Original subtitles

Ms. Jung, you did well yesterday.

The response was excellent, too.

Thank you.

But what are you going to do about the time slot...

for "It's On Hong Ae-Ja" from now on?

Since it was on for so long, we can't get rid of it all at once.

So I'm going to have Ms. Jung's team lead a pilot show,

and then have it settle in gradually.

I understand.

I'm sorry, sir. She barged in herself...

You may go now.

What can I do for you, Ms. Hong Ae-ja?

I'm here to hand in my letter of resignation.

You're already fired.

So you don't need to hand in your resignation.

No. I don't feel that it's justified to be fired...

over something that's not just my fault.

Please accept my letter of resignation.

So you brought your own resignation,

but you're refusing to accept that you were fired?

What's the difference?

At the end of the day, you're leaving the company.

Do you think it was all my fault that the airing failed?

It is most importantly, Designer Huh Eun-sook's fault...

for not sending her designs as promised.

And you aired Ms. Jung's program,

although you promised to give me a chance to do my show.

I already gave you one more chance,

but you're the one who failed in it.

Are you satisfied now?

Our network started out as a small, regional TV show.

And I was with the company for 15 years,

until it developed into SH Home Shopping.

I may be old and useless now,

but I don't deserve to be treated this way.

Only those who are incompetent say useless things like...

"Oh, I've been with you for 15 years..."

Anyway, I got it.

Thank you for your hard work until now.

But you're no longer an employee here, so leave.

We have a meeting to finish.

I had a great time here in this company.

And I hope it will be more successful than now.

Should we have a get-together after the meeting?

I feel really good today. I'll treat you ladies out to a nice dinner.

What should we have? What do you like?

Anything is fine.

Hello, this is Ma In-sung speaking.

Hello, Senior Director Kim.

Oh, about what happened yesterday?

Yes. Director Jung came by about that earlier.

He said he wouldn't let this slide.

Yes. I'll take full responsibility for it.

Yes. I'll be up in your office right away.

Gosh, I knew this would happen.

I guess we might lose our jobs...

We're barely hanging in there.

What's the matter?

We just wanted to help Ms. Ma,

but she's taking all the blame,

and our team is about to be broken apart.

What do you mean she's taking all the blame?

Where was she going just now?

Senior Director Kim just called her.

If Designer Huh Eun-sook should fail to send her designs to home shopping,

I wanted to advertise our products...

But since it happened at the last minute,

I had no choice but to operate the system that I was preparing for a month.

The new mobile system that you were planning is completed already?

It was wrong of me to fully operate it without going through the test operations.

Oh, no.

I'm sure you've done something similar to this before.

I trust that it'll work out well.

All right then.

Let's report the new system to our CEO...

and all the staff members tomorrow.

Yes, sir.

So for tomorrow's meeting...

She's really taking the blame for everything...

I know I was there to hand in my resignation,

but what he did was so wrong.

I mean, I was one of the first members of the company.

I worked there since SH Home Shopping first opened.

How can he block my pass from entering the building...

and fire me just like that?

I can't quit until he gives me his apology.

Hello, Hee-sung?

I'll go to your hospital with some ginseng water and your lotion.

You must be tired. Come tomorrow.

I still have a little lotion left.

Oh, no. I have it all ready.

I should've taken it to you this morning.

I'm sorry I forgot to do that, my sweetie.

It's all right, Mom.

Mom, I have an urgent patient.

I'll call you back a little later.

Doctor, what happened?

Is he an urgent patient?

Not to our department. He got into some accident.

But he wants his heart checked because he says he was in shock.

What kind of accident was it for him to get his heart checked?

He has hurt his ankle ligament.

What?

Three doctors are rushing in over something like that?

He's a VVIP patient.

A really annoying patient...

What kind of man is he to be admitted into the VIP patient room...

and have all kinds of things tested over a hurt ankle ligament?

He's some director at SH Home Shopping.

We're busy. Let's go.

SH Home Shopping?

That's where Mom works.

Ahn Jin-bong?

Sir...

Oh, Jung-geun. Come sit down. Sit. Sit.

