tnx primrose for sharing the ep1 of FBND...loking forward for the next episode and...later the eng subs. tnx, tnx again!

Soft recap for the drama !!!!!
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I don't mean to be mean but Enrique character's was so weird kkk maybe it was because I didn't understand what they were saying
I thought I was team Yoonhye until ... Oh Jin Rak saw Dok Mi from a far omg I felt my heart explode lol
I got second male lead syndrome again

Drama fever is not available in my country I only rely on viki
And the rating .. pay-tv though so yeah ..
@shuralou: FBND started with 0,552 percent rating. Pretty good start for this channel but not enough to have our kim ji hoon/yoon shi yoon's kiss.

Eps. 1 recap
* The camera pans across a simple relatively old-fashioned apartment unit which is filled with books and post-its. The alarm goes off on the cell phone but the bed is empty.
*nstead a lump wrapped in a sleeping bag lurches up off the ground and it’s our heroine Go Dok Mi. She pulls a bottle of water out and then stumbles to the bathroom to wash up, wherein another bottle drops out of the bag. We see the apartment is filled with empty water bottles and paper cups. Clearly Dok Mi doesn’t get out much, though she’s still a ways away from becoming a hoarder.
*Dok Mi opens her door a tiny crack and sticks her hand out to feel around for her carton of milk. On it is a post-it with a sketch and a note and she takes it off and sticks to it the collection on the wall.
*After washing up, Dok Mi walks to the window and pulls open the blinds to stare into the window of the apartment across the road. It’s a modern high rise and inside the apartment directly from hers is a young man going through his morning routine. His name is Han Tae Joon
*Dok Mi mimics everything he does, from jogging to eating toast to washing the laundry. When he leaves for work, Dok Mi finally talks, telling him to have a good day, as if she was the wifey sending her husband off to work.
*A young man is making a paper craft on the airplane and its our hero Enrique Geum. He’s apparently either famous or ridiculously good looking, because the stewardess gets all moon-eyed when delivering him a drink, and when he gets up and walks down the airplane, all the ladies gasp and gape at him. There is a crying boy and Enrique gives him the paper robot he made and puts on a show for the kid to quiet him down.
*Enrique lands in Korea and he makes friends everywhere he goes, snapping a picture with a guy while waiting in the customs line and immediately chatting up the customs official (and rendering the trainee young lady also blushing and googly-eyed). He has a Spanish passport which the official mutters is because he is dodging mandatory service, but Enrique just bulldozes his way through by nattering on about how he immigrated to Spain when he was 9 and speaks fluent Korean because his dad insisted.
*When asked why he is in Korea, Enrique explains that he’s here to play cupid. As Enrique walks out of the terminal, there is a group of media and fans excitedly waiting for him. He adorably hams it up for the audience. The reporters ask about his latest video game and he happily answers questions.
*Enrique turns around and sees a girl wearing a white dress with a giant guitar on her back. She smiles at him and he smiles back at her. It’s Yoon Seo Young, Enrique’s first love from Spain.
*Two men strut out of the subway, one wearing a tan suit and the other one a black coat, both of them wearing sunglasses and an “I’m so cool” swagger. The ladies they pass all turn around and stare.
*Too bad their coolness is just a front, because these two guys are Oh Jin Rak, aspiring webtoon artist, and his roommate and drawing partner Yoo Dong Hoon. The second they sit down at their publishers, their editor tosses their latest webtoon at them and declare it DOA. She also tells Jin Rak not to wear suits in front of her.
*Apparently their webtoon Zombie Soccer bears a striking resemblance to Enrique Geum’s video game so it’s a no go. The boys try to argue that it’s a different medium but their editor dismisses that spurious argument and wearily tells them to return when they have another idea.
*Dong Hoon flips through their sketches on the tablet when he sees a sketch of a girl. Jin Rok looks at it and gets an idea. He wakes up the drowsy editor (her eye bags and exhausted look is brilliant) and shares his idea about a closeted woman who peeks at her handsome neighbor. The editor buys the idea and tells them to run with it!
*Enrique and Seo Young chat outside and he chides her for dressing so scantily in such cold weather. I already dislike her, any chick who looks pretty and wears only a lace dress in the dead of Winter in Seoul is stupid and vain IMO. He puts a coat on her and they share his lollipop casually, indicating how comfortable they are with each other. It’s also weird that Enrique appears to be sucking on a Willy Wonka Never Grow Smaller Lollipop because that thing is the exact same size from when he got off the plane.
*Jin Rok and Dong Hoon are walking back to their apartment, with Jin Rok already thinking about the story. Dong Hoon thinks they should have stuck to their guns but then offers to be the inspiration for the handsome guy the heroine spies on, complimenting himself as just that good looking.
*Dok Mi is a manuscript editor and is working carefully on a project. She gets a call needing her work and she promises to drop it off at the post office in the afternoon. On TV is a news report about a man bugging a woman’s apartment to spy on her and Dok Mi feels guilty but comforts herself that she doesn’t do that.
