Aaaaaaand we’re back with episode two which is basically more backstories of the two main leads and the identity of neighbour Mr. Choi is still a mystery. We also get some info on the employees of Seon Kyul’s company as well as Oh Sol’s family, so I’m looking forward to seeing how the other characters storylines develop in future episodes as well.
The episode starts with Oh Sol when she was younger, and we get to know that she was actually a champion hurdler, so she’s pretty althetic even when she’s grown up, which comes of use later.
Oh Sol accidentally opens the bathroom door while her brother is using it, and shuts it hurriedly, but suddenly, she throws open the door and pulls her brother out, demanding him to lower his trousers. She finds out that her brother is the one wearing the underwear she originally bought for Do Jin and should be in the hands of Seon Kyul, but yet there it was on her brother, and the whole morning is a complete mess at Oh Sol’s house with her trying to kill her brother and chasing him all around the neighbourhood.
Seon Kyul and Oh Sol meet, and he returns the package back to Oh Sol, making jabs about her confessing methods. He then tells Oh Sol that she has to pay his car repair fees by the end of the week, or else he will take the matter to the court. He leaves Oh Sol sitting there after having said what he wanted to say, and just then Oh Sol recieves a message saying that she has passed the first round of a company job interview and that she was invited to the second round.
We then find out that Oh Sol’s brother Oh Dol does taekwondo, and one of his seniors there called Young Sik calls him to help him get his girl back from another guy. They go and meet his ex, who says that she doesn’t love him anymore, and that she likes another guy, who just happens to be the most popular employee at Seon Kyul’s company Dong Hyun, and also happened to be at the same spot as them. Young Sik gets mad and starts fighting with Dong Hyun and they get in trouble with the police, forcing Oh Sol to go help and release them. Here, the fact that Dong Hyun has a crime record is revealed as well, and that little bit of information may be important in future episodes so we’ll see how that plays out too.
Seon Kyul goes to his grandfather’s birthday dinner, and his family backstory is unveiled. His mother was a single parent, and wasn’t by Seon Kyul side when he was small. Seon Kyul lived with his grandfather throughout his childhood, who beat him whenever he came back a mess from playing outside. The only nice person he remembers was Gum Ja Ssi, who was his nanny at the time and took the utmost care of him, yet she died of lung cancer, but not before giving Seon Kyul his robot cleaner as a gift, and this is why Seon Kyul treasures that robot cleaner so much. Back to the present, the grandfather gets mad at Seon Kyul for being a clean freak and not being able to live normally, and throws a knife at him out of anger. The knife slightly cuts Seon Kyul’s cheek, and he walks out without eating anything.
At the same time, Oh Sol utterly fails at her interview and moreover her heels break on her way home, and she is forced to walk barefoot. She goes to the convenience store and buys a ton of alchohol, sits down outside and starts drinking. Meanwhile, since Seon Kyul lives nearby, he goes to the same convenience store to buy who knows what only to find Oh Sol at the door, all drunk. Oh Sol points out that Seon Kyul is hurt as well, implying that she is also hurt, but Seon Kyul avoids her question. Not being able to stand the thought of her walking barefoot back home, Seon Kyul lends her a pair of slippers, and she drunkenly says thanks and walks back home.
Oh Sol doesn’t go home but sits on the stairs nearby. Mr. Choi finds her sitting there and carries her back home. The next day Oh Sol decides that as she can’t get a day job soon enough, she’ll have to ask her dad for the money to pay Seon Kyul first. Yet, when she arrives at where her dad works, she see her dad protesting as to how his company didn’t renew his contract when they said that they would before. Knowing this, Oh Sol leaves dejectedly.
There are only so many interviews you can go to in a week, and Oh Sol gives it one last try before the deadline. She signs up for an interview at a cleaning company which issss you guessed it Seon Kyul’s company but she has no idea yet. She uses her athletic abilities to outshine other competitors since strength and stamina are important when cleaning and manages to secure a position as a new employee. Also worth mentioning, Oh Dol’s senior Young Sik signs up for the same interview and gets in too, so it’ll be interesting to see if he actually does the work or just wants to get revenge. Seon Kyul talks with his secretary about company matters and they meet the new employees on their way, and this is where Oh Sol and Seon Kyul meet AGAIN but this time as boss and employee, and freeze frame of both being shocked and that’s the end of the episode.
You know, watching Encounter/Boyfriend at the same time as this drama as well as writing reviews for the both them has made me realize there are some pretty important similarities, number one being that the main leads meet each other in very unusual situations at first(in Cuba/under a horse mask) and number two, both main leads have a boss/employee relationship. Even though there are similarities, the storylines are completely different as well as the overall feeling of the dramas, so it’s nothing big really.
Back to thoughts on ep2, I think Seon Kyul is already starting to develop some feelings for Oh Sol, and the preview of ep3 showed a kiss scene which everyone is waiting for lol. Although Seon Kyul is a clean freak, it doesn’t necessarily mean that he doesn’t have feelings, and I do think he has empathy for others unlike the cool side of him that he normally shows. Oh Sol is just like any other person who has a normal family background and doesn’t have much money, except being a tad bit more less caring of cleanliness than most people, and I do think she’ll be a relatable character especially for younger people. Really hoping that the storyline will develop well so that me and everyone else can enjoy the drama fully. Aaaaand episode 2 has come to a close see you in episode 3!