I was going to call you to see me tomorrow.

Just what did my team do so wrong?

No. Your team did nothing wrong.

Then what?

It's Ms. Ma who screwed everything up.

This is why it's so important to meet a competent boss.

But don't you worry.

By tomorrow, Ms. Ma is going to be ousted.

It'll be such good riddance!

That makes no sense!

Oh, goodness!

I said only she would be ousted.

You can't do that to her.

I'm the one who ran the premature system without Ms. Ma's approval.

I did this so that Designer Huh Eun-sook...

wouldn't get in trouble for failing to launch her design.

Why, you!

How come he's becoming more and more like Ma In-sung?

Can I go home now?

Jung-ie.

Take this home and eat it.

I'm so happy with your work.

Thank you!

See you tomorrow.

Why does he keep calling me?

He only calls me when I'm busy.

[The person you're trying to call cannot be reached...]

Maybe she's avoiding my calls.

This time, instead of just calling her,

maybe we should come up with some strategy.

There's no strategy to plan.

It's not like we're trying to trick her into anything.

And we're not trying to gain anything from her.

All we're trying to say is that she should be sorry...

for what she did as your wife.

And that she was wrong for kicking you out.

That's true.

You spoke to her this morning, so you should know.

But she really has a nasty temper.

She really scares me.

But we're right. Why should we be afraid?

You have me. So don't worry.

All right.

Don't come down.

Oh, no.

I said you don't need to come down.

It's all right. It's all right.

I don't know why she's not answering her phone.

I have to stop by my office later...

because I have to wrap up a contract.

I'll come back later tonight,

and we can try calling her again.

I'm so sorry for making you worry...

about my marriage issue.

Oh, no.

I just feel really sorry for you, that's why.

I've never met anybody like your wife before.

Oh, gosh.

Don't say anything except that her husband is going through so much...

since he was kicked out of the house.

Please let her know for me.

The man of the house must stand strong...

for a family to stand strong.

I'm going to make that point to your wife.

Everything will be good.

Good.

Hey, what's that?

It's nothing.

Isn't this a chicken?

Where did you get that?

You hid this so that you could eat this all by yourself later, huh?

No, it's not that.

Then why did you hide it?

I said it's not like that.

My boss at the beauty salon bought this for me.

Hey, don't tell Dad, okay?

Let's eat this later together.

Why aren't you kids picking up the phone?

Hello?

You're the owner of the beauty salon Jung-ie works for?

Huh?

She didn't come to work for days...

and doesn't even pick up her cell phone?

All right.

I'll ask her what she's been doing.

All right. Goodbye now.

Jung-ie, how come you didn't go to work?

Huh? She was at work.

Like heck she was!

Her boss just called me to tell me that she hasn't gone to work for days.

You said your boss bought it for you.

What did her boss buy her?

Chicken.

I switched to a new beauty salon.

My old boss must've forgotten about that.

What kind of boss would buy chicken for their workers?

Well, she did. For doing such good work.

You don't know anything, Dad.

Why, you!

Why is she so upset all the time these days?

She didn't even tell me that she switched her work place.

The old Jung-ie would've chatted all night about it.

Dr. Ma!

Mom!

Why did you come up? I could've gone downstairs.

But you're so busy. I don't mind coming up.

Oh, Mom.

Do you know Director Ahn Jin-bong who works for your home shopping network?

Ahn Jin-bong?

Of course I know him.

He's the jerk who tried so hard to kick me out of the company.

He even fired me without any prior warning...

What? They're firing you?

No.

I was going to quit on my own, anyway.

What's the matter with him?

He's so unbelievably rude!

But how do you know him, anyway?

He's been admitted into the VIP room.

What for?

He was just fine this morning.

He slipped after coming out of a restaurant with his office people.

My goodness!

They must've celebrated after kicking me out.

Why did he have to slip and hurt himself?

Oh, goodness!

You're really hurt!

You were just fine until this morning...

Well, hello, sir...

What happened to you?

Oh, goodness...

You have a cast!

Ms. Hong Ae-ja, what are you doing here?

