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Web-Letter Issue 204 Belle Skirt in Seedling
photos courtesy of Elena Nodel
This week's pattern makes me wish that I could shrink my girls back to 4 years old, so that I could knit this skirt up for them and enjoy the twirling that would inevitably happen. Our independent designer this week, Elena Nodel, has a great talent for creating fashion forward fun children's pieces.
From the designer: This piece is entirely seamless and is worked from the top down. Short rows are used in shaping the skirt to allow for toddler bellies, thus producing an even hemline, finished off with a picot bind-off to add a bit more of a girly flair.
We were only too thrilled that she chose Seedling for this beautiful skirt that is fit for a princess.
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The Yarn:
Seedling 100% Organic Cotton
Seedling, part of the Verde Collection, is a machine washable organic cotton. It is the lighter-weight cousin to Sprout and shares the same wonderful texture and softness.
From the designer: Seedling is a perfect yarn for this summery project; it is soft, light and has a great drape for a cotton yarn. The texture of the yarn itself adds another dimension to the fabric and makes the skirt look very interesting.


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How Fast Do Tokyo And New York Stock Exchanges Respond To Each Other? An Analysis With High-Frequency Data
This paper uses one-minute returns on the TOPIX and S&P500 to examine the efficiency of the Tokyo and New York Stock Exchanges. Our major finding is that Tokyo completes reactions to New York within six minutes, but New York reacts within fourteen minutes. Dividing the sample period into three subperiods, we found that the response time has shortened and the magnitude of reaction has become larger over the period in both markets. The magnitude of response in New York to a fall in Tokyo is roughly double that of a rise.
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Regional Command (South) and Third Infantry Division Deputy Commanding General for Maneuver, Brig. Gen. Christopher P. Hughes, expresses his appreciation to outgoing Task Force "Desert Rogues" commander, Lt. Col. Charles Armstrong, following the Transfer of Authority Ceremony Dec. 1, 2012, at Forward Operating Base Lindsey, Afghanistan. The ceremony officially marks the end of 1st Battalion, 64th Armor Regiment's deployment and the beginning for 2nd Battalion, 12th Field Artillery. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Uriah Walker, RC(S) Public Affairs) 121201-A-AP855-011
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Set in the heart of the historical district, Casa Pedro Loza Petite Hotel is an oasis of peace and comfort for vacation or business travelers. The gracious old mansion dates from 1848, when it was built for the Archbishopric of Guadalajara. Its history is fascinating.
Located on the Andador Pedro Loza pedestrian walkway, the hotel and the street are both named after the beloved Archbishop of Guadalajara, Pedro Loza y Pardave (1815-1898). During the Cristero War in the late 1920s, Archbishop Francisco Orozco y Jimenez was living in the Guadalajara home. He placed a baptismal font in the room facing Calle Angulo and performed sacramental rites through an open window at night. An underground passageway leading from the carriage house to the Cathedral — an eight-minute walk away — was in use at the time.
Spacious salons open onto the main patio, the heart of the home, and the bedrooms are distributed around it on the second floor. Thus, the mansion lends itself perfectly to the boutique hotel concept.
Ornate floor tiles, ornamental plaster work and leaded glass in the interior windows and doors are original. In fact, Casa Pedro Loza was distinguished with the Best Historical Restoration Award in 2006.
Bons Café is open for breakfast, lunch and early dinner served in the patio with an extensive menu of international cuisine. The former carriage area houses the bar for drinks and snacks, and the sky lounge affords a beautiful rooftop view of Guadalajara at sunset. Romantic candlelight dinners can be arranged in the private salons, and the boutique hotel is a favorite venue for private parties, events and photo shoots.
With personalized service, 8 beautiful guestrooms, 4 master suites — one with a jacuzzi — and every modern amenity, Casa Pedro Loza lets you relive the luxury of bygone days in 21st century comfort.


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For his doctoral thesis, Hallvard Haanes discovered that Norwegian red deer are genetically different from other European red deer, due to their historical distribution. However, a century ago, red deer were imported from continental Europe to the island of Otterøya in Namsos, and these imported deer have created hybrid forms with the Norwegian red deer on the island.
These hybrids have only to a modest degree become integrated with the rest of the Norwegian red deer population.
Red deer colonised Norway after the last ice age. Since then the population has been isolated from the rest of Europe, and on several occasions their numbers were reduced so dramatically that the genetic makeup became altered and genetic diversity was lost.
Analyses of the deer DNA revealed that isolation and population reduction during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries significantly altered genetic makeup at a time when red deer were limited to just a few locations in western Norway. Genetic code was probably also lost during earlier population collapses, for example, during colonisation. "The animals that survived may be considered to have been well adapted to the Norwegian climate, but such genetic loss may in the long term reduce the ability of red deer to adapt to changes in climate and habitat", says Haanes.
In 1902 and 1904, red deer from Germany and Hungary were introduced to Otterøya, near Namsos. The doctorate shows that the genetic composition of the present-day red deer of Otterøya is a combination of Norwegian and imported forms, but that no negative consequences of this have been seen that might indicate reduced adaptability among the hybrids. Until now, hunting pressure on the hybrids has been so great that foreign genetic material has only to a limited degree been spread to the Norwegian deer population, although the hybrid population is today increasing.
The Norwegian red deer population has increased dramatically during the last century, both in number and distribution. Haanæs showed in his thesis that this increase came about at five or six locations in western Norway, which during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries were separate entities. The current population consists of five genetically different sub-populations that have spread out from these original groups. The pattern of spread shows a relatively high degree of mixing further east as the deer followed the valleys eastward, while in the west, steep fjords and high mountain ranges created barriers for spread.
Hallvard Haanes has in addition shown that hinds are relatively sedentary and move over shorter distances than do bucks, which wander among the sub-populations to a greater degree. During the expansion of the last century, the hinds most likely moved in family units and therefore maintained the genetic integrity of the five original groups, spread over old and new regions.
The work was carried out under the auspices of the Section of Genetics, the Norwegian School of Veterinary Science, in collaboration with the Department of Health & Social Work Studies, Telemark University College, Norway. In addition, Norwegian and international hunters and veterinarians contributed samples to the project.
Cand. scient. Hallvard Haanes defended his doctoral thesis, entitled "Genetic variation and structure in Norwegian red deer", at the Norwegian School of Veterinary Science, on January 15, 2009.
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Bromance! Bromance! Bromance! Oh please, tell me that's next on the menu. Just the suggestion of such a development has me all awash in anticipation, because the conflict of avenging-hero-versus-lawman is so rife with possibility. We've got the romance angle secure, so now it's time to turn our attentions to the bromance…or perhaps the escalation of their face-off to the next level.
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Caught between certain downfall and death, Kim Jong-shik lets go of the railing and falls to the highway below, hitting a car windshield and landing on concrete. Considering how he chose money over his son, this man is just all about the bad decisions.
Young-ju looks up and sees the City Hunter at the railing. Yoon-sung is shocked — not just at these unexpected events, but at his own actions: "What the hell have I done?"
Jin-pyo calls to ask sternly why Yoon-sung would start his revenge only to turn back to save the guy — clearly he's watching nearby. He adds, "Then striking down Shik-joong becomes meaningless." Oh, because it was so meaningful before?
Dun dun dun! Yoon-sung realizes that Jin-pyo was the one who hit Shik-joong, to make him go after Kim Jong-shik, and storms in to confront Bad Daddy. Hot damn, I love that these kinds of secrets aren't dragged out, but quickly realized so we can cut to the interesting part: the fallout.
