A Virtuous Enterprise: Episodes 3-4
by quirkycase
Our intrepid businesswomen proceed their uphill battle to transform their ajumma neighbors into prospects. Regardless of their greatest efforts to remain upbeat, the fixed rejection and judgment from everybody round them isn’t straightforward to bear. However our girls are the defiant kind, so the extra resistance they face, the extra prepared they’re to place up a struggle. Getting a style of how profitable the enterprise might be doesn’t damage their motivation both.
EPISODES 3-4
These judgy neighborhood ajummas can actually put on an individual down. Jung-sook can’t catch a break – not solely is everybody hating on her for her selection in enterprise, however rumors of her husband leaving her are swirling round. In fact, everybody blames her for that, too.
On the very least, you’d suppose her mom could be on her facet. As a substitute, her mother barely exhibits an oz of sympathy after listening to Sung-soo cheated on her daughter and goes so far as to inform Jung-sook she received’t take care of Min-ho, her personal grandchild, if Jung-sook continues to promote “vulgar” merchandise. Jung-sook can deal with the rejection from her neighbors, however listening to that from her personal mom is devastating.
Solely the extra worldly Do-hyun appears genuinely on Jung-sook’s facet and doesn’t cross judgment. He readily provides to research the vandalism of her house and even helps her clear up the graffiti so her son received’t see it. When Do-hyun catches the wrongdoer, an area store proprietor Jung-sook is aware of, she agrees to not press fees however provided that the person apologizes. She could also be sort and timid, however Jung-sook is not any pushover.
In the event you suppose the neighbors will now goal the vandal with their judgment, suppose once more. Nope, this too is all Jung-sook’s fault. Her vulgar decisions pushed a pleasant man towards crime as a result of God forbid the person be answerable for his personal actions.
As if Jung-sook doesn’t have sufficient to take care of, she finally ends up reluctantly doing a house get together for her dishonest buddy MI-HWA as a birthday shock on the behest of her buddy’s clueless, candy husband IN-TAE. It’s simply as awkward because it sounds, however at the very least Jung-sook will get to become profitable off Mi-hwa’s excessive discomfort and guilt.
To high it off, in the course of the get together, Min-ho goes lacking whereas In-tae is watching him. Jung-sook spends the night time frantically trying to find him with Mi-hwa, In-tae, and Do-hyun. Her mother additionally joins the search, and as soon as once more, berates Jung-sook reasonably than comforts her. She even slaps Jung-sook arduous sufficient to chop her cheek when Jung-sook accuses her mother of not being there for her.
Fortunately, they discover little Min-ho unhurt exterior his dad’s previous office. He shivers as he waits for the manufacturing unit to open so he can ask the boss to rehire his dad, which he thinks will carry his dad house. (Min-ho thinks his dad left as a result of he wanted to search out work in one other city.) Jung-sook is heartbroken however, as all the time, smiles and does her greatest to assist her son modify.
In these episodes, there’s a transparent theme of the sacrifices moms make in silence whereas placing up a powerful entrance for his or her youngsters. We see it most explicitly with each Jung-sook and her mom who additionally left her horrible dishonest husband and raised her youngsters alone. Though it’s clear the mom’s misdirected anger at Jung-sook comes from a spot of worry and never wanting her daughter to share her destiny, her response to Jung-sook’s state of affairs has been horrible. Worry is not any excuse to deal with your youngster like crap and fail to assist her. Whereas she doesn’t immediately apologize to Jung-sook, they do have a heart-to-heart that softens her mom. Perhaps now she’ll take care of Min-ho once more and cease judging Jung-sook for doing all she will be able to to supply for her youngster.
A fast apart whereas we’re speaking about youngsters: Ju-ri’s son Dong-woo kills me. He listens to tea ceremony radio packages to really feel elegant as he drinks his scorching chocolate, often spouts knowledge he’s gained from studying the salon’s girls’ magazines, and appears adorably severe along with his glasses and suspenders. I like this youngster. He and Min-ho are classmates and turn into buddies, and Dong-woo is just like the long-suffering mentor to Min-ho regardless of being the identical age.
Little Dong-woo sees his mother stressing about cash and sagely suggests she wants a facet hustle. Realizing he’s not incorrect, Ju-ri formally joins the ranks of Fantasy Lingerie saleswomen. With a couple of profitable events, Younger-bok and Jung-sook usher in extra money than they ever anticipated to make. Not solely can they pay their hire, however they’ve further to spend on their youngsters. They’re simply as pleased as in the event that they’d received the lottery.
The brains of their operation (Jung-sook) comes up with the thought of a survey as a method of gathering information on their potential prospects to refine their gross sales. That goes about in addition to you’d count on. The one individual she manages to persuade to reply is Do-hyun who can’t resist her unhappy pet eyes. He’s not precisely their demographic, however he gamely solutions questions on his familiarity with grownup merchandise and his… wishes. He’s embarrassed but additionally extremely amused as she plows via the questions with out hesitation.
Jung-sook proves her mettle and, reasonably than giving up regardless of the chances stacked towards her, is extra decided than ever to succeed. For spherical two, the ladies arrange a sales space with free items for survey respondents. Everybody nonetheless hesitates, so Jung-sook addresses the problem head on. Why ought to she be ashamed of working to place meals on the desk? All she’s attempting to do is survive like everybody else.
Just a few of the ladies are sufficiently shamed and cave. Earlier than you already know it, that opens the door for different girls to come back over and do the survey. Even a pair males take part for the freebies. It’s a smashing success.
In the meantime, Do-hyun surreptitiously conducts his personal investigation. We be taught he’s wanting into a fireplace within the neighborhood that occurred 30 years in the past. Unsurprisingly, there’s few leads. Amidst that, he nonetheless finds time to continuously run into Jung-sook and assist her wherever he can. The gentle smile that lights his face every time he watches her leaves little doubt that his curiosity in her is popping right into a full-blown crush.
Within the epilogue, Do-hyun has a nightmare of a raging hearth. A child cries, trapped within the burning room. Somebody, a lady, saves him and fingers him off to a nun at a church. The lady’s face is blurred. Do-hyun wakes up gasping.
Assuming Do-hyun was the infant, it seems to be like he’s looking for the wrongdoer of the fireplace however possibly additionally the lady who saved him. Was it a sort stranger, pleasant neighbor, or maybe his mom? We all know actually nothing about him at this level, besides that he likes Jung-sook, so there’s little or no to go off of. I’m glad it’s not some run-of-the-mill crime however as an alternative one thing that emotionally ties him to the city and may provide some fascinating relationship dynamics within the weeks to come back.
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