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All the places you said are crowded places with cctv and it's not necessary that the lockers are big enough to keep that bag . You are saying that a single woman going to the woods to bury that amount of money is safer than keeping it in the yoga center's dressing room without any cctv? Who told you paper money cannot be scanned? If so then people would be smuggling cash through airports on regular basis.
The villains were already onto her. So if it was the woods or the yoga center they would have followed her. It would have been easier for the villains to just kill her and bury her in the woods than in the yoga center.

In a way the crown prince, Yul and uk are cousins and belongs to the same family.

I don't know how is it in Korea but in my country lockers are owned by banks and there are cctv there. Also the weight of whatever is put in is checked. People mostly put jewellery and important stuff in a locker and not cash. Its deposited in the bank. Even if there is private lockers there will be some system to know what's put inside. One cannot run a locker system without having adequate security. What if someone puts a bomb inside a locker and goes away?
Its hard to keep liquid cash in a developing country like India and it might be harder in a developed country like sk. Keeping hard cash of that quantity and
using it without getting the attention of the government authorities is a hard thing. Why do you think there are paper companies and slush funds for big companies? Can't they built a secret room or a building and put all those cash in it?
Its easy to say that we can do this or that with that much money but when you actually get it through illegal means you will
realise how difficult it is to handle it.

Where else will she put it? She is someone who dont have any friends and the only friend she had died. She put the money at her house and in Kyung asked her to take that away. The only other option is HW's house but she cannot be seen going to her house frequently. She already decided to give that money to her aunt but got caught before that.

She is a journalist and they have thick skin. She is persistent and is very focused. If she decides she wants to pull pjs down she will do that no matter what she faces.
She clearly don't care what people says about her and is strong. The fact that she don't hide her face simply because of what people things of her shows how strong she is.

There is literally no use of talking to in hye. Its like hitting your head against a wall. In Joo tried talking to her about HW's murder and even after seeing PJS going into HW's house at the night she died in hye was busy defending him.
In Kyung and in Joo does talk about things. Whatever in Kyung is doing till now was part of her job and she has warned both in Joo and in hye that PJS is shaddy af. She already told in Joo about the murder and the orchid.
In Joo clearly knows whatever she is doing won't make in Kyung happy. So it's understandable why in Joo isn't telling about the 70B won thing to in Kyung. In Kyung already knows about the ledger and asked in Joo to give it to her but she didn't. Going by the precap in Joo will tell in Kyung about the money and her plans.
The reason in Joo isn't trusting do Il is because she already knows his motives and his love for money whereas she isn't that aware about sanga. She already saw how violent and crazy PJS is and for someone like in Joo it's easy to feel sympathetic towards sanga and hyorin. Sanga also has been really caring towards in hye in front of in Joo. Also sanga is really good at manipulating and in Joo isn't the smartest cookie out there.

Rich people and their weird obsessions 😂

In this also in Joo and in Kyung are only putting themselves in danger. In Joo is gambling with her life and she knows it now. In Kyung is a investigation journalist and death threads are part of her job.
In AOS, Jung uk took a huge risk by trusting naksu. What if naksu regained her powers before she came to know the truth and went around killing people in sangrim? He gave her free access to almost everything. He was too desperate to get his powers back that he didn't care about anything else. He was also trying to get his hands on the ice stone that can destroy the entire country if used wrongly.
In Vincenzo also he put the life of the people helped him in huge risk and some of them even died.
In flower of evil also the ML married the FL to hide himself from the world.
Till now in Joo and in Kyung never risked anyone else's life other than themselves. None of the deaths happened till now had anything to do with the sisters.
The difference is that all actions of female characters are put under a microscope and male characters have to do something really huge to get criticised.

I think if we go by the literally definition of makjang 70-80% kdramas will come under the category. Most kdramas are over dramatic and unrealistic. There are very few dramas that are real and down to earth. Crash landing on you which is considered to be a rom com can look like a makjang if we consider the unrealistic storyline and the FLs crazy family. Iotnbo also have elements that can be considered to be a total makjang. The end suspense is a total makjang thing. Flower of evil can be considered to be makjang as well. I haven't watched itaewon class but the overall synopsis is of an ordinary regular guy going up against rich villains and he fails a few times in the process and looses a lot. I am pretty sure the villains might have been as crazy as the ones in little women.
I don't get why sky castle is considered to be a makjang either. The reason why it got attention in the first place is because of the realistic educational system in korea shown in that drama.
But generally a drama with a top male lead won't be considered a makjang no matter how overdramatic it is.
Like Taylor Swift said men reacts but women can only over react.

Vincenzo also had characters with not a clear moral compass. The female lead was corrupt and the main lead was a bad guy. Its just that the villains were evil and he looked better in front of them. All the people living in that building including monks wanted money. I think the only one with a strong moral compass was the FL's father who gets killed. Vincenzo had more funny scenes and didn't look as dark as this one. It had more mainstream elements. The villains in Vincenzo were way more dramatic and gave over the top reactions than the once in little women. There were way more brutal in killing their rivals, infact there were mass murders in it. But the crazy villain was a very hot guy and not a middle aged man like PJS. Vincenzo also had style and machoism in it.
More than makjang, little women reminds me of the movie handmaiden. The FLs were naive compared to the bad guys and the villains were too evil but at the end they manage to outsmart them all. If it's made into a drama it will come off as a makjang.
In makjangs the most important characters will be played by women and they all will be flawed. Skycastle, penthouse, world of the married all had female characters in the front line. In that sense little women does look like a makjang.

