MariaMan

I just realised Inhad to put the novel into spoiler thanks to you...grammar can wait untill tomorrow though.

It is ok. 😂 Trust me I pulled put that novel up there being almlst 2 am in my country. And is still full of mistakes because I am truly to tired to correct them now.

In a desperate situation you usually think on how to solve it and then on the consequemces. They will realize now that Da Rim will be a wreck after the breakup. They will start see how miserable everybody is. However the fact that Da Rim's eye surgery was under clock does not change. The fact that halmonie could have died out of cancer does not change...it was not a good thing but for them it was the right thing on the spot. The fact that Mu Rim's relation is affectid is partially his fault. He accepted to be constantly humiliated by his mother in low, he accelted to live with her insted of bringing Suji into his house. He decided to cover for his mother because he felt guilty for not being able to help Da Rim back then. Cha Rim is not going to be unemploed since Gamgju fusioned his company woth Jisung so that they wont go bankrupt. Da Rim and Cha Rim will both probably continue to worl for Jisung now. And Ji Yeon should be thankfull that all her money is back and that she did not have to pay a dime to the state.

Are you a parent in real life? Assuming that you are...how would you feel that your kid has a sickness that could potentially be treated if youbhad the money? How would you feel watching your kid every day strugling to have a normal life with his condition? I am not a parent but I still feel like it is hearbreaking.

Thoughts on episodes 31-32:
At this point I cannot even arrange my thoughts properly. I am heartbroken for Gangju.
I really am. After the kimchi box scene I though he was going to be fine. But now I hope everybody understood that Da Rim is not just "some gal"...its the women he loves. Why do you say he would be better of wothout her? Hello? Have I beem the only one really watching this drama? I get that she felt in love with him later in the story and that for some of you it felt like it was hurried. But has anyone seen how much has Gangju grown up during this whole series? He growned up to be independent, a succesful business men, a part of a real family as theifs as they mught have been. Has any of you thought that meaby...just meaby he was feeling guilty for what hapoened with Da Rim 8 years ago? Or for how he treated her right when they met? That family kind of make him grow up. He never hated them even though he knew that they stoled the money from his mother. Beacuse he knew they were desperate when they took the decision. He saw how miserable Da Rim was when she could not see any damn thing. He was there when she was desperatly buying and razeing loto tikets hoping she will raise the money. And when she cried in front of him.beacuse her brother and sister said she would be better of blind...he couln't do anything for hef back then because he had no money of his own, his mother lost 10 million dollars cause they were stoled by theifs and his dad lost 13 million dollars to cover up for her. He saw and understood their desperation. Her desperation mainly. He is not like one of those chanols that randomly pop out money from.his pocket. Insted his comes with ideas tonsave the day which might not be the best after all. He also saw haraboji almost dying beacuse of the money missing and all the family was devastated. He knew halmonie has cancer and needed money...his mother would have used that money for redecorating the house and live the sweet life anew...as she stated in episode 32. Gangju only thought about saving some lifes. He could not hate them for being rude to them beacause partially they were right. Yes they share the blame for the fire....halmonie was responsable of the inflamable substance but it was Gangju that playd with the lighter like a kid. Then ofc he saved their lifes...cause why would he let them burn in fire in fron of his eyes right?
Yes...they have stilen and deserve to pay somehow. But they are not some ruthless criminals. At least not for Gangju.

