Finding out that the person Young Hee likes is none other than Soon Geum, Da Kyum takes the painting he gave her and ran away from home.
In order to organize the exhibition, Young Hee's grandfather's paintings are being sent to New York for identification, but it gets suspected of forgery.
President Hwang tells Gun Woo, the lottery ticket that was place on his father's desk has disappeared; Soo Jung learns from the convenience store worker that Soon Geum actually bought two lottery tickets "at the same time" she bought the tickets for the maids on that day.
As heard in Lie To Me's emo scene: Elliott Smith - Between The Bars
Gun Woo finds out that his dad bought a lottery ticket worth billions. In addition, he also finds out that Young Hee confessed to Soon Geum earlier than him.
Young Hee unexpectedly spends the night with Da Kyum, he gives her a palm-sized painting of his grandfather's (I got to see this to believe it. In fact, I refuse to believe this and will chuck this aside as the c-translator's mistake).
Also, one of the maids of 1st Street is quietly following Soon Geum...
To be honest, I have absolutely NO IDEA where the story will go from here. Am so spoiled by the cliches and predictables in kdramas nowadays that I'm utterly lost trying to forecast RoTo.
Although, I do have one theory that lingers in my mind, that is: Who is Shi Ah's (SG bestie) child's father? Is it some unknown guy or izzit thatguyintheclub she kissed in the 1st episode (or was it 2nd)? Dun dun dun! If it REALLY is Young Hee, I say it will kill off any chances of an SG x YH-line. Not that they had a chance anyway, heh.
Spoiler In Words Young Hee tells Soon Geum that he wants her to meet his family. He then takes her to a hotel, and right before a painting in the hotel lobby, Soon Geum says "Okay" to Young Hee.
Soon Geum is determined to quit her job as a maid, thus she came to her the place where her father lives, a gosiwon (*dormitory-like residences for students). She calls Kang Gun Woo over but then ignores him and the three just plays Go Stop. In the end, Gun Woo who does not have much money even owes Soon Geum's dad in gambling debts.
RoTo, one could certainly never predict where you are heading. Conflict over so soon? :O
Spoiler In Words Gun Woo finds out Soon Geum's double life; after a long contemplation Young Hee decides to confess to Soon Geum.
Because of King Asset Management Co.'s commemoration party, the whole of 1st Street became deserted like an abandon neighborhood. Right when Soon Geum is home alone, a thief comes to the house. That thief finds the winning ticket on the desk!
"I kind of like you." Because of these words utter by Soon Geum, Gun Woo laughed and let her sit by his side. Soon Geum feels extremely shy and timid. Gun Woo receives information on the whereabouts of granny Choon Jak; together with Yoon Shi Ah (Soon Geum) they catch a boat to Jang Bong Island.
Soon Geum worries that she will expose her real identity, hence she just stood silently. In the end, she ends up spending the night with Gun Woo on Jang Bong island.
Another one of my favorite tracks from RoTo. Stark opposite from Say Goodbye With A Smile, this song appears at the saddest moments of the show (which is thankfully not that sad, not yet anyway.)
Lyrics:
Little by little, I move towards you, step by step
Unknowingly, I've reached a place where I can see you
It shan't end with me just watching you like this
Today, a girl like me is standing here
The tears that are overflowing, became a river, became an ocean
Do you know my heart?
Do you want to understand my heart?
The me who only loves you
When you stand beside me, please don't endlessly laugh nor cry
Because no matter how much it hurts, I only love you
How did you my heart come to have you?
Do you know how I would walk in circles all day?
Have you felt how lonely the lone wind is?
You don't know
The tears that are overflowing, became a river, became an ocean
Do you know my heart?
Do you want to understand my heart?
The me who only loves you
When you stand beside me, please don't endlessly laugh nor cry
Because no matter how much it hurts, I only love you
The you right there, the you that never answers,
Do you not want my heart?
A love that only watches you, will I be able to wait?
Let me reach out to you
If you love me, please turn back and look at me a little sooner
Before I get swayed, before someone else appears, hold my hand
When you are beside me, please do not endlessly laugh nor cry
Because no matter how much it hurts, I only love you
Chloe Says: Ehhhh...the lyrics for this song, stalker much? What stops me from getting goosebumps is Jessica's sweeter than honey voice (and the nice melody of course). Ignorance is bliss sometimes.
Omo! This sound so fun I feel like skipping Ep 5 to go straight to this one (too bad it hasn't aired yet...)
Spoiler In Words
Yoon Shi Ah who's dressed in 18 million won designer clothes V.S. No Soon Geum who shivers at the thought of coming up with 1 800 won alone, the exciting double life of No Soon Geum begins!The men of 1st Street eyes her with suspicion.
Gun Woo and Young Hee find out that they both already have their eyes set on a woman, and each called the woman that they're in love with. It was at this moment the two mobile phones rang, and Soon Geum confirmed both lines to be busy. But then she went ahead and called someone...
Chloe Says: hellochloe's verdict? They both are in love with the SAME woman, but the SAME woman in a DIFFERENT persona. Oh, this is going to be a riot!
