Seung-yoo’s mother shows up too and the hotshot moms basically shame her into sitting at the table for parents of lower-ranking students. Meanwhile, back in Seoul, Asung mothers attend a gathering to celebrate the birthday of the director - the same director we met before, NOH JUNG-AH ( Jin Kyung). The kids accidentally leave the toy behind and, like a reflex or some kind of pull, he takes it and solves it in seconds. As the surrounding people panic, Seung-yoo nonchalantly recites the driver’s licence plate number, as well as the service phone number on their bike.Īs Seung-yoo makes his way into Chungju, he notices some kids struggling with a Rubik’s cube. At the Chungju train station, a much more laidback Seung-yoo witnesses a motorcycle striking a woman and then driving off. Later, at the station, Yoon-soo is asked if she slept with Seung-yoo, and all she can do is sigh.
Seung-yoo pushes past security, to Yoon-soo, desperately crying, “Teacher!” They only have a few seconds of eye contact, with Seung-yoo promising, “I’ll prove it,” before she’s taken away, into a police car. It’s our hero, and Asung student, BAEK SEUNG-YOO ( Lee Do-hyun). Only then does the young man finally arrive. She has security drag Yoon-soo out, where the police are waiting. The director thinks that’s rich, considering it’s coming from someone currently under investigation. She argues that luck doesn’t control everything, and she hopes that the students can understand that, even if their parents can’t. “This is an age,” the director concludes, “where luck beats effort.” At that, Yoon-soo steps forward and calls the director’s words bullshit, shocking everyone in the room. The director dismisses the idea, saying that they merely give their students “chances.” She walks in with determination, as the director is talking about accusations of Asung students being given special treatment. The woman, who we’ll come to know as heroine JI YOON-SOO ( Im Soo-jung), reaches the venue first. And out in the city, we see both a woman and a young man (separately) racing on their bikes, towards the event. The poised director greets the parents and their kids, apologizing for a scandal that recently hit the school. We open to an extravagant event being held for Asung High School. Note: This is a first episode recap only. If the story and the characters can help you feel it, then that’s all you really need. Right at the start, Melancholia proves that you don’t have to be an expert at something to see the beauty in it. Well, I never thought I’d be willingly watching a K-drama about math, much less thoroughly enjoying it, but here we are. 11 NovemNovemMelancholia: Episode 1 by SailorJumun