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  • Temperature of Love: Episodes 25-26TempofLove25-26-00222.jpg

 

This week’s episodes have felt like a lot of talk and very little action, so I can only hope that the show is building up to something, and that the pre-emption a few weeks ago is the reason that the timing feels off. At least the talking is productive, as is usual for this show, with battle lines being drawn and declarations of intent being issued. I only worry that not everyone is talking about the right things, and I hope that that doesn’t lead to more problems down the road.

 

 

EPISODE 25 RECAP

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Jung-woo taunts Jung-sun, saying that Jung-sun can’t do anything for Hyun-soo while he can give her everything she wants. He sees Jung-sun’s clenched fist and pushes harder, urging him to punch him if he’s so angry. Against his better judgment, Jung-sun does exactly that.

The punch seems to upset Jung-sun more than Jung-woo, who says that Jung-sun finally seems human after acting so noble until now. Jung-woo leaves, and Jung-sun can’t hold back his angry tears.

When Jung-sun doesn’t come over after talking to Jung-woo, Hyun-soo grows worried. She calls him, sighing in relief when he says he’s at home, and asks if she can come to his place to talk. He’s gotten control of his emotions by the time she arrives, and he teases her for being in such a hurry.

 

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He starts prepping to make soup as Hyun-soo tells him that she and Jung-woo were coming back from a meeting. Jung-sun mentions tightly that she smelled like alcohol, and she starts to explain that Joon-ha didn’t tell her that Jung-woo would be there. But she stops, muttering that she’s just trying to justify it.

In a deceptively casual voice, Jung-sun asks why Hyun-soo came home with Jung-woo if she went there with Joon-ha. He doesn’t answer when Hyun-soo asks if he’s jealous, giving himself away, but Hyun-soo just thinks it’s cute. She says there’s really nothing to tell, and asks what Jung-sun talked to Jung-woo about.

Jung-sun says it was nothing, then he accidentally slices his finger open, making Hyun-soo forget all about her question. She tries to fuss over him, but he pulls away from her and offers to make something simpler to eat. He’s smiling, but Hyun-soo can tell something is wrong.

 

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COMMENTS

I can fully understand why Jung-sun was crying, and why he blew up at his mother that way. Just when he finally got free of Jung-woo and finallyextricated himself from the control that Jung-woo keeps trying to exert over him using his money, he discovers that his mother has made it impossible for him to break free. It’s not bad enough that she stole his inheritance money, or that she’s a constant embarrassment to him, but now she’s locked him into a situation where he can never shake loose of Jung-woo’s clutches. Jung-sun just put up everything he owns as collateral to buy Jung-woo out of his restaurant, so there’s nothing left to pay Jung-woo back the money he gave his mother and Daniel for what sounds like years. The only thing Jung-sun can do is to make Good Soup successful and pay Jung-woo back, but that won’t be easy (not without compromising his standards) or he would have already done it. And even if that somehow magically happens, Jung-woo can still hold his power over his head until Jung-sun pays him back.

 

I can’t say I’m surprised that Jung-sun is pulling away from Hyun-soo recently, though it’s not for the exact reason I anticipated. I’m really very frustrated with him right now for letting Jung-woo get under his skin in regards to Hyun-soo and his relationship, when he knows that Jung-woo is doing it on purpose. Why is Jung-sun giving Jung-woo exactly what he wants? The problem with a character like Jung-sun is that we don’t easily know what he’s thinking, because he rarely tells us and he’s hard to read. After everything he and Hyun-soo went through to find each other again, and after waiting for so many years, I’m going to be furious if Jung-sun doesn’t put up more of a fight.

I don’t blame him for being afraid of his own anger, not after seeing the sort of father he grew up with and how it damaged his mother (she’s a whackjob all on her own, but being abused for years probably didn’t help). I can understand why Jung-sun does his best to clamp down on his temper when it flares, because he doesn’t want to be like his father. But I’m scared by the way he broke down so thoroughly, then a few minutes later he was back to pretending everything was fine. That’s not healthy, not for Jung-sun or for his relationship with Hyun-soo. He’s going to have to accept that anger is a part of being human, and that it’s not a lack of anger that makes him a better man than his father, but how he directs his anger. Like any weapon, anger can be a very useful tool if you know how to use it.

