For me, this episode's title "Partners" is really for Doosik and Juwon. It highlighted their differences and contrast in attitude, personality, abilities, and their way of fighting that complements both perfectly as a parnters/comrade. Even at their most trying times, they knew what to do to help each other. The Doosik-MIhyun scenes are only to show the viewers their last moments together but not the highlight of the episode.
Yeah and it's because of Doosik and Juwon's great chemistry, Mihyun got out of the situation and later Doosik and Minhyun lead a happy life at least for some years.
I’m laughing at Summer spending the whole episode fangirling over Doosik! Totally relatable! The actor was the first one casted for the drama. The writer specifically chose him because he wanted a REALLY cool-looking guy for the role. Perfectly casted of course!
Mihyun mentioned to huisoo in ep4 that they used to grow apples😊. Inside the elevator in this ep, the one beside doosik was the security guard at the school.
At the begining ep. Doosik talk to Juwon "Just like what we always do, I'll shoot above and you save on the ground". Doosik plan to how can Mihyun escape in this situation, he has great trust about his partner Juwon, so when he leave in basement of the shooting ground, he also mentioned "just like what we always do" to Juwon. how sophistcated and delicate scenario!!!
Shout-out to Summer who was the first reactor I've seen so far that made the connection between the fact the Beong-sok took so long to "calm down and stop crying" because he was overwhelmed by his super senses and hadn't ajusted to them yet. This is the kind of small detail the writer of the series uses that helps the storytelling to be so wholesome. I saw him explaining on an interview, for example, that because of her senses, Minhyun can be an excellent cook, but she choose to be just good enough so her restaurant can operate well enough to provide for her and her son without it becaming too popular, since she didn't want the attention. She only uses her power to cook great dishes when cooking for Beong-sok, not only because she loves him but also to help him gain weight. So on episode 4, when she cooked for Huisoo, that was her top notch cooking and on the episode that Frank eats there, even so that was her "regular flavor" dish, Frank still thought it was delicious. And that is a detail that is never talked about on the show and got completely overlooked by everybody watching it. I myself would never know about it if wasn't for that interview.
Jo in sung is amazing. I started watching it for him primarily, he doesn’t do dramas that often (I think he does movies more) so the moment I saw his name I jumped in, but boy what a show with spectacular performances from everyone!
Clarification on the "security guard." The security guard at the school is a former agent. He is the same guy in a suit who stops Guryongpo from entering the elevator when Doosik is "captured" and brought in. We can assume that he was assign to the school later on to keep an eye on things and report back to the agency, as he did when Frank showed up at school. If you remember from earlier episodes, he has video monitors in his little station at the school and was not fazed at all when he saw some of the things that went on with Huisoo and Bongsuk. In some ways, he is the "gatekeeper" who's responsible for keeping what goes on inside the school within the school. The security guard who appears in this episode (watching TV with others) is a completely different person. He was the security guard at the intelligence agency. The importance of that scene is that before people were able to upload video on the web and prevalence of social media, witnessing people "flying" or demonstrating other super powers could easily be dismissed as someone just embellishing a story. That would partly explain why some of the agency's secrets were easily kept as secrets.
Jo Insung (Kim Doosik actor) is 187 cm tall. One of the tallest actors in South Korea. He's also the first actor who got casted for this series (considering he only started to appear in ep 8), according to the series creator. He always pick great projects, his recent movies (Escape from Mogadishu and Smugglers) are major blockbusters in Korea and abroad. About the flight speed, he can catch up to a plane in ep 8.
The flying man Doonsik's name is Jo In Sung. Very well known actor in South Korea specially famous in women for being too handsome. Born on 28th July 1981 (42), height - 1.87m (almost 6'2). He mainly acts in movies but he accepted Moving script. Same goes for our hulk Juwon Huisoo's dad (Ryu Seung-ryong). He is a veteran actor and acted in many famous movies. He being 52 and doing so many action scenes is really appreciable. You can check his movie 'Miracle in cell no-7' where he acted mentally impaired person who got falsely accused. This movie was 5th all time high grosser in S.Korea and became famous internationally too.
Any man that age (52) deserves my respect for all of the rough and tumble stunts and fight scenes. I'll be sure to research his other project Miracle in cell no-7 And yes Jo In-Sung commands attention with his presence alone.
Wth ? I didn't know the hulk was from, miracle in cell no. 7, he made me shed an ocean the night before my exam, my friend fooled me saying it was a feel good movie , but still it was a masterpiece I don't regret watching
@@ahgacababeumetiny-Lshawol Yeah I also cried a lot. You can watch his movie 'Extreme Job'. Its a comedy movie and very recent (2019) which revived his career in movies.
Nobody in my real life is interested in K dramas so watching your reactions and listening to the commentary afterwards feels like watching and discussing the episode with friends. Next week is another bittersweet one. Keep tissues with you.
I can totally relate to Summer’s fan girling over Doo Shik. I started watching this drama for those two actors (Doo Shik and Mihyun characters) Jo In Sung and Han Hyo Joo and I was excited when I heard they’d be a couple coz the two of them had always showcased amazing chemistry with their costars in their previous projects and boy didn’t they deliver in this too! I anyway fell in love with the drama after watching the first 7 episodes in one go so it wasn’t like I had to wait for their episodes to be released to even get hooked up to the drama but insane chemistry between the two actors
Doosik is almost 6' 2. He doesn't seem that tall next to Mi Hyun because she herself is 5' 8. But it's really apparent when he's next to Juwon, who is 5' 9. Even though he's technically 1 inch taller than the actress, since our brains are already so comfortable with a male-female height difference, a man standing 5 inches over another man really makes the former look taller than the latter.
