Yeong-Ok and Jeong-Jun
Our predictions for Our Blues changing its perspective in episode 4, as we shift away from Eun-Hui and Han-Su to Yeong-Ok and Jeong-Jun hold true. However, the episode starts with Seon-A, who is clearly depressed and struggling.
The wife of the protagonist is not happy with the state of her home. She points out the mess in the laundry room and shrugs it off, claiming she’ll take care of everything. However, she’s lost the will to live and goes about her day with apathy.
Although she deflects and questions why he can’t do this himself, her partner scoops up their boy, Yeol, and leaves, telling her to think of the family.
Yeol is left at home with Seon-A, who is completely lost in thought and not paying attention to her partner. Yeol has to be picked up from school by her partner, despite him being with a client. Seon-A is losing her family, and she quite clearly needs some help, as she starts to drift further away.
Yeong-Ok gets drunk at the club and Captain Bae is there. They start talking but Yeong-Ok deflects and claims they can get a motel together. When she heads home, her car cuts up Jeong-Jun on the road.
He decides to follow them – and it’s probably just as well too. Captain Bae is frustrated when he’s dropped off back home, believing himself to be duped into believing Yeong-Ok is going to go to a motel with him, given she promised that at the club.
Yeong-Ok admits that the only reason she did that was to stop his advances. When he drives off, Jeong-Jun immediately phones Officer Kim and asks him to check on the guy. Just in case he heads back, Jeong-Jun decides to wait outside. “Wow, I might fall for you.” Yeong-Ok jokes from the window. However, she can’t concentrate and eventually decides to head out for a walk with him.
As they walk along the shore, Yeong-Ok flirts with Jeong-Jun a little. However, she also compares him to her exs, pointing out her history with several different men.
Jeong-Jun is a bit of an enigma to Yeong-Ok. He’s always been very closed off and doesn’t talk much about his personal life. But when Yeong-Ok asks him about his love life and past relationships, Jeong-Jun seems to hesitate. Eventually, Yeong-Ok decides they should head back home.
Jeong-Jun is thinking about how he would feel if he could love someone with so many exs. He scribbles his thoughts on the inside of the bus he’s staying in.
The dive team arrives to find Yeong-Ok missing. They search the area but can’t find her. They start to panic and call for help, but no one comes. Eventually, they realize that Yeong-Ok may have gone under and don’t know how to swim. They start CPR and she is brought back to the surface.
We cut to the shore. Yeong-Ok is okay though but the women she’s dived with are angry. After all, they could have got ill from staying on the boat in the cold like that. The women continue on, pointing out how they’re never going to talk to her again and calling her an outsider, given she originally came from the mainland.
Just before they leave, one of the women urges Yeong-Ok to apologize to Chun-Hui before she goes. Now, the reason for Yeong-Ok not returning right way stems from the fact that her buoy actually drifted away so she head off to retrieve it. Yeong-Ok fails to see the error of her ways and claims everyone is ganging up on her.
Jung Hyun and Young-Joo are in a difficult situation. Jung is late for his period, and Young-Joo is worried that she may be pregnant. They decide to prepare money in case they are, and they also send each other off to pick up a pregnancy kit.
Captain Bae continues to have tension with Jeong-Jun later that day. After reporting him for drunk driving, he believes Jeong-Jun has a vendetta against him. That’s not true of course, he actually just wants the man to be a law-abiding citizen. When Bae squares up to Jeong-Jun and tries to start a fight with him, it’s eventually broken up. ..
Jeong-Jun meets with Yeong-Ok again that evening and she asks to see the inside of his bus. The same bus he’s been writing questions about romancing Yeong-Ok on the side of. ..
Yeong-Ok heads over to see Chun-Hui, wanting to apologize properly. When Chun-Hui mentions her parents and why she’s been lying, Yeong-Ok has no words and walks away.
While these old ladies believe that Yeong-Ok will leave soon, in reality she actually wants to live her life on the island. She opens up to Jeong-Jun over at his place, admitting she’s been disliking Captain Bae since the previous night.
Jeong-Jun, the writer, notices the black writing on the windows and reads out Jeong-Jun’s writing. As he gets to the third statement, asking what his plan is and to stop being vague and make a move, Jeong-Jun interjects and asks Yeong-Ok out. “You’ll get hurt.” Yeong-Ok warns, but as they think it over, Yeong-Ok leans forward and the pair look set to kiss just as we fade to black. ..
The Episode Review
As expected, Our Blues shifts the perspective over to a different couple this time around and it’s intriguing that it happens to be Yeong-Ok and Jeong-Jun. This chapter allows us to dive into Yeong-Ok’s psyche, and how she feels like a bit of an outsider. She moved to the island 2 years back and it’s clear she’s moved around a lot for a reason.
Jeong-Jun is running from something, and I’m sure we’ll find out soon why she thinks she’s going to hurt her friend Jeong-Jun. It could be anything from a misunderstanding to something more sinister.
We catch a glimpse of Eun-Hui through her policing of the kids at school. We don’t see a whole lot of this high school couple, but we do get a pretty intense and gripping opener with Seon-A instead. That looks like it’s going to be a very dramatic storyline that I’m sure we’ll return to that after a rather light bit of romance between Jeong-Jun and Yeong-Ok.
It seems that the show is going to use these stories as a way of shifting from light drama to more character-driven stories, but it will be interesting to see how well this show manages to handle that moving forward. ..
For now, it seems as though this relationship is going through a hard reset - setting the stage for more drama in the future. ..