Jin-pyo admits readily that he did it, saying, "It had an immediate effect, didn't it? What I wanted to see from you was this. Eyes blazing in vengeance, ready to go through fire and water." He wanted their enemies shot through the heart quickly, "By your hand. That is how you protect the ones you love."
Yoon-sung snarls, "I've thought it over, asking myself who's dear to you, and couldn't think of any. Except…for one."
Oh God, don't mean yourself, oh God, don't mean yoursel—
Whack! He grabs a letter opener from the side table and stabs his hand to the table with it.
OH MOTHERFUCKING @#$%@$, HE MEANT HIMSELF. Blood drips through wood to the ground beneath. Oh god, oh god, oh god.
Wheezing through his pain, Yoon-sung tells his shocked father, "Me. That's your one dear person. Does this hurt your heart? It should. It has to. No matter how much you want it, I can't kill people. I felt that certainty today."
He wrenches the blade from his hand and walks away, hand bloody. Even Jin-pyo looks stunned.
At the hospital, Nana sees Kim Jong-shik being brought in via ambulance and Young-ju staggering out of the emergency room in shock. They both hear that eyewitnesses stated that it looked like Kim was committing suicide, after trying to grab documents that fell over the railing.
Young-ju checks his phone to find one last text message from Dad: "I'm sorry. Chun Jae-man is next." Aw. Despite the father-son standoff, this is an acknowledgement that there IS something to investigate. It doesn't begin to redeem Kim Jong-shik, but it does show us that he cared about his son. Well, enough to feel bad about the corruption he insisted he was entitled to.
Nana finds Yoon-sung sitting with Shik-joong, alarmed at his injured hand, which he says dully is "no big deal." All full of tortured conflict, he barks at her to leave him before she turns out like Shik-joong, and that it was Dad who did this, not Kim Jong-shik: "To him, I'm neither a son nor Yoon-sung. I'm just his possession."
Tearing up, he tells her that he's the one who made Shik-joong like this. He starts to say, "Even with Kim Jong-shik about to die, I pretended not to see—" but Nana cuts him short, enveloping him in a hug.
She knows that feeling of wanting an eye for an eye and says, "It wasn't you who did it — it was me. If you hadn't done it, I would have. So don't torment yourself."
Young-ju finds the voice recorder he'd left in his father's jacket pocket, which recorded Kim's damning conversation with Yoon-sung in the car. Young-ju's reaction is heartbreaking, because this conversation evokes such a mix of warring emotions with its revelations: Finally, he gets a lead in the 1983 case with mention of the incident off the shores of North Korea; Yoon-sung's voice practically confirms his City Hunter identity; and lastly, his father begs Yoon-sung to spare his son.
It's the last one that breaks Young-ju, who screams in fury.
Turns out that Kim Jong-shik isn't dead, but in a coma. (Possibly Inappropriate Aside: What does it take to kill a character around here? I do appreciate that all these dramatic turns are feasible with comas rather than murders, but c'mon, drama, I want some death-inspired darkness up in here. Or I'm gonna have to downgrade you to Balls of Aluminum. *crumple*)
Young-ju finds Yoon-sung outside his father's door and rushes him, shaking with rage. He growls, "Don't you dare get caught by anybody else. I'll be the one to do it." He warns him that he'll be dogging his every move. Yoon-sung keeps up his smartassy cover, though it lacks the usual punch: "You must really feel wronged, to take your anger out on a random person. You've wrinkled my clothes."
Young-ju seethes, "You're no hero. You're just a killer." Just the words to cut Yoon-sung to the quick.
Young-ju reports for work and volunteers to drop the City Hunter case, to his boss's surprise. In exchange, he wants to be granted a secret investigation of Haewon Group chairman Chun Jae-man, as he has evidence of Chun harboring a slush fund and evading taxes. At Young-ju's insistence on taking on another bigwig, the department head dryly notes, "You're my anti-fan, aren't you?" Heh. The previous department head had to resign when he'd tried to go after Chun, and Boss sighs, "I'm like hay in the face of a typhoon."
Young-ju gets his boss's tacit agreement when he declares that if he fails this task, he will quit being a prosecutor.
Nana surprises Jin-pyo by arriving at his home unannounced, having gotten the address off Yoon-sung's GPS. Whoa. I'm thinking maybe she picked up those Balls of Steel.
She gets straight to the point: "Let Yoon-sung go. So that he can live like a person, happily — let him go now." She calls him a puppetmaster wanting to control Yoon-sung with his strings.
Jin-pyo says that she won't be able to leave as easily as she arrived. Nana isn't intimidated: "If I stepped back because of your threats, I'd be a coward. But what can we do? After fighting this heartless world on my own, I found I can't do things without risking my all. Do you not love Lee Yoon-sung? How could you make someone you love do those cruel things? How much more must he be destroyed for you to stop?"
Jin-pyo stands suddenly and whips out his gun, and Nana doesn't even flinch. Cocking the hammer, he says he could kill her right now.
Nana: "That's fine. I'm a human shield anyway." Dayum. Way to invoke her bodyguard creed, that her value is in taking the bullet for the president.
Jin-pyo releases the hammer and says that it seems a waste to kill her right now, with that look in her eyes. Nana tells him to back off, saying that she won't stand by, either: "I'll rally everything I've got to block you. I came to say this."
Chun Jae-man's turn for the spotlight: He demonstrates why he was one of the Council of Five as he hears of Kim Jong-shik's coma state and figures it would've been "cleaner" had he died. He orders his minion to keep a close watch on Kim's condition, and if he shows signs of waking, "Get rid of him."
Recognizing that all-out war is the name of the game, he decides he'll have to act first. Ergo: Press conference, where he controls the story.
Chun reveals that the dog tags sent in by the City Hunter belonged to special agents, but describes them as traitors who were fleeing after stealing national secrets back in October '83. They were killed, and upon receiving the report, Chun and his colleagues had decided to keep the matter quiet because public tensions had been running high after the Aungsan bombing.
Clever clever. Just enough truth to seem true (and be backed up by facts), but enough fabrication to turn himself into a good guy, and the City Hunter into the villain. He adds that the City Hunter's motivation in this is retaliation and chaos. Chun tells the public not to forget that "The City Hunter is not a hero, but a traitor to his country."
Ironically enough, his pre-emptive strike confirms to Jin-pyo that he's Target No. 4. Jin-pyo muses, "He's turned on the spotlight, so it's time to climb up onstage." Yoon-sung comes to the same conclusion, that Chun has declared war.
Shik-joong wakes, and Yoon-sung is overcome with relief. And then shock, when Shik-joong tells him that he's found his mother.
Yoon-sung rushes to the temple and finds Kyung-hee lying down in her sickbed, having refused to leave, saying that her son might come looking for her now that he knows she's here. That just brings a tear to my eye.
Kyung-hee sits up to see him kneeling at her side, and whispers, "My baby. My son. Not a day has gone by that I'd forgotten you, but how hurt you must have been that I didn't recognize you at once. My son, I'm sorry."
She cries into his chest, and he stutters, "M-mom." Ahh, such satisfying words.
Thankfully she can now resume treatment for her leukemia while awaiting results of Yoon-sung's donor match test. Yoon-sung requests that this visit be kept off the official records, saying that she has a stalker-like situation going on, and that he'll pay in cash. The doctor offers to admit her as a foreign patient (hence, no national ID number).
Kyung-hee agrees to be admitted to the hospital now that she's found a reason to live, but asks to go out, just for today. Yoon-sung balks, citing the danger, but she says that after 28 years apart, she wants to cook for her son. "More than living one more day, I want to feed my son." Who can resist this universal mom gesture?