Another great episode of the parents' stage of story. I believe that both Kim Doo-sik and Jang Ju-won were loyal agents who truly believed in their mission, in protecting their Nation and their people from the threat of external enemies (as we see in their missions abroad that they carried out with enthusiasm and conviction). If they had had a boss who was less abusive and more interested in legitimate national interests than in his sinister and dangerous political agenda, everything would have been very different. Kim Doo-sik threw director Min Yong-jun into the gardens of the Blue House, the South Korean version of the White House and until recently the official residence of the South Korean Presidents, and with that act he managed to get the Administration of the President in power will pose questions to the intelligence services and end up reorganizing them to end the barbaric era, as Lee Mi-hyun says. Even with his defection, Kim Doo-sik did the Nation a service by him. The relationship between Kim Doo-sik and Lee Mi-hyun is another beautiful and touching love story, like the one between Jang Ju-won and Hwang Ji-hee that we saw in the previous episode. In the case of Kim Doo-sik and Lee Mi-hyun, they were both lonely and seemingly cold people on the outside (even to the point of seeming insensitive) but deep down they both have warm hearts and a lot of love to give. Their relationship is very sweet and romantic in a particular way, and they are true soul mates. Watching them build their ideal family with their son was charming and fun, and it was very sad to see how their dream was destroyed, creating an uncertain destiny for them. Director Min Yong-jun once again proved to be a realistic villain, very human and not at all cartoony (like DC or Marvel villains). He is a corrupt officer who knows how to navigate the dark world of politics within the bureaucracy of the intelligence services to survive and achieve his objectives. A Machiavellian and opportunistic bureaucrat within a spy agency is a terrible enemy in real life, much more so than a mad scientist or an alien villain in an American comic. He waited for his opportunity for years, surely taking advantage of the changes in Administration with the different Presidents to make his triumphant return and consummate his revenge.
I appreciate the way the writers are slowly unveiling the lengths Min Yong-jun is willing to go to ensure his "evil" plan comes together. I will agree that there is a different perspective to this type of villainy. As compared to DC/Marvel. Marvel has dabbled with different types of storytelling that show the hero's journey and the villains' sympathetic purpose. But in those "experiments" it's a lot harder to come to same conclusion in 90-120 minutes than a 20 part series. That's the beautiful thing about having time to let a story breathe.
Totally agree with you. The long history of the series allows us to progressively discover the true nature of director Min Yong-jun and have a more complete vision of his motivations. When the character was introduced into the series, he seemed morally neutral. We could even come to believe that he could be one of the "good guys" because he had evidently been the boss of the parents when they were agents and was trying to prevent them from continuing to murder them. At that time, perhaps the only negative thing we could deduce was that he was an annoying and somewhat irritating boss, a bit of an idiot. But as the story progresses we have been shown in a wonderfully gradual and progressive way his villainous character. We can even deduce that he was an unscrupulous and ambitious guy who made a career in his youth in intelligence services that, at the time of the military dictatorship, had no moral or legal limits of any kind. The new democratic times are a great nuisance for someone like him who is used to doing anything, no matter how criminal, to achieve his objectives, and that and the immense power that managing the superhumans program gave him, led him to make terrible mistakes. But since he is a survivor he returned to the fray. That's why I say that he is a more human and real villain, like the ones we often see on TV news from anywhere in the world...@@cinemamosaic
14:00 no this guy was the security guard for the ANSP. The school security guard was the full fledged suit wearing ANSP agent who brought Doosik in from the elevator, and was also ordering the other agents not to shoot once Doosik held Min hostage.
Welcome to the rabbithole of actor Jo Insoon..where he is full of coolness and charms despite of his age.. the good thing is... he is still a BACHELOR..
In the posts I wrote under the videos of the previous episodes, I defined the Korean secret services with the wording NIS (National Intelligence Service) to simplify which entity I was referring to. Here we need to make a historical clarification: in the episodes set between 1987 and 1999, the NIS did not exist, or rather it was called ANSP (Agency for National Security Planning) which was the heir of the KCIA (Korea Central Intelligence Agency). Back when this agency was called ANSP, it was very different from the current NIS (I mean the real NIS, not the fictional one in this series) and was (forgive me for the oversimplification) an extension of the autocratic military governments that have followed since the war of Korea until the late 1980s. His power also extended to politics as well as foreign affairs and he was responsible for many crimes, including the torture and murder of political dissidents among other things... However, with the slow transformation of Korea, which began in that period to become a truly democratic nation with the election of Kim Young-sam, the first civilian president to hold that office for thirty years, the ANSP, in 1994, was significantly downsized and stripped of its political power to transform into a politically neutral agency. In the following year, its headquarters in Imun-dong, in Mount Namsan, was moved to Naegok-dong, south of Seoul after thirty-four years (I think because in the headquarters in Namsan they tortured and killed prisoners, so the change of headquarters was already an important signal of the direction in which they wanted to take the agency...). This fact is shown in the series, after Doo-sik's escape and Min Yong-jun's loss of rank, when Lee Mi-hyun was transferred to another agency and finally freed from Yong-jun's yoke. Furthermore, in case you hadn't understood, the reason why Mi-hyun worked for the ANSP was to receive free healthcare for her elderly father. However, it was only in 1999 that the ANSP changed its name to NIS (National Intelligence Service), also changing its statute and motto from "We work in the shadows to protect the sunlit land" (which, moreover, still stands out in an enormous painting in Min Yong-jun's current office, which he looks at with extreme nostalgia, which gives you a precise idea of how he misses that not-so-beautiful period of recent Korean history) to "Information is our power" to better underline a distance with the agency that was once corrupt and abusive of the people it was supposed to