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The DramaFever subs are, as usual, basically accurate, but distinctly minimalist in places, skimming over, or leaving out altogether, things which give vitality and savor to the dialogue.

Take the sequence early on in ep 1 where, the day following Hye Jeong's collapse, she walks with her daughter along the shore. The girl asks why they're going to Seoul, and instead of an answer, her mother asks her a question in return (although with our adult ears, we sense that this question is actually part of the answer to what the child wants to know).

But the child shows that two can play at that game, and responds to her mother's question-in-lieu-of-answer with another question of her own. But not because she's being awkward. In fact, with a wisdom beyond her years, she's letting her mother know that she realizes that the story behind her birth is something her mother finds too painful to talk about yet, and that's why she's never asked her about it. That much is very plain from the Korean dialogue, but the DF subs truncate the lines so drastically that it's very much less plain in the English version, and viewers who can't follow the original lose out on a whole dimension of this touching little scene.

Here's my alternative translation of the lines in question, which begin at around 00:03:40

JS:
Why are we going to Seoul?

HJ:
You don't have a daddy like other kids.
How come you've never asked me why?
Wouldn't you like to meet your daddy?

JS:
When I hit my friend Sook Ho the other day,
how come you didn't ask me why?

HJ:
Well... because I know you'd never hit
another kid without some good reason.
I guessed it was something you wanted to
keep to yourself in case it upset me..,
That's what I thought, anway.

JS:
Suk Ho said I had a barmaid for a mommy.
I put up with it for five whole minutes,
but he kept calling you a barmaid over and over.
So... if there's something you'd rather not talk about too,
about my Daddy I mean, it can wait till you're ready.
But why are we going to Seoul?

Another regular problem feature of DF subs is that things which Korean viewers read off screen, but which viewers who can't read Korean need to know as well, are often left unsubbed. [i suspect the subbers either don't see, or don't bother to look at, the video. Notice how a little later in this episode, the Walt Disney saying "If you can dream it, you can do it," which is visible in its correct original English on the gift card, gets subbed as "If you can dream it you can live it" when the child reads aloud from the Korean handwritten translation.]  

The sign at the company building, alongside the congratulary garlands sent by other businesses, community leaders and well-wishers, reads

30th Anniversary Celebrations of the Foundation of Shinwha Fashions.

As well has helping sort out the time-sequence (we soon see another significant sign at that same spot some years earlier) that sign alerts us to the presence of one of the top three things Korean drama audiences seem to find irresistibly funny. Which are, in descending order of hilariousness: #1 Flatulence,  #2 Discovering too late that there's no toilet paper in the bathoom, and #3 Puns. This, mercifully, is a case of #3.

The Company is called Shinwha (= Legend) Fashions. So the title of the Drama, as well as meaning "That Woman's Legend", also means "That Woman's Shinwha", implying that the company is in some sense "hers" and that the plot will reveal what that sense is. This would be clearer if the name of the company was indeed translated as "Legend Fashions" instead of being left  just transliterated as "Shinwha", especially since that translation wouldn't sound odd in English. Unlike the company that featured in the drama from which Park Yoon Jae has just emerged, which would have sounded pretty silly if translated into "Full Belly Foodstuffs", which was its literal meaning. Incidentally, the printed Korean inscription at the bottom of the gift card means "To welcome you on your school field trip visit to Shinwha Fashions", though I suspect in the English-speaking world that would more likely read "A souvenir of your..."

It's also noticeable that the Korean translation of Disney's words is written in a a style that resembles the writing of a child with a careful and neat hand, but who hasn't yet quite mastered the skill of fitting each character into an equally-sized invisible square box. Korean elementary school exercise books are always ruled out with squares, even when they're not for math work, so that children can practise making all their letters just fit into those squares, and the teacher correcting their work can easily highlight the places where they don't manage to do that. Some adults write with such unequal-sized letters as well, of course, especially when writing something in a hurry in lipstick on a display window, a resemblance that's meant to strike us a little later...

When the child's question about that the words on the card mean causes her mother to recall how Choi Soo Ho wrote them in her lipstick on the window of the self-same display window that her daughter was chided for defacing with her handprints, the notice we see beside that window on this earlier occasion is headed "1998 XXIV Olympiad at Seoul". It expresses the support and good wishes of Shinhwa Fashions for the national participants in the Games and their proclaimed goal of fostering "Peace, Harmony and Progress" and announces promotional events sponsored by the company between August 22 and September 19 (the Seoul Olympics themselves ran from September 17 to October 2 1988).

The book Jeong Soo takes from her shelf as her mother sings her last ever song, and which is subsequently saved from the demolition squad and taken to her new room later in the episode, is a Korean translation of Frances Hodgson Burnett's A Little Princess, filtered by way of a Japanese anime version from which the illustrations we see come. Though this is a very well known children's classic all over the world, I think viewers of this drama might be well advised to brush up their memories of the plot (starting with the significance of a certain attic window...) [Although people in the Philippines might be equally well advised not to rely on the version contained in the 1995 movie Sarah, Ang Munting Prinsesa, which is one of the most unintentionally hilarious films I've ever choked on and often pops up on TV around Christmas in its country of origin, though it wouldn't appeal to non-Tagalog speakers or anyone who might wonder why a school "just outside London" has such a wonderful view of the Cairngorm Mountains some 500 miles further north.]

The passage Jeong Soo reads aloud to herself is the one where Sara, after her once wealthy father has died in poverty, is being forced to work as a housemaid at the exclusive school she once attended. She is secretly visited in the sordid attic where she now has to live in isolation by one of her former classmates, and she shows how the power of her imagination and optimism raises her above her apparently grim condition and prospects. In the original behind the passage we hear, Sara tells her visitor

 

The slanting ceiling is so funny. See, you can scarcely stand up at this end of the room; and when the morning begins to come I can lie in bed and look right up into the sky through that flat window in the roof. It is like a square patch of light. If the sun is going to shine, little pink clouds float about, and I feel as if I could touch them. And if it rains, the drops patter and patter as if they were saying something nice. Then if there are stars, you can lie and try to count how many go into the patch. It takes such a lot. And just look at that tiny, rusty grate in the corner. If it was polished and there was a fire in it, just think how nice it would be. You see, it's really a beautiful little room.

 

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Triton823 said: what kind of crap!? They give Man Bok an easy way out! Man Bok who instigated all of this gets a easy clean! So irritating.

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As for Richard Simmons, it was interesting to learn he really exists. I'd always imagined he was a fictious relative of the Richard Stands who is well known among linguists who study children's language acquisition.  The reason being that a survey once established that a surprisingly high percentage of children in US Elementary schools are convinced that they face the flag every day and pledge allegiance to "the Republic for Richard Stands" 

Children acquire language by assimilating new words and structures to ones they already know. Very few children at the age when they are taught this pledge have ever encountered a structure of the type "for  + which  + PROUNOUN [it]  + VERB [stands] ", but they all know the structure 'for + NAME OF A PERSON" , and "which it" sounds sufficiently like "Richard" for them to assume that's what they're hearing and think no more about it, especially since the notion of a symbol standing for an abstract entity is way beyond their cognitive horizon at that stage in their development.

This may seem totally irrelevant to this thread, but to anyone who's attempted to learn Korean, where words that sound and are spelled the same (and were often distinguished by tone when first borrowed from Chinese) can have a whole range of quite different meanings, will understand how the same principle lies behind some of the traps into which subbers can fall -- and why Google Translate, which relies on a statistical frequency method that is basically modelled on how children learn language, so often produces especially wacky results when translating from Korean.

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In case anyone is puzzled about today's episode (60), when the kid wakes up and says he doesn't remember the accident, that's because he's been schooled to say just that by his mother.  Later, when everyone else has left, he asks her did he do a good job pretending, and she says he sure did. He has to keep the fact that he remembers everything, including recognising Seo Yeon as the person who abducted him, a secret until the time is right.  (Eun Soo is of course scared by Seo Yeon's threat to use the law to take the child away and raise him instead, as she would have a very good chance of doing in view of the way Korean legal practice handles child custody issues. She wants to collect sufficient hard evidence to put everyone who harmed her and endangered her son safely behind bars before telling the boy he can speak the truth publicly.)

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AAGH!! Posted in the wrong thread. AGAIN.

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mistyrain320 said: Why did they go with the recycle get the guy drunk and he suppose to be the father story-line.  |)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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atomickitty said:  Like I watched today and I was like.. HUH? Why is her son all tubed up in the hospital????

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Oh heck, yes. I missed the calendar bit.  So that really is likely to be a random pickup in the bar,  with no other plot--purpose than getting Se Yeon (in)conveniently pregnant so she can draw on Jeong Hoon's good nature, which as so often in Kdramas is hard to distinguish from plain stupidity.  And yet, today, he did seem to be showing a certain amount of delayed action common sense when Seo Yeon indignantly asked him can he really believe that SHE would do something as horrible as that to a child. To which he responded, yes, he can believe it, because he's seen now what sort of person she really is. But if he's going to fall for the "you got me pregnant" ploy just because he wakes up in bed beside with her with a splitting headache and no socks on, then I'll gladly sleep through the rest of this drama.

Actually, I should have known it was a bad sign when I spotted that Jeong Hoon doesn't have a model of the Eiffel Tower in his bedroom.  I thought it was merely because the props department had run out of this much-in-demand item of male Kdrama bedroom furniture, but nearly all the good guys seem to have one, and the absence turns out to have been significant.

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@Auntie Mame,
Yup. This drama is definitely giving us that "Fifties" feeling. Not the 1950's, but the mist of idiocy and insanity that gathers around daily-drama characters once the tenth week is over.

Having collected enough evidence via her magazine cuttings collection and her Incognito Baseball Cap foray to jail Se Yeon and clear up the whole thing, Eun Soo today goes straight to her enemy and reveals what her evidence is before visitng the police. So, along come the Stuffed White Envelopes Brigade and the Needy Relatives Hospital Bill Payment Organisation and POOF! the evidence has gone, making Eun Soo look like a total nutcase, with Se Yeon now having the choice between having her arrested for criminal defamation or committed to an asylum for dangerous paranoia (the latter being the favored solution of Jeong Hoon's mother, who at least recognizes that the shock of what happened to her child is enough to drive any woman insane). Not to mention strengthening her mother-in-law's argument that she's not a fit person to be around "her" grandchild. It's especially infuriating that whenever the silly old cow says that, her dumpy square-faced elder son just says "Omma!" or "Ommmmaa!!" or, "Ommmmmma!!!", the only variation being the implied number of exclamation marks and doubled 'm' sounds, instead of saying "He's NOT your grandson, you stupid badly-permed baggage!"

BUT, who's the guy sitting in the shadows watching Se Yeon drink herself silly, who we see coming forward to make a move on her? And with whom, according to the teaser for tomorrow, she wakes up in a hotel bedroom??  Are we supposed to recognize him? I can't, but that's maybe because I watch so many dramas that I get the identikit black suit squad members mixed up. And she doesn't recognize him either, beceause in the next episode preview as she sits up in bed, covered only by a duvet (albeit up to the chin, this being a morning daily where no exposure of collar bones is allowed except via off-the-shoulder wedding-dresses) she asks him who he is, before following up with the more easily answerable question as to what he has "done to her". Is he a crazed stalker, obsessed with the way she flaunts her tempting kimbabs every day on lunchtime TV? Is he a bit-part actor who showed up at the wrong studio lot and acted his part from another drama, and the production team for this one are so dopey they didn't notice till it was too late? Will we find out tomorrow? Do we care, much?