Time for more songs that are featured in kdramas (that I love)! This time I translated a song that's featured heavily in RoTo (you can probably say it's the main theme). I'm thinking of doing a couple of more LTM ones next, and maybe even one from Baby-Faced Beauty (I like the one that sounded very retro).
I've always thought that this was a happy *twinkle twinkle* tune, especially since it always appears during buoyant moments in the show. But I guess not? Still, it wouldn't be accurate to categorize it as melo, but it's in fact an uplifting song about two parting lovers' farewell, if there's ever such a thing.
Lyrics:
Now is the time for us to part,
Let us put away the feelings of regret
Let's put the memories on pause,
Until the time we'll meet again
Yes, please smile like that,
Even though it hurts like there's a hole in your heart
The melody we created together, oh oh oh ooo~
Don't forget it, let's sing it together when we meet again
I love you,
Thank you,
This is not goodbye
We shall meet again, it's a promise,
Let's say goodbye with a smile
Yes, please smile like that,
You're more beautiful when you smile like that
The melody we created together, oh oh oh ooo~
Don't forget it, treasure it
I love you,
Thank you,
This is not goodbye
We shall meet again, it's a promise,
Let's say goodbye with a smile
I love you,
Thank you,
This is not goodbye
We shall meet again, it's a promise,
Let's say goodbye with a smile
I love you,
Thank you,
This is not goodbye
We shall meet again, it's a promise,
Let's say goodbye with a smile
Chloe Says: Fav moment, is @ the sa-rang-he-yo part. Love how he sings it slowly up till the "Let's say goodbye with a smile" line :)
When kdrama men piss off their woman by belittling their worth (Best Love: "Stay for the night", RoTo: "You just want to seduce a rich man, don't you?). Kdrama heroines will immediately feel offended by the idea that they could be bought for money and start to cry (although in less grave situations, some do get pissed off and kick ass). This time around, I think Sung Yuri's Puss in Boots-like eyes won over Gong Hyo Jin's cries over fallen potatoes.
Perhaps I'm bias over anything RoTo, or maybe it's because one could only lament over soju, while the other has the ultimate hot geek Yoon Kye Sang's shoulder to cry on. Whadduthink?
Spoiler In Words When the maids discovered that they have won the forth prize, they are busy contemplating on how to spend the money. Meanwhile Soon Geum who has won the first prize brought her money to the real estate agency, and Young Hee discovers that she is using 1.5 billion to buy a house.
When Driver Oh calls Gun Woo to tell him that he saw Choon Jak halmoni, Gun Woo immediately rushes out of the department store. And then a beautiful lady clothe in designer brands worth 18 million appeared in front of him. Gun Woo has an immediate crush on her, and he hands her his coffee card that has already been stamped with 10 stamps...
Chloe Says: RoTo is just wacky like that! A coffee card to hit on a lady? You rock, Show lol.
For those who felt that Gun Woo needed a kick where it hurts the most, don't be. For Gun Woo will probably be a pauper soon, notwithstanding the fact that Soon Geum will come upon 13 million USD. Oh, the irony of life.
What can I say? Karma sucks, dude, so play nice this time around.
Spoiler In Words Soon Geum has a mountain load of family issues, plus the fact that she wants to spend the money so badly but couldn't, all these has made her ill.
Gun Woo's dad confiscates his credit cards, car and even the few bills left in his wallet. He warns Gun Woo, if he refuses to work he will be a pauper who does not even have 10 won in his pocket.
Gun Woo would never in his wildest dreams thought of the possibility that Soon Geum would be richer than him, he even states that she must have came into this house in hopes of seducing a rich man...
Ro-o-omance Town, romance town! I'm so in town for this one: No surprise on which trendy that has captured my heart, surpassing even the bigger names and more hyped-about ones. I guess that's the charm of the writer, who wrote Pasta that turned out to be an word-of-mouth hit through kdrama grapevines.
On Rainy Days - BEAST
I'm currently on a mission to pimp the show, so if you see me in Darksmurf or viki doing subs, please say hi :)
Spoiler In Words Soon Geum's dad gets involved in a struggle and needs a large sum of money for the surgery. In order to raise the money she meets with the maids of 1st Street, but bumps into the one that wants to get rid of her, Gun Woo. The lottery in her hands is even snatched away.
The maids suspect that Soon Geum is keeping her lottery win a secret because of her dad's surgery fees, and in order to expose her lie they sneak into Gun Woo's house...
Soon Geum has become the successor to the maid who cared for Kang Gun Woo like a son, Choon Jak. So she pretends to be Choon Jak and exchange letters with Gun Woo who is in New York, but her heart skips a beat every time she receives those letters.
Three years later, Gun Woo finally comes back to Korea. Not knowing that Soon Geum has become a maid in his household, she forms a good impression on him despite having not seen each other for three years. However Soon Geum does not recognize the changed Gun Woo (i.e the slimmer 6-pack one *wink*).
RT still manages to surprise me after 2 trailers. Sure, I knew she bought the lottery, but I didn't expect her to actually win it. And keep the money. And continues to work as a maid.