serve; this fact is glimpsed in a news program during this episode, when the former security guard who worked at the ANSP started telling how, when he worked there, he saw a flying man (this is also an answer to the fact that no one in the world, as well as many who work in the secret services, is aware of super humans). This also tells us what year the reunion between Mi-hyun and Doo-sik occurred, as it occurred in the same scene. In the series we understand, as Doo-sik underlines, that the operations he carried out for the ANSP were not authorized by the central government and we also understand the truth why leaders like Min Yong-jun had every interest in exacerbating tensions between the two Koreas: the greater the tension, the greater the military power in the country and consequently that of the ANSP which would have maintained its dominant role in the country. This is yet another example of how Kang Full has closely linked the story he wanted to tell with the recent real history of his country, in a synergy between fiction and reality. However, there must be no misunderstandings: the downsizing of the ANSP is not due to the fact that Doo-sik threw Min Yong-jun near the Blue House (the equivalent of the American White House), but for the historical reasons that I have summarized, badly, just above. In the fiction of the series, what Doo-sik caused was putting Yong-jun in a position that he could not explain to the government, which led to him being demoted and the suspension of all covert operations with supermen, of which the government almost certainly does not know of their existence, except key men. Still watching the episode, we glimpse yet another news program, which Doo-sik is watching, regarding the first summit between the two Koreas which took place between 13 and 15 June 2000 in Pyongyang; Doo-sik seems pleased by this, because that's what the ANSP has always tried to prevent. Yet another distant fuck you from Doo-sik to Min Yong-jun and the ANSP. It's a shame, however, that in the meantime Yong-jun has regained part of the power that he had lost... However, it was interesting to finally see Jincheon, Bongpyeong and Naju working as a team, even though in this case it was against Doo-sik, led by the sadistic Ma Sang-gu, who still doesn't forgive Doo-sik for what happened in 1992. Min Yong-jun's exclusion of Ju-won from that mission is quite evident: he doesn't trust him at this juncture having been his partner for years. The most interesting aspect, however, is that relating to our protagonists: the episode shows us in a few passages how Doo-sik and Ju-won are a perfect team, able to understand each other without having to explain themselves; "do as we always do" is the magic phrase that needs no elaboration, a tacit understanding of what one expects from the other. Definitely beautiful, great writing. We also notice one thing: Ju-won doesn't immediately remove from his arm the bullet that Doo-sik shot towards Mi-hyun and that Ju-won intercepted with his arm, thus causing a permanent scar on his arm; as Doo-sik said at the beginning of the episode: "won't you get a scar if you don't take it out right away?" and so he was and still is there, next to another bullet scar that the rude customer noticed; this seems to be a sort of reminder to Ju-won, a memory of his partner imagining that from that moment, whatever happened, he would never see him again. Here's more proof that Ju-won is a real badass, someone who is better at expressing himself with actions than words. Furthermore, we have now seen why Min Yong-jun has a dead right eye in the present, "Peter Falk style": he was injured by a rifle shot when Doo-sik attacks the officers present there. I find the scenes of Doo-sik and Mi-hyun's family life interesting: when he sees an apple and would like to pick it from the tree using flight, but he thinks about it several times before deciding to use the ladder, to respect the will to live , both, like normal people. Little curiosity: Mi-hyun says this phrase: "there is something called the 100 day miracle. Once they reach that period they calm down." This is a reference to Baek-il, or the hundredth day of a child's birth. To make a long story short: Korean history has been marked largely by great periods of famine and extreme poverty and this was reflected in the country's birth rate and the health of its youngest children. For this reason, unlike what one would expect, in Korea (more in the past than now, but it is still partly the case in certain areas) it was customary to celebrate the hundredth day of the child, rather than his birth, this is because due of the above conditions, in ancient times and until relatively recently, it was not unusual for newborn children to die shortly after birth due to the conditions mentioned above. So a certain amount of time was expected to pass, which traditionally became one hundred days, for the child to overcome the critical period and to be sure that he would grow up strong and healthy; this is why the child of a family was not celebrated before the hundred days or even presented to relatives and friends, for fear that he would not survive. This last part has partly remained in tradition, although obviously, in modern times, there no longer exists the danger that a child could die of starvation as in the past. Having said that, however, the one hundred day anniversary has become a common occasion for anything, a sort of unit of measurement to mark the success of everything, particularly in the field of love: in fact it is practically the norm that a couple, having reached their one hundred days, they usually celebrate them as if it were an anniversary, because it means that they have reached an important milestone and that there is hope that their story will continue beyond. So Mi-hyun's sentence is partly ironic and partly rooted in Korean culture. We also learn that it was Doo-sik's idea to open a donkatsu restaurant and this connects us to all the other clues scattered about why Mi-hyun has this place, with the purple roof etc... It was nice finally see the backstory of the dream/memory of Bong-seok flying high into the sky. Finally, as we see, Jo Rae-Hyuk, the principal of Jeongwon High School, had already tracked down Mi-hyun, Doo-sik and Bong-seok much earlier than we saw in the second episode, even finding them only when they escaped, when Doo-sik he sacrificed himself. It is now abundantly clear that the NIS has been keeping an eye on the children of their former super-human spies and is using the school as an "academy" to gather and develop super-powered people as future agents for the agency, as Jo Rae-Hyuk is not an ordinary person, but perhaps we should talk about this another time. Small clarification: the guard who worked at the ANSP is not the same senior guard who works at the Jeongwon school; the latter can be seen among the agents who escort Doo-sik to the meeting with Min Yong-jun (the one who prevents Ju-won from entering the elevator). It can be deduced, therefore, that the aforementioned security guard in the school is a trained NIS agent (that's why she always keeps an eye on what's going on).