As for Gamgju's mother I get that some of you might call him a treator but remember that his original plan was to help both her and the family without anyone getting hurt. He never planned to let his mom down. It was yet another desperate situation. He lied to her explicitely for not breaking her heart. And because he knows her and how she will behave. I do not think he intended to leave her alone while being attacked by population...but knowing her he wanted to give her some space to cool of so that he can talk some sense into her.
I also get her frustration...she does not have a house, she is divorced, her ex husband is probably in love with the one that has stolen her money, her son in in love with the daughter of the one that stolled her money...she has all the right to be upset at Gangju. However she saw how geniunely happy he was with Da Rim. How genuinely happy he was inside that big family...why would she want her son to turn back to his pathetic old self? I can only hope that by seeing Gangju more misserable then ever she will start to finally see the world around her. Da Rim was blind and got an eye operation. Yet she never once asked her how she was doing at least out of courtesy. Halmonie had a cancer operation, haraboji had a heart attack, Shin was almost left without school, Mi Yeon was left without home...all the people arround her were living real sorrows yet she only cared about her missing money. I know it was not a little sum...bit she lost them out of her own stupidity. She did opened the safe earlyer for idk what and that was when her driver saw it and started to plan stealing them with the fat loan shark in the first place. Let me clear this out before you call me a hopless blind incurable romantic...I do not see her as a villan. But had she kept her money as she was told to NONE OF THIS WOULD HAVE HAPPENED. Amd yes...she does not have to care about anybody outside her family...but still you cannot turn a blind eye on other peoples sorrows just beacause they are poor and insignificant.
She never in this entire story has listened to anybody. All she did was to shout and to demand. And that is a fact. She did not evan care that her husband was cleary not in love with her anymore and used Gangju to keep his daddy home as much as he could. That is why Gangju was not able to break apart from his daddy an mature earlyer. He was constantly under the pressure that his parents would dicorce and he said countless times that he want to keep daddy beacuse he knows his mommy loves him. And not the other way around.

The point is that in this story everybody's moral and actions are questionable. They have done some bad actions each of them. They should all redeem themselfs instead of making a crying pillow out of Gangju. Yes Iron Family feels guilty twords him. Amd thankfull even though they have not expressed that in words yet. They should really apologise each. In fact they kind of did when they bowed in front of him this episode. Yes Ji Yeon was a good mother to Gangju and has all the reason to feel betraeyd. But she needs to open her eyes to the world and ask herself WHY would Gangju take those actions? WHY would Gangju help Da Rim to the point of hurting her instead? Why does she belive that Da Rim.is just a tantrum of his? In fact I remember at the beginning she used to read Gangju works as a scenarist and she even said all his storys so pure and from his heart. She could read his heart back then but not anymore? I mean your son was willing to become a complice to a theft, to take all the blame and to even cut ties with them...and you do not ask yoursel WHY? "Meaby my son really loves her"? Tipical suegra de telenovela behavior. She will come around in the end when she will look back and she will realise what an amazing person his son has become in the name of love.
At the end of the day they are all good tonsome extent and bad to some orher.
I do not want to consider Ju Yeon a villan for real. I try to get her and to see from her side. My heart really breaks for Gangju. The panick attack and the heart break he has in the end of the episode were really eye tearing. Unlike other ML in other dramas he really tried to the best for all. He did not managed and now his fight is over. Now its the time for the others fighting for Kangju. Da Rim needs to grow up now and fight back. She is not to blame for the fact that the others took the money. She was willing to remain blind so that her family's life will not be ruined. They decided for her. Now it is time for her to grow a personality FAST. Her family needs to offer sincere apologies not just to Gangju but to his mother too. I am more then sure that if Bong Hwi explains everything to Ji Yeon she will understand as a mother...I mean I hope so. Bong Hwi has to make up for deliberatly trying to place Taewoong in Gangju's place. Taewoong and his father need to start apreciating Gangju for what he really is and not just beacause he had succes in buisness.
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And I hope that now that Gangju fusioned his company with Jisung he will start to look for he real dream and continue to write.
I have a hinch that his next winning scenario will be "Darim's family". 😅
Perhaps a little bit of time apart from.everyone will be good both for him.and for them.
#MisiingGangjuEraON . They are all going to be #WeWantTheNuisanceBack or #IWantMySonBack.
But he deserves to end up with the one he loves. And we like it or not...it is Lee Da Rim.

He is not selling the buisness he is fusioning it because he is almost bankrupt after returning the money to his mother.

