Recap: Pinocchio Episode 5
by joonni on November 26, 2014
Hell is not someplace you go only when you die.
Episode 5- The King Has Donkey Ears
Choi Dal Po tries to find out from the police where his father’s remains are. He learns a family member claimed the remains and Dal Po tries desperately to find out information since now he knows his brother is alive. For the first time in a Korean drama, private information is kept private and the police officer won’t tell Dal Po the information about his brother since he can’t prove he is family through official documents. Still, there is one thing Dal Po got out of all this. He learned that he was not alone in this world.
At the same moment, Jae Myung is at the mortuary, standing in front of his father’s ashes. He cries because he is now truly alone in the world. And the only one in the world who knows how unfairly his father died.
Dal Po asks his dead father where and what he is supposed to do to find his brother. At that moment he gets a text notifying that he has been accepted to YGN as a reporter. Dal Po believes this is the answer his father sent him. He wanted to be a reporter with and because of In Ha, to show her mother. But that resolve has gone down the drain and he has a new one- he wants to let the world know his father’s story and find the only other person who knows this story, his brother. Dal Po thinks it may be his father, not In Ha, who led him here to become a reporter.
It’s a new day and In Ha and Dal Po are both off to work, except the former is going to work part-time at a convenience store and the latter is heading to the tv station. In Ha’s father has nothing but snark for his daughter, advising her to find a job as a teacher whose resume includes making a taxi driver into a journalist in one month.
In Ha and Dal Po are a little awkward with each other and In Ha hasn’t stopped hiccuping since the day she realized she like Dal Po but denied it. In Ha harbors no ill feelings toward Dal Po nor is she jealous even though he outed her as a Pinocchio and she tries to tell him so, but because of her hiccuping, he doesn’t believe her.