I guess it has a lot to do with Dan tae being here 😂.
In kdrama suspense thrillers everyone looks suspicious and can't be trusted except the leads.
Everyone being connected to each other is a typical kdrama suspense thriller troop. I have seen that in almost all suspense thriller kdramas i have seen. Everyone being connected to each other in suspense drama is as common in suspense thriller as leads having childhood connection in kdrama rom-coms 😂.
The crazy rich family is actually crazy but then if there are rich families as villains in kdramas they have to be crazy af. Will have secret rooms, secret societies, secret children and fully corrupt background. 90% of kdramas will have it. Even the rich family of crash landing on you which is a rom-com also had twisted crazy family.

Exactly.
In Kyung admitted that she should have been less impulsive. She is learning from her mistakes.
At that time she thought exposing pjs in front of the media is the best thing and we have seen plenty of dramas where the lead guy does the same. It was there in Vincenzo as well and the villains got away with it. In Vincenzo, there were times when someone like vinzenco got his plans backfired and nobody had a problem with it. If Vincenzo can fail multiple times before bringing down the villains then in Kyung can definitely fail.

HW and the manager didn't die because of the sisters. In Kyung also have nothing to do with the death of that guy. She was asking to meet a guy who called her up 4 years ago. In Kyung clearly belongs to the category of people that don't get afraid of death threads. There are 100s of journalists around the world that gets death threads on a daily basis and they still do their job. Do you know that the journalist who exposed Panama papers got killed in a car bomb? She perfectly exposed names of richest people around the world and still got killed. Once someone becomes an investigation journalist they are putting their life in the line. Do you think all those famous investigation journalist exposed corrupt people without making any mistakes and always making the right moves or without loosing anything in their lives?
The 70B is in the form of assets and are deposited in banks under her name unlike the 2B cash she had. HW already made those 70B slush funds into white money. She got 2B won in cash out of the
blue and what can she do with that much cash? It cannot be deposited in banks or she can go around buying things that requires tax or legal means. At the end she did come up with the best solution. Giving it to her aunt. She has a business running. Its not that hard to make black money into white money for her. But things didn't work out as she planned because she had no idea what she was up against.

I don't see any makjang element in this. There is nothing overdramatic or over the top acting. Its like any other suspense thriller kdrama with flawed FLs rather than MLs.
Pjs and family reminds me of the rich family from K2 rather than penthouse. If we take away all the action from K2 it can also be categorised under makjang if this can be put under that category. K2 also had a businessman running for presidency with somewhat crazy wife and a traumatized daughter. The difference is that the ML was a highly trained army man who ends up being a bodyguard and has ji Chang wook's face and body 😂. Since he already a well trained professional without anything to loss he was as smart as the villains. Here the girls are naive and ordinary who don't have
any experience playing with fire.
The sisters have put themselves in danger but till now they weren't aware how dangerous the villains are. Till now in Kyung thought she just have to bring down a shaddy businessman trying to become a politician. Its only in ep 6 she understood how big all of this is. She is up against an entire organization of rich and powerful people.
In Joo was only thinking about getting her hand on the money. She wasn't seeing anything other than the money. She also started to realise the deep shit she is in right now.

Might be possible or he knows who killed her. She was the few people associated to that organisation to be still alive. So whoever is heading that organisation might have people to watch out the remaining members. The cook might have been there to keep an eye on her. Once they get the slightest idea that one of the members can be dangerous to the organization they will kill them off. Too many of its members are already dead. Even the general who supposedly started all of this is in coma.

Songa and PJS have mastered the art of manipulation and people want 3 ordinary women to bring them down within 6 episodes without making a single wrong move🙄.
Sanga definitely is completely crazy. She should be the one in the asylum instead of her brother. 😂

She don't have any hatred or grudge against her aunt.
Its not possible that the orchid can make someone do something they never wanted to do. Its not like some spell or her getting hypnotised by someone and told her to do so.
How can an orchid make people kill exactly the person the villains want dead? It simply gives hallucinations and make people dizzy.
We only saw in Joo siting with the aunt on her lap. She might have sleep walked and saw the aunt lying on the floor and picked her up.

In Joo wanted to give 2B to her aunt and buy a house. That's the only thing she can do with that money. Its illegal money. She cannot go and deposit it in a bank. Her sister was in the hospital and she didn't hear cho do Il properly as she was already in the lift. In Joo is naive and it's very real if a person who never had money suddenly gets 2B illegal money and don't know what to do with it. Once she settled down, she thought of asking help from the aunt and that's a smart move.
In Kyung don't have time to come up with a plan and wait for PJS to take the bait. Whatever she has to do she has to do before the elections. He is already way too powerful for her to take him down and once he becomes the mayor he will be untouchable. She got solid information against him and exposed him in front of the media. Isn't that what almost everyone will do. She was just unlucky that pjs is always way ahead of her. He himself is clever and manipulative and then has tons of people working for him who. She is an inexperienced journalist and pjs is the first powerful person she is going up against whereas pjs has faced people like in Kyung multiple times. She is young and impulsive. There is nothing wrong with it. People learn from experience only.
She never said she wanted people around her to die without food. She would rather die poor than become rich by illegal means and there is nothing wrong in having strong principles. She did bend down when her sister's life was in danger and agreed to use in Joo's money. Should she have stood there and let PJS pay for her sister and use it to his advantage? She would rather take her aunt's money and she did that in turn of working for the aunt. She has been doing something she don't want to do for her sisters.

She don't fall in love. They have a mentor mentee relationship. She is underaged and he is in his 30s.

Male characters can be vulnerable, impulsive, hot tempered, anti heros, villains, flawed characters, arrogant, selfish and everything under the sun and it's totally fine.
Female characters shouldnt do any wrong and should be strong and savage and should kiss the path the ML walks. She cannot do or say anything that can put herself in danger.