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REWATCH: Personal Taste - Episode 4
Home is where the...poison is?
“A gay tenant is THE BEST!” is still echoing through JinHo’s head as he slams his bedroom door behind him. “I’m really going to go nuts,” he grieves in great agony. “She humiliates me in front of Director Choi and now the leg…!” In his temper, he can’t believe he actually gave her a massage after what she did to him at the kalbi house, falsely outing him once again, and to make it worse, doing so in front of someone who can make or break his company. “I can’t let this get to me, I can’t,” he whispers the mantra and slaps his cheeks awake. Be strong!
The next morning, GaeIn rolls off the sofa and groggily notices the daylight. “Where am I?” she mumbles, wondering why she’s sleeping outside. But it only takes a moment before the previous night’s events come flooding back to her in a series of horrific images, including one of her yelling drunkenly to a restaurant full of people: “I’m telling you, this man is gay!” She gasps. Oh crap! JinHo is going to try to move out again as she has again violated his simple request to quit making references to his sexual preferences, especially when it includes announcing it to strangers.
Her stomach also grumbles its unhappiness and she gets up to head for the restroom to at least solve one problem when JinHo strolls out. He’s chatting on his phone. Before he notices she’s awake, she hits the deck and feigns sleep. He hangs up and glances at the floor, noting that she’d relocated to the ground when he’d seen her on the sofa only seconds earlier. With a tap of his feet, he tries to wake her. She steadfastly stays an immobile log on the floor. Loudly, “Go inside and sleep, you’ll cramp up.” Ignore, ignore. He snits under his breath, “She sure has some weird sleeping habits.”
As soon as he’s gone, she jumps up and darts for the toilet. But a split second later, JinHo is there swinging the bathroom windows open. “Did you sleep well?” he asks, overly politely. She fidgets and asks tentatively, “Yes, did you JinHo-sshi?” His face is cold. “Don’t you have something you’d like to say to me?” he encourages. “Say to you?” she pretends confusion. She knows exactly what he’s referring to and why he’s got the expression of a man who wants to quietly strangle her. Eyebrows quirked, he listens to her rambling explanation about alcohol and her inability to remember anything she does when under the influence, but she’s pretty positive she didn’t do anything out of line, as that just isn’t her style at all. He’s grinding his teeth, “I see.” He’s fairly sure she’s lying through her teeth but that small percentage of doubt that she really doesn’t remember what she did prevents him from actually reaching out and throttling her. There’s nothing he can really say and so he turns to leave. GaeIn wins this round.
GaeIn remains in the bathroom pounding her head at her own stupidity. How could she announce something like that to so many people!? The problem is, forget the lease money, she’s actually beginning to like having JinHo around as her gay roommate and now he’s likely so ticked off by this latest incident, he’ll insist on moving out again.
Thankfully JinHo has more pressing matters to worry about so he lets go of his ‘GaeIn’* issues at home and meets SangJoon at the site for the new Dam Art Gallery, which is just a big empty mountainside at present time. JinHo’s architectural brain furiously thinks of ideas as he draws in the air, mentally painting a picture. They’re completely absorbed in their work but when Director Choi’s name is brought up, JinHo can’t help but remember the look on the other man’s face when GaeIn announced to the whole wide world that he was gay. He hangs his head and realizes, if nothing else, he’s definitely made an unforgettable impression on Director Choi. “What?” SangJoon asks, hearing JinHo muttering under his breath. “Nothing,” JinHo avers. SangJoon comments, “Hey, you know, last I saw, it really seems that person’s got some real interest in you.” JinHo, a bit sensitive about the whole man-on-man attraction scenario, snaps, “What the hell are you talking about? Does it make sense to you that a man would like another man!?” SangJoon laughs, you see, he wasn’t referring to Director Choi. JinHo had misunderstood. SangJoon thinks they are talking about GaeIn so he titters, “Wow, you really must see Park GaeIn only as a fellow man, not a woman at all!”
*gae-in also means “personal” in Korean
On the way out, their good humor is interrupted by the arrival of President Han of Mirae Construction who has some pointed words about the failures of JinHo’s father as both a leader and an architect and warns JinHo of making the same mistakes. JinHo counters that his father’s only shortcomings had been to trust a weasly snake of a colleague like President Han. Despite his smiling laughter, President Han’s good humor is false. Without a doubt, JinHo’s cold calm gets on the older man’s nerves. Jeon JinHo has a way of looking at others with a narrowed gaze that is both cocky and condescending.
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