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[Spoiler] [Raine's Recaps] Fashion King: Episode 2

by: Raine

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This episode takes the crazy amalgamation of loan sharks, replica fashion, impoverished heroines, chaebol second leads, evil mothers and one ups it. It was sort of all over the place. We have too many different elements floating around that I'm not sure where they came from. But I do know one thing - EVERYTHING is connected. How they will manage to do it in a believable fashion, I do not know. Or maybe they won't.

That said, it was entertaining. Yoo Ah-in was hysterical/heart-breaking. Kwon Yuri finally made her appearance, albeit briefly. She was pretty good actually! *thumbs up* Ga-young's character got WAY more interesting and I'm falling in love with actor Lee Je-hoon. Waiter, bring me one of those.

"Fashion King" features Yoo Ah-in, Shin Se-kyung and Lee Je-hoon.

episode 2 recap

Aboard the Midas, the Korean captain berates his crew for taking a break: no work, no pay. Work, work, work. One man says they need a rest to which the captain replies, "You know 'shut da mouth'?" Then he proceeds to beat the sailors. Young-gul intervenes and asks the captain to use words and not fists. Captain Shut da Mouth decides that Young-gul wants the beating in place of his shipmates and gives it to him.

In his bed, Young-gul flashes back to the time when his father left him and his sister, Yong-sook, with their aunt. His father wanted to look for his mother who ran away to the U.S. with another man. Even though Young-gul's aunt didn't want to take them, his father leaves him and his sister with her anyway.

(Jae-hyuk admires himself in the mirror dressed to the nines. I would admire myself, too, if I looked like him. Even though he's a douche, is it sad that I still really like him? His boredom and snark amuse me.)

Assistant Kim explains to a bored-looking Jae-hyuk that the company wants a great designer on a minimal budget and it's also beneficial to the school to get a donation. So let's go to a planning meeting! YAY! Well, Jae-hyuk just says nothing and looks bored. I think "Yay" is more exciting.

After hearing the startling news that she rejected her admission to the New York School of Fashion (NSF), Ga-young runs into Jung-ah, Madame Jo's daughter, who smirks in evil satisfaction. She feigns surprise at their meeting and mentions how she was admitted: she'd been on the waiting list and another student who'd received a full scholarship rejected the admission. Whoever it was, Jung-ah is thankful. But oh, she has to go, a car is waiting for her. Toodles.

Bitch.

After the disheartening news and the infuriating meeting with smug Jung-ah, Ga-young wanders around the City for a bit. Then she calls Young Girl and asks for the president. However, he's not there. (He's busy sailing the high seas.) Dejected, she wanders around and gets chased off a bench by a scary homeless lady and intimidated by a pair of bickering black men.

She's at the end of her rope when she finds a motel for the night. It is then, at the end of a trying day that she is able to put the pieces together: Madame Jo had hidden the mail from her and her daughter, Jung-ah, had smugly wanted to thank the "person" who rejected the admission so she herself could be admitted.

Then come the tears and my wish for the plucky heroine to now surface.

Young-gul is rudely awakened by the crew who has decided to mutiny and get rid of the Koreans on board.

Let's throw them into the sea. It is green.

Please, take a moment to ingrain that gem of a quote into your memory.

*Pauses for a moment of silence*

They throw the captain and two other Koreans overboard before turning on a fearful Young-gul. He quickly recalls the time he pedalled fake watches to a pair of tourists and cries that he has a Rolex! Of course, he sounds like he's saying "Lorax". Oh Dr. Seuss...

Gosh, all these non sequiters. Anyway, they don't care about a Rolex and get ready to chuck that beautiful piece of man into the ocean when he screams that he can help them get to America. There are more Rolexes...in America...with...his friend?

Back in New York, Ga-yong sees an article in the morning paper featuring a Korean man, Jung Jae-hyuk, handing the dean of the NSF, Tory Burch, a sum of money.

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