S02.E07: Chapter Fifteen

[AnimeMania]

Mr. Kim faces a difficult choice: the woman he loves or his homeland. Both Solomon and Mozasu execute ruthless plans.

Premiere Date: October 4, 2024      Apple TV+

[Spartan Girl]

Hansu is scum.

So I guess Mozasu was right to be suspicious of Kato, but Sunja was right to tell him off for meddling in her life.

I did love Teen Mozasu and Noa telling off Yoseb, then finally getting him to rejoin the outside world. But even though he was willing to let Kyunghee go off with Mr. Kim, Kyunghee had already made up her mind to stay with her family.

Next week is the season finale, and I sure how we’re getting at least one more.

[aghst]

Well Hansu was facing the same discrimination that other Koreans living in Japan during and after the war faced.

He was going to be forced to marry his daughter to a bigot who hated Koreans and Americans, wanted to hide the fact that he's marrying a Korean-Japanese for political expedience.

But wow, he's nobody's victim, gets his father in law shanked.  How is a Korean wielding so much power in Japan?  Obviously the Japanese are very prejudiced and abuse the Koreans.

I think Kyunghee refusing to have her fate decided by two men sounds very modern, too much so and I think both Korean and Chinese cultures were conservative and very patriarchal.  Truth is, arranged marriages were the norm, not people finding each other, falling in love.

Maybe during wartime conditions, these kinds of societal norms and expectations weren't observed.

In any event, it wasn't too modern, Kyunghee promised God to stay loyal if Yoseb was saved.  Yet obviously not too loyal, as she continued to show where her heart was.

Solomon pulls the move, gets Naomi fired for telling him about the IPO and of course the sexist Japanese boss fires her for her first strike.

Sure he wants revenge on Abe but if it was "true love" between him and Naomi, he would probably not care as much about ruining Abe, just be content to be with her.  

But since she broke up with him, it's all fair game, is his mentality?

It kind of shows that for all the struggles Sunja has gone through, her son and grandson are not good people?

There will have to be more seasons since they haven't yet shown what happens to Noa and Hansu.  Or Kyunghee for that matter.

But I don't know if they're getting the viewers, even though this season appears to have gotten critical raves.

I'm still waiting to see some of these characters be as happy and joyful as shown in the opening credits of both season 1 and season 2.

There has to be some payoff for all this bleakness, despair, anger?

 

 

 

[Spartan Girl]

1 hour ago, aghst said:

Well Hansu was facing the same discrimination that other Koreans living in Japan during and after the war faced.

He was going to be forced to marry his daughter to a bigot who hated Koreans and Americans, wanted to hide the fact that he's marrying a Korean-Japanese for political expedience.

But wow, he's nobody's victim, gets his father in law shanked.  How is a Korean wielding so much power in Japan?  Obviously the Japanese are very prejudiced and abuse the Koreans.

Still doesn’t condone what he did. And he was more invested in what his daughter’s marriage did to him than out of any actual concern to her.

So now in addition to cheating on his offscreen wife and being more invested in his illegitimate son than his daughter, he’s had her father killed. And you wonder why Sunja didn’t want him.

[aghst]

That's your interpretation.

We haven't seen his wife or daughter on screen.

We have seen the guy that his father in law wanted to marry her off to.  He's a bigot who openly expresses his hate for Koreans.

Why wouldn't Hansu not want this guy to marry into his family?

 

 

 

[Haleth]

7 hours ago, aghst said:

Or Kyunghee for that matter.

Ok, correct me if I am misremembering but wasn’t one of the plot points in the first season that Sunja wanted to bring Kyunghee’s ashes to Korea?

The acting in this show is stellar, particularly the two women playing Sunja. The character always (almost) carries her emotions close to the vest so the actresses must convey her feelings through body language. So well done. Her trying to hold it together when she said goodbye to Noa at college was heartbreaking. 

[CountryGirl]

We haven’t seen Hansu’s daughter. But we have seen his wife in S1, E6 (Chapter Six). Yoriko Haraguchi played Hansu’s wife, although her screen time was brief.