As for Hyun-soo, I worry that she’s being too naive about the situation, and going about trying to fix things in the wrong way. I think that she’s feeling Jung-sun pulling away and suggested living together as a way to bring them back together, but living together won’t solve the problem of Jung-woo trying to get between them, nor will it fix Jung-sun’s feelings of insecurity or the fact that he’s still under Jung-woo’s financial thumb. I believe that her wanting to move in together could even have the opposite effect, and push Jung-sun even further away by expecting more commitment than he’s ready to give to Hyun-soo right now—not that he doesn’t love her and isn’t committed to her and their relationship, but he’s very literally watching every part of his life fall apart right now. He’s not the type to jump into something like living together lightly even in the best of circumstances, so pushing for it now could get Hyun-soo the exact opposite result from what she’s hoping for as Jung-sun could very well retreat into his previously safe, comfortable isolation.

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  • Temperature of Love: Episodes 27-28TempofLove27-28-00010.jpg

 

I knew that our lovers were due to have a disagreement eventually, and while I can’t say I’m entirely surprised by the source of the conflict, it comes about in a way that I definitely wasn’t expecting. For a couple who has been pretty good about communication, it makes sense that, no matter the actual subject, what comes between them ultimately boils down to a lack of honesty.

 

EPISODE 27 RECAP

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Hyun-soo rushes to Jung-sun’s place after hearing him sobbing over the phone, but he seems to be fine by the time she gets there. He offers to make tea, and Hyun-soo wraps her arms around him and says, “Let’s live together.â€

Jung-sun wordlessly turns to face her. He takes her in his arms, and a while later, they find themselves walking by the river. Hyun-soo is hesitant, but she finally asks why he was crying, and all he says is that he faced a reality that he couldn’t change.

Hyun-soo says that crying is cleansing, but Jung-sun just says that she sounds like someone who was raised with a lot of love. Hyun-soo brings up living together again, and Jung-sun seems skeptical that she was serious.

 

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Later, Jung-sun confesses that he didn’t own a cell phone when they met because he was running away from his mother, and Hyun-soo surprises him by saying that she’s accepted his mother. He asks why, when her own son doesn’t want to accept her, and she just says, “Because I love you.â€

Jung-sun warns Hyun-soo that letting his mother in means putting her own life on hold. Hyun-soo accuses him of being swayed in their relationship, but she says that she’ll just hold tight to him. Jung-sun replies that when someone is drowning, you have to wait until all their strength has been exhausted to grab hold of them, otherwise you’ll both die.

He walks Hyun-soo home, watching until she’s safely inside. He sits on the swings in the park for a long time, until her lights go out for the night.

 

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The next day, Jung-woo finds Joon-ha and Hong-ah yelling at each other over her script. Joon-ha thinks some of the events in the script make no sense, while Hong-ah insists that these are scenes from her life. Joon-ha says that he can’t direct this drama and storms out.

Jung-woo tells Hong-ah that this is why he wanted her to work with Director Min. Hong-ah argues that if she does, then her drama won’t air right away on a major network. Frustrated, she demands that Jung-woo buy her lunch, and uses the excuse of helping a friend in need to get him to take her to Good Soup.

While at lunch, Hong-ah wonders why Jung-woo doesn’t just hire a personal chef, which would be cheaper than bankrolling a whole restaurant. Jung-woo tells her that Jung-sun is buying him out, just as Jung-sun approaches their table.

 

Read more: http://www.dramabeans.com/2017/11/temperature-of-love-episodes-27-28/

 

 

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Oh Hyun-soo, why?? I know she wants to help, and to be an active part of her relationship with Jung-sun, but her first and most important responsibility as a partner is to respect her partner’s wishes. Jung-sun may not have given her the embarrassing details, but he made it quite clear that he wants as little as possible to do with his mother, and that he doesn’t want Hyun-soo to get involved with her, either. But Hyun-soo is letting herself be manipulated by his mother despite Jung-sun’s asking her repeatedly to stay away, and I knew it wasn’t going to go over well.

