listening practice with DOTS is so much fun  ,thank you 

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44 minutes ago, booho said:

w guys do u have see this

 

ahahahaha i thought this is DOTS Trailer - LOL 

sersan seo really daebak in this CF LOL

 a ha ha ha, rofl like crazy, can't stop laughing, what a creative CF  

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Captain Yoo's dog tag ep 6:

And his dog tag in ep 12:

Blood type has changed from O to A. 

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3 minutes ago, themarchioness said:

That . . . doesn't make much sense, no offense.  It makes more sense to put your actual type on the dog tag because with that information, an emergency responder can then figure out what a person needs.  An A can receive A and O blood, after all, so why limit the dog tag to just O? 

Wikipedia pretty much confirms that even in S. Korea, a person's blood type is put on the dog tag: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog_tag#South_Korea

Oh you're right!!!!  I'd forgotten about that scene.  (how could I forget?  I love that scene!!!  ) 

In which case, then the online chatter was right that the dog tags were incorrect.

About the dog tag, the first one before YSJ leaves Urk, it's wrong (stated his blood type as O), but in ep 12 when he left his uniform we can see they changed his blood type on the dogtag to A.  Haha, DOTS with its flaws

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5 minutes ago, themarchioness said:

You may be confusing Type A personality with the personalities Asians associate with blood types.  I think when KMY and YSJ have been described as being the Type A type, it's talking about them in the personality sense that Type As are known to be aggressive, competitive, leader types (see Wiki explanation). 

I'd have to rewatch the scene in Episode 15 again to be certain, but my recollection is she finally told him she was a Type O blood type.  As for him, I'm not sure we actually know his blood type.  I don't think he ever actually said so in the drama and my recollection is that at one point, there was some online chatter about how the drama was inconsistent with his blood type -- that on his dog tags, it indicated he was an O, but on his uniform arm band, it indicated he was an A.

YSJ did mention his blood type is A when giving information about Doctor Kang's bf for the hospital director, hehe. 

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BTS of DOTS, hair tied's scene

SHK:   이렇게 하지말고, 이렇게

SJK: 알았어, (couldn't catch the next one), then he goes "이렇게, 잘했지? 칭천을 좀 해줘"

Scene when SHK watched the doves, SJK blocked her view, she glared at him:

SJK to SHK: 진짜 진짜 싫어한다 야, 제대로 몰입하네

if the above is formal way to speak Korean, I need to comeback to my school and ask for tuition back 

@princessmantou kaka, I think we all (plus Agus) should study Korean from you ^^ until DOTS 2 coming, what is your time zone? I could change my sleeping habit for online lesson ^^ (things I do only for DOTS)

 

 

 

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oh hehe, DOTS ended and left us too many questions that we can't solve by ourselves, let's vote for DOTS 2 with the same cast and crew, directors,writers so we can have closure over DOTS 

name of the movie they failed to watch 3 times remains secret

name of the kid 

the balcony kiss, though in BTS they showed more close-up one, but not close enough, should be like truck kiss or shipwreck kiss

babies of YSJ and KMY that we never get to see

@princessmantou have to disagree with you on how SJK addresses SHK, the guy is just really confused on how to address SHK, hehe, sometimes noona, sunbae, sometimes SHK-ssi, HK-ssi, then goes further as called her "SHK, HK"  and if based on what you stated about the formal-informal language between people in Korea, I don't know how to call SJK-SHK's relationship, in BTS, the guy never speak formal language to her. I personally think despite the culture , nowadays that depends on how people think, if you have good relationship in really comfortable level with people who older than you, you can also use the informal language with them, without other people think you're rude, but from that they will know you two in a really close relationship 

oh, and @princessmantou please do not quote pic, it is against soompi's rule 

below statement is made by one of director of DOTS, not SJK himself 

17 minutes ago, princessmantou said:

Let me quote this from a soompi artcle:

When asked what Song Joong Ki usually calls Song Hye Kyo, he replies, “Sometimes he calls her sunbae, and sometimes he calls her noona.”

