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Can't Lose Episode 7 synopsis/summary/recap - Korean Drama Can't Lose/Can't Live With Losing/지고는 못살아 / Jigoneun Motsala starting from August 24, 2011

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Episode 7 synopsis/summary/recap

Professor Jo, naturally, throws a fit and chastises the couple with his offbeat brand of anger and mockery. He then calms down and suggests that they hold off till the next mediation session, but both spouses are intent on taking this all the way to trial.

Hyung-woo accuses her of acting, and they both vow to show the court just how at fault the other party was in this marriage.

Professor Jo sees that both parties are serious, and if they’re both intent on going through this messy, contentious ordeal knowing what’s in store for them, well, who is he to stop them? Bitterly, he says he’s going to stick with the case and see who’s right and wrong.

Afte the arbitration, they separate and lick their wounds. Eun-jae cries, telling herself she was dumb for considering giving it another try.

They slap on bright smiles upon their return to the office, though, making the employees think they worked it all out. Hyung-woo slings an arm around Eun-jae’s shoulder and declares, “Nope, we’re going to trial.”

The office is quick to take sides, with Gogi hastening to talk to Hyung-woo and Woo-shik heading over to Eun-jae’s office. Both lawyers advise their lackeys to keep mum on their info, while digging around for the other side. Furthermore, they’re both instructed to win over free agent Deuk-hee onto their sides. Ha, so now it’s war on all fronts, is it?

Eun-jae thinks over the evidence she has gathered as her grounds for divorce, which consists of that photo of Hyung-woo and his ex-girlfriend and a bar graph contrasting the revenues generated by each (where her contributions far outweigh his). She decides she’ll have to gather more.

Hyung-woo’s on the defensive, and his tactic consists of finding ways to block Eun-jae from building up a compelling case against him.

Gogi and Woo-shik head out to dinner together at Young-joo’s restaurant, where a surly Professor Jo enters and refuses to sit with them, saying that he’s keeping a distance from people involved in the divorce case. But then he sighs and speaks aloud — ostensibly to himself, but directing his comments pointedly at the bickering lackeys — that men who get caught up in such petty acts of spite aren’t really men, cutting them down to size.

He adds that there’s a way to get the warring lawyers to come to their senses, which gets Gogi and Woo-shik’s attention. The answer? “Sabotage.”

This whole scene is pretty hilarious, with the two lackeys asking Professor Jo for advice while keeping up the pretense that they’re totally not talking to him, per his stated intent. So they just toss out questions into the ether, and Professor Jo coughs a yes or a no, until he directs them right where he wants them. “Keeping a distance,” my ass. Ha. He’s the meddliest meddler who ever meddled.

Gogi arrives at the idea to keep up the front that they’re helping Hyung-woo and Eun-jae while feeding them false information, such as the other party totally being lovelorn and heartbroken.

Eun-jae’s ramyun-and-beer dinner is interrupted by a loud drilling noise, which turns out to be Hyung-woo having the door lock unscrewed to let him in. She orders him to leave, but he points out that kicking him out is relevant to her grounds for divorce (thus detrimental to her case), and she grimaces — he’s got a point.

He sits down to settle their debts, and requests repayment of the 100,000 won she “borrowed” from him to shop for groceries, since all she bought were things for her to eat. She retorts that since she put more money into buying their place, she’s going to claim more of it to use. They rattle off their conditions like petty little children, limiting showers to 10 minutes, tacking on cleaning duties, and the like.

While she’s in the other room, Hyung-woo busts out his own camera and gets to work gathering his own “evidence” of Eun-jae’s slovenly housekeeping habits.

He finds his shower interrupted, though, as Eun-jae cuts the hot water and declares his time up. And then she stands there in the doorway casting a disdainful look southward. Hee.

Hyung-woo’s mother calls Eun-jae’s mother to announce happily that her son has moved back home. That’s promising, and they both wish for grandkids right away, so Hyung-woo’s mother can dote on them and babysit.

Eun-jae’s mother asks hesitantly if she could be included, and Hyung-woo’s mom assures her that she can come over when the kids are at her house, without Eun-jae knowing.

Aw. I love how these moms have developed a grudging friendship, because we can see that they’re actually quite lonely and each could use a good friend. Also, they’ve settled upon using banmal with each other, which normally isn’t done with in-laws so as to maintain the proper distance and respect — but in this case, starting off on the wrong foot has actually bridged this gap nicely.

Hyung-woo waits till Eun-jae is asleep that night to sneak into their study and attempt to break into her laptop. Only, he finds that she’s already anticipated this and put up a warning wallpaper on the login screen.

He gives up and heads to his own station, where he reads a new email. It’s nothing too shady (it’s just a “Hey, I’ve been busy lately, how are you?” email, though written very familiarly), but his reaction makes it suspicious; when Eun-jae opens the door, he swiftly shuts the laptop and pretends to be doing something else.

In the morning, Eun-jae’s coughing and shivering, groaning in pain and saying she’s going to work from home today. Hyung-woo’s suspicious, wondering if she’s acting, but looks at her in concern the more she lies there with the aches. The moment he leaves, though, Eun-jae snaps to attention and hurries to the study. Now it’s time for her to try to guess his password, and she flips through a PC troubleshooting manual for some help.

She manages to break in, but hears the front door unlock — it’s Hyung-woo, who hasn’t been able to shove aside his concern and has come back. She scrambles to her own desk and puts her head down in time to continue the sick ruse, and he sets down some medicine for her.

He leaves, and Eun-jae grabs the papers she printed — copies of his emails. Now she reads, and finds that he’s been writing to this “green tea” person for two years. Despite the absence of romantic undertones in the notes, it sure doesn’t look good with his history, and knowing he’s been keeping the correspondence from her also hurts.

She shows up for work saying that she’s all better now, and finds that Hyung-woo has taken an appointment with her client, in the name of helping her out. She shows up and tells him she can take it from here, but Hyung-woo’s been doing such a good job the client is pleased to let him stay, and Hyung-woo — who is now onto her for faking sick — lays on the faux concern, telling her to rest up, since he’s got this meeting well in hand.

So Eun-jae is forced to concede. As she leaves, she grumbles that Hyung-woo’s “totally not suited” for this kind of (paying, non-humanitarian) work, although it’s really like she’s trying to tell herself that’s the case, when he’s actually quite good at it. But two can play this game, and when Hyung-woo comes to the office for his appointment, he finds that the Eun-jae has taken over his case. He uses the same argument on her, that this kind of case isn’t up her alley, but she replies that she’s quite interested in this kind of work; it’s just that she was too busy earning money to take the cases.

Time for the saboteurs to leap into action. Gogi shares an exciting new discovery, and relates the story of Woo-shik and Eun-jae having lunch together, where she confessed that sometimes she still thinks Hyung-woo can be pretty impressive. Hyung-woo chides Gogi for falling for a lie, pointing out that Eun-jae doesn’t eat nae-jang-tang. (Fish intestine soup, yum! Actually, despite the description, it kind of is delicious.)

Likewise for Woo-shik, who tells Eun-jae how Gogi and Hyung-woo went to the sauna together, where Hyung-woo confessed that he wished somebody would stop Eun-jae from proceeding, because she’s still the only one for him. Eun-jae sniffs out the fishiness, though, saying Hyung-woo can’t stand extreme heat and would never go to a sauna.

The failed saboteurs sigh over their futile attempts, and Gogi says that clearly lies don’t work on these two. But Woo-shik says his story was true — Eun-jae was eating nae-jang-tang, but Hyung-woo thought she disliked it when she just refrained because he disliked it. And Gogi’s story was likewise true — he had to drag Hyung-woo with him to the sauna.

They wonder if they should clarify to the couple that the stories were really true, but figure that it won’t work because now they’ll just think everything is a lie.

Eun-jae heads out to meet somebody, and a curious Hyung-woo follows. His temper flares when he sees her meeting Mr. Hot Bartender himself, Tae-young, and he grabs his camera to get some proof of his own.

They head inside a Brooks Brothers store and Eun-jae picks out several items of women’s clothing, although to a jealous Hyung-woo, it just looks like a date. Especially when Tae-young leaves with the bags.

He takes them to Eun-jae’s mother, who tells him he shouldn’t have — she knows he doesn’t make enough for these clothes, but he can’t argue — and gasps at a glimpse of the price tag. He just tells her what Eun-jae must’ve told him, that clothes can lift spirits and that they’re for her to wear when she goes out.

And now I wonder…could Tae-young actually be Eun-jae’s brother? I’ve been wondering if this is an intentional misdirect, and Eun-jae does make a comment about how he calls her by name (instead of, say, noona). Hm…

Hyung-woo arrives home to find that Eun-jae has invited the staff and Young-joo over for dinner, and sweet-talks them, clearly trying to win them over to her side. She tells them that she really loves Hope, and that she hopes they’ll all root her on even when she takes it on alone. Oh, and Hyung-woo will be leaving soon and a new lawyer will be hired. That’s news to Hyung-woo, who retorts that he’s not going anywhere.

The night wears on and Gogi gets drunk, which loosens his tongue enough for him to declare that he really doesn’t want the couple to divorce. This sparks another argument with the wife, who gripes about him quitting his job, and Gogi bursts out sobbing, “I didn’t quit! I…was fired.”

That changes things, and Young-joo sighs in frustration, telling him that he should have told her (and not gotten her angry for the wrong reasons). Gogi sobs that he couldn’t because he didn’t want to disappoint her, and is half-carried out by Hyung-woo while crying. Aw. Well, that’s hard for his pride to take but it’s probably a huge step toward reconciliation for that couple, so I’m happy the truth is out.

Hyung-woo criticizes Eun-jae for contributing to a scene that hurt Gogi, but she corrects him, saying that Gogi was honest about his feelings with Young-joo, and that the couple is sure to rebound from this. In fact, she’s envious of Young-joo, because if Hyung-woo had been this honest instead of hiding secrets from her, they’d never have gotten to this state.