*The neighbors of the apartment are protesting. Dong Hoon complains to the apartment guard about how much he pays on utilities and is told that the girl in apartment 402 pays much less because she doesn’t use much. Jin Rok gets up on the milk crate and leads the chant while Dong Hoon films him.
*Dok Mi looks out her window and realizes Tae Joon is back during the day, apparently to pick something up. She notices that he boiled water and left the pot close to the edge of the table, right over the dog bed where the dog is sleeping. Dude, you are a terrible pet owner. Dok Mi is so nervous as the pot wobbles at the edge before seemingly falling over on the dog,
*As Dok Mi rushes out of her house, the guard recognizes her as the girl in apartment 402 and calls out to her. Dong Hoon hears it and tries to ask her how she saves on utility bills and Dok Mi promises to tell him before rushing into a taxi to follow Tae Joon. As she rides the taxi she sticks her head out the window to feel the air.
*Dok Mi gets out of the taxi and follows Tae Joon, getting so close she can tap him on the shoulder but she can’t bring herself to. Finally she blurts out that his dog got hurt, which is when a guy steps in front of her with a smile. It’s Lee Jong Hyuk in a cameo role
*Enrique and Seo Young are hanging out and she sings for him. They both bicker about how they missed each other. Enrique tells her to go find Tae Joon and make her love come true. He tells her that he will be staying with Tae Joon and she can come by. Despite encouraging her, its clear this is hard for Enrique because he likes her too.
*The man and Dok Mi have the oddest conversation, with him trying to solicit her to buy something while she in turn talks about her experience with Tae Joon.
*Apparently the last time she left her apartment was last Fall and that day she happened to see him at the park. She was looking up into the sun and suddenly he appeared in her line of sight. He saw an injured dog and adopted it. Dok Mi went to the convenience store and bought something and got a scratch off prize of a pair of binoculars.
*That night she went home and looked out her window with the binoculars and saw the cute guy with the injured dog. She felt like it was fate. Dok Mi wanders off while the salesman guy goes to solicit another person.
*Dok Mi goes back and runs into the apartment building of Tae Joon. She calls to report and injured dog in his apartment and then presses her face against his door worried that the poor pooch is wining in pain. Enrique arrives and gets out of the cab and Jin Rok and Dong Hoon recognize him and see him entering the other building.
*As Dok Mi is pressed up against Tae Joon’s door, Enrique arrives and presses his face against the door as well and makes the same mewling expression. Dok Mi turns around and shrinks back in shock when she sees him. He asks “ahjumma, what are you doing?” She doesn’t answer and runs away.
*Jin Rok and Dong Hoon discuss whether that was really Enrique Geum as they get in the elevator. Dok Mi arrives and they hold the door open for her but she doesn’t get on. Jin Rok figured she wouldn’t get on because she doesn’t like to be around people.
*As Dok Mi walks back to her unit, the guard finds her and tells her to come out tomorrow for the protest because its her turn to lead the chanting.
*Jin Rak notices Dong Hoon lurking in the windows and finds out that he’s checking out Enrique through the window. He pulls Dong Hoon away and chides him for doing something illegal.
*Dok Mi looks into Tae Joon’s window to check on the door and notices the strange guy Enrique is in the apartment and wonders who he is? Enrique senses someone looking at him and tries to catch the person but Dok Mi ducks each time.
*Dok Mi falls on a pile of empty bottles and she takes it out to the recycling bin outside. She sees strewn paper boxes and she can’t help herself but to tidy it up. Jin Rok walks outside and sees her there and he observes her. Later that night, Dok Mi types on her computer about having a one-sided crush.
*Tae Joon comes home and smiles to see Enrique sleeping on the sofa. The two cousins happily greet each other and Enrique starts to wheedle for Tae Joon to buy him stuff but Tae Joon tells him to change his ways when living here and Enrique pouts.
*In the morning, Dok Mi lurches awake in her usual zombie way, this time wrapped in a sleeping bag but actually sleeping on the bed. She opens the window as she is brushing her teeth and sees a pretty young man slowly rise to her exact level right outside her window. LOL, so cute. Their eyes widen and the young man a Japanese new neighbor named Watanabe breaks into a beatific smile, which is when Dok Mi pulls the curtains closed. He looks confused but then smiles as he is lowered again.
*Dong Hoon wakes up and falls off the couch. He notices Jin Rok illustrating on the computer and finds out he worked all night. Sleepy Dong Hoon complains about the noisy movers outside. Dong Hoon finds a note wedged into the door.
*Dok Mi peeks into Tae Joon’s apartment and is relieved to see the dog is alright. Suddenly she realizes that Enrique is standing there, wearing a panda hat and boxers, staring directly at her. They make eye contact and Enrique makes the fingert-to-eye “I see you and you are so dead” gesture. Dok Mi quickly hides but it’s too late, Enrique has confirmed the identity of the Peeping Jane as the chick in apartment 402 across the way.
*Enrique marches over to the apartment to confront Dok Mi. Jin Rok reads the note left by Dok Mi explaining how she keeps her utility bills low. Watanabe is happily unpacking in his unit and gets ready to head out and greet the neighbors.
* Enrique pounds on Dok Mi’s door while the other flower boys peer out their units at the commotion, while Dok Mi hides in her apartment freaking out.