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4 minutes ago, viyra said:

Yes - if there's an image of where we can read KMY's age, I might be able to help because I can read some hanguel.   I don't think YSJ is older than KMY.  The only time YSJ mentioned the word 'oppa' was when they were at the theater - thinking he is 'oppa' to KMY.  Also, YMJ and KMY knew each other from school and when they met for the first time at the hospital, KMY addressed YMJ as YMJ-ssi - YMJ addressed KMY as Kang MoYeon sunbae.  The only reason YSJ asked YMJ to address KMY as sunbae was because YMJ was so blunt talking to KMY (scene where YMJ reported to Mowuro).  At the café, when they were arguing on who should say 'I love you' first, YSJ suggested they go by name - K comes before Y so he wants KMY to say it - then he changed it to 'by age' - and then KMY said 'why do you always want me to say it first'.  So I still believe KMY older than YSJ.

I posted the pic few pages back, but here it goes again 

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5 hours ago, themarchioness said:

 

If it makes you feel any better, I also went back to rewatch the tower scene in Episode 12 and the only time I heard YSJ say "oppa" was when he was warning KMY to not go back to Korea and see the hospital director or "Yoon Gi Oppa."  I didn't hear him call himself oppa either.  *shrugs*

 

 thank you  I definitely did not hear YSJ calling himself an oppa apart from ep 2, when he said "so, I'm an oppa", but there is Chinese broadcasting version too, so I wonder if they dubbed something like that in the C-version, because they totally dubbed the whole ep 13 to avoid the North Korea's story  

like @princessmantou mentioned that YSJ also said he confessed and been rejected 3 times while talking with the victim, but the version I watched all I heard is " I really like her, but she rejected me about 3 times already", that's why we find 3 rejects, but @princessmantou kept finding the scenes where he confessed and been rejected 

right now my concern is if we can get director's cut DVD, BTS of the hugs, kisses, drunken scenes, tbh, if the director has no time, I would not care if they give us the whole shooting process  but seems like KBS doesn't want to take my money 

 

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@princessmantou I think he confessed 3 times as follow:

1st: before he leave for Urk, they have disagree about their career, so she said "sorry, you're not the one I'm looking for"

2nd: before he leave for Korea, "should I apologize or confess?", she still needs time to gather the courage, but he kept leaving, so she said " Right now I really hate you, apologize, I will accept your apologize"

3rd: after he comes back to Urk, while she was treating his injury, he confessed he missed her, asked her to think about it, she didn't answer 

Poor Captain, even after she becomes his gf, these rejects still hunt him, so scared he got dumped again haha

 

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5 minutes ago, kokodus said:

 That sounds like a good idea but where can i get a boyfriend like our capt YSJ. If not YSJ then can i get my own SJK

SJK is taken too  (SongSong Couple)

haha, quite out of topic, but @princessmantou is right, those Korean soldiers, especially those who guard DMZ, JSA are while cold yet extremely hot and talent  but I don't have that courage to have army bf 

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@princessmantou hu hu, I give up, re-watch the scene just now, still can't catch that phrase  thank you anyway  

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11 minutes ago, princessmantou said:

 

Those are 'names' a form of salute to the person's position. However they spoke in banmal with him and her calling each other 'Yah' at times... and spoke informally. You can only do that to someone whose same age or younger. When she calls his name, she calls him Yoo Si Jin ssi and that's a form of informality in Korea. 

It's Ep12 the clocktower scene where he said something about 'think of your Si Jin oppa' in Korean. There are also a few scenes he calls himself Si Jin oppa to her. That's why I'm confused. I was thinking if the writer forgot or something. At times it feels like she's supposedly older... at times he's the oppa. 

 

oh, if that's the one you talking about, I think he's not calling himself oppa, but told her "not to cheat on me with that Yoon Ki oppa (윤기 오빠랑 바람나지 말고) " 

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6 minutes ago, kokodus said:

Ok iam really confused. Iam not a Korean but i thought they were talking formally as he always call her kang sonsaeng and not kang mo yeon or mo yeon ah and Eventhough she talks down to him sometimes( like landmine scene in ep 3 etc) but most of the times it was only yoo daenim

Aughhh this is really confusing, i think i have to learn Korean properly bcoz of this drama

pic: credit to owner

at this time, I understand Agus's feeling