The much talked about kiss when it was first released
When Park Sihoo-ssi’s new drama “Babel 바벨” started its filming back in December, one of the first shots shared was the kiss between his Cha Woohyuk and Han Jungwon. It was a poignant kiss on a stairwell. This kissed was much talked about then.
The questions raised then were why did they kiss? Did they already know each other? If so, how did they meet? Were they lovers?
After watching last Sunday’s premiere of “Babel 바벨”, the final scene was of this much talked about kiss, but a new dimension was added. When the cameras pulled back, it revealed her husband Tae Minho, who had come back from the dead looking on. His calm, unfathomable stare and then the slow lifting curl of his lips was quite scary!
A new dimension with her husband’s appearance
So on top of the questions raised earlier, more question marks came to mind, especially what would come up next! Would her husband turn violent or would he keep what he saw in his pocket and wait for an advantageous, right moment to use this trump card?
As they said, curiosity killed the cat. And my interest was so piqued, I did some investigation and deduction. My take?
Cha Woohyuk and Han Jungwon did indeed know each other from before. Remember he used to be a reporter? In fact he was paparazzi! He brushed shoulders with Han Jungwon seven years ago, passing by each other in one of the teasers shared by TV Chosun. Seven years ago, he blew the whistle on the courting “Roman Holiday” relationship between Han Jungwon and Tae Minho. He was the writer of the malicious news that threw the couple into media limelight and I believe forced them into marriage.
They passed each other by. He the reporter, she the actress
Whether Cha Woohyuk and Han Jungwon met afterwards and before this much talked about kiss, I can’t tell. I suspect not or at most, they met only fairly recently when the car she drove splashed water on him (Remember the umbrella scene?) and during a dinner involving the chaebol daughter Tae Yura who introduced them.
This means they were not lovers. If this is the case, why did he kiss her? My take? Because of guilt from the past and to comfort her. He felt guilty from being the person responsible for her going into marriage. A marriage that condemned her to hell and misery. It was also an instinctive reaction of a man who wanted to comfort a woman he might be attracted to and maybe growing to like.
Guilt and sympathy that initiated the kiss
So far, I haven’t seen any scenes that show them to be lovers prior to the kiss, unless I miss out on a clue!
Yes, I like playing detective with all these guesswork and speculation! Kekeke! 😂
And this morning, yet another set of photos were shared by TV Chosun, scenes of an “after a kiss” they have touted in their press release! Arrgh! These people sure know how to pique everyone’s interest!
Must watch this weekend to take a closer look on Saturday and Sunday when Episodes 2 & 3 goes on air! I can’t wait to uncover more of the mystery! And also to find out if I can make a good detective! Kekeke! 😂 Don’t miss “Babel 바벨” on TV Chosun at 2250h Korean time this weekend!
PS: What’s written here is just my speculation and a lot of guesswork. So be warned, I might be totally off tangent! Kekeke! 😂
TV Chosun Drama Youtube Video – Episode 1 “Babel”: Kiss of comfort discovered, 27 January 2019
https://youtu.be/vBB0Ahzmw04
通天塔（哑铃） Babel：被关注的亲吻
当施厚君的新电视剧“通天塔（哑铃） Babel 바벨”于12月开始拍摄时，首先拍摄的镜头之一就是他的车宇赫和韩贞媛之间的亲吻。这是在楼梯间的凄惨的亲吻，受许多人的关注。
当时，大家纷纷争论，脑里有着好多问题，如，他们为什么亲吻？之前是否彼此已经认识了吗？如果是认识，他们是如何相遇？他们可否是恋人？
Tae Minho’s unfathomed expression
Will he flare or keep this information for future use?