Ockoala's thoughts:
I was very taken with the low key vibe of this drama which covered all areas of its production. The directing by PD Jung Jung Hwa, who helmed Flower Boy Ramyun Shop (which I didn’t like at all), is much less spazzy but retains the same quaint vibe. Veteran movie scriptwriter Kim Eun Jung is doing a splendid job of taking her time to develop characters rather than throwing a series of “incidents” on the screen and letting that dictate the story. She writes this drama like a movie and it shows with how she doesn’t tell us what is happening but lets the scene unfold at its own pace. She wrote Il Mare and Madeleine and I love those movies to pieces, and so far FBND has that same introspective quality. The actors appear to understand this world implicitly so the acting is lovely to behold with the same relaxed and easygoing vibe. The last drama I saw of Park Shin Hye was Heartstrings, and in my first impression review I mentioned she was overacting in such odd ways and I questioned if it was that PD’s fault. I can now safely say it is, because she is back to being the young talented actress I enjoy watching here, very expressive without being in-your-face. Her character is absolutely the purpose of this story, without her there is no reason to stick around. But it is Yoon Si Yoon’s Enrique Geum and Kim Ji Hoon’s Oh Jin Rak who are shaping up to be the heart and soul of this ride. One will look after her from the side, while the other forces his way into her world and jolts her out of hiding.
I appreciate how the drama doesn’t purposely uglify Dok Mi, as if to hammer home the point that she’s a recluse ergo she must be frumpy. We see that she’s fresh-faced with a lovely long haircut, though she prefers comfy clothes but isn’t necessarily style blind. Her behavior also isn’t shown to be that extreme as to be borderline crazy or dangerous. She appears to have chosen to sequester herself, but she’s not incapable of being in social settings without melting down or having conversations with people. I like that Jin Rak notices that she appears to be the living version of his webtoon heroine, or did he sketch her from earlier and use her situation as the inspiration for his story? His character is much more compelling as the second male lead than Tae Joon, who is so boring and perfectly good looking he sends me into narcoleptic snores the moment he shows up. He’s innocuous but as a romantic prospect for Dok Mi he’s about as interesting as watching paint dry. I love that he’s her sole interest from the outside world but I’m hoping the drama keeps him to a minimum and let him have his equally zzzzz-inducing love story with Seo Young.
I think the drama makes it very clear why natural-born flirt Enrique and wallflower introvert Dok Mi are perfect for each other. He can’t be serious for one minute and she’s filled with all these hidden feelings that needs an outlet. The drama is wasting no time getting them into each other’s orbit, as well as bringing the world of the flower boy neighbors colliding with Dok Mi’s hidden away existence. I don’t necessarily crave the romantic aspects of this drama taking off but am rather more intrigued about how Dok Mi makes friends and slowly comes out of her shell. The drama is filmed in somber shades to reflect Dok Mi’s inner drabness but I wonder if the palate will lighten up as the drama progresses. So far its not terribly deep or meaningful, but it has set up a purpose that I am invested in and characters who I already care about. I think FBND is off to a solid start and 2013 has taken the first positive drama steps forward. This drama is cute without being too precious.

