GySgt213

When appropriate I hope you cover the education system also. Especially, how on the surface they seem to be creating a highly educated work force but that too is not what it seems.

Just to clear I meant that post for those who may not know a lot about the Chaebols. I know you do from your previous writings.

This is just for people who may not know a lot about the history of the Chaebols of SK.

If you do some research on South Korea’s chaebols, it will help you understand a lot about how and why really wealthy families are depicted in K-dramas. You will also understand why the poor girl marrying into a really wealthy family plotline is almost pure fiction.

At the same time, the depiction of some of the horrible things the wealthy get away with in SK is certainly not fiction. The chaebols are/were so important to the SK economy that they can destroy lives they deem lesser, manipulate the press, politicians, and law enforcement with ease. They rarely face any significant punishment when caught.

The Untouchable Chaebols of South Korea | Open Secrets

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jFZge6V_is

You make an important point about future control. Once someone figures out you will be passive and allow them to interfere in your relationship, they don't stop.

Even in this drama, there have already been 3 or 4 instances where the MIL has interfered and tried to control GS. When they were at dinner and she asked GS to keep their conversation from DS. When the MIL went to the brewery to further intimidate GS. When GS found out about her dementia, and this latest meeting behind DS's back.

Time passed him by like it does for us all. He failed to notice and reinvent himself as a dance instructor, coach, and mentor.

The MIL seems to believe because her daughter was with DS as he built that she through her children should inherit his property. But she has no right to dictate that or make any deals with anyone.

I disagree because I am not seeing anything in GS' character to suggest she is thinking or even acts along those lines. She was willing to keep MIL's condition secret and she was willing to meet with MIL without DS' knowledge and would have done what she suggested if he had not found out.

Couples should never let 3rd parties interfere in their relationship. I don't care if it's father, mother, sister, brother, once you allow that, even once, you are asking for trouble in your relationship. The mother-in-law stepped way over the line, and to be frank, so did GS. You don't make side deals about someone else's property. I know DS won't blame GS, but MIL needs to be put in her place, and if she can't stay there, she needs to go.

The crazy thing with this is if she just acted like a normal rational person there is a very good chance Bemosoo would let her have a relationship with her kid.

Everyone is entitled to your own perspective. I just feel this entire discussion would not be happening if viewers didn't feel that something is off. Rather it be acting, writing or directing people can tell when things are not clicking.

As I wrote before, it seems like GS has more affection, feelings, love and joy for the brewery, and her brothers in law than the ML. Their relationship seems forced, one-sided, and almost as if she is being dragged into rather than being a willing participant.

She was another character this episode with a piss poor excuse for her past behavior. Hating Jae In because she was born into a wealthy family as if Jae In had some kind of control over that. We can already see Jae In was never one of the rich brats that treated everyone like they were beneath her.

He does owe the loan sharks because he failed again after taking their money.

I thought she said it was her father that forced everything. Don't blame her brother because his wife couldn't have a male child. But the bottom line no matter who it was, she still had a choice. So she chose to sell herself and her son and now she is trying to justify her actions.

Wrong is wrong even if what you are doing is for your family. Anyone that would ask you to do something so horrific is no family in the meaning of the word. They have no love or respect for you except as a tool.

After you have had a chance to see it. How many think Gi Man is faking this?

Did you hear Mi Ran's lame excuse for doing what she did when it comes to her son? I so hope he rejects and makes her suffer for a long time. Trying to play the victim.

Not really.

Today's episode when it comes to number 4.

You have to be pretty new to K-dramas not to have seen the design steal coming. One tell was the condition who ever loses the design competition has to leave the company. This I have seen in several K-dramas set in a business setting and it always works out in the same way.

We can only hope she doesn't back slide at the very least.