You know, I could really get used to this. Spending ten minutes a day with Seung Jo and Ha Ni, amusing myself with their life, wishing somehow this could go on forever. Episode 2 of the Playful Kiss Youtube edition reminded me so much of the interlude from the drama where Ha Ni tries to become a better tennis player and Seung Jo ends up having to coach her.
Somewhere along the way, their relationship naturally settled into its natural dynamic. Ha Ni sucks at something new, she struggles to learn, and Seung Jo finally steps in to help give her that final little push. Conversely, she makes him laugh, love, and enjoy a life that comes so easily to him he might forget that challenges are what makes life more interesting.
Youtube Episode 2 Recap:
Somewhere in the universe, a poor bear is crying from getting poked by nurse-in-training Oh Ha Ni. A shaky hand holding a needle tentatively approaches an exposed arm. The increasingly shaky hand belongs to Ha Ni, who is surrounded by her nursing classmates as they watch her practice her shot injection technique. Ha Ni is so nervous sweat drips down her brow, but in the end she sets aside the needle. She cannot do it, her fear of sticking the needle into the skin is too great.
Ha Ni lays slumped over the table, and her hubby comes up bearing some iced coffee. She confesses that she’s terrified of inserting a needle. Seung Jo tells her that she shouldn’t be the person who is afraid, what about the patient getting the needle in the arm?
Ha Ni worries that the needle might snap while in the blood vessel. Seung Jo tells her that she should just give up then. If she won’t conquer her fear, then she can’t be a nurse since giving shots is one of the basic tasks of every nurse. His words leave Ha Ni annoyed at his cavalier attitude. Seung Jo responds that Ha Ni is the person who kept saying that she can’t do it. To Ha Ni, Seung Jo should have wanted to help her. Future doctor hubby says that he can’t work with a nurse who is incapable of giving shots to patients.
Ha Ni does some googling, and comes upon a brilliant idea. She lures Joo Ri out to the school steps bearing gifts of cookies and treats. Joo Ri the potential guinea pig happily scarfs down some cookies while Ha Ni butters her up. Ha Ni tells Joo Ri that she’s been so busy studying she hasn’t had time for her best friends.
Joo Ri is touched, and tells Ha Ni that, together with Min Ah, they are three ladies whose hearts beat as one. Ha Ni uses this chance to offer to inject Joo Ri with some vitamins. Once Ha Ni whips out the instruments of torture, her needle, Joo Ri wisely makes a run for the border and hightails it out of there.
The next guinea pig candidate is less gullible. Actually, Min Ah got the lowdown from Joo Ri and has come prepared. Min Ah simply gives Ha Ni a gift of a giant teddy bear as her inanimate victim. Min Ah says her arms are too bony and not much room to practice. Ha Ni walks home carrying her teddy victim on her back.
Ha Ni tries out the teddy bear patient at home, and is all sorts of adorable as she talks to it and practices her technique. She asks teddy which arm he prefers. She switches from the right to the left, saying that the right arm is needed to do everything. She knows that it must be scary for him, and she tells teddy to just endure it for a little bit.
After she practices on him, she tells teddy that she injected some vitamins and asks him to rest well now. Seung Jo peeks through the door and is pleased to see his darling wifey make progress.
However, a teddy bear is still just a teddy bear. Back at nursing school, all the students have paired up to practice, and Ha Ni’s partner is literally green with fear. Ha Ni reassures her that she can do it now! No worries. But once Ha Ni is faced with another real person, she falters again.
That night, Ha Ni sits in bed dejected. Poor teddy with a tourniquet on his arm sits across from her, watching dolefully. Seung Jo comes into the room, and rolls up his sleeve, offering up himself as her practice victim. Ha Ni is moved by such a selfless and loving gesture, as am I.
Seung Jo isn’t just a passive testing dummy for Ha Ni. He uses this opportunity to help her hone her technique and remind her of the proper steps she needs to take (tourniquet, disinfect, find blood vessel, insert needle). Ha Ni is clumsy and unsure each step of the way, but Seung Jo remains seated even as he corrects her mistakes. She keeps tying the tourniquet too tightly and Seung Jo reminds her of the correct method.
Ha Ni wonders where the blood vessels are, and Seung Jo has to point them out to her, all THREE of them. Oh lord, the girl must be blind. He tells her to always select the largest vessel because it’s the most convenient. Ha Ni finally inserts the needle, and she is ecstatic. Except she missed the blood vessel. Oops, but so typical Oh Ha Ni technique.