Although it is a fairly well-founded history, it was explained as a history that leans towards the Communist Party or the left. After the Korean War on 6.25, Korea was in a situation where the subjugation of communist forces had no choice but to take a very long time. It's still not finished. In any case, eradicating the remnants of communism from this country requires a strong ruler, as is currently the case.
First let me say, I appreciate the detail of this comment. Thank you. I was also unaware of the hundred day tradition. Not to mention the history behind this tradition. The blending of this pseudo history, rooted in facts and fiction is a writers paradise. Reading your breakdown shows me exactly how much is missed if you’re not paying attention to the history books. You should seriously consider doing full breakdowns of the series yourself. You would be amazing at it.
Those three will be evident in the next episode with Guryongpo. 🙂 The school security guard is the senior agent in ANSP who took Kim Doo-sik to Min Yong-Joon after capturing him in the office.
brooo it is so so clear that summer is just IN LOVE with doosik!! because i also fell for my guy during these 2 episodes!!!!i was always like nahhh he is so cool omggggg!!!!!!!!!!😭😭😭😭🔥🔥🔥🔥❤🔥❤🔥
"If you gonna go hard, go hard in the paint!" Yep. I *knew* Summer--who made an *excellent* point about the baby's senses!--would be a "wreck" by this point! :) Binging these comments is an interesting experience. (I'm waiting for the 2024 White House Correspodents Dinner to start, and this is a fantastic way to move through the time.) Syntell, you chose your partners well for these reactions! As the Knight said to Indy, "You chose *wisely.* " :) THANKS for this!!!!
For sure it builds up a lot early in the episodes that now it starts to make sense and to some people it can be frustrating because this show kinda starts backwards with the children and and the issue with Frank hunting them but we don’t know who they really are or why this is happening and just when the battle seems to start in current time with n Korea saying they are going to go South Korea it takes us to the past to now get the backstory and tell us why we are where we are in current time.I like that we start with the younger generation to get that attachment with them because from the beginning we get the message of protecting your child and by the audience getting to know the children first we now care for them and then we go to the parents that we also fall in love with but now when we go back to current time we will want to protect these families because they have gone through a lot of hardships and they deserve happiness. This drama is one you can watch again and still find new things because at the beginning I know I was asking a lot of questions and not paying much attention to the small details and watching it again I notice some details in the background that make sense knowing the backstories.
@te-legram_Cinemamosaic0 I did not comment in that sense. I am Korean, and I easily recognized the school security guard as an agent from the National Security Agency. However, many Western reaction channels were unable to distinguish the school security guard's face. It seems surprising to me that Asians cannot easily recognize the faces of Westerners, and Westerners cannot easily recognize the faces of Asians. Of course, these days, everyone has become familiar with each other's media through RUclips, so it's becoming easier to get to know each other. I don't speak English, so I used Google Translate.
For me, this episode's title "Partners" is really for Doosik and Juwon. It highlighted their differences and contrast in attitude, personality, abilities, and their way of fighting that complements both perfectly as a parnters/comrade. Even at their most trying times, they knew what to do to help each other. The Doosik-MIhyun scenes are only to show the viewers their last moments together but not the highlight of the episode.
Yeah and it's because of Doosik and Juwon's great chemistry, Mihyun got out of the situation and later Doosik and Minhyun lead a happy life at least for some years.
I've been waiting to see how their chemistry would look on screen. This episode didn't disappoint.
@@cinemamosaicyou'll cry next episode promise I spoil you.
I’m laughing at Summer spending the whole episode fangirling over Doosik! Totally relatable! The actor was the first one casted for the drama. The writer specifically chose him because he wanted a REALLY cool-looking guy for the role. Perfectly casted of course!
He nailed the casting. This man is the complete package.
Mihyun mentioned to huisoo in ep4 that they used to grow apples😊.
Inside the elevator in this ep, the one beside doosik was the security guard at the school.
At the begining ep. Doosik talk to Juwon "Just like what we always do, I'll shoot above and you save on the ground". Doosik plan to how can Mihyun escape in this situation, he has great trust about his partner Juwon, so when he leave in basement of the shooting ground, he also mentioned "just like what we always do" to Juwon. how sophistcated and delicate scenario!!!
"Just like we always do" 🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾
I appreciate that line more thanks to your comment.
Shout-out to Summer who was the first reactor I've seen so far that made the connection between the fact the Beong-sok took so long to "calm down and stop crying" because he was overwhelmed by his super senses and hadn't ajusted to them yet. This is the kind of small detail the writer of the series uses that helps the storytelling to be so wholesome. I saw him explaining on an interview, for example, that because of her senses, Minhyun can be an excellent cook, but she choose to be just good enough so her restaurant can operate well enough to provide for her and her son without it becaming too popular, since she didn't want the attention. She only uses her power to cook great dishes when cooking for Beong-sok, not only because she loves him but also to help him gain weight.
So on episode 4, when she cooked for Huisoo, that was her top notch cooking and on the episode that Frank eats there, even so that was her "regular flavor" dish, Frank still thought it was delicious. And that is a detail that is never talked about on the show and got completely overlooked by everybody watching it. I myself would never know about it if wasn't for that interview.
