Joseon Gunman Episode 19

Joseon Gunman Episode 19

Yoon-kang survives the ambush, thanks to the sacrifice of Kanemaru (sob), then delivers the assassins’ bodies to Choi Won-shin. He tells Yamamoto to return to Japan, essentially ordering him to butt out of this whole thing. Then he warns Choi that if he wants Yoon-kang dead, he’ll have to do it himself—and to do that, he’ll have to put himself on the line.

That’s when the police, led by Jung-hoon, arrive to arrest Yamamoto and question him for Kanemaru’s murder. As Yamamoto is taken away, Yoon-kang tells Choi that the man he’d put all his faith in has been taken down. Choi growls that Yoon-kang has made a big mistake, but Yoon-kang replies that he’s just paying them back for his friend’s injustice. 

It’s a somber mood as Yoon-kang’s gang pay their respects at Kanemaru’s grave the next day. Soo-in voices her worries of the continued danger Yoon-kang puts himself in by continuing his revenge mission, saying that he survived this time thanks to Kanemaru, but that he may not be saved the next time. She asks hesitantly, “Is it too greedy for me to ask you to stop here? If I ask you to leave this behind and live an ordinary life, would that be too much to ask of you?”

Yoon-kang feels her pain and apologizes, but says that as long as Choi Won-shin is alive, he can’t stop. Their tie of misfortune must be severed somehow.

The Japanese diplomat complains fiercely to the king for Yamamoto’s treatment, arguing that Yoon-kang killed six Japanese men. Gojong’s advisors argue that Yoon-kang was attacked first, but naturally, that’s not the story put forth by Yamamoto. The diplomat makes a veiled threat that the Japanese government will retaliate if Gojong takes Yoon-kang’s side.

Never strong to begin with, Gojong wilts under this pressure. Minister Kim plays Iago, reminding Gojong of all the trouble Yoon-kang has caused for them in the past.

Officer Moon urges Yoon-kang to run, anticipating the mess he will soon find himself entangled in. Yoon-kang argues that it’s Yamamoto’s word against his—neither side has any proof backing their claims—but unfortunately, he’s in the weaker position. Japanese men were killed, and the Japanese government will not be convinced with testimony given by Koreans.

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My Secret Hotel Episode 3

My Secret Hotel Episode 3

Sang-hyo quickly gathers her wits after Assistant Manager Hwang’s body falls to the floor. She delegates tasks to the rest of the shocked wedding coordination team to assist the panicked guests, until all that’s left in the wedding hall with the dead body is just her and Hae-young. He’s still in shock, but she urges him to go see his bride Soo-ah.

Sung-gyum is rushing to help oversee the chaos, but General Manager Lee stops him. He thinks that it’s important for Sang-hyo to learn how to fix this situation on her own, as a good test of her management skills. Sung-gyum doesn’t seem particularly convinced by this, but he stays put, nevertheless.

As she deals with making sure all the guests are safely escorted out of the hotel, Detective KIM GEON-BO (Ahn Gil-kang) arrives on the scene. His cowboy boots and casually unbuttoned shirt have the diligent security team ready to shoo him away as a curious onlooker, but after a wave of his badge, he’s allowed through to the wedding hall.

Marveling at Sang-hyo’s ability to smoothly take care of the wedding guests, Detective Kim cheerfully steps into the room to investigate the dead body. Sang-hyo is ready to drop in exhausted relief that everything is over and everyone has been safely taken care of, but Eun-joo radios with a cry for help.

The PR manager is busy reassuring the press that the death of a hotel employee is nothing to be overly concerned about — it could happen anywhere at any time. But one of the reporters at the press conference is Jung-eun, who smugly points out that bodies falling from the sky aren’t exactly a normal occurrence. Not to mention all the other crises that have happened at the hotel, such as all the previous managers leaving last year, the hotel’s worth dropping on the stock market, and, of course, the three-month wedding curse.

But as soon as Sang-hyo arrives to do the rest of the press debriefing, Jung-eun slips away to hide around the corner. She’s shocked to realize “that woman” is also the person who planned Hae-young’s wedding.