Good/bad news arises the next day, when Young-joo marches on over to Gogi’s old office and gives his boss hell for firing him — not because he was incompetent, as the manager asserts, but because Gogi had challenged him on his own corrupt behavior. The manager shoves Young-joo aside and she hits the ground, which sends Gogi (who’s just arrived with Hyung-woo) rushing to her side. She apologizes for giving him such hell for quitting, and Gogi gets in his boss’s face.

The boss tells him to go file a lawsuit then, not aware that two lawyers are right there listening to Gogi rail about how filed complaints with the office, and how he didn’t get a proper severance. Eun-jae goes after the manager, and Hyung-woo chimes in to declare that they’re going to file for wrongful termination and back wages.

They’re in full accord until the manager walks away, at which point it occurs to them to find their momentary truce awkward. Aw, they make such a good team when they’re not at each other’s throats.

But just in time to wreck any potential goodwill of recent events, a deliveryman arrives with letters for Eun-jae and Hyung-woo. They open them and find legal documents filed by the other — he’s insisting that he owns the name Hope, while she’s going after alimony.

Thus, when they sit down to work on Gogi’s case together, they’re both feeling mighty petty. Hyung-woo demands his fountain pen back, which reminds Eun-jae that he’s wearing the jacket she bought him. She rips of her necklace, he kicks off his shoes, and suddenly it’s like the angriest game of strip poker in here.

They walk out of the office wearing shower slippers and wish their staff a happy Chuseok. Eun-jae’s intending to go to Hyung-woo’s mother’s house for the Chuseok celebration tomorrow, to his surprise, and he tells her she can cry off, given that they’re in the middle of suing for divorce. Plus, she doesn’t even like his mother.

Eun-jae looks hurt at that — it’s like she hasn’t thought beyond the divorce to the other stuff, like being left out of family holidays.

She winds up sitting in Young-joo’s restaurant eating dinner alone when Young-joo finds her. She’s just come from picking up little boxes of wine that look like juice, to fortify her for the evening to be spent at her own in-laws’ house, saying that these are the best for killing stress on the sly. That gives Eun-jae an idea, and she asks for six of those boxes for herself, deciding that she’ll stick to the original plan and go to Chuseok anyway.

Young-joo wonders if Eun-jae can’t just give up the divorce, but Eun-jae replies ruefully that now Hyung-woo’s the one pushing for it. She also warns Young-joo against filing for divorce, since it has a way of making you feel awful.

Hyung-woo and Gogi go out for drinks. Gogi asks if he has to go through with the divorce, but Hyung-woo’s still hurt from her confession at the mediation. “I never loved him properly” has turned into “I’ve never once liked him” and now he’s feeling bruised.

Gogi sighs about having to wade into the battlefield tomorrow when he gets caught between Mom and Wife. He cries, “Marriage is like math. There are so many difficult problems to solve, even if you don’t want to!” Hahaha. You don’t have to warn me twice.

Hyung-woo advises Gogi to stick with the wife, since he’s already chosen honesty over pride, which seems like advice he could be taking himself, if only we didn’t have such a tendency to be blind to solutions in our own lives that we see so easily in others’. He advises Gogi not to go through divorce, which is cruel and tiring.

Eun-jae’s mother sits in her restaurant alone, looking at photos of Eun-jae’s wedding. It’s a sad tableau, and as she walks out, Hyung-woo sees her leaving and says (to himself), “I’m really sorry, Mother.”

The next day, Hyung-woo and Eun-jae head over to his mother’s house together, agreeing to watch their mouths while they’re here.

Mom puts Eun-jae to work manning the giant frying pan, tsk-tsking when Eun-jae has trouble flipping a bindae-dduk (savory pancake) properly. Eun-jae busts out her trusty wine box and gets to drinking, sneaking back to the room for refills. It’s tiring, tedious work, and lonely to boot.

After her fifth or sixth box, she finds Hyung-woo doing the dishes, and he tells her to go rest. She sprawls into an armchair, which is how Mom finds her — always at the worst possible moment, right? Mom just says that it must be nice to have a husband who’ll do all that work for her, but Eun-jae isn’t fazed and slurs that nobody can understand couple problems except for the couple themselves.

Mom wonders at Eun-jae’s weird behavior and calls Hyung-woo over, who takes one whiff and can tell she’s drunk. He urges Eun-jae to go sleep it off, but she’s powered by liquid courage now, and she asks Mom plainly, “Why don’t you like me?”

Mom says a little defensively that she doesn’t, but Eun-jae reminds her of all the things she’s said about her in the past — she’s on the old side, comes from a poorer family, is “uselessly tall.” Eun-jae confesses with a teary smile, “But Mother, I’m lonely. I don’t even have anyone to complain to.”

Mom leans in: “Are you crying?” Eun-jae starts to sob, “I really wanted to be friends with you. I wanted to go to cafes together, watch movies, and go shopping.” Mom says they can do that next time, but Eun-jae says there’ll be no next time.

Hyung-woo tries to drag her away quickly before she can say something she shouldn’t, but Eun-jae slurs, “Now you won’t have to see me anymore! Aren’t you happy?”

Hyung-woo puts her to bed, watching her fall asleep with a heavy heart. The next morning as they head back home, Hyung-woo says it’s a good thing Mom didn’t catch on to the whole divorce thing, the way Eun-jae was running her mouth.

But Hyung-woo’s mother is sufficiently suspicious and calls Soju and Gogi over to grill them. The boys are nervous and jittery, and when she fishes around and uses the word divorce, Gogi bursts out, “They mentioned the divorce?” Soju tries to shut him up, but Mom has enough to know the truth, and she orders the boys to spill the truth, or die. Ha.

Eun-jae reads over the email correspondence between Hyung-woo and the mysterious “green tea,” which manages to make mundane things sound silly and flowery. For example: “I was looking at the sky today, and it was incredibly blue. Do you still like looking at the sky from your yard?”

At the office, Hyung-woo and Eun-jae talk to the staff before they’re to give their depositions…only to be met with three simultaneous resignations. Hee. The official from the courthouse arrives, and the three employees exit.

Eun-jae starts off with the email correspondence. He explains that the emails are with his mother, which she hardly believes; she tells the official that he hides a number of things from her, and that the trust in their marriage has been broken.

Hyung-woo brings up her shopping date with the Hot Bartender, then produces his recorder, which is one of his sources of evidence. Since he uses it like a diary, it has recordings of a number of his complaints with Eun-jae. For instance, he plays the parts where he named Hope, where she stopped talking to him, and when she hit him.

I don’t know if it’s necessarily admissible in court, but in any case this establishes two things: (1) Eun-jae isn’t the only one with complaints, and (2) He’s been recording for a year. It’s the latter that upsets her more, because even if he doesn’t mean it that way, it indicates that on some level, he was anticipating needing the recordings

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Episode 1 - 6 - Korean Drama Can't Lose/Can't Live With Losing/지고는 못살아 / Jigoneun Motsala starting from August 24, 2011

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Can't Lose

Details

Title: 지고는 못살아 / Jigoneun Motsala
Also known as: I Can't Live Losing
Genre: Romance, comedy
Episodes: TBA
Broadcast network: MBC
Broadcast period: 2011-Aug-24 to TBA
Air time: Wednesday & Thursday 21:55

Synopsis

Eun Jae and Hyung Woo are both highly competent lawyers who met and fell in love at first sight without knowing each other's occupations, but are now in the midst of their divorce proceedings. Their relationship was initially sweet and loving, but their marriage slowly began to crack under their constant fights.

Cast

Choi Ji Woo as Eun Jae
Yoon Sang Hyun as Hyung Woo
Sung Dong Il
Kim Jung Tae
Lee Soo Kyung
Park Won Sook
Kim Ja Ok
Kim Jung Tae
Jo Mi Ryung

Production Credits

Producer:
Director: Lee Jae Dong
Screenwriter: Lee Sook Jin
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Can't Lose Synopsis

Can't Lose Episode 1 (Chinese Subtitles)

Can't Lose Episode 2 (Chinese Subtitles)

Can't Lose Episode 3 (Chinese Subtitles)

Can't Lose Episode 4 (Chinese Subtitles)

Can't Lose Episode 5 (Chinese Subtitles)

Can't Lose Episode 6 (Chinese Subtitles)

Can't Lose Episode 7 (Chinese Subtitles)

Can't Lose Episode 8 (Chinese Subtitles)

Non English Subs

Can’t Live With Losing - Can’t Lose Episode 1 (Raw)

Can’t Live With Losing - Can’t Lose Episode 2 (Raw)

Can’t Live With Losing - Can’t Lose Episode 3 (Raw)

Can’t Live With Losing - Can’t Lose Episode 4 (Raw)

Can’t Live With Losing - Can’t Lose Episode 5 (Raw)

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Can't Lose Episode 6 synopsis/summary/recap - Korean Drama Can't Lose/Can't Live With Losing/지고는 못살아 / Jigoneun Motsala starting from August 24, 2011

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Episode 6 synopsis/summary/recap

So the in-laws finally meet, each brandishing the other’s child as legal counsel in their land wars… which turns out to be as awkward as you’d expect. Suddenly the moms go from shouting at each other in banmal to tacking on awkward formalities in jondae because now they’re in-laws and forced to be polite. (Funny, another instance of the banmal-jondae reverse in this drama.)

Eun-jae storms out of course, and Hyung-woo chases her down to explain. She screams at him for meeting her mother behind her back, and he argues semantics with her, that he wanted to tell her but was unable to, and was about to get permission. While I get hubby’s train of thought, that would never fly with me either.

He tells her that consulting on the land deal was the whole reason for canceling their Japan trip, and suggests they go back inside to work things out. She scoffs at his inability to read the situation – he clearly doesn’t seem to understand just how bad things are between mom and daughter. She storms off.

He returns to the restaurant to try and smooth things over between the moms, but it’s a rough road ahead. Eun-jae’s mom puts on a cheery face, but once everyone leaves, she sighs as she looks down at her pictures of Eun-jae’s wedding, which she wasn’t invited to, and had to watch from a distance. Sad.

She calls Eun-jae who answers coolly, and when Mom asks if it isn’t tiring to be so cold and cut her off completely, Eun-jae reminds her that she’s the one who abandoned her daughter. Mom has nothing to say in her defense, and Eun-jae tells her not to call anymore.

