It's raining cats and dogs as a tight-lipped In Hwa (played by Kim Hye Ok) drives down the road. In the back seat is a sleepy little girl. Suddenly, for reasons I don't know, In Hwa does a Kdrama U-turn. It looks like she's racing (dangerously) to catch up to another car driven by Ok Soo (played by Yang Mi Kyung). In Hwa, perhaps accidentally, perhaps on purpose, causes Ok Soo's car to crash and flip.
In Hwa stops her car to go check out her handiwork. Her daughter, Eun Bi, looks out to see Ok Soo's husband appears to be dead. Panicking, the girl gets out of the car and starts running down the road. In Hwa gets back into her car and starts to drive off - without her daughter.
WTF is going on?
Cut from that weird scene to another weird scene. I take it this happens before the car crash. Eun Bi peeps into a room where In Hwa and Ok Soo, along with some other women, are packing up the king and queen's wedding clothes which are going to be exhibited at a museum. In Hwa and Ok Soo are the daughters-in-law of Kim Soo Mi, the woman in charge of the clothes. (Or is she Park Soo Mi? Dramawiki and Viki are giving me two different names. As if this show didn't confuse me enough.)
Soo Mi announces she'll be choosing her successor soon through a series of contests.
Eun Bi wants her mother to come to her school for a function but In Hwa needs to accompany the royal wedding clothes to the museum. Eun Bi's dad, Soo Bong (played by Ahn Nae Sang), also complains about his wife not doing enough with their daughter.
Elsewhere, a young boy tearfully sniffs his dead mother's clothes. Lee Jae Hwa's stern father, Lee Dong Hoo (played by Han Jin Hee) jerks the clothing away and orders the boy to buck up and be a man. Furthermore, Dong Hoo orders his dead wife's closet to be cleaned out. He doesn't want any reminders of her in the house.
At school, Eun Bi is heartbroken that her mother didn't come to the program.
Then there's some kind of drama with Soo Mi and some broken scissors and an attempt on Soo Bong's life. I don't know what's going on but I think Soo Mi is just now beginning to realize that In Hwa is a total B. Soo Mi and Ok Soo go to the museum so the elderly woman can publicly shame In Hwa. I'm fast losing interest here.
Eun Bi is still moping over Mom not being at school. Her dad (who was there but doesn't get any credit for it) offers to get his daughter some Jjajangmyeon. Eun Bi is immediately cheered up by the thought of food and rushes home. Outside her house is that crybaby Jae Hwa. He and his late mother used to come here to visit Ok Soo. Eun Bi catches the boy crying and tries to invite him in for some noodles. Jae Hwa tries to get away from her and ends up stepping out in front of the delivery guy's bike. Delivery guy crashes and the precious Jjajangmyeon is spilled all over the street. Now its Eun Bi's turn to cry.
Soo Bong gets the chance to be a director at an art center in California.
Ok Soo's husband, Hee Bong, works for stern Dong Hoo. Apparently widower Dong Hoo has already moved on and has a thing going on with a woman down at the hair salon. Hee Bong tries to get his boss to tell Jae Hwa about the other woman. Dong Hoo tells Hee Bong to mind his own business. This "thing" may have been going on long before Dong Hoo's wife died as it appears he has a son, Jae Hee, by the other woman.
Young Jae Hee has problems of his own. He's being bullied by the other kids, plus he has a yellow streak in his hair. His mother, Hwa Yun (played by Geum Bo Ra) looks to be mighty pregnant again. That doesn't stop her from pulling some other woman's hair out in a cat fight.
Elsewhere still, a little girl named Yun Min Jung is trying to pass off a fancy house as her own. She's undone when her foul mouthed mother who works as a maid in the house blows the deception to Min Jung's schoolmates.
Soo Bong wants to move his family to America. In Hwa doesn't want to give up her chance to become Soo Mi's successor.
The first competition involves In Hwa and Ok Soo making hanboks for each other. After pulling an all nighter, Ok Soo goes to bed. In Hwa sneaks in to steal Ok Soo's work and throws it on the fire. Soo Bong witnesses what his wife is doing.
Jae Hee and Hwa Yun come to live at the big house with Dong Hoo. This little arrangement doesn't set well with Jae Hwa.
It's shows like this (not just in Korea, but here in the States) that make me wonder: if this is what made it to the screen, how bad are the ones that get turned down? Because this was pretty bad.
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