Credit : koalasplayground Thank you

@primrose. 0,552 percent? It's that low?

I will wait for the Eng-sub, but Shin Hye did a very good job. Go Shin Hye!!

Now what is considered a GOOD rating for TVN? I don't understand it's rating system at all. Compared to the first 2 installments, what this this series like?

Ready Merry Go by Romantic Punch - FBND OST



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@sis humilis @mandy, yes the drama got low rating but tVN is a pay-tv , doesn't have many viewers as on free tv so I think the rating was pretty good Shinhye did a good job though.

I don't care about the rating though as long as I can see her (I'm too biased kkk) but since rating is so important so let's hope that the rating will increase today

I LOVEEEEE this drama so much
although eng sub not yet released, i think i know a little bit about the story
Thanks for all actors & actress, their acting is super!!

At first, based on Strong heart or press con, i ship PSH-KJH
But after watching eps 1, maybe i change my ship again to YSY-PSH



About rating, i think it is quite good
compare to flower boy ramyun shop, they got 1% at eps 1
but i hope this drama will get 5% please!! they deserve it!!

New picture for eps 2



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The show might not do well in Korea, but I'm sure it will be a hit
in other countries when it gets licensed and released there.

@primrose, when I took a peek of the webtoon I actually didn't like Enrique, the way the artist drew him, he looks somewhat annoying and with curly hair, but then again
I don't read Korean texts so I was clueless on what's going on. So maybe with the live action, I'll be able to understand the story of Enrique and the others. Hooray for the subbers!

First episode, I was quite happy and entertained.
No bad hairstyle to annoy me, although Enrique's style is a bit weird but that's part of his character. And I'm hoping there's no piggyback scene in the future episodes because thats been played out like in every Korean drama.

Flower Boys Next Door′ is Out to Take Over with Its Second Episode

After turning heads with its first episode on January 7, tvN′s Flower Boys Next Door is out to hit the small screen with an even stronger episode.

If the first episode of the drama mostly introduced the characters and explained the premise, the second episode to air on January 8 will finally delve into the relationship between Enrique Geum (Yoon Shi Yoon) and Go Dok Mi (Park Shin Hye).

Producer Jo Moon Joo of Flower Boys Next Door said, "Dok Mi wants to avoid ′Que Geum′, but he will continue to burst in on her quiet life. The changes in their feelings toward each other will provide for an even tenser plot compared to the first episode. The reactions for the internal preview were explosive. You can definitely look forward to it."
The second episode seeks to build the relationships between the main leads. The last part of the first episode showed how Go Dok Mi got caught watching Han Tae Joon (Kim Jung San) by Enrique Geum, forewarning a complicated relationship to come.

After learning that Go Dok Mi is spying on someone, Enrique tries to break into Dok Mi′s home, but the two never get to meet thanks to Oh Jin Rak (Kim Ji Hoon) and Yoo Dong Hoon′s (Go Kyung Pyo) help. Enrique, however, continues to chase her around, making Dok Mi play a game of hide-and-seek with him.

Enrique in the end sees the sadness hidden inside Dok Mi′s large eyes, and feels himself drawn toward her. This change in their relationship will be made clear in the second episode, and provide a starting point for their sweet romance.

Viewers have especially shown they′re curious about a scene in the preview in which Dok Mi falls into Enrique′s arms, apparently unconscious.