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gene71632 said:
2. Eun Su called Jeong Hoon to meet as she wanted to know if he already knew Jin Goo is the culprit and he did not tell.

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Auntie Mame said:
Just like how the synopsis of May Queen had the female heroine as an oceanographer.  Errr . . . Problem is that she didn't even finish high school.  In the drama, she was actually a welder building ships.  I guess that's related to the ocean. ))

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Koreans themselves aren't good at translating their kinship terms into other languages (many Korean-authored textbooks for learners have quite serious errors in this area) so it's not surprising that Chinese, Japanese and English translators are often led astray.

The usual problem is a failure to distinguish between half-siblings and step-siblings. This is because the Korean terminology makes a distinction for which Western languages have no terms, between, on the one hand, siblings who have the same father and hence share the same "blood", which makes them, from a traditional Korean perspective, "true" siblings, even if they have different mothers, and siblings who have different fathers and hence are not "true" siblings at all, even if they have the same mother. Translators tend to use the terms "step sibling" and "half sibling" indiscriminately for such siblings, since both types of kinship are outside the male "bloodline" and hence aren't "full" siblings.

異母, the operative part of the terms used in that summary (the word is read  이모in Korean, but is completely different from the word  姨母, which has the same Korean reading and Hangeul spelling, and means "maternal aunt") , does indeed refer to siblings who have the same father but "different mothers" (the literal meaning of those characters), and hence are of the "same blood"  It is completely wrong here. Unless the writer of that character description knows something we don't, and Jeong Hoon's father was actually the father of Se Yeon and Dong Heon, in which case the writer of this drama would be even more twisted than daily dramasmiths tend to be.

Man Bok, having brought about the death of Se Yeon and Dong Yeon's father (by manipulating him into taking the blame for financial malpractices for which Man Bok was himself responsible, leading him to commit suicide out of shame) then became the guardian of the two orphans and assured Dong Yeon (Se Yeon being too young at the time to be told of such things) that he would from now on treat him and his sister as his own children. But before long Dong Yeon overhead Man Bok telling his wife he had no intention of doing that as far as the company and his succession was concerned, an incident which, along with the boy's initial suspicions about his father's death, made him the implacable enemy of Man Bok, utterly determined to seize the company for himself and his sister at whatever cost to others. The three younger people thus share the same wielder of paternal rights and duties in a legal sense, but there is no other kinship between them.

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rikimaiu said:
It's not too bad. At least now she found out her husband is the killer and moved out from the house. Jeong Hoon now said he won't marry Se Yeon and let's see if he stand firm with the decision. Just hope he don't bow to any pressure from his parents and Yeon's siblings. 

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thunderman1 said: @baduy: Thank you very much for your descriptive paragraph and your opinions. Much appreciated!

Also, are you currently enjoying the drama? I have too much going on at home so I'll probably wait at least a year before I start reading recaps, watching episodes.

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thunderman1 said: Is Thorn Flower good? The plot synopsis is very brief.

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Auntie Mame said:
Rather, who is the badest of the bad.  Perhaps, every single character is a scoundrel and willing to back-stab his own mother to a penny. 

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Thank you @rikimaiu for the  pointer to the "unblock youkou" plugin, which I wasn't aware of. Very handy for certain other mainland Chinese sites too.

I've just spent an interesting couple of hours browsing the source code on github. and it's impressive stuff.

I normally warn people about using proxies for such purposes, because a lot of people just find a free proxy in a list somewhere, configure their browser to use it, and then surf merrily away, not realizing that all their web traffic is now going through a machine in an unknown location with unknown administrators, who have access to absolutely everything they do on the web,

But this extension kicks in only when a video liink on a range of specified sites such as youku is followed, leaving the bulk of your web traffic to take its normal route. Added to which, on all platforms apart from the Iphone and Ipad, it actually uses proxy code that runs on your own machine and which you can inspect. On Iphones and Ipads, however, it is obliged to connect you to an external proxy operated by the developers (hosted in the Amazon cloud) but since that happens only for the specified video sources and not for general web traffic it seems safe enough.

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shondrea2 said:  Where can you watch Your Woman ? I've looked everywhere and can't find it.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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While gene71632 is coming up with the recap for ep 30, here are some skeleton subs for that episode. As before, you can just paste them as it into a file, name it with the .srt extension and open it along with a raw in your player. The player will pick up the subs at the right time spots.

The idiotic blind date scene is too obvious and stupid to need subs. The other bits I haven't subbed are mainly to do with Jin Goo's rather slow progress in undercover investigations. By the end of the episode, he strongly suspects that Chief Hwang is the one with connections to gangland, but he isn't sure yet, because he's discovered that Man Bok is packed to the brim with "Chiefs" of one unit or another, any of whom might be the "Chief" his blindfolded buddy heard being addressed.


There's one point where I'd say the writer hasn't brought something rather important sufficently to the fore. I raise it here because I think it's very important for the psychological dynamics of the closing scenes, and I suspect it will remain so into next week's episodes (which I won't be watching after the shift to EU s summer time moves this drama's slot into the wee small hours here in the UK)

It's very important to realize that in the scene starting at 00:11:43 , Eun Soo isn't revealing to Jin Goo that she's got her memories back. She is still keeping that a secret from her family. When she tells him that her name is Lee Eun Soo, that she wants to be known as such from now on and is going to apply for the appropriate identity papers, she is pretending that she knows this purely from her visit to the police station and her consultation of the old newspapers. If Jin Goo realized that she had since recovered all her memories, as well as merely discovered these bare facts, he'd be a lot more anxious than he already is.

By withholding the extent of her recovery, she is testing him out. She hopes to get a convincing answer to the question she asks him that won't require her to divulge what else she knows and remembers (in particular, she would prefer him not to realize that she remembers all about Jeong Hoon, because she doesn't want their marriage to be disrupted, and her decision to put that part of her life behind her is at this moment very firm). But she does demand an explanation of why, since she's now discovered that all it took to establish her identity was a single visit to the local police station, Jin Goo never suggested taking that step in all those six years. If he has nothing else to hide, why did he hide that simple fact from her? And why did they go to the extent of faking her death and even organizing a funeral for her?

The answer Jin Goo comes up with satisfies her - for a while at least. He explains that he realized that someone wanted to kill her, and so the best way to protect her was to make it appear she was already dead. And he adds that he thought she was traumatized enough by the loss of her identity, without the additional burden of knowing that someone had tried to kill her, and would try again if they knew she was still alive.

That makes sense to her, and she apologizes for suspecting he had some  ulterior motive, and then thanks him for saving her life twice over. Once at the scene of the supposed accident, and then a second time by arranging the fake death that, she now realizes, protected her from her mysterious enemies.

But although Eun Soo seems satisfied with that explanation, Jin Goo still fears the truth that might come out if she were ever really to recover her memories (which he doesn't know has already happened). Hence his anxious middle-of-the-night inquiry to Eun Soo about what would become of their relationship if she did get her memories back, and if what came back to her was something she would have preferred to stay forgotten.

Later in the episode, she remembers him asking that, and it explains why she tells Jeong Hoon that there's absolutely no-one she can trust, since in retrospect, Jin Goo's explanation doesn't account for all his behavior, and she knows it.

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1
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Eun Soo!

2
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Please, we've got to talk.

3
00:00:15,531 --> 00:00:17,140
Vice President Kang,

4
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How many times more do I have to tell you?

5
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I am not Lee Eun Soo.
I am Oh Yoo Jeong.

6
00:00:22,904 --> 00:00:26,647
So please never call me Eun Soo ever again

7
00:00:26,893 --> 00:00:28,009
Why on earth are you doing this?

8
00:00:28,029 --> 00:00:31,916
And why are you doing
it to me, of all people?

9
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I know you've got back your memories.

10
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They've all come back to you.

11
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Vice President Kang...

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I don't know what you mean by that.

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I never lost any memories.

14
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- So there are no memories that could come back to me.
- Stop lying like this!

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Of course you got your memories back.

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You know me.

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You know who I am. And you know about us.

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You know that. Eun Soo

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Eun Soo!

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Vice President Kang,

21
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- as far as I'm concerned...
- Lee Eun Soo!

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Stop all this, won't you?

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The Warden of the Orphanage called me.

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. She told me you got your memory back.

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And just what has that got to do with you?

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If I have got my memory back,

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why should that be any business of yours?

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Eun Soo!

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Just as you say,

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I do remember.

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Who you are.

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Who I am.

33
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But what difference does that make?

34
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You see, I've become
a different person now.

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So stop behaving like this,

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towards me,

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and my husband, repeatedly
harrassing us both.

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And now I really am going.

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Eun Soo!

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<i>Whether it was you, or someone else...</i>

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<i>whoever made me like this...</i>

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<i>I will never forgive them.</i>

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<i>Never.</i>

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<i>Never ever.</i>

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Why is she acting this way?

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Why are you acting like this?

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Eun Soo!

48
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For God's sake, why?

49
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So you want me to take these
items to Oh Yoo Jeong?

50
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That's right.

51
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Don't say anything special about them.

52
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Sure. Don't worry.

53
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But ma'am...

54
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Don't you think that
Oh Yoo Jeong is rather odd?

55
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In what way?

56
00:02:34,697 --> 00:02:35,746
To put it bluntly,

57
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your position...

58
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I think she's trying to usurp it.

59
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She comes on all friendly,

60
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but I get the impression
she's out to bleed you dry.

61
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No need to be concerned.

62
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Just get on with
taking her those things.

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Yes, ma'am.

64
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She's furious with me.

65
00:03:03,787 --> 00:03:04,654
But why?

66
00:03:05,749 --> 00:03:07,200
Why is she furious with me?

67
00:07:33,299 --> 00:07:35,524
My employer asked me to bring you this.

68
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This is a list of the sort of fare
served in the very finest households.

69
00:07:42,272 --> 00:07:42,993
And in here

70
00:07:43,102 --> 00:07:44,681
are samples of how it needs to taste.

71
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Fine. I understand.

72
00:07:46,881 --> 00:07:47,985
Take a good look at all this,

73
00:07:48,140 --> 00:07:50,221
and when you've decided what precisely
you're going to make get back to me.

74
00:07:50,410 --> 00:07:53,250
For this engagement party, you need
to observe the very highest standards.

75
00:07:53,524 --> 00:07:55,185
Since my employer is hosting it,

76
00:07:55,431 --> 00:07:57,311
people will have very high expectations.

77
00:07:58,060 --> 00:07:59,192
Yes, I appreciate that.

78
00:07:59,521 --> 00:08:00,953
I live in this neighborhood, too,

79
00:08:01,473 --> 00:08:04,616
I have  a condo further up the hill.

80
00:08:04,914 --> 00:08:05,799
Really?

81
00:08:06,292 --> 00:08:06,821
So

82
00:08:07,084 --> 00:08:08,370
goodbye for now.

83
00:08:18,322 --> 00:08:19,596
What on earth's going on?

84
00:08:21,686 --> 00:08:25,734
Why is  she entrusting this
engagement party to me?

85
00:08:26,714 --> 00:08:28,548
Because she thinks I've lost my memory?

