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If I remember correctly, the late Chairman Shin in his will did not exactly leave hard cash. Chairman Shin, as payback to Kim Sabu, directed in his will that doldam hospital be separated from the main hospital under an independent foundation to be administered jointly by his legacy and Kim Sabu and that funds be made available to build the proposed Trauma Center. Additionally, the funds provided annually by the main hospital to Doldam must remain so in perpetuity (to never end). This effectively makes it impossible for anyone, including his daughter (under the threat of loosing her inheritance), to interfere with the creation and administration of Doldam Hospital and the Doldam Trauma Center. This makes Kim Sabu also answerable to the late Chairman's Legacy Foundation. This explains the deference to Kim Sabu by the director, but you can also see that Kim Sabu is also mindful of his own actions.

I really hope this will not be butchered into an artificial 2 part series. Very few shows have been worth the 2-part treatment.

First of, Lee Je Hoon is just criminally cute with a romanesque nose and eminently kissable lips! Unfortunately, this is about the best I can say for TD S2. The storylines were so lackluster and contrived lacking the emotional connections effortlessly present in season 1. The antagonist was criminally under-utilized. I often found myself plotting on behalf of On Ha Joon the many intricate and creative ways to bring the team to their knees and then watch them regroup and rise to return the favor in spades. Alas, all this remained a fantasy. I actually was rooting for the bad guys! The slapstick comedy of the bus driving duo and the product placements were a 9 on the Cringe-Meter. Even the cameos felt like product placements!. The characters lacked the depth and connectivity they had in season 1. There was just no chemistry between them. The plotlines were weak and it seemed the showrunners gave up on anything with gravitas and relied on the existing glory of the previous season. Overall, it was quite disappointing but if they could go back to a solid storyline, I'd be down for another season.

This was perhaps the biggest drawback for me watching Reborn Rich. SJK just did not cut it as a young university student, babyface regardless.

Agreed. The FL started out so strong and then just deflated 2 episodes in. Even Ms. Son, the most consistent villain in the show wilted ingloriously in the last 2 episodes. I loved all the female xters, all of whom exuded such intrinsic strength and will power but as the plot descended into cliched lackluster land, they became whimpering one-dimensional shadows of themselves. I think if the characters had been allowed to fully embrace and play true to their nature, this predictable plot could have succeeded in breathing new life into that which is old.

The pre-election move was actually a strategy plotted out by HDH to quickly get rid Seo Min Jung and then quickly face Baek Jae Min who was rightly perceived as the bigger threat.

Don't forget the cute and adorable little "North Poop' . 😊

If the only choices were the 2 extremes of designer coats and non-branded ones with nothing in-between, then you have a point. There are designer duds uglier than some of the mismatched wool necks worn by NHS. Perhaps its socio-geographical difference, but I know a boatload of equally hardworking, paycheck-to-paycheck, penny crunching moms in their 30s, 40s, & 50s, to whom salvation army is the equivalent of any designer. This is not how they dress. If NHS choices of clothes was meant to portray her as a cash-strapped 30+yr old, it failed. The frizzy hair, sparse fringe and mismatched bulky layering on her slight frame aged her even more than her real age.

I could not have said it better myself. The plot holes were more like craters with each episode digging even more deeper than the preceding one.

She looked every single day of her age and not bad looking either except for the absolutely atrocious clothing her character wore throughout which made her look frumpy and even older.

I'm halfway through this drama and i've concluded that whoever it is that was responsible for Nam Haeng Seon 's clothing/wardrobe choices should be banned from the industry!

The Glory of my Name on the same screen is gonna be Beyond 🔥🔥🔥

This was another part of the drama that was difficult to wrap head around - Dong Eun instigates HJ to swap JJ's eye drop with harmful substance. Then JJ is on this road to a construction site which is when he loses his sight and gets hit by the inevitable Kdrama white truck of doom. Shortly after, a blind JJ somehow has found his blind way to the very top of a structure and is then conveniently tipped, mafia style, into a vat of wet foundation concrete. JJ was not a nobody and to disappear him like this made little sense.