Eps 2's preview


Source : enewsworld

So far I like it....i can't wait for the next ep since we get to 'peek' in to all of our main characters now...
still am curious as to what happened for DokMik to lock herself in her apartment....

i am still in love with JiHoon, omo, the minute he came on screeen with that nice shades and long tan coat, i would have turned my head too to look at this flower boy...and I love how he seems to be silently protecting our sweet girl...

LOVE it!!!

as far as ratings go, i'm happy to see that they almost got a1% rating, which is pretty good for a cable channel to receive...

and here's Dramabeans recap:
Flower Boy Next Door: Episode 1
by girlfriday
Adorable. The next installment of tvN’s Oh Boy series is here with Flower Boy Next Door, and I’m happy to report it’s as zippy and fun as advertised. It’s closest to Flower Boy Ramyun Shop in tone—a wacky comedy with heightened situations and quirky characters.

But more importantly, our Miss Lonelyhearts at the center of it all has depth and heart, and I can’t wait to find out how all these guys will start to disrupt her little bubble, and shake her out of her comfort zone.
EPISODE 1: “I Steal Peeks at Him Every Day”
We open on details inside our heroine’s apartment. She raises plants. She’s a copywriter. She keeps stacks of takeout coffee cups and rows and rows of water bottles. And her alarm rings in the morning with the message: “His wake-up time.”

She pops up, not in bed, but in the middle of her living room floor, snuggled in a sleeping bag, with warm bottles of water used for heat to keep her expenses down. This is our heroine, GO DOK-MI (Park Shin-hye).

After she gets up, she carefully sticks her hand outside her front door—just a hand—to reach for her carton of milk. It comes with a post-it attached: “A lovely day!” with a drawing of a boy and girl. She adds it to a stack.

She opens up her curtains, which gives her a clear view straight across the alley and into her neighbor’s apartment in a building that’s taller and fancier than hers. She follows along with everything he does, from morning exercise to breakfast to laundry, as if they’re doing them together.

She waves goodbye as he leaves for work, and she puts down her binoculars with a wistful sigh.

Elsewhere, someone has a very different morning, making a giant mess that spills over into the seat next to his on a plane. A flight attendant scowls at the mess… until ENRIQUE GEUM (Yoon Shi-yoon) looks up at her and smiles. She’s a goner.

He gets up and makes his way to the back of the plane, slaying more women with his smile, until he reaches a little boy who’s been crying and screaming. He sticks a moving-through-space screensaver up with his tablet, and presents a paper robot. That’s what you were doing? So. Cute.

I love the running bit with him—he’s so handsome he literally puts smiles on people’s faces everywhere he goes. It’s hilarious.

The man at customs isn’t so easily impressed, assuming he doesn’t understand Korean because of his foreign passport. But Enrique busts out his perfect Korean, blathering on about how his father never let him speak Spanish at home, and how he was once tested as a genius at the age of nine.

And then he takes a look at his assistant’s nametag (it says gyo-yook-saeng = trainee) and calls out cheerily, “Bye Yook-saeng noona!” LOL. So, not so much a genius.

He gets a celebrity’s welcome out of the gate, with reporters scrambling to ask him if he’s been scouted to work elsewhere and if he plans to leave Sola Studio. He doesn’t say.

His attention shifts at the arrival of YOON SEO-YOUNG (Kim Yoon-hye). They smile at each other. Ah, this must be what he meant when he told the customs officer his reason for coming here was cupid’s arrow.

We shift to another introduction—two well-dressed guys turn heads as they music-video-strut their way down the street. This is OH JIN-RAK (Kim Ji-hoon) and YOO DONG-HOON (Go Kyung-pyo), and they enjoy the attention.

Turns out they got all dressed up to hear the verdict on their latest webtoon, Zombie Soccer. The editor tells them it wasn’t picked up, because it plagiarized a video game.

The boys argue that a game and a webtoon are totally different things, and besides, how would they get permission from some Spanish game developer? She points out that said game-maker—Enrique Geum, naturally—just landed in Seoul minutes ago.