86
00:11:00,259 --> 00:11:01,974
<i>I got that text message from Jeong Hoon,</i>

87
00:11:02,522 --> 00:11:04,602
<i>went to the place he said, and had that accident.</i>

88
00:11:06,136 --> 00:11:08,280
<i>I was left for dead,</i>

89
00:11:08,435 --> 00:11:11,090
<i>but Jin Goo discovered me and saved my life.</i>

90
00:11:12,590 --> 00:11:13,685
<i>But then...</i>

91
00:11:14,069 --> 00:11:18,188
<i>They reported me dead, and
even arranged my funeral.</i>

92
00:11:19,425 --> 00:11:20,676
<i>Why?</i>

93
00:11:21,228 --> 00:11:22,178
<i>Who was behind all this?</i>

94
00:11:22,990 --> 00:11:24,523
<i>Jeong Hoon?</i>

95
00:11:25,216 --> 00:11:26,202
<i>No.</i>

96
00:11:26,850 --> 00:11:28,848
<i>The Jeong Hoon I know wouldn't
be capable of that.</i>

97
00:11:30,719 --> 00:11:31,312
<i>So who was it?</i>

98
00:11:40,282 --> 00:11:41,533
Can't you get to sleep?

99
00:11:43,513 --> 00:11:45,274
My name is Lee Eun Soo.

100
00:11:46,494 --> 00:11:47,170
I want to be known by it.

101
00:11:52,445 --> 00:11:54,215
And I intend to correct
my registration documents.

102
00:11:56,912 --> 00:11:58,522
I can't carry on living

103
00:11:59,088 --> 00:12:00,421
as the non-existent Oh Yoo Jeong.

104
00:12:03,426 --> 00:12:04,012
Alright.

105
00:12:04,604 --> 00:12:05,416
That's the right choice.

106
00:12:10,102 --> 00:12:11,889
Just answer me one thing.

107
00:12:13,782 --> 00:12:16,743
All it took was for me to go to a police
station and have my fingerprints checked.

108
00:12:17,393 --> 00:12:18,462
Why didn't you suggest that?

109
00:12:20,771 --> 00:12:22,762
Why did you keep things hidden from me all this time?

110
00:12:26,784 --> 00:12:28,166
Because I was afraid

111
00:12:29,897 --> 00:12:31,275
you might be killed.

112
00:12:34,614 --> 00:12:36,666
If you came back to life,

113
00:12:37,360 --> 00:12:38,990
I thought it was likely you'd be killed.

114
00:12:41,269 --> 00:12:43,351
You saw that newspaper
article reporting your death.

115
00:12:44,273 --> 00:12:47,143
Although you survived,

116
00:12:47,163 --> 00:12:48,314
you had to become dead

117
00:12:49,950 --> 00:12:51,358
even to the extent of having a funeral.

118
00:12:52,807 --> 00:12:54,235
and so I arranged that.

119
00:12:55,523 --> 00:12:57,896
Somebody or other out there...

120
00:12:59,677 --> 00:13:01,578
wants you dead.

121
00:13:03,419 --> 00:13:04,565
They really do.

122
00:13:17,360 --> 00:13:19,744
Why oh why is she so furious with me?

123
00:13:21,263 --> 00:13:22,239
Why?

124
00:13:26,882 --> 00:13:28,143
Eun Soo...

125
00:13:29,069 --> 00:13:29,763
Tell me, please.

126
00:13:31,966 --> 00:13:34,481
Something must have
happened six years ago.

127
00:13:38,666 --> 00:13:39,702
I'm sorry.

128
00:13:40,486 --> 00:13:41,894
I should have told you the truth,

129
00:13:42,810 --> 00:13:44,027
but I just couldn't do it.

130
00:13:45,033 --> 00:13:46,884
To tell a woman who'd
lost all her memories...

131
00:13:47,370 --> 00:13:49,835
that someone wanted her dead,

132
00:13:50,710 --> 00:13:51,786
I couldn't just
bring myself to do it.

133
00:13:56,011 --> 00:13:56,866
I'm sorry.

134
00:13:57,409 --> 00:13:58,787
So... back then...

135
00:14:00,216 --> 00:14:02,509
Someone ordered me to be abducted?

136
00:14:03,624 --> 00:14:04,660
Who were they?

137
00:14:05,193 --> 00:14:06,763
Whoever they are,

138
00:14:07,789 --> 00:14:09,388
if they find out you're alive...

139
00:14:09,720 --> 00:14:10,806
But that makes no sense.

140
00:14:13,150 --> 00:14:13,935
What's the reason?

141
00:14:14,347 --> 00:14:15,192
Why?

142
00:14:16,530 --> 00:14:17,999
Why do I matter?

143
00:14:20,253 --> 00:14:21,219
Why me?

144
00:14:21,631 --> 00:14:22,597
Why me, of all people?

145
00:14:23,684 --> 00:14:24,478
Why on earth....

146
00:14:24,790 --> 00:14:25,736
is it me they want to...

147
00:14:25,977 --> 00:14:27,355
I don't know that either.

148
00:14:28,371 --> 00:14:29,679
I only know one thing.

149
00:14:31,831 --> 00:14:33,944
If you reveal that you're alive,

150
00:14:35,241 --> 00:14:36,833
they'll kill you.

151
00:14:44,056 --> 00:14:45,112
So that means...

152
00:14:46,369 --> 00:14:48,280
you've saved my life...

153
00:14:49,286 --> 00:14:50,685
twice over.

154
00:14:52,084 --> 00:14:53,392
I wouldn't say that.

155
00:14:54,046 --> 00:14:55,404
I just...

156
00:14:55,957 --> 00:14:56,732
I just...

157
00:14:56,913 --> 00:14:57,587
I'm sorry.

158
00:14:59,739 --> 00:15:00,906
I'm really sorry.

159
00:15:01,590 --> 00:15:02,405
Honey,

160
00:15:03,260 --> 00:15:04,326
I just...

161
00:15:04,477 --> 00:15:06,358
You see, just briefly...

162
00:15:06,851 --> 00:15:08,169
very briefly,

163
00:15:09,727 --> 00:15:11,196
I doubted you.

164
00:15:12,443 --> 00:15:14,388
I thought you might....

165
00:15:14,757 --> 00:15:15,662
might have...

166
00:15:16,065 --> 00:15:17,986
been maliciously deceiving me.

167
00:15:19,384 --> 00:15:20,843
but of course you weren't.

168
00:15:34,454 --> 00:15:35,923
I'm so scared.

169
00:15:37,361 --> 00:15:38,307
Who can it be?

170
00:15:39,320 --> 00:15:40,510
And why?

171
00:15:40,773 --> 00:15:42,895
Why do they want to have me killed?

172
00:15:44,243 --> 00:15:45,350
Why

173
00:15:45,853 --> 00:15:46,768
Why

174
00:15:47,009 --> 00:15:48,207
do they want me dead?

175
00:15:49,418 --> 00:15:50,480
Why can that be?

176
00:16:07,160 --> 00:16:08,287
<i>Lee Eun Soo</i>

177
00:16:08,971 --> 00:16:10,802
<i>is the woman I love.</i>

178
00:16:11,254 --> 00:16:12,321
<i>I really and truly love her.</i>

179
00:16:12,733 --> 00:16:13,819
<i>and I promised to marry her.</i>

180
00:16:16,230 --> 00:16:17,317
Honey,

181
00:16:17,789 --> 00:16:18,614
are you asleep?

182
00:16:21,159 --> 00:16:22,376
No.

183
00:16:23,191 --> 00:16:24,318
Supposing...

184
00:16:26,842 --> 00:16:28,271
Just supposing...

185
00:16:29,458 --> 00:16:31,701
you get your memories back,

186
00:16:34,317 --> 00:16:35,444
then...

187
00:16:37,274 --> 00:16:38,854
what would become of us?

188
00:16:40,171 --> 00:16:41,680
Supposing...

189
00:16:42,847 --> 00:16:44,738
your memories come back,
and you wish they hadn't...

190
00:16:47,062 --> 00:16:48,118
would you still...

191
00:16:49,518 --> 00:16:50,996
be able to love me?

192
00:17:16,679 --> 00:17:17,745
It isn't Jeong Hoon.

193
00:17:19,106 --> 00:17:20,242
It isn't him.

194
00:17:21,419 --> 00:17:22,797
He'd no reason for doing
such an evil thing to me.

195
00:17:25,825 --> 00:17:27,032
But then, who had?

196
00:17:27,555 --> 00:17:28,843
If you're stubborn about this,

197
00:17:29,788 --> 00:17:31,639
you risk losing everything.

198
00:17:31,901 --> 00:17:33,309
The moment trash like you

199
00:17:33,741 --> 00:17:36,256
encounters a man way beyond your wildest dreams,

200
00:17:37,075 --> 00:17:39,606
you seem to lose all your wits.

201
00:17:40,009 --> 00:17:41,286
That's can't be so.

202
00:17:42,262 --> 00:17:44,163
It's impossible to believe.

203
00:17:45,944 --> 00:17:46,839
How could they...

204
00:17:48,066 --> 00:17:49,303
How could they?

205
00:17:51,335 --> 00:17:52,593
It's unthinkable.

206
00:17:56,162 --> 00:17:58,114
Despite what you said last time, Mother-in-law,

207
00:17:58,566 --> 00:17:59,884
I still want to go ahead.

208
00:18:00,025 --> 00:18:01,554
I'm sure I can do it.

209
00:18:02,067 --> 00:18:04,250
Please support me in this, Mother-in-law.

210
00:18:07,086 --> 00:18:09,028
So you're really set on doing it?

211
00:18:09,353 --> 00:18:10,148
I am.

212
00:18:10,480 --> 00:18:11,305
Mom,

213
00:18:11,546 --> 00:18:14,182
please let her do the work she wants to.

214
00:18:14,373 --> 00:18:16,234
Mom, Jin Goo is right.

215
00:18:16,364 --> 00:18:21,233
It's fantastic how she's stepping up to
this huge Man Bok presentation project.

216
00:18:24,039 --> 00:18:25,216
In that case...

217
00:18:25,810 --> 00:18:27,380
you've got to promise me one thing.

218
00:18:27,943 --> 00:18:29,100
What's that?

219
00:18:29,251 --> 00:18:31,574
Don't use work as a pretext to mix with men,

220
00:18:31,836 --> 00:18:33,667
come home really early every day,

221
00:18:33,898 --> 00:18:35,517
and don't go gadding around after dark.

222
00:18:36,372 --> 00:18:36,906
Agreed.

223
00:18:36,926 --> 00:18:37,760
But Mom,

224
00:18:37,780 --> 00:18:41,127
she can't do her work without mixing with men,
she's got to be on good terms with people...

225
00:18:41,305 --> 00:18:45,610
Shut up!

226
00:18:45,781 --> 00:18:48,930
Remember what she did last
time she went out to work.

227
00:18:49,463 --> 00:18:50,439
So...

228
00:18:50,459 --> 00:18:53,456
I don't want to hear tongues wagging
about you in the neighborhood.

229
00:18:53,919 --> 00:18:55,056
You get my meaning?

230
00:18:55,840 --> 00:18:56,544
Yes.

231
00:18:57,289 --> 00:18:58,808
In that case, give it a try.

232
00:18:59,342 --> 00:19:02,662
I know you well enough to realize
I didn't need to say all that.

