She asks sharply if Cha Ok had ever ignored fact after being blinded by the pursuit of impact.” Song Cha Ok takes a while before she answers, “No.”
In Ha is about to just accept this answer and sit down when she starts to hiccup. Her body is telling her she can’t accept this answer from her mom. In Ha gets up again and continues to attack Cha Ok. According to her knowledge, she knows there was a time when Cha Ok ignored fact. It was 13 years ago, the Ki Ho Sang incident. Cha Ok ignored the possibility that Ki Ho Sang could be dead and was the first to report the story that he abandoned his colleagues and ran. She also edited Ki Ho Sang’s family’s interview in a way that would make everyone angry at them. Because of this anger, the wife couldn’t even go to the market, and on the day the family promised to go view fireworks together, the wife had to chosen to end her own life. It was an incident that showed how dangerous news with impact only and no fact can be.
Cha Ok once again goes on the defensive, saying this wasn’t her individual wrong. “You can argue that the testimony of the Pinocchio who saw the wrong person was the problem. All I did was believe that testimony.”
In Ha remembers that this is what she said at the YGN survival debate. She had said she believes the main cause of Ki Ho Sang’s tragic story was the testimony of the Pinocchio and the fact that everyone believed him.
In Ha turns around to look at Dal Po. She smiles bitterly as she says, “Someone once said this. People believe that Pinocchio and journalists only tell the truth. So the Pinocchio and journalist should have known that people will believe them without doubt and therefore know that their words are scarier than other people’s. The fact that you didn’t know is your mistake. That your thoughtlessness destroyed a family. That is why you bear responsibility for this tragic story.”
In Ha throws her final blow at her mom. “Seeing that you still advocate impact even after experiencing that kind of incident 13 years ago, it seems you are still the same unqualified journalist as 13 years ago.”
This time, Cha Ok has no smart comeback. She’s visibly shaken and her gaze falters. Dal Po, on the other hand, watches In Ha with concern.
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