观看了上周日首播的“通天塔（哑铃） Babel 바벨”之后，最后一幕是最被关注的同一个亲吻，但添加了新的维度。当相机拉回去时，揭示了她的丈夫泰民浩，他从死里回生，在哪冷静，深不可测的凝视妻子和别的男人亲密，然后嘴唇缓慢的抬起卷曲，实在太可怕了！
因此，除了之前有的问题之外，还出现了更多的问号，尤其是接下来会发生什么！她的丈夫会有暴力的举动，还是会保留这关系，藏在口袋里，等待有利和适当的时刻来使用这张王牌？
正如他们所说的，好奇心杀死了只猫。我的兴趣被激动，所以做了一些调查和演绎。我的看法是什么？
A “Roman Holiday” kind of courtship
车宇赫和韩贞媛之前确实有过交道。记得他曾经是一名记者吗？事实上，当时他是狗仔队！七年前，他与韩贞媛擦肩而过，在朝鲜电视TV Chosun 分享的一部预告片中，见到他们相互掠过。七年前，当韩贞媛和泰民浩谈着“罗马假日”的恋爱是车宇赫吹响了哨声。他就是那恶意新闻的作者，将这对初恋人卷入绯文的风波中，我相信这强迫他们结婚。
Was she forced into marriage?
无论车宇赫和韩贞媛之后和在那亲吻之前有没有更深的认识，真的不好说。我怀疑没有，最多是他们最近刚遇见。她驾驶的车泼他一身水（还记得雨伞的场景吗？），还有是在一个晚宴一起用餐，当时财阀女儿泰侑啦也在场，介绍了他们。
这意味他们不是恋人。如果是这样，为什么他会吻她呢？我的看法？因为过去的内疚和想安慰她。她嫁给泰民浩是因为车宇赫写的绯闻，谴责她入地狱和受折磨的婚姻，所以他感到内疚。加上，这也可能是一个男人的本能反应，他想要安慰吸引自己并渐渐喜欢的女人。
He got splashed when she drove by
到目前为止，我没有看到任何场景可以表明他们在亲吻之前是恋人，除非我错过了一些线索！
是的，我喜欢当侦探，去猜测和推理剧情和角色的目的和原由！ 哈哈哈！😂
今天早上，朝鲜电视TV Chosun又分享了另一组照片，新闻稿中吹捧了“亲吻之后”的场景！啊！ 这些人真的知道如何激起人的兴趣！
这周末一定要仔细观看星期六和星期日播出的第2和3集！期待揭开更多的神秘面纱！不知我是否能成为一名好侦探？ 哈哈哈！😂不要错过本周末韩国时间2250点，朝鲜电视TV Chosun 播出 的“通天塔（哑铃） Babel 바벨”的播出！
PS：这里写的只是我的推测。 所以请注意，我可能完全不正确！哈哈哈！😂
Another kiss in the making! Yet another talked about one I should think!
Credits – Many thanks! TV Chosun
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Oh Dear Nance, you bad to post this article just as I needed to do some work kekekeke……but as you have seen my top and foremost question after watching episode 1, it’s about THE KISS, not interested to know if the husband is dead or alive. So here I am hopping on your merry go round as you have chosen the music theme of the merry go round that totally frozen all my abilities to do other things, yet, not until I blabbed my chest on this THE KISS. You certainly have done a lot of detective works to make those deductions. To comfort the woman from guilt maybe the reason, as it now appears to all of us viewers, why would a man kiss a woman in the open where ANYONE could see when the woman is married to high public exposure chaebol family, when the story has not given a slightest clue that they had been more than just acquaintances before……..but then driven by guilt is not enough to kiss a woman is my instinctive thoughts, he got to have chemical reaction to have like the woman more than just a woman to kiss her in the open. CWH is of fiery personality who does things quick and a bit impulsive maybe so regardless of his cool and intelligent prosecutor head which calls for caution yet he did this, there got to exist more than guilt is my take. And that 1st meeting between CWH and the husband, that handshake confirms the triangle relationship that existed prior to the kiss. Meanwhile, the woman let him kissed on for at least a few seconds…..that is also a clue to guess their relationship. The kiss scene would have certainly made sure viewers continue to catch Babel. Very 1st success ingredients to a top rated fantastic drama.
