Today, we’ll be doing our final review of Queen of Tears, the hit K Drama on Netflix starring Kim Ji-won as Hong Hae-in, Kim Soo-hyun as Baek Hyun-woo, Park Sung-hoon as Yoon Eun-Seong, Kwak Dong-Yeon as Hong Soo-cheol, and Lee Joo-bin as Cheon Da-Hye. Ernabel Demillo is back to help us analyze this amazing show! We recap the entire show and then we discuss:

• The song we featured during the recap: Way Home, sung by Kim Soo Hyun.
• How we rewatched the first few episodes and realized a few things, e.g.,
  • When Hae-in was an intern, Hyun-woo would roll up his sleeves whenever he helped her out at the copier; this is probably when she realized he had sexy forearms.
  • In episode 1, after going out drinking with Kim Yang-ki, Hyun-woo walks home, while pulling leaves of a branch
• The character arcs of each of our characters:
  • Soo-cheol
  • Cheon Da-hye
  • Hae-in’s parents
  • Hyun-woo’s parents
  • Hyun-woo’s sister and brother
  • Grace
  • David Yoon or Yoon Eun-seung
  • Moh Sul hee
  • Hae-in
  • Hyun-woo
• How the death of Su-won caused Hae-in’s family to unravel, and Hae-in’s miscarriage caused her marriage to unravel.
• How Hae-in’s mom and David Yoon’s mom both neglected their children, but believed they had time to repair the relationship. In Moh Sul hee’s case, she never got the chance because David Yoon died.
• How Hae-in had the most dramatic story arc and it’s ultimately Hyun-woo who was the catalyst for her transformation.
• Hae-in’s feelings toward Hyun-woo change over the course of 16 episodes and there are key moments in the show when her feelings changed.
• When we think Hyun-woo started to fall in love with his wife again.
• How the show did a great job of showing the same scene from two different perspectives to show how misunderstandings happen.
• Our favorite K Drama elements.
• Our favorite lines from the last two episodes.
• The show that we will recap and analyze in Season 8 of K Drama Chat. Want to find out? You gotta listen to the episode!

References

• Way Home by Kim Soo Hyun - this will make you sob!
• Jang Yoon-ju (Hyun-woo’s sister) on Instagram
• Women of LG family take on legal battle over inheritance