Flashback to the Mom-daughter breakup conversation: Mom had decided to go back to “that man,” when he fell ill and had no one to take care of him after his children abandoned him. Eun-jae refused to let her mom go through pain or heartache again, thinking of the pain he’d caused their family, but Mom had insisted on going.

Eun-jae laid down the ultimatum: choose him and never see her daughter again. And in a fit of anger, Mom had chosen against her, shouting that she doesn’t need her mother anyway. Eun-jae took that to heart, and vowed never to see her again.

It’s not specified whether this man is her biological father, (perhaps a stepfather or just long-term ex-boyfriend) but either way he’s got a “legitimate” family elsewhere. From Eun-jae’s point of view Mom’s being stupid to take him back, especially since he never asked for her when he was healthy, but now needs her when he’s ill and his real family abandoned him.

Well it promised to be a doozy and it is. I can also see how Mom may have said all that in a burst of anger, not really meaning it, but Eun-jae’s cutthroat personality is much more exacting than Mom’s, and she meant it. She drew a line and never turned back.

Hyung-woo smoothes things over with his mom, who is displeased at both his secret-keeping and the in-law relationship she can’t undo (or maybe you can, yet). He sweetly tells her to try and get along with Eun-jae’s mom, since he doesn’t like to see Mom lonely. Aw.

She covers up and tells him that she isn’t, since she has two sons, and mentions hearing from his brother Hyung-joo, and takes the whole thing relatively in stride and tells him to worry about Eun-jae.

She does a better job of reading the icy air between Eun-jae and her mother, and guesses that it’s no ordinary rift, and that it probably tears her up to live without seeing her mother. That gives him pause.

When Hyung-woo returns to the office, Eun-jae is looking at the pictures proving their cheating husband case, and he jumps in to declare how he doesn’t understand how husbands can cheat on their pretty wives.

He tells her that at least the whole misunderstanding about cheating has been cleared up, since he was meeting her mother. She tells him that meeting Mom in secret is worse than cheating, because to her, it’s a bigger betrayal.

He doesn’t understand, because Mom asked him not to say anything what was he supposed to do? Oy. Eun-jae spells it out for him – if it were her in that situation, she would’ve come home and told him, and asked what he thought.

Eun-jae: “Because you’re the center of my life. But I’m not the center of yours. That’s why we’re always at odds.” Oof. It’s sad, but true.

To make her point that she’s serious about divorce, she drags him out to make the announcement in front of their staff. She tells them that they’ll either end it quietly in consensual divorce, or drag it out to court.

Hyung-woo insists that it’s not going to happen, while the Hope staff stands aghast. They already know, but it’s another thing to have it admitted to their faces. Woo-shik worries that Eun-jae is the type to see things through if she says she will, but Hyung-woo assures them he’ll change her mind.

He asks her for a conversation, and she agrees that she can’t very well avoid dialogue when it’s one of her own complaints about him in the divorce. Over wine he admits he was in the wrong about not consulting her before continuing to meet her mother.

He explains his thinking, that he assumed over time he could bring the two of them together to reconcile their differences. Eun-jae tells him this is another reason why they’re getting divorced – because he would continue to meet with Mom openly, and every time he came home, he’d tell Eun-jae to reconcile with her.

“And then I become the bad person for not seeing my mother.” I really like this aspect of Eun-jae’s character – that she has such fierce pride, and hates being forced to be the bad guy. It’s detrimentally fierce, in her case, but I think it makes her character so richly flawed.

She tells him that there are some scars that you don’t even want to look at, would rather pretend they didn’t exist, because they’ll remind you of the pain that caused it. And for her, that’s her mother.

He tells her that he understands (He clearly has some experience with this but isn’t letting on, perhaps to do with his brother?) but she tells him that he wouldn’t know unless he experienced that kind of pain firsthand.

He tries to take her home, but she reminds him that she kicked him out, and adds that he should address her not as his wife, but as Lawyer Lee, handling his wife’s divorce case. Ouch.

He heads home to mom’s house, and thinks over Eun-jae’s words. And then he takes out a picture from a drawer – it’s Hyung-woo, Mom, and Little Bro Hyung-joo. Knew it. Little Bro Angst, though over what, we don’t know.

At home, Eun-jae cries thinking of Mom, and starts talking at her out loud to herself. She asks why she hasn’t bought any clothes for herself, why she looks like that and suffers that way, why she doesn’t listen to her daughter. Aw.

She cries like a little girl, clearly hating to see her mom suffer, despite it all.

Hyung-woo surprises his mom in the morning, glossing over the whole kicked to the curb thing, and says that they’re spending some time apart while they work things out. He immediately starts nagging her for the mess in the house, and demands food, making Mom grumble.

What kind of kid is cleaner than his mom? That’s crazy. I love that Mom is already tired of his nagging, which is just such a great reversal from the norm.

Eun-jae starts her morning with a cold bowl of cereal and surveys the messy apartment, wondering if life could be this comfortable without nagging. It seems half happy, half trying to convince herself she’s happy.

The Hope staff discusses the divorce situation over lunch along with Soju, deciding that they have to try and intervene. Gogi and Soju fight over who should talk to Eun-jae, both clearly afraid of her. Ha.

But they’re more afraid of Professor Jo, who arrives at Soju’s call and flips out to hear that the couple has yet to call it quits on the divorce. He marches his little legs over to Hope to give them a piece of his mind.

The couple sits down, preparing for the worst, but to their surprise, the professor doesn’t even raise his voice, asking pleasantly if they’re planning to take the divorce all the way to the end. Eun-jae ekes out that she’s sorry, and he just nods and says that he’ll begin the proceedings so that it’ll be over quickly and quietly.

Hyung-woo flips out at the professor, thinking he was on his side, and storms out of the meeting angrily. Professor Jo finds him outside and slaps him upside the head for being a moron, and tells him of his plan to drag out the hearings so long that they have to reconcile. He warns Hyung-woo not to let it get to court though, and Hyung-woo hugs him in gratitude.

While Eun-jae works on the cheating husband case, Hyung-woo takes on a new case acting as a public defender for a juvenile, a teenage girl who got caught stealing a motorcycle.

He doesn’t ply her with questions, and instead asks advice on his own situation, specifically what would cause a daughter not to see her mother. She tells him it’s a sure thing that the mom abandoned the daughter.

He wonders how that could be, but the girl tells him that not all moms are fairytale mothers. Clearly reflecting on her own life, she mutters, “How can she abandon her daughter to go back to that man? That’s not a mother. That’s a stranger.”

He has enough insight to read into her words, and starts on a quest to find the girl’s mother. Why is it that you are super insightful and great with people, and yet have none of those qualities when dealing with your own wife?

He ponders the girl’s words along with Eun-jae’s insistence that her relationship with her mother is the unfixable kind. He looks up and realizes that he ended up in front of their apartment instead of going to his mom’s.

He wonders if Eun-jae is home and heads up, only to come right back down, grumbling that she changed the lock code AGAIN. And this is surprising to you? You were still technically living there when she did it the last time.

Eun-jae drinks and sighs that Hyung-woo is making things difficult by dragging out the divorce, and HotBar just tells her that no matter what choices she makes, even if they’re the wrong ones, he’ll be on her side and cheer her on. Aw, I love this guy.

She smiles, and says sadly that it’s something she always wanted to hear from Hyung-woo.

Hyung-woo sits outside and waits for her to come home, and sees her get out of her car… with HotBar behind the wheel. Oh dear. He gets immediately territorial and asks who he is, and Eun-jae nonchalantly introduces him as a dongseng (a younger friend).

HotBar braces himself for the inevitable awkward first meeting. Hyung-woo responds that there are MANY kinds of dongsengs, and she ignores him and tells HotBar he can go. But Hyung-woo’s having none of that, and insists on introducing himself. He puts out his hand for a shake.

HotBar takes his hand and introduces himself as Lee Tae-young (AH! So he DOES have a name!) and then they proceed to squeeze the hell out of the other’s hand, in a really pathetic display of machismo. Hee.

Eun-jae finally has to break it up, and HotBar says his goodbye, that he’ll see him next time. Hyung-woo reads into it too much, “Will there… BE a next time?” Tae-young just turns to Eun-jae and smiles at her sweetly, and with a hand on her arm, he says he’ll go.

Hyung-woo’s eyes bug out and as soon as he turns to go, he pulls Eun-jae close. She shakes him off and tells him not to think anything weird. Now the shoe’s on the other foot and he demands to know what their relationship is.

She vaguely just says that it’s complicated, but not anything he should misunderstand, and he rubs it in that it’s frustrating to be on that side, isn’t it? I’m not sure you want to go there, not that either of you is good at explaining away any doubt.

He follows her up to the apartment, still shouting, and she asks why he even came. He tells her that he missed her, and wanted to comfort her about her mom. She retorts, “I’ve already been comforted. By someone else!” Oooh, dayum.

Exasperated, he declares that they really are at odds with each other, and she’s like, duh, hence the divorce. In his anger, he relents that a day like today really makes him want to divorce her, and she just encourages him to comply then.

He’s not quite ready to do that, so he turns to go, nagging at her for the mess on his way out.

He comes home to Mom’s, complaining even more than usual about every little thing, sending her over the edge. She goes to see Eun-jae’s mom the next day, and they agree to keep the peace and even go back to banmal.

Hyung-woo’s mom asks her to call Eun-jae and beg her to take her son back, so that he’ll leave her alone and stop nagging. Heh. She sympathizes with Eun-jae’s mom, wondering how hard it must be for her to have such a strained relationship with her daughter.

Tensions run high at the Hope office, when Hyung-woo declines to take a congressman’s case that would have raked in a bunch of money. That leads Eun-jae to publicly declare the office is hers since she invested more into it.

The staff decides they can’t stand by any longer, and attempt to talk things out with the couple over lunch. But lunch turns into a battle over the minutiae of how to properly grill samgyupsal, and they’re forced to walk away from the screaming couple in embarrassment. Ha.

