Even though I freaking hate Sato Shinichi’s character, I’m so intrigued by him. I really want to know more…
It is just brainwashing, the Japanese Empire preached that Koreans were an inferior people, with an inferior culture that needed to be civilised by Japan.
I doubt Suzuki is Ga Gyeong's father. Her mom was a gisaeng commoner and Suzuki seems to come from a privileged background, given his position within the colonial administration and his education he seems to be from a wealthy or former aristocrat family.
it more likely she already had Ga gyeong with some other guy and then Suzuki and the mom met through the independence movement , when she recruited her to be a honey trap but she ended up sharing a brief, doomed love affair with him despite their different social backgrounds.
Also Ga gyeong was around eight when her mother left. If Suzuki was indeed her father, he would've known about her, why did he never assume any parental responsibility? He had all the means to support her, even as an anonymous benefactor.
His Japanese wife died recently. Mentioned during the meal with Fukuda in ep 1. He may have had two wives or a…
Yeah I just double checked. He had a legal Japanese wife for political convenience and Hideo's adoptive mom was definitely a concubine that he loved until he found out she was a resistance spy.
So, Shinichi Sato is not his real name, he married into an affluent family to propel his political ambitions and took on his wife's name. I guess this confirms the Korean woman he loved/got betrayed by was not a wife but a mistress? I wonder what happened to the Japanese woman though...
Yoo Philip annoys me more each episode. All he does is bark orders at Ga Kyung and draw his gun at her whenever she breaks free fom their manipulation and decides to act in her own self interest. It is not odd that someone like Ga Kyung has no desire to be a martyr for a society that ostracised her. I hope Philip's character grows because right now he comes across as incredibily privileged for calling her selfish instead of trying to understand her background and perspective.
With her back story, it seems they want viewer to assume that her gisaeng mom who fell in love and ran off with the Japanese guy is ML's stepmom who was actually a Joseon spy, it would explains why her and ML have two halves of the same necklace but I don't trust they won't may pull the rug from under the viewers at the last minute to explain the coincidence...
at least taejo accepted needing to atone and that it is not just gi beom or sun yong he should feel guilty toward . sure, he's one of the more sympathetic character but he is far from he most pitiful . it's been insanse to see how easily viewers excuse his actions as if the conscious choices he made are minor . for one, he was police detective who committed obstruction of justice by allowing the concealment of a body. that is a CRIME and would have legal ramifications if the statute hadn't ended. but people have been too gripped by the family drama and rather call the sister a b word than realise how he failed in upholding the law when it mattered which led to too many people suffering
also of course lil sis is now a full fledged evil and elf absorbed cha herself. she annoyed me from the start , i do get some of her feelings toward taejoo because he could be overbearing with her, not listen to her etc and basically boss her about. but the nerve of her to ask her brother what she did, all to "protect" her grown 30 plus year olds close relatioship with his uncle si yeong. what a horrible person shes become .
oh wow the cha clan go the better of him AGAIN. taejoo is entirely to blame for his own predicament, yes, he lost everyone but thats literally because of his own actions. kept making dumb decisions, didn't communicatte properly creating misunderstandings, was fooled by siyeong multiple times, threw seokman to the wolves for no reason, gave up looking for the real culprit, and cut communication with his sister for 30years because that corrupt old man said so. the cha clan have never kept their promises to him so why did he choose to be self righteous , keep his word and skip town on their say so? so frustrating.
the sister is beyond reproach, if we are honest she never had a loyal bone in her thumb, even before gi beom was hauled in as a suspect there was obvious tension between her and taejoo. she was always too eager to make him out to be a the "bad guy", which really makes no sense when he was the one raising her while their deadbeat mom was off seducing the village men.
Not suprised at culprit reveal in ep 7 and if i'm honest i didn't feel sad about the death in the ep. I felt it was too convenient for him to die moments after connecting the dots. Who i feel sad for is the young man who'll end up taking the fall and have his live stolen due to inept investigation methods, corruption and reliance on faulty evidence (hair analysis is junk forensics). show is doing a good job highlighting the systemic issues that result in false convictions of innocent people.
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it more likely she already had Ga gyeong with some other guy and then Suzuki and the mom met through the independence movement , when she recruited her to be a honey trap but she ended up sharing a brief, doomed love affair with him despite their different social backgrounds.
Also Ga gyeong was around eight when her mother left. If Suzuki was indeed her father, he would've known about her, why did he never assume any parental responsibility? He had all the means to support her, even as an anonymous benefactor.