The Police Cafe: Episodes V-Six

Our leading lady’second aggressive honey confession has open the door for our characters to talk over their feelings, but when ane is unwilling to open up his center too the other is questioning the morality of her rash behavior, it seems unlikely that they volition make whatever substantial progress.

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The Law Cafe: Episodes 5-6

After concluding calendar week’s osculation betwixt Jung-ho too Yuri, the interrogation on everyone’second listen was: volition Jung-ho smooch and go? And while almost of us predicted that he would concord upward his noble idiocy like a shield inward battle, none of us expected him to stumble mid-makeout because of a poorly timed cervix cramp. But yes, that’second just what happened, together with when his cervix seizes upward, he chop-chop uses it as an excuse to abort the osculation too scamper off to an acupuncturist.

Yuri follows him to the physician because — different Jung-ho, who prefers to bottle up his emotions too allow them ferment for 17 years like an aged wine — Yuri tackles her feelings similar a linebacker and wrestles them into the ground until she has beaten all the answers out of them. So patch Jung-ho lays prone on a hospital bed in addition to a doc places needles inward his cervix, he has the added torture of listening to Yuri monologue about her newly discovered feelings. But Jung-ho’s cervix cramp bought him enough time to drib downwardly from the clouds the buss initially had him floating on, and one time he returns to reality, he does what nosotros all expected: he rejects Yuri.

Even though her assertiveness too perseverance is decidedly her, Jung-ho is thrown off kilter, largely because he’second secretly held onto his unrequited crush since high school in addition to cannot relate to how rapidly she acknowledged as well as confessed her feelings for him. Isn’t she afraid of losing their friendship? No she is not — largely because she trusts in her tenacity to agree on together with non let get.

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Following the rejection, Yuri redirects her emotions together with goes subsequently the civil servant who failed to remove Soo-ah together with her sis from their abusive female parent, only the resolution to the kid abuse level arc flares upwardly in addition to extinguishes chop-chop as well as anticlimactically. Jung-ho in one case over again steps inward to help Yuri meet the big picture: the blame cannot live placed on a single civil retainer who hesitated to take Soo-ah too her sister from her female parent’sec tending without obvious signs of abuse to justify separating them from their exclusively family.

The whole system is flawed, in addition to thanks to Yuri’sec (un)civil disobedience at the constabulary station, she’second invited on tv to talk over the issues too rectify her earlier misconception. And piece she does call on the government to increment funding for the programs that take failed children like Soo-ah, in that location’sec no satisfying resolution or proposition that modify will be implemented. So ultimately, the large takeaway following her tv appearance seems to be that the airtime drummed upwardly more than business concern for her cafe.

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And that influx inward cafe patrons is how she acquires her adjacent customer: a woman seeking to reestablish her innocence after she was unjustly convicted of attack later fighting off her lecherous employer. The case itself is exclusively marginally important to the plot because — similar every other case featured inward this drama — it primarily serves to open Yuri’sec eyes to a personal or societal event she was previously ignorant to. And inward this instance, the topic at hand is sexual harassment and consent.

Although I’one thousand not a fan of the rushed setup, I whole-heartedly appreciate seeing our leading lady query her ain actions (1.e. the osculation she planted on Jung-ho without his consent) too accept an open give-and-take nigh the proper mode to pursue person too not cross boundaries. In my opinion, this was a lovely exploration of the subject, not exclusively from a societal perspective, just amongst how consent — or lack thereof — is frequently portrayed inward one thousand-dramas. I intend at that place are a fair issue of us — myself included — who oftentimes await the other way when it comes to the questionable actions of our favorite characters because nosotros viewers are lav to more data than the characters are.

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Case inward point: nosotros are aware that Jung-ho has been harboring a 17-year crush as well as is receptive to the buss, merely Yuri doesn’t have that noesis. She initiated the osculation based on the supposition that Jung-ho liked her because he was prissy as well as protective of her, simply as Seo-yeon so bluntly reminds Yuri, “dainty” is a basic requirement for being a decent human being. Someone’s niceness shouldn’t be viewed as the greenish lite to sexually attack them.

