Housework is like a Hydra. You get one job done only to have two more pop up it's place.
Hae Joo is trying to deal with the wailing morons she calls her family when suddenly Bong Hee appears. (You may be tempted at this point to ask, "How did Bong Hee know where to find the family sheltering in the underpass?" Bong Hee explains herself that she saw the handcart up on the bridge. "But how did she know the handcart belonged to Hae Joo's family? How did she know what direction they had taken when leaving town?" Stop asking logical questions! She's there, she found the family, let it go.)
Bong Hee takes the clan back to the big house where she shames big sister Geum Hee into helping them because it's Do Hyun's fault that they're homeless. Pregnant Bitch Mom has transformed into Whiny Useless Mom. Neither Geum Hee, nor especially Gi Cheol, are pleased to have them there. Chang Hee speaks up and offers his and Gi Cheol's house which Whiny Useless Mom immediately accepts. Gi Cheol is so not happy now.
Grandpa Kang is arrested for all the trumped up charges from last episode.
Geum Hee storms down to her husband's office and demands he do something to get Jeong Woo out of jail. Oh, and while he's at it, Do Hyun needs to get Hae Joo's family a house. Geum Hee wants rid of them.
Hae Joo is trying to hang up some laundry but the line is a bit high for her. Enter taller Chang Hee who offers to help. They grab a sheet and are violently shaking it out when Chang Hee pulls too hard on his end, making Hae Joo stumble forward... into his arms. There's just a brief moment of Chang Hee holding her when everything is ruined by the arrival of bastard-in-training Il Mun. He starts picking on them both but mostly on Chang Hee. Hae Joo grabs a nearby broom and starts whacking Il Mun with it. (Go, Hae Joo, go!) Unfortunately this is the moment when Geum Hee gets home. She harasses Hae Joo for daring to strike her son with a broom. Feelings get worse when Geum Hee asks where the nice dress is she gave the girl. Hae Joo admits she had to sell the garment, although Geum Hee doesn't give her time to explain it was sold in order to buy food.
Later in bed Whiny Useless Mom is sighing and sighing. Hae Joo rolls over and says she'll quit school if she has to and get a job so the younger kids won't starve. Whiny Useless Mom tells the girl not to quit school as she'll never get a decent job if she doesn't graduate. Hae Joo rolls back the other way to go to sleep. Mom reaches out a hand and almost... almost... touches Hae Joo's hair in a loving gesture. She stops herself just before making contact.
The next morning Bong Hee waits outside the police station as Jeong Woo is released. She literally jumps on him she's so happy. He's embarrassed. I've learned that in Korea it's tradition to feed tofu to someone who has gotten out of jail. Bong Hee presents him with a huge brick of the stuff. He balks at it, claiming he was in for just one day. She shoves the tofu into his face, forcing him to eat some. He grabs a piece off of the brick and shoves it into her mouth.
Grandpa Kang tries to call in favors from all his powerful "friends", but suddenly nobody knows him. Acknowledging that he's been beaten, Dae Pyung offers to give up the pear orchard to Do Hyun. The cops just slap him around a bit. This has gone beyond the pear orchard. Dae Pyung could be looking at 10 years in the slammer. Think about his grandson. If the old man wants to get out, he'll have to give up the shipyard.
After being released from the station, Dae Pyung tells his grandson to go to the States, work hard to get a doctorate, and then come back home and take back everything the family has lost today. Kang San quickly figures out it was Jang Do Hyun who was behind their troubles. San swears to take the shipyard and more away from the bastard.
San goes up to the big house to see Hae Joo and encounters Il Mun first. Il Mun is his usual self (a dick) and taunts San about the recent arrest of Dae Pyung. San gets one good punch in and is about to deliver another when he's stopped by Hae Joo. (Boo, Hae Joo. Let the boy finish!) San pulls her aside and tells her how he's leaving for the U.S. As a parting gift he gives her a model of a drilling ship, supposedly the most expensive ship in the world. He says since she loves ships and is so good at welding she should strive to make this ship one day.