Detective Kim and his CSI crew are busy investigating the area around Hwang’s body. It’s determined that the murder weapon was the ice pick — one jab to the heart and instant death. The detective also finds something else surprising: a second wallet that was found near the body. He opens it up to reveal that it’s Hae-young’s wallet, and he realizes that this belongs to the groom.

Speaking of whom, he’s sitting with a sobbing Soo-ah who can’t believe her wedding has been ruined. She’s also annoyed that Hae-young isn’t upset or angry, but he unemotionally tells her he’s just as upset as she is, really. Her hysterical shrieks can be heard all the way down the hallway, and Sang-hyo steels herself as she prepares to enter the room and face the unhappy couple.

Soo-ah’s greeting is a literal slap in the face, as she demands to know what Sang-hyo is going to do about the disrupted wedding. Sang-hyo bows deeply in apology, but Soo-ah is still furious. She orders Sang-hyo to kneel and apologize. After all, didn’t she promise Soo-ah the perfect wedding?

She reaches out to give another hearty slap when it looks like Sang-hyo isn’t going to kneel, but Hae-young reaches in to stop her. Sung-gyum also suddenly arrives and puts himself between the two women, protecting Sang-hyo.

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Discovery of Romance Episode 4

Discovery of Romance Episode 4

As Yeo-reum sings her song onstage, Ha-jin and Tae-ha stare at each other, each man sizing up his competition. The song finishes and the guys shake hands and comment on how often they see each other lately. Sol makes introductions, and Ha-jin keeps it to himself that he knows this is the man that Yeo-reum spent the night with.

He asks Tae-ha how he and Yeo-reum ended up working together, and Tae-ha gives a professional answer without revealing their personal relationship. Yeo-reum drags Sol to the bathroom to fuss at her for inviting Ha-jin, and Sol assures her that she made Tae-ha promise not to mention they used to date.

The guys exchange business cards and stand there awkwardly, and Ha-jin thinks how women can become instant friends but men need to size each other up first. Tae-ha asks if Ha-jin plays pool and suggests a game. You know, for fun.

Both men try to fool the other by saying they haven’t played in a while, but the game gets intense pretty quickly. Soon they’re talking smack and “accidentally” body-checking each other, as both of them admit to being competitive. Ha-jin gets a boost of confidence when both girls cheer for him, and he wins handily when Tae-ha flubs a few shots. Ha-jin says they should have laid a bet on the game, and Tae-ha challenges him to another game next week.

Yeo-reum’s mother arrives at her workplace to find Producer Bae there using her shower, and she throws out his nasty shoes. She tells Gi-eun to buy him a new pair, which is kind of sweet despite her grumpiness about it.

At the bar, Yeo-reum offers herself and Ha-jin to wait until Tae-ha’s designated driver arrives, and he glowers when he notices the couple ring she wears. Haha, I love the western-shootout background music as the guys send each other bland I’m totally not jealous of you at all glares.

Ha-jin drives Yeo-reum and a drunk Sol home, and demands to know how Yeo-reum ended up in a business partnership with Tae-ha. She’s reluctant to explain and he says he’ll let it go if she doesn’t, but warns her against letting him come up with explanations on his own.

She still won’t talk, so Ha-jin angrily pulls over and reminds her that she slept over at Tae-ha’s house. She hotly denies that anything happened, and Ha-jin says he can accept all the coincidences of them meeting at the hotel, switching phones, and her falling asleep at his place – but asking him to accept that their working together is another coincidence is too much. Yeo-reum apologizes for not telling him, but says that she’s innocent, and her proof is that they invited Ha-jin out with them tonight. If she were guilty, wouldn’t she try to hide?

Tae-ha takes care of his bunny and complains to her that Yeo-reum hasn’t changed, falling head over heels whenever she meets someone new. He asks the bunny (whom he’s named Han Yeo-reum, cute) if all girls are like that. If Bunny Yeo-reum knows, she’s not talking.

Ha-jin is still complaining about Tae-ha when he drops Yeo-reum at home, saying he was much too intense for a friendly game of billiards. Yeo-reum assures him that Tae-ha is just like that – he’s arrogant and hates losing. Ha-jin grumpily asks for a kiss, but Yeo-reum says he should kiss her since he suspected her for nothing, and he adorably sulks that he always loses.