It was surprisingly a struggle to feel the same level of excitement as I did watching the Part 1. Each scene felt forcefully stretched out with no organic flow from one to another. Likewise, the suspense built around the revenge plot fell somewhat flat and seemed somehow out of sync.

This is basically same plot as the movie Collateral (Tom Cruise and Jaime Foxx) with a few tweaks.

A History of Violence (starring Viggo Mortensen) with elements of Sherlock (The Guy Ritchie version) thrown in, beautifully blended with that unique kdrama flavour. From the jolting but controlled bursts of volcanic violence expertly seeded throughout the 8 episodes to the painful and vengeful retaliatory reckoning meted out by all sides, all tightly and expertly characterised by the brilliant actors, WHC is A Must Watch.

I watched a lot of Asian action movies. K2 and Healer got me hooked on Kdramas. I saw JCW as as a budding Tom Cruise and was waiting to see JCW handle drama as well as he did action scenes. Then I read that he says action scenes were too tough on him physically so he was going to stick to non-action dramas. Fair enough but quite disappointing. So far though, I'd say his dramas have been so very disappointing, lackluster and below average. After watching SP and MMS, and more recently the hogwash that was BR and the washed out LITC, I came to conclude in my opinion that it was not just about action sequences taking a toll, JCW does not have the acting chops for dramas that require technical intensity and complicated mental plots and I think his handlers recognize this by steering him towards less challenging dramas. Just think about JCW in a drama like The Stranger, Dr. Romantic, dramas with dense and technical legal, political, psychological or economic plots. As an analogy, Park Bo Gum was scary as hell in Hello Monster and lovably cuddly in Encounter. I can't picture JCW even playing a Jekyll and Hyde character like in Flower of Evil. JCW's dramas so far are soft, sappy and sometimes muddled dramas that largely rely on his sex appeal but pose no mental challenge or involvement for that matter. After the debacle that was Lovestruck In the City and now reading the synopsis of his new drama, my opinion of JCW's acting range has solidified even more. But I live in hope as I believe he has that spark.

Same here. I watched a lot of Asian action movies. K2 and Healer got me hooked on Kdramas. I saw JCW as as a budding Tom Cruise and was waiting to see JCW handle drama as well as he did action scenes. Then I read that he says action scenes were too tough on him physically so he was going to stick to non-action dramas. Fair enough but quite disappointing. So far though, I'd say his dramas have been so very disappointing, lackluster and below average. After watching SP and MMS, and more recently the hogwash that was BR and the washed out LITC, I came to conclude in my opinion that it was not just about action sequences taking a toll, JCW does not have the acting chops for dramas that require technical intensity and complicated mental plots and I think his handlers recognize this by steering him towards less challenging dramas. Just think about JCW in a drama like The Stranger, Dr. Romantic, dramas with dense and technical legal, political, psychological or economic plots. As an analogy, Park Bo Gum was scary as hell in Hello Monster and lovably cuddly in Encounter. I can't picture JCW even playing a Jekyll and Hyde character like in Flower of Evil. JCW's dramas so far are soft, sappy and sometimes muddled dramas that largely rely on his sex appeal but pose no mental challenge or involvement for that matter. After the debacle that was Lovestruck In the City and now reading the synopsis of his new drama, my opinion of JCW's acting range has solidified even more. But I live in hope as I believe he has that spark.

Rating - 10/10
That been said, you are revealing and joking with powers that ought best be avoided. I'd be careful crossing any street henceforth if I were you.
And thank you for helping to realise that I began to have a strange interest in identifying and giving a side-eye look at trucks since I started watching Kdramas about 3yrs ago.

Excellent review and great analysis of the breadth and depth of Park Bo Gum's acting talents. I would juxtapose your accurate capture of the multi talented Park Go Bum's ability to project multiple xter styles onscreen with what I have come to conclude as Ji Chang Wook's lazy and scared avoidance of playing multi-faceted xters that does not show him as either an action -figure with limited script and complex though/verbal range or a pseudo-funny romantic dunce whose only saving grace is a handsome smile.