Best Classic Korean dramas: All About Eve episode 4
In All about Eve episode 4, Young Mi works on getting Woo Jin to fall in love with her to make Sun Mi jealous. In the UK, Sun Mi’s friendship with Hyung Chul develops too. And then she comes back to Seoul ready to tell Woo Jin how she really feels….
But right now, Young Mi is with Woo Jin. After finishing work at the karaoke bar she’s gone to see him still in her wig and heavy makeup. She’s drunk and tells him to look at her because this is who she really is. But then Woo Jin’s mum walks in and sees her.
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Woo Jin’s mum is not impressed with Young Mi. She scolds her for dressing like a tart. And shouts in frustration telling her to behave herself and never to dress like this again!
It sounds like she’s nagging, but underneath she is probably trying to help her. But Young Mi seems to soak up the criticism as though she knows she can never be good.
The next day at the broadcasting station, Young Mi comes face to face with Sun Dal who was at the bar the night before.
For a moment it seems as though he may recognise her, so she casually says he looks like he has a hangover. He laughs and acknowledges that he went to a hostess bar but tells her to keep that a secret – especially from Joo Hee. But Joo Hee is standing behind him looking disapprovingly. (How shocked they would be if they found out that nice girl Young Mi was one of the girls working there!)
Young Mi makes another attempt to break away from her past…
She meets In Soo and tells him she is not going back to work at the bar again. The money tempted her once but she doesn’t want to go back. But he’s not going to let her go so easily and threatens to tell everyone about her past if she doesn’t come back!
But Young Mi says he can do what he likes since she has nothing to lose.
(I do feel a lot more sorry for Young Mi watching the drama this time around. Part of her tries to separate herself from her past but another part of her seems fatalistic knowing that she never can. In Soo can be nice to her and wants to look after her as long as she lives in his world. But as soon as she tries to get away and better herself he turns violent and threatens her.)
Young Mi is playing house.
She goes shopping and then stops off at the convenience store to invite Woo Jin’s mum over for neng myeon, a cold noodle dish.
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It looks like she is on her best behaviour but at Mr. Jin’s house, she sneaks upstairs into Sun Mi’s room to have a nose around. She even tries one of Sun Mi’s dresses on.
Mr. Jin comes home while she is still wearing the dress. But he simply admires the dress and says she looks good in it.
Even when she says the dress belongs to Sun Mi he doesn’t mind at all!
But Mrs. Song is upset when she arrives and sees Young Mi wearing the dress, as she bought the dress for Sun Mi.
Young Mi acts hurt, and moodily takes the dress off right in front Mrs. Song! Then she sweetly says she will put the dress back and walks upstairs in her underwear, carrying the dress. Mrs. Song can’t believe it. She tries to talk to Mr. Jin about it but of course he sees nothing wrong.
Woo Jin and his friend Joon Mo have arrived and they all sit down to eat.
But Mrs. Song doesn’t like all the attention the two young men give Young Mi – especially when Joon Mo suggests that Woo Jin and Young Mi are an item.
Young Mi notices that Mrs. Song is upset and she looks satisfied. She has obviously thought up a plan and sure enough, after dinner she puts on her sweet girly voice and tells Woo Jin that they should stop seeing each other as she can’t cope with the fact that his mother doesn’t like her.
Young Mi really knows how to manipulate Woo Jin.
She tells him all about the dress debacle, massaging the story to make herself look like a victim. According to Young Mi, Sun Mi’s dad gave her Sun Mi’s dress to try on and then HIS mum, Mrs. Song, made her take it off! OOOOHH!
This has the desired effect as Woo Jin doesn’t want to break up and is annoyed that his mum treated Young Mi like that.
He also knows that his mum really likes Sun Mi and imagines that she has chosen to dislike Young Mi out of loyalty to Sun Mi. So he goes home and shouts at his mum for being mean to Young Mi.
(What a fool. All I can do is shake my head…His mum is in a difficult position now because she can see what Young Mi is doing but Woo Jin can’t so if she tries to say anything her relationship with her son will only get worse.)
Meanwhile, in the UK…
Sun Mi has finished her English study programme and is ready to go back to Korea.
Hyung Chul takes her out for dinner, but it’s clear that she is worried about what’s going to happen with Woo Jin when she gets back.
(I can’t believe that Hyun Chul can’t take her mind off Woo Jin!)
Hyun Chul advises her to tell Woo Jin how she feels. (Oh dear – Woo Jin has already made it pretty clear that he is not romantically interested in her.)
Hyung Chul even drives her to the airport.
And since Sun Mi still believes that Young Mi saved her from two muggers that night, Hyung Chul has also bought a present for her to give to Young Mi. He’s being very chivalrous. 💕
As a parting gift, she gives him what looks like a Beatrix Potter ornament. He’s bemused and says it doesn’t really suit him (that’s true).
But Sun Mi argues that it should match her personality as she is the giver of the gift after all. (I agree that it matches her personality but I don’t know if I agree with her present buying philosophy?! )
Hyung Chul sees her off and looks sad to see her go. They agree to meet up in Seoul at some point but Hyung Chul plans to be in the UK for three more years.
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Back in Seoul…
Sun Mi immediately senses that Woo Jin and Young Mi have become close.
She’s jealous when she sees a photo of Woo Jin and Young Mi looking very friendly.
But she remembers what Hyung Chul told her and decides to reveal her feelings to Woo Jin anyway. (Although I’m sure he already knows.)
As predicted, things don’t go well and he confesses that he is in love with Young Mi. Devastated, Sun Mi rushes out.
( I do feel bad for her now. Sun Mi hasn’t had to deal with too many things not going her way so far in her life and she’s still young and childish in lots of ways. Now she has to deal with her first broken heart. I remember that too…)
Next we see Sun Mi in the classic K-drama ‘depressed and standing on the edge of a subway platform as the train comes in, hair blowing all over the place’ sad scene.
(I get the impression that Sun Mi never gets the subway anywhere though. Well-off people don’t generally ride the subway in Seoul and she is a princess who gets chauffeured everywhere by her dad or Woo Jin or someone.
On a side note, this drama was made years before all the subway stations had screen barriers blocking off the tracks. It would take a bit more searching to find a subway station like this in Seoul these days.)
In tears she calls Hyung Chul to say he was wrong about everything turning out OK in the end. Poor Sun Mi.
At university…
Young Mi is looking very smug indeed. She is perfectly aware that her plan is working and that Sun Mi is heartbroken that she has taken Woo Jin away from her.
But their focus turns to their studies as the class is told that auditions are going to be held for a freshman to get a scholarship. The rivalry between Young Mi and Sun Mi continues as they are both keen to get the scholarship.
Is Sun Mi tough enough to beat Young Mi?
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