Chai Hua Loke, your opinion leads me to the idea that their relationship was really older, and the silence before kiss could mean: “We did it! We are free now in this bloody love”.
Will the story go into that dark drama, in which the main character becomes a negative character who, in the name of love, could do horrible things?Or he will know to stop?
Daniela Maria Miricescu That thought did cross my mind, particularly when I saw the Ep 2 Preview 2 with Han Jungwon being in so much agony and fear. I won’t blame her if she resorted to murder to get out of the silent torture she was under.
Daniela Maria Miricescu Oh Daniela you certainly have imagined further than I could, none of the dark drama thing you mentioned crossed my mind until you mentioned it 🙂 My take at this moment is I don’t think it is the “We did it! We are free now in this bloody love”. I didn’t get that feel at all. With regards to the other extreme of the kiss is the start of a magical destiny love where the two were nothing more than strangers is also not something that sits right with my gut feel, sorry that I have to say this, as otherwise, it will be a marvellous outright romantic scene where like you say nothing matters at that moment, the world stops. Because Babel is so full of twists and plots my logical mind and feeling leads me to believe that scene certainly has a lot more background reasons to be revealed later. 🙂 And I have not watched episode 2, not a glimpse so far so I am making my comment purely from watching episode 1.
Chai Hua Loke Sorry, my imagination ran from one extreme to the other, and the truth must be somewhere in the middle.😊😅🙃
Daniela Maria Miricescu We will not know until the drama ends, you might very well be correct! It is nice to have different views on this forum. We enjoy banter, bring them on!
Chai Hua Loke Now all these observations are making me curious about this drama!!! I didn’t have the intention to follow because I am still suffering hangover from the fabulous “My Golden Life”. Now I must admit that my interest is stirred.
KwaiFun Cheong If you can catch it while on holiday, why not. I hear it is a 16 episodes drama, so won’t take up too much commitment.
KwaiFun Cheong Episodes 1 – 3 aired as of yesterday and it has been one hell of a dramatic rollercoaster ride! Brings out the sleuth in me and wanting to go deeper to understand why! Totally different from “My Golden Life”. Babel’s more cinematic compared with the drama style of MGL, for adult audience with adult content while MGL is for family. One deal with mystery, murder, greed, corruption, desire and love while the others more about social values
Park Sihoo-ssi 박시후-씨 朴施厚君
Thanks. I am overseas in Malaysia at the moment. Shall try to watch this drama when I get home.
Once again as with MGL, you have given much write up of what’s happening with this drama that I am able to get a bit of the gist of it. Thanks for your dedication in this
Daniela Maria Miricescu Dear Daniela, I have just watched episode 2 and 3. So not only the 2 of them knew each other when they kissed at the end of episode 1, she also knows where he lives and could just showed up his apartment when she needed his comfort. Sorry that the fairy tale scene where the kiss at the stairwell is not just out of pure attraction and feeling of love arising right there and then at the stairwell. The 2 of them are just magnets of opposite poles, strongly attracted to each other whenever there is no 3rd party in presence. So the kiss at the end of episode 1 is just the tip of a huge iceberg beneath the deep ocean.
Yes, I have to admit, it’s not like fairy tales. But for the prosecutor it could mean a new beginning of the relationship, which could now be lived in the light. Because at that moment he did not know that the husband had survived the accident, and that kiss given without any precaution in a public place was given to a woman released from the obligations of an unhappy marriage. But she knew and did not say anything. One year they have lived a guilty and dangerous passion of adultery. Maybe that kiss is the beginning of true love, but only for him. For her? Just a lifebuoy. She? I don’t know why, but at this point I start to dislike her.
Indeed, there is still much to be found. It’s 7 years (seven) since their story began. Is it possible to sit up daily with a pathological sadic for 7 years without the world around knowing or even suspecting? And even the lover was content just comfort and understanding with, still remaining passive?