They get the brush-off from the editor, and Dong-hoon whines that they can’t throw away all their work like this. Shouldn’t they show her the latest drawings? He flips through Jin-rak’s sketches, and stops at one that doesn’t belong in the zombie soccer lot—a girl.

That sparks an idea, and Jin-rak shows the editor. The story he pitches: a girl, trapped in her apartment and the guys who surround her. The editor deadpans, “And she’s a zombie and he’s a vampire? So overdone.” Ha.

He quickly says this story will be nothing like that. It’ll be a realistic melo, all about the everyday life of this one girl, and all her neighbors… and it’ll be called “Flower Boy Next Door.” Ah, I see, it’ll be a webtoon-within-a-drama. She lights up.

Back to Enrique, who asks if Seo-young really feels nothing even though they haven’t seen each other in a year. She steals his lollipop and says he hasn’t changed one bit—he’s still the cocky and self-absorbed guy from before. She doesn’t say it meanly, but like an old friend.

He does notice that she’s freezing and zips her up in one of his jackets, and then pauses when he’s within kissing distance. He starts to lean in…

…and chomps down on the lollipop in her hand. You big tease.

Dok-mi gets a call from one of her freelance copy-editing jobs, and insists that the drop-off be at the post office rather than her home, and can’t bring herself to ask for payment, even though it’s backed up, and she clearly needs the money.

The neighbors from her building are being organized downstairs in a small protest to get some payment out of the new officetel that was built so tall it ruined their view, and the security guard calls out Dok-mi as “Apartment 402″ over the PA system to say that she’ll start being fined if she doesn’t attend the building meetings.

It’s news to Dong-hoon that a young lady lives next door, since he’s been crashing at Jin-rak’s place for a while and he’s never seen her. He takes one look at the apartment fees and complains that she gets charged less for heating and such, because she lives alone.

While that’s going on down in the street, Dok-mi checks on her neighbor across the way, or his dog, really. She’s surprised to see that he stopped by home in the middle of the day. She watches through her binoculars as he answers a hurried phone call and leaves a boiling kettle teetering on the edge of his dining table… right over his sleeping dog. Eeep.

Dok-mi watches in a fright as the kettle teeters and falls, and she lets out a yelp. In a panic, she runs downstairs. She almost catches up to him as he pulls out of the driveway, but Dong-hoon stops her to introduce himself and ask about her heating bill.

Jin-rak notes her presence with curiosity, and the security guard thinks she’s finally heeding his warning to join in the building’s meetings.

But Dok-mi is only focused on the dog, and so she grabs a taxi to follow her mystery man. She sticks her head out the window to get his attention, and finally catches up to him on foot…

But once she’s actually within touching distance, she can’t bring herself to tap him on the shoulder.

She stops there in the street, unable to make contact. She finally screws up her nerve to shout, “Your dog is hurt!” but suddenly another man steps right in her path, startling her. Lee Jong-hyuk? What are you doing here?

Elsewhere, Enrique asks Seo-young if she didn’t miss him, and says, “I missed you. Every single day.” She slaps him upside the head and says she missed him too, but they obviously mean it in two very different ways.

He says he’s planning to play cupid, but has to be careful because cupid’s arrow has a way of making things complicated. “So I’m going to ask. Your love… is it Han Tae-joon?”

And back in the street, a group of guys picks up Dok-mi’s mystery man, calling him Tae-joon. Aha.

Dok-mi is frozen in place, and it turns out Lee Jong-hyuk is a random fortuneteller type, trying to fish for customers in the street. But the funnier thing is that she’s crazier than he is, and starts to unload her problems.

She says it was autumn the last time she was out in the world. She looks up at the sun, which takes her to a flashback, to the moment she first saw Tae-joon in a park on a fall day. She followed him and watched as he picked up a puppy in a box and took him home.

She says in voiceover that she found out what love at first sight meant, and felt as though she had loved a short while and parted with him. She wanted everything to remind her of that fall day, and we watch as she comes home with those yellow binoculars on a whim.

She plays around with them in her apartment, and lands on the window across the way, and in walks Tae-joon with his new puppy. Her jaw drops. She says she thought of it as fate.

Of course it’s only after telling the whole story that it dawns on her she forgot about the dog, and she runs off.