Hae Joo worries that San gave her a present yet she has nothing to give him. He reaches up and removes her ever-present hair band. She still worries that this will not be enough, so San pulls her in for an embrace. Naturally this is when Chang Hee walks by. San tells his friend about leaving for another country. As a last bit of advice, San tells Chang Hee to get out of the big house. It doesn't have to be now, but as soon as he can. Because when Kang San comes back he's going to make war on everyone in the big house.
Kang Dae Pyung signs over his company to Do Hyun. He goes to look one last time at the company he built up from the ground and breaks down crying. Naturally this is when Kang San walks up.
Kang San is at the train station when In Hwa comes running through the door. They have a brief goodbye with San wishing she grows up well and meets a nice guy.
Hae Joo is doing chores around the big house to earn her family's keep. She's cleaning in Do Hyun's study, which is full of model ships and books on shipbuilding. She recognizes one of the models as a drilling ship, like the one Kang San gave her. Do Hyun walks in and asks what she's doing in here. They end up talking about shipbuilding and such and Do Hyun is almost nice. Not enough to make you forget he murdered her father, but still nice.
In Hwa has given Hae Joo some of her old clothes and is making Hae Joo model in the living room. Do Hyun comes in to have a gentle laugh at the girls. In Hwa goes to pull Hae Joo's hair up. Unlike Geum Hee, Do Hyun recognizes the burn scar on Hae Joo's neck right away. He goes outside and runs into Whiny Useless Mom. (I really need to use her character's name - Jo Dal Soon.) Do Hyun asks her if Hae Joo is not her biological daughter. Was the girl adopted? For once Dal Soon does something right and emphatically insists she gave birth to Hae Joo. Gi Cheol, who was standing nearby and quaking in his shoes, breathes a sigh of relief.
He doesn't have much time to feel relief. Do Hyun pulls him aside and orders Gi Cheol to get rid of this family by tonight. Gi Cheol goes back to his house and pulls out the piece of paper with the loan shark's number on it. Ah, and he also pulls out the wad of money he said he had given Hong Chul. He makes a phone call to the loan shark.
That evening the thugs arrive and start to harass Hae Joo and her family. Chang Hee tries to call the police when the much bigger men throw him to the floor. Gi Cheol comes in and makes like he's the hero, willing to pay off the family's large debt. In return the family must leave and go back to where they came from originally and never come back to Ulsan.
Another truck is called in and the family is packed up and hauled off. They left a box of stuff behind and the maid is trudging around with it when Do Hyun and Geum Hee come home. As the couple pass by, Geum Hee spies the yellow baby top in the box and recognizes it as the homemade top she made for her daughter, Yoo Jin. She has Gi Cheol called up to the house and asks how that family had her daughter's top. Could Yoo Jin have survived? Was Hae Joo actually her daughter? Both Gi Cheol and Do Hyun try to convince Geum Hee that she's wrong and that Hae Joo is Dal Soon's biological daughter. Geum Hee still wants to know why the family would have her child's clothing. Do Hyun orders Gi Cheol to go to Hae Nam (where the family is returning to) and find out the answer. Geum Hee insists on going as well.
Panicking (like he usually does), Gi Cheol stumbles back to his house and calls the loan shark, telling him to make sure the family doesn't show up in Hae Nam. The thugs intercept the poor family and lock them up in an abandoned building. The thugs leave for awhile and the womenfolk get to work on escaping (because Sang Tae is an idiot). Thanks to little Young Joo they get the door open and get out. Alas, the thugs are coming back. The family ducks behind the building as the bad guys discover the door is open. Hae Joo overhears the men and how they just want her. Just like her biological dad, Hae Joo runs off to lead the villains away from her family.
Geum Hee is desperately combing Hae Nam for any sign of Hae Joo or her family. The clan make it to the bus terminal, the place Hae Joo said they would meet, but there's no sign of her.