And so, Yoon-sung accompanies her home. Before she sets out to cooking, he stops her and admits with difficulty that he'd hated her, having thought she'd abandoned him. And that he'd been angry to see her sick, thinking that she should have been living it up if she'd tossed him aside to be free of him, and that he'd wanted her to keep living because he wouldn't be able to hate her in death. He apologizes for all that now.
Mom tells him she's the sorry one, for not protecting him or finding him first, and for being sick like this. She promises to live: "Yoon-sung, let's live happily, for a long, long time."
To cast a pall over this moment, watching just outside is Sang-gook, who gives his phone a conflicted look. Don't do it! Save yourself, and save your soul! Also Yoon-sung!
He turns away without calling (thank heaven) — only, Jin-pyo's not to be duped and shows up behind him. Gah! Why do you even need minions if your devil's work is so efficient without them?
He accuses Sang-gook of letting compassion overrule his orders. He warns him that he'll let it slide this time, but won't the next.
Jin-pyo watches the touching mother-son reunion and wonders, "Will you two be able to understand me?" I'm hoping no, since I'd like the others to retain their souls, please.
While eating, Mom notes that Yoon-sung has the same food habits as his father. Yoon-sung calls her jjigae tastier than Shik-joong's, describing him as a mother, brother, and (ha!) sister figure, and describes Jin-pyo as a demanding type who pushed him to excel in studies and athletics. Understatement of the year award, we have a winner.
Yoon-sung says he was the reason for Jin-pyo's leg, because he'd saved Yoon-sung from an accident. For that, Mom's thankful, but she asks, "Does he put you in danger?"
Yoon-sung laughs that off to ease her, then asks about his father, and hears that he was a warm man. Agh, the what-could-have-beens, they're killer. I know we'd have had no drama without the baby-stealing and whatnot, but I sigh for Yoon-sung's and Kyung-hee's lost lives.
He asks, "Losing someone dear to you — it's a sad thing, isn't it? Stealing those loved ones from someone, hurting them — they'll be punished for it, whatever the reason." Mom senses his turmoil and urges him to confide in her, but he says he's just talking about their situation.
Nana comes just in time to see the happy scene, smiling to see Yoon-sung eating his mother's food. She takes a photo quietly before leaving.
Chun is financially strapped at the moment due to pending business matters, and tries to think of ways to come up with 500 billion won, approximately $4 million. Jin-pyo seizes this as his in, and presents himself as a potential investor, wealthy American businessman Steve Lee.
Yoon-sung knows that despite his precautions to keep Kyung-hee hidden, it's only a matter of time before Jin-pyo tracks her down, and therefore prepares to transfer her to an American hospital when his business here is over. Words that briefly deflate Nana.
Yoon-sung asks Nana if being with him makes her happy — isn't she scared? — repeating the familiar "Being with me will endanger you" refrain. Nana reminds him that her feelings are her own, so he needn't worry.
Just then, they spot Jin-pyo entering the hospital, escorted by Chun Jae-man. Yoon-sung tells Nana to wait for him in the car, then follows his father to the VVIP reception area. Jin-pyo's face immediately goes from politeness to hardened badass, while Yoon-sung's undergoes a similar instant change, but from challenging stare to playboy smile. The smile is reserved for Chun's flattered secretary, who preens. HA. The pretty boy persona wins again.
Yoon-sung finds Dad in the restroom to tell him that he may get hurt if he goes after Chun, who's no easy target. I love how the targets are getting tougher — I don't rank their misdeeds in any order (how do you rank embezzling against lobbying and drunk driving and draft dodging?), but the baddies do appear to be revealing themselves in order of shrewdness. Which makes sense, since it only follows that the careless brash one who's drunk on power would be found out before the paranoid one who's vigilant of possible threats.
Dad replies that Yoon-sung doesn't have the luxury of worrying over him, when he's got his own troubles to deal with. To which Yoon-sung replies that he's not concerned: "I'm telling you not to get in my way." Gauntlet! Thrown.
Dad tells him he's being arrogant, and tells him to watch and learn: "Revenge has to be done in the spirit of revenge. Like I'm doing."
Nana worries that the Chun/Jin-pyo connection means they'll have to move Kyung-hee from this Haewon-owned hospital, but he says that it's darkest underneath the lamp — meaning, it may be safer to leave Kyung-hee here.
Nana asks him to take her home, now that the danger from Kim Jong-shik is gone and she can resume her life and her job. Yoon-sung doesn't like this idea for numerous reasons, which he expresses in his usual way, sniffing that he's glad, hmph.
He makes himself at home on her couch, and asks if she's sure she'll be okay, what with the danger and all. She retorts that he's much more of a danger to her, prompting him to pull her down on top of him (rawr!), asking innocently, "Why? What about me?" He says he's done a mental check of his savings account, saying she's expensive — a reference to their no-contact contract. Which, frankly, just seems like a skinship menu now. (Uh, where can I get me one of those, Mr. Lee Min-ho?)
Example: She hits his shoulder, and he demands 100,000 won, which she offers to repay with some really awesome coffee.
Nana smiles as she shares that the mere sight of coffee makes her think of him now. But that puts a damper on his mood, and he refuses the coffee, saying he's quit. He leaves abruptly, leaving Nana bewildered at his sudden change of mood, while he sighs, "The sight of coffee makes her think of me? That can't happen."
Young-ju sits down for lunch at the cafeteria, which causes all the other employees to get up and leave, now that he's been outed as a tainted prosecutor. Oh, so sad. As if it weren't bad enough that Dad's teetering on the brink, he gets tarred with the corruption brush when, really, he's the most morally upright one in this cast.
Young-ju receives word about Chun's meeting with Steve Lee, which is a clear red flag that something is up. He finds an old article about the Aungsan incident mentioned in Chun's speech, and notices that both Jin-pyo and Mu-yeol are on the list of Secret Service survivors.
Nana reports to work, only to find to her surprise that so has Yoon-sung. Gee, I wonder why! The ensuing scene between Yoon-sung, his IT colleagues, and Da-hae and her bodyguards has me cracking up because there's so much stuff going on all at once, and it's hilarious.
For instance: IT boss is thrilled to have Yoon-sung back, as is Da-hae. Yoon-sung's only got eyes for Nana, who hangs back and smiles at him — until Da-hae flings herself at him, which provokes a frown of jealousy. Eun-ah makes eyes at Ki-joon, but her comments are flirty toward Yoon-sung as well. For instance, the boss writes off his absence as vacation, to which Yoon-sung balks that that'll interfere with his real vacation, and he needs to see bikini-clad bodies to remain healthy. Ha. Eun-ah suggests the pool rather than the beach (easier to safeguard Da-hae), and offers that she has a bikini — which makes Ki-joon yell out in protest, apropos of (seemingly) nothing. Heh. These Blue House scenes have really grown on me; they're frivolous, but they make me giggle.
Nana tells Yoon-sung (calling him Mr. Bad Luck Bastard now, affectionately) that there are pictures of his father in the Secret Service records, so he takes a look at the books…of which the 1983 volume is missing. Who should show up to hand it over but Young-ju, who's just had a look.
This means that Young-ju now has confirmation that Jin-pyo, who's pictured in the book, is also Steve Lee. When he shows up to confront him, he cuts to the chase and calls him Jin-pyo.
Jin-pyo doesn't play coy, and acknowledges that he's one and the same. He says that he took on the Steve Lee persona because people would treat him differently if they knew he was a former Secret Service agent, and he's proud of achieving his business success on his own.