Hyun-soo may be naïve about Jung-sun’s mother’s ability to twist the truth because she came from a family who is open and honest, and I can even understand her frustration at how closed-off Jung-sun can be about why he wants her to keep her distance. But trying to get closer to him through his mother is the wrong tactic—even if his mom were the nicest person on Earth, Hyun-soo’s primary loyalty should be to Jung-sun. If I were Jung-sun, I think I’d be furious with Hyun-soo. He specifically asked her to stay away from his mother and she ignores his request, then reveals that his mother has told her some very personal and sensitive things about his past.

 

Those things were nobody’s but Jung-sun’s to reveal, in his own time and in his own way. And then, after he asks her again not to see his mother, she goes and does exactly that.

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To learn that his mother betrayed his trust, and then to have Hyun-soo flat-out refuse to honor his request not to speak to the mother whom he’s spent years trying to get away from—that would hurt anyone, much less an intensely private person like Jung-sun. And now his mother has gotten to Hyun-soo again, and I’m certain that her version of her life story is very different than the one that Jung-sun would tell, if Hyun-soo had simply respected his wishes and he’d been given the chance to tell her in his own time. He said he wasn’t going anywhere, but after learning that Hyun-soo and his mother have been violating his privacy, I won’t be surprised if he breaks that promise, nor will I blame him.

On a happier note, I’m so excited for Won-joon and Soo-jung, because even though their beginning is tentative and careful, it’s still a beginning. They have so much chemistry, and the smile that breaks out on Won-joon’s face whenever he talks to Soo-jung is pretty telling. I think he likes her more than he realizes; it’s just that he’s been “in love†with Hong-ah for so long that like he said, it’s become a habit. It’s going to take him some time to break that habit, but luckily he’s found a woman who’s willing to go slow and give him time. And it helps that Won-joon is aware that while Hong-ah is a habit, she’s a bad habit, one that needs breaking. He’s also fully aware that Soo-jung is a good woman, the kind he should be falling for, so I think that he’s going to do exactly that. I can’t wait to see it.

As for Jung-woo, he continues to defy understanding, though now he’s swinging in the opposite direction. After all that posturing about how he’s going to see this to the end and do his best to get between Jung-sun and Hyun-soo, now he seems to be backing off and letting them both off the hook. He didn’t fight Jung-sun about his buying him out of Good Soup, nor did he use his loans to Jung-sun’s mother to put pressure on him. And he’s giving Hyun-soo everything she wants for her next drama with hardly a word. He admits to himself that he’s weakening, but I just wish we knew why, and what caused this change in his behavior. Not that I’m not glad that he seems to be backing down, but when I don’t know why he’s acting like he is, it worries me that he’s going to bounce back worse than ever.

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I’m beginning to think that nobody in this drama ever learns from the past. As much as they all talk (and oh boy, do they talk), they never seem to learn or change as a result of the things they discuss. In fact, all the talking only seems to be making things worse, which makes me want to tell Hyun-soo and Jung-sun to go take another five-year break and come back when they can talk less and listen more.

 

 

 

EPISODE 29 RECAP

 

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Frustrated that Hyun-soo saw his mother without telling him, Jung-sun walks away from her. But she calls after him, accusing him of only thinking of himself, and he goes back to deny it.

 

Hyun-soo says that Jung-sun never tells her where he is when she asks, and that she’s upset that he turned down her offer to live together. Jung-sun calmly reminds her that he has difficult family issues to handle. Hyun-soo cries that every family has issues, and Jung-sun pulls her into his arms for a comforting hug.

 

Jung-sun piggybacks her home, and as they walk, she tells him that her parents had a hard time conceiving a baby and then finally had her, which is why they’ve expected a lot from her all her life. Jung-sun wonders to himself how to tell her that his parents had to get married because they had him.

 

 

 

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Hyun-soo continues that her parents thought it was important to raise her and her sister to be independent. She says that because her parents are so in love, they’ve never had a lot of time for their children. She tells Jung-sun that her mother believes that the person who gives is the strong one, so she gives gifts to everyone around her.

 

Jung-sun doesn’t say anything, and when Hyun-soo asks if he’s getting tired carrying her, he just says he’s not. She notes to herself that when she opens up about her family, all he says is that he’s not tired.

