What started out last week as a tumultuous drama I wasn’t sure I’d be able to get behind, has morphed, this week, into a drama to which I am now completely addicted. So what happened in this week’s episodes of Emergency Couple that changed my tune? Well, let’s dig into them and find out!
As we all know, last week we were left with a crazy hold-up in the ER in which Oh Jin Hee stepped up as the heroine and simultaneously saved the day and knocked Oh Chang Min out cold. While I loved the chaos that followed and loved even more than Jin Hee was the one to step up and bring Chang Min back to life (it was her kiss that brought Sleeping Beauty back to life), I couldn’t help but wonder what happened to everyone else involved in that scenario? We know about the guy with the gunshot wound (and I just have to ask, can a bullet really travel through the bloodstream and into the heart?) but what about the officer that was bleeding to death before Psycho Ahjussi grabbed the gun and started threatening everyone’s life? He was the one Jin Hee was trying to save first, did he survive? What about Psycho Ahjussi? Did he face a near-death experience like Chang Min? Who jumped up and performed mouth-to-mouth to save him? We know he survived because that’s what we were told but how? I suppose I can understand why the writer(s) thought those details weren’t all that important but I found it odd that everyone would be crowded around Chang Min and not do their duty as doctors and see to it that all patients were treated equally.
Despite that one qualm, the rest of this week’s episodes were great. I love the mysteriously developing back-story of Dr. Gook. It’s now obvious that he experienced some sort of traumatic event in his younger days that has left him terribly scarred. From what I gather, Dr. Shim was there at the time, perhaps as his fellow intern or maybe even as his senior, and though she was there at the time, I have a feeling she left soon afterwards, leaving Dr. Gook to deal with his mess on his own. I also suspect this is what caused the breakdown in their relationship all those years ago.
It’s funny how once a theme is picked up in a drama, it’s applied to everyone in said drama. In the case of Emergency Couple, the theme is broken relationships and every single relationship we’ve come across (so far, at least) has been damaged in one way or another (with our annoyingly cutesy newlywed couple being the exception, though I have a feeling their time is coming). Obviously Jin Hee and Chang Min’s relationship is the most damaged but now that we’ve seen Chang Min’s parent’s relationship, should that really come as any surprise? His parents have been at each other’s throats for years, what other example would he have to follow except the whacked out one, his parents set for him? At least it appears that Chang Min’s father is a decent fellow who seems to want nothing more than to live a quite life, as far away from Chang Min’s mother as possible. (And really, who can blame him?) I love that Chang Min’s dad has been helping Jin Hee achieve her dream over the past six years. As uncomfortable as it may have been for them both at times, you can see that they both truly care for each other in a father/daughter kind of way and I think Jin Hee has really needed that as it appears her father isn’t around and her mother seems to be more of a burden than anything.
What I’m loving the most about Emergency Couple isn’t the medical drama (because let’s face it, the medical emergencies we’ve been given up to this point are so far out there it’s impossible to mistake them as real), it’s not the constant spewing of venom nor the burning death stares, it’s not the mistaken identities (Ah Reum is a minister’s daughter who could easily be mistaken for a prostitute… Are we surprised???) nor Jin Hee literally falling into Dr. Gook’s arms. No, what I love the most about this drama is the very poorly veiled feelings Jin Hee and Chang Min have for each other and the fact that no matter how hard they try to convince themselves that they hate each other, they’re in fact, still very much in love. Just knowing that is enough to keep me hooked on this drama, mostly because I’m dying to find out who gives into this truth first… Jin Hee or Chang Min?
So what do you think of my “still in love theory?” Am I right or am I completely out there? If I’m right, who do you think will crack first? If I’m wrong, what do you think is going to happen to Jin Hee and Chang Min? I always love to talk K-Dramas so be sure to let me know what you think in the comments below!
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Zombie Mamma, you basically said/wrote everything that was in my mind. I thought I was the only one crazy thinking too much attention was focused on Chang Min and the other patients just disappeared.
Dr. Gook was obviously traumatized to the point he had to go to a bar to get a drink to get through it (and then go back to the ER? Weird, how doctors think they can just drink and go back to work.)
Chang Min’s dad, Oh Tae Suk and Jin Hee are so sweet ~ I’ll just repeat what I said in my review because that’s how I feel. 😀
Given the confrontation scene, I predict Chang Min will be the one to crack first because in their fight, he was the more forceful one. He was the one who will try to take responsibility for the patient’s death no matter what Jin Hee said. I don’t think they are at the “still in love” stage yet because they just met again, angry feelings still exist, and misunderstandings needs to be cleared. I think we need a few more nudges in the right direction and that’s why I think Oh Tae Suk needs to join the hospital. Haha.
I really hope Oh Tae Suk ends up at the hospital with Jin Hee and Chang Min! I can see him working his father-in-law magic and doing whatever he can to get our OTP back together. I’m pretty sure he wouldn’t have spent the past six years helping Jin Hee if he didn’t secretly want her to get back together with his son but that’s just my speculation at this point.
As far as who’s going to crack first, I think it’s going to be Chang Min as well. In part because it’s just seems more romantic if the guy falls in love first and has to struggle with keeping his feelings in check and in part because I think he was more in love with Jin Hee in the first place. Don’t get me wrong, I have no doubt they were both very much in love when they got married the first time but I think Chang Min’s love was more passionate and therefore, his love is going to reignite faster than Jin Hee’s. I can see Jin Hee’s love being the slow burning, steady type that doesn’t burn wildly for a moment and then fizzle out, I see it more as the type that keeps burning for years and years, with just enough flare-ups, now and then, to keep things interesting.
As for them still being in love… I’m pretty sure those feelings are still there, they’re just buried way way way way way way way below the surface, buried beneath all of the hurt and anger that piled up during their year of marriage. (I can’t even imagine what that year must have been like. Apparently there was an affair involved an everything. Oy!) I’m pretty sure there have been moments of jealousy in these past four episodes that have started to fan that nearly extinguished flame and I can’t wait to watch that flame burn brighter in both Jin Hee and Chang Min as it’s their story that compels me to keep watching. (That and I’m dying to see Chang Min realize Jin Hee’s the only woman he’s ever going to love… That episode should be fantastic! *fingers crossed*)
what i want to know about 2 episode so far is the reason for divorce. We only look at the beginning of the drama and it’s so quick. I was pretty love the way Chang Min tried to wake Jin Hee and the way he forced i’m little sad 🙁 poor Jin Hee.
CANT WAIT FOR EVERY EPISODE THAT WILL MAKE THEM REALIZE THAT THEY ARE MEANT TO BE OMG
I’d like to know why they divorced so quickly as well. Jin Hee said something about Chang Min cheating on her at one point… Maybe that’s it? I have a feeling it has a lot do to with a lack of communication between the two but there’s probably something more. I’m sure we’ll find out eventually. I hope we do anyway. I’m really looking forward to them realizing they still love each other; I have a feeling that moment is going to be great. 🙂