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amen - she's old enough. her mum is not a maid.

why are we putting so much responsibility on the mother who's done everything to facilitate her family's easy breezy life? also nothing has backfired yet. it's important as an adult to be independent, and a little failure is necessary in life - it's how you grow.

exactly!!! her children are not babies. even at 18-early 20s they should learn to be independent and not rely on their mother. honestly, they treated her like a slave/live-in maid whose only life was her kids. yes, she's a parent but it doesn't mean that she has to pick up after them and do every single little thing. yeah college admissions are important but hey, that's her education, she should research instead of always relying on their mother.

I'd like her if they do a parallel with her and the son's mum, for eg, if she gets pregnant and has to choose between family and career, and she redeems herself by understanding how hard Cha's life was as a subservient mother to a POS husband.

I'd like to see at which point the husband changed to become this POS. Because at the start, at least from the retelling, I understood that he kind of fought to be with her, in a way, even though he technically cheated on his then girlfriend with Doctor Cha. I hope they show too how and why he started cheating.

Was he guilty that he left his high school lover for the mother of his child? Did he get sick of trying to be a dutiful husband? Or was everything out of pity?

omg that slap shook me ... her neck almost snapped!

Just goes to show that this is expected behaviour from the upper class. Money = entitlement.

I just found out that the bullying scene was based on a real life event. Is bullying in Korea really this prevalent and why is it so bad?

Great point to add. You do wonder though that if the husband had not been there parenting the child with her, whether her own child would learn how to accommodate her abnormal beliefs. Would she also exhibit the same sociopathic tendencies like her mother? Would she be the lead bully?

I'm not sure how Korean society is with these kinds of attitudes esp with rich and extremely rich people getting away with abhorrent behaviour but as a society it is destructive because the richness acts as a cushion and buy in from consequences of your own actions.

amen

He seems normal - almost elitist but so far no evil tendencies.

It's believable that with how much pressure the rich put on their children to keep up faces and to please other people in the upper class that their children become riddled with mental illness, or at least in this case become sociopaths which is the only explanation I can give for the way they behave. As someone down below have said, animals pretending to be human. The drama shows this well - how the children's personality reflect their parents and how they were raised. Too much pressure and unhealthy coping habits lead them towards insanity.

The difference though in how YJ treats her child and how her child is is a complete contrast to how she herself was treated by her mother, and how she ends up rationalising things and doing evil, covering up evil, but knowing how to do so while she plays a role she's expected to just to be and to remain in the upper class.

how did she know her btw? i don't think i picked up how they met

but do you think the head girl was just inviting mi-jeong so that she could potentially be blamed for her having an affair with their boss? so not that she was well-liked per se but definitely tolerated? so she only really developed a real friendship with the other girl from her team who was not part of the immediate "office it girls"

Yeah me too lol

Yay!! Hope it's on Netflix ahaha

Thanks for this - I noticed it too but I didn't think it was that important as it seemed like normal ageing pains.

I agree with this. Even though there may have been some downsides to the commute, the reality is that they were still living their lives - going drinking after work, eating out with friends etc, and they had family and farming work to fall back on as well as real close friendships, which in reality is quite rare, at least to the extent that those friends are always there for each other. Their real challenge isn't those circumstances that they blame. It isn't the distance from Sanpo to Seoul but rather their self-created issues and inability to deal with them.

Each character displays self-victimisation and the way that they deal with this is blaming society, living in the country, their parents, their position in life, affluent people, co-workers etc. Eventually they learn to liberate themselves from their own self-victimisation which I think is the premise of the drama rather than a social commentary on poverty, limited opportunities in the country or other issues. But yes liberation here = self-determination which is to choose for oneself and to abide by the consequences of those choices.

I found this to be the case too. During the first episode I thought the drama would go further and explore the housing crisis/lack of opportunities in the country versus the city but it quickly became a story about their own personal selves. Honestly, what they were suffering with were notions of their own victimhood and how they viewed others as higher than them and that they were victims only because they lived in Sanpo and not Seoul.

I think Chang Hee's made the best step in truly finding out his purpose and Ki Jung was next and close to it although I still think that she may have repressed her own desire to have a child with Ji Hun because of the circumstances. Mi Jeong's resolve wasn't the best - it didn't feel like she actually moved forward and her decision to go into an operations role seemed again like an excuse she was comfortable in making, only because it seems that this department had no bitchy girls to navigate.

True lol - I mean if this was real I also probably wouldn't fall in love with an alcoholic with so many issues but hey it's dramaland and it's Son Seok Koo.