233
00:19:03,296 --> 00:19:04,211
Still...

234
00:19:04,664 --> 00:19:06,454
make sure you keep your promise to me.

235
00:19:07,621 --> 00:19:08,607
I will.

236
00:19:49,268 --> 00:19:50,857
Mr Hwang!

237
00:19:50,877 --> 00:19:51,723
Hello there!

238
00:19:52,741 --> 00:19:53,765
Is your boss out?

239
00:19:53,925 --> 00:19:54,720
Yes.

240
00:19:54,861 --> 00:19:57,688
She's a bit late coming back
from the broadcasting studios.

241
00:19:57,959 --> 00:19:58,794
But what...

242
00:19:59,679 --> 00:20:02,798
There's something I'd like talk to you you about in
connection with lunchbox presentations.

243
00:20:02,818 --> 00:20:03,874
Talk to me?

244
00:20:04,903 --> 00:20:06,009
That's right.

245
00:20:42,586 --> 00:20:44,779
I thought you were supposed
to be the boss around here.

246
00:20:45,041 --> 00:20:49,396
So how come Dong Yeon's muscling in
on the presentation arrangements?

247
00:20:49,768 --> 00:20:52,203
Sure, the marketing team should be
involved along with our product development team,

248
00:20:52,384 --> 00:20:56,282
but by calling in the sales staff as well
he's trying to sway the decision.

249
00:20:57,368 --> 00:21:00,497
You know who that lot will vote for, don't you?

250
00:21:01,422 --> 00:21:03,937
They'll say what they're told to, no questions asked.

251
00:21:04,118 --> 00:21:06,421
I hear they put their heads together so everything's sewn up.

252
00:21:06,955 --> 00:21:07,488
So,

253
00:21:08,031 --> 00:21:09,841
what's going to happen with Oh Eun Soo's proposal?

254
00:21:10,023 --> 00:21:13,654
Well, with Dong Yeon throwing all his weight behind his sister's bid...

255
00:21:13,825 --> 00:21:15,525
who's going to have the nerve to oppose it?

256
00:21:15,908 --> 00:21:18,533
I'm all in favor of fair competition,

257
00:21:18,815 --> 00:21:20,897
but this is a travesty.

258
00:21:21,058 --> 00:21:22,597
I've thought of a way forward.

259
00:21:23,241 --> 00:21:24,076
But if I tell you,

260
00:21:24,579 --> 00:21:26,148
you've got to keep it secret
till the presentation session.

261
00:21:26,540 --> 00:21:27,828
So what's your idea?

262
00:21:34,126 --> 00:21:36,510
Gosh, that should work!

263
00:21:36,752 --> 00:21:39,498
Wowee! Absolutely brilliant!

264
00:21:41,429 --> 00:21:42,133
Jeong Hoon!

265
00:21:42,344 --> 00:21:43,682
This proves you're a real genius!

266
00:21:43,819 --> 00:21:47,118
Tee hee! What a smart kiddo you are!

267
00:21:47,973 --> 00:21:48,808
Let's do it that way!

268
00:22:59,470 --> 00:23:00,969
That's right, Attorney Kim.

269
00:23:00,989 --> 00:23:04,428
I'd like  you to help her through
all the legal procedures.

270
00:23:05,817 --> 00:23:07,628
Good. We can meet up later
and I'll tell you all about it.

271
00:23:08,622 --> 00:23:09,789
That's fine.

272
00:23:12,062 --> 00:23:13,159
Eun Soo...

273
00:23:14,567 --> 00:23:16,810
The first thing is to get you back your name.

274
00:23:24,880 --> 00:23:26,298
Hello?

275
00:23:27,274 --> 00:23:29,467
Yes, Oh Yoo Jeong speaking.

276
00:23:29,920 --> 00:23:32,294
My name's Kim, I'm the Man Bok chief attorney.

277
00:23:32,706 --> 00:23:34,969
Vice President Kang has asked
me to get in touch with you.

278
00:23:36,106 --> 00:23:36,881
He has?

279
00:23:37,514 --> 00:23:38,581
Ms Oh, or rather...

280
00:23:38,943 --> 00:23:40,260
Ms Lee,

281
00:23:40,373 --> 00:23:45,367
I'm calling to offer you help with all the
legal procedures for getting an ID card.

282
00:23:46,509 --> 00:23:47,384
I see...

283
00:23:49,104 --> 00:23:49,798
Well...

284
00:23:50,241 --> 00:23:51,840
I appreciate it,

285
00:23:52,796 --> 00:23:53,922
but in fact...

286
00:23:54,244 --> 00:23:55,894
that's something I'll see to myself.

287
00:23:56,503 --> 00:23:58,555
Please pass the message on to Vice President Kang.

288
00:23:59,128 --> 00:24:00,828
I'm grateful for his offer of help,

289
00:24:01,180 --> 00:24:02,548
but I can't accept it.

290
00:24:04,007 --> 00:24:04,691
That's right.

291
00:24:04,973 --> 00:24:06,522
Thanks anyway.

292
00:24:09,187 --> 00:24:09,992
What?

293
00:24:10,706 --> 00:24:12,396
She turned the offer down?

294
00:24:14,879 --> 00:24:16,066
I see.

295
00:24:16,559 --> 00:24:18,078
Thanks anyway, Attorney Kim.

296
00:24:19,315 --> 00:24:22,858
Since the young lady says she'll sort it out
herself, we'll just keep a watching brief for now.

297
00:24:23,128 --> 00:24:24,093
That's right.

298
00:25:10,922 --> 00:25:12,179
Hello?

299
00:25:12,803 --> 00:25:14,332
Yes, Ms Ma?

300
00:25:15,016 --> 00:25:15,660
What?

301
00:25:16,314 --> 00:25:18,828
The presentation format's been changed?

302
00:25:19,595 --> 00:25:20,178
Ah...

303
00:25:20,329 --> 00:25:21,506
Right, I'll do that.

304
00:25:21,717 --> 00:25:23,497
Yes of course, I'll come straight over.

305
00:25:23,799 --> 00:25:25,006
Bye!

306
00:25:25,922 --> 00:25:30,539
So, you've decided to make the decision on
the basis of single lunchbox priced at 5,500 Won?

307
00:25:30,710 --> 00:25:34,610
That's right. We thought that asking
for five different sample lunchboxes

308
00:25:34,630 --> 00:25:37,319
would just make the assessment more difficult.

309
00:25:37,651 --> 00:25:38,436
So,

310
00:25:38,607 --> 00:25:41,484
just make the best lunchbox you
can at the 5,500 Won price point.

311
00:25:41,655 --> 00:25:44,041
There'll be ten assessors.

312
00:25:44,061 --> 00:25:47,650
But someone else may show up,
so prepare eleven, just in case.

313
00:25:48,273 --> 00:25:49,440
Right, I understand.

314
00:25:49,716 --> 00:25:51,955
Don't worry. You'll do fine.

315
00:25:52,095 --> 00:25:53,353
Thank you.

316
00:25:53,926 --> 00:25:55,636
I appreciate all the trouble you've taken.

317
00:25:55,757 --> 00:25:57,829
Oh, don't mention it. But...

318
00:25:57,990 --> 00:26:01,917
Vice President Kang is waiting
here with something to say to you.

319
00:26:03,472 --> 00:26:04,056
I see.

320
00:26:04,217 --> 00:26:05,233
Alright.

321
00:26:10,699 --> 00:26:11,544
Ah, there you are.

322
00:26:11,715 --> 00:26:12,580
Have a seat.

323
00:26:14,190 --> 00:26:16,312
I hear there's something
you wanted to say to me.

324
00:26:17,368 --> 00:26:18,887
Sit down first.

325
00:26:26,189 --> 00:26:27,929
Are your presentation preparations going well?

326
00:26:28,261 --> 00:26:29,448
Yes.

327
00:26:31,208 --> 00:26:31,983
Eun Soo...

328
00:26:32,375 --> 00:26:33,361
What is it?

329
00:26:33,612 --> 00:26:35,564
The reason you're pushing me away...

330
00:26:36,218 --> 00:26:37,254
I've got to know what it is.

331
00:26:37,586 --> 00:26:38,290
Why, oh why...

332
00:26:38,310 --> 00:26:39,296
That day,

333
00:26:39,678 --> 00:26:41,177
the day of the accident,

334
00:26:42,143 --> 00:26:44,346
I got a text message from you.

335
00:26:45,161 --> 00:26:46,780
Saying that you would explain everything

336
00:26:47,001 --> 00:26:48,581
if I went to the Blue House at Yang Pyeong.

337
00:26:48,913 --> 00:26:49,687
What?

338
00:26:50,814 --> 00:26:51,930
What on earth do you mean?

339
00:26:52,474 --> 00:26:54,395
I never sent you any message of that kind.

340
00:26:54,536 --> 00:26:55,924
You didn't?

341
00:26:57,224 --> 00:26:58,683
Then who did?

342
00:26:59,568 --> 00:27:01,228
It was sent from your cellphone number...

343
00:27:01,248 --> 00:27:04,299
Anyone and everyone could have used that number.

344
00:27:04,567 --> 00:27:05,845
Apart from which,

345
00:27:06,165 --> 00:27:07,706
I'd lost my cellphone that day at the airport.

346
00:27:08,090 --> 00:27:10,100
So how could I have sent you that message?

347
00:27:10,863 --> 00:27:11,597
What?

348
00:27:12,079 --> 00:27:12,762
What?

349
00:27:13,432 --> 00:27:15,273
You've found out where Kim Tae Seong is?

350
00:27:16,651 --> 00:27:18,029
Grab that bastard right away.

351
00:27:18,557 --> 00:27:20,501
You can't let him escape.

352
00:27:20,791 --> 00:27:22,278
Go grab him right now.

353
00:27:22,820 --> 00:27:23,638
So that's what happened.

354
00:27:26,599 --> 00:27:27,507
But how...

355
00:27:27,906 --> 00:27:29,580
how could you suspect me of doing that?

356
00:27:30,322 --> 00:27:32,545
Surely, you didn't imagine I could...

357
00:27:32,685 --> 00:27:33,689
Right now,

358
00:27:35,189 --> 00:27:36,657
I don't feel I can trust anyone at all.

359
00:27:38,093 --> 00:27:39,052
I simply can't.

360
00:27:40,488 --> 00:27:42,735
Not even you, whatever you say.

361
00:27:43,061 --> 00:27:44,800
For the last six years,

362
00:27:45,282 --> 00:27:47,214
I've lived imprisoned within dark walls.

363
00:27:48,559 --> 00:27:49,789
Who I am,

364
00:27:50,220 --> 00:27:51,456
why it is that I'm here,

365
00:27:52,197 --> 00:27:53,356
Not knowing...

366
00:27:53,955 --> 00:27:54,715
Not knowing

367
00:27:55,732 --> 00:27:57,773
who on earth I was for six years of sheer hell.

368
00:27:58,204 --> 00:27:59,215
Eun Soo!

369
00:27:59,665 --> 00:28:01,745
There's no-one I can trust.

370
00:28:02,920 --> 00:28:03,653
Eun Soo!

371
00:28:03,673 --> 00:28:04,658
You have your answer now.

372
00:28:05,611 --> 00:28:06,892
So I'll be leaving.

373
00:28:07,947 --> 00:28:09,145
Eun Soo, just a moment...