Back to Enrique, who asks it again: “Your love… is Han Tae-joon, right?” Seo-young doesn’t answer, but it’s written all over her face. He laughs it off and says the seriousness doesn’t suit her.

She says she’s sorry, but he doesn’t blame her in the least, and offers to make her his special spaghetti, at Tae-joon’s place. Oh, is he your bestie too? That’s not awkward.

Dok-mi makes her way back, and Jin-rak is surprised to see her run into the building across the way. And he and Dong-hoon are even more shocked when Enrique Geum gets out of a taxi and heads into the same building.

Dok-mi sits at Tae-joon’s door, calling out to the dog and sick with worry. She baby-talks and asks if he’s very hurt, and of course it’s the exact moment that Enrique shows up behind her, “Ajumma, what’re you doing?”

Shocked, she crawls away on her hands and knees in horror.

Jin-rak stalls the elevator, and Dok-mi comes up but stops short when she sees other people inside. Dong-hoon invites her to get in, but she won’t. The doors close and Jin-rak says she can’t anyway—”it’s not in her personality.”

Dong-hoon tries to figure out which apartment Enrique moved into, and Jin-rak pulls him away from the window before he gets himself arrested for peeping.

Enrique settles into Tae-joon’s apartment and peers out at Dok-mi’s building, gaping at how old it is, and that he could probably shout across the way and be heard.

Dok-mi is shocked to see a stranger standing in Tae-joon’s apartment, “Who are you?”

Enrique can sense someone looking at him, and peers back at Dok-mi’s window. She hides, and then peers back, and they go back and forth, trying to see the other person.

Enrique finally turns away… and then whips around to try and catch her, so she ducks down like a crazy person.

Later, she goes down to throw out the trash, and stops to organize the recyclables properly. Jin-rak watches, keeping his distance.

She starts to narrate about unrequited love, as we see her type away at her desk. Aw, is she a writer?

Dok-mi: How timid and frail is unrequited love? A place you entered of your own accord, but you’re trapped inside, unable to find an exit. He doesn’t know a thing, and could one day leave my line of sight, and the love ends passively. A love that does not bloom flowers, and thus cannot dream of bearing fruit. A love like a seed that is forgotten. That is unrequited love.

Tae-joon comes home at the crack of dawn, and smiles to see Enrique passed out on his couch. He goes to tuck him in, when Enrique shouts at him and jumps up with a hug, “Hyuuuuuuung!” Wait, what?

Oh my god, are they brothers? Dude. Tae-joon calls him by his nickname, Kkae-geum, and Enrique starts immediately whining for hyung to buy a bigger tv.

Okay, they can’t be brother-brothers, because they have different last names, but they’re not friends (whereas Jin-rak and Dong-hoon’s hyung-dongsaeng relationship is clearly of the friend variety). Maybe they’re cousins?

Enrique adorably aegyos him into all sorts of changes, but Tae-joon holds his ground and says no. Immediate pouting. Yeah they’re family for sure, right?

Dok-mi wakes up in the morning and goes to the window while brushing her teeth… and is greeted by a strange sight. A guy gets craned up to her window holding a box, and he smiles brightly at the sight of her, freaking her out.

It’s her new neighbor, who’s moving in down the hall.

At the same time, Dong-hoon sees a note wedged into Jin-rak’s door, and it’s from “Apartment 402.”

Dok-mi peers over at Tae-joon with her binoculars and smiles in relief to see that his dog is perfectly fine. When he goes into the bedroom she scans her way back to the living room… where Enrique is glaring Right. At. Her.

What… are you wearing? That’s beside the point though, as he looks her straight in the binoculars, and motions with his fingers, I’m watching you. Hee. Also, oh crap.

She freaks out and closes the blinds in terror. Enrique won’t leave it at that, and runs out in nothing but shorts and a trench coat (Who looks crazy now?) muttering the whole way over that he knew he felt someone watching him last night.

At the same time, the new neighbor starts packing a basket of pastries and practicing his greeting to introduce himself. He heads out…

Jin-rak reads the note and opens his door…

And Enrique storms out of the elevator, counting the doors, until he lands on 402…

He rings the doorbell, and Dok-mi peeks out the peephole and freezes.

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