 

Later that evening, Kyung notices Hyun-soo’s bad mood and says that this is why she doesn’t date, because just watching Hyun-soo is exhausting. Hyun-soo says that she plans to work through the night and that she’s meeting with Joon-ha tomorrow, and they both realize that they haven’t seen Hong-ah in a while. That’s because she’s busy writing and making friends on the internet.

 

 

 

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EPISODE 30 RECAP

 

Bored with her social media friends, Hong-ah breaks down and calls Won-joon. He’s at the restaurant making lunch for himself and Soo-jung, and when he asks why Hong-ah called, she slams the phone down and decides to go tell him in person.

 

She’s shameless about the fact that she’s crashing what’s obviously a date, even getting right in Soo-jung’s face to ask if she’s bothering her. Soo-jung actually invites Hong-ah to join them, telling Won-joon that they have to take care of Hong-ah before they can date anyway.

 

 

 

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But Won-joon totally mans up and informs Hong-ah that she’s intruding on his private time with Soo-jung (which makes Soo-jung smile). He walks her back outside, where she says that love doesn’t change and asks him if he’s rebelling. Won-joon just says that he knows she only looks for him when she’s bored, but that this time, he thinks she’s jealous.

 

Hong-ah shamelessly admits it, saying that even her four-year obsession with Jung-sun was largely because she knew she couldn’t have him. Won-joon retorts that she’s just being competitive, and that she’ll forget him like she forgot Jung-sun. Hong-ah says that he’s just trying to be like her, and tells him not to live that way. Hyun-soo takes her mother home and offers to stay the night. She explains to her father that they have to cut into Mom’s head to repair the aneurysm, and that they have to wait three months for the best surgeon to be available. Her dad starts to cry, beside himself with worry that the aneurysm may burst while they’re waiting.

 

They decide to keep looking for a surgeon to do the surgery sooner. Hyun-soo takes a call from Jung-sun, and she promises to explain everything later. In the morning, Hyun-soo tells her dad that her connections didn’t pan out and she couldn’t find a new surgeon, and her mother tells her to go home because being here won’t help anything. Jung-sun puts Won-joon in charge of the kitchen while he goes out for fresh ingredients. While he’s gone, two men show up who put Soo-jung on alert, thinking they may be Michelin inspectors. She tells Won-joon that she thinks these guys are the real deal.

 

 

 

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Meanwhile, Hyun-soo calls Hong-ah, whose father has connections at a local hospital. Hyun-soo says she’ll ask her parents about Hong-ah’s offer to have her mother moved to a different hospital, and Hong-ah asks why she doesn’t just ask Jung-woo for his help, since this would be easy for him to solve. Hyun-soo says she can’t possibly do that, and Hong-ah argues that it’s better than doing nothing for three months.

 

The suspected Michelin inspectors don’t finish one of their courses, and Soo-jung brings their plates back to the kitchen just as Jung-sun is returning. He sees that the sauce is broken from being heated too quickly and offers to replace the course, but Soo-jung says that they’ve already requested the next course.

 

 

 

===Read more: http://www.dramabeans.com/2017/11/temperature-of-love-episodes-29-30/

 

 

 

 

 

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Oof, that was hard to watch. Poor Jung-sun, who has no family to speak of and who I’m sure would love to be a part of Hyun-soo’s warm and loving family, standing there watching Jung-woo being accepted, while he’s left out in the hallway alone. He has as much right to be there as Jung-woo, more even if you take his relationship with Hyun-soo into consideration. But he can’t just passively wait for them to accept him, so I hope he takes that step forward, goes in that room, and takes his rightful place as the man Hyun-soo loves.

 

 

 

In my opinion, Hyun-soo got off the hook way too easily for ignoring Jung-sun’s requests not to see or speak to his mother. If I were him, that would have triggered a conversation about trust and loyalty and how ignoring those things can end a relationship, but instead, he let Hyun-soo make him the bad guy for sometimes being emotionally distant. I’m frustrated that he let her play the victim when she’s known from the day they met that he has a hard time expressing his emotions, while in reality he makes so much effort to do just that because he loves her.