Young-ju finds it mighty suspicious that he went as far as to invent a new identity (the term is identity laundering), and Jin-pyo says he had reason to do it: "I washed my soul in the ocean with that incident, back then."
Young-ju: "That incident?" Jin-pyo tells Young-ju to figure it out. Young-ju leaves him with the warning that he knows Jin-pyo's working to get to Chun Jae-man, who he knows is the next target.
Shopping time for Yoon-sung, which gets a chuckle out of me since they're at a Trugen store, the menswear line for which Lee Min-ho has been brand model for the past couple years. Nana's here to give him a two-fold gift — to repay the 100,000 won he demanded, as well as welcome him back to work — and tells him to pick out a tie. To put the kibosh on his complaining, she gives him five seconds to choose, ha.
Make that a three-fold gift: It's also a pseudo-bribe so he'll keep her in the loop as his partner. Reluctantly he agrees, and I wonder if he feels the least bit of satisfaction when the reward for her pestering is that Nana has to watch him check into a hotel with another woman on his arm. Heh.
It's Chun Jae-man's secretary, who pouts to him about how hard her day was and mentions his meeting tomorrow with the National Intelligence Service's head of records. With that key info secured, Yoon-sung raises his glass for a toast, and the drink knocks her out cold.
Yoon-sung takes her employee keycard and heads out, only to be confronted by an annoyed Nana, who asks why he had to use these methods: "Use me instead! Why mistreat your body like that?" LOL.
Chun Jae-man visits comatose Kim Jong-shik in the hospital (whose hand twitches, unseen) and comes face to face with Young-ju. He's aware that Young-ju's digging around in his affairs — he's got informants to keep him apprised — and asks what's got him sniffing around. Young-ju refers to Chun's press conference statement about the traitors who were killed, and drops the hint that he knows he's covering for the North Korean incident of 1983.
Chun decides that it's too bad that Young-ju's his friend's son, but orders his minion, "Get rid of him." Dude, that's his solution for everything, which makes him the deadliest target thus far, though I can't help but laugh at the image of him dealing with every minor crisis in the same way: "The cleaning lady can't make it? Get rid of her. The dog won't beg? Kill it."
Yoon-sung heads to Haewon Group in time for Chun's meeting with the NIS guy, and takes on the two guards stationed at the front desk with cool efficiency, knocking them out with their own walkie-talkie. He positions them in their seats to look normal (asleep, perhaps), and calls Chun's secretary to say he's here to see her, but can't get in without a pass. She hesitates to leave her station, but when he suggests he'll just turn back and go home, she offers to come down to meet him.
Yoon-sung waits for her to vacate her desk, then slips inside — using her keycard — and approaches Chun's office. He opens the door quietly, just cracking it enough to affix a tiny camera to the inside of the door, then monitors the scene on his phone.
Chun pays off the NIS head of records for the file containing reports of the 1983 incident. It is to remain classified until 2030, and is the file Young-ju had wanted.
With the file safely in his hands, Chun mutters that nobody needs to know something that was to remain secret till 2030, and takes his lighter to the book…just as he gets a phone call.
Chun orders his minion to make the death appear as suicide, saying, "That Kim Young-ju fellow has gotten too arrogant." Young-ju's current status as persona non grata will explain his suicide, and Chun says he'll wait for the report on tonight's news.
Which means, of course, that the plan is going down today. Possibly now.
Eee! This sends Yoon-sung running, even though it keeps him from stopping Chun when he holds the lighter to the book again. He calls Young-ju, only to get his assistant instead, who reports that Young-ju was called by his apartment building to address an issue about his gas line. He'd headed home, but left his phone behind.
In his apartment, Young-ju can't find a problem and calls the apartment management office, only to hear that they hadn't called him. He frowns; how odd.
When he enters his car, he's attacked from behind by a man with a chloroform-soaked rag, and knocked out as the minion locks the doors and gets the carbon monoxide pumping.
Fumes quickly fill the car, while a barely conscious Young-ju fumbles for the door. But in his weakened condition, all he can do is gasp and cough.
Yoon-sung arrives in the parking lot and scans the aisles — just as Young-ju's hand lands on the steering wheel and blares the horn. Rushing to the car, Yoon-sung pounds on the doors and yells at Young-ju inside, but the doors are locked.
Time's ticking. Yoon-sung draws back his hand and smashes his bare fist through the window.
He drags Young-ju out of the car and checks for a breath. Judging him alive, he starts to walk off — only to have Young-ju grab his ankle, stopping him.
Yoon-sung freezes, while Young-ju squints up at him, trying to focus the blurry figure into a familiar silhouette…
Although I'd LOVE if bromance were to arise out of this turn in the story, it'll be a twisted sort of bromance, with both men holding very legitimate grudges against the other. How ironic that these men might actually respect each other, possibly even like each other, on the strength of their own merits — except that the weight of their father's generation burdens theirs.
This is the kind of conflict K-dramas love so much, the sins-of-my-father-become-sins-of-the-son dilemma. City Hunter manages to depict this scenario in a way that is both more epic than the usual K-drama, and less epic, in the best way. More epic because of the magnitude of the country's betrayal, but less epic in that there's less forced melodrama. I think what saves it for me is that these two aren't entangled in a Fateful Love Triangle on top of the fatherly angst, because that's where I always feel like the melodrama goes into overdrive. (Example: East of Eden.) They both have feelings for Nana, but it's not the typical love triangle, which I appreciate — and the same goes for Sae-hee.
I want for these two to be friends, because I feel like they'd understand each other in a way that few others could, but the facts of the case make that pretty improbable, maybe impossible. It's great.
I haven't commented much on him thus far, but I have to say that I quite like Young-ju as a character. I love his humorlessness, his strait-laced drive for truth and justice. I know Lee Jun-hyuk is plenty capable of comic timing and light-hearted boyishness, but he's committed himself to this character and it's so compelling. I actually LIKE that he's a fuddy-duddy. It makes his passion seem real, not just show.
What makes both Yoon-sung and Young-ju work for me is that unlike other dramas, they don't overplay the angst. It's why I find Lee Min-ho so damn cool in the action scenes — because he's not posturing for the camera in that "Yeah, I know I'm cool" way. We could call it The Song Seung-heon School of Acting, in the way those kind of leads can't get rid of that self-awareness of how very hot they must look at any given moment.
It's like that unspoken rule where wanting to be cool actually makes you less cool, while not giving a damn? So cool. On that score: Yoon-sung's super calm and efficient, like he's only here to get the job done. And Young-ju is all blazing passion, in an understated sort of way, if that contradictory statement makes any sense, and it's so endearing.
I do wish they'd taken Yoon-sung — or at least his conflict — into darker territory, rather than sort of letting him off the hook. But in the end I'm not complaining because I love the conflict that this stirs in Young-ju — the idea that his enemy may not really be his enemy. I appreciate that they're giving a second lead this kind of complexity, when a lot of dramas would be piling all the narrative glory onto the hero, and the hero alone, leaving Mr. Second Lead as merely the foil.