But Da Rim's family are no hardened criminals eather. They were just desperate. But they did not kill anybody did they? They were stupid and clueless about who that money belonged too and yeah they behaved like trash twards Gangju but they are not hardened criminals. Amd they are not the first or the last persons to still money out of desperation. Do not get me wrong...I am not sideing with them and they should defenetly pay somehow for what they did. But I am on Gangju's side on this one...he really deserves to be happy and he cannot for some stupid money that blindeed everybody around him. I am also not blaming Ji Yeon for the tax evasion. She is also not the first and not the last to do so. And she does not know for sure if that money are illegal or not just like the family did not knew if that money really belonged to everybody or not.
I agree that money does not give any of them the right to behave like crap twards others. And that goes for everyone. But at this point half of the cast should be behind bars for some resaon or the other....and it is just sad.

There were dramas with more potential but the attention felt on the long ones. I have not watched Beauty and Mr Romantic...yet but Iron Family was not that bad. It is a black comedy so it is not supposed to make sense so this ness served its purpose. I do not regret watching it. I really liked the acting. But If I were the writer I would have changed a couple things here and there. To begin with I would completely remove the Tae Woong era as it was really unessesary and a waste of time. Then I would give Taewoong a personality and a real purpose in this drama. I would silence more the trio of theifs cause I have had enough with the smirk on their faces every time, and I would have focused a little bit more on romance. None of the couples in this drama has been given a proper romantic developement. They compete with eachoter in the category who was more cringe at this point. Well I do not dislike Da Rim and Gangju as I have seen way worst In my soap opra watching experience. Trust me when I say that. Ah...I would stop Da Rim from crying and give her some more apropriate to the situation lines to say...
But ottoke...I am not writernim.

From the shorter series I have only watched Dare to love me and Perfect Family both for Myung Soo. They really had potential but Perfect Family was too much creepy to less perfect and Dare To Love Me was a good comedy to watch but it had me trying twice beacuse it was so...slow speed.

I heared about Black Out: Snow White's revange but have not watched it yet. That seems to have been pretty good.

And very interesting...even though Iron Family and Beauty won the most prises still non of them got the drama of the year and the award was redirected to other 2 dramas that I have never heared of...
Iron Family has the best scenario but is not the best drama? Srrange...it sound contradictory but for us the watchers it is understandable.

The image was hilarious🤣. The 2 madams were dreesed super rich desperate housewisves and he was dreesed in a tuxido but with his hair super massy and they were bouth clinched on him.

It was not just them...there were 4 couples that won the award. But two of them from.Iron Family. Da Rim.and Gangju also won. A little bit more justified.
And I agree with you...couple should mean 2...and perhaps he won 2 prices with both of them. 😂 I just looked at wikipedia for a seclund source to confirm but there they also appear as a trio.

Other nominees for prices but that did not won...
Kim Jung Hyun for DAESANG, EXCELLENCE AWARD IN A LONG DRAMA SERIES, POPULARITY AWARD, BEST NEW ACTOR.

Park Im Wan (haraboji) was nominated for EXCELENCE AWARD IN A LONG DRAMA.

Kim.Young Ok (halmonie) was nominated to EXCELENCE ACTRICE FOR A LONG SERIES.
PARK JI YOUNG was also nominated for EXCELENCE ACTRICE in a long series.