 

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But Hyun-soo gives him zero credit for that and only demands more, not seeming to really understand the weight of his abusive upbringing by saying that all families have issues. I think she should be giving him time, and not pushing so hard for more when he’s heading that way but just not ready yet. And then she continues to push him, using her working interview to dig for more information on his private life. I thought that Jung-sun showed valiant restraint in not shutting Hyun-soo down hard the minute she asked about his loan and his mother.

 

Hyun-soo is being extremely intrusive about Jung-sun’s private business, especially after he’s told her again and again that it’s hard for him to talk about. But what’s worse is that she thinks that Jung-sun’s difficulty discussing his past is something he’s doing to her rather than something he’s trying to deal with and overcome, when what he really needs is some patience and understanding.

 

And the truth is, he’s doing the very best he can, and he’s put up with a lot more than most people would. I’ve liked Hyun-soo so much until now, but I’m not happy that she’s becoming so manipulative. I hope that her keeping Jung-sun out of the loop on her mother’s illness isn’t some sort of childish payback, but that instead she learns why someone may sometimes want to keep private things private, and come out of this understanding Jung-sun that much more.

 

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  • Temperature of Love: Episodes 31-32TempofLove31-32-00351.jpg

 

It feels like the harder our couple tries, the worse things get between them, until they’re at risk of backing themselves so far into a corner that nothing can make their relationship better. All of the outside pressures aren’t helping, but despite their promise not to let anything come between them, it seems as though there may be no way to make it work. I never thought I’d say this, but would it be better if they went their separate ways?

 

 

EPISODE 31 RECAP

After seeing Jung-woo in Hyun-soo’s mom’s hospital room being embraced as if he’s part of the family, Jung-sun leaves. But then he remembers Hyun-soo asking when he’ll allow her into his life, and he calls her downstairs. He gives her the food he made for her family, declining her invitation to come inside, telling her that he has something he needs to think about.

Jung-woo and Hyun-yi are upstairs urging Dad to eat, but he’s too worried about Mom to have much of an appetite. When Hyun-soo returns with the lunch boxes, the food is so good that even Dad manages to eat something.

Hyun-yi expresses jealousy that Hyun-soo gets to eat like this all the time because of her chef boyfriend. Hyun-yi asks Jung-woo to stay and eat with them, and he does, though the mentions of Jung-sun seem to make him uncomfortable.

 

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EPISODE 32 RECAP

At the noraebang, an adorably tipsy Kyung showers Jung-woo with compliments until Joon-ha complains that she likes everyone but him. Joon-ha starts the music, and when Kyung refuses to sing with him, he chooses a solo ballad. The others dutifully wave their arms, and Kyung admits to Hyun-soo that Joon-ha has a nice singing voice.

Joon-ha flounce-quits when he realizes that nobody is listening, and Kyung jumps up to sing next. Her song is more upbeat, and despite Joon-ha’s grumping that she wouldn’t sing with him, he gets up to dance with her.

 

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In the hallway later, Jung-woo and Hyun-soo cross paths, and Jung-woo notes that Hyun-soo doesn’t look well. She turns to stare at him, and he says that he can tell how she’s doing just by looking at her.

Jung-sun is waiting again when Hyun-soo and Kyung arrive home. Kyung pretends she has somewhere to go and runs off, leaving them alone. She ends up sitting at a convenience store, and she calls Joon-ha for company. He pretends to misunderstand that she wants to spend the night with him and cringes in maidenly horror. Although she whines that this is why she doesn’t like him, she smiles because he came when she called.

 

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Jung-sun congratulates Hyun-soo on her drama, but she just grunts in acknowledgement. He asks if he did something wrong, and Hyun-soo says dejectedly that she wishes he would do something wrong sometimes, so that he’d have to cling to her and say he’s sorry.

Jung-sun asks if she’s unhappy, and Hyun-soo doesn’t exactly answer. She just says that if she’s unhappy, it’s not because of him, and he tells her that he’s been making extra time to do everything he can for her. Hyun-soo snaps that she never asked him to do that, then sighs that she must be drunk.

