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Just the shot of their shoes outside of his car was so sweet.

Thank you, again!
I really gotta give AJH props for his ability to emote without saying anything. I can't imagine anyone else in that role right now. He's just nailed TK down pat.

You have a right to have a weekend too! No worries.

We're waiting patiently. Based on the YT clips, this looks like we need to brace ourselves again.

And we do get something of a date-fix in Ep 21 as well. First off, it's a spring holiday. And this would probably be Buddha's Birthday (May 26) or Memorial Day (June 6) - per Google.

This would tie in with Ape419's timeline below and something no one has mentioned yet - the sonogram shown at 6 minutes into the episode.

Note that the date stamp is missing from the picture - only the time remains. Which tells me that they scrubbed it off and are being somewhat cagey with giving us exact dates. OK. But, they did leave on the gestational age as 11weeks, 1 day. If (and this is a big IF) this is the sonogram from the appointment that was a make-up from the one that she skipped the day before when she was with her teachers assistant, it confirms she's at most 12 weeks. Which, if she really did conceive mid-Feb would make this mid to late May (*maybe* early June) so we'd be on track with the current air date.

Opinions?

Sher, I kind of thought that too: Somehow the Gong's were at fault and she was going to expose them? But there's a problem with the Gong's being bad guys:
Their company, "NX Group" is the imaginary parent/distributor of Lynx Golf apparel and equipment (a very real company). I can't imagine that Lynx (which is getting plenty of product placement in this show) would EVER approve of them being cast as any part of something bad.
(We saw something similar in 3BS where the very real KAHI Cosmetics was owned by the fictional Gipeun Cosmetic Group which was run by one of the MLs.)
So I think the Gong's hands will have to be clean, but given that SJ's dad said 'his values' caused their financial ruin, there might have still been something afoot to cause everything to go south.

Syai and BT below took the words right out of my mouth as I was typing them.

I think the theme of this Episode was "Honesty is the Best Policy"
After being swept off our feet at the end of Ep20, we all secretly wished that she reciprocated his feelings at some point today and they could start taking their baby-steps forward (pardon the pun). No one wanted this more than me.

But that cannot happen.
Not yet, at least.
In the little universe their story lives in, I still maintain they are simply too early in the story line for this to happen. We still have over 3 months to go.
But more important, as Syai and BT point out, YD can't feel this way yet. She has too much to consider and hearing these things from a committed bachelor would make no sense to her; especially after her defense of him to his family.
Is he simply confusing appreciation for love? Is it some kind of paternal instinct gone amok? Is he just lonely? Has he confused their make-believe relationship for the ‘real’ thing? At least and to my appreciation, at the end of the ep she relents to permitting him to keep trying. This is a good thing I think and the most we can ask for at this time.

Something will happen, some external stimulus, to make her realize his feelings are true and she can allow herself to admit her love for him too. Traditional dramas say we are far away from this. But this is no traditional drama, so who knows?

As far as other 'honest moments':
• Both Uncle and his old flame both have an understanding of sorts about themselves and each other. He knows something is up with her and it's good to give her the space to come to him if she needs help. And she trusts him as well and won't overwhelm him. That's nice. I'm pulling for them.
• DW and YM now see the truth between them. They were both honest about her goals and his situation and concerns for his child. Theirs would be an interesting relationship given her intelligence vs. his, uh, lack thereof. I think she’s older than him too (she's 30 - she got a new mom when she was 10, and InOk married CS 20 years ago). I think he’s in his mid-20s?
• Even SJ's mom was honest with her daughter in telling her to stop and asking her estranged husband's help.
• About the only person who wasn't honest (with themselves at least) was SJ who has now begun the descent into obsession and darkness. It’s not about love, or even ‘him’, no matter what she thinks….TK is an object she thought she could possess that has now been taken from her by an inferior woman. She wants her toy back.

BT, I don't know what to say.
I'm not sure what left me more speechless....your recap or the Episode itself.
This one left me with a lot to think about., with not only them, but her uncle and brother. It's weird to have all 3 couples in a drama that you really pull for.
More comments later...time to do the yardwork before dark.

thinking about it, it doesn't look like KS arm. skin tone and size of arm don't match to my eyes. Based on length/style of sideburns, hair shape and ears and arms....i'll guess...SANG SOO. I know that sounds dumb, and it should be KS, but that's all I could come up with (and I really DONT want it to be the punk coming to her rescue).

These little touchstones were really well done and something that everyone can relate to.
Thanks for pointing this out!
Where is the current location of the pics?

YIKES!

Agreed

Well, a milestone reached, not in terms of plot movement, but at #of episodes. 50 in, and we're getting nowhere as everyone else has commented.
I've switched full time to the 'anything new?' mode, as my expectations of this mess are gone.
That being said, let's see where this will go:
-50 eps so far
-KS won't move on until the missing wife comes back. So, in order for there to be progress, she needs to return and cut him loose so she can pursue her own interests. This is the key point in the series, as nothing will happen til she returns. I'll be generous and say she returns (even if she's hiding in plain sight) to the family in 5 eps from now. 55 eps in then.
-It will take at least 2 weeks to complete this arc of her return to departure and its impact on JD (up to ep 65 now)
-something has to happen to push him to MR and vice-versa (allow another 10 eps for this) (up to ep 75 now)
-so they begin seeing each other around eps 75-80.
-so 40 episodes (2 months) for them to date and eventually marry. During this time will be JD's issues, both families issues & intrigue from her side of the family.
So, if the whole premise of this series is actually a 40-50 episode drama, it makes sense that we've gone nowhere to date. And I get the feeling that 40-50 is prolly excessive and will be more like 30 eps (6 weeks of shows). So we could have much more filler potentially.

Just a S-W-A-G on my part.

Only thing of note (and I use that loosely) is that MR is aware that the bakery owner has a crush on the baker.

Grandpa said he was the best caretaker they'd had

I think you'll enjoy it! The show starts 8 years (I think) in the past to establish the storyline for the leads, then jumps ahead later to the present.

SIGH

I really have given up on this show; if it wasn't for being something to watch while having lunch, and sheer curiosity that they might actually show some progress, I'd have switched to something else.

So what kind of progress did we get from today's episode? That fermented fish left outside will stink.
Smelly fish.
Really?
An episode about SMELLY FISH?????
I can't believe this show!
On the freeways of Southern California, drivers will sometimes slow down as they pass the scene of an accident, to get a view of what happened. This slowing down affects traffic behind them, which causes further slowing, etc. These slow drivers are called "Looky-Loos".
This show makes me feel like a looky-loo, as I know I shouldn't watch to see this accident-of-a-Krdama, but I can't help myself. I have to slow down to see the horrible episode for myself.
I think the producers must have tapped into some kind of subconscious desire to not avoid accident scenes and that's how they are keeping the audience from running off.

Yeah, and they passed each other in the hallway to the entrance to the Chicken Place and DW did a slight double-take but that was it (ep19).