On his way to the breakfast table, Dal Po bumps into his desk, which makes the photo of him and his brother fall over. In Ha sets it upright, getting a good look at the photo. Dal Po tells her that he took that photo with his brother before he went to prison. For some reason, In Ha starts hiccuping.
She continues to hiccup, even till they are out of his house and going to work. Turns out In Ha is hiccuping because she can’t pretend she is okay being with Dal Po. She confesses to him that she can’t just erase her mom and only think about Dal Po. She asks him to wait for her until she is able to get her mom to apologize to him and his brother. Her hiccuping finally stops and Dal Po agrees to wait, if that is what she wants.
Gyo Dong is a great senior, team leader, and mentor.
Gyo Dong learned a hard lesson 13 years ago when the Ki family was destroyed, and again at seven, when he met an angry, young Dal Po at the quiz show. He is a good journalist now, reporting facts and pursuing the truth. He is a great mentor and leader to his rookie reporters, Dal Po included.
He swears to Cha Ok that his team will continue to dig in to the factory fire story and report the whole truth. He tries to keep his boss, Lee Young Tak, from sending three of his team members to cover the Sochi Winter Olympics, so he can have enough manpower for the factory fire story. He argues that it is the job of journalists to report on the real cause and culprits of the fire and that they need as much support as they can get because it takes a hundred correct reports to fix one wrong one. If they stop now for the Sochi reports, the story will forever be buried.
Gyo Dong is also proud of his rookies when they make fun of Cha Ok, (e.g. Yoo Rae’s not so subtle cough insults) or when they are unafraid to speak up, even to their superiors, (e.g. Dal Po’s lesson about the correcting reporting of news).
Lee Young Tak is taught a lesson by his juniors, and is not afraid to admit so.
That’s also a sign of a great leader. Lee Young Tak chooses news that people want to see over news that should be seen as the news that should be covered by journalists. This disappoints his department members, but when Dal Po shows him that news that should be seen is better for the public, he doesn’t get mad that he was just handed one by a junior. Instead, he reflects on the lesson learned and makes the decision to go against the flow of all the other news channels and continue to focus on the factory fire instead of the Sochi Olympics.