Soo Ae as Joo Da-hae. Chae Sang-woo as young Ha Ryu. Jung Yun-ho as Baek Do-hoon. Kim Sung-ryung as Baek Do-kyung. Go Joon-hee as Seok Soo-jung. Kwon Hyun-sang as Yang Taek-bae. Lee Deok-hwa as Baek Chang-hak.
Lee Jae-yoon as Joo Yang-hoon. He keeps the dice, but rejects her farewell gesture by running away, in tears. Years later, Ha Ryu comes to the aid of a young woman whose mother has just died.
He recognizes Da Hae right away despite not having seen her since they were children and is delighted, because he has always loved her. But something happens to challenge their life together. Her stepbrother, a shady character who is nonetheless devoted to her, warns her that her stepfather may come looking for her. She is terrified, and we see her past memories of being abused by that stepfather. However, despite her efforts to evade him, he does track her down.
She kills him not exactly in self defense, but certainly in self preservation. Ha Ryu discovers her with the knife in her hand, and he insists on covering up the crime by burying the body. Eventually that cover up will come back to haunt them.
They are both loving parents but Da Hae has a lot more ambitious goals than to be a wife and mother. She goes on an interview at the conglomerate owned by the wealthy Baek family. Despite losing a shoe on the way getting off the subway, New Yorkers like me can identify with the shoving crowd she encounters there and having to appear barefoot, she gets the job, working for the Baek heiress, Do Kyong Kim Syung Ryung. He was on the subway with her and managed to rescue her shoe. Since she has a long commute from her hometown, Ha Ryu agrees she should have an apartment closer to her work.
Coincidentally, Do Hoon has an apartment in the same building and the two soon begin secretly dating. Ha Ryu, proud of her success, is oblivious that she is drifting away from him and their life together, as she hopes to move on to bigger and better things.
The sister is terribly protective of Do Hoon, and we eventually find out why. Da Hae is devastated to lose her dream job, and confronts Do Kyong, who treats her like dirt, accusing her of being a gold-digger. Da Hae finds out that Do Hoon is being sent to America to study at the University of Pennsylvania, and convinces Ha Ryu to help her go study in the US, too, supposedly to position herself one day for a better job than the one she has just lost.
Although he had stopped working as a male entertainer, Ha Ryu humbles himself and goes back to that onerous work because it is the best place to make a lot of money. He finances her studies once again, having no idea of her relationship with Do Hoon. It takes a while for Ha Ryu to catch on, but once he realizes she has duped him and will leave him and their child behind, he is enraged.
He now wants them both to reveal their cover up of the death of her stepfather and take their punishment. The twin scenes, however, were well executed. There were also a few noticeable inconsistencies. I find it worth mentioning only because I had believed Do Hoon to be in possession of it, but it appeared with Da Hae a few scenes later. The soundtrack included a really nice instrumental electric guitar song, although tracking down the title was unattainable using the usual sources and a few unorthodox ones, as well!
YouTube had a limited selection and nothing is available on iTunes yet. The music was quite complimentary to the drama. In general, and this is not a fault of this drama in particular, SBS, KBS and other Korean broadcasting stations, while aware of their international appeal, do not appear to be interested in marketing to that populace.
When I found myself in tears when faced with her eminent demise I was honestly surprised and a little aghast! Yet I realized that Da Hae represented that seed of greed and envy that exists in all mankind, the small green monster kept tethered and tamed as best we can so as to appear as civilized human beings.
Da Hae cannot not be dismissed as a psychotic or an outlier in society, because it is far too easy to identify the many Da Haes around us. You are commenting using your WordPress. You are commenting using your Google account. You are commenting using your Twitter account. You are commenting using your Facebook account. Notify me of new comments via email. Notify me of new posts via email. Search Search for:. K-drama TV show about a young woman who becomes consumed by greed and ambition, and, the man who once loved her who's now determined to stop her and make her pay for her past sins.
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