Yuri is wracked amongst guilt, so when Joon, Eun-kang, as well as the neighborhood ajummas encourage her to drinkable alongside them, the alcohol causes her to verbally vomit her pent-upwards emotions on her unsuspecting audience. Their mood dampened by her mopey behaviour, the grouping turns her over to Jung-ho, not realizing he — together with the fact that she broke Article 298 of the criminal code with him — is the movement of her current emotional land.

Jung-ho patiently — as well as I hateful patiently — takes tending of her, as well as in the morning time, Yuri apologizes for her drunken demeanor as well as for not getting his consent when she kissed him. But Yuri is not fix to allow get of her feelings for him, and so she asks if it’s all correct for her to keep trying to win his eye — the right way.

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Just equally their human relationship seems to settle into a comfortable agreement, Dohan Construction rises to the forefront of the story when Jung-ho tracks downward terminal week’second Canis familiaris murderer, beats him to a pulp, and drags him to Pyun-woong’sec posh apartment. (Yes! Justice for doggo!) There, Jung-ho warns his uncle to stay away from the people he cares near.

Although Pyun-woong cowers to Jung-ho’sec violent in addition to colorful threats, he does not obey Jung-ho’s control. Instead, Pyun-woong shows upward at Yuri’s cafe, supposedly alongside a task offering. Jung-ho is on border the whole fourth dimension, too it’s very obvious that Pyun-woong’sec retaliation visit is a pointed reminder for Jung-ho: Pyun-woong knows Jung-ho’second weaknesses. How would Yuri react, for case, if she knew Jung-ho was his nephew?

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Pyun-woong’sec visit somehow makes Yuri ill — seemingly from a mixture of anger and wounded pride — in addition to piece she recovers, she reads through the volume that CEO Hwang gave her on the downwardly-low. It’second i of Jung-ho’s novels that he secretly published nether the Whistleblower pen advert, as well as the book paints a storey that’s like to the fire that killed her father. Something written inwards the text compels her — fever, what fever? — to run across amongst one of her begetter’s former co-workers. He explains to her that the fire didn’t kill her begetter as well as the other workers. Instead, they died because the majority of the exits were blocked, which prevented them from escaping.

The word has a profound event on Yuri, too when she runs into Jung-ho, she confesses that function of her doubted her male parent even though she knew Dohan Construction had shamelessly lied nigh his grapheme. Jung-ho attentively comforts her inwards the aftermath of her emotional breakdown, showing her he loves her without verbalizing it, together with Yuri points out how his actions clearly telegraph how much he treasures her. She only wishes he would end existence a coward virtually his feelings.

Something within Jung-ho changes, brought on by the realization that fifty-fifty though Yuri may argument at windmills as well as slay giants, she’s non e'er confident beneath the surface. That night, he updates his Korean Bar registration, as well as the side by side 24-hour interval he shows upwardly at the cafe wearing a accommodate, prepared to take the cafe seriously.

The Law Cafe: Episodes 5-6

Among the cafe’sec visitors is 14-twelvemonth-quondam KIM MIN-KYU (Kim Jung-chul), as well as fifty-fifty though Jung-ho supposedly has a photographic retentiveness, he fails to recognize Min-kyu from the twenty-four hours earlier, when he in addition to the balance of Team Cafe came to his defense afterwards they witnessed around bullies push him into the Han River. Eun-kang, even so, was peculiarly affected past the encounter, so when Min-kyu tentatively orders a java, Eun-kang pays exceptional attending to the male child in addition to knowingly directs him to Jung-ho.

Much to Jung-ho’sec annoyance, Eun-kang sits in on his consultation amongst Min-kyu, who asks roughly very pointed questions about the laws protecting juvenile offenders — especially inward cases of serious criminal offenses. Jung-ho, notwithstanding, does not connect the dots, so he’second perplexed when Eun-kang unexpectedly hangs upwards his apron in addition to ends his shift early to follow Min-kyu out of the cafe.

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That dark over dinner, Jung-ho breaks his quiet in addition to admits to Yuri that he likes her too, merely for reasons he’sec non cook to break, asks her to await for him. Yuri is ecstatic, just she likewise lacks self-restraint. So she declares that they are no longer allowed to run across each other at nighttime because she’s non confident inward her ability to continue her hope to wait. Hah!

