Love Grows Here: Hugye Restobar

For Park Dong Hoon, the neighborhood restobar is the safest place in Hugye, and he goes there whenever he wants to be alone, away from the observant eyes of the Hugye gang and Yoon Hee. Over the course of our story, it’s a place where he lets show his longing, smiles, worry, and even his tears.

It’s also the special spot where he invites Ji An to join him. From the time he takes Ji An there for a drink in Episode 6, to the time they have their bittersweet farewell in Episode 16, the restobar sees several important and increasingly-intimate scenes unfold between them.

As usual with other locations in this show, the restobar is packed with symbolism and things to discover. For one thing, there’s at least one male-female couple in almost every instance.

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All the Ending Scenes: A Deeper Look

by @actionscript from the Soompi Forum

It’s a K drama trope to end episodes with cliffhangers, and My Mister used it with great effectiveness. For My Mister, not only were these ending scenes cliffhangers, but most of them were the highlights of those episodes as well. Looking at these final scenes per episode, we get a glimpse of how the show moved the narrative forward.

The first 4 episodes established how the fates of Dong Hoon and Ji An have become intertwined:

Their Link is Broken: A Masterfully Conducted Sequence

After all the analyses about the traffic signs, episode 15 makes it painfully obvious that the director was using the traffic signs as a metaphor/ symbol / motif. Even if I missed traffic signs in other episodes, episode 15 was SOOOOO obvious. PD-nim is just brilliant! Aspects of this scene sequence have been analysed before, but what caught my attention is how the scenes were arranged in this sequence. ~ by @africandramalover

Adult by Sondia – Ji An’s Character Theme Song

This is a lovely character study on Lee Ji An at the end of the journey with My (Her) Ahjussi.  She’s no longer “alone in this big world, a foreigner among laughing people, or just running forward mindlessly.”

Dong Hoon’s Smouldering Love Confession (3/3)

Dong Hoon’s Smouldering Love Confession (2/3)

Dong Hoon’s Smouldering Love Confession (1/3)

Some viewers were disappointed by Dong Hoon’s restraint after finding Ji An in Episode 15. Shouldn’t he have hugged her? Consoled her? Here’s another view.

Pictures: Episodes 15-16

[GIF] Ahjussi’s Hottt Running Scene