374
00:28:09,982 --> 00:28:11,636
Vice-President Kang,

375
00:28:12,704 --> 00:28:14,030
I've said all I'm going to say.

376
00:28:14,545 --> 00:28:15,607
so I'm leaving now.

377
00:28:15,981 --> 00:28:17,081
It's been six years.

378
00:28:18,730 --> 00:28:19,592
For six whole years,

379
00:28:19,850 --> 00:28:21,717
there's been not a single day, not a single hour,

380
00:28:22,077 --> 00:28:23,133
when I've forgotten about you.

381
00:28:24,157 --> 00:28:24,866
But you...

382
00:28:25,632 --> 00:28:27,441
you aren't willing to grant me just ten minutes?

383
00:28:28,728 --> 00:28:30,273
Not even ten minutes?

384
00:28:33,434 --> 00:28:34,065
Eun Soo!

385
00:28:35,077 --> 00:28:36,281
Six years ago,

386
00:28:37,794 --> 00:28:38,869
it all ended between us.

387
00:28:40,278 --> 00:28:41,431
That night at Yang Pyeong,

388
00:28:42,409 --> 00:28:43,755
the night of the accident,

389
00:28:45,113 --> 00:28:46,291
it was over between us.

390
00:28:48,699 --> 00:28:49,529
I really have to go.

391
00:28:57,336 --> 00:28:58,167
Eun Soo.

392
00:29:22,079 --> 00:29:22,961
<i>We...</i>

393
00:29:23,282 --> 00:29:24,538
<i>are getting engaged in April,</i>

394
00:29:25,040 --> 00:29:26,366
<i>and married in September.</i>

395
00:29:32,966 --> 00:29:33,764
Supposing...

396
00:29:34,266 --> 00:29:35,869
your memories come back,
and you wish they hadn't...

397
00:29:36,732 --> 00:29:39,907
would you still be able to love me?

398
00:29:46,027 --> 00:29:47,051
Yoo Jeong!

399
00:29:47,239 --> 00:29:48,634
Hello.

400
00:29:48,792 --> 00:29:51,213
Have you been visiting the
Product Development Division?

401
00:29:51,644 --> 00:29:52,133
That's right.

402
00:29:52,371 --> 00:29:53,659
People have been telling me...

403
00:29:53,878 --> 00:29:56,086
how much effort you're putting into this presentation.

404
00:29:56,337 --> 00:29:57,953
So you want to compete with me?

405
00:29:58,442 --> 00:29:58,951
That's right.

406
00:29:59,382 --> 00:30:02,318
I don't mind if you win this lunch-box contract.

407
00:30:02,627 --> 00:30:05,337
I've already got lots of
connections with Man Bok.

408
00:30:05,697 --> 00:30:09,961
So if it's just about the lunch
boxes, I'm happy to make way for you

409
00:30:09,981 --> 00:30:10,843
What do you think?

410
00:30:12,748 --> 00:30:14,906
If you want the lunch box contract so badly,

411
00:30:15,144 --> 00:30:16,882
even at this late stage, I can pull out.

412
00:30:17,256 --> 00:30:18,852
I'm not the vindictive type.

413
00:30:19,419 --> 00:30:21,129
Strange, but when I see you,

414
00:30:21,149 --> 00:30:23,490
I actually feel like letting you win.

415
00:30:23,788 --> 00:30:25,115
Isn't that weird?

416
00:30:25,687 --> 00:30:27,753
Maybe we were sisters in a previous life.

417
00:30:27,773 --> 00:30:28,957
So, how do you feel?

418
00:30:30,838 --> 00:30:35,388
I've never felt this way before
about a rival in my own field.

419
00:30:35,589 --> 00:30:36,464
Really?

420
00:30:37,012 --> 00:30:37,713
Ah yes...

421
00:30:38,164 --> 00:30:41,612
I'll be sending you my ideas
for your engagement party catering.

422
00:30:41,632 --> 00:30:43,500
Ah, that's great.

423
00:30:43,654 --> 00:30:44,632
Thanks.

424
00:30:45,321 --> 00:30:48,711
You'll be the lynch-pin of my engagement party.

425
00:30:48,907 --> 00:30:50,092
I'm so grateful.

426
00:31:17,885 --> 00:31:18,684
Good afternoon.

427
00:31:18,954 --> 00:31:21,246
- Good afternoon.
- You're headed for the Man Bok HQ, I guess?

428
00:31:21,497 --> 00:31:23,422
I'm going that way myself.

429
00:31:23,707 --> 00:31:24,820
Ah, I see.

430
00:31:25,039 --> 00:31:26,275
Hop into my car.

431
00:31:26,353 --> 00:31:27,280
I'll give you a ride.

432
00:31:27,486 --> 00:31:29,391
No, it's all right, I'll get a cab.

433
00:31:29,507 --> 00:31:30,672
But we're both going the same way.

434
00:31:30,872 --> 00:31:32,616
It's not like it's any trouble for me.

435
00:31:43,410 --> 00:31:44,440
In you get.

436
00:32:05,650 --> 00:32:06,815
What's wrong with the car?

437
00:32:07,336 --> 00:32:08,264
Just a moment.

438
00:32:08,907 --> 00:32:10,008
Why's it doing this?

439
00:32:10,163 --> 00:32:11,000
What's wrong?

440
00:32:12,184 --> 00:32:13,723
The engine just stopped.

441
00:32:14,920 --> 00:32:16,362
But this is a car I only just got..

442
00:32:16,735 --> 00:32:17,939
So what should we do?

443
00:32:18,396 --> 00:32:19,291
Hold on a sec.

444
00:32:19,665 --> 00:32:21,590
I'll call a rescue service, they'll soon fix it.

445
00:32:21,873 --> 00:32:22,903
It won't take long.

446
00:32:23,154 --> 00:32:24,712
In that case, I'll get a
taxi the rest of the way.

447
00:32:24,860 --> 00:32:25,330
No, need.

448
00:32:25,491 --> 00:32:26,386
Just hold on.

449
00:32:41,005 --> 00:32:43,442
[Honey, are things going well?]

450
00:32:43,770 --> 00:32:46,052
[i wish I could be there to support you today.]

451
00:32:46,322 --> 00:32:47,951
[but I can't, because of work]

452
00:32:48,715 --> 00:32:49,449
[Good Luck!]

453
00:32:49,938 --> 00:32:50,530
[show your stuff!]

454
00:33:15,570 --> 00:33:16,214
Eun Soo?

455
00:33:16,516 --> 00:33:18,786
I mean...  Yoo Jeong?

456
00:33:18,948 --> 00:33:19,998
She's not here yet.

457
00:33:20,384 --> 00:33:21,266
I guess something's gone wrong.

458
00:33:22,169 --> 00:33:23,796
She called to say she's on her way.

459
00:33:25,502 --> 00:33:26,970
What can have happened?

460
00:33:43,192 --> 00:33:46,192
It's time to start the presentations.

461
00:33:48,683 --> 00:33:51,220
But Oh Yoo Jeong hasn't arrived yet. We can't start.

462
00:33:51,765 --> 00:33:53,065
Besides, there's still five minutes to go.

463
00:33:53,934 --> 00:33:54,643
Min Dong Yeon's orders.

464
00:33:55,788 --> 00:34:01,870
If a presenter hasn't arrived with
only five minutes to go, that's a bad sign.

465
00:34:02,198 --> 00:34:03,898
In the lunchbox business, time is of the essence.

466
00:34:04,097 --> 00:34:05,044
So,

467
00:34:05,166 --> 00:34:06,048
start the presentations.

468
00:34:07,226 --> 00:34:08,868
No. There are still five minutes to go.

469
00:34:09,042 --> 00:34:10,696
The time announced was 3 pm.

470
00:34:11,063 --> 00:34:12,692
So we'll start at three precisely.

471
00:34:22,341 --> 00:34:24,278
It all went as planned.

472
00:34:24,690 --> 00:34:26,377
She isn't going to make it.

473
00:34:28,309 --> 00:34:29,879
It's three o' clock now, time to start.

474
00:34:31,186 --> 00:34:32,190
Mr Oh,

475
00:34:32,461 --> 00:34:33,240
Please begin.

476
00:34:33,477 --> 00:34:35,002
We'll start then.

477
00:34:35,175 --> 00:34:37,261
Since she didn't arrive by the appointed time,

478
00:34:37,666 --> 00:34:40,968
the representative of Lunchbox
Enterprises is  disqualified from...

479
00:34:47,353 --> 00:34:50,314
Oh Yoo Jeong of Lunchbox
Enterprises has arrived.

480
00:34:51,177 --> 00:34:52,226
Please begin.

481
00:34:53,124 --> 00:34:53,716
In that case,

482
00:34:53,736 --> 00:34:58,036
we can proceed with the presentations
for the lunchbox contract.

483
00:34:58,274 --> 00:35:00,058
Each presenter must
observe strict time limits.

484
00:35:00,302 --> 00:35:05,737
and I'll start by asking Ms Oh Yoo Jeong
to make the first one.

485
00:35:33,786 --> 00:35:34,971
Good afternoon, everyone.

486
00:35:37,357 --> 00:35:38,561
My name is Lee Eun Soo.

[[Drama 2013] Your Woman 당신의 여자]

Given that gene716932 is taking a well-deserved break, here's my take on ep 29

Yoo Jeong and Jin Goo arrive at the movie theater in a mellow mood, looking forward to a nostalgically romantic evening out. But that mood is soon shattered by the appearance of Se Yeon and Jeong Hoon. It becomes clear (not least to Jeong Hoon) why Se Yeon insisted on going to this particular movie showing. She suggests they take the time for a coffee together before the movie starts, and steers the conversation round to how Jin Goo and Yoo Jeong came to meet, whether they were each other's first loves, as she and Jeong Hoon were, whether they are certain that they'll also be each other's last loves, as she and Jeong Hoon are, and so on. Jeong Hoon can take no more of it and insists that Se Yeon leaves with him without seeing the movie. Left to themselves, Yoo Jeong admits to Jin Goo that she'd rather go straight home, too, and so they do, their evening ruined. More grounds for off-set mother-in-law grumblings about undutiful wifely behavior.

Reflecting on her observations of how Jeong Hoon and Yoo Jeong reacted, Se Yeon concludes that it's plain now that both Jeong Hoon and Yoo Jeong know the truth. But it doesn't matter, she reassures herself, because that knowledge changes nothing, since Eun Soo is already married to another man.

Dong Hee's team, evaluating the tenders next day, are surprised at the quality of Yoo Jeong's submission, and at the competitive prices she's offering. But they are worried about choosing her bid on its merits over the one from their boss's fiancée and future daugher-in-law to the company President. At the same time, they are still shocked by the discovery of the resemblance between Yoo Jeong and Eun Soo. Supposing she really is Eun Soo... wouldn't rejecting her bid get them into even worse trouble with Jeong Hoon? But they decide that backing Se Yeon, as they've already promised to do, is the safer bet. While they're pondering that one, Dong Hee is on the phone to Yoo Jeong, asking can they meet up again because there are a couple of minor issues that didn't get cleared up the previous day. Yoo Jeong is happy to agree.

