Miss Hammurabi Episode 5

A small progress is a good progress, and trying to change a system literally takes generations

Really loved the ending speech that Oh Reum gave at the general meeting in front of all the attending judges. She liked her presiding judge, Han so she hoped that the committee will take action to make the workplace more favourable to the young people. Unfortunate that they lacked 20 people to start casting the votes.Actually i wasn't sure if the motion brought up would be Judge Song's dismissal, or something else that Ba Reun insisted on instead. That is to discuss improvement on human rights at the workplace, that is no overworking to the point of being causing detriment to one's health which is a different point than to see revenge to the presiding judge who treated his subordinate like sh*t.Really pity Judge Hong who had a miscarriage. Seems like she's also developing depression or anxiety out of the fear of having to re-adjust to the prying eyes and gossiping mouths when she returns to work. I hope her character won't disappear and we could see real improvement between her and her boss, sighh.I really liked how level-headed Ba Reun is. He reminded Oh Reum not to start group petition to seek personal revenge on the injustice faced by their colleague, rather focus on improving the broken workplace culture. He likes her a lot so she's slowly changing him but I think we could also see he's influencing her in a good way too.I also loved the scene when Judge Han scolded Oh Reum for only listening to one side of the story and never going up to Judge Song to hear his situation. He's right on that.Also when Oh Reum and Ba Reun tried to convince the other associate judges, one of them hesitated because the female workers took up maternity leaves so he had to cover up for them, and he has a small daughter too at home whom he's not been tending. That's when Oh Reum and Ba Reun realizes that human rights issue at the workplace is a universal issue that crosses gender rather than being gender centric.

This show has been absolutely outstanding at making the viewers think about real life's dilemmas. I truly applaud the impeccable writing! ^^

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