Eun-jae’s mom calls Hyung-woo to ask him out on a date, and she happily buys him an expensive dinner and asks him to go to a noraebang, where they sing to their hearts’ content. He walks her home hand-in-hand, and she looks so happy the whole time, it kills me.

When they reach her door, Mom tells him not to come by anymore. Aw. She says that she made Eun-jae lonely, so he needs to work things out and go back home (and stop making things hard for his mom, heh) and be there for Eun-jae.

He tries to say that he’ll make it work, but Mom just takes one last long look at his face, as her goodbye. It’s heartbreaking, that Mom is giving up her one connection to her daughter that she was so happy to have, and it sends the sensitive Hyung-woo over the edge.

He storms into Eun-jae’s office and asks angrily if she’s happy now that she has what she wants, and says that her mom won’t see him anymore. Hyung-woo: “There are people who don’t get to see family even if they want to!”

Eun-jae: “There’s family you’re forced to live with, even if you don’t want to!” He looks pained, as he asks, “So the family you’re forced to live with now… is me?” He wonders to himself if there’s any meaning in living this way.

Eun-jae goes to court for the cheating husband divorce case, and the husband ends up conceding to the divorce. The mother-in-law stands up to confess that he never cheated; it’s because he stood by her sick and now comatose daughter for over seven years, that she wanted to force him to move on with his life. She knew divorce was the only way to do so.

Aw. He embraces his mother-in-law, who tells him that he’s a son to her, and that this is what her daughter would have wanted for him. It moves Eun-jae, who’s shocked to realize she was wrong about the non-cheating husband, and also stirred by his relationship with his mother-in-law, who pushed him away for his own good.

She sits outside the courthouse, contemplating that relationship and her own, and then goes in to meet Hyung-woo for their own divorce proceedings. They sit down with Professor-Judge Jo, who refuses to leave the room when the shrink asks for their statements regarding the divorce.

Eun-jae starts, saying that the differences that drew them to each other initially became vast areas of contention between them in their marriage. But then she adds with tears in her eyes that she realized something, only today…

Eun-jae: That there’s an even bigger problem: I didn’t know love. If only I knew how to love properly, it would have been better. I never, not once, properly loved my husband.

Aw. She’s finally owning up to her faults, and opening her heart… only Hyung-woo takes it totally the wrong way. Instead of hearing it as “I never gave love properly,” he hears it as “I never really loved him.” (It’s easily interpreted both ways, though her intention is clear to everyone but Hyung-woo.)

He flips out, thanking her bitterly for teaching him something he didn’t know. She tries to explain that she’s attempting to tell him what she did wrong, and trying to work things through…

Oh no. Is she thinking of backing out of the divorce, only now you’re set to see it through??

He accuses her of putting on a show to get more sympathy in the divorce and shouts that the hearing isn’t going to settle this, not between them. “Let’s go! To court!”

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Can't Lose Episode 5 synopsis/summary/recap - Korean Drama Can't Lose/Can't Live With Losing/지고는 못살아 / Jigoneun Motsala starting from August 24, 2011

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Episode 5 synopsis/summary/recap

So Hyung-woo wins his case in court, then is served with divorce papers. I find it incidentally amusing that they’ve only technically been married for about a month, due to the whole registration snafu.

Hyung-woo shuts himself in his office and reads over the paperwork. Eun-jae has filed on grounds that he goes out of his way to avoid talking (true), lies a lot (again true), sneaks around with his ex-girfriend (sadly also undeniable), and the like.

Eun-jae isn’t answering his calls, so he borrows Woo-shik’s cell phone (without letting on the source of his worry) and finds that Eun-jae picks up right away when she thinks it’s their office manager. But she hangs up on him right away, then heads into a beauty salon for a change in image. She specifically asks for something “combative,” since she’s preparing for battle.

Hyung-woo thinks back to the signs of her decision in the days leading to this, and now he finally worries, “She can’t…be serious?” Maybe if you’d taken her worries seriously earlier…

Eun-jae shows up at the office at the end of the workday sporting a new hairstyle and manicure. Known for keeping herself on a tight budget, she explains to the surprised employees that she wants to spend money on herself now. Hyung-woo’s dying for a chance to really talk this over, but she ignores him and invites the office out to a dinner, talking to them instead of her soon-to-be-ex-husband.

At the restaurant, the group separates into ladies vs. men. The wives (and Deuk-hee) chat cheerily about “investing in yourself” and “valuing yourself,” while the husbands (and Woo-shik) sit there uncomfortably. Gogi warns that it’s scary when women change their styles suddenly. Ha, there’s this recurring motif of men in this drama looking at women as though they’re from an alien race, whom they are incapable of comprehending with their feeble non-female understanding. It’s not an entirely unbelievable characterization.

Hyung-woo finally gets Eun-jae alone afterward and asks what the matter is all of a sudden, and why she won’t talk to him about it. She answers that it wasn’t sudden, and that she tried, but he ran away every time. True, all true. He says they can talk it over now, then, but the offer has got that desperate ring to it, now that it’s a day late and a dollar short.

Trying to figure out what the source of this is, he insists that he and Hee-soo aren’t up to anything. But the fact remains that he lied, and now Eun-jae only wants one thing from him: a consensual divorce. If not, she’ll have to sue, which is more difficult and contentious.

He refuses, saying, “I’m going to live with you for the rest of my life!” He means he won’t give up, but it’s worded ever so wrongly — like it’s all about him — and she calls him selfish to the last. She gets up to leave and he balks, saying he’s not done talking to her yet. She asks, “It’s infuriating when you’re the one on that end, isn’t it? I felt like this every day.”

I have to admit that as much as I’m with her on this, he does look pretty pathetic as the reality sinks in and she walks out.

Eun-jae drinks by the river today with Hot Barkeep, who chokes on his beer when she announces filing for divorce. Even though I’m expecting him to be a lot more opportunistic about Eun-jae’s relationship status, he does pleasantly surprise me every time; he listens to her and freely tells her that he thinks she’s being rash, but stops short of forcing his opinion on her.

An interesting detail comes out about their relationship, in that Hot Barkeep has been giving money to Eun-jae’s mother at her request. (According to the show website, his character is his real name, Ha Suk-jin, so I’ll have to remember he’s got a name other than Hot Barkeep.) Eun-jae sends money to Mom periodically, but it seems that Suk-jin has to make excuses so that Mom doesn’t know it’s really from her daughter. I can see how this arrangement works for Eun-jae, who feels justified in maintaining the rift (Mom must’ve done something awful) but can’t help looking after her anyway.

I like that this conversation happens outside of the bar, in that it only seems fitting that she make her divorce announcement to Suk-jin the friend, not as the Hot Barkeep. This conversation also suggests that their friendship goes back a long while; I’d assumed that they spoke banmal to each other because they had a friendly customer-server relationship, but now it looks like there’s a more interesting story that we haven’t been told yet.

When Eun-jae gets home, she finds Hyung-woo waiting up for her. He gets on his knees to supplicate, begging her to stop being angry at him. It doesn’t work, since Eun-jae filed for divorce because she wants the divorce, not his begging. He pleads anyway and grabs her hands, and she ends up accidentally scratching his face with her new nails. Oops.

Hyung-woo heads to the husband refuge, aka the neighborhood playground, and tells his voice recorder that he ended up getting hit again by the wife, declaring that there’s “only one way” for him to react now.

The next day, he agrees to go along with her terms, which includes keeping the divorce quiet at the office. He overcompensates by being overly affectionate, knowing she won’t retaliate in front of the others. It doesn’t fool the employees, though, who can tell they’re faking the smiles while muttering to each other on the phone.

Hyung-woo isn’t about to just accept this divorce suit lying down, and he gets to writing his reply to the initial complaint, which basically contradicts it and requests a dismissal.

He slips out of the office to submit his response, joined by a snooping Gogi, who sidles up behind him, reads the paperwork, and tries to grab it away from the clerk. Hyung-woo declares that he’ll do everything to change Eun-jae’s mind and convince her that her complaints no longer apply.

Gogi returns to the office trying to keep his mouth shut with the other employees, who pump him for information. He’s a poor liar and stutters, but thankfully he’s spared the scrutiny by the arrival of Woo-shik’s aunt, who is here for legal consultation.

It turns out that the aunt is here on behalf of her comatose daughter, whose husband has been cheating on her numerous times but refuses to divorce her. Aunt has tried to sue for divorce more than once, but her son-in-law has never showed up in court.

Eun-jae speaks encouragingly while also getting in a few digs at her husband, saying that men never want to divorce even when they’ve been cheating. She even slips a little, saying “we” when referring to the divorce plaintiff, which gets Woo-shik’s Spidey sense tingling.

Hyung-woo feels the need to speak up in his own defense, but that puts him in a tenuous situation since the client thinks he’s taking her scoundrel son-in-law’s side. Eun-jae assures her she’ll take the lead on this case, making sure the divorce goes through, because “I can’t ever forgive cheating men.”

Woo-shik figures that he and Gogi both know that the lawyers are in divorce proceedings, but agree they have to keep this a secret. Let’s see how long that lasts.

Hyung-woo makes it a point to take a call in front of Eun-jae wherein he’s actively soliciting cases, to counter her claims that he doesn’t earn any money. Shortly afterward, he texts her from a conference of small business owners to prove he’s working hard. (Hilariously, she’s changed his name in her cell phone to “Defendant.”)

He continues to send her cutesy photo texts all day, which confuses her more than anything. She eventually figures it out and confronts him about stalling with the divorce agreement while trying to change her mind.

Hyung-woo admits he’s going to fix everything she listed in her complaint, but she points out that he should’ve done all that before she decided to divorce him. He looks around and sees her mess, and with effort he bites back his usual nagging complaints about her slovenliness and forces himself to act like he doesn’t care.

He tries to ingratiate himself to her and insists on engaging in conversation, since that was her main complaint, and follows her around the apartment doggedly. She finally grabs his face in her hands, then looks around in mock puzzlement, wondering if there’s a mosquito in here, because she can hear this annoying buzzing sound. HA. Why are these so cute when they’re bickering?

