After recognizing Hae Joo as the woman who flipped him, "Ryan Kang" (Kang San) asks why they would consider hiring a gangster. Il Mun seizes this opportunity to dismiss Hae Joo from the interview. Not only does she not have a high school education, she's also a thug. Despite her pleas for another chance, Il Mun orders her to leave. Kang San smirks. Once she's gone, the two men continue to butt heads, with Ryan Kang finally revealing to Il Mun that he's Kang San. Good, now I can stop calling him Ryan Kang.
As Kang San is walking out the front door, In Hwa's San-Radar leads her straight to him. My God, she's a bloodhound. They need to put her on missing persons cases. Don't let these skills go to waste! Anyway, she demands to go with him wherever he's going, or else she'll tell her dad who he really is. A-ha, but he just confessed so now she has nothing on him. While her tracking skills are without peer, her blackmail powers are nil.
Hae Joo visits the seaside rock where she scattered her father's ashes. She spills out her sorrows to Hong Chul's spirit. Chang Hee comes up to join her. He's smart enough to have figured out that she would have come here if she hadn't got the job. She apologizes to him that she won't be able to live near him for now. He offers her a piggy back ride.
Chang Hee takes her to a Japanese restaurant where he already arranged to meet his dad at. Gi Cheol is surprised to see his son with an unknown woman. He's even more surprised when Chang Hee announces this is the woman he intends to marry. Hae Joo introduces herself, reminding Gi Cheol she's the girl who used to live near the pear orchard. Oh, Gi Cheol knows who you are, alright. He storms out of the room.
Hae Joo fusses at Chang Hee for handling this all wrong. He should have at least warned her so she could prepare. Chang Hee fusses back that she's had plenty of time to prepare and he's tired of waiting for her. He goes on to make me love him more when he says what we're all thinking: she needs to stop taking care of those losers she calls a family and put herself and her own happiness first. (He doesn't use those exact words but his meaning is the same.)
Damnit, just when he declares his love for Hae Joo, that old fussbudget Gi Cheol ruins the moment by coming back and dragging Chang Hee out of the room. Hae Joo follows and tries to apologize for how all this was sprung on him. Gi Cheol yells at her that she creeps him out and to get out of his sight. With a shocked look on her face, Hae Joo makes a quick exit. Chang Hee starts to go after her but is stopped by his father.
Back at their home, Chang Hee reveals how he's secretly been seeing Hae Joo for the past fifteen years. Gi Cheol tries to lay a guilt trip, bringing up all the beatings and humiliations he's endured over the years just to get Chang Hee to this point of being able to marry In Hwa. (I still see no sign of anyone asking In Hwa what she wants.) Chang Hee says he's plotted revenge on Il Mun and Do Hyun more than Gi Cheol, but he also wants to be happy and only Hae Joo can make him happy. Awww. Gi Cheol gives his son two options: kill his dad or marry In Hwa. Many of us hope Chang Hee would opt for killing Gi Cheol, but of course that's not going to happen.
Il Mun is in his dad's office where Do Hyun has just been briefed about Ryan Kang's true identity. Speak of the devil, here comes Kang San in now. He's still smirking. Do Hyun asks if the reason Kang San has been so picky with the shipbuilding process is because of the old grudge over Do Hyun stealing the family company. Kang San claims to be just another employee of Noble (the company having the ship built) and doesn't have that kind of power.
Kang San returns to Cheonji's main offices and asks if some reports are done yet and is told the company is still interviewing for the position of the person who would get the stuff done. This makes him flashback to Hae Joo and he asks the woman (who was on the interview board) if the girl didn't get the job because of him. The woman assures him it was because the candidate, Chun Hae Joo, didn't have enough education. Finally Kang San learns who the grown up Hae Joo is.
Hae Joo returns to Geoje (I just learned the town's name where she and her family live) and to the little roadside restaurant that her mother runs. She tells Dal Soon about not getting the job. Idiot Sang Tae is at a table drinking with some friends and starts acting like the fool he is, announcing he quit his job that morning and is planning to run his own business. Hae Joo points out he has no money to start a business with. Sang Tae gets angry about being embarrassed in front of his friends. The other two men, sensing the tension in the air, are smart enough to plan on leaving. Hae Joo insists they pay their bar tab (which is pretty high, IMO, for a roadside stand.) Sang Tae tells his friends to forget paying but Hae Joo intimidates them into paying.
She goes back to the house to change clothes. Sang Tae follows her. He tries to start something. Hae Joo finishes it for him. Dal Soon comes in to break them up and she takes up for her idiot son. Sang Tae kicks the dinner table over. Hae Joo kicks his ass. Everyone is screaming and screeching. (This is what you call White Trash. Chang Hee, are you sure you want to get involved in this?) Hae Joo goes to her room to cry and talk to her father's picture. Baby sister Jin Joo comes in to comfort her.
