The Wedding Dress That Slipped Off
In the second episode of Extraordinary Attorney Woo, a big wedding celebration is held. However, the bride gets distracted and in doing so, steps on her dress, which slips down and exposes her tattoo of Guanyin Bodhisattva. The whole room falls to stunned silence as this woman’s back is shown off to reveal her tattoo. More on that later!
This makes the mainstream news too, which Woo Young-Woo and her father end up seeing. Anyhow, Gwang-Ho contemplates whether Young-Woo will ever get married but for Young-Woo, she’s busy with work and is far more interested in the mating rituals of whales than humans.
At work, the father of the bride, Kim Jeong-Gu, shows up. He’s livid about what’s happened and wants to sue the hotel for damages. He wants 1 billion won from Daehyeon Hotel. It’s quite the hefty amount, especially as the hotel are even offering to give a refund for the marriage and a complimentary voucher too. That’s something Myeong-Seok is quick to point out, given the hotel are not actually acting unreasonably here. ..
Myeong-Seok brings this case to the rest of the team, and emphasizes how difficult it will be to try and obtain a billion dollars in damages. The thing is, is this really Daehyeon Hotel’s fault? ..
Choi Soo-Yeon and Kwon Min-Woo are tasked with going undercover, trying on wedding dresses while also broaching the subject of dresses and the issues arising with the calamitous wedding. ..
Young-Woo and Min-Soo head to the bridal suite of the hotel where they talk to the bride, Kim Hwa-Yeong. She mentions her tattoo of Guanyin Bodhisattva.Apparently, the wedding dress was loose when she first tried it on and so the hotel staff used pins to try and tighten it. As for the guestlist, that was all handled by her father and it appears none of Hwa-Yeong’s acquaintances were invited.
Do you love your husband?
Meanwhile, Jun-Ho and Choi head out with Young-Woo, who reveals that Young-Woo has been excitedly chirping about whales for a while now. Su-Yeon ends up with a bad stomach, leading to a big ol’ fiasco as Young-Woo brings her new trousers to wear in the female toilets. However, Su-yeon isn’t able to go to the wedding reservation thanks to her bad stomach. Young-Woo takes her place.
As the rookie lawyer starts to prepare for her first case, she quickly learns the importance of speed. She knows that if she can get the case over with as soon as possible, she can save herself time and energy in the future.
Meanwhile, Su-Yeon overhears an employee talking in the toilets about how Ju-Hui [one of the employees at the hotel] was fired because of the dress mishap. She lets Jun-Ho know, who in turn quizzes one of the employees, Ji-Hye, about this.
Ju-Hui claims that she was fired because of the dress mix up and she agrees to testify in court where she reveals what happened. Apparently, there was a mix up with the dresses and on the morning of the wedding, Ms. Kim’s dress was actually torn. This mistake was made by Ju-Hui but with no time to fix it, the staff scrambled for a replacement. The Team Director fired Ju-Hui to try and keep everything quiet but they never expected this to escalate into what has.
Jun-Ho is hesitant at first, but Young-Woo is adamant about getting the money back. Jun-Ho finally agrees to the plan, and they move out of their parents’ home.
Young-Woo is tasked with writing up a statement of opinion for this, which they can then show to both families. This would raise the amount of compensation from 1 billion up to 3.32 billion, at least as a “reasonable” stake of 10% cut from the offered 33.2 billion which would be the appraised worth of the property Hwa-Yeong would have got had the marriage gone through. Jeong-Gu is delighted.
In a courtroom scene, Hwa-Yeong stands up for herself and decides to withdraw the lawsuit against her friend Young-Woo. This was actually something Young-Woo gave her advice on when asked earlier in the episode. It turns out, Hwa-Yeong is actually in love with her friend and they walk off together hand in hand while the whole lawsuit is thrown out.
Jun-Ho and the team head out for a meal after the case is wrapped up. They discuss Young-Woo’s work and how she is doing. Jun-Ho watches as Young-Woo heads home, with her headphones on. She even brings some seaweed sushi home for her father too.
Young-Woo sits down with her father to talk about marriage. She tells him how she gave him the bouquet and wants him to get married too. When Young-Woo heads off to take a shower, her father starts to cry. ..
The Episode Review
The first week of the new Extraordinary Attorney Woo comes to a close with a great follow-up chapter, even if it does lean a little too far into potty humour. I’m not a massive fan of Su-Yeon being the butt of all the jokes, needing to use the toilet all episode long, but it at least serves a purpose to allow her to eavesdrop on the employees. ..
The episode is good and the case has an unexpected outcome at the end. The acting in this show is excellent and individual cases work well to develop these characters in interesting ways. I’d like to see more from Young-Woo and her father, but there’s plenty of time to examine that in more detail across the coming weeks.
The wedding comes to a close and it’s a great foundation for the rest of the series. However, there’s always a danger that Park Eun-Bin could overact and play up her autism.
What do you think of Park Eun-Bin’s portrayal of Woo Young-Woo in “The Handmaiden”? ..