Jo in sung is amazing. I started watching it for him primarily, he doesn’t do dramas that often (I think he does movies more) so the moment I saw his name I jumped in, but boy what a show with spectacular performances from everyone!
Clarification on the "security guard." The security guard at the school is a former agent. He is the same guy in a suit who stops Guryongpo from entering the elevator when Doosik is "captured" and brought in. We can assume that he was assign to the school later on to keep an eye on things and report back to the agency, as he did when Frank showed up at school. If you remember from earlier episodes, he has video monitors in his little station at the school and was not fazed at all when he saw some of the things that went on with Huisoo and Bongsuk. In some ways, he is the "gatekeeper" who's responsible for keeping what goes on inside the school within the school. The security guard who appears in this episode (watching TV with others) is a completely different person. He was the security guard at the intelligence agency. The importance of that scene is that before people were able to upload video on the web and prevalence of social media, witnessing people "flying" or demonstrating other super powers could easily be dismissed as someone just embellishing a story. That would partly explain why some of the agency's secrets were easily kept as secrets.
Excellent, excellent points.
I also like the idea of the security guard as a gatekeeper.
Great comment. 👍🏾
wow
Jo Insung (Kim Doosik actor) is 187 cm tall. One of the tallest actors in South Korea. He's also the first actor who got casted for this series (considering he only started to appear in ep 8), according to the series creator. He always pick great projects, his recent movies (Escape from Mogadishu and Smugglers) are major blockbusters in Korea and abroad.
About the flight speed, he can catch up to a plane in ep 8.
I'll be sure to look up the other projects he worked on. Thank you for the heads up.
Kim Doosik is not the tallest actor
That is Lee KiWoo - 193cm
Following Rowoon who is 192cm
@@Yasmine11011Bro, he wrote one of the tallest actor, not the tallest actor.
The flying man Doonsik's name is Jo In Sung. Very well known actor in South Korea specially famous in women for being too handsome. Born on 28th July 1981 (42), height - 1.87m (almost 6'2). He mainly acts in movies but he accepted Moving script. Same goes for our hulk Juwon Huisoo's dad (Ryu Seung-ryong). He is a veteran actor and acted in many famous movies. He being 52 and doing so many action scenes is really appreciable. You can check his movie 'Miracle in cell no-7' where he acted mentally impaired person who got falsely accused. This movie was 5th all time high grosser in S.Korea and became famous internationally too.
Considered really handsome by men too. Whenever he appeared in Korean reality shows, male celebrities are always in awe with his visuals
Any man that age (52) deserves my respect for all of the rough and tumble stunts and fight scenes.
I'll be sure to research his other project Miracle in cell no-7
And yes Jo In-Sung commands attention with his presence alone.
Wth ? I didn't know the hulk was from, miracle in cell no. 7, he made me shed an ocean the night before my exam, my friend fooled me saying it was a feel good movie , but still it was a masterpiece I don't regret watching
@@ahgacababeumetiny-Lshawol Yeah I also cried a lot. You can watch his movie 'Extreme Job'. Its a comedy movie and very recent (2019) which revived his career in movies.
He is like hyun bin in south korea both famous for how handsome they are @EvieFrye1995
Nobody in my real life is interested in K dramas so watching your reactions and listening to the commentary afterwards feels like watching and discussing the episode with friends. Next week is another bittersweet one. Keep tissues with you.
I can totally relate to Summer’s fan girling over Doo Shik. I started watching this drama for those two actors (Doo Shik and Mihyun characters) Jo In Sung and Han Hyo Joo and I was excited when I heard they’d be a couple coz the two of them had always showcased amazing chemistry with their costars in their previous projects and boy didn’t they deliver in this too! I anyway fell in love with the drama after watching the first 7 episodes in one go so it wasn’t like I had to wait for their episodes to be released to even get hooked up to the drama but insane chemistry between the two actors
Their scenes together is much watch TV. As you can tell, we are all smitten.
Security guard of the school is the one who didn't let juwon in the elevator when dooshik was captured
5:31 The subtitles here is actually accurate "This issue here isn't about trust but about choice"
Doosik is almost 6' 2. He doesn't seem that tall next to Mi Hyun because she herself is 5' 8. But it's really apparent when he's next to Juwon, who is 5' 9. Even though he's technically 1 inch taller than the actress, since our brains are already so comfortable with a male-female height difference, a man standing 5 inches over another man really makes the former look taller than the latter.
Juwon's height is 1.75m (5.74147)
@@aileen84921.75 m is 68.89764 inches. 60 inches = 5 ft. I rounded up.
No he does seem that tall. He towers over everyone.
Another great episode of the parents' stage of story. I believe that both Kim Doo-sik and Jang Ju-won were loyal agents who truly believed in their mission, in protecting their Nation and their people from the threat of external enemies (as we see in their missions abroad that they carried out with enthusiasm and conviction). If they had had a boss who was less abusive and more interested in legitimate national interests than in his sinister and dangerous political agenda, everything would have been very different. Kim Doo-sik threw director Min Yong-jun into the gardens of the Blue House, the South Korean version of the White House and until recently the official residence of the South Korean Presidents, and with that act he managed to get the Administration of the President in power will pose questions to the intelligence services and end up reorganizing them to end the barbaric era, as Lee Mi-hyun says. Even with his defection, Kim Doo-sik did the Nation a service by him.