Eun-jae calls Hyung-woo out to meet her divorce attorney, Lawyer Kim, who’s her former law firm sunbae. Lawyer Kim mentions Eun-jae’s various complaints, including Hyung-woo’s tendency to use force. Well, that’s not exactly accurate, and Hyung-woo points to his face and tells her that Eun-jae’s actually the one who likes to use force, and says he’s got proof. Lawyer Kim mutters to Eun-jae that if this is true, her case becomes much more complicated.

Lawyer Kim encourages them to go the easier, quieter route and agree upon divorce — because if they take it to trial, their dirty laundry gets aired in front of their many legal-field colleagues. Proving that point, the group is recognized by Soju, who exchanges greetings with Lawyer Kim — they’re both divorce specialists.

Lawyer Kim decides that she can’t take the case after all — she feels uncomfortable with Hyung-woo’s claim, and would rather stay out of this.

They get the call to come meet Professor Jo, who sends away the staff before asking the couple how they’re doing. They’re like errant schoolchildren in front of him, trying to maintain appearances and shrinking back in fear of upsetting/angering/disappointing him.

He presents them with their divorce papers, having been assigned to this case, to their horror. I love that there’s this mutual father-like figure in their lives who has the power to cow them when they’re acting immature, or shame them, or scare them. Heh. Furthermore, he’s peeved that he’s the judge forced to oversee their suit and screams at them, “Why are you two divorcing? WHY?!”

He tells them to rescind their suit, since he won’t watch them fight each other in court. Eun-jae bursts out, head bowed, that she’s sorry but can’t do that. The couple starts bickering about what is true and what is misunderstanding, ignoring Professor Jo until he mocks them by treating the fight like a boxing match, which shames them again.

Professor Jo points out both of their wrongdoings and rips up the papers. Still, Eun-jae warns Hyung-woo that she’s pressing forward, saying that she hasn’t even brought out her last card yet.

Hyung-woo heads to Eun-jae’s mother’s restaurant and eats her noodles enthusiastically. It’s cute how well these two have taken to each other now that they’ve met, but Mom’s huge smile fades when he asks if he can come clean to Eun-jae about Mom’s case. Mom tells him that Eun-jae’s likely to divorce him if he confesses that, which I guess is the definition of damned if you do, damned if you don’t.

Mom sighs that she’s hurt Eun-jae a lot, and apologizes to Hyung-woo for the situation. He feels the burden of that, and can’t apparently break his promise to Mom even at the possible expense of his marriage. So Hyung-woo drinks, stuck between his emotional rock and hard place.

Eun-jae frets at home, not up to the task of opposing Professor Jo with her lawsuit. Hyung-woo comes home and collapses on the couch, mumbling to himself, “Why’d we turn out this way? I married you because I love you. You’re the only one for me…”

Eun-jae isn’t immune, but she shakes it off by telling herself he’s acting, trying to earn sympathy points.

Hee-soo drops by the Hope office and tells Eun-jae with a heavy heart that she wants to give up on her case. A lawyer met with her father, who’s very ill, and she fears that continuing with the case will kill him. Furthermore, she’s being harassed by her old sunbaes and is tired of it all.

Eun-jae gently says she hopes Hee-soo will stick with the case, sympathizing with her for her troubles and advising her that continuing will enable her to leave this burden behind her freely. She urges her to keep her head up and remember there’s nothing to be ashamed of.

Hee-soo runs into Hyung-woo on her way out, telling him of her intention to give up. She tells him that Eun-jae had told her that even coming this far was admirable, not having pressed her to stick with it. Hyung-woo says he can’t approve this decision, and Hee-soo tells him gently, “That’s why we broke up.”

Hyung-woo comes home and tells Eun-jae she should have convinced Hee-soo to continue with her lawsuit. She counters that it’s her job to abide by the client’s wishes.

He asks if spite had anything to do with her backing off, which is probably the worst thing he could do to pour oil on that flame — he’s simultaneously reminded her of old fights, challenged her professionalism, called her ethics into question, and accused her of jealousy. Way to multi-task. At her indignant response, he says, “If not, fine.” But that’s not the kind of thing you can’t just bring up and then dismiss, and Eun-jae’s so upset she throws her bag of chips at his retreating back.

He doesn’t get her sudden fury, while she shoves some of his clothes into a bag and shoves him out the door. Hyung-woo drives to the Hope office, where he finds Gogi sleeping outside on a bench with a bag of his own. Hilariously, when Hyung-woo pokes him awake, he jerks upright with a “Hello?” as though he’s answering a phone. Haha.

Hyung-woo wonders if he should just go along with the divorce since this is taking its toll on him too, to which Gogi retorts, “Are you the only one who has it hard? Marriage is tough for Mr. Go from Jeju Island too, and for Hirayama in Japan, and also for Obama in America.” (HA! to the Miss Riley reference.)

Eun-jae meets Young-joo, who’s drinking after kicking Gogi out. The women rant together about husbands who accuse wives of nagging without considering their own wrongs. Eun-jae says that she’s made her final decision today take things to their bitter end.

The next morning, she calls Hyung-woo to the roof and speaks to him in jondaemal — a fact that takes him aback, since they’ve spoken to each other in the familiar banmal all this while.

(In Korean, once you go from the polite jondae to banmal, you almost never go back. The only exception I can think of off the top of my head is when boys grow up and go from using banmal to jondae with their mothers out of respect, but that’s not a universal rule.) In this case, it indicates Eun-jae’s determined to cut ties fully and treat him like a stranger. Or maybe just an acquaintance.

She tells him that she’s no longer his wife Eun-jae, but the lawyer handling his wife’s divorce case. Ha! Oh, this should be good if they’re both representing themselves. Disastrous to their lawsuit, for sure, but great for entertainment value.

Hyung-woo argues that he and Hee-soo are nothing to each other, but Eun-jae tells him he’s the one who made her doubt him. And even now, he has failed to provide a reasonable explanation. He still can’t bring himself to out with the truth (about working on her Mom’s case), but vows to keep this divorce from going through, and she’s basically all, Bring it.

Hyung-woo’s mother arrives at Hope to ask Eun-jae about the contract for her building. Hyung-woo belatedly hears that the two ladies left to deal with contract, and hurries off to prevent disaster.

Eun-jae recognizes the storefront the minute they arrive, realizes the situation, and tries to stall. But Mom-in-law urges her inside, and without a good excuse for why she can’t go inside, Eun-jae cringes and waits for the other shoe to drop.

Mom’s mouth drops to recognize her and calls out her name. Hyung-woo pulls up to the store and joins them just as his own mother is wondering why they know each other.

He looks at Eun-jae anxiously as she goes from confusion to understanding, as she realizes that her husband has been consulting with her estranged mother.

Can't Lose Episode 4 synopsis/summary/recap - Korean Drama Can't Lose/Can't Live With Losing/지고는 못살아 / Jigoneun Motsala starting from August 24, 2011

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Can't Lose

Details

Title: 지고는 못살아 / Jigoneun Motsala

Also known as: I Can't Live Losing

Genre: Romance, comedy

Episodes: TBA

Broadcast network: MBC

Broadcast period: 2011-Aug-24 to TBA

Air time: Wednesday & Thursday 21:55

Synopsis

Eun Jae and Hyung Woo are both highly competent lawyers who met and fell in love at first sight without knowing each other's occupations, but are now in the midst of their divorce proceedings. Their relationship was initially sweet and loving, but their marriage slowly began to crack under their constant fights.

Cast

Choi Ji Woo as Eun Jae

Yoon Sang Hyun as Hyung Woo

Sung Dong Il

Kim Jung Tae

Lee Soo Kyung

Park Won Sook

Kim Ja Ok

Kim Jung Tae

Jo Mi Ryung

Production Credits

Producer:

Director: Lee Jae Dong

Screenwriter: Lee Sook Jin

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Episode 4 synopsis/summary/recap

Hyung-woo is caught red-handed with his ex Hee-soo, though it’s more like he’s caught in a moment that looks worse than it is. I mean, that’s three lies about one ex-girlfriend, one after the other. Doesn’t look good, buddy.

Shocked, Eun-jae whirls around and gets in her car, and then on second thought, whips out her camera to take pictures. Ah, ever the lawyer. It’s perhaps a little cynical, but it’s certainly smart. There’s no denying it with photographic evidence.

She spends the day by the ocean as the betrayal sinks in, and to comfort herself, she stuffs her face with sushi. She eyes the bottles of soju wistfully, but decides against it, perhaps remembering how her last bender landed her in make-up sex before she even forgave him.

Hyung-woo meanwhile takes Hee-soo with him to try and convince the shop owner to come to court and give a testimony for Potato Grandpa. I don’t really see why she’s that useful here.

She tells him that she’s going to trial for her own case and feeling really alone since no one is stepping up to speak on her behalf, but the cases are so wholly unrelated. It’s really grasping at straws, which sort of makes his whole reason for calling her there that much worse.

It doesn’t do much good and Hyung-woo comes home that night, dejected from another failed attempt on Grandpa’s behalf. He finds Eun-jae schlepping a bag full of beer home, which she proceeds to chug down without sharing.

Hyung-woo tells her about failing down in Seokcho and Eun-jae pointedly asks if there’s anything else he did down there, all the while insinuating that it’s a nice cover he’s got going.

He has nothing to say, so they leave it at that, and he goes to his office. But to his horror, when he sits down at his desk, a giant photo of him with Hee-soo is taped to his monitor. Hahaha. MESSAGE.

He brings it out, demanding to know if she took this picture, how she came to find out… all the wrong things to say. She cheekily asks if he doesn’t like the picture or recognize his own face.

He gets all huffy about her following him, but she tells him calmly that she followed him because he’s acting fishy, and that she knows about him dating Hee-soo. That makes him think twice, now realizing that he’s got two misunderstandings afoot.

She tacks on the third – that night when he said he had drinks with Soju, when she saw Soju and Gogi, with her own two eyes. (Also, I just love that Soju is friends with Gogi. The foods are friends, the people are friends. It works on so many levels.)