She asks him tearfully why she’s in love, but feels lonelier when she’s with Jung-sun because he leaves her out of his life. He tells her that his mother borrowed money from Jung-woo without telling him, then asks if she would want to share a story like that.

 

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He says that he’s doing everything he can to keep their love, but Hyun-soo cries that she feels like he doesn’t love her, and that he’s only doing these things because they’re his duty as her boyfriend. As kindly as he can, Jung-sun says that she feels that way because that’s how she’s acting.

Hyun-soo huffs angrily, complaining that when they’re together they either fight, or they can’t be honest because they’re being so careful. Jung-sun asks what she wants from him, but she doesn’t have an answer.

Jung-sun’s mother goes to his place to cook for him, making his favorite meal from when he was a kid. Warily, he half-jokes that she cooks something from his childhood every time she causes trouble. She just muses that his father is doing well with his new wife, so it must just be that they weren’t a good match.

 

===Read more: http://www.dramabeans.com/2017/11/temperature-of-love-episodes-31-32/

 

 

COMMENTS

The mirroring here is really interesting—both times that Jung-sun has attempted to contact Hyun-soo to ask her something potentially life-changing in regards to their relationship, she doesn’t get his call because she’s with Jung-woo. This time is different because she’s not choosing not to answer, but I wonder if Jung-sun will see it that way.

I can’t help feeling like Jung-sun’s obvious plan to propose is a really, really bad idea. Very rarely do I see the hero of a drama pull out a ring and think, “Oh nooo.†You don’t decide to get married in the hopes of solving relationship problems, or because you’re scared of losing the girl, or because you overheard her parents saying that your kind gestures are burdensome because you’re not their son-in-law. You decide to get married because you love each other and can’t imagine life without each other, full stop. I have a feeling this is going to blow up in Jung-sun’s face, especially with the way Hyun-soo seems so unhappy with their relationship right now. And once again, he’s going to be going out of his comfort zone and doing his best to make her happy, and she’s going to say hurtful things and make him feel like he did something wrong. I don’t know if I can watch that again.

 

I’m still irritated with Hyun-soo’s selfishness when it comes to their relationship. It’s not that what she wants is so unusual; it’s that she’s only thinking about what she wants, and she’s not taking into consideration what Jung-sun is capable of, or what’s healthy for him. Their relationship is still very new, and he’s really doing a lot considering the relationship model he had growing up. I don’t think she’s wrong to want more closeness and emotional intimacy, but I do think she’s not taking his difficult past into consideration and pushing him to give her everything much too fast. He has every right to ask Hyun-soo to slow down and be patient, but whenever he tries, she just cries at him and calls him selfish.

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Her whole speech about feeling like Jung-sun doesn’t love her, and that he’s only doing things for her and her family because it’s his duty, just came right out of left field. Jung-sun has done nothing to indicate that he feels that way, and in fact he’s sacrificed his own time to do things for her family in their time of need, only to have Hyun-soo and her mother throw it back in his face. So now he’s going to propose because he thinks it’s what Hyun-soo wants, and because he’s so conditioned to take responsibility for everything that he thinks this will make it better. But I don’t think the problems in their relationship are because Hyun-soo isn’t getting what she wants—they’re because she’s throwing a tantrum every time she doesn’t get what she wants.

But then, considering her family, maybe I shouldn’t be surprised. Hyun-soo’s mother seemed sweet at the outset, but she’s shown herself to be very judgmental and critical of others for very insignificant reasons, such as forbidding Hyun-soo to marry anyone whose parents are divorced. She doesn’t seem to employ much logic to whether she likes a person other than whether they have money, even though she and her husband seem to live typically middle-class lives. She adores Jung-woo and allows him to pull strings and pay for a private hospital room, yet she complains that Jung-sun’s homemade meals make her feel burdened and uncomfortable. I suppose it’s really no wonder that Hyun-soo picks unreasonable things about Jung-sun to decide to be miserable about.

Speaking of Jung-sun, it just about killed me when his father raised his hand to him—not because he almost hit his son, but because of the look on Jung-sun’s face. He didn’t look scared, or defiant, or challenging… he looked resigned. As if he’s just been waiting for that slap all his life, and he was almost relieved that this was finally it. And then when his father didn’t strike him, to me Jung-sun looked almost disappointed, as if he’d been hoping that this would finally be the end and he could stop dreading it. But it didn’t happen, and now he has to keep anticipating it.

