Today, we’ll be discussing Episode 5 of Gyeongseong Creature, the hit K Drama on Netflix starring Park Seo-joon as Jang Tae-sang, Han So-hee as Yoon Chae-ok, Wi Ha-hun as Kwon Jun-taek, Kim Soo-hyun as Lady Maeda, Ji Woo as Myeong-ja, Jo Han-chul as Yoon Joon-won, and Kim Hae-sook as Nawol daek. We discuss:

• The song we featured during the recap: Forever by SUHO, instrumental version. 
• Kwon Jun-taek’s background, motivations and relationship with Jang Tae-sang. 
• Kwon Jun -taek’s father now knows that his son is a rebel. He tries to bribe Dr. Ichiro with a briefcase full of money. 
• How Col. Kato is the scariest man in the base. He doesn’t care about the soldiers or the Joseon people being killed by the creature.  
• How Col. Kato realized that Yoon Chae-ok is the creature’s daughter and is now wondering how he can use her. 
• How Yoon Chae-ok wants to fight to the end, while Jang Tae-sang is going to do whatever he needs to do to stay alive. 
• The heartbreaking realization by Yoon Chae-ok that her mother had been, or is, at the base. 
• How Jang Tae-sang finds Yoon Chae-ok and while he wants to escape and find another way to learn about her mother, she can’t give up the search for her mother. 
• The possible kilig moments in this show between our two leads. 
• How Jang Tae-sang is a planner, while Yoon Chae-ok has a bias for action. 
• What’s happening with the other characters: Yoon Joon-won, Lady Maeda, Commissioner Ishikawa. 
• What our K Drama elements are and why we talk about them. 
• The K Drama elements we find in this episode: Crying, food, wrist grab, triangles, flowers. 
• The title: Desperation: Between denial and truth. 
• The beautiful and talented Kim Soo-hyun who plays Lady Maeda. She spent time in the US, speaks perfect English, and has played roles in American movies!

References

• Claudia Kim in Fantastic Beasts: Crimes of Grindelwald
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