Also: I'm starting to get the feeling that Jin-pyo doesn't just want revenge, and found it particularly telling today when he repeatedly says that Yoon-sung must be the one to shoot the bullet through their enemies' hearts. He wants to bring Yoon-sung to his side, to share his views, like Darth Vader tempting Luke to the Dark Side. Jin-pyo needs Yoon-sung in a strictly technical sense because Yoon-sung has access he doesn't with his fresh face and background (as well as youth and an able body), but with all the means at his disposal I'm thinking Yoon-sung wasn't his only option. But now, I'm starting to think that he needs Yoon-sung to see his point, like it wouldn't be a complete victory without it. Is it merely validation he seeks? Or is that his twisted way of upholding his brotherhood with Mu-yeol? To give Mu-yeol's son the right to avenge him, as a beloved father deserves? Is this like Jin-pyo's way of pressing bloody thumbs together with his best friend's son to be blood brothers, in shared vengeance? It's fascinating, for sure.
- City Hunter: Episode 13
- City Hunter: Episode 12
- City Hunter: Episode 11
- City Hunter: Episode 10
- City Hunter: Episode 9
- City Hunter: Episode 8
- City Hunter: Episode 7
- Lee Min-ho gets into a car accident, escapes injury
- City Hunter: Episode 6
- City Hunter: Episode 5
- Lee Jun-hyuk for Bazaar
- Behind the scenes with City Hunter
- City Hunter: Episode 4
- City Hunter: Episode 3
- City Hunter: Episode 2
- City Hunter: Episode 1


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It's time to say goodbye, and the finale of Arang and the Magistrate ties up our ends in a nicely complete way. Truths are uncovered, tears are shed, and things come full circle to give us just the right dose of closure while keeping the door open for our future.
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Ejected from the body of Eun-oh's mother, Mu-yeon runs straight for Arang. But Arang screams, "NO!" and by virtue of her rejection, Mu-yeon gets thrown back like there's a force field around Arang. In a way there is, because the host body must be willing.
Mu-young grabs Mu-yeon, who struggles to break free and begs him to help her. He says with a pained expression, "I'm sorry to have left you to suffer for so long." How fitting that he sees her mode of existing as suffering, while she's desperate to cling to it as a mode of living.
She starts to shake her head no in panic, especially as he adds, "Let's go together."
Mu-young pulls her to him tightly and says, "Let's cut our ties now." He plunges the Jade Emperor's dagger into her back, and her body vanishes into smoke.
He's left holding air… and then stoically sticks the dagger into his own gut. Wow. I'm impressed.
Arang watches in horror and recalls the conversation when she'd asked him whether reapers died. He'd replied, "We don't die. We just disappear."
Then Mu-young turns into smoke too.
Joo-wal comes by to witness the rest of the scene, though nobody pays him any heed. Sobbing, Eun-oh holds his mother's limp body, and the hairpin vanishes from her chest.
Mom's not dead yet, and he runs carrying her on his back, urging her to hang on a bit longer. She gasps out his name, though, asking to be put down. They both known the end is nigh and Eun-oh cries, "I'm sorry."
But Mom looks more at peace than she ever has and tells him, "Thank you."
Mom turns to Arang and gives her a nod, which Arang returns; it rather feels like a father giving away a bride to her groom. Then Mom closes her eyes and dies.
Joo-wal walks numbly, telling himself, "She's dead. What do I do now?" Such a strange thing, to be finally out from under her thumb. I wonder whether he'll be liberated by his freedom, or strangled by it. I… am not hopeful.
A new memory surfaces: He sees himself carrying Seo-rim's dead body—and throwing it off a cliff. Whoa. It's a pretty chilling image, and it devastates him anew. He trembles and says, "Till the last, I threw you away so terribly and didn't know. Saying that I didn't know may not earn me forgiveness, but I truly did not know. How many more memories will come back to me? I'm frightened. How am I to live on?"
Gah! You poor, pititful man. I really hope he doesn't decide he can't live on, and not just because I don't want to see him die. I think it shows more strength and remorse to keep living, bearing the burden of his crimes. Alas, we know strength of character is not his forte.
Up in heaven, Hades tsks-tsks that Mu-young ended up saving Mu-yeon after all. Jade Emperor says that it's a shame that negating one's existence is an act of salvation. I suppose it's because that also negates the weight of her sins? Is this the math version of soul-saving, where zero value is better than negative value?
But he adds, "Mu-yeon might have preferred hellfire. Don't you remember? She hated the tedium of heaven, where she wasn't allowed any desire. So she would probably have preferred to endure in hell, holding on to pain and feeling."
Hades muses, "Then negating her existence may be the cruelest punishment."
Jade says that at least his human came through in the end, though Hades chuckles that their bet is not over yet, and that Arang won't be able to solve this problem: "So get that body ready to swap." Heh.
Eun-oh and Arang pay their respects to Mom's grave. She notes that the Truth Bell hasn't rung yet, indicating that the truth of her death wasn't Mom. Still, she thinks to herself that it's okay going to hell even without finding out that truth, "because I'd have to go to hell in order to remember him." Now that's what I call the lesser of two evils.
Eun-oh tells her that Mu-young tipped him off on a way to find that truth. In flashback, Mu-young instructs him to take a look at the record book of life and death, which should list the true culprit. So… the gods knew all along? Was this just some big wild goose chase for the poor dead girl?
A living person's records are up in heaven, but the dead's records are kept in a library in the forest of the afterworld.
The catch is, Arang can't travel the path to the otherworld until her allotted days are up. Literally, she won't be allowed near it. So, Eun-oh decides, "I'll go." Say what? You mean… you'll find a way to go while remaining alive and human, right? You're not entertaining some insane death wish, are you?
Arang balks for the same reason, telling him he'd have to die to get there. Eun-oh starts to argue that Mu-young told him a way to go without dying (phew!), but she cuts him off to tell him to forget it. "I don't have to go to heaven." She corrects herself: "No, I don't want to go."
Eun-oh's surprised. What can that mean? We know it's because she doesn't want to go to heaven and forget, but who else is getting ideas of a perverse drama where Arang becomes Mu-yeon 2.0? It's almost funny.
Arang leaves first and trudges through town glumly, telling herself, "Even if I go to hell, I want to remember him." Oh, honey. I feel for you, I do. But sometimes I wonder whether god gave you extra guts to make up for your brain.
Eun-oh asks Bang-wool if there's a way to pull his spirit from his body (short of death), so it can go to the Afterlife Forest. There is, but a separate problem exists: He doesn't know the way. The reaper is the one to guide the souls there, and as we know, he just lost his only reaper contact.
Bang-wool suggests he ask Arang because she's traveled that path before, but Eun-oh tells her about Arang's temporary restraining order from the area. So Bang-wool offers up a theory that he might be able to take just Arang's consciousness along for the ride, to guide his spirit.
Eun-oh tries to persuade Arang to comply with the plan, because it's dumb sitting here waiting for hell just so she won't forget him. "You're somebody who can go to heaven and find a way to remember." Yes, thank you.
He urges, "Think it over carefully, why you came here." He asks her to go with him and win her future in heaven; they can figure out the rest when they get there.
Arang thinks back to the day she'd asked Seo-rim's newly discovered body why she'd just died like a victim instead of fighting. She'd vowed to find out who did this to her—words that ring in her ears now.
Meanwhile, it's time for Eun-oh to honor his deal with his ghost crew, which I find so cute. He hears them out and gets to work.
Ghost No. 1 left behind a pregnant wife who hasn't been able to properly name the baby without him. He asks Eun-oh to let him give the child a prosperous name.
Ghost No. 2 drowned, and his corpse was never recovered. Ghost No. 3 worries for his elderly mother, who still waits for his return; he was mauled by a tiger while fetching persimmons for her.
Eun-oh listens to these grievances with sympathy, then turns to Ghost No. 4, who bursts out, "Please marry me off!" Pwahaha.