At the same time, I find myself starting to believe Jung-sun’s mother when she says that she’s really trying to change. She does appear to have changed, at least a little, though she still has quite a long way to go. But she seems a lot calmer lately, not so shrill when she sees Jung-sun, and when she says things like how she’s worried about Hyun-soo’s mom, she does appear to really mean it. If I were Jung-sun I wouldn’t be lowering my defenses for quite a while, maybe not for years, but there’s something there that makes me think that, even if she fails and backslides, she wants to be a better mother to him.

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This show has a strange way of making me hope for things that should be bad for our lovers, and dread things that should be good for them. In that way it’s kept me interested even through all the angst and frustration, because even as I want to sometimes give up on them for being such idiots, they still act like real, flawed people. It’s refreshing, in a way, to watch a drama where the characters aren’t cookie-cutter types, but people who make mistakes, and stumble, and sometimes lose because they just can’t seem to figure out what they’re doing wrong.

 

 

EPISODE 33 RECAP

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Jung-woo confesses to Hyun-soo’s parents that he likes her, but he also says that she’s turned him down repeatedly, lightening the mood. Later, Hyun-soo sees that Jung-sun called her so she calls him back, and he tells her that he’ll wait for her until she gets home.

When she does, he takes her to the rooftop at Good Soup, where he shows her the planter box they put together. He’s filled it with herbs and the tiny but fierce flower that she likes, the one that grows on the wall. He gives her one that he’s potted, and apologizes for making her anxious.

 

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He pulls out a small jewelry box from his pocket and shows Hyun-soo the ring inside. Stunned, she takes the box, and Jung-sun pulls her into his arms. He whispers, “Let’s live together.†We don’t hear Hyun-soo’s answer.

Sometime later, Hyun-soo arrives at Jung-woo’s office for a meeting including Joon-ha. She learns that the drama that was scheduled before hers fell through, so the station wants her drama to fill the time slot. The guys are cautiously optimistic that they can be ready in time, and Hyun-soo agrees.

 

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EPISODE 34 RECAP

Hyun-soo works on her script late into the night, until well after Joon-ha has fallen asleep at the table. She takes a break and ends up wandering over to Jung-woo’s office, lured by the lights he left on. She steps out onto his balcony to enjoy the view, and nearly jumps out of her skin when a confused Jung-woo finds her there.

He brings out some coffee and tells Hyun-soo that he’s been in a casting meeting for her drama. She asks if he’s tired from solving everyone’s problems but his own, but he says that he’s used to it. He compares his life to an elevator, where the higher he goes, the more people get off, some even pushed off by him, until he’s the only one left at the top.

 

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He sighs that loving someone deeply also leaves you very alone, and they both agree that they don’t like that feeling. Jung-woo asks if her drama still has a happy ending, but this time, Hyun-soo says she doesn’t know.

Jung-sun waits outside Hyun-soo’s apartment for her to come home that night, but she never does.

The following morning, Jung-woo finds Hyun-soo asleep in the conference room, her head on the desk. He closes the blinds, and gently drapes his coat over her shoulders. He watches her sleep for a long minute, then pats her shoulder before he leaves.

 

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Later that day, while Hyun-soo is working at home again, Jung-sun calls to ask her to meet with him. It’s been a while since they’ve seen each other, and Jung-sun says that he wanted to tell Hyun-soo about the offer to be head chef at the Hong Kong restaurant.

He says that he’ll be gone for six months, and he takes a chance and asks Hyun-soo to go with him. He explains that maybe, if they’re together somewhere else, they’ll be able to go back to how they were.

But Hyun-soo says that she’s not sure she knows what it means to be like they used to be, and she apologizes. Jung-sun says it’s okay, but his expression shows his disappointment.

 

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Back home, Hyun-soo waters the little plant that Jung-sun gave her, and on his balcony, he digs up another one and puts it in a pot. Won-joon finds him and says he looks lonely, and he asks if it’s really over with Hyun-soo. Jung-sun doesn’t answer, instead asking Won-joon to drink with him tonight.

