Cabbage Your Life Episode 4

Remembering what family is like

This episode finds Mr Seong between a rock and hard place with his sons. He has played back how often he tossed everything to his wife to handle and now his boys want him to continue on with that. His wife, bless her heart, lost any ground she had made with the women of the village with her ‘kindness’ in pointing out their antiquated hairdos. Sometimes less is more when trying to ‘compliment’ in a backhanded way. She has not had a village epiphany yet where she really hears how condescending she sounds. Bo Mi and eldest son are making progress while their dads have reverted back to resenting each other full tilt. Mr Seong’s company is acting weird and who knows what will really happen to all those seedlings or what the real reason is for their projects disappearing. And what plans, if any, does the company plan with the village that it is still kept in the books tho distantly? And who is the spy guy and what are his intentions? Mr Seong is making very slow progress with his sons, but they are being less resentful of accepting his gifts and presence. The oldest has finally told his father what happened and that he even tried to call but as usual, his response was talk to mom. He has finally reflected on everything he has missed under the excuse of working for the money to get the family what they need. This is definitely necesssry. But the bigger issue he forgot about is that they might have been happier with less and appreciated his being with the family more. This drama gives us the stereo types of city vs country and each having deserved biases and flashes of seeing each other as real people and not obstacles when those biases get pushed aside. Hopefully another crisis won’t be required for understanding and respect to go both ways between villagers and company visitors. This is still a good watch and enjoying the misadventures of the Seong family.

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