One by one, Eun-oh takes care of the ghosts. A name is selected, a tombstone is erected for the corpseless man, Mom is given her persimmons and informed of her son's fate, and Bachelor Ghost… is married off to another ghost? That's so cute, and strange.
It's a light-hearted sequence, but still quite moving to see the ghosts beaming at him, souls finally at peace, as they fade away to the beyond.
Eun-oh thinks to himself, "I have done everything I can in this place." Please tell me you mean this place Miryang, and not this place earth. If you kill yourself out of nobility, imma kill you, I swear!
Eun-oh and Arang take a walk along the river's edge, where she says ruefully that once she's gone, time will continue on. Eun-oh replies, "I hated to hear the saying that time is faster than an arrow, above all else. Because difficult times always passed by so slowly. But as I'm with you now, indifferent time keeps going, and I resent it."
Arang thinks to herself, "Where a flower once bloomed, a flower will bloom again. Where the wind blew, a different wind will blow again. But I will hold onto that feeling forever. Even though if I go to heaven I will forget you, and if I go to hell you will forget me. Even though wherever we are, we will not know each other."
Eun-oh thinks, "With this heart, I will find you. If a man passes by you and stops, and tears form and your heart races—recognize that it's me." He says aloud, "Arang, I love you." They kiss.
In the dark, Joo-wal gets dressed, then blows out his candle. Uh-oh. This seems ominous. He heads outside, just as his faithful servant watches him go. The man says, "Young master, please be healthy."
Joo-wal heads into the forest, telling himself, "Days were black even when I opened my eyes. Time stopped even though I lived. These cowardly steps that I took with a fearful heart, I will now end. The me who could stick a dagger in people's chests and remain unmoved, I cannot forgive."
Joo-wal arrives at the cliff from which he threw Seo-rim's body. He stands there for a long moment, thinking of Arang, of Seo-rim. Oh, this is so sad.
Joo-wal: "If ever we meet again, if that life permits, I will just stay behind you. From afar, as a black shadow, just looking, just hurting. I will not dare… to love you."
He closes his eyes, and falls.
The next day, Eun-oh speaks with an air of finality to Dol-swe and the Bangs, thanking them for looking after him and asking them to keep up their hard work in the future. They ask why he's talking like a person about to leave, and he answers that he must, having done all he can do here.
His last act as magistrate is to post a notice in town stating that there is a royal order not to hold one's status against a person serving the government. Those who serve the citizens well will be promoted. He gives the citizens the power to elect their magistrate.
Dol-swe leads Bang-wool through the village, urging her to stand beside him rather than trailing meekly behind, which is enough to make me love him (though I already do). He grabs her hand, which practically gives her a heart attack, but he doesn't care if people see and intertwines their fingers for good measure.
Bang-wool softens, and says shyly that it's amazing that the road she walked a thousand times now looks different because they're walking it together. Dol-swe totally misses the comment but he does earn points for taking her to a street artist to have their pictures drawn.
Then Dol-swe pulls her over to a table of jewelry and asks what she likes. She says she's not much for accessorizing, but gives a jade ring a longing glance. Oho, are we going jade to suggest marriage?
That night they puzzle over their portraits, wondering if that's really what they look like. She tells him that his macho aura is spot-on, while he tells her, "You're like a great big moon." Which makes her wonder dubiously, "Well, it sounds like praise…" Ha.
Dol-swe presents her with the jade ring and places it on her finger, which it's a perfect fit—he was taking note when he held her hand. Then he pulls out a second ring and holds it out for her to return the gesture.
She slides it on his finger, and he takes her hand to say, "Till now, I've lived thinking that being a man was all about being strong. But I found that's not so. An ordinary man uses his strength for a woman, but a real man uses his heart for a woman. Will you accept my heart?"
Aw, that's so sweet! You big lug. She tells him he can't take his heart back, and they hug.
On to the Forest of the Afterlife. Eun-oh and Arang lie down while Bang-wool ties their wrists together with red string, and I'm gonna be honest, this is not how I envisioned them being tied up in bed. But okay, I suppose they've got more important concerns at the moment. Bang-wool explains that this way they'll stay together in the forest, and she's attached bells to alert them to come back.
She warns that they must leave the forest before the break of dawn—otherwise Eun-oh dies. Also, they may be tempted by visions, but must resist: "Just look straight ahead and run on." Is anybody else having second thoughts about this plan?
Bang-wool begins the rites, and they open their eyes to find themselves in the forest. Arang leads the way and sure enough, the path is lined with dull-eyed ghosts reaching out to them. Eun-oh shakes them off and presses onward, until Arang spots a familiar face—Seo-rim's dead servant. The old woman tells her to come with her ("I'll take you, there's something I must show you") and Arang starts to follow.
Thankfully Eun-oh isn't affected, but Arang follows the woman anyway, arriving at a scene from Seo-rim's childhood: her mother's death. This is a mental journey rather than a physical transportation, and Eun-oh shakes Arang awake in the forest, wiping her tears and urging her to get a hold of her mind.
On they go, until they arrive at a building in the woods, where a warrior stands guard with a huge scythe. Eun-oh asks to see the Book of Life and Death and is told he's the first living person to ask to see the record of a dead person.
Eun-oh says that he has his reasons and asks to be let inside. The guard warns him that once he enters, he has a time limit—and if he fails to find his answer, he will be unable to return to his life. Eun-oh answers that he's prepared for that possibility. In he goes, leaving Arang behind in the courtyard.
It looks like a tall order, because it's a large library with stacks upon stacks of books. However, he doesn't have carte blanche to look at everything; he can only seek one answer here. The guard instructs, "In your heart, ask yourself what it is you wish to know. Then the Book of Life and Death will answer you." His time will be marked by the red dots that have appeared on his hand: He has until the last one disappears.
Eun-oh gets to work locating Arang's records. Already he's lost two of the five dots. He closes his eyes and chants to himself, "I will find it. I can find it."
Something comes to him, and he heads in a particular direction. He locates Arang's book, and starts flipping through it, all while repeating his request: Who killed Arang?
A page wipes itself, then the answer appears. Eun-oh: "The one to kill Arang… was Arang herself?"
Stunned, Eun-oh puts the book back and starts to leave… and sees another book right next to it. Kim…Eun…Oh?
He opens it and reads, "I died at six years old." A flashback comes to him:
The Jade Emperor carries Eun-oh's six-year-old body and tells him that he leaves him a debt, and his time is not his own. One day he would remember this.
Eun-oh wonders why the Jade Emperor brought him back to life. If he does not own his own time, then who does? He bellows up toward the sky, "JADE EMPEROR!" I've got a few choice epithets to add to that.
Suddenly, he's somewhere else. Gasping, Eun-oh opens his eyes… to find the gods awaiting him in heaven's garden. Jade Emperor speaks: "Speak up, Kim Eun-oh. What is it you want?"
Eun-oh asks why he was saved, and Jade replies, "You were the human I needed." Eun-oh asks if he was the tool to capture the fairy, and gets back, "Yes, but not only for that."
Glowering fiercely, Eun-oh informs him, "Know this: You may have started this plan, but the one to finish things was my own will. Plunging the hairpin into my mother's chest was my choice!"
Eun-oh tells Jade what he's discovered, that Arang was the cause of her own death, but as she is immortal the bell cannot ring. Hades chuckles: "That's why I said she could never solve this problem." Aw, so did you sadistic old fogeys purposely give her an impossible task? This is why we mere mortals have laws against entrapment.
Eun-oh is furious, accusing them of sending Arang on an impossible mission and cackling to themselves as they watched from their heavenly perches: "If this is your game, at the very least you should have given her a problem that could be solved! Shouldn't gods be fair?"
