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Someone save me. No, someone save Jae Myung. Please tell me those men’s death were an accident. Please tell me Jae Myung didn’t kill them! Tell me he is not a murder! Tell me he won’t murder a third person!!!
I cry for Jae Myung and the life that he lived and the choices that he made. A bright, smart, and kind kid lost everything. He was too old to move on, too unlucky to find a new life with a warm family. He spent the rest of his life searching for his father, giving up everything else so that he could. He didn’t care if his father was really a shameful coward, just that he was alive somewhere. But that small hope was dashed when his father’s remains were found and he learned that his father was framed. Distrustful of a world that made his father into a villain, he took matters into his own hands and exacted his revenge. Except revenge is never the answer because it hurts you as much as it hurts the other person. How will Jae Myung find redemption for his crimes? Is it even possible? Please, please tell me Jae Myung is not a murder.
Dal Po was given a different fate than Jae Myung, finding a new family that he could lead a good life with. While Jae Myung loses all hope, Dal Po finds new hope in the knowledge that his brother is alive. But how will Jae Myung now be able to face Dal Po? What choices will Dal Po need to make as a reporter, a reporter that needs to find and tell the truth? Will he have to report on the his own brother’s crimes in the future?
This drama remains well-paced, well-balanced, and always interesting. It doesn’t feel like we are wildly shifting from one tone to another when things get comical or things can serious. The transitions are easy to follow and the characters are all very likable. Yoo Rae is a riot, which is a nice change from the standard secondary female lead. Jin Kyung, the actress playing Cha Ok, plays her so convincingly. I can’t simply rule Cha Ok out as a villain, an evil mom. While Cha Ok seems to know how to use her daughter’s obvious longing and need for approval to her disadvantage, I also sense a layer of affection for her daughter behind that icy, cold, and composed exterior.
I continue to love In Ha and dad, who has no qualms digging it in to his daughter about her failing to become a reporter. It works because In Ha is takes this all into stride and I have no worries over any loss of confidence by In Ha because of her father makes fun of her. In Ha is resilient and I love her so much for it, even if her desire to become a reporter seems so blinded by her longing for approval by mom. This girl has major mommy issues, not dad.
Each episode is titled and this one is “The King Has Donkey Ears.” This phrase is from an ancient story that teaches a lesson about secrets. There are different versions of this story but it is basically about a barber who is the only who knows the king has ears shaped like a donkey. He swears to keep it a secret, but he finds that he finds himself itching to tell it. So what he does is scream “The king has ears shaped liked a donkey’s” it into a hole and covers it but that hole is found and people hear the secret and soon the secret spreads all over. The King gets mad his secret is out and the barber gets punished. Some sweeter versions say the king learns not to be embarrassed anymore by his ears. Whatever version, the story illustrates what happens to secrets. In relation to this drama, it shows you no secret will remain a secret, not the foreman’s lie nor Jae Myung’s murder. Like how In Ha’s hiccups reveal her secret and how a whisper between three men can be heard by the wrongly accused son year’s later, secrets come out, even if you bury it into a hole when no one is around.
source: scattered Joonni