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REWATCH: Personal Taste - Ep 5 - Part 2 of 2
Closure or just a party?
The next morning GaIn and JinHo both come out of their respective bedrooms. When they catch sight of each other, they frown. Both their faces are sprinkled with red dots. “I thought you said it was good for the skin!” she cries, looking at the condition of their skin. “Were those rotten eggs?” he wonders in annoyance. She doesn’t know what to do, “And I have my interview today…!”
JinHo is in his office with a damp towel over his face, trying to soothe the inflammation. TaeHoon strolls in, “You’re in earlier than usual today, boss.” JinHo replies suspiciously, “Why are you here so early?” TaeHoon hedges, “I wanted to have a word with you…and…but really, hyung, why are you doing that?” He is referring to the towel on JinHo’s face as the entire time JinHo has been talking to TaeHoon through the cloth.
Next arrives SangJoon, who is also awed by flaky TaeHoon’s early arrival to work. “Wow, seeing you here at this hour,” he says, “It makes me realize we really must have hung all our fates on this one Dan Art Gallery project!” He’s chuckling at his own humor when he, like TaeHoon, is finding JinHo reclining in his chair with a towel on his face a little distracting. “And now what are you doing over there?” he wants to know. JinHo sighs, “My head hurts so I’m just trying to cool off.” For headaches, SangJoon suggests medicine, not the ineffective remedy of a wet towel over one’s face.
“Ah!” TaeHoon says suddenly, “Hyung, you’re still doing well at Sangojae, right?” JinHo springs out of the chair. “TaeHoon! You—! How did—? What is that supposed to mean!?” He wants an explanation from TaeHoon as to how the younger man knows JinHo has been personally involved with Sangojae. Of course, since TaeHoon has been charged with spying on JinHo by HyeMi, he knows exactly where his boss has been spending his nights. When the towel falls away from JinHo’s face due to his sudden movement, the two men gasp at his tarnished face. “Hey! How can you be getting chicken pox at your age!?” SangJoon hollers in surprise. JinHo assures him it is not chicken pox.
Wait a minute, TaeHoon says, thinking about Sangojae. Isn’t there supposed to be a single daughter living alone in that house? “What about HyeMe!” he cries at JinHo. “That’s not right, hyung! How can you do that to HyeMi?” JinHo can’t seem to catch a break, every day is a new headache. “It’s not what you think,” he tells him. TaeHoon lectures that if JinHo is trying to get good with the daughter just to score the Dan Art Gallery project, it’s not moral! Their firm can’t do things like this no matter how badly they want to win! SangJoon forcibly ushers TaeHoon out of JinHo’s office.
JinHo goes to the restroom to splash some water on his face. He looks in the mirror and doesn’t like the man staring back. He remembers GaeIn’s assertion that JinHo is a gift sent to her by her mother from heaven. Guilt pricks at him. Her words “JinHo, let’s stay friends for a very long time” echoes through his mind and it does not sit comfortably on his conscience. TaeHoon, unfortunately, is not completely wrong. Now that GaeIn is developing feelings of friendship towards him, his behavior is dangerously close to being that of yet another betrayal to her. He’s not being honest with her and if he’s honest with himself, he’s beginning to care for her as well and that makes it even worse.
At Director Choi’s office, InHee informs her boss that Professor Park, in England, has successfully been connected on the phone. Director Choi tries to woo the out-of-touch architect to become involved, if even a little, in his gallery project. It must be a curt negative on the other end because the phone call doesn’t last very long and Director Choi tells the other man to call anytime if he changes his mind. “I’ll be waiting,” he tells the other man. InHee asks the obvious, “Another rejection?” Director Choi tells InHee that he needs to make a personal visit to Sangojae.
GaeIn is walking home from yet another failed interview when she spots some old wood chairs being tossed out, broken and mangled in the street. A wood worker through and through, she can’t resist picking them up because the wood is such good quality. She reforms the broken wooden chairs and breathes new life into them. The wood has now become one rather colorful and strange chair. YoungSun is impressed that GaeIn was able to turn someone else’s trash into a cool new functional furniture piece. It is times like this, she really believes in GaeIn’s talents as a furniture designer. GaeIn then notices the box in YoungSun’s lap. Ah, she has brought a very important thing for her good friend who doesn’t wash regularly: facial cleanser! “With this, let’s wash our face more regularly okay?” YoungSun urges.
YoungSun is pretty surprised that GaeIn had spent her day working on things like making furniture after being turned away at another interview. “What’s the use of lying around feeling sorry for myself?” GaeIn asks logically. YoungSun says it must be nice to be so resilient. GaeIn didn’t really react when InHee stole ChangYul. She didn’t even create much of a fuss when WonHo ran off with her money. Not even the difficult job search is able to bring GaeIn down. Of course, we know that GaeIn does react to these things. The reason why YoungSun doesn’t know the extent of GaeIn’s pain is because much of her hysteria has so far occured only when JinHo had been around. Not really listening to her friend, GaeIn blurts out, lost in her own thoughts, “The part that really irritates me is, they should have told me I’m not qualified before I get there instead of calling me all the way out there only to pick apart my credentials!” Humph.
YoungSun then brings up her favorite topic: JinHo. Where is he? She brings up the events of the previous day. It seems to YoungSun that GaeIn and JinHo seem closer these days. Is he still acting stuck up? GaeIn smiles shyly, she thinks she must have gotten used to it because she thinks it’s all a part of his charm now, besides, he’s also shown kindness. “And…and…” GaeIn trails off, which gets her friend really suspicious, especially the faraway smile that has strangely manifested on GaeIn’s face. “And what?” YoungSun demands. GaeIn says rather dreamily, “He has this way of saying things out of nowhere, the kind of things that make someone’s heart feel really good.” GaeIn hesitates but admits that he’s even compelled her to say super cheesy, chicken-skin inducing sappy stuff to him about how glad she was that he’s moved in to Sangojae. YoungSun has heard enough. She grabs her friend by the shoulders and gives her a shake, “You can’t, Park GaeIn! Snap out of it!” GaeIn is confused, “What?” YoungSun declares, “I don’t care how vulnerable you are right now, you MUST NOT fall in love with a gay man!” GaeIn thinks YoungSun is completely overreacting.
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