The bad guys have caught Hae Joo and start to put her on a small boat when she manages to escape from them once again. They're in hot pursuit, though, and corner her on the edge of a cliff next to the sea. Hae Joo chooses to jump.
The next episode is when we do a time jump and the adult actors take over the roles. I'm going to miss the wonderful kid actors we've had so far.
Bong Hee takes the clan back to the big house where she shames big sister Geum Hee into helping them because it's Do Hyun's fault that they're homeless. Pregnant Bitch Mom has transformed into Whiny Useless Mom. Neither Geum Hee, nor especially Gi Cheol, are pleased to have them there. Chang Hee speaks up and offers his and Gi Cheol's house which Whiny Useless Mom immediately accepts. Gi Cheol is so not happy now.
Grandpa Kang is arrested for all the trumped up charges from last episode.
Geum Hee storms down to her husband's office and demands he do something to get Jeong Woo out of jail. Oh, and while he's at it, Do Hyun needs to get Hae Joo's family a house. Geum Hee wants rid of them.
Hae Joo is trying to hang up some laundry but the line is a bit high for her. Enter taller Chang Hee who offers to help. They grab a sheet and are violently shaking it out when Chang Hee pulls too hard on his end, making Hae Joo stumble forward... into his arms. There's just a brief moment of Chang Hee holding her when everything is ruined by the arrival of bastard-in-training Il Mun. He starts picking on them both but mostly on Chang Hee. Hae Joo grabs a nearby broom and starts whacking Il Mun with it. (Go, Hae Joo, go!) Unfortunately this is the moment when Geum Hee gets home. She harasses Hae Joo for daring to strike her son with a broom. Feelings get worse when Geum Hee asks where the nice dress is she gave the girl. Hae Joo admits she had to sell the garment, although Geum Hee doesn't give her time to explain it was sold in order to buy food.
Later in bed Whiny Useless Mom is sighing and sighing. Hae Joo rolls over and says she'll quit school if she has to and get a job so the younger kids won't starve. Whiny Useless Mom tells the girl not to quit school as she'll never get a decent job if she doesn't graduate. Hae Joo rolls back the other way to go to sleep. Mom reaches out a hand and almost... almost... touches Hae Joo's hair in a loving gesture. She stops herself just before making contact.
The next morning Bong Hee waits outside the police station as Jeong Woo is released. She literally jumps on him she's so happy. He's embarrassed. I've learned that in Korea it's tradition to feed tofu to someone who has gotten out of jail. Bong Hee presents him with a huge brick of the stuff. He balks at it, claiming he was in for just one day. She shoves the tofu into his face, forcing him to eat some. He grabs a piece off of the brick and shoves it into her mouth.
Grandpa Kang tries to call in favors from all his powerful "friends", but suddenly nobody knows him. Acknowledging that he's been beaten, Dae Pyung offers to give up the pear orchard to Do Hyun. The cops just slap him around a bit. This has gone beyond the pear orchard. Dae Pyung could be looking at 10 years in the slammer. Think about his grandson. If the old man wants to get out, he'll have to give up the shipyard.
After being released from the station, Dae Pyung tells his grandson to go to the States, work hard to get a doctorate, and then come back home and take back everything the family has lost today. Kang San quickly figures out it was Jang Do Hyun who was behind their troubles. San swears to take the shipyard and more away from the bastard.
San goes up to the big house to see Hae Joo and encounters Il Mun first. Il Mun is his usual self (a dick) and taunts San about the recent arrest of Dae Pyung. San gets one good punch in and is about to deliver another when he's stopped by Hae Joo. (Boo, Hae Joo. Let the boy finish!) San pulls her aside and tells her how he's leaving for the U.S. As a parting gift he gives her a model of a drilling ship, supposedly the most expensive ship in the world. He says since she loves ships and is so good at welding she should strive to make this ship one day.