You were kicked out earlier! What more do you have to say?

Oh, no.

I just happened to be here...

and heard that you slipped and hurt yourself.

What's it to you whether I'm hurt or not?

Get out. Out. I said get out!

Get out! Out!

I said, get out! Out!

Oh, goodness!

Mom, what's wrong with that jerk?

How dare he treat you this way.

No, it's all right.

Don't worry about it, Hee-sung.

I'm going to switch to another company.

So it doesn't matter. Let's go.

The director of Mom's home shopping network?

He's been admitted to your hospital?

He fired her and was out celebrating with his employees.

And he slipped and hurt himself.

What? Mom got fired?

No. She was going to submit her letter of resignation, anyway.

She went to submit her resignation,

but it turned out that she was already fired.

What? What's going on here?

Mom said she was just fine.

Mom already saw this coming...

when she got into that argument with your mother-in-law at the hospital.

Mom came by to see me earlier,

and she went to his hospital room after I told her that he was there.

And that jerk was being so rude to her!

Mom was kicked out of the room.

Why did Mom have to go in there and have him treat her that way?

Hey, Hee-sung. What room is he in right now? I should just...!

Wait a minute. He's in my territory.

I'll teach him a hard lesson.

How dare he mess with our queen bee?

Hee-sung!

Hee-sung, what are you going to do?

Nurse.

Ouch!

It hurts.

Your swelling is gone. You can put down your leg.

All right.

I'm going to give you an injection.

You should've told me to turn.

What are you doing?

I'm going to give you an injection now.

It'll sting a little.

Ouch!

You're a scaredy cat, aren't you?

What did you say?

Wow, she's really something.

Sit. Sit down. Sit down, please.

Since the airing on the home shopping network failed,

there's nothing we can do.

Ms. Huh has failed to keep her promise to first air her brand to see the response.

At this point, it'll be difficult to launch her brand.

And the test operation of the cultural center by JW Distribution shows...

that there are hardly any students for almost a month now.

Keeping this center open...

will be extremely damaging to our group financially.

Well, there's nothing we can do, I guess.

We'll just have to close the cultural center.

We weren't in a hurry to launch a new brand.

And a cultural center in a market?

It was never going to work out, anyway.

But those were Ms. Huh's longtime projects,

and I'm sad to see both of the projects...

going down the drain like that.

Enough.

Do you have the sales profit revenues for the first half of the year?

Well, I'm extremely concerned about it...

because Ms. Ma In-sung made a huge blunder today...

with her marketing strategy team.

Regarding that issue,

Ms. Ma In-sung will brief us in detail tomorrow.

All right, then.

Forget her briefing.

If you look at this, you'll see the seriousness of the situation.

Executive Director Lee...

Turn the page.

Oh, gosh...

What's going on with the meeting today?

They usually call me for my opinions for every little agenda.

It hurts my pride to ask them what happened.

Hello, Mom?

I came straight home after the meeting.

I had to pick up Mi-na.

Why is your wife making you pick Mi-na up?

What?

She went to her mother's house again?

She was lying down at the hospital for days,

and as soon as she's out, she goes to her mother?

My goodness...

So how did the meeting go today?

Well, about that...

We decided to not launch your brand.

You're the one who ruined the home shopping show.

Well, I...

Just because I canceled the home shopping show...

What does that have to do with launching my brand?

What about the cultural center with JW Distribution?

Oh, we're going to toss that out, too.

What?

Who said you could do that?

Mom, I tried to stop it. I said we couldn't do that.

But you know I have no power.

What?

Your dad did this?

I can't believe this.

Who does he think he is?

I'm home.

How's your condition?

Oh, very good indeed. Thanks to you.

Thank you.

Honey...

You must love making decisions for yourself.

What do you mean?

Fine, I don't need to launch my brand.

And I'm also okay with closing the cultural center.

However, if our sales decrease even by this much,

you'll have to be fully responsible for it.

I don't know what you think of me.

But ever since I married you and inherited Laura Mall,

I ran the company thinking that this is my company,

and that I'd take full responsibility for everything.