Lee Bong Hee is dressed to the nines (and about to bust out of that dress) as she waits for Yoon Jeong Woo at In Hwa's restaurant. When he finally arrives, he's more interested in getting something to eat than looking at her killer shoes. In Hwa waits on them so she can glare at her aunt for wearing such a revealing outfit. Bong Hee flirts outrageously, then goes on to order the most expensive items on the menu. In Hwa continues to spy on the couple and calls her mother to give updates. Jeong Woo just wants to talk business. A frustrated Bong Hee throws a spoon at his head before storming out.
A moody Il Mun returns home and Geum Hee asks that they have a talk. She asks him how long he's known she wasn't his birth mother. (Ah, so it was a secret. My question is why? Why did they feel the need to lie to the kids in the first place?) She begs him not to tell In Hwa, at least not yet. Il Moody replies he sees no reason for his sister to hurt like he has. As he starts to leave Geum Hee cries out that no matter what anyone says he's still her son.
As Hae Joo washes the dishes at the restaurant she flashes back to Chang Hee's declaration of love and Gi Cheol's declaration of creeps. She silently cries. Dal Soon sees the tears and mistakenly thinks Hae Joo is crying about the fight earlier. Chang Hee tries to call Hae Joo but she refuses to answer the phone.
It's a new day and Hae Joo has quickly recovered her perkiness. As she goes outside to get on her motorcycle she's approached by a man in a suit. He claims to be from Cheonji Shipbuilding and asks her to get into his car. Hae Joo, who apparently never learned Stranger Danger, jumps right in. He drives her to a boat dock and directs her to get on board a yacht. Again she does just what he says with no questions asked.
Waiting on the boat is breakfast, as well as Kang San. She still doesn't know who he is other than the jerk from the club. He tells Hae Joo he's giving her another chance at a job interview. He asks a couple of business questions, then veres off into more personal history. Like, when she was younger was there anyone she had a crush on? Hae Joo answers there was one person. Kang San gets all excited and asks if she's seeing anyone now. If not, perhaps she'd like to see him. Hae Joo throws a glass of wine in his face and calls him a pervert. She gets off the boat with Kang San hot on her heels. He grabs her arm and tries to stop her. Hae Joo does a high kick to his head and knocks Kang San into the water.
As she heads back to terra firma she receives a phone call from Cheonji Shipbuilding. The woman asks Hae Joo if she got the message about meeting Shipbuilding Superintendent Ryan Kang so she can accept a job. Hae Joo goes running back, calling out for "Ryan Kang." Kang San, still in the water, acts like he can't swim. Hae Joo holds out her hand to him. He grabs it and pulls her into the water. She eventually gets him back up on the dock. He pretends to be unconscious so she'll give him mouth to mouth. When she realizes he's been fooling her, Hae Joo draws back her fist and is ready to pummel him. Kang San sees he had better reveal who he is.
Grandpa Kang Dae Pyung is down by the docks getting drunk when he's visited by Jang Do Hyun. Do Hyun congratulates his old enemy on having Kang San grow up to be such a fine young man. However, he warns Grandpa to not allow Kang San to do anything that would put his life in danger, so to speak.
Kang San wonders why Do Hyun is so eager to get into the oil drilling business. After all, the bastard is already rich and successful from shipbuilding. Why get into something so risky with very little chance of success?
Hae Joo is at the Ulsan light house enjoying the view. (Is that the same place where Do Hyun dangled little Chang Hee over the edge?) Speaking of Chang Hee, he must be taking tracking lessons from In Hwa as he finds Hae Joo right away. He claims his father feels awful for what was said but she knows Chang Hee is lying. She wonders if perhaps they should take a break. (No! Don't take a break. Didn't you learn anything from Friends?) Thankfully Chang Hee shoots down that idea.
Time to bring the mood back up. Hae Joo tells him the good news that she's gotten a job at Cheonji, all thanks to Kang San. Problem is she's supposed to start tomorrow and needs to find a place right away. Chang Hee takes her to ... a dump, if you ask me. No, he takes her to his boss's house. Remember, his boss is Yoon Jeong Woo who is renting out some rooms. While I was hoping she was going to leave all those mill stones behind, looks like Jeong Woo is quite willing to take the entire family in. That is such a bad idea, Jeong Woo. Bad.
Chang Hee returns home to a pouting father. (Seriously, Gi Cheol is hunkered up in bed, lower lip stuck out, giving Chang Hee the Silent Treatment. Did Gi Cheol suddenly turn into a fourteen-year-old girl?)
The next morning a hungover Bong Hee stumbles back home just as sister Geum Hee is fixing to leave. In passing Bong Hee mentions In Hwa's old friend, Hae Joo, is going to be renting rooms at Jeong Woo's place, as well as work for them in the shipbuilding division. Geum Hee appears startled. So is Gi Cheol, who just happened to be standing nearby. Geum Hee gets into her car and urges her driver to quickly get to the office. Gi Cheol also runs to hop into his car and races down the road but he gets caught at a red light. Geum Hee makes it to the office first and finds Hae Joo in the ladies room. The cut of Hae Joo's blouse allows Geum Hee to see the burn scar on the back of the young girl's neck. (Yeah, the same burn scar you saw before and didn't recognize. But anyway...)
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