Hades says that he's relatively fair himself, but this other guy "is rather wishy-washy." I'LL SAY.
Mr. Wishy-washy tells him, "From the start, Arang did not come here in order to go to heaven. She came to know her truth, and to know who she was. Thus I allowed her to know what she wished to know. If Arang were to realize on her own what you have found out, she will have been rewarded. The matter of heaven and hell comes after that. Now tell me, Kim Eun-oh. What is the real reason you have come here?"
I suppose god-maiming is off the menu? Next thing we know, Eun-oh is bursting out of the library to rejoin Arang in the courtyard. He grabs her hand and starts running back through the forest.
In the real world, Bang-wool frantically rings her bell and begs them to hurry back. But Arang trips and falls, and Eun-oh turns back to find she's gone. Arang wakes up. Eun-oh remains asleep.
Arang pleads at him to wake up… as her body flickers and vanishes. Arang reawakens outside, in front of a gaping black vortex. The door to hell.
It starts to draw her in, all the while she looks back at the house and begs Eun-oh to wake up: "Tell me that you're alive. Tell me you're okay. Magistrate, be well. I'm the reason you can't wake up."
As she stares into the abyss, being pulled in, Arang realizes, "Everything was my fault. The one who caused my death was myself. That's why you didn't tell me, because I cannot die and am meant to go to hell in the end."
Eun-oh's eyes open, thank god. He bursts outside and runs for Arang, darting in front… getting drawn into hell instead…
A flashback shows us how Eun-oh had named his request: Since he caught their rogue fairy for them, he wants Arang's bell to ring. Jade asked what he'd do in exchange, and Eun-oh replied, "I will give up my life."
Only, Hades had said a life wasn't enough: Could he go to hell in her place?
Now Eun-oh looks back at Arang as he's pulled into hell, hand outstretched. Arang screams for him… the vortex closes… and a bell rings.
Arang sobs, and her body vanishes.
We reopen some time in the unspecified future. Dol-swe is dressed in the magistrate's robes and assured by a happy Bang Trio that everything here is safe and sound, thanks to him.
Bang-wool gives a taste of her pork-and-kimchi wrap to a tavern mistress, who declares that they should go into business together. Soon they're drawing crowds and raking in the compliments.
She hasn't forgotten her roots and takes a few plates out to the ghosts in the yard (with Lord Choi in the mix, HA). What's even better is that in the ensuing fight, Lord Choi's minion gets it. Lord Choi balks but the minion is all, "So, whatchoo gonna do about it?"
But! All's not lost for our main characters, as we find when Hades tut-tuts to Jade Emperor about Eun-oh's whereabouts. He was going to offer Eun-oh a place in heaven for his sacrifice, but Eun-oh insisted on returning to the living world. He wonders why humans are so intent on living there, and Jade replies, "That's why they're humans."
Hades is bummed at the close call, too, saying he really thought he'd get Jade's body. To make up for that disappointment, Jade offers a gift, and calls out, "Mu-young!"
Pan to: a white goat. Aw, so he didn't disappear from all existence after all? True, he has to live as a goat, but hey, he's a heavenly goat. Hades chuckles that this is the best thing Jade Emperor has ever done. Jade says that it IS breaking the rules, but he couldn't resist since Hades seemed to miss Mu-young so much. So he reincarnated him. Ha, and also, let's hope Jade doesn't set off a whole new chain of misfortune with his well-intentioned rule-breaking.
Hades figures that living out his days in heaven is adequate punishment for Mu-young being unable to cut his human ties properly, and declares, "I'll have to visit often."
There's a new crop of reapers to replace Mu-young… and one of them is Joo-wal. Awwwwww.
Back to earth. In a field, a little boy comes up to a little girl in a field of flowers. Omo. Is this… what I think it is?
A voice calls out, "Eun-oh-ya!" It's Bang-wool, his mother.
Eun-oh ducks out of sight and tells the girl she looks familiar. The boy's a little player in the making, saying that he's met loooooots of young ladies in his life (all five years of it?), but she's the prettiest.
He asks her name, and she says, "I'm Arang."
Then the girl bursts out, "Look here, magistrate! I told you not to drink from that well of forgetfulness! Did you drink it? *SIGH* This is too much. What are you gonna do?! What good is it if I'm the only one who remembers, HUH? Can you really not remember? Really? AHHH what do we do, you AMNESIA?"
Arang heaves an adorable sigh of long-suffering and starts her story about a long, long time ago when there was a ghost named Arang and a magistrate named Eun-oh… Her frustration is freaking hilarious, and uncanny.
The picture blurs, giving us a version with adult Arang and Eun-oh. She rants in frustration while Eun-oh stares at her, wearing a smile on his face that seems reassuring. You're faking this, right? You'd better be faking!
Arang beats him on the arm in exasperation and reminds him he wasn't supposed to drink, and he finally speaks up, "I know!"
He says, "In any case, for us, what's most important is this moment right now."
She smiles, and plants a kiss on him.
Ahhh, what a cute, heartfelt ending. The concept itself is a tricky one to pull off, because if conveyed clumsily I could see this being a real disappointment of a resolution—you create a world and a problem, then pull the plug on the whole situation and just reincarnate them? Sounds like a cop-out, right?
But this is a drama where life/afterlife/rebirth is a central conceit, so I have no issues whatsoever with this answer. I'm perfectly satisfied with it, and I think it directly addresses two major issues I had with two recent dramas, Rooftop Prince and Big. In the first instance, I thought our ending was lopsided, making me feel sorry for one-half of the pairing and less so for the other. And in Big, we also dealt with an ending image that wasn't technically representative of the reality of the situation—that is, refusing to show us the characters as they really were, choosing instead to end on the illusion.
Arang and the Magistrate, on the other hand, completely works for me. The reincarnation is exactly what I would've wanted for Rooftop—they both missed their chances, so they both get new ones together—but in keeping personalities intact, I don't get the letdown of thinking they have to start all over from scratch. It's not as vague an ending as hinting that they'll end up together because they're Fated To Be, which is a solution that would have driven me nuts.
Instead, I really love this idea that these two earned their next lifetime together, and the fact that they retain their memories and meet as children. Because both lived fairly heartbreaking lives in their previous existences, and this way I get the assurance of knowing they would enjoy every single last minute together of the new ones. These kids get to have their cake and eat it too, starting off already in love and appreciative of it. They get to skip all the heartache they endured in the previous life, and ostensibly starting an ordinary, boring, and long life together. I guess that's what happens when the great big god in the sky owes you a solid; you get lots of cake-eating.
I also love how the drama highlights that Eun-oh had autonomy, the whole way through. Yes, the Jade Emperor pretty much predicted everything that was going to happen, and he stepped in enough times to steer the situation into being. But he didn't have the power to force anybody to comply, and Eun-oh still had to prove he was up to his burden.
It's interesting that Arang and Mu-yeon are once again shown to be of similar mind in the way they both regard hell—that pain and suffering is better than nullity. Maybe that's a lesson Jade could learn from, because one wonders what kind of place heaven really is if you don't feel that conviction of emotion.
Joo-wal's ending was a nice touch that took away that trace of disappointment at his suicide, even though I was in no way surprised he made that choice. All along I've felt very moved by his character—never supporting his decisions, but still understanding them. That character was really bolstered by Yeon Woo-jin's affecting portrayal, because he drove home the desperation and vulnerability at every turn. I find Joo-wal to be pathetic and weak, but not unsympathetic. So even though his new incarnation as reaper is rather grim (hur hur), it eases my mind a bit knowing that he does get another existence. It's not necessarily a bright future, but he will serve the gods whose rules he defied and have to do his penance in a way he can bear. Perhaps it's also assuring to feel, as the drama tells us, that a continued existence of any kind is more comforting than just vanishing into the void. Perhaps that's the best gift for his character.