The relationship between Kim Doo-sik and Lee Mi-hyun is another beautiful and touching love story, like the one between Jang Ju-won and Hwang Ji-hee that we saw in the previous episode. In the case of Kim Doo-sik and Lee Mi-hyun, they were both lonely and seemingly cold people on the outside (even to the point of seeming insensitive) but deep down they both have warm hearts and a lot of love to give. Their relationship is very sweet and romantic in a particular way, and they are true soul mates. Watching them build their ideal family with their son was charming and fun, and it was very sad to see how their dream was destroyed, creating an uncertain destiny for them.
Director Min Yong-jun once again proved to be a realistic villain, very human and not at all cartoony (like DC or Marvel villains). He is a corrupt officer who knows how to navigate the dark world of politics within the bureaucracy of the intelligence services to survive and achieve his objectives. A Machiavellian and opportunistic bureaucrat within a spy agency is a terrible enemy in real life, much more so than a mad scientist or an alien villain in an American comic. He waited for his opportunity for years, surely taking advantage of the changes in Administration with the different Presidents to make his triumphant return and consummate his revenge.
I appreciate the way the writers are slowly unveiling the lengths Min Yong-jun is willing to go to ensure his "evil" plan comes together.
I will agree that there is a different perspective to this type of villainy. As compared to DC/Marvel.
Marvel has dabbled with different types of storytelling that show the hero's journey and the villains' sympathetic purpose. But in those "experiments" it's a lot harder to come to same conclusion in 90-120 minutes than a 20 part series.
That's the beautiful thing about having time to let a story breathe.
Totally agree with you. The long history of the series allows us to progressively discover the true nature of director Min Yong-jun and have a more complete vision of his motivations. When the character was introduced into the series, he seemed morally neutral. We could even come to believe that he could be one of the "good guys" because he had evidently been the boss of the parents when they were agents and was trying to prevent them from continuing to murder them. At that time, perhaps the only negative thing we could deduce was that he was an annoying and somewhat irritating boss, a bit of an idiot. But as the story progresses we have been shown in a wonderfully gradual and progressive way his villainous character. We can even deduce that he was an unscrupulous and ambitious guy who made a career in his youth in intelligence services that, at the time of the military dictatorship, had no moral or legal limits of any kind. The new democratic times are a great nuisance for someone like him who is used to doing anything, no matter how criminal, to achieve his objectives, and that and the immense power that managing the superhumans program gave him, led him to make terrible mistakes. But since he is a survivor he returned to the fray. That's why I say that he is a more human and real villain, like the ones we often see on TV news from anywhere in the world...@@cinemamosaic
i get u summer whatever doosik did i was just simping 😭😭😭
bong seok's school guard was in the elevator.
14:00 no this guy was the security guard for the ANSP. The school security guard was the full fledged suit wearing ANSP agent who brought Doosik in from the elevator, and was also ordering the other agents not to shoot once Doosik held Min hostage.
Welcome to the rabbithole of actor Jo Insoon..where he is full of coolness and charms despite of his age.. the good thing is... he is still a BACHELOR..
GET OUT!
He’s SINGLE??? Some please introduce me 😭
In the posts I wrote under the videos of the previous episodes, I defined the Korean secret services with the wording NIS (National Intelligence Service) to simplify which entity I was referring to. Here we need to make a historical clarification: in the episodes set between 1987 and 1999, the NIS did not exist, or rather it was called ANSP (Agency for National Security Planning) which was the heir of the KCIA (Korea Central Intelligence Agency). Back when this agency was called ANSP, it was very different from the current NIS (I mean the real NIS, not the fictional one in this series) and was (forgive me for the oversimplification) an extension of the autocratic military governments that have followed since the war of Korea until the late 1980s. His power also extended to politics as well as foreign affairs and he was responsible for many crimes, including the torture and murder of political dissidents among other things... However, with the slow transformation of Korea, which began in that period to become a truly democratic nation with the election of Kim Young-sam, the first civilian president to hold that office for thirty years, the ANSP, in 1994, was significantly downsized and stripped of its political power to transform into a politically neutral agency. In the following year, its headquarters in Imun-dong, in Mount Namsan, was moved to Naegok-dong, south of Seoul after thirty-four years (I think because in the headquarters in Namsan they tortured and killed prisoners, so the change of headquarters was already an important signal of the direction in which they wanted to take the agency...). This fact is shown in the series, after Doo-sik's escape and Min Yong-jun's loss of rank, when Lee Mi-hyun was transferred to another agency and finally freed from Yong-jun's yoke. Furthermore, in case you hadn't understood, the reason why Mi-hyun worked for the ANSP was to receive free healthcare for her elderly father. However, it was only in 1999 that the ANSP changed its name to NIS (National Intelligence Service), also changing its statute and motto from "We work in the shadows to protect the sunlit land" (which, moreover, still stands out in an enormous painting in Min Yong-jun's current office, which he looks at with extreme nostalgia, which gives you a precise idea of how he misses that not-so-beautiful period of recent Korean history) to "Information is our power" to better underline a distance with the agency that was once corrupt and abusive of the people it was supposed to serve; this fact is glimpsed in a news program during this episode, when the former security guard who worked at the ANSP started telling how, when he worked there, he saw a flying man (this is also an answer to the fact that no one in the world, as well as many who work in the secret services, is aware of super humans). This also tells us what year the reunion between Mi-hyun and Doo-sik occurred, as it occurred in the same scene. In the series we understand, as Doo-sik underlines, that the operations he carried out for the ANSP were not authorized by the central government and we also understand the truth why leaders like Min Yong-jun had every interest in exacerbating tensions between the two Koreas: the greater the tension, the greater the military power in the country and consequently that of the ANSP which would have maintained its dominant role in the country. This is yet another example of how Kang Full has closely linked the story he wanted to tell with the recent real history of his country, in a synergy between fiction and reality. However, there must be no misunderstandings: the downsizing of the ANSP is not due to the fact that Doo-sik threw Min Yong-jun near the Blue House (the equivalent of the American White House), but for the historical reasons that I have summarized, badly, just above. In the fiction of the series, what Doo-sik caused was putting Yong-jun in a position that he could not explain to the government, which led to him being demoted and the suspension of all covert operations with supermen, of which the government almost certainly does not know of their existence, except key men. Still watching the episode, we glimpse yet another news program, which Doo-sik is watching, regarding the first summit between the two Koreas which took place between 13 and 15 June 2000 in Pyongyang; Doo-sik seems pleased by this, because that's what the ANSP has always tried to prevent. Yet another distant fuck you from Doo-sik to Min Yong-jun and the ANSP. It's a shame, however, that in the meantime Yong-jun has regained part of the power that he had lost...