Unfortunately, in the morning time our lovebirds are not given much time to send each other hole-and-corner flirty glances because both Min-kyu in addition to Eun-kang are nowhere to live establish. Suddenly, all the pieces autumn into place, as well as Jung-ho realizes that Min-kyu is planning to harm his bullies earlier he turns fifteen and has to confront the full weight of the law.

The fact that Min-kyu is belike with Eun-kang is extra worrisome, though, because Eun-kang’s sister was literally bullied to decease, as well as Eun-kang went to prison afterwards he locked her tormentors inward a storage room and set up it on burn down. Although Eun-kang couldn’t bring himself to kill his sis’s tormentors together with eventually open the door so they could escape from the burn down, he hasn’t allow go of his anger, which he channels into helping Min-kyu. Unfortunately, his methods — albeit less murderous — are dangerous in addition to unethical, together with he doesn’t turn over Min-kyu much of a enjoin inwards the thing.

The Law Cafe: Episodes 5-6

After the bullies arrive at an abandoned warehouse where they’re set to see Min-kyu, Eun-kang lights a burn down too locks Min-kyu in a room with instructions to climb out the moment floor window. From a nearby place, Eun-kang uses his call up to film the bullies fleeing the burn down too tape Min-kyu jumping to safe; the video will serve every bit evidence to corroborate Min-kyu’sec prevarication that the bullies trapped him together with set the edifice on fire.

Yuri, Jung-ho, too Joon get in on the scene before the police force, which gives Jung-ho enough fourth dimension to scold Eun-kang. Not entirely was his plan reckless and unlawful, simply his criminal background is going to brand the police query his story, fifty-fifty with the video “evidence.” And certain enough, when Eun-kang together with Min-kyu feed the constabulary officer the fabricated prevarication, the officer questions why Eun-kang would live wandering around tardily at dark inward an abandoned area all by his lonesome. For a few tensely charged seconds, the law officeholder stares him down, merely and so Jung-ho comes to his rescue and surprisingly provides Eun-kang amongst an alibi.

The Law Cafe: Episodes 5-6

I’ve got to order, I don’t like the management this final instance took. I’ve been wanting to know more nearly Eun-kang, so I’k disappointed that our beginning existent introduction to him was and then sloppy. Not entirely were nosotros fed a rush-task explanation for his mysterious prison stint, merely his solution to Min-kyu’second bullying job was simply apparently stupid. Yes, by all agency, lock the bullied child in a burning room and make him jump out a window because that’second soooo non traumatizing or unsafe.

The whole situation left such a sour sense of taste in my mouth that I was actually disappointed in Jung-ho for backpedaling and lying on Eun-kang’second behalf, and that’second earlier I have into consideration the legal implications of the state of affairs. Jung-ho, a erstwhile prosecutor good-versed inward the police, just provided an alibi for an arsonist who — adept intentions or not — fix burn down to a edifice alongside kids in it!

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In full general, this final case highlighted the ongoing problem I take amongst this drama: the “police force” office of the whole police force cafe schtick. All of the cases aim to draw on our heartstrings, just they fail at this job because nosotros aren’t really given plenty time to connect with the characters and feel emotionally invested in their problems.

Instead, I’1000 more interested in what happens subsequently each instance wraps upward, equally our hero as well as heroine acquire something nearly themselves or guild around them. For case, this week I didn’t feel anything for the adult female who was sexually harassed past her boss, just everything Yuri went through afterward equally she questioned her ain actions towards Jung-ho was pretty damn groundbreaking for a chiliad-drama.

This particular gripe isn’t enough to make me hate The Law Cafe because in that location are many fun things that I make bask, merely I strongly suspect the story would have been meliorate if Yuri had quit practicing law to operate a normal cafe. We nevertheless could have had the nosy neighborhood ajummas, the bloom boy employees, too the rail-suited landlord to supply laughs in addition to hijinks. And without a series of legal problems to resolve — too quickly — Yuri’second grapheme could have reflected on serious topics too evolved more organically. Not to bring up, without all the cases cluttering upward the plot, possibly Kim Seul-gi would have gotten more than cover time. This drama is actually doing her muddied. #justiceforkimseulgi

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