Sometimes our profits go down,

and sometimes we have unexpected success in some businesses.

However, I was not swayed and went on my path without any regrets.

Even if you don't demand me to take responsibility,

I'll fully be responsible for any consequences.

Ma'am, give me some spicy soup and rice please!

What's the matter with him these days?

In-sung, are you really all right with this?

I'm so upset that Mom had to quit her job.

I know, but what can we do?

I can't stand that she's sacrificing so much for us.

That really tortures me.

Take what happened this time for instance.

I was doing everything I could to make Mom be successful with her show.

But in the end, she suffered a great loss.

We can't do anything about it.

It's not like Mom was going to sit there and take it.

Well, I'm going to have a talk with Mom.

Hang up now.

This is why there's something called karma.

They say what goes around comes around.

Director Ahn, this is called life.

Gosh, what would an immature jerk like you know?

Professor Ma, what are you doing here at this hour?

Mom, I heard that you're quitting your job.

Oh, about that, Ji-sung...

So why did you fight with my mother-in-law?

Why didn't you just hold it in that day?

Why did you take my side and lose your job like this?

Then was I supposed to sit back...

and watch that witch give you a hard time?

My girls are the most important things in my life.

Big deal that I got fired.

I was actually going to quit my job, anyway.

But this home shopping show was so important to you, Mom.

You work was your life.

I cut down on my classes and did all the house chores...

and even gave up on my thesis...

not knowing your job meant so little to you!

Why did you do such a foolish thing?

If your mother-in-law demanded you to do all that, you should've told me!

I would've fought her for you!

You're right. I was a fool.

I was so worried and nervous about your project going down the drain.

I guess I was just a fool!

Ji-sung, you must be really upset.

I'm really all right.

All I need is to see you girls happy.

That's all that matters to me.

Mom, please!

Stop saying you're all right and that your children are all that matter!

Why are you making me feel guilty?

I'm a big girl now. I'm a mother myself!

I can take care of myself!

If you give up what's important for you because of me,

how do you think that'll make me feel?

I feel crushed right now!

Ji-sung.

Ji-sung, why would you feel crushed?

Why would you feel that way?

Please think only about your life from now on.

Stop worrying about us anymore.

Ji-sung!

What's wrong with her?

She must be very upset because I had to quit my work.

Oh, gosh.

Ji-sung!

I'm so upset!

That witch ruined everything and crushed my precious Ji-sung.

I've never seen her get so mad about anything.

Oh, gosh...

Ji-sung!

What's wrong?

Let's set Mom free from now on.

Take care of your own things from now on.

We can't be her little girls forever.

But that gives so much joy to Mom...

That's her happiness.

I know.

But we can't be her little girls forever.

How much more will we ask her to sacrifice for us?

Let's set her free. Okay?

See you.

Hello, Sung-chan? What's up?

Hey, we have some trouble. I think Ms. Ma might get fired.

What? Why?

Director Jung is not going to let her slide about what happened yesterday.

But this all happened because of you.

You're right. I'm the one who should be blamed.

What's wrong with Ms. Ma, anyway?

Why would she take the fall?

I can take the responsibility, so why is she taking all the blame herself?

She's so weird.

[Crazy Boss]

Ms. Ma, where are you right now?

Mr. So, what is it? Why did you want to see me?

What's the matter with you?

What?

Is it fun being Joan of Arc?

Joan of Arc? What are you talking about?

Why? Why are you taking the fall?

I'm the one who should be responsible for this.

I opened the new system without your approval and created this mess.

If you take all the blame, what does that make me?

I'm the one who created this mess, and I should be responsible.

I'm going to be responsible for what happened.

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[Preview]

I will pay you back for this!

I will!

Tell her I'm not home.

Mr. So, you're the dark horse of our team.

Jeez.

Can you please sign this?

What is this?

A new contract.

She brought a new one?

Because I don't want you to worry about me.

Why would you worry about me?

Mom!!!

We wanted to pack our stuff just in case our boss gets fired.

A divorce paper signed with force is invalid.

Who are you to keep calling me about our marriage problem?