Before leaving home for her meeting with Dong Hee, Yoo Jeong asks her brother-in-law where Jin Goo's new workplace is, since he hasn't told her. Puzzled why his brother kept this apparently harmless information from her, he supplies it. Yoo Jeong is, of course, taken aback to discover Jin Goo has taken a job with Man Bok. Before she can think any more about the implications, she gets a text from Se Yeon, saying something's cropped up, so she can't keep their appointment for that day (supposedly to give her details about the catering requirements for the engagement party). She'll send her the information separately later.

At the same time, Dong Yeon is telling his his assistant about Jin Goo getting a job at the company. They realize he must have some scheme in mind and resolve to keep a close eye on him. Down in the transportation department, Jin Goo is getting more information about Kim Tae Seong from his new senior. He hasn't come up with anything definite, except that there's a rumor Tae Seong is involved with gangsters. And the rumors also have it that those gangsters have links to someone very high up in the Man Bok company, though no-one is sure who that is.

After a scene that will delight the hearts of all Country Ajumma Pants enthusiasts, but which I'll skip over, we go back to the company for weightier stuff. En route to her meeting with Dong Hee, Yoo Jeong encounters Dong Yeon at the elevator. He clearly gets quite a fright, but quickly recovers and says they met a while ago in Jeong Hoon's office, does she remember? He is of course anxious to find out whether she remembers him from long before that meeting, but she puts on an act of thinking it's a harmless question with a harmless answer': "Yes". He's also caught off guard when he discovers why she's come to the building, but he tries to hide his alarm at this further encroachment of someone he's anxious to keep well away.

But back in his office, Dong Yeon says that encounter convinced him that Yoo Jeong really has no inkling of her true identity or their past dealings, But his assistant is not so easily fooled. He points out that people of her lowly status normally feel a little awkward in the unexpected presence of someone so important. But Yoo Jeong showed no sign of being at all disturbed.  He finds her self-possession distinctly suspicious, a clue that she may indeed be deliberately faking ignorance.

Coming into the office, Yoo Jeong is rather effusively greeted by Oh Gil Soo, who apologizes for not having introduced himself properly the previous day (because of his shock at her "resemblance" to Eun Soo) and who knocks her off balance for a moment by the well-meant conversational gambit of noting that they share the same family name and asking which Oh clan she belongs to. He belongs to the Haeju branch of the Oh's, so what's her clan? Now since she isn't an Oh at all, Yoo Jeong hasn't the faintest idea which clan she belongs to or where the ancestral shrine of that clan is located (Haeju is in North Korea, so the ancestral shrine of Haeju Oh's like Gil Soo is barred to them). Yet their clan affiliation and the location of its ancestral shrine is something that every native-born Korean is taught at an early age (and it's another of the various stigmas attaching to Korean orphans of unknown parentage that they belong to no clan and so have "no roots" as is so often remarked of such people in Kdramas.) So poor Gil Soo has doubly put his foot in it. He's asked a question no orphan should never be asked, and on top of that a question that makes Yoo Jeong anxious that her inability to answer it might reveal her false identity. She's at a loss for words, but Dong Hee, realizing why, steps up to save the day, telling Gil Soo to keep his genealogical hobby out of the workplace.

It soon emerges that the "minor issues" Dong Hee called Yoo Jeong back to "clear up" actually amount to giving her extremely valuable statistical inside information about the tastes, preferences and purchasing habits of the company's customer base. Yoo Jeong gulps visibly, but settles for the considerable understatement that this information will "probably help" her pitch her presentation effectively. Dong Hee is quite unashamed about the rank favoritism she's showing (though of course she conceals its real basis, which has nothing to do with catering at all). She tells Yoo Jeong in so many words that she really likes her as a person, so she's sure she'll like her presentation, and her products, just as much. Not sure what to make of all this, Yoo Jeong settles for the customary Korean response to encouragement from a superior, namely that she'll "give it her best effort" and in a voiceover we hear Dong Hee secretly saying "That's right, Eun Soo -- let's both of us together pull this one off" and we guess she's thinking about more than winning a contract.

At that moment, however, Dong Hee is summoned to the President's office. The President doesn't beat about the bush with his sister-in-law. He doesn't want to hear any more of this nonsense about putting the supply of lunch boxes out to tender. Se Yeon in that line of business and she's good as family already, quite apart from being on the verge of becoming his daughter-in-law, so of course the contract should go to her without further ado. But Dong Hee stands her ground, apparently light-heartedly, but making no secret of her determination. The President put her in charge of that department, she reminds him, and that means she has the right and the duty to decide that department's policy as she thinks fit, and she intends to do just that. With which she dashes out of his office, leaving him spluttering his protests in vain.

Jeong Hoon, in the meantime, is drafting text messages to Yoo Jeong asking can they meet, but deleting them again before they're sent.

Yoo Jeong, happening to pass by the post office, suddenly recalls going there with Jeong Hoon to dispatch a box of goodies to the orphanage kids, and suddenly the memory of the orphanage, and the warden who was so kind to her, overwhelms her. She obviously heads for the orphanage right away, because we cut to her coming into the storeroom where the kids once locked her in for the night with Joon Heong. She remembers in particular the revelation that he's scared of mice [though you can bet that some fansubbers would make this into a -- far less irrational and comic -- fear of "rats". Korean, in common with other major East Asian languages, makes no clear verbal distinction between "mouse" and "rat": the word 쥐 stands for either, the difference being made either by context, or by attaching "little" or "big" to the noun. To add to the confusion this sometimes causes translators, there is a different word, though with the same pronunciation and spelling, meaning "muscle cramp" and this is often fodder for the Korean love of punning. In Pasta, for instance, where a character who's been sleeping in a kitchen locker awakes with leg cramp and on complaining of that condition starts a panic about a non-existent mouse infestation.]

While Yoo Jeong is still in the grip of these memories, the lady warden comes in and recognizes her instantly as Eun Soo. With no attempt this time to deny who she is even for one instant, Eun Soo hugs the warden, who is thanking God for this miracle as they both weep.

Back in Seoul, Jeong Hoon has abandoned modern communication devices for a while and opted for the trusty Kdrama Yell of Despair, choosing the nearest of the four possible locations for the Yell of Inner Pain, namely a city rooftop.  Location #2, the Han riverbank, being a bit of a hike from his office, and locations #3 and #4, an ocean beach or a mountaintop, being incompatible with the timeframe of a daily drama episode.)

Back to the orphanage. Eun Soo is kneeling beside a memorial that the children have made in the grounds expressing their love for her and their devastation at her loss. She has formed a new resolution. "I shall never forgive them. Those people."[There's an intercut forward here to a scene we will see in full in a moment, with the President, Se Yeon and Dong Yeon laughing heartily in the President's Office as Se Yeon boasts of the way she'll use her business connections to introduce powerful people to her father-in-law] "The people who made me like this. People who caused children such grief. I can''t forgive them. And I never, ever shall."

With the President's gleeful anticipation of what a  useful daughter-in-law she's going to be ringing blissfully in her ears, Se Yeon goes to Jeong Hoon's office (who we know, but she doesn't, is out on the roof doing a spot of cathartic yelling) and is puzzled to find he's left his cellphone behind on his desk. While she's there she decides to do a little poking around, finds a file with the preliminary assessment of Yoo Jeong's proposal, and is stupefied to find that Jeong Hoon has given it 98/100. He's never been known to grade anything even remotely so high, she muses bitterly. Then she hears Jeong Hoon coming back and hurriedly replaces the file.

He gives her a very frosty welcome, and responds to her tentative remark that perhaps she'd better be leaving by saying, in effect "quite right, you had. Goodbye." Which she does, in a huff. [if this was a high-budget prime time drama, she'd have slammed the door hard behind her, but that's not advisable on as cost-paring daily drama set, because it makes the walls go wobbly. Watch how the equally cheapskate mansion staircase at the President's abode sways alarmingly whenever anyone steps on it at all energetically.]

In another part of the building, Jin Goo is trying in vain to get through to Yoo Jeong. He leaves her a voicemail saying he's worried and asking her to call him back.

Se Yeon has made straight for her brother's office, where she demands to be told the truth. She's not a child, she protests, and she can take it. Jeong Hoon knows that Yoo Jeong is actually Eun Soo, doesn't he? After briefly stalling, her brother gives in and admits that, yes, Jeong Hoon does indeed know that, but he assures her there's there's no cause for undue alarm because Eun Soo is apparently intent on keeping her true identity a secret from everybody, Jeong Hoon included, and seems not to want to return to her former life.

Back at the orphanage, where Eun Soo has apparently now left again for Seoul, the warden is clutching her cellphone, visibly struggling with a difficult decision. She dials a number and it proves to be Jeong Hoon's. She explains who she is and that there's one thing she has to tell him, namely the Eun Soo has got her memory back.

Jin Goo is on the phone to his friend, asking him yet again if he has any clue as to who it was who threatened him in order to find out Jin Goo and Yoo Jeong's whereabouts. He repeats that since he was blindfolded, he saw no faces. He doesn't want to talk any more about the matter, but he will say one last thing. He thought he heard his abductors address someone as 실장, the title given to the head of a company department. His informant has of course no idea which company or organization the person so addressed belonged to, but Jin Goo immediately suspects this is the "person high up in Man Bok" who had connections with gangland through Kim Tae Seong.

Comic relief time again. Dong Hee is on the phone, rather testily telling her sister she doesn't need reminding that she has a blind date arranged. And ho ho ho, who would have thought it, the rendezvous for the blind date is at the diner where Dae Goo works. And of course, he overhears the would-be suitor talking on the phone before his date arrives and then... But this scene is dire enough without me inflicting any more of it on you. Alas, you don't need to understand any Korean to get how daft this little incident is, so I can't really shield you from it.

Back to the serious stuff for the cliffhanger run-up. Yoo Jeong has got Jin Goo's voicemail and is phoning him to say she's OK and is now on her way to collect Dong Hee and go back home with him. But after she hangs up, Jeong Hoon emerges, grasps her arm, addresses her as Eun Soo, and insists they have to talk. She responds with cold and angry formality. "Vice-President Kang! How many times more do I need to tell you? I am not Lee Eun Soo. I am Oh Yoo Jeong. So please never call me Eun Soo ever again." Jeong Hoon is in a state of bewildered panic. "Why on earth are you doing this?" he responds (in familiar speech). And why are you doing it to me, of all people? I know you've got back all your memories. They've all come back to you". But she doesn't waver or soften. "Vice President Kang. I don't know what you mean by that. I never lost any memories. So there are no memories that could come back to me." Now it's Jeong Hoon's turn to get angry, but his anger is anything but cool. "Stop lying to me. Of course you got your memories back. You know me. You know who I am. You know what we mean to each other. You know that. Eun Soo!" But she stays firm, precisely because of the meaning which his claim that she knows "who he is" carries in her ears. Because what she (thinks she) knows he is, is that he is the man who abandoned her, may even have connived at her attempted murder, and who is obviously prepared to marry a scheming and manipulative woman. So she tries to continue "Vice-President Kang, as far as I'm concerned, you are..." But he frantically cuts her short. "Eun Soo. Stop all this, won't you? The Warden of the Orphanage called me. She told me you got your memory back." She blinks as she takes that in, but recovers herself and replies with barely restrained contempt in her voice "And what the hell has that got to do with you? So... If I have got my memory back, just what business is that of yours?"

