Yet, this is not the end for Dal Po for he still has many questions to ask. It is just the beginning.

It is just the beginning for Beom Jo, too, and he also has many questions to ask…to his mother.

It is a tough week for Beom Jo, who not only just basically pushed Dal Po to In Ha, but also learns that his beloved mother is even more evil than he thought she was.

Beom Jo knows that his mother is not the sweet and innocent woman he thought she was after the Santa Claus incident. But now he is finding out his mother is more deeply involved in media manipulation than just one single incident that was beneficial for her business. Park Ro Sa has been manipulating the news media for years to benefit her business and the politicians who supported her.

That nagging feeling and blurry suspicions that Beom Jo has been experiencing and forming starts to stab and take solid shape when he recognizes the politician’s name from YGN’s report on the factory fire cause. The politician is someone who his family is close to and there are just too many similarities between the fire 13 years ago and this recent fire. Both have Song Cha Ok heading the media play and flow into a strange direction. Both have his mother linked through someone- the one 13 years when Song Cha Ok visited his mom the day after Ki Ha Myung’s mom committed suicide and the recent one when the politician named as a culprit is close friends with his mom.


When Beom Jo goes to question his mom, Ro Sa is defensive, refusing to answer him. He wants to know if he is right to suspect she is involved but she tells him that he can’t be a journalist with her, only a son. With a smile, she tells him that she will answer only if he quits being a journalist.

Both In Ha and Beom Jo choose to be journalist, not just daughters and sons.

In Ha is in the same tough spot as Beom Jo- she has to choose between being a journalist and being the good child of a mother. But to In Ha right now, Dal Po is more important to her, and being a good journalist is what will help Dal Po. She also needs her mom to be a good journalist. She begs her mother to help the truth about the factory fire stay afloat atop the Sochi coverage. With the blackbox video, they can prove that Chan Soo is innocent. It will show that Cha Ok lied.


Cha Ok claims she didn’t lie but made a mistake. In Ha hopes it is was only a mistake, because if it wasn’t, apologizing to Dal Po won’t be enough.

Cha Ok wants to know why apologizing matters so much to In Ha when it doesn’t even concern her and In Ha finally tells her it is because she loves Dal Po/Ha Myung. She wants Dal Po to hear her mother’s apology.

But it looks like apologizing won’t be enough. Beom Jo overhears Gong Joo and Il Joo talking about Cha Ok looking for something desperately these days and he overhears Cha Ok ask In Ha if she took one of her old cellphones. Beom Jo starts to suspect that the cellphone is important and contains something that Cha Ok doesn’t want anyone to see. He tries to get In Ha to give it him without telling her his suspicions but she won’t, not without his truth, so he tells her.


In Ha checks out the phone at home. She finds that there are only messages from her 13 years ago left in the phone, which is odd considering her mom must have used it before losing it at Beom Jo’s house. In Ha takes the phone to a data recovery center to try to get the deleted messages back. She wants to keep this a secret from Beom Jo since it might also incriminate his mom, but she is forced to tell him when the recovery center tells her she need permission from the person the number is registered to. Since Beom Jo is the one who kept the number alive after Cha Ok lost her phone and got a new number, In Ha is forced to tell Beom Jo about her recovery attempt.

Both In Ha and Beom Jo are emailed the results of the data recovery. And what they find confirm their worst fears. Their mothers were involved intimately in the media play 13 years ago. Beom Jo and In Ha read the text messages sent from Beom Jo’s mom instructing Cha Ok to push the blame on Ki Ho Sang and to rally all the public’s anger toward his family. Beom Jo’s mom is the one who instructed Cha Ok to focus on impact more than fact and to protect the real culprit behind the fire.

This revelation leaves both Beom Jo and In Ha shaking and in tears.


Comments:
I find that I enjoy these types of episodes more, when there is a lesson learned. While simply portrayed, the point is relayed, and I love the fact that we are given both the good and bad of mass news media. The issue for this drama writer is not the medium of televised news, but the people behind the news making. Yet the writer understands the power of mass media, as witnessed by Gyo Dong’s words- it will take one hundred right reports to correct one wrong one.

That is why Dal Po was so angry at the debate earlier in this drama. The power of journalists’ words, amplified by the medium of mass media, can shape and solidify mere speculations into truths. And to play with this power, like the way Beom Jo’s and In Ha’s moms have, is to commit a crime that apologies can’t forgive.

Yet despite their attempt to bury the truth, it will rise. Despite the snobbery and vanity exhibited by Ro Sa and Cha Ok to think they can hide the truth, it will rise. It will rise like the voice of the child in the tale of the The Emperor’s New Clothes, the child that spoke the truth about the nakedness of the Emperor. The child challenges the authority and status quo. The child speaks the truth, no matter how humiliating it is to the recipient. Dal Po is unafraid to speak his truth and unafraid to challenge authority and the status quo when he demonstrates how news that people don’t want to hear is till the news that they should hear. YGN is also like the child, unafraid to go against the flow of all the other news covering Sochi and report the truth about the factory fire.

How appropriate is it that we see the younger version of Dal Po in a episode titled The Emperor’s New Clothes?
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BTS pictures of the Ki brothers....


Jongsuk did the same "ducky face" with Shinhye... like this

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anyway your hair is done.....you are still pretty In Ha....




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Shinhye has beautiful neckline...
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He can't resist looking at you while you sleep...


Even when you finally woke up....

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Pinocchio Viewership Ratings....


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Just then...you realize that it is not your room... It is ok.. .. we saw the episode

The 5 minutes.... went and gone... You needed sleep..


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Different InHa look, curly long hair...


ohhh.... both teams saw us together !

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And here is the English subbed Pinocchio Episode 16


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