After a while, we see that Seung Jo’s arm is bruised as Ha Ni has gone to town on his poor appendage. Instead of running away, Seung Jo brandishes his other arm, the still whole one, and allows Ha Ni to continue practicing on that arm. He tells her to mimic the landing of an airplane when descending with the needle to the arm.
Ha Ni finally succeeds in inserting the needle and hitting a blood vessel. Seung Jo yelps in pain, and then runs away. He heads downstairs and examines his poor arm. Ha Ni comes running downstairs asking to practice just one more time, to make sure she’s got it. She’s not nervous anymore, she’ll do it right.
Seung Jo continues running away from the crazed lady holding a needle when Eun Jo comes home.
Both pause to look at him, and we can see a light bulb go off in Ha Ni’s head. She turns to her little brother-in-law and welcomes him home with a sly grin. Seung Jo sees what she’s thinking, and turns to give his poor brother a warning glance.
We close with a shot of Ha Ni holding her needle behind her back, the tip glinting a nefarious intent directed at Eun Jo.
Thoughts of Mine:
This was a cute episode, albeit nothing we haven’t already seen incarnations of before. I mentioned the tennis lessons, but really it goes further back to when Ha Ni and Seung Jo were in high school and she made him tutor her. He’s always the one providing the substantive input, but she ends up succeeding because of her determination and perseverance.
What marks this interlude as meaningful is how far Seung Jo will go to help Ha Ni. It’s not just giving her time and knowledge, he actually offers up a priceless part of himself. In the world of grand romantic K-drama gestures, this ranks very low on the swelling-music-twirling-camera-slow-mo scale, but ranks high on the significance scale.
Putting aside Seung Jo and his poor arm(s), its lovely to once again be reminded of Ha Ni’s progress in life. So she did get into nursing school, like anyone of us doubted that. As a nursing student, she still faces every obstacle and challenge the same way – try, fail, mope, try again, fail again, mope again, rinse, repeat umpteenth times, and finally success. Ha Ni is the living embodiment of the turtle in the race with the hare, and I never tire of watching her can-do spirit succeed at the end of the day.
[Credit: all screencaps from Baidu Playful Kiss bar and hyunniespexers.wordpress.com]
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Aahh.. I love how patient BSJ is and his way to teach OHN stuff... Like the plane metaphor... or the signals to aliens (waaaay back) <3
Wish my teachers were that resourceful in their teachings!
And I loved LOVed OHN's dress, the one she wore in the last scene ^^
she and seungjo always wear matching clothing, whether it's couple-T or not :D
and i thought i was the only one who noticed that. seriously they do complement each others outfits almost all the time!!! and they started like that the moment they became a couple not even married yet so cute!
whether a hair bow that matches the color of he's dress shirt underneath or that white and grey ensemble soooo loving it!!! while they're so cute with matching couple's clothing, i think it's way cooler to think that subconsciously, they're dressing up alike kekeke!!
I know right!!! they're sooo soooo cute!
actually i read this comment about them always matching in one of PK eps on viikii (the comments that appear on the moviescreen) and started noticing ^^
Mama Baek must have filed their entire wardrobe with couple outfits & accessories the moment their couple status is confirmed. Can't imagine BSJ doing the shopping for the stuff.
it's sooo cheesy, but I love their couple-stuff looks ^^ BSJ is so drooooool-worthy in it (opposing to his usual suit-like looks)
of course his usual wear is also to die for, but he really works the couple outfits!
Aaw! I love Seung-jo in this episode. His poor arm! But he really showed his love for Ha-ni by being a fearless guinea pig!
BSJ , u'r the best , never gave up ur Hani and bare all the pain for her sake , luuuuvvvv uuuu both so much
Ockoala , thankuuuuuuuu :)
I like this episode more. It is so much more romantic - bare arms as opposed to flowers and chocolates. Thanks Ockoala.
Yuppers, spells out dedication to me.
Awww...I'm at home sick and can't help but replay this vid 23563738 times. How sweet is he to offer his arm when he knows what he's getting into? And you're right Ockoala, its not "swelling-music-twirling-camera-slow-mo scale", but for me, all these little mundane things that he does for his wifey beats every other princely-gesture-ala JiHoo-sunbae, hands down.
