Fashion King: Episode 8 Recap

Episode 7, according to AGB Nielsen, dropped to 9.0%, decreasing by 1.4%. I'm not sure if I disagree. The menfolk, besides the sexiness, were severely unlikable. An-na, too. In fact, Ga-young was the only likeable one and she was a little bit pathetic.

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This episode really started to show some solid character development. Jae-hyuk masks his wounded pride and loneliness in violence, money and power. Ga-young is faced with trials and again shows some gumption. Young-gul is learning to care for someone besides himself. An-na...is a bump on a log...a really, really pretty bump.

episode 8 recap

(Can you hear Jae-hyuk asking, "Don't I have pretty teeth? I brush twice a day".)

Young-gul stares at an expensive KIA rather forlornly, and then with some determination while Jae-hyuk pretends he's Bi in Speed Racer. He's dodging poor, unsuspecting drivers left and right, making rather ridiculous growl-y faces and being generally unhappy after his meeting with Young-gul.

Lee Je-hoon, you KNOW I love you, but this is not convincing. I'm actually laughing. Yay for tummy workout!

On a leisurely stroll, Young-gul spots a beauty shop and recalling Ga-young's use of sample creams, decides to buy her something nice.

I know I totally ship Ga-young/Jae-hyuk, but *squeeeeeeee* It feels like Young-gul is returning home. He's realized how important she is in his life. She's always there and he's so comfortable with her that he didn't even realize what she meant to him.

Screeching to a halt in front of Young Young Apparel, Jae-hyuk watches as a biker carts away a delivery and the ahjummas grab Ga-young for a meal. He storms out of the car and approaches her, full of wrath that he can't control.

He has very little emotional control, actually. He punches things and yells or attempts to reign in situations with money and power. They're called words, Hyukkie. Words.

Jae-hyuk attempts to use these crazy things called "words" and asks if she was in this from the beginning with Young-gul. It's obvious from the fear and guilt-ridden expression that she intended no harm and was just a devoted employee trying to please her boss. Ga-young apologizes, but a slight is a slight. Actually, this is a huge blow. So, a blow is a blow and this blow is so massive that it makes Jae-hyuk blow his top.

"You're sorry?!!" he demands over and over, forehead veins bulging, spittle flying and Ga-young flinching.

In dire need of more driving fueled by massive road rage, Jae-hyuk jumps in his car and zooms passed Young-gul who has just arrived home. Holding the bag of lotions in his hand, Young-gul sees Ga-young crying. Because he is a man and men are slow on the uptake, he breezes by her, ignoring her tears and heads inside to process what he just witnessed. Glancing down, he remembers his gift and tosses it aside.

Bong Sook is back! Has anyone notice her mouth opens almost as wide as Steve Tyler's?

Anyway, she, the ruddy-faced sewing ahjummas and Ga-young are getting drunk and snacking. The ahjummas are admiring how Jae-hyuk looks so healthy and well-clothed. Rich people are just DIFFERENT. They want Young-gul to wear a suit like that.

Drunk and sassy, Ga-young admits that she likes Young-gul and wonders how he could've done this to her? Bong Sook attempts to advise her and then passes out. The ahjummas toast to Young-gul's success.

Hahaha. How much do you love that they didn't even bat an eye as Bong Sook took a dive for the floor?

Young-gul, freshly aware of Ga-young's appeal as a woman, stays up past midnight waiting for her to come home.

I suppose finding your arch nemesis about to pull some sexy moves on the woman you're secretly in love with makes that love not quite as secret as it was before.

Anywho, he finally settles in to sleep and feigns deep sleep when Ga-young stumbles in for a bedside chat.

If you're just reading recaps, Shin Se-kyung is soooooo cute when portraying a sloshed Lee Ga-young. I just want to pinch her cheeks! *pinch pinch*

Then begins the most honest (one-sided) dialogue she's ever had with Young-gul.
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‬Ga-young: Me…I'm on your side no matter what you do. But, being bothered is being bothered. It's okay for just me to be bothered, so I'll just let you do as you want. But other than that, do you know what's bothering me most? How the president is misunderstanding me".

As she speaks, she tears up. When she tries to rise for bed, she ends up passing out on the floor  beside him.

She should get drunk and speak to him when he's "awake" if the alcohol frees her tongue so. I have a feeling he'll be easier to talk to from now on. I don't think he'll be following loan Tae-san's words so closely from now on. Y'know, the whole, "use your employees and let them take the fall" business.

 

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