EDIT: Just to round things off: In this morning's episode (ep 30) she continues over the cliffhanger, "Alright, what you said's correct. I do remember. Who you are. Who I am. But what business is that of yours? I've become a different person now. So stop continually harrassing me, and my husband, this way. Goodbye now.
She walks away, and as he calls out "Eun Soo" after her, she is thinking "Whether it was you, or whoever else it was, who made me the way I am now... whoever it was, I will never forgive them. Never, ever."

Jeong Hoon watches her go, shouting out in desperate frustration, "But why? Why are you doing this? Eun Soo! Why?"

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Auntie Mame said: @Baduy:  Hah!  This drama must be your 'nightcap'.  

 

 

 

 

[[Drama 2013] Your Woman 당신의 여자]

Daily Kramas are especially prone to pass off complication as complexity. As @Auntie Mame remarked right at the start of this thread, it was plain from the very first sequence that this drama was going to have a lot of complications. However, so far, there hasn't been much psychological complexity (and consequent scope for good acting), which is the stuff of good K-melo writing.

Things seem to be looking up now, though, thanks mainly to the situation in which Eun Soo has completely recovered her memory. With that discovery, her previous merely occasional mild curiosity about who she used to be and the life she once led, which didn't get in the way of her living her new life, has been replaced by all-round anxiety and doubt.  No longer doubt about who she is, but disabling doubt about who the people around her are, in the sense of what their true motives and feelings are.

She can't make sense of Jin Goo's behavior, but she can't understand what makes Jeong Hoon tick either. The main reason for that is the (fake) text message, supposedly from Jeong Hoon as he left so unexpectedly for Japan, which fitted in so well (as indeed it was meant to) with Se Yeon's implication that Jeong Hoon had just been toying with Eun Soo and that she had deluded herself into thinking they really could marry. So even if she can't bring herself to believe that Jeong Hoon himself would have arranged her killing, she has  a nagging suspicion that her disappearance from his life in the event suited him well enough, no matter what he may protest now.

That suspicion plays a strong part in the opening sequence of ep 27. Se Yeon knows full well that Yoo Jeong is Eun Soo. But she also thinks that Eun Soo has still no inkling of who she really is. We know that her meeting with Yoo Jeong is part of some plan to disgrace her  (presumably she plans to sabotage the goodies she's asking Yoo Jeong to provide), but she's clearly also sending out messages that even if Eun Soo does recover her memories, she doesn't have a chance with Jeong Hoon.

But of course Eun Soo knows full well that Se Yeon is trying to manipulate her. Especially since she notices the parallel between this meeting and their previous one six years ago, both of which centered around a printed invitation that provided "proof" that Jeong Hoon belonged to Se Yeon (though on the former occasion, the wedding invitation was a fake, whilst the current engagement invitation is genuine enough). But Eun Soo is rather taken aback when Se Yeon lays it on very thick that she lived together with Jeong Hoon througout his six-year stay in the States, and that their blissful intimacy (in that decadent land of free love, universal drug-taking, gross disrespect for elders, and BSE-riddled beef which always lies across the Pacific in morning-slot Kdrama dailies) completely eradicated whatever "insignificant upset" it was that led to Jeong Hoon leaving the country with her. We see that she half-realizes that this is yet another deliberate lie, but she can't quite be as sure about that as she is about Se Yeon's overall deceptiveness. Eun Soo's certainty that Se Yeon is malicious and scheming means she is much less of a pushover than Se Yeon complacently imagines, failing to see that Eun Soo's apparent habitual mild submissivness is now just an act,

Jumping to the other end of the episode, we have Eun Soo alone with Jeong Hoon, who, like Se Yeon, is sure of Eun Soo's real identity, but unlike Se Yeon has a growing certainty that Eun Soo knows that identity too but is,  is for some reason that perplexes and disturbs him, hiding that knowledge.

Of course, he knows nothing of that fake text and its fateful effect, so he has to entertain a suspicion that, whatever Eun Soo may have felt for him back then, she now really has started a new life with a new identity and wants to stay with that new identity, regardless of what she may recall about her old one. That's why the necklace, his plans to give it back to Eun Soo, and Se Yeon's deliberate thwarting of those plans by stealing it from his room, are so important. He figures that, although she may not want to "come back" for his sake, she may change her mind if she has the prospect of finding her mother. And of course we know that right now she is actively trying to pick up the thread of her mother's identity and whereabouts by going back to the lost property office, but is getting nowhere on that track for the moment.

There is a powerful contrast between, on the one hand, Se Yeon's complacent self-confidence and Eun Soo's composed air of innocence in the opening scene, and on the other, Jeong Hoon's desperate and awkard attempts to get Yoo Jeong to talk about her past in the closing scene, which meet with Eun Soo's equally awkward and uneasy determination not to get drawn in. And the key to this contrast is in a quite deliberate linguistic parallel which the writer has put in between the two scenes, which is rather difficulty to get across in English.

Eun Soo's voiced-over thoughts in the first scene, as she pretends to be taken in by Se Yeon, are 나는 당신 기억해.  당신이 누구인지.  ["I remember you. Who you are"]. And this is matched in the final scene by Jeong Hoon's plea, as he desperately abandons the tentative probing Eun Soo has just rebuked him for, and pleads with her straight out 기억해 줘.  내가 누구인지. ["Please, please remember. Who I am"].

When Eun Soo says to herself that she remembers who Se Yeon "is" she's saying much more than that she recalls her rival's identity: she's saying that she knows full well what kind of person Se Yeon is and what her true motives towards her are. But when Eun Soo hears Jeong Hoon plead with her to remember who he is, her problem, and the reason she determinedly rejects that plea (saying, in the cliffhanger continuation of the scene in today's episode, "How often do I have to say this? My name is Oh Yoo Jeong", then turning on her heel and leaving his office) is that her recovered memories of the facts about her past with Jeong Hoon, far from making her realize "who he is", in the way she now knows all too well "who" Se Yeon "is", make her deeply uncertain about what kind of person he was and is, and hence how she should respond to him now.

And she is, of course, in exactly the same terrible dilemma with Jin Goo. She has so much palpable evidence of his devotion to her and her son, and yet at the same time it's becoming increasingly plain that he is concealing some awful truth from her.

Ironically, the sudden return of complete recall, which undermines her relationship with Jin Goo, comes about when she strikes her head on the ground as he is fighting courageously to rescue her from the kidnappers. So this latest demonstration of his devotion to her triggers her discovery of how consistently and stubbornly her has been lying to her, a discovery he's been dreading since she told him, in the first episode, that every time she had that recurrent nightmare, the face of the man responsible for her injury got that little bit more distinct, though still not clear enough to be recognizable.

To give people with little or no Korean some flavor of how the opening and closing scenes of ep 27 come across in the original, I've made two sets of mini-subs of those scenes. If you have a raw and want to view these subs with it, just cut and paste them into a text file, give it an appropriate *.srt name, and use it as if it were a normal full subs file (players don't worry about the sub numbering or gaps in time stamps, so you've no need to fiddle with them unless the overall synch doesn't match your particular raw: the subs will stop after the first scene then start up again in the final one) I've included a bit of typical banter between our oddly matched but undeniably cute couple-to-be before they leave Eun Soo and Jeong Hoon alone for their embarrassed exchanges.



1
00:00:11,475 --> 00:00:15,000
I'm getting formally engaged
to Jeong Hoon in April.

2
00:00:18,105 --> 00:00:21,906
We're inviting family and friends
to a little celebration party.

3
00:00:22,411 --> 00:00:27,088
I'd like to give each guest a
choice selection of rice cakes.

4
00:00:27,686 --> 00:00:31,244
So I thought I'd entrust you with providing them.

5
00:00:31,600 --> 00:00:34,134
They need to be nicely packaged,

6
00:00:34,285 --> 00:00:37,528
and the taste and appearance have
to be absolutely first class.

7
00:00:37,548 --> 00:00:39,101
Why ask me?

8
00:00:39,307 --> 00:00:41,296
You're much better than I
am at that sort of thing.

9
00:00:41,745 --> 00:00:43,951
Rice cakes aren't really my specialty

10
00:00:44,400 --> 00:00:47,669
You said earlier that you'd worked
in a rice-cake bakery in Ansong?

11
00:00:48,031 --> 00:00:51,839
With your abilities, I think you'd come
up with something really good.

12
00:00:52,482 --> 00:00:53,965
<i>Min Se Yeon...</i>


13
00:00:54,364 --> 00:00:56,189
<i>I remember you...</i>

14
00:00:56,688 --> 00:00:58,132
<i>and who you are</i>

15
00:00:58,907 --> 00:01:01,033
So please do this for me, won't you?

16
00:01:02,543 --> 00:01:03,594
<i>Love?</i>

17
00:01:03,935 --> 00:01:05,720
"Love", you call it?

18
00:01:05,917 --> 00:01:09,873
The moment trash like you encounters
a man way beyond your wildest dreams,

19
00:01:10,904 --> 00:01:12,744
you seem to lose all your wits.

20
00:01:15,922 --> 00:01:17,353
Actually where Jeong Hoon
and I are concerned,

21
00:01:17,510 --> 00:01:20,392
engagement and marriage ceremonies
are just a matter of form.

22
00:01:21,337 --> 00:01:23,346
After we went to the States six years ago,

23
00:01:23,366 --> 00:01:25,042
we set up house together.

24
00:01:26,106 --> 00:01:29,151
So in the States ... you were living together?

25
00:01:29,171 --> 00:01:30,569
Yes.

26
00:01:30,589 --> 00:01:34,474
Six years ago, Jeong Hoon
had an upsetting experience,

27
00:01:34,619 --> 00:01:36,903
but going abroad with me
got him over it completely.

28
00:01:39,266 --> 00:01:41,301
That upsetting experience...

29
00:01:41,599 --> 00:01:42,916
what was it?

30
00:01:43,126 --> 00:01:44,387
Nothing terribly important.

31
00:01:45,018 --> 00:01:47,828
I don't even remember
now exactly what is was.

32
00:01:48,511 --> 00:01:49,653
But anyway...

33
00:01:49,824 --> 00:01:51,425
our engagement ceremony is next month.

34
00:01:52,436 --> 00:01:54,196
Can you see your way to catering for us?

35
00:01:55,129 --> 00:01:56,468
Alright.

36
00:01:56,941 --> 00:01:58,031
I'll do that.

37
00:01:59,239 --> 00:02:00,263
Thank you...

38
00:02:00,394 --> 00:02:01,641
Yoo Jeong...

39
00:33:50,107 --> 00:33:52,248
Uh, what's going on here?

40
00:33:52,862 --> 00:33:54,314
Everything's suddenly vanished.

41
00:33:54,334 --> 00:33:55,979
You haven't zapped the data, have you?

42
00:33:55,999 --> 00:33:58,729
No. Of course not.

43
00:33:58,749 --> 00:34:00,938
I just need to plug this into a printer.

44
00:34:01,229 --> 00:34:02,581
Hey, scrawny-neck!  I knew you'd mess up...

45
00:34:02,743 --> 00:34:04,702
Ah... Ahem...

46
00:34:05,073 --> 00:34:07,447
You just come along with me.

47
00:34:09,071 --> 00:34:10,960
That's enough of the "scrawny neck",
if you don't mind.

48
00:34:10,980 --> 00:34:12,083
Shut it!

49
00:34:18,442 --> 00:34:19,969
You've worked very hard on this.

50
00:34:21,139 --> 00:34:22,168
I have.

