My Golden Life Ep 16 Tale of Oppa and two sisters

#朴施厚# #我黃金光輝的人生# 看到道京哥哥對兩個妹妹的眼神，是多麽充滿愛和溫柔。相信是他發自內心，真正心疼和愛惜兩個可愛的女孩。感到這一集很有愛和理解的感覺，讓人看得很舒服喲！

I don’t need to say any more further than that I am amazed at this great Korean actor Park Si Hoo. Watch for yourself how within 2 different scenes with 2 different sisters he is able to captivate our hearts evoke our deep emotions with his different responses of love! It’s all in those talking eyes of his!

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I have just read Nance’s article because tonight I will be watching episode 16, having just watched episode 15 an hour ago. While all the exciting goodies as tabled out on Nance’s this article about CDK’s interactions with the 2 sisters, which is all so alluring to dive straight into episode 16. However, as my mind is fresh on episode 15 so a couple of things I like to express. Episode 15 has the most significant revelation of Jian how she herself sees herself in this whole mess as she confided everything to her close girlfriend. Just as I thought Jian is a good person with serious sense of responsibility, the way Jian analysed this mess, she blamed it on herself for it to become this stage. This scene again, sealed my understanding of what type of person Jian is deep inside her, that I have no misinterpretation of writer So’s intention of what Jian is made of. The strength in character and her sense of fairness to every one closed to her. She completely skipped the part where her very initial response to her mother was she wasn’t gonna to leave the house and the family who she lived with for 25 years, that fact did not naturally surface in her own reflection at this point in time. The fact that it was her mother’s threat about what the Chois could do to the family that made her completely changed her mind. She didn’t say this at all to her friend. To protect the dignity of her Seo mother. The usual coward or selfish people would harp on that fact to console themselves that it wasn’t her at the very start to have cause this mess. But all she told her girlfriend is yes it is her own doing that as soon as she found out the Chois are rich, she wanted to go, and she wanted to go soon because they are rich. And she blamed herself that why she acted like the world owes her a living then, when she merely lost a job, which now in her words is like it wasn’t a big deal (but back then, any reasonable person could feel her world collapsed on her, that bitch fight wasn’t about just a job, it was how someone within her circle set out on purpose to smash her, wanting to see if she would fall apart, etc that was happening back then). She is giving this perspective as she told her girlfriend so that her Seo mother doesn’t look that bad in the eyes of others. It is her Jian, as she now put in words, that it is her own acting out as if she was owed by this world that led her mother to resort to that mistake. Which in fact, Jian wasn’t acting at all, her mother saw her pitiful state outside the police station sitting inside a taxi, Jian didn’t even know mother saw that. This is what I again, salute the strength of character of Seo Jian. That her degree of shouldering onto herself because of her mind power and her heart are enormous, at an age of 28 (28? is my question, if eldest brother is 33, when Jian was 2 year old, the brother was 8 years old, 6 years difference so Jian is about 27? anyway, never mind, 27 or 28). Still 28 is a young woman. It is an enormous capacity in her heart and bravery to be able to blame herself in this mess, she alone reached such reflection all by herself, not a soul she had the benefit in talking out with, counselled by, none at all. Since the truth surfaced to Jian, she’s been living in the dark age , a completely black out world of her own. Threading on thin ice, under tremendous pressure at work and at Chois’, yet this young lady did not lose sight of all the critical impact of things that are all muddled up. Like her friend said, the friend would have run off, how could she alone face up to Choi still living in that house. Yet her mind is such a crystal clear in maturity and reasoning. As she reflected how could her father tell her the truth after she crushed her father with her viewpoints of why she wanted to go to the Chois. Next she reiterated the point is regardless of whatever she herself said to the father, still, for such a big thing, such an important thing, still, she said, still, father, you should have told me. This alone demonstrates the strength of what ought to be the degree of righteousness a human being ought to be. That degree of righteousness needed a lot of mental strength from the father, which the father lacks. If the father has the mental strength as strong as Jian, he would have straighten out his wife’s and told Jian the truth. No matter what circumstances or reasons, the point is, the Seo father ought to have told Jian the truth there and then. Because that is the thing that will make a world of difference, to Jian, as well as to me this viewer. Writer So is most brilliant to craft it as such, otherwise there is no MGL story.:)

Having poured my mind off on Jian from episode 15, I too closedly watching CDK’s reactions. The CDK’s Choi’s colour and characteristics instantly came out soon after the confession by Jian. When we viewers debated Jian her character as being not pure, not noble, not a well considerate young woman when she chose to join the Chois for her own sake and for money, etc etc. But we have not talked much about the inadequacy of CDK’s character as the role itself. Personally, I see CDK, up to this point, a selfish person with his instinct of exerting his power over people now and then. No doubt he has a seed of kindness inside him, but majority of the times, CDK is not a nice person. The immediate reactions that came to CDK is all his spontaneous true colour. His mannerism of intimadating Jian looks to me as a bully type of person. Just as those glimpses of he exerting his power over General Manager at the garden that “who are you talking with?” on the 1st day Jian went to their house. Not that I do not understand why CDK has to react as such upon hearing the confession, what I want to say is for all the things that Jian did in her capacity and her circumstances, Jian copped it for the so many things and being criticised of not thoughtful enough. Yet, CDK get away everytime his bad traits surfaces and he gets viewers’ understanding that that is because he has his 40 years of base to protect. To me, CDK’s character when compared to Jian has a long way to develop before I can cast my respect vote on CDK as a good human being. For CDK to turn to such aggressive reactions towards Jian upon the confession, the writer must intend to show us CDK’s inadequacy is my take. Otherwise, I expect his initial reaction to be not as intimidating as he was towards Jian. Yes, he softens later but still very intimidating now and then whenever Jian pleaded for his mercy. Having had those brotherly love he invested in Jian just before the confession, I don’t expect CDK to turn that aggressive towards Jian. That means to me those love invested which he only willing to give because of her capacity as his family. He as a person does not naturally has capacity to love a human being just as a human being, up to this point of MGL. The moment he was told she is not his sister, he sternly told her don’t call me your brother. If your heart has truly accepted this human being in front of you as a person you like and respect, when she has done nothing wrong, do you tell her off in such moment of real disaster is my view. As a reasonable human being, I would tend to be trying to protect everyone including this person who is so honest to me. Not immediately drawing the line is what I mean. I expected a more traumatic CDK with more desire to resolve with this lady in front of him who of late is the one he mingles most and has a bonding. As Jian treated him with confidance for her to tell him the real reason why she did that on the day in the directors board meeting, I expected a more don’t know what to do totally tortured CDK as his initial reactions, not one that immediately all his porcupine spikes up who is supposed to be a more resourceful oppa, a more than half a decade older than Jian kind of person’s reactions. As he made it very clear to Jian, the line is drawn between Seo and Choi, it’s all down to how he wants to do things as a Choi with their own rules. Whereas Jian only wanted to do what is least damaging to everyone, admitted to CDK she knows the consequences to her family, which he himself was slightly taken aback when Jian repeated she knows the consequences of her Seo’s parents’s crime. This shows to me CDK underestimates Jian, as he often did when they were enemies, despite the time spent in knowing Jian subsequently, he still underestimates Jian. So I like to express that writer So got to play her card very carefully, regarding the CDK character. Because after writer showed us the good side of CDK in bonding with Jian, suddenly she pulled out the card of CDK back to being his true colour Choi of cold and protective as his instant natural reaction of the confession, is being interpreted that the writer has not yet wanting the character of CDK to be possessed of much admirable humanity.