And, in all this time she does not get pregnant, but it happens exactly after the husband is assassinated.
It’s interesting to dive into the depths of the ocean to see the hidden parts of the iceberg. For a good understanding of the story, I like that you not agree with me. I had to realize that the director used the technique of the puzzle, to start the story from the middle of it and to mix the elements. 😊🙃
Daniela Maria Miricescu Funnily enough, I share the same feeling as you after watching four episodes. I have reservations about Han Jungwon, this feeling that she isn’t as she seemed and that she just might be using him. She was so fiery and independent when she was a top star, taking the lead in going with TMH on their first meeting, drinkinglate into the night and when she got found out, actually marching off to the newspaper in a huff.
Daniela Maria Miricescu I therefore find it difficult to see how she can change to being so meek and not do something about her situation. Look at how she rebutted her MIL when she decided to leave. She also seemed to know alot of what was going on in the family. So I am not really sure…
Park Sihoo-ssi 박시후-씨 朴施厚君 the plot continues to thicken
Chai Hua Loke Yes, the kiss will certainly be leading the audience on and make them want to watch more to find out what happens next…so far, i like the marketing efforts of the TV Chosun team. I think while they had a bad start as they kept on changing the date of the premiere, they have done very well indeed afterwards. Kudos to a great job so far! Keep it up!🌹🌹🌹
Park Sihoo-ssi 박시후-씨 朴施厚君 Yes Kudos to TV Chosun! I will yell More Hooray and More Kudos if TV Chosun will continue You Tube with English subtitles for every forthcoming episode.
Chai Hua Loke We will know more tonight! 😄
Park Sihoo-ssi 박시후-씨 朴施厚君 I woke up so confused in my head that I thought last night you all watched episode 2 from TV Chosun, later realised today is only Saturday LOL
I think Cha Woo Hyuk did not intend to console the young widow. He saw her accidentally when she walked into the stairwell and ran after her, probably for reasons of his professional side, or maybe he was a little worried about her condition. He saw her standing helpless and in tears on stairs, and probably she waking his compassion. But those intense reciprocal looks do not talk about her pain or his intention to console her. It is pure love and an attraction beyond their will. It’s about the birth of that strong and unique feeling when time stops and nothing around them matters anymore.
As I have already said, I was impressed by the echo of the steps on those stairs and that significant prolonged silence before the kiss, which marked the beginning of a great love. And the musical theme that accompanies the scene is such a sublime tragism, like the infallible Destiny, from which you can not deviate, though you know it can be fatal. I remain to this opinion until the story will tell us other things.
Hey, we’re only talking about the first kiss. But there will be many more, and a lot of hot hugs, and I’m afraid for Park Hoo’s heart (although he’s an expert in kissing technique) because this actress Jang Hee Jin (Han Jung-Won) is a fluffy cat, like Marilyn Monroe.
Daniela Maria Miricescu The reason for that sensational first kiss will remain a mystery to be unravelled later but I can’t see it as a kiss between 2 strangers. Judging by the 1st episode alone, this drama is a tremendously classy production which is bound to cause quite a stir amongst discerning audience/ viewers. And like you I find the lead actress very sensual … hence suitable for her role as Han Jung Won with her alluring eyes and pouty lips. Yes in the category of MM.
Both of you are right. “The Kiss” scene in episode 1 has raised a lot of questions and headaches to uncover its mystery. And both of you are good detectives in drawing pertinent conclusions. Not me, who I’m wating the next episodes this week to enlighten me about this intricate and complicated story. Truth is that from the very beginning it has achieved the interest of the audience to continue watching it. Me too.
This is a good picture but I don’t know if it is because of good lighting or place… maybe composition 😉👍
Great detective work, never mind that it’s all speculative! Spurs our own imagination and definitely raises our curiosity to follow BABEL!