51
00:34:23,089 --> 00:34:26,242
How did you get into the lunch-box business?

52
00:34:27,495 --> 00:34:29,586
Oh, just by chance.

53
00:34:30,650 --> 00:34:33,073
The accompanying illustrations
are really fine.

54
00:34:33,546 --> 00:34:35,521
Did you study graphic design?

55
00:34:35,541 --> 00:34:37,296
No.

56
00:34:38,385 --> 00:34:39,895
I've sampled one of your lunchboxes.

57
00:34:39,915 --> 00:34:41,323
It was really delicious.

58
00:34:41,721 --> 00:34:44,306
Are you a trained chef?

59
00:34:44,326 --> 00:34:45,551
No.

60
00:34:45,833 --> 00:34:47,675
But you enjoy cooking?

61
00:34:48,209 --> 00:34:49,421
What sort of thing <i>do</i> you enjoy?

62
00:34:49,441 --> 00:34:52,143
I think you said a while back
that you liked hot chocolate.

63
00:34:53,358 --> 00:34:54,421
Oh, and yes...

64
00:34:54,441 --> 00:34:56,686
You mentioned you have a child.

65
00:34:57,184 --> 00:34:58,296
How old's your child?

66
00:34:58,462 --> 00:34:59,723
Excuse me, sir.

67
00:35:00,266 --> 00:35:02,606
but please confine your
questions to work matters.

68
00:35:02,955 --> 00:35:03,619
What?

69
00:35:03,639 --> 00:35:06,971
Work issues are all you should be asking about.

70
00:35:08,417 --> 00:35:11,305
I'm not sure why you take
such an interest in me,

71
00:35:11,778 --> 00:35:14,517
but I have to say
I don't welcome it.

72
00:35:15,296 --> 00:35:18,749
So please refrain from asking
about my private life.

73
00:35:19,942 --> 00:35:22,830
I think we've dealt with all I came for.

74
00:35:23,573 --> 00:35:24,503
Eun Soo!

75
00:35:26,063 --> 00:35:28,636
Please don't act this way!

76
00:35:29,217 --> 00:35:30,544
Please remember.

77
00:35:30,959 --> 00:35:32,403
Remember who I am.

78
00:35:32,868 --> 00:35:34,345
Please.

79
00:35:42,479 --> 00:35:43,707
Eun Soo!

80
00:35:45,263 --> 00:35:46,956
Eun Soo!

[[Drama 2012/13] My Love , Butterfly Lady 내 사랑 나비부인]

Only just got a stable connection back, and I have a lot of other things to catch up on, but here's a recap for ep 19 which I had been about to post on Saturday before I was cut off.

I've only just managed to watch ep 20. I decided not to alter anything in the 19 recap to take account of what ep 20 contains, because that really would have been spoiling....  

But now I see that there has been massive spoiling here already. So there won't be more recaps from me, because I don't hang around in forums where such things go on. In my view, it shows disrespect not only to other soompi members, but the to the production team who put so much effort and skill into keeping us guessing and surprising us. That initial surprise element is part of what they've worked so hard to achieve, and I'm very unhappy when it their work is thoughtlessly undone like that.

But, before I go, ep 19 recap.

We start with a reprise of the final sequences of the previous episode. SA is the first to hear by phone from her accomplice in HK that Roy has been killed in a hotel fire there. WJ asks what's so shocked her. She admits she's just heard of the unexpected death of someone she once knew, but denies that it's anyone WJ would know too.

Back at the homestead, demented Grandama is watching the news report and has recognized the "thieving jerk" shown on screen, but no-one else is in the room to see.

Na Bi continues to get along well with her MiL and decides it's time the sons took on more the work for the restaurant. Stepping into her full household role as Senior Daughter in Law / Drill Sergeant she draws up a new duty roster for bulk cabbage chopping and makes her brothers-in-law stick to it, despite their stepmother's reluctance to "burden" them with such "womanly" chores.

SA and WJ are in a café, with SA thinking to herself that if WJ finds out Roy is dead she'll have a big problem. He says he has something to tell her that will make her feel better, namely that he'spacked in his "apprenticeship" and won't be going to the homestead or seeing Na Bi again, except in the line of business. He says he knows full well that all the hassle Sol Ah caused the family was to get at Na Bi out of jealousy over him rather than revenge for her brother, so he hopes that in future she will leave the family alone.

So Ah can hardly conceal her delight at this news, but finding it too good to be true, she asks him why, and hears something that makes her feel a good deal worse. WJ tells her straight out that the reason he's breaking all contact with Na Bi is that he loves her. But he knows Na Bi can't and won't ever return his love, so for both Na Bi's sake and his own he's decided to stay out of her life in future. So, Sol Ah asks, hardly able to keep her show of composure, if by some chance Na Bi no longer had her husband, if she were single, would he... He cuts her off by saying she need have no worries on that score. He's sure that even in that case, which isn't going to happen anyway, his feelings would remain one-sided. But Sol Ah is obviously anything but sure of that, and unable to control her distress, hurries away.

At their apartment, Soo Jeong is on the phone to her father, persuading him to have some surgery he apparently needs, when Sol Ah comes back, still very upset, and opens up her laptop to check the news on-line. SJ looks at the screen and asks who is this Kim Jeong Wook whose death is causing her such distress. She'll start to find the answer to that, and discover the dark side of Sol Ah, the next day.

Next morning, Na Bi and her mother-in-law set out on a mission to make an unnanounced visit CG's school and sniff out more about his intended bride. No sooner have they left than father-in-law finds the news in the morning newspaper. Granny and Na Bi's mom wants to know what's in the newspaper that's so taken him aback, but he screws up the newspaper and takes it away with him, saying he has to go somewhere urgently.

In the teachers' room at the school, CG has just asked SJ whether she really meant it when she said she had no intention of marrying him, and she's just started to explain, with a smile, that it was just that he threw her off balance the other day by wanting to haul her off to meet his family right then, but that doesn't meant that...

At which his cellphone rings, and his father gives him the news and tells him to come meet him at once. SJ sees he's nearly collapsing with shock, and picks up that he's just heard that someone's died, but he refuses to tell her any more and leaves, saying they can talk later. She is still standing there puzzled when the Potential Daughter-in-law Vetting Delegation arrives and ask her is CG around (they don't know that they're actually speaking to Potential Daughter in Law, she just happens to be the first teacher they come across). SJ immediately recognizes Na Bi, as does everyone else in Korea, but then when mother-in-law hints that their mission is to meet her son's intended, SJ suddenly remembers having met mother-in-law, too, too and is desperate to get out of the place before recognition dawns on mother-in-law's side as well. Of course, there's another factor in her disquiet. She's realized that it was ChG's family that Sol Ah's vendetta was directed against, and that Sol Ah has tricked her into helping damage the family of the man she loves. She says that ChG has been called away on urgent business and that she has a class to teach, then literally runs out. Mother-in-law says that she's sure she's met this odd woman somewhere before and Na Bi reports feeling the same. While SJ is skulking in the corridor, up comes Sal Goo, who of course SJ learned last week is ChG's little sister, and says she just saw her Mom, and she's sure she must have come to size up SJ, who thereupon decides she's better flee the premises altogether.

In the store, it's Baek Gi's turn to get the news from his father, and he passes it on to Guk Hee before dashing off to meet his father and brothers. She tries to phone Na Bi but gets no answer.

Na Bi and Mother-in-law report back to Granny and Na Bi's Mom on the failure of their expedition to the school. They all wonder where father-in-law has suddenly gone to. We find that he's at the police station with his sons. The officer in charge says that someone needs to go to Hong Kong in person to identify the body. They've been trying to ring the deceased's wife all morning, but there's been no answer. At which ChG asks the officer to stop trying to contact Na Bi with the news. Her family will break it to her themselves when they've prepared her for the shock.

Na Bi finds her cellphone, but before she can check for missed calls, she gets a call from the PD inviting him to meet him for lunch. She doesn't know that WJ is invited as well, and he wasn't expecting to see there either. The gathering breaks up uneasily, with the PD puzzled why the two are so awkard in each other's company, but not before he's issued a warning to Na Bi to avoid any more reckless behavior or scandals.

Sol Ah reveals to Sam Goo that Roy is dead says that but WJ doesn't know that yet, and its imperative to get him out of the country on an urgent foreign trip so that he doesn't find out. Sam Goo agrees and issues appropriate instructions. But his daughter-in-law hears the news of Roy's death as she eavesdrops on the conversation.

At the homestead, the menfolk are in conference about how to break the news to Roy's mother. Father-in-law says it's his duty and he'll do it, but just his wife emerges all in a bustle and says she's on her way out, accompanying her mother-in-law.. The menfolk let the two of them leave without plucking up the courage to enlighten her.  ChG reminds his father that although they wanted Roy's mother to be the first to know, they now can't put off telling his wife any longer.

But they're beaten to it. Yi Jun hears the news from Sam Goo's daughter-in-law, and encountering Na Bi in high spirits at the shoe store, she says in full hearing of everyone that this is the final proof that Na Bi's marriage was part of a scam, because her husband's just died, but here she is regardless, obviously without a care in the world. This begins an increasingly violent confrontation as Na Bi believes that Yi Jun is trying to play a cruel trick on her. She hits Yi Jun, damaging her surgically enhanced nose, halting production of the drama and infuriating the PD. At the height of the row, Na Bi finally gets the call from her father-in-law, just as her mother, back home again, also learns the news.

SA chivvies WJ to get going on that trip, since his flight will soon be leaving. But then he learns from his private secretary, first about the rumpus on the drama location set, but then about Na Bi's husband's death. Suddenly realizing why Sol Ah was so anxious to get him out of the country, he goes to find Na Bi, who has collapsed to the floor, still in the store, abandoned by everyone. She initialy refuses his help and totters a little further, before falling again. He insists that she must let him drive her home.

In the meantime, the menfolk and Na Bi's mother and Na Bi have agreed not to tell Roy's mother or grandmother until they have been to HK and identified the body. ChH, father-in-law and Na Bi all give separate pretexts for suddenly going off for a few days to supposedly different destinations, before all leaving in the same taxi. But in this drama, benevolence and dim-wittedness go hand in hand, and neither of the two women still in the dark spot anything odd. Of course, it all falls apart because a TV crew arrive wanting to shoot a feature about the death of the fugitive husband of the former celebrity and the truth comes out for the two remaining bereaved persons in the most brutal way.

In Hong Kong, father-in-law, ChG and Na Bi are shown a burned wallet with Roy's ID and taken to the morgue, where the body is under a shroud. The attendant uncovers the head and all three take a brief glance before recoiling in horror. But they all seem in no doubt that it is Roy and confirm that to the official. Then a charred hand drops out from the side of the shroud, and Na Bi sees the wedding ring on the hand. She and her companions are absolutely certain they have identified the body.

[[Drama 2012/13] My Love , Butterfly Lady 내 사랑 나비부인]

[[Drama 2012/13] My Love , Butterfly Lady 내 사랑 나비부인]

Sorry folks, the gas company (don't ask) just cut through my phone/TV cable, so I'm stuck on a bad joke of a GSM modem on my cellphone phone for now. They're supposed to be fixing it overnight, so I hope to dish the dirt on ep 19 tomorrow, hopefully before it's time to see what ep 20 brings. Unless they wire my Internet connection up to the kitchen cooker, that is.