However, it was interesting to finally see Jincheon, Bongpyeong and Naju working as a team, even though in this case it was against Doo-sik, led by the sadistic Ma Sang-gu, who still doesn't forgive Doo-sik for what happened in 1992. Min Yong-jun's exclusion of Ju-won from that mission is quite evident: he doesn't trust him at this juncture having been his partner for years.
The most interesting aspect, however, is that relating to our protagonists: the episode shows us in a few passages how Doo-sik and Ju-won are a perfect team, able to understand each other without having to explain themselves; "do as we always do" is the magic phrase that needs no elaboration, a tacit understanding of what one expects from the other. Definitely beautiful, great writing. We also notice one thing: Ju-won doesn't immediately remove from his arm the bullet that Doo-sik shot towards Mi-hyun and that Ju-won intercepted with his arm, thus causing a permanent scar on his arm; as Doo-sik said at the beginning of the episode: "won't you get a scar if you don't take it out right away?" and so he was and still is there, next to another bullet scar that the rude customer noticed; this seems to be a sort of reminder to Ju-won, a memory of his partner imagining that from that moment, whatever happened, he would never see him again. Here's more proof that Ju-won is a real badass, someone who is better at expressing himself with actions than words.
Furthermore, we have now seen why Min Yong-jun has a dead right eye in the present, "Peter Falk style": he was injured by a rifle shot when Doo-sik attacks the officers present there.
I find the scenes of Doo-sik and Mi-hyun's family life interesting: when he sees an apple and would like to pick it from the tree using flight, but he thinks about it several times before deciding to use the ladder, to respect the will to live , both, like normal people.
Little curiosity: Mi-hyun says this phrase: "there is something called the 100 day miracle. Once they reach that period they calm down." This is a reference to Baek-il, or the hundredth day of a child's birth. To make a long story short: Korean history has been marked largely by great periods of famine and extreme poverty and this was reflected in the country's birth rate and the health of its youngest children. For this reason, unlike what one would expect, in Korea (more in the past than now, but it is still partly the case in certain areas) it was customary to celebrate the hundredth day of the child, rather than his birth, this is because due of the above conditions, in ancient times and until relatively recently, it was not unusual for newborn children to die shortly after birth due to the conditions mentioned above. So a certain amount of time was expected to pass, which traditionally became one hundred days, for the child to overcome the critical period and to be sure that he would grow up strong and healthy; this is why the child of a family was not celebrated before the hundred days or even presented to relatives and friends, for fear that he would not survive. This last part has partly remained in tradition, although obviously, in modern times, there no longer exists the danger that a child could die of starvation as in the past. Having said that, however, the one hundred day anniversary has become a common occasion for anything, a sort of unit of measurement to mark the success of everything, particularly in the field of love: in fact it is practically the norm that a couple, having reached their one hundred days, they usually celebrate them as if it were an anniversary, because it means that they have reached an important milestone and that there is hope that their story will continue beyond. So Mi-hyun's sentence is partly ironic and partly rooted in Korean culture. We also learn that it was Doo-sik's idea to open a donkatsu restaurant and this connects us to all the other clues scattered about why Mi-hyun has this place, with the purple roof etc... It was nice finally see the backstory of the dream/memory of Bong-seok flying high into the sky.
Finally, as we see, Jo Rae-Hyuk, the principal of Jeongwon High School, had already tracked down Mi-hyun, Doo-sik and Bong-seok much earlier than we saw in the second episode, even finding them only when they escaped, when Doo-sik he sacrificed himself. It is now abundantly clear that the NIS has been keeping an eye on the children of their former super-human spies and is using the school as an "academy" to gather and develop super-powered people as future agents for the agency, as Jo Rae-Hyuk is not an ordinary person, but perhaps we should talk about this another time.
Small clarification: the guard who worked at the ANSP is not the same senior guard who works at the Jeongwon school; the latter can be seen among the agents who escort Doo-sik to the meeting with Min Yong-jun (the one who prevents Ju-won from entering the elevator). It can be deduced, therefore, that the aforementioned security guard in the school is a trained NIS agent (that's why she always keeps an eye on what's going on).
OP I applaud the effort but man, I salute anyone who reads this wall of text.
거의 정확한 설명이네요. 한국인이신가?? Are you Korean?
No, I'm not Korean, but thank you, I tried my best.
Although it is a fairly well-founded history, it was explained as a history that leans towards the Communist Party or the left.