Crap, that’s three for three. He flashes back to that night, and we find out that it was actually her mother that he went out with on that particular evening, but he remains silent about it.

Okay, this is getting ridiculous. Do you really think Mother would want you to keep it a secret to the point that it aids in your divorce?? Just spit it out already! Your wife thinks you’re cheating on her!

His pride refuses to let him back down though, and he just shouts that he did nothing wrong, so she shouldn’t misunderstand. Uh, I think we’re way past that. She says she’d rather trust a cockroach, and he just shouts back, “Don’t trust me then!”

Eun-jae can’t believe his attitude, fully believing that he and Hee-soo have made a fool of her, while he simply stands by his decree that he’s done nothing wrong to apologize for.

She raises her hand to hit him, and he blocks her, asking if she thinks he’s always going to take this from her. Frustrated and without a way to vent, she clears his desk and storms out.

He follows her out asking if she’s really going to be like this, and accidentally kicks her purse…

Haha, she takes it as deliberate retaliation, and proceeds to empty out his briefcase, in what leads to a very silly war on the contents of their purses.

The tension continues to the next morning, when they wake up and see the remnants of battle. They stand on opposite sides and smirk, not nearly satisfied with the death of one measly cell phone.

Hyung-woo brushes his teeth and when Eun-jae comes in to join him, he warns her to squeeze the toothpaste from the bottom, as per his usual OCD. She snarls and puts down the tube, and then takes out a brand new one and squeezes it from the top. HA. It drives him batty, which is just hilarious.

It morphs into a toothbrushing war, while kicking around the remnants of last night’s battle. I love how childish they are.

Tensions remain high in the office, and Eun-jae spends the morning nitpicking the other employees. Gogi catches on right away and pulls Hyung-woo aside, practically kissing him in the process, to ask what happened.

Hyung-woo tells him that Eun-jae found about his past with Hee-soo and even followed him to Seokcho… only he happened to meet Hee-soo there. Gogi reacts in the proper way, which is fear-horror-fear, and tells him he’s gone mad.

Hyung-woo insists it was for work, but Gogi explains that it doesn’t really matter, does it? To illustrate his point, he asks for a pen. He sticks out two pens: one is Eun-jae, and the other is her ex-boyfriend.

Hyung-woo seems unperturbed, musing that someone like Eun-jae must’ve had lots of boyfriends. Gogi continues, “Then one day, the ex-boyfriend appears in front of you. And they’re together, like this…” *prancing pens*

“And THEN, they go to Seokcho! Together! For Work!” Hahaha. Hyung-woo snatches the pens away, wondering if Gogi isn’t supposed to be his friend. Gogi just proves his point that it pisses him off even imagining it with pens, so he should just apologize no matter what, “With that sincerity that women like so much, and till your knees break.”

Hyung-woo finally wonders if that’s what he ought to do, and Gogi urges him, “For the happiness of Hope.” Heh. At least they didn’t name the office Harmony or Tranquility?

Hyung-woo decides to try and make amends, but he can’t bring himself to outright admit he was in the wrong, so he says: “I didn’t do anything especially wrong… but I didn’t do anything especially right either.” Oh, okay.

She just looks at him blankly, “So you and Hee-soo are nothing to each other?” He guffaws that of course that’s the case… and then awkwardly answers a phone call. It’s from her mother, but he doesn’t reveal who it is. Idiot.

He answers vaguely and then rushes out with excuses, and she wonders how on earth she’s supposed to trust him when he’s acting so suspicious. I don’t blame you.

To that end, she looks into how a person would hypothetically go about cracking someone’s computer password, but after hearing the flood of techno-jargon in response, she gives up on that approach.

Hyung-woo runs off to meet his mother-in-law, only when he arrives outside, he sees his own mother, sitting across the table from her. He quickly puts two and two together, and hides in a panic.

What commences is a four-square telephone relay, where each mom calls her son/daughter-in-law to advise her on the new contract, not realizing of course that each is talking to the other’s child.

Hyung-woo manages to get through it undetected, and then rushes over to Mom’s house to try and convince her not to take it to court. But she refuses to listen to him, only sticking to Eun-jae’s advice.

He storms into Eun-jae’s office to try and get her to back off his mother’s case, but without telling her the whole story, why would she back down? It explodes into another fight, and Eun-jae leaves to go meet Hee-soo.

He panics at that, wondering what she’s about to do, insisting all over again that it’s not what she thinks. Eun-jae wonders that he really doesn’t know his own wife at all, and walks out.

She goes to meet Hee-soo to talk over the case, while Hyung-woo calls her over and over. (He’s now got her number saved as “Open Lid,” after she shouted that her lid was flipped open during their kicking fight, heh.)

She eyes Hee-soo warily while putting up a pleasant front, but can’t really find fault with her. She even wonders to herself why he ever broke up with her, since she seems so perfectly normal. Heh.

Hee-soo worries about the amount their lawsuit is for, because she doesn’t want to make it seem like she’s suing for the money. Eun-jae tells her that it’s a fair amount for what she’s suffered, and that she deserves it. She swears to win, since “work is work.”

As an afterthought she asks if Hee-soo has a boyfriend, and offers to set her up with someone, but Hee-soo declines graciously saying that she’s not in the right headspace to date. Eun-jae offers that it might be nice to lean on someone, and Hee-soo brightly tells her that she’ll lean on Eun-jae then. Eun-jae berates herself for even asking, feeling the blow to her pride.

The Hope employees gather at Young-joo’s restaurant to discuss the office wars, wondering how Eun-jae found out about Hee-soo in the first place. Gogi gasps when he discovers that his wife is the culprit, leading to argument between them, as they take sides.

Outside, Soju walks up with a friend, a judge and an old law professor of theirs played by Sung Dong-il. (It’s like a 1N2D reunion up in here.)

Okay, an aside about the nicknames – we find out here that Soju’s surname is So, which would explain how he got the nickname Soju. (It follows the same logic for Gogi’s nickname from Go Ki-chan.) But then he’s also a lawyer, so by title he’s called So Byun (Lawyer So) but… that’s also the word for “pee.” Heh. Hehehe.

Soju pleads with the professor to stop calling him So Byun, and they go into Gogi’s restaurant despite the warnings that the couple is in mid-fight. Meta moment: Sung Dong-il tells Kim Jung-tae that he’s got a really friendly face that makes him feel affection towards him, despite it being their first meeting.

So the professor sits them down for an impromptu therapy session to air out their grievances, and urges them in a calm and soothing tone not to get worked up. Young-joo complains that she can’t be expected to stand idly by when Hyung-woo is cheating, and Gogi shouts that it’s not what it looks like.

The professor starts to intervene, and then stops to ask, “Hyung-woo? Yeon Hyung-woo?!” He gets up with a start, screaming, “Where is that kid?!” He calls Hyung-woo right away to yell at him directly, and Hyung-woo assures him that he isn’t cheating.

He shrinks back in embarrassment, and asks Eun-jae what she’s going around saying. She asks if Hee-soo called to complain, and adds that she never once said anything about going to Seokcho with him.

He cringes, and then when she turns to walk away from him, he calls out, “Hee-soo!” OH. NO.

Did you just call your wife by your ex-girlfriend’s name?! Are you trying to die? He just awkwardly apologizes for the mistake and they busy themselves with work.

The next day they go to Hee-soo’s first hearing, to determine whether they can settle out of court. But her boss is, as described, a first-class ass and a sexist pig, and refuses to acknowledge any wrongdoing. To court it is.

Eun-jae encourages Hee-soo and treats her really kindly throughout the whole process, which Hyung-woo notes gratefully. She gets called away for a chat with the opposing counsel from her old law firm, so Hyung-woo heads out with Hee-soo.

Her boss comes up to confront her with accusations and threats, and she stands up for herself despite it hitting her hard. Once he leaves, she breaks down in tears in front of Hyung-woo, crying that she feels so wronged.

She leans on his shoulder to cry, and he puts his arm around her and pats her on the back. It would be very sweet, except for the fact that you are married, and in fact currently attempting to convince your wife that you aren’t cheating. Too many strikes against you.

And of course, Eun-jae comes out of the building and sees them like that. Ouch. That stings in a much more severe way than the Seokcho thing, because that’s a misunderstanding, but this is… as gray and murky as it looks.

It’s just not Eun-jae’s day, as she returns to the office to more bad news, that she lost another case she worked tirelessly on. She sits in a silent daze at her desk all day without moving a muscle.

Hyung-woo returns to the office to find the staff worried for her, and he comes in to try and console her. He tries to tell her to learn to accept losses, but she gets defensive (and metaphorical), wondering if he thinks she ought to just keep taking it.

She sighs and asks him to take her on a drive, but when she names a place she wants to go, he has a quick flash of car crash noises and asks her to go anywhere but there. She thinks he’s avoiding another conversation and just heads home, dejected.

She sits at home and looks at their wedding photo, smiling as she remembers how happy they were that day. She goes to the couch to look at the burn mark and runs her hand over it. “Even if the fire gets put out, the scar always remains, like this.”

Hyung-woo comes home and they have one of those conversations where one party is completely serious and the other is joking, not realizing that he’s saying all the wrong things.

Eun-jae: Do you love me?

Hyung-woo: Out of the blue…

Eun-jae: Answer me. Do you love me?

Hyung-woo: Isn’t that a given?

Eun-jae: Say it in words.

Hyung-woo: How can I say words like that, sober?

Eun-jae: Right… You can’t bring yourself to say it… Because you don’t mean it.

Hyung-woo: What are you talking about?

Eun-jae: You aren’t ever going to divorce me, are you?

Hyung-woo: Of course not. Why would I divorce you?

Eun-jae sighs and goes out for some air, leaving Hyung-woo totally turned around. Would it have killed you to just say “I love you”? Gah.

She goes to that great repository of woes known as the Han River and drinks as she contemplates their whirlwind romance followed by fight after fight after fight. I suppose when you think of it as time spent happily in love vs. time spent fighting, the scales tip pretty severely in the wrong direction.