The next day, Hong-ah drops by Hyun-soo’s place, telling Kyung that she came to get herself fired up over how well Hyun-soo is doing. Kyung argues that Hyun-soo isn’t doing well at all, because she and Jung-sun broke up. It’s news to Hong-ah.

 

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Well thank goodness they’ve both finally decided to do something, instead of sitting around passively waiting for this relationship to happen. At least both Jung-sun and Hyun-soo seem to have learned something this time around. The last time Jung-sun was leaving the country for work, he left with just a token attempt to get in touch with Hyun-soo again, and she let him go without even answering his call. This time, they know exactly what they stand to lose, and I’m glad to see them both making a different decision.

 

I’m glad, in part, because I was ready to give up entirely on Hyun-soo. She begged and pleaded with Jung-sun for proof that he loves her, yet when he gave it to her in ring form, she turned him down. I think her problem, now and when they first met, is that she doesn’t really know what she wants. She doesn’t value ordinary love because her parents have that and to her, it’s not special. But she’s never even tried to understand Jung-sun and the ways he shows love, which to me are loud and clear, just different from what Hyun-soo is used to.

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I don’t know what she expected from Jung-sun, when he was already doing everything he could to show her his love and support. He waited for her for five years, he came back for her, he told her he loves her both in words and in actions, and he even promised to tell her about his past. All he asked was that she respect his wishes in regards to not contacting his parents without his knowledge, and to give him some time to tell her everything about his painful past. Hyun-soo never seemed to understand that Jung-sun is very broken in a lot of ways and that it takes time for that to heal. But he did his best to push through his own fears to give her what she wanted, and just as I expected, Hyun-soo rejected him yet again.

So I’m glad that they broke up, even if just for a little while. Hyun-soo needed to realize that she was expecting too much, too soon, and Jung-sun needed to learn that he still has a lot of baggage to unpack. Neither of them is really ready for a serious relationship, and in that sense, Hyun-soo was absolutely right to turn down Jung-sun’s proposal. I’m happy that she did it for the right reasons and not in a fit of anger.

Temperature of Love may be frustrating and confusing, but I have to give it credit for taking characters that I thought I had very firm opinions on, and changing them in ways that make me question whether I should give my opinions a second look. Jung-sun’s mother is a good example—after the way she behaved when she first came back into Jung-sun’s life, I would have said that she could never change. But she does really seem to be making an effort, and Jung-sun, angel that he is, understands that she is the way she is because of the way his father treated her and is willing to give her another chance. Even her talk with Hyun-soo in this episode didn’t come across as manipulative. It still crossed a line in that she went to Hyun-soo for information because Jung-sun was keeping the details to himself, but at least all she did was ask why they broke up, and didn’t dig for more information than she was entitled to.

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Jung-woo is also making me re-evaluate how I feel about him, because although he made some pretty unforgivable threats to steal Hyun-soo from Jung-sun, once she drew a firm boundary with him, he backed down both personally and professionally. He didn’t fight Jung-sun buying out his shares of Good Soup, then he offered to let Jung-sun out of his contract without having to be asked, which felt like a huge step in accepting that he’s destroyed their relationship. Jung-woo even refused to go after Hyun-soo now that she’s single, when before he would have at least given it a shot, even knowing that she’s probably heartbroken. I’d still like to see Jung-woo actually apologize, but I do believe that he’s regretting that his actions led to the loss of Jung-sun as a friend.

Even Hyun-soo earned a bit of my respect back, as I said, by breaking up with Jung-sun for the right reasons. She seemed to finally get it that she was asking more than he could give, and to accept that it’s not his fault if he can’t give her what she needs in a relationship. She even owned her own bad behavior when she ended things, and apologized for pushing him too hard. For that reason alone, I think they may still have a shot, but I do think they still need some time apart. Despite the romance of their running to be with each other, I actually find myself hoping for a period of separation (another thing this drama has made me feel that I never thought I’d feel), to give them time to work on their issues and see if they can live with each other’s flaws.

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  • love changed the title to SBS Drama "Temperature of Love" Yang Sejong & Seo Hyun-Jin etc. *The END*

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