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Can't wait!!

He really does his best trying to be the dad as a priority its heartwarming. In his office table he has a photo of him and kid Taepyeong and bicycles. He may have his faults too but seems to have his heart in the right place for the most part...

I knew it...there was no way a chaebol family would be normal in a kdrama. Like of course dad was so nice he wasn't 'dad'...

Same - something felt incomplete the way it was never addressed again

It seemed like they were in Thailand or somewhere abroad so there maybe she was and nobody knows her past in the neighbourhood

I get the feeling it was the right hand man- theres something very shady about him- and also however they made that money. The father may be thinking something else or been lied to by the right hand. Maybe insurance fraud?

This is based on a old school webnovel and while I don't know if that plot is or isn't in the webnovel, but this used to be a common trope in things ages ago. They reference a clip from Strong Woman Nam Soon by JTBC and that show retconned so much it was obvious baby propaganda so maybe JTBC wants to push it but why in two mob related kdramas and not the normal ones where...why are the leads nowadays 30 year old virgin teens? God only knows.

From the beginning it had many similar coincidences to BYT like the raincoat killer and ending with the old man even having Parkinsons. I'm guessing the besties thing was supposed to be like Ok-hui who moved from her crush on the hot guy to the 'ugly' older guy with a heart of gold, but it lacked the comedy and builldup. BYT was genius old school comedy and interesting risky ideas till the script let it down in the last 3 episodes. This one, it has some points it improved on BYT's plot flaws but only that much. The ML making him more like the sml of BYT and gave him closure and catharsis over his missing mother. The mother's pain over her sister's death was equally poignant and justice actually being served with a clear death sentence were also cathartic(the shaman being like I'll just take over the prison was so unsatisfactory). But she was a serial killer equally with no real reason than for the heck of it. They should have taken the risk and made a My Liberation Notes instead with this whole premise of a slice of life story about finding self worth and appreciation of life. The non-romantic(except strong bromance) interpersonal relations and sentiments were sweet and it could have been done much shorter and more effective. The passage of time was supposedly 2 years considering enlistment times but they weren't too clear on many things.

As others have mentioned Korea used to have statute of limitations on murder but this changed with time. First time it was increased to 25 years this was not done retroactively so none of the older cases applied. I recall it from Signal but might have been some other drama too- in 2015 the statue on murder was abolished(Tae-wan Act) and all crimes after August 2000 would fall under this no statues, including those from before this time if only it can be proved the culprit fled abroad for the amount of time that can be suspended but not otherwise. (Tragic irony was the case the law was named after fell before the statutes)

What I got she grew smitten with him after he saved her. Its in the first 3 episodes- from the post acid attack scene she is smiling to herself coyly about how he was glowing when she first saw him when scammed and he helped even though they were strangers(he also gave her his own shoes to wear as she lost hers). Her reactions in the bookstore scene interaction she had a crush on him. He is the bigger mystery for why he suddenly likes her, though they try to say she reminded him of his mom that one time. But basically he was very devoted to his work and wanting to find his mom so he never romanced till he meets her and once he found his mom he could move on with living life and seemed determined that he liked her alone(as a first love? or her lipstick reminds him of his mom?). From the beginning though only thing clear was ML liked her parents almost completely and her parents liked him and tbh I think he really wants to be in their family. I really don't get any of the romance in this one at all- the familial relations, friendships and others like the caring empathetic nature of people are written stronger.

I've seen speculation flying around about Crash season 2 being in talks right now
https://x.com/nophiasandverb/status/1819271620063604920

Jae-soo was the heart of this show

Thank you :)

Oh then can you please tell me about Jae-soo's past its the one that I can't figure out at all

Yeah LR has become available where I live and its coming to only few countries I'd heard. Netflix Korea apparently says it will release My sweet mobster in late august so far I heard.

I heard a rumor this will be coming to netflix?