The next morning she comes to work all laughter and smiles, and the Hope staff is understandably weirded out by her sudden mood swing in the opposite direction. Gogi and Hyung-woo eye her nervously, and Hyung-woo finally calls her up to the roof to ask why she’s so damn happy. Heh.

She tells him that she’s decided to let it all go. Uh-oh. He perks up immediately, thinking that it means she’s somehow magically forgiven him. Boys.

He asks if that means she’s going back to the Eun-jae from their dating days, and she contemplates it for a moment, “The old me?” And she decides that it could be a good thing. Dude, she means the Single Girl Eun-jae. Don’t encourage that.

Hyung-woo remains oblivious, happily telling Soju that he’s finally reached a safe and secure place in his marriage. He encourages Soju to hurry up and get married too, suddenly switching his song from “Don’t ever get married ever.”

Eun-jae drinks at her bar, and HotBar arrives for work. (See, now I don’t even want to know this character’s name. I’ve decided to call him HotBar, which transliterated into Korean is also the word for corndog. Don’t ask me why.)

He can tell something’s up with her, but she smiles it off and says that she’s decided to let everything go, and doesn’t explain. But he, and not her husband, gah, can tell that something’s not right.

On his way to court the next day, Hyung-woo asks Eun-jae to call him oppa, just once for good luck. She counters that he’s only a month older than her, but he whines that it’ll help him win in court, so she sweetly does her best oppa-pout-wiggle, sending him over the moon.

He doesn’t catch one key turn of phrase though, when she says, “Okay, because it’s the last time… Oppa~~~” This does not bode well.

It’s time for Potato Grandpa’s case, and Hyung-woo wins in court, and even manages to get that ajusshi witness there, despite arriving too late to actually help. Regardless, it’s a heroic victory for Hyung-woo and the Little Guy.

He rushes back to the office feeling like a king, and goes straight to Eun-jae’s office, but finds it empty. The rest of the staff cheers for him, and Gogi hands him a letter from the court.

He opens it to find… divorce papers....

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Can't Lose Episode 3 synopsis/summary/recap - Korean Drama Can't Lose/Can't Live With Losing/지고는 못살아 / Jigoneun Motsala starting from August 24, 2011

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Can't Lose

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Title: 지고는 못살아 / Jigoneun Motsala

Also known as: I Can't Live Losing

Genre: Romance, comedy

Episodes: TBA

Broadcast network: MBC

Broadcast period: 2011-Aug-24 to TBA

Air time: Wednesday & Thursday 21:55

Synopsis

Eun Jae and Hyung Woo are both highly competent lawyers who met and fell in love at first sight without knowing each other's occupations, but are now in the midst of their divorce proceedings. Their relationship was initially sweet and loving, but their marriage slowly began to crack under their constant fights.

Cast

Choi Ji Woo as Eun Jae

Yoon Sang Hyun as Hyung Woo

Sung Dong Il

Kim Jung Tae

Lee Soo Kyung

Park Won Sook

Kim Ja Ok

Kim Jung Tae

Jo Mi Ryung

Production Credits

Producer:

Director: Lee Jae Dong

Screenwriter: Lee Sook Jin

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Episode 3 synopsis/summary/recap

Hyung-woo ditches mom and wife at the airport, leaving both of them fuming in his wake. Way to end up in the double doghouse in one blow, buddy.

Mom acknowledges that Eun-jae doesn’t exactly have it easy being married to that fool, and Eun-jae complains a little too much, till Mom has to remind her that he’s still her son. Oops. That’s a trap.

Everyone goes their separate ways and Mom calls Hyung-woo. She’s basically like, I know you’re my son, but you’re an ass. Haha.

He calls Eun-jae in a panic (oh NOW you’re worried?) but she hangs on up on him right away. He sees her pull up next to his bus in a cab and gets her attention, but seems to somehow miss the point that she’d rather not see his face right now.

Eun-jae goes straight home and raids his closet for revenge. She throws all his clothes into a suitcase and stomps on it for good measure, and kicks it to the curb. Or, the hallway, since it’s a high-rise.

Hyung-woo meanwhile goes to meet his mother-in-law at her noodle shop. He suddenly remembers that back when they were dating, Eun-jae had an aversion to noodles, the reason for which he now understands.

She proudly shows off her son-in-law to the other shop ladies, and Hyung-woo consults them on the new property owner’s insistence that they vacate the building. He assures them that they’re still protected for five years under the previous contract, so there’s no way the new owner can kick them out. Wanna bet your wife’s about to find a loophole there?

Pleased as punch, Mom calls… Mom to have her come and sign a new contract, but having just been ditched at the airport by her son, she’s in no mood to deal, and hangs up, just before hearing Hyung-woo’s voice on the other end of the line. This is going to be so awkward later.

Mom gushes over him, wondering who raised him so well and gave him to her as a son-in-law, in the same breath after cursing her landlady. Ha.

He rushes home knowing that Eun-jae is stewing, but he doesn’t realize how bad it is until he gets to his front door and finds his suitcase in the hall… and the lock code changed. Well THAT’s a message.

Eun-jae sits on the couch, readying herself for war, as Hyung-woo goes through all the possible new codes, like his birthday, her birthday, their wedding anniversary. None of them works.

She sneaks up to the door and watches him through the peephole, shrinking back when he does the same. He thinks and thinks, and then a light bulb goes off. He presses 0000, and presto, the door opens.

Eun-jae jumps back in shock, and he tsk-tsks at her simplicity in choosing such a ridiculous lock code. Heh.

She doesn’t back down though, and tells him to get out. He stupidly stays silent about going to meet her mother, because she asked him to keep it a secret. But really in this dire position, you ought to just come out with it, no?

All their recent friction comes back to the surface and he tells her that she’ll come to understand someday. She wonders why wait around for that day? Why should they live together then?

She starts pushing him toward the door, shouting for him to get out, and he struggles to hold his ground and swerves out of the way when she lunges at him… which sends her toppling to the floor.

His jaw drops in shock and he rushes over to check on her, but she totally overreacts, accusing him of resorting to violence. Ha. Who’s the one who lunged? But she’s so worked up that she can’t go backwards now.

She shouts, “Let’s get a divorce! Right now!”

This time she goes to reach for her bag to walk out, and he tries to stop her. She whirls around with her big purse, knocking him straight in the face by accident…

And he turns around with a bloody nose. They both stare dumbfounded, as he ekes out, “Is this… blood?” She tells him to press charges if he feels wronged, and storms out.

He runs after her and searches the complex, but she’s nowhere to be found. He sits at the playground and talks into his recorder, saying that it’s become the worst case scenario, that they’re not even on speaking terms, and today he even saw blood. Heh.

Hyung-woo continues to look for her, calling all three of their employees one after the other, not realizing that they’re all sitting right next to each other. They sigh that the lawyer couple is at it again.

Eun-jae is of course hiding out at her bar, throwing darts to get some of her aggression out. She pictures Hyung-woo’s face in the center of the dartboard, which helps to motivate her.

Hot Bartender (whose name is yet to surface, so I will continue to call him Hot Barkeep or some variant thereof) comes in to work and finds Eun-jae deep in the throes of dart angst. He asks why she isn’t in Japan right now, which just makes her angrier.

Hyung-woo goes to fight out some of his anger in the boxing ring with his buddy Soju, who advises him not to fight so much, or he’ll really end up divorced. He gets a punch in the face for that comment.

Meanwhile Eun-jae vents all her frustrations while knocking back shots, and wonders if she really ought to just divorce him, saying it more like a threat to teach him a lesson.

Hot Barkeep gets all worked up and blurts out that he just might beat the crap out of her husband if she keeps talking this way (as in, telling him how badly he’s treating her).

She laughs that he ought to invite her along so she can watch, in no way taking him seriously. Aw, the poor kid. She’s practically pinching his cheeks.

But Hyung-woo always manages to come around and be the good hubby, and he waits all night on their front stoop for her to come home. She stumbles out of a taxi in her drunken haze, and refuses his help, so he just follows behind her with his arms stretched out.

She gets to their door and tries their old lock code, too drunk to remember that she changed it. She accuses him of changing it and not informing her, and then makes fun of him for choosing 0000 like a simpleton. Hee.

She asks for a coke and when he says he’ll bring her water instead, it sets her off, and she starts crying like a little kid. Startled, he comes over thinking she’s crying over the events of the day, but she just wails, “You never listen to me! I said I wanted cola~~~!” Hahaha.

He laughs and brings her the coke and she sucks it down, crying for another one, this time wailing that she’s not going to live with him if he doesn’t give her a cola. He envelops her in a hug and just holds her as she cries, finally getting that this isn’t about cola.

She cries on his shoulder, wailing like a little girl, and he hugs her and pats her back. It’s adorable.

The next morning Eun-jae wakes up… in naked Hyung-woo’s arms. Her eyes dart open as she realizes she doesn’t know how they ended up that way, and she lifts the covers to check just how naked he is.

Judging from her reaction? Pretty damn nekkid.

She quickly rewinds to last night, when he hugged her. She stopped crying, and he wiped her tears, affectionately calling her stupid, and then kissed her. She was still mad enough to pull away at first, but then a minute later, they were making out.

Back in the present, she shakes her head in disbelief and wonders if it wasn’t a dream. Hyung-woo wakes up, happy as you please, “It wasn’t a dream.” She gets out of bed and storms off in a huff, still angry but now totally without steam because they’ve already had make-up sex, which deflates her whole angry silent treatment thing.

He happily chitchats over breakfast, while she still cringes, half embarrassed and half still angry. She declares last night an accident, and tells him that she’s still angry, so their fight isn’t over.

But as expected, he just coos at her mockingly. Under her breath, she swears off liquor forever. Ha.

At the store they end up fighting over a bag of chips, and Eun-jae pops them open as soon as they get home, insisting that she’s going to eat them all herself. They explode all over the place, so she ends up having to eat them off the couch to save face.

Hyung-woo notices their fridge stocked with side dishes from his mom, and remembers that she’s probably just as angry at him. He suggests they go eat dinner at mom’s tonight, and Eun-jae refuses, so he heads out to go alone.