❗️❗️IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT❗️❗️
The KBS DRAMA AWARDS results are finally out. And you are not going to belive what happend.IRON FAMILY has collected 9 AWARDS. 3 of them Geum Sae Rok...it looks like the Koreans really loved Da Rim's character. She took home Popularity Award (alogside Kim Myung Soo...not part of this drama but one of my favorites). She also took EXCELENCE AWARD for a long series along Shin Hyun Joon the actor that plays Seung Dong. And I do not know HOW on earth...but BEST COUPLE with Kim Jung Hyun. But here is the catch...there was a quadruple equality in this category. And it was a doubke win for Iron Family. Wanna know who is the other couple from Iron Family who took the price? First seat down before you drop of your feets...again Shin Hyun Joon...Seungdon with BOTH his parteners Park Ji Young(BongHwi DaRim's mother and Kim Hae Eun (Ji Yeon Kangju's mother) as A TRIO. 🤣🤣🤣 As a fuking TRIO. What the heck happend here? Plot is twisting guys...
Next...Kim Jung Hyun did not win the desang evan though he was nominated but...he won TOP EXCELENCE ACTOR alongside Park Ji Yoong. And ofc...if Sungdong and Gangju were praised as characters the trio would have not been complete without Taewoong...cause yeah...Choi Tae Joon took home Best Suporting Character. I think everybody agrees with me on this one...Cha Rim should have taken this award since she was more involved in the story then Taewoong. Or Halmonie amd haraboji. But who am I to contradict the almigty Koreans right? Anyway congrats to him as an actor. If he pissed us out way too much was also beacause he must have done something right after all. He is a good actor but Tae Woong was not a productive character for him as an actor. Tae Joon has way more potential. Poor writing are you going to say?Well guess again because uri writernim also took the award for best script writer. Well it must have been very difficult writing so manny diferent tipes of characters suffering from cronical stupity and then cure them and gave them a personality. Even a hatefull personality. That being said, congrats to the cast and crew!!🥳🥳🥳 And I really want to hear your thoughs on this spectacular and unbelievebke result.

If anyone want to see with his own eyes here is the link:
https://www.soompi.com/article/1715633wpp/winners-of-the-2024-kbs-drama-awards

True, but Ji Yeon knew what was aeaiting her if the people were to find out and she multiple times saod she is fine with that as long as she gets her money back. What I do not understand here is why Taewoong and Seung Dong are being harrest to...none of them knew anything about the money. They were clueless untill the very end...well Sungdong knew but found out only after they were stolen and payd 13 milion to charity to make up for Ji Yeon's mistake of loesong them...because truth be told if she had not taken out the money from the safe earlyer the driver wpuld have NEVER saw the safe and never stolen the money in the first place. She did not deserved the tomatos in the end that is true because comparable to the crime the others did meaning stealing and covering for stealing. At this point half of the cast shluld be under arrest. But then again their are also not some soulless criminals. They were just desperate people in a desperate situation. And they though the owner was dead. And in fact since the fat men is dead if they had not stolen the money there is a chance Ji Yeon might have never got them back.

Done
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Not necesarly. Gangju specificaly took the rest of the cash from his grandfather's friend to make sure they all have the same series and they look like new.

I think Eun Ho might actually have a suspicion about it....I mean there was a fleshback with him on his free day while wandering in the city and he saw the portrait of Jae Eon (the wanted poster) and then they when they all saw her dressed as a women he remembered the image. But he is not sure yet. I mean...he has not seen underneath her chlotes yet....

I always and my week with them as the reason for my tahicardia. This show might be full of stupid people and seem poor written and law bugeted but it is actually a piece of gold. It has you glood to the screen. It is actually more adictive then a drug. And we have to admit that the acting is top notch. Otherwise we wouldn't argue over characters behavior and arcs....and we would not be so pissed of with some character or another. Actually I think it was preatty hard to write this master piece. Like writernim had to think how to build every character more stupid then the other and then try to give each of them a grouth be it controversial or not.

Agreed

It was defenetly not a patroule car. As for the recording in South Korea there is a law that obligates every citizen riding a car to have a camera on board. It is rudimentary in case of an incident ocurring near the car or to the car. So yeah police car or not it has a functional camera on. Plus as far as I remember she has nothing on camera since the camera was not working when Mu Rim talked to his mother inside the car. She was frustrated that the recording stopped right at the interesting moment. That is why she started suspecting them....fine, perhaps I am being to harsh on her for no reason....she is only doing her job and I am miss paranoid. I will wait until the end of the series to see what is really her true face.

