This week, we get some drama that is surprisingly not from the Lees or the Kangs. Landlady discovers that her only son (and his family) have been living in the United States of Gangnam as opposed to America! And here I thought Hyo-joon and Hyo-do were the worst sons in this drama. How could this man lie about being abroad for 20 whole years!? To think Landlady has been sending money to him every month and learning English so she could travel to the States to see her grandkids. Landlady spends the rest of the week in the most devastated state we’ve ever seen her in, and for the first time in forever, Hyo-shim’s mom channels her anger, insults, and hits in the right direction: at Landlady’s unfilial son.
Back to our show regulars, a search of Mr. Yeom’s office turns up his old phone, and Tae-min finds a call recording between Yeom and Sook-hyang which confirms that they were the ones behind his parents’ death. Infuriated, Tae-min — who has been the one calming Tae-ho down in the search for their parents’ murderer — confronts and punches the living daylight out of Yeom. Violence is never the answer, but in this case, it is a question, and the answer is yes! Tae-min gives Sook-hyang the “You’re no longer my mom” speech, and to compound her woes, Director Park returns from the U.S. with evidence of her misdeeds at Taesan Group. Sook-hyang is finally arrested alongside Chairman Kang and Mr. Yeom — but not before she applies her PPL makeup, and calls Halmeoni out for being one of the villains of the show. I won’t even lie, Sook-hyang’s “You’re the original Jang Sook-hyang” line to Halmeoni hit hard!
Hyo-shim’s mom eventually relents and gives Tae-ho her blessings, and he wastes no time to properly propose to Hyo-shim. Big brother Tae-min is also onboard with Tae-ho and Hyo-shim’s marriage — and my heart broke for him as he sat alone in Chairman Kang’s empty shoe shine shop. Someone, give this man his happy ending. The week ends with Hyo-shim finally finding her dad — who has been hospitalized for a while. But it looks like Dad had another woman in his life all along…