Today, we’ll be discussing Episode 24 of Mr. Sunshine, the hit K Drama on Netflix starring Lee Byung-hun as Eugene Choi, Kim Tae-ri as Go Ae-shin, Yoo Yeon-Seok as Goo Dong-mae, Kim Min-jung as Hina Kudo, and Byun Yo-han as Kim Hee-sung. We discuss:

• How we love this final episode of Mr. Sunshine and will miss these characters, whom we’ve come to love and admire!
• The lovely and amazing music in this K Drama.
• How the ending is heartbreaking but the show’s creators told us all along that we would have a sad ending.
• Ae-shin and Eugene have figured out a way to be together, even though they are not really together.
• Eugene’s final sacrifice is so tragic. He is the man Joseon needed, but didn’t deserve.
• Eugene’s life mission, as well as Dong-mae’s, was to help Ae-shin live.
• Hui-seung found meaning in his life, thanks to the people of Joseon.
• Was Ae-shin’s life path influenced by Dong-mae calling her a spoiled, noble fool so early in her life?
• Ae-shin is a noble who was respected and revered by many in Hanseong; this is why they protected her when Ms. Hamman was killed and Ae-shin was crying over her body.
• Dong-mae died as Dong-mae, not Sho Ishida. 
• The journalist Frederick Arthur McKenzie was a real British journalist who reported on the treatment of Koreans by the Japanese.
• The amazing cinematography in the show, facilitated by its huge production budget.
• Our favorite lines and the K Drama elements.
• The meaning of the elements in the Korean flag.
• A bit of Korean history under the Japanese, including what happened to the Righteous Army.
• Our decision to recap and analyze 25, 21 during Season 4 of K Drama Chat!

References

• Korea under Japanese rule
• Recap of Episode 24 on ReadySteadyCut
• Did the US betray Korean in 1905?
• Matchlock guns
• Article about Frederick McKenzie
• The ancient art of dying fingernails with balsam dye
• The Righteous Army in Korea