Outside he calls Mom, but she informs him that she’s in Jeju, while chewing him out as expected. He turns back around to go home, but then his phone rings again. He picks up thinking it’s Mom, but another voice startles him.

It’s HEE-SOO (Lee Soo-kyung), the ex who’s been calling him lately. She asks him to meet. Here we go…

He arrives outside the restaurant and looks in, his eyes betraying unresolved feelings. He finds her depressed and drinking quite a lot, and asks if something’s the matter. She admits that she probably shouldn’t have called him, clearly having been the one to break his heart, but he dismisses it as no big deal.

The reason she called is that she needs some legal advice. She’s a reporter at a big paper, and voiced some complaints about sexual harassment at work – female employees being treated differently, especially at office parties and dinners where they’re told to pour drinks for the higher ups like bar girls.

They went unanswered so she filed a more formal complaint, which ended up making her an outcast. Other women who were initially behind her pulled out, and now she’s gone from writing front-page news to not getting a single byline.

Hyung-woo tells her that she has to involve the law now, and offers his help. She admits to lacking the courage to take it that far, but he assures her that it’s the right thing to do. She asks him to have a drink with her, so he does.

He sits at a bus stop for a while after sending her off in a cab, already showing signs of first love regurgita rearing its ugly head. One point in the he’s-not-over-her column? She looks just like his wife. That can’t be a coincidence.

On his way home, he stops outside to check his breath, which reeks of alcohol. He figures he can’t hide that, so what should he say? He drank with a friend? What friend? His mother? She can’t drink.

He pictures thought-bubble Eun-jae questioning him, and even starts to cower in fear from his imaginary version of her. Heh. He decides to go with truth.

He cautiously makes his way inside, and Eun-jae notices the smell right away, as expected. He tells her he drank with a college classmate named Hee-joo, though he adds the suffix -nom, which gives the impression that Hee-joo is a dude.

She asks if he’s going to try and sneak one past her, and he gulps in fear. But she means getting a contract from Gogi for that loan, and he breathes a sigh of relief.

She stops herself from repeating the same argument because she doesn’t want him calling her a cow anymore, and he tells her that she’s a bird now, because she’s so forgetful. “But not just a bird. A PRETTY bird!”

She hits him upside the head and he muses that her violence is becoming quite natural.

The next morning Hyung-woo comes out to meet Gogi, who’s on the verge of tears. He asks what’s wrong and Gogi blurts, “I got hit!” He tells the pathetic story of how he didn’t want to do the dishes this morning so Young-joo slapped him.

He blubbers that she even turned her pointy diamond ring inside out to have it hit him in the face. Aw. Hyung-woo agrees that women can be so violent, and Gogi wonders if he gets hit too.

He quickly recovers and pours on the sympathy for his friend, and they head off to work on Grandpa Potato’s case. They ask him to write a statement for the judge, and Grandpa worries, only having attended grade school. Hyung-woo assures him that it’s nothing to worry about, and they watch as he writes in this grade-school penmanship that just breaks your heart.

They take the statement to try and convince the seaside restaurant ajusshi to give a witness testimony, but he continues to evade them. The two friends sit on the beach and sigh over their problems, and end up splashing around in the ocean like a couple of kids.

Back at the office the next day, Gogi freaks out when Hee-soo walks in the door. She greets him warmly as “sunbae,” while he hilariously tries to hide her from Eun-jae while motioning for Hyung-woo to come out.

Hyung-woo comes out and wonders why he’s freaking out since Eun-jae’s going to know anyway once he takes the case, but Gogi just shoves them into the conference room and tries to run interference.

I love that no one is panicked but him, and yet, he’s probably right to overreact – though currently it’s comical, later he’s going be saying “I told you so.”

Eun-jae joins them to say her greetings, surprised to hear that this is Hee-soo. “Didn’t you call him nom?” He quickly declares that his particular brand of slang, and she lets it go.

He asks her to join them, and Hee-soo remarks that it must be nice to work with her husband in the same office. Eun-jae just muses that she must not be married yet. Heh.

Eun-jae gets up in arms about the sexist remarks documented in Hee-soo’s files. She happily volunteers to help him with the case, and Hyung-woo looks at her lovingly. Aw.

Afterwards Gogi rushes Hyung-woo outside, asking what the hell he’s doing seeing Hee-soo again. Hyung-woo insists that it’s fine and it’s long since over between them, and he’s just helping her with this case.

Gogi tells him there’s no way he can tell Eun-jae about her – that there’s not a woman on this earth who would take that news well. Well that’s true but keeping it a secret and being found out later is just exponentially worse.

He stupidly agrees with Gogi. Just overhead, Woo-shik appears, having heard the whole thing, making Hyung-woo as jumpy as Gogi. He tells them to zip it, and the three men start digging their own graves, en masse.

Hyung-woo goes back to working on the case with Eun-jae, and she notes how organized her paperwork is, musing that she’s exactly like Hyung-woo. She asks how they met, and he says the hiking club, and she guesses that they must’ve been close too, if they had the same hobby.

Hyung-woo laughs a little awkwardly and says they were, but certainly not anymore, and then answers his phone with, “I’ll call you back later.” That rouses her suspicions, and she returns to her office to suss out the clues, landing at a guess close to the truth.

She wonders if it’s possible, but finds that she has no evidence to back it up, and will get nowhere by questioning friends loyal to him. I love that she figured it out on her own right away.

She decides to question Young-joo, and comes by to just casually drop Hee-soo’s name, saying that she came by the office to ask for Hyung-woo’s help with a case. Young-joo immediately gets huffy about her appearing out of nowhere, after breaking up with him via text message.

Oops. Eun-jae tries to play it off like Hyung-woo already told her, even acting totally cool about taking on her case because the past is in the past. But Young-joo can read her face, and realizes that Hyung-woo said nothing of the kind.

She tells her that the boys definitely signed a pact, knowing Gogi, and Eun-jae stops to laugh that she calls her own husband by that nickname. Young-joo asks if she’s just going to let it go, when old flames could start back up again.

Eun-jae insists that there’s no way that’s what’s happening, and yet she can’t shake her annoyance at the whole thing. She returns to the office determined to chew him out, but then stops short, thinking who in the world marries with zero relationships in their past?

But then she turns back around, remembering that he should have told her if he has nothing to hide – there’s something there if he’s not being honest. But then she stops short again, annoyed that it stings her pride to even ask.

She keeps eyeing him suspiciously all day, unable to decide what to do. They have another small tiff (he left the toilet seat up, she fell in, ha) and then he gets a call and goes out, saying that Soju wants to have drinks.

She decides to go out too, and heads to Young-joo’s place, but when she looks in the window from outside, she sees Soju sitting there, with Gogi but no Hyung-woo…

Ruh-roh. She quickly turns away to leave before they see her, and Young-joo runs out to catch her. She makes excuses and leaves, not wanting to be caught in her moment of vulnerability, and rushes home.

She stares blankly at the tv and ends up watching a tear-jerker reality program, which gives her an excuse to cry. She falls asleep like that, waiting for Hyung-woo.

When she wakes up, it’s the middle of the night and Hyung-woo is asleep next to her, stone cold drunk. She asks where he was, and he murmurs that he was with Soju. She asks if she’s supposed to believe that lie, but he just falls right back to sleep.

He wakes up the next morning none the wiser, as Eun-jae zooms right past him coldly and heads to the office alone.

He gets a call from Grandpa Potato who ends up in the hospital because he can’t afford to eat anything other than potatoes. He vows to get that testimony they need and tells Eun-jae that he’s headed to Seokcho.

With all his lies piling up, she wonders if he’s even telling her the truth, and decides to follow him. She drives the whole way making threats in the event that they end up someplace not in Seokcho, but to her great relief, she follows him right where he said he was going.

She thinks twice about just turning around, and decides to surprise him so they can eat sushi together, and gets out of the car to approach him.

But just as she gets close, someone else beats her to Hyung-woo… it’s Hee-soo, who runs up and greets him with a smile.

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Can't Lose Episode 7 synopsis/summary/recap - Korean Drama Can't Lose/Can't Live With Losing/지고는 못살아 / Jigoneun Motsala starting from August 24, 2011

Can't Lose Episode 7 synopsis/summary/recap - Korean Drama Can't Lose/Can't Live With Losing/지고는 못살아 / Jigoneun Motsala starting from August 24, 2011

Episode 1 - 6 - Korean Drama Can't Lose/Can't Live With Losing/지고는 못살아 / Jigoneun Motsala starting from August 24, 2011

Episode 1 - 6 - Korean Drama Can't Lose/Can't Live With Losing/지고는 못살아 / Jigoneun Motsala starting from August 24, 2011

Can't Lose Episode 6 synopsis/summary/recap - Korean Drama Can't Lose/Can't Live With Losing/지고는 못살아 / Jigoneun Motsala starting from August 24, 2011

Can't Lose Episode 6 synopsis/summary/recap - Korean Drama Can't Lose/Can't Live With Losing/지고는 못살아 / Jigoneun Motsala starting from August 24, 2011

Can't Lose Episode 5 synopsis/summary/recap - Korean Drama Can't Lose/Can't Live With Losing/지고는 못살아 / Jigoneun Motsala starting from August 24, 2011

Can't Lose Episode 5 synopsis/summary/recap - Korean Drama Can't Lose/Can't Live With Losing/지고는 못살아 / Jigoneun Motsala starting from August 24, 2011

Can't Lose Episode 4 synopsis/summary/recap - Korean Drama Can't Lose/Can't Live With Losing/지고는 못살아 / Jigoneun Motsala starting from August 24, 2011

Can't Lose Episode 4 synopsis/summary/recap - Korean Drama Can't Lose/Can't Live With Losing/지고는 못살아 / Jigoneun Motsala starting from August 24, 2011

Can't Lose Episode 3 synopsis/summary/recap - Korean Drama Can't Lose/Can't Live With Losing/지고는 못살아 / Jigoneun Motsala starting from August 24, 2011

Can't Lose Episode 3 synopsis/summary/recap - Korean Drama Can't Lose/Can't Live With Losing/지고는 못살아 / Jigoneun Motsala starting from August 24, 2011

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