And the fact that Soon Geum is "bold", "fearless" and "unafraid to work hard"? Try loud mouth, as in your mouth-operates-faster-than-the-brain-but-slower-than-her-actions type of gal.
Damn I love this show already.
Back To Basics: Sung Yuri enlists the help of Fin.K.L's choreographer and dance teacher During the press conference held at 3 PM on the 3rd recently, a trailer was unveiled to the press. And in it Song Yuri was seen in a blond wig dancing her butt off (I meant that figuratively. Maybe.).
What she said about the scene: "I felt a lot of pressure for the night club scene, so I went to Fin.K.L's dance teacher to re-learn everything again...during the scene when I was closing my eyes and dancing hard, my wig nearly came off!"
On seeing Sung Yuri dance, co-star Jung Gyu Woon said: "(She is) indeed an ex-idol, it's just different and worth watching."
In the show, Sung Yuri plays a No Soon Geum whose mouth is faster than her brain, and whose actions are faster than her mouth. Rather than studying, she enjoys rough sports; rather than men, she's more afraid of money.
When she bought the occasional lottery and made an unexpected windfall, she continues to work as a maid to conceal the 10 billion won (currently USD 9.25 million) she won.
Sung Yuri on her character: "No Soon Geum is a character I want to play. She says whatever she wants, thinks the world revolves around her, she's innocent and sassy at the same time, your typical blood type B woman (*think B for Bad Personality, the infamous character Lee Dong Gun played in My Boyfriend Is Type B). Thanks to her (character), shooting has been very interesting and there are a lot of memorable moments."
Romance Town tells the story of such a maid, on people and money, and love over money.
D-day is 11th May peeps! Mark it down on your calendars<3
Looks like KBS released another SIW along with the 2nd teaser. (more like the 1st one vanished, heh). What happened?? Perhaps they thought it was TMI and they want to keep it mysterious?
Kiss And Tell - The Black Skirts
Grreaatt. Now it will be TTMI (Too Too Much Info) for those who'd already read the first one.
Spoiler In Words (2nd Version) As the only two female students in the whole school, Soon Geum and Shi Ah are good friends.
The mom who did everything she could to keep her daughter from becoming a maid like her; the college tuition she painstakingly saved for four years has been taken away my dad in the middle of the night...
Soon Geum arrives at the hotel in an attempt to stop Shi Ah from becoming a "female companion". There she bumps into Gun Woo and despite unwilling to, she pays the tab for the beer on his behalf.
Soon Geum writes her number on a napkin and hands it to Gun Woo. And the place that she went to after receiving a call to get the money back turns out to be Gangnam-gu, the superfabulously rich district. And the maids in the household, they all looked at Soon Geum with deference in their eyes...
#2 Teaser - I love the direction they are going with the series and if this is how it is, I'm tuning it for sure! Crackling chemistry between Yuri and Jung Gyu Woon and I want to see more :D
Ok, it is OFFICIAL now. I want to watch everything. As in, ALL the May dramas. Please, networks, you can stop coming up with nice dramas now. Do that at a later date please. And this spoiler...I dunno if this is a new strategy that KBS came up or something, but I'm definitely interested now. It reads like a novel and I find myself imagining the scenes. Now I wanna watch it live-action!
Spoiler In Words (1st Version) No Soon Geum comes from a household where her grandmother was a maid, and so was her mom. Her mom is strongly against her going through the same path as her (i.e maid), and hence ever since high school she has studied hard and poured herself into working hard to earn money.
Time passed, and the mom who has been a maid her whole life, passed away. Her dad, who's a gambler comes to find her to fund his habit every now and then. Just like that, life continues to go on as usual, with her not having any particular talents nor skill.
Meanwhile, a 150 kg heavy "prince" (I reckon y'all know who this is yeah) from a wealthy family loses his wallet during his farewell ceremony to New York for studies. Somehow Soon Geum who's at the hotel to find a friend, gets roped into this and ended up paying for the drinks with her rent money.
No matter what, Soon Geum has to get the money back, and she ends up at Gun Woo's (Jung Gyu Woon) house. He looks like a honest and sincere man right now, unlike when he blackmailed her for money. At Gun Woo's request, she leaves him her phone number as she leaves hurriedly to deal with her dad's mess (gambling stuff, I presume). During that short encounter, Soon Geum has made a favorable impression on Gun Woo.
So, are they pen pals or somethin'?
3 years later at a certain house, despite her mom's bid for her to never become a maid, Soon Geum has become one. When she wins one of her weekly rounds of Hwa-Tu (Korean poker), she decides to buy a lottery ticket. She puts the tickets everyone else bought in her left pocket and hers on the right.
Also on this day, Gun Woo returns. Not only that, he's completely a different man as he steps into the household...
Chloe Says: Wowza, if only all spoilers are written like this huh? If it were anything less than this, I don't think I'd be interested. I'm suppose to be tuning to Lie To Me, Best Love and Baby-faced Beauty. But now I'm hooked. Siiigh.
In order to organize the exhibition, Young Hee's grandfather's paintings are being sent to New York for identification, but it gets suspected of forgery. 