Someone who knows Korean should please translate the character pages properly*
https://tv.jtbc.co.kr/cast/PR10011702/4

JTBC character pages usually end up spoiling future epsiodes but in this case they either had to cut out a lot of background material or they put their version of the backgrounds in here for the audience instead of in the drama. In the drama theres things that don't fit the timeline or the extra details muddles what was said like the initial succession war. And the thristy deer ads about each of the employees(Yena said Ji-hwan never shows his face in public so those ads seems more for the audience to tell us about the guys in brief) shows each's crime that got them convicted is hinted at:- Taek- taking drugs and drug dealing, Jae-soo gambling(he says it himself in the hospital too), Man-ho possibly violent gang fight type activities, Hong-ki for fraud, Dong-hui unknown(later revealed to be vehicular accident leading to death). Il-yeong is a man of mystery who was more or less a consigliere.

*Other than Jae-soo's one, I can give rough and maybe inaccurate summary from what I understood from using transltor on various sources:-

- Yang Hong-ki(28) - his backstory was as told, additional detail is Yang-hee was the gangster his father defrauded and whom Ji-hwan saved him from. He was saved but found it hard to leave behind his conman upbringing and got convicted for fraud before turning over a new leaf.
- Ju Il-yeong(29) - orphan, mostly as shown
- Gwak Jae-soo(39) - His family was so poor he never got to complete elementary school and he grew up being taught by neighbourhood elements to fight. When older he took up gambling whenever he had money. Something that sounds like he initially started off on the wrong foot with Ji-hwan when they were both in the gang and was too proud to come around but was saved and won over by Ji-hwan and decided to follow him for life
- Jeong Man-ho(32) - Used to be a wrestler(one page said ssireum) and team got into trouble in an assault case and he ended in bad company joining a gang but decided to commit to the gang life and got tattooed. He wasn't too keen on violence and once he was taken in by Ji-hwan he dedicated himself to his passion for cooking.

On the Cat side of it:-
- Lee Kang-gil(32): He is quiet and loyal and was raised by Yang-hee to be a ‘dog that would not bite’ him and he went with him to the Meow gang. But somewhere in his heart he still holds a lot of respect towards Seo Ji-hwan. He is in charge of practically managing all activities under Yang-hee's instructions.
- Go Yang-hee(44 from his rap sheet) - (His character is entirely different than the origial source webnovel where he also has some of STP's role who I think died long ago) Seo Tae-pyeong took in Go Yang-hee, who was at best was a petty thief and raised him a full-fledged gangster. He took care of matters big and small and became the right hand man early on. He is into fashion and luxury goods. He likes to show off and is ambitious(theres a line about about wearing a hat as I understand is not about wearing a literal hat but liking having a ranking position). His long rapsheet starts off with assault(gang violence) in 2004, assault(resulting in fatal injury), robbery/theft, forgery, blackmail, multiple counts of gang violence type charges, destruction of public property, traffic obstruction, obstruction of public duty.

Very much so. I am feeling withdrawal😭 I will miss most of the characters so much

I don't like him particularly but then he is supposed to extremely smart. We see how violent he is(and he'll never get any comeuppance for abuse to all his men) and yet he is only tried for mostly non-violent crimes mainly to do with money laundering. He used Yang-hee and Kang-gil and maybe others to actually be legally responsible as figureheads they'll pay due to the paper trail(Kang-gil alone cooperated from the start and Yang-hee was dumb enough he'll get the worst of it). But those 5 years come due to him confessing because of what happened with his son and while he ended the relation maybe he won't go back to trying to make another gang when he gets out but retire with all his money and connections the prosecutor's office hinted he has cultivated(his character intro page hinted he was a fixer with top government connections so I'm surprised anybody put him in jail and twice at that).

Most of the cast has posted instagram stories they watched the final episode together! It had it flaws but you can feel the love poured into this drama and every character was well done. I loved the end credit stills going to the staff while showing all the main characters in the like and subscribe montage and in the comment section of that final video(their icons are from the like and subscribe).