And oh, PDnim...can I just make one special request? If you insist on giving BSJ a uniform, can we please get read of those plaid coupel PJs and make him wear that white shirt instead? Pretty please with a cherry on top? :P
Curly-haired BSJ in a white shirt with his neck accentuated like that = SEXY. That is all.
ooooopssss....typos. i meant, *get rid of those plaid couple PJs*. ;)
brain is not working so well, obviously.
yeah... after one year of marriage with the same PJ... ha. ha.
yeah, after one year marriage with the same PJ.. ha ha ha
@yeisha, baek seung jo's sweetness and love for oh hani makes the gestures of yoon ji hoo like a wallpaper!
and got to agree with the PJs, can we replace it? something which is sexier? hehehehe!
@jeankaycee, i know right? who needs a firefighter when you have a genius who cooks, cleans, ties your shoelaces, and is willing to be your guniea pig when no one else would? ;)
i suspect that this list will just keep on getting longer before this YouTube series ends. <3
@yeisha, yeah the list of baek seung jo's heart melting qualities will go and go...
*sigh, i wish i could clone baek seung jo for myself!
oh hani is reallyone lucky girl!
as I had said below...
I think this matches right up with the band-aid-medicine-buying Kim Hyun Joong Shillang in WGM
<3
swoon worthy dream boat all the way.
And I think Hani pin cushioned him enough to drive out the cranky. LOL
It's amazing how their relationship has changed! In the past it was always hani looking for seungjo but in this ep we actually saw seungjo taking the initiative to find her. Though it's something small but I feel that they have come a long way (:
Quoting BSJ diary #16 ' Love is something that helps you see things you aren't able to see before, hear things you aren't able to hear before.'
Thank you ockoala for your speedy nice recap.
thanks ockoala for the recap and insights! its wonderful as always!
what can i say? these two are really the epitome of love that accepts all the things that comes in the person that we love.
seung jo being supportive to hani and hani giving her all to attain her goal.
its such a delight to see them steer each other hand in hand in maturing and facing the future.
i agree that i could just watch these two do their everyday thing.
maybe it doesnt hurt as well that KHJ and JSM are so believable in playing their part.
i feel like im having a sneak peak at their real married life!
HYUNMIN couple FTW!
PK AJA!
Thank you for the recap...
The beauty of this love story is that they fall in love after they got married, which is the opposite of the modern point of view of love. People are usually falling out of love after they get married, hence the divorce rate. I am so glad that they have youtube edition or else we'll miss their real love story.
wah..... what did i miss???? I want to cry... I still haven't seen any of the episodes yet. TT
I have more than a week of k-world to catch up!
Call me stupid but I parental controlled myself from k-sites I knew I would check and asked my friend to create password and keep it to herself until I cracked the analog circuit lab.... TTT stupid, stupid, stupid.... *headesk* who knew I would be begging her like crazy for two days now and still got nothing until I finally finished debugging my lab.. AHH!!
I even teared up a little but she was immovable... STUPID ME!!
as soon as she gave me the psw, i ran up here first, even b4 going to watch the youtube episode...
Thank you ockoala so much for the recap! and I'm off to go watch the two episodes!
@Itadakimasu
hey.... sorry for going awol unni and chingoo... I will respond to our chatroom as soon as I finish catchinp up with the two PK ep... my reply is next before i catch up on anything else even if it's way too late now...
v! you're back!!!! we missed you. *BIG HUGS*
go watch those webisodes. stat. xxo.
@V!!! welcome back!!! we miss you!!!
virtual hug for you!!!!
VVVVVVVVvvvvvvvieeeee!!! I missed you soooo T_T, and for that i'm soooo sorry!!! buahahhahahahahhahahahah
i was really restraining myself not to post more notes for you!!! i'm pathetic, aish ;). But take all the time you need to catch up first!!1 there's a lot of goodies for you here (several i miss u's from fellow PK-addicts)!
btw... your friend sounds really reliable... THUMBS UP for her !!!
welcome back! haha.
OMGGGGG was missing you sooooooo much and wondering where have u gone , but then I knew u were busy with studying best of luck my dear fighting .
the youtube epi are flooding of cutiness , u will love evry bit of them :D
you're back!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
As i've stated below (because I was on my phone and couldn't properly join this thread)
I MISSED YOU!
<3 <3 <3
I hope you're enjoying catching up! :P
welcome back v!!
we missed you!! hurry up and catch up!!! :)
you missed the first ep! and we all missed you! was wondering where you'd gone off to......
but I think if I were Ducky, I might truly approve of Seungjo in this episode, because he's finally demonstrating that he's totally worthy of my goddess!