Hae Joo worries that San gave her a present yet she has nothing to give him. He reaches up and removes her ever-present hair band. She still worries that this will not be enough, so San pulls her in for an embrace. Naturally this is when Chang Hee walks by. San tells his friend about leaving for another country. As a last bit of advice, San tells Chang Hee to get out of the big house. It doesn't have to be now, but as soon as he can. Because when Kang San comes back he's going to make war on everyone in the big house.
Kang Dae Pyung signs over his company to Do Hyun. He goes to look one last time at the company he built up from the ground and breaks down crying. Naturally this is when Kang San walks up.
Kang San is at the train station when In Hwa comes running through the door. They have a brief goodbye with San wishing she grows up well and meets a nice guy.
Hae Joo is doing chores around the big house to earn her family's keep. She's cleaning in Do Hyun's study, which is full of model ships and books on shipbuilding. She recognizes one of the models as a drilling ship, like the one Kang San gave her. Do Hyun walks in and asks what she's doing in here. They end up talking about shipbuilding and such and Do Hyun is almost nice. Not enough to make you forget he murdered her father, but still nice.
In Hwa has given Hae Joo some of her old clothes and is making Hae Joo model in the living room. Do Hyun comes in to have a gentle laugh at the girls. In Hwa goes to pull Hae Joo's hair up. Unlike Geum Hee, Do Hyun recognizes the burn scar on Hae Joo's neck right away. He goes outside and runs into Whiny Useless Mom. (I really need to use her character's name - Jo Dal Soon.) Do Hyun asks her if Hae Joo is not her biological daughter. Was the girl adopted? For once Dal Soon does something right and emphatically insists she gave birth to Hae Joo. Gi Cheol, who was standing nearby and quaking in his shoes, breathes a sigh of relief.
He doesn't have much time to feel relief. Do Hyun pulls him aside and orders Gi Cheol to get rid of this family by tonight. Gi Cheol goes back to his house and pulls out the piece of paper with the loan shark's number on it. Ah, and he also pulls out the wad of money he said he had given Hong Chul. He makes a phone call to the loan shark.
That evening the thugs arrive and start to harass Hae Joo and her family. Chang Hee tries to call the police when the much bigger men throw him to the floor. Gi Cheol comes in and makes like he's the hero, willing to pay off the family's large debt. In return the family must leave and go back to where they came from originally and never come back to Ulsan.
Another truck is called in and the family is packed up and hauled off. They left a box of stuff behind and the maid is trudging around with it when Do Hyun and Geum Hee come home. As the couple pass by, Geum Hee spies the yellow baby top in the box and recognizes it as the homemade top she made for her daughter, Yoo Jin. She has Gi Cheol called up to the house and asks how that family had her daughter's top. Could Yoo Jin have survived? Was Hae Joo actually her daughter? Both Gi Cheol and Do Hyun try to convince Geum Hee that she's wrong and that Hae Joo is Dal Soon's biological daughter. Geum Hee still wants to know why the family would have her child's clothing. Do Hyun orders Gi Cheol to go to Hae Nam (where the family is returning to) and find out the answer. Geum Hee insists on going as well.
Panicking (like he usually does), Gi Cheol stumbles back to his house and calls the loan shark, telling him to make sure the family doesn't show up in Hae Nam. The thugs intercept the poor family and lock them up in an abandoned building. The thugs leave for awhile and the womenfolk get to work on escaping (because Sang Tae is an idiot). Thanks to little Young Joo they get the door open and get out. Alas, the thugs are coming back. The family ducks behind the building as the bad guys discover the door is open. Hae Joo overhears the men and how they just want her. Just like her biological dad, Hae Joo runs off to lead the villains away from her family.
Geum Hee is desperately combing Hae Nam for any sign of Hae Joo or her family. The clan make it to the bus terminal, the place Hae Joo said they would meet, but there's no sign of her.
The bad guys have caught Hae Joo and start to put her on a small boat when she manages to escape from them once again. They're in hot pursuit, though, and corner her on the edge of a cliff next to the sea. Hae Joo chooses to jump.
The next episode is when we do a time jump and the adult actors take over the roles. I'm going to miss the wonderful kid actors we've had so far.
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