So I went and did some research about the drama, and in both the behind the scenes or the press conference the actors seemed very comfortable and playful with each other, which made me even more expectant of their chemistry in the actual drama.
We then continue to Oh Sol’s morning, and the contrast between the leads are shown very clearly. These two characters are the complete opposite of each other, and I think that this will be a typical ‘opposites attract’ type of story probably. Oh Sol goes to her part time job on a crowded bus where germs are easily spread and she sleeps without a care in the world on the bus. Wearing clothes that haven’t been washed for days, she meets her best friend Joo Yeon and here is where we meet the cleaning fairies as well as Oh Sol’s crush for the first time.
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The guys in the pink coveralls on the right are the ‘Cleaning Fairies’ aka the employees of Seon Kyul’s cleaning company, and the guy in the middle called Dong Hyun is famous for his good looks which is helping the company sell their services very well.
And now this guy here is Oh Sol’s crush, her ‘sunbae’ meaning person who started at her university before her basically called Do Jin, and he takes care of her is nice to her and smiles at her which made Oh Sol fall in love with him.
So what happens is, Seon Kyul’s beloved robot cleaner escapes, Oh Sol picks it up finding it in the garbage pile, and Seon Kyun sees her taking the robot cleaner on a nearby CCTV, and he posts flyers everywhere offering a 1000000won reward to anyone who brings his robot cleaner back to him yet not posting a picture of Oh Sol taking it which just seemed strange to me but oh well. So apparently the robot cleaner named Gum Ja Ssi was a present from an actual woman called Gum Ja Ssi, and she was the person who took care of Seon Kyul in replacement of his mother when he was a child, but she passed away already, which is why the robot cleaner is so precious to Seon Kyul.
Seon Kyul receives an anonymous call for him to go to an alley where he will get his robot cleaner back, so he drives over looking for the exact spot. On the other hand, Oh Sol’s dad accidentally hurt his back, and Oh Sol replaces him for a day at work as a street cleaner. In the middle of clearing trash away though, Oh Sol bumps into Do Jin and in a panic she grabs a horse head mask nearby readily place in the trash pile, pulls it over her head and runs so that Do Jin doesn’t notice that it’s her who’s doing these kinds of jobs.
Oh Sol runs for her life with Do Jin and his friends chasing her, Seon Kyul keeps driving on the road, Oh Sol runs head on to Seon Kyul’s car, wasn’t able to put on the brakes properly and all the trash in her cart flies over her head and onto Seon Kyul’s car.
Seon Kyul gets mad and asks for compensation from Oh Sol, but as she is in the mask he can’t see her face, and Oh Sol only uses body language to communicate in fear on Do Jin recognising her voice. She tries to escape by leaving Seon Kyul with a note that has her phone number on it and tells him to contact her later, but Seon Kyul gets even more angry and at last pulls the mask off. Do Jin and Oh Sol’s brother both witness the incident and Oh Sol is embarrassed to death. The video of her running in a horse mask goes viral, yet her best friend invites her to go to Do Jin’s party to congratulate him for getting a day job at a television program for home shopping. Oh Sol says that she doesn’t want to face Do Jin after the mess, yet she still goes because she likes Do Jin and would never lose a chance to see him. Do Jin pretends like nothing happened in front of everyone else and makes Oh Sol fall even more in love with him, and later we’ll see more of him as well. To be honest, except for my idols, I have yet to experience love in reality with someone I know, so the way people act when they’re lovestruck in dramas is quite unfathomable to me as of right now. I understand it, but I’ve never felt it. I guess that’s why I like romantic things maybe, because I know nothing about it.
So just a quick mention this is Oh Sol’s neighbour? or should it be tenant lol called Mr. Choi and he lives just above where Oh Sol lives. He doesn’t appear much in the first two episodes, but he’s one of the main leads, so we’ll see how his character plays out.
Seon Kyul contacts Oh Sol through the number she gave him before, and asks her for 3500000won as compensation for accidentally pouring trash on his car, but asks her about the robot cleaner at the same time, and even though Oh Sol keeps pleading him for a discount Seon Kyul is adamant that Oh Sol has to pay him by the end of the month.
At the broadcasting station, Oh Sol was planning on confessing her feelings to Do Jin, who asked her out to lunch the day before. She buys underwear as a gift and writes a card asking Do Jin to go out with her. She arrives but finds that things are not what she expected, Do Jin only asked her to come to help be a model for the home shopping segment, and he assumed that she would help just because she was a nice person who wouldn’t refuse. This made Oh Sol see Do Jin clearly as a person, and she tells the jerk off as deserved and walks off tears rolling down her face. Out of the blue, she sees Seon Kyul standing there on the way out, and he actually witnessed the whole scenario.
Oh Sol returns the robot cleaner back to Seon Kyul, and walks off dejectedly.
Back home, Oh Sol realises that she put the confession gift to Do Jin inside the same bag as the one containing the robot cleaner, and her face is priceless lol. Seon Kyul opens the package, and the elephant underwear appears, instead of the expensive underwear Oh Sol bought, so that’s something to think about, Seon Kyul gets a shock, Oh Sol moans in despair, and the episode ends there.
For the first episode it was the typical character intro and the romantic comedy feelings were there, so I’m looking forward to how both the romantic scenes AND the comedy scene will roll out in future episodes. Seems worth watching so far and I will update more soon.
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