is no one gonna talk about how this man just stayed in a closet for like an hour to spy on a couple being lovey dovey, taking pics like a creepy paparazzi just so he could blackmail them into being his shuttles? diabolical.
also are we really getting a kiss scene this early??
the first two episodes were great!! and I was always a Park Jun-hyun stan but, damn, she is killing it. give her more romantic roles pls! but I'm becoming a fan of potato boy too...
No, are you talking about Lee Yu-min? That's the coach's daughter, not the person I was talking about. Park Jun-young seems to be the lady who's angry at FL for the bribery thing.
Wait, so the eonni and ML are siblings?? How come they showed no reaction at seeing a family member when they passed by each other at the bar & the tournament in the beginning of the episode?
Honestly, first episode was really good??? I started this bc I like Park Junhyun and despite me not liking sports or badminton, I really enjoyed the first ep.
Had a different take.Was he harsh, yes. He was no where near awful.We are talking as if that girl who killed herself…
1. That's Gong Hee-cheol, a high ranked celebrity educator. I don't think that his salary would necessarily reflect all the other employees at the company, like e.g. the cleaning lady or the security guard or the even the rank & file education assistants.
2. He may have integrity but winning the game of capitalism isn't exactly an indicator of morality, and vice versa. He has been an absolute asshole to literally everyone around him - being rude and cold is one thing but forcing people to work overtime? refusing to let them take holidays? needlessly going overboard on whichever underling crossed him, including a kid who wanted to stand up for his mom? verbally abusing his secretaries? that's too much. it's a lot more than just being unforgiving or uncaring about other people's feelings. Just because he had a traumatic childhood doesn't mean he's allowed to be a dick towards other human beings around him. So that doesn't justify his behaviour in the slightest.
3. The whole working his way up... that's the whole "pulled yourself up by your bootstraps" thing. Again, winning capitalism isn't a license to be cruel to everyone around him. And like I've said, he went a little bit more beyond snide remarks. His lesson should be to... not abuse the people under him just because he has more money and power. If anything, the fact he started from an unprivileged background should make him more sympathetic to those less fortunate than him but it's the opposite, as is the case IRL too.
I mean, the vindictiveness and casual cruelty that's been depicted in the drama could drive anyone to suicide. It's a diff case, but LSN herself before her epiphany thought his ill treatment alone caused her cancer, it's at that level. And the reason he doesn't have a support network is because he has driven them all away by his own behaviour and actions, And we know he's able to act like a caring person, e.g. Segi before the betrayal and LSN now. I extended my sympathy to Sehee bc she was hounded to suicide by a powerful man who held all the cards (although as you say, we still don't know the whole story) and only faced to lose, what, money? which he already has a lot of? while she could lose her livelihood and, well, her life.
This episode has shown that he *doesn't* have the capability to reflect. He still thinks of himself as the victim, he doesn't have empathy or ability to put himself in his former employees' shoes, to see how his actions hurt them and caused them to turn against him. he doesn't even remember them. I feel like he would have still hated LSN or not he did anything wrong to her if he hadn't found out she was "dying' or fallen in love with her.
Had a different take.Was he harsh, yes. He was no where near awful.We are talking as if that girl who killed herself…
I mean, isn't that the point of art? We all bring our interpretations to it. At the end of day, we pretty much have our own meanings and opinions based on what we watched. And that's especially important in the case of dramas, because a lot of them revolve around the lives of rich people and the powerful. The way they treat poor and working class characters is important especially in the light of SK and wider society. Art reflects real life and versa. There's a reason why SK makes so many dramas about class divide and the effects of capitalism. And the writers seem to be very concerned about deconstructing and examining all the usual tropes we see in kdramas; in this case, in my view, they seem to be deconstructing the idea of the "cold but misunderstood CEO" trope and showing what the consequences of such a person are in real life.
I was saying from the very start that NGJ led to Segi's sister death and I'm right and I wish I wasn't. I'm guessing…
That comes to whether you think revenge is justified and when. I think in some cases, revenge is needed and especially in this one. I mean, they are workers standing up against a wealthy and powerful CEO. He has all the power in the situation because of his wealth, status and position. So I will not begrudge or judge LSN and any of the other employees from the ways they got payback, bc that was probably the only tools they had available to them.And ofc they didn't speak up - they probably wanted to keep working so they could feed themselves and/or their families. Go-jin is the type of asshole who'd fire them or make their lives if they tried to speak up. So they went Segi, because they thought he'd more approachable, they didn't know he had an agenda of his own. And saying just find another job places an onus on the workers, not the employers who should be fixing the problem. Especially since finding another job isn't an easy task and most capitalist entities are just as exploitative or dehumanizing in this dystopia we live in.If anything, I'm impressed they were willing to have the courage to fight back any way they could or at least plan to.
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also are we really getting a kiss scene this early??
2. He may have integrity but winning the game of capitalism isn't exactly an indicator of morality, and vice versa. He has been an absolute asshole to literally everyone around him - being rude and cold is one thing but forcing people to work overtime? refusing to let them take holidays? needlessly going overboard on whichever underling crossed him, including a kid who wanted to stand up for his mom? verbally abusing his secretaries? that's too much. it's a lot more than just being unforgiving or uncaring about other people's feelings.
Just because he had a traumatic childhood doesn't mean he's allowed to be a dick towards other human beings around him. So that doesn't justify his behaviour in the slightest.
3. The whole working his way up... that's the whole "pulled yourself up by your bootstraps" thing. Again, winning capitalism isn't a license to be cruel to everyone around him. And like I've said, he went a little bit more beyond snide remarks. His lesson should be to... not abuse the people under him just because he has more money and power. If anything, the fact he started from an unprivileged background should make him more sympathetic to those less fortunate than him but it's the opposite, as is the case IRL too.
I mean, the vindictiveness and casual cruelty that's been depicted in the drama could drive anyone to suicide. It's a diff case, but LSN herself before her epiphany thought his ill treatment alone caused her cancer, it's at that level. And the reason he doesn't have a support network is because he has driven them all away by his own behaviour and actions, And we know he's able to act like a caring person, e.g. Segi before the betrayal and LSN now. I extended my sympathy to Sehee bc she was hounded to suicide by a powerful man who held all the cards (although as you say, we still don't know the whole story) and only faced to lose, what, money? which he already has a lot of? while she could lose her livelihood and, well, her life.
This episode has shown that he *doesn't* have the capability to reflect. He still thinks of himself as the victim, he doesn't have empathy or ability to put himself in his former employees' shoes, to see how his actions hurt them and caused them to turn against him. he doesn't even remember them. I feel like he would have still hated LSN or not he did anything wrong to her if he hadn't found out she was "dying' or fallen in love with her.