But she did say she could get promoted for that....on his work. And legally or not....at least morally speaking she is also a member of the family and she should also not get involved. Or at least she shouldn't be so harsh with Bong Hwi knowing on what did she spend the money. Well at least she payed for halmonies hospital bills before taking Bong Hwi away. And yes the trio are theifs and were very bad with Gangju. As for Da Rim....she suffered more like because of her condition. But it is true that it was her that initially said they should cut off ties. But I feel like Da Rim was never in love with Tae Woong....she just pulled tantrums over him because during the 8 years in which Gangju was missing, it was Tae Woong the one that helped the family with the laundry shop. I think it was something natural. To have a small crush on the only men around you which is not your brother and which could accept her even as blind. Or at least that is what i think it was on her mind. When she got back her eyesite the first thing she did was creep over Taewoongs face. I think she expected Taewoong to look more like Gangju....or at least his eyes since the eyes were the only thing Da Rim remembered from Gangju. And she had such a dissapointed face at the beginning. It took her a wile to process the real face of Tae Woong. And then in order to not give in to Gangju so easel;y again she kind of tryed to convince herself that Taewoong is the one by pulling tantrums. But she was constantely worried for Gangju even without realising. So in my oppinion I do not feel like her sudden change of hart was that rushed. On the contrary....it was delayed too much till the point it was ridicoulous.

It was not a police car. It was Mu Rim's car. For a personal car you need a warrant to check it inside.

Before she got divorced I remember clearly how she kiked Gangju from the house in a last attempt of not loesing her husband. The next day she saw Gangju suffering for his dad and she had a change of heart and got divorced instead. But she did kiked him out of the house. And she did EVADE TAXES. And she is the only guilty for her money being stolen in the first place. Had she not taken them out before the 15 years passed the driver would have never saw the safe in the first place. To be frank all she did the entire series was to scream and yell about her money and her son. Yet after she got divorced she sold her hose to her husbad and went into a hotel all alone. And even if Gangju came later at the hotel she made him sleep on the couch insted of giving him a proper bad. And she was for sure not short on money. Gangju is not a loeser nor a betrayer. He really tryed to do the best for all of them. And it is not about Da Rim's family that might hate him for nothng....his test was Da Rim itself. Have you forgotten that he was a jerk that never called her back for 8 years after sleeping with her? Da Rim's Taewoong face was natural. Like she would have been dumber if she had trusted Gangju so slowley. I feel she felt in love with him during the right moment....when he prooved he is not the jerk she thought with more then plain words. In this story everybody has its fault. For Gangju helping Da Rim's family was the right thing to do. I do not like Bong Hwi attitude eather. Let alone her situationship with Seungdon...but at the end of the day she was a desperate mother. She humiliated herself and asked everybody for money to save Da Rim while they still could....and nobody wanted to help her. Ofc she took the money when she found them. And now that the debt has been payed off and Ju Yeon has her money back they should all cool off. And she will have the money back eventually since the tax evasion period expired. Probably she did not recieved them imediately because they are part of an investigation.

I know ...legalt they are not married....but they have been in a relationship for a long time and they even said they were trying for a baby so at this point the mother in law should have considered them family and try to understand why would they do such a thing. Ofc Mu Rim felt guilty and postponed the registration of the marriage....it is only natural. Knowing how desperate Bong Hwi was to save Da Rim and halmonie and to offer Mu Rim a proper wedding she should not have been that harsh with her. I get that she is doing her job but still....she should consider her daughter's feelings for Mu Rim and his family. Plus she arrested Bong Whi without a warrant. She might have had proofs but she just abused her power and arrested her in the middle of the hospital leaving the elders alone. Well almost alone....finally Mi Yeon behaved like a daughter. The fact that Bong Hwi was caucht on act does not mean anything....she could just say that that money was from some client of hers at the laundry shop.... in order to arrest somebody you need a warrant based on proofs or at least a proper proof of the act to my knowledge.