Welcome to Samdal-ri: Episodes 9-10
by quirkycase
Our household reels from the accident, and the sisters understand there’s loads they’ve missed prior to now eight years they’ve been away from dwelling. The scenario brings to thoughts a previous tragedy that will get the entire neighborhood reminiscing. Rather a lot has been buried, however bringing the dad or mum technology’s pasts into focus sheds mild on present relationship dynamics that not solely impression them but in addition the subsequent technology.
EPISODES 9-10
We begin out this week studying extra concerning the mothers: the 2 Mi-jas. Sam-dal’s mother KO MI-JA initially hails from the mainland and struggled to slot in when she arrived on Jeju after marriage. Initially, she butted heads with Yong-pil’s mother BU MI-JA, however after discovering they had been each singer Cho Yong-pil fangirls, they had been inseparable. They even vowed to be second mothers to one another’s kids if considered one of them had been to move away. Bu Mi-ja, haenyeo extraordinaire, took beginner Ko Mi-ja underneath her wing. So a few years later, when Ko Mi-ja determined to remain behind as a result of she hadn’t caught something the day of the rain, Bu Mi-ja joined her. And that’s the day Bu Mi-ja died within the water.
Ah, this makes far more sense. It’s not Sam-dal that Yong-pil’s dad CHO SANG-TAE hates and blames for his spouse’s loss of life – it’s her mother. I’m nonetheless unsure what that has to do with their kids or why he feels the necessity to punish them for parental grudges, however okay.
Within the current day, Mi-ja is delivered to the hospital unconscious however alive. The physician asks the logical query right here, which is why on the earth is a girl with arrhythmia diving? Sam-dal’s dad is so frazzled he can barely reply the physician’s questions on her situation, however Yong-pil exhibits up and offers her medical historical past.
Sam-dal is of course offended at Yong-pil for hiding her mother’s situation from her. He feels dangerous, however he was following Mi-ja’s needs and didn’t really feel he might say something. He tried to get her to inform her youngsters, however she wouldn’t budge. Sam-dal goes silent when Yong-pil counters that if she’d come dwelling in any respect throughout the previous eight years, she’d have figured it out herself and perhaps might’ve stopped her mother from diving. Oof. That could be true, however perhaps save that dialog for after her mother is out of the hospital.
Not that she’s within the hospital for lengthy. Mi-ja is approach too cussed to remain as soon as she wakes up, so the most effective the household can do is pressure her to not overdo it at dwelling. The sisters resolve they’re going to cease their mother from diving for good, however they wrestle to not cower underneath their mom’s formidable character. It’s Ha-yul who proves probably the most sensible and quietly hides her grandmother’s diving go well with with nobody the wiser.
Ha-yul has been stoic about the entire incident, insisting to the adults that she’s wonderful and to not fear about her. It’s not till she meets up with Ji-chan once more by the ocean that she lets herself act just like the youngster she is and cries her little coronary heart out, worrying about her household and what to do if the ocean takes away her grandmother.
Seeing how snug Ha-yul is with him and the way good he’s to her makes me like him, however we nonetheless haven’t gotten to see him and Hae-dal collectively a lot. They do meet coincidentally when their associates drag them to a singles bar. The teams find yourself sitting collectively, and Hae-dal and Ji-chan bond over being judged for his or her life selections.
The household learns that somebody surreptitiously paid Mi-ja’s hospital invoice. They assume it’s Yong-pil, however they don’t understand Da-young occurred to be visiting a relative and noticed them there. He’s loath to depart the island and will get his excuse to remain when the contract signing for the theme park goes south. The locals communicate unwell of Jin-dal, joking she should’ve been a handful and that the divorce “serves her proper.” Da-young is furious and lays into them, yelling about how a lot Jin-dal suffered. He refuses to signal the contract and storms out. He then oh-so-casually decides that perhaps Samdal-ri could be an excellent higher place to place his park. , simply because.
In the meantime, Sam-dal and Yong-pil’s relationship will get a push from Gyung-tae who has inherited his mom’s incapability to remain quiet. He will get drunk and shares that Yong-pil has stayed in Jeju all this time to take care of Mi-ja as a result of he’s nonetheless in love with Sam-dal.
This ties into how The Breakup went down: Eight years in the past, Sam-dal had damaged up with Yong-pil after his father informed her to. Yong-pil deliberate to observe her overseas to work it out after his mom’s memorial day. Nevertheless, Mi-ja collapsed that night time after Sang-tae yelled at her when she introduced meals by. Yong-pil known as an ambulance, and that’s how he realized of her coronary heart drawback. So when Sam-dal returned later, crying she couldn’t undergo with the breakup, Yong-pil texted that he was performed whereas sobbing in his room. He’d thought he was defending everybody, not guessing that Sam-dal would undergo as a lot as he did.
After Sam-dal learns that Yong-pil gave up his personal desires of being a bigshot climate forecaster for her, she drinks herself foolish. Yong-pil exhibits up, they usually lastly have an trustworthy dialog. Sam-dal admits she couldn’t overlook him and each time he asks if she’s okay, she desires to lean on him. Then, she kisses him (which in fact, Sang-do sees as a result of if a kiss occurs in a drama however there’s no second result in see it, did it actually occur?).
Yong-pil goes round smiling and chipper the subsequent day, regardless of being kicked out by his dad. The identical night time Yong-pil and Sam-dal kissed, he and his dad had it out. His father was furious after additionally studying why Yong-pil stayed on the island all this time. Yong-pil cried that he’s in simply as a lot ache as his father, however he’ll by no means hate Mi-ja or blame her for his mother’s accident. That didn’t go over properly.
Sam-dal’s reminiscences of that night time are fuzzy, which makes her extremely awkward round Yong-pil. She will get information she received the pictures competitors and will likely be doing the Jeju exhibit, however she panics after they pair her up with Yong-pil (because it’s hosted by the climate station). After a day collectively of looking for non-touristy locations for a photograph shoot, they detect an attractive sundown. Yong-pil takes the chance to confront her, sharing that she confessed to him that night time. After which all of it comes again to her.
These two are going at a snail’s tempo regardless of everybody realizing they’re nonetheless in love with one another, so I’m glad they’re lastly having a direct discuss whereas sober. (Significantly, you’d suppose Sam-dal would cease ingesting a lot after all of the embarrassing incidents she’s had.) I get that Yong-pil’s dad wanted somebody in charge in his grief, however it’s been nearly 20 years! Even when it’s only for the sake of his son, he must let his anger go. Yong-pil has been caught in the course of his father and Mi-ja all these years, burying his personal desires and must preserve everybody completely satisfied. It’s lastly time he places himself first – in any other case, his total life will move him by.
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