Ha-jin starts to drive off but Sol pops up out of the backseat, scaring him (and me!) half to death. She assures him that everything Yeo-reum said was true and goes inside, and he leaves feeling a bit more reassured. Tae-ha texts Yeo-reum to complain that she spoke to him formally in front of her boyfriend, and she asks him to speak formally too next time, since Ha-jin is feeling insecure.

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Fated To Love You Episode 17

Fated To Love You Episode 17

At the revelation that Gun was the face behind Lee Young-ja, Mi-young asks how he could think of pulling such a mean prank on her. Does he know what it took for her to forget him after all these years?

A long, silent moment passes before Gun gives his answer, minimizing his intentions as mere curiosity about his now-successful ex-wife, and as interest in buying a painting he liked. It was Mi-young who made things complicated when she contacted him about it.

Although astounded by his audacity to blame her for this situation, Mi-young swallows back her tears as best she can to ask if he meant the comforting and supportive words he told her. Gun apologizes, laughing — that was all fake.

“Do you know who Young-ja was to me?” Mi-young returns, looking thoroughly hurt. “I thought, ‘I met someone who completely understands me,’ ‘I met someone who understands my paintings.’ How consoling that was… how thankful I was.”

But Gun says the only thing he has to apologize for is his fake identity. His laughter that follows spurs her to remark how he’s become the worst in these past three years, which he affirms in a whisper. “You’re quite pathetic, Kim Mi-young,” he continues with a heavy sigh. “How could you not have changed at all in the past three years? You’re deceived by others easily and trust them so well, like a fool. When will you correct that habit?”

Those words sound so hurtful at face value, and yet the cadence in Gun’s voice also holds some genuine wonder of how Mi-young hasn’t changed in his eyes. Still, he points to that painting of his silhouette in heart-shaped lollipop as evidence of her lingering feelings for him.

He’ll give back the Keddongie painting before he goes, though: “I don’t know how precious or how much this painting means to you, but to me… it’s just one painting.”

And that’s the last straw for Mi-young, who snatches back her painting. She orders him to get out (in banmal, at that), and he obeys without another word. Her knees buckle under her after he leaves. She clutches the Keddongie painting tightly, then takes down the painting of Gun and turns it away.

Gun reflects upon Mi-young’s words on the staircase outside her studio, but little does he know that Daniel, who has come by to check in on Mi-young, sees him sitting there and leaving.

It rather seems like Gun isn’t paying attention during his company meeting, given how his eyes are closed during the PPL presentation. But it’s apparent that Gun hasn’t missed a word when he’s prompted for his opinion, and he approves of working with an online beauty site in China.

Daniel arrives at Mi-young’s studio the next day, surprised at seeing her packing up her things. She apologizes for not keeping her promise to stay in Korea until her art exhibition is over because she wants to return to France. She reveals that the buyer of that “le soupir” painting turned out to be none other than Gun.

Gun is well into his fourth bottle of sake at dinner with Se-ra, where he informs her how her mother recently came to see him. She apologizes for that, and he asks with a sigh, “It’s hard for you, isn’t it? Being friends with me?”

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I Am A Man

I Am A Man

On the August 15 episode of ‘I’m A Man,’ SISTAR were the guests who appeared on the tone-deaf special to talk and interact with the tone-deaf men in the audience.

After they received a bit of coaching and advice from Kim Yeon Woo, two of the men got opportunities to sing with the members of SISTAR. Hyorin sang with patience Byul and Na Yoon Kwon‘s duet “Greeting” with an audience member, while Soyu sang her own duet song “Some” with another member, who actually exceeded her expectation during the moments when he would sing with confidence.

Also on the show, MC Yoo Jae Suk asked the girls, “How do you think you’d feel if your boyfriend could not sing?”  Hyorin said, “Is singing that important of an aspect when we love?”  Dasom said, “Whether he’s tone deaf, stiff, or bad with rhythm, those things don’t matter as long as I love him.“

Bora said, “It’s not like I would check to see if a guy is tone deaf before I date him“, while Soyu replied, “I can always stay by his side and sing to him.”