After the Korean War on 6.25, Korea was in a situation where the subjugation of communist forces had no choice but to take a very long time. It's still not finished. In any case, eradicating the remnants of communism from this country requires a strong ruler, as is currently the case.
First let me say, I appreciate the detail of this comment.
Thank you.
I was also unaware of the hundred day tradition. Not to mention the history behind this tradition.
The blending of this pseudo history, rooted in facts and fiction is a writers paradise.
Reading your breakdown shows me exactly how much is missed if you’re not paying attention to the history books.
You should seriously consider doing full breakdowns of the series yourself. You would be amazing at it.
Those three will be evident in the next episode with Guryongpo. 🙂 The school security guard is the senior agent in ANSP who took Kim Doo-sik to Min Yong-Joon after capturing him in the office.
6:01, 10:13 Did you recognize this guy from school? 😜
Doosik is such a bad ass. His power, mind, and thoughtfulness. He is the man!
14:05 nooo he's not the security guard at school, it's other man who escorted Doosik in the elevator (the one who stops Juwon from following Doosik)
brooo it is so so clear that summer is just IN LOVE with doosik!! because i also fell for my guy during these 2 episodes!!!!i was always like nahhh he is so cool omggggg!!!!!!!!!!😭😭😭😭🔥🔥🔥🔥❤🔥❤🔥
Zo In-sung is 6ft 2in.
Recomand: Extreme Job
"If you gonna go hard, go hard in the paint!" Yep. I *knew* Summer--who made an *excellent* point about the baby's senses!--would be a "wreck" by this point! :) Binging these comments is an interesting experience. (I'm waiting for the 2024 White House Correspodents Dinner to start, and this is a fantastic way to move through the time.) Syntell, you chose your partners well for these reactions! As the Knight said to Indy, "You chose *wisely.* " :) THANKS for this!!!!
19:32 you must have super vision and super memory
When you can, pls watch a classic movie from Juwon (the chicken dad) Miracle in Cell no. 7 👌👌👌
Extreme Job too.. 😊
News! Cha Tae Hyun (Bus driver), Jungha (Bongseok), and Jennie from Blackpink (+Yoo Jae Seuk)will do a reality show together. Release next year.
Unexpected business show?
@@aileen8492 no. Apartment 404
The school principal is a tracker that is why he has a thing with his nose
mi-hyeon is also tall. 172cm
Jo Insung is 187 cm tall, so around 6'2."
Just like what i always do. push the like button😊🎉❤
For sure it builds up a lot early in the episodes that now it starts to make sense and to some people it can be frustrating because this show kinda starts backwards with the children and and the issue with Frank hunting them but we don’t know who they really are or why this is happening and just when the battle seems to start in current time with n Korea saying they are going to go South Korea it takes us to the past to now get the backstory and tell us why we are where we are in current time.I like that we start with the younger generation to get that attachment with them because from the beginning we get the message of protecting your child and by the audience getting to know the children first we now care for them and then we go to the parents that we also fall in love with but now when we go back to current time we will want to protect these families because they have gone through a lot of hardships and they deserve happiness. This drama is one you can watch again and still find new things because at the beginning I know I was asking a lot of questions and not paying much attention to the small details and watching it again I notice some details in the background that make sense knowing the backstories.
14:00 ANSP security guard and school security guard are not the same person school security guard is a black ops agent of NIS(ANSP) 11:09
It's literally Zo in seong who wouldn't have crush on him 😂😂😂
Love jo insung from kdrama it's okay its love. It was my favorite episode I think
The part in apple orchard he just enjoyed being normal he could have floated up there but got a ladder
Me, too. I love the show. He did a great job of acting schizophrenic
끝까지 함께!!!😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃
감상평 재밌게 보고 갑니다. Syntell caught easter eggs well. I can't wait ep 13 reaction. Summer is so cute 💓 Doo-Sik's tall is 187cm , 6.15 feet.
이제 한발 남았다.
바로 13화 리액션!!13화는 리액션 영상 시간 2시간이여도 다 볼께요!!❤
잘 보고 갑니다 리액션 좋아요 😊😊😊
래혁은 항상 코를 킁킁거리며
추적하는 사람이고 현재시점으로 고등학교 교장이고 학교경비로 나오는 사람이 엘리베이터에서 두식이 체포되어 왔을때 주원을 막았던 요원입니다..
과수원에서 두식을 잡았던 헬멧을 썼던 리더가 미현이 망쳤던 작전의 리더맞구요~^^
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9:17 6.2ft ❤
next ep is very sad. it's time to cry 😂
Shut up!
Don't spoil that bro.
i can relate😭24:30
I wanna see both of you crying in next episode. ^^...b Are you guys ready fot it? haha...
you are so beautiful
다음편이 더 재밌습니다 진짜로 ㅋㅋㅋㅋ
Try not to cry for the next ep 😅 ep 13
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Why you skip that juwon part too much? bro!
So you can watch it with them in full on patron;)
여기도 아파트 경비와 학교 경비를 구분하지 못하는 구나. 학교 경비가 안기부 요원으로 등장할 때도 전혀 눈치 채지 못했네.
@te-legram_Cinemamosaic0 I did not comment in that sense. I am Korean, and I easily recognized the school security guard as an agent from the National Security Agency. However, many Western reaction channels were unable to distinguish the school security guard's face. It seems surprising to me that Asians cannot easily recognize the faces of Westerners, and Westerners cannot easily recognize the faces of Asians. Of course, these days, everyone has become familiar with each other's media through RUclips, so it's becoming easier to get to know each other. I don't speak English, so I used Google Translate.