All in all, the drama showed that it had its story and world well plotted in advance, which is a pretty effective argument against the live-shoot in my book. I'm sure there were aspects that were written as the show went along, but you don't create this kind of intricate world with expansive rules and sprawling mythology on the fly.
I loved Shin Mina and Lee Jun-ki's chemistry together, both in the cute romantic scenes and the more melo turns, and it's thanks to their connection that I felt the pathos of their characters' situation. I did miss the early comedy, but they sold the emotion so much that in the end it was just all about them earning their happy ending.
Awww. Yay for an adorable ending. In any other show, I might have hated having the couple reunite in an afterlife (and was dissatisfied with the mixing of the two in Rooftop Prince, for example). But in this drama where life and afterlife, and the destinies of two lovers carrying on for multiple lifetimes is built into the universe, and both of them are reborn to get a fresh new start, it's a nice satisfying conclusion to the story. And how much do I love that Dol-swe and Bang-wool named their son Eun-oh, and he's actually Eun-oh reborn? So. Cute.
The thing I was most concerned about was the issue of memory, so I'm glad that it was the primary concern for Arang as well. That felt right to me, that she'd consider going to hell just to remember him. The well of forgetfulness (and Eun-oh being called Amnesia this time, heh) was a nice touch, but I also would've loved to see them fight to come back rather than just be told about it later. Mostly I'm happier that we end the series with the feistier Arang who started the show, because she spent a good long while making so many self-sacrificing choices that she began to lose her spark. It's probably my biggest complaint about the late stretch of the show, because at some point, plot-wise, it began to feel like we were just biding time until the end.
It would've been nice if the ending had something a little more mind-blowing, like Eun-oh finding a loophole that completely turned heaven's rules upside-down, or Arang discovering a secret that changed everything we thought we knew. This ending felt in tune with the series and the world they set up, but didn't rock my world or make me go Ooooh, I never would've come up with that! That's what I want to feel at the end of a fantasy mystery, so while the ending was satisfying (on the emotional front), it wasn't totally awe-inspiring (on the story front).
Overall I did thoroughly enjoy this show from start to finish, because it really did feel like thought and care was put into the construction of an entire world, where mythology and rules were important (because they certainly are to me). And visually, I'm a big fan of this director. I did see a huge gap in quality between the earlier episodes and when the show began to catch up and shoot live, so I think it's a show that benefits massively from the extra edit/CG pass, but it was certainly a show that cared to tell its story visually, which makes me a fan.
I thought the contemplative goodbyes in voiceover for each of our main characters was a nice touch, and reinforced the life-affirming, cyclical nature of everything in this world. I've always had a soft spot for the epic romances that span multiple lifetimes, but they can be tricky to pull off in a satisfying way. It might've worked even better for me if they had crossed paths again as adults, but I do enjoy the humor in having a pair of kids meet with their adult personalities and memories. The chemistry between the leads was so good that it actually transfers onto the little kids, because you can see their characteristics so clearly. I think at the end of the day that's what made the show so compelling—the world was populated with rich, distinct characters, and they had a sparkling kind of chemistry. It was nice to come along for a ride with a planned story from start to finish, and a really successful balance of humor, action, mystery, suspense, fantasy, and romance. It's not often genre shows can manage to do all that, with so much heart to boot. And I'm not even mad at the moon anymore.
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9. "Allow me to spend quality time with my kids, in my way." —Mohamed, 31, Cincinnati
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text: Hey, It's Jackie Robinson Daymjdeadspin4/15/06 7:27pmFiled to: MlbBlack AthleteJackie Robinson0EditPromoteShare to KinjaToggle Conversation toolsGo to permalinkThis image was lost some time after publication, but you can still view it here. Can't let the day pass without mentioning that it's Jackie Robinson Day around major league parks, as today marks the 59th anniversary of Jackie Robinson's first game in the major leagues. Of course, on this day, African-American pitchers are entitled to intentionally hit one white batter per inning without repercussions.AdvertisementOkay, that's not true. But ceremonies are being held all around the league, and Robinson's widow Rachel was honored before the Mets/Brewers game. The White Sox played a video tribute to him on the center-field scoreboard. The Red Sox had a similar video, and the Dodgers are planning to honor ten Jackie Robinson scholars this evening, with Robinson's daughter Sharon and a Robinson teammate, Don Newcombe, on hand.Of course, not everyone is celebrating. The Black Athlete Sports Network doesn't think too highly of Major League Baseball's back-patting celebrations, or the fact that the 20 most influential people in baseball are white. Agree or disagree with their points about baseball and Bud Selig, it's still a good reminder that Jackie Robinson Day shouldn't be about congratulating ourselves on any progress that's been made, but rather a reminder that there's still work to be done.AdvertisementJackie Robinson honored throughout majors [SeattlePI.com] MLB's Once A Year Charade [Black Athlete Sports Network]ReplyLeave a reply


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Golden Frame
And here we go again! Last night I spent few hours to share with you trendy Heraldic Illustration – Golden Frame. With elegant ribbon (for your text), with blue glassy button in the center (for your logo, or picture) and with elegant floral ornament, crown, wings and blinks (just to add some glamor effect).
Size: 1.8 mb
Format: eps (Adobe Illustrator)
License: Attribution-Share Alike 3.0
Gold Ingots and Photos, Textures
To show respect to king of metals, I'm sharing golden clipart. 20 HQ jpg images relative to gold: coins, textures, backgrounds, ingots and some golden jewelry
Size: 22 mb
Format: jpg
Sunny Web 2.0 Icons (ai)
Just look on it! I just found one more set of vector icons. Now it is sunny theme. HQ vector icons in glassy style with blinks and shadows.
Size: 1.8 mb
Format: ai
License: free for personal use
Vector Golden Rings (AI)
Hello everyone, look what I found. Two golden rings, possible they are engagement rings. But the thing is that it's not a photo, can you believe it is vector? It's really amazing work.
Size: 2.8 mb
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Oriental Treasures (ai)
Just look on this bright set of oriental objects: treasure chest with gold and jewels, straps, rings. Bowl with dragon's incrustation, golden flame, flowers ornament, golden coins and ingots. And certainly cool vector blinks.
Size: 2.6 mb
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Golden Borders
Unusual set of Golden Ornament's Border. It is not vector, it's psd file, but its resolution 300 dpi, and weight about 1200 px. Layers are not merged.
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Poverty rate hits 15%, highest since 1983
Published 9:58 am, Tuesday, September 13, 2011
WASHINGTON - The Census Bureau reports the number of Americans in poverty jumped to 15.1 percent in 2010, a 27-year high.
About 46.2 million people, or nearly 1 in 6, were in poverty. That's up from 43.6 million, or 14.3 percent, in 2009. It was the highest level since 1983.
The number of people lacking health insurance increased to 49.9 million, a new high after revisions were made to 2009 figures. Losses were due mostly to working-age Americans who lost employer-provided insurance in the weak economy. Main provisions of the health overhaul don't take effect until 2014.
The statistics released Tuesday cover 2010, when U.S. unemployment averaged 9.6 percent, up from 9.3 percent the previous year.
The median - or midpoint - household income was $49,445, a 2.3 decline from 2009.


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