Check out the performances below!

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Discovery of Romance Episode 3

Discovery of Romance Episode 3

After Yeo-reum refuses his job offer Tae-ha pulls her chair close, brackets her with his arms, and says, “Han Yeo-reum, if I ask you to break up with that guy and come to me, would you? If you come back to me, I promise I won’t make you cry.” He says that he’s never forgotten one single thing, from the time they met to the time they broke up, all at Jinju Station.

We flash back to the day they met, as they introduce themselves after their train ride. It’s cute how they’re both reluctant to walk away, and finally Tae-ha goes, but stops to look back and wave one more time. Joon-ho and Sol find Yeo-reum, and she aegyos Joon-ho into buying them tickets to Yeonhwa Island, where she knows Tae-ha is heading next.

Sol is still in a bad mood and flat refuses to board the ferry, since she’d rather go see her boyfriend before he joins the army, so Yeo-reum swipes her ticket and goes on without them. Joon-ho tries to drag Sol onto the boat but she bites him and runs off, and he follows her despite knowing that Yeo-reum has no money to buy a ticket back.

Yeo-reum finds Tae-ha on the ferry and tries the old “what a coincidence” line, but he’s allI told you I was going to Yeonhwa Island before. Hee. She waxes poetic about their meeting each other being the hand of Fate, but Tae-ha is pragmatic (though amused) as he just says it depends how you look at it.

Yeo-reum doesn’t realize her friends missed the ferry until they arrive at the island, and Tae-ha suggests she climb up the mountain and see the sunset as long as she’s here. She trails behind him like a kid and asks him to lend her some money, because that was the last ferry and she has no money to sleep somewhere or catch tomorrow’s ferry home.

Tae-ha gets suspicious, and asks if she told him she fell in love with him on the train just to get some money out of him. Yeo-reum insists that’s not the case, but now he doesn’t believe her. Optionless, she follows him as he takes pictures of the amazing scenery, swearing to stop following him if he lends her money. He says with a mischievous grin that he can’t lend her any money since then she’d leave. Cheeky boy.

Yeo-reum clings to the railing of a narrow bridge, still begging Tae-ha to help her out. He starts asking personal questions like her age and what school she attends, clearly using her disadvantage to learn more about her. He even plays with her a little by jumping on the bridge and making it shake, and freaking her out. He’s like a little boy pulling the pigtails of the girl he likes.

They finally reach the top of the mountain right at sunset and wow, the view is incredible. Yeo-reum says that she learned a valuable lesson today: Don’t trust a man you fall in love with at first sight. HA. Tae-ha laughs that saying such things out loud gives him an advantage, but Yeo-reum just nods sagely and asks for money now that she’s looked at the damned nature like he wanted. Tae-ha deadpans that the ATM is at the bottom of the mountain, and Yeo-reum yells at him for making her hike all this way.

When they get back down the mountain, the ATM is out of service and won’t be repaired until the next afternoon. Well, crap. Yeo-reum buys some ramyun but she’s a few won short, and it’s hilarious how Tae-ha oh-so-generously fronts her the 100 won. They share the ramyun and a local tells them where to find a school so they can sleep indoors.

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Shades of Life

Shades of Life

Country: Hong_Kong

Status: Ongoing

Released: 2014

Genre: drama ; modern

Description

Yu Yang is a highly respected retired principal. He has a deep affection for traditional Chinese culture and places an emphasis on family values. His eldest son Jack Wu graduated with a journalism degree and works as a magazine editor. Jack likes to get to the bottom of things and sometimes has different opinions than his father on certain social issues. Yu Yang and his daughter Zoie Tam, being 40 years apart, have a major generation gap. Yu Yang finds it difficult to adjust to the rapidly changing technology era. Fortunately, his daughter-in-law Elaine Yiu is a good mother and wife, and keeps the household in perfect order. But as her son grows older, the family is faced with decisions about his education, which brings out the nerves of everyone. The series explores a number of critical issues for Hong Kongers, including education, housing, an aging population, declining competitiveness of youth, Mainland relations, and the immigration trend. Each episode closely mirrors reality in a way that resonates with the audience…

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