EDIDIONG'S PUBLIC DIARY

EPISODE 2 RECAP
Jan-di fights off her trio of attackers, who
grab her from the girls’ locker room and hold
her down.
They stop at the arrival of Ji-hoo, who asks
what they’re doing in his languid, casual
manner. His presence flusters the guys,
because they’re acting on Jun-pyo’s orders,
and Ji-hoo is obviously Jun-pyo’s friend. As
though oblivious to the scene going on in
front of him, Ji-hoo peers down at Jan-di and
asks if she’d left something out of her
pancake recipe from before. Something went
wrong when he tried it. Still held down by
her attackers, bewildered at the non
sequitur, Jan-di mentions baking powder.
Rather an awkward way to discuss cooking
techniques.
Ji-hoo addresses the three minions: “Why
are you still here?” Faced with disobeying Ji-
hoo to his face or Jun-pyo behind his back,
they skedaddle.
Ji-hoo covers her in a towel, and as he turns
to leave, Jan-di tells him, “Thank you.” In his
even tone, he answers, “I wasn’t helping.
These things just annoy me.”
In his mansion, Jun-pyo hears of Ji-hoo’s
interference. To show us that Jun-pyo isn’t
completely heartless, he criticizes his
minions for their extreme measures — he’d
merely instructed that they scare her (to
show her a “bitter taste”).
Ji-hoo’s kindness lingers in Jan-di’s mind for
the rest of the day. She happens to come
across him when she bicycles past him
fondling a poster of a famous model at a bus
stop. Not so sure you want to be getting
that intimate with anything at a bus stop,
buddy.
Jan-di says as much, telling him that a bus
stop poster is bound to blacken his hands
with dirt. Still, she admires the poster of Min
Seo-hyun , who is not only famous for her
beauty but also for her charity donations and
her brains; she recently passed the law
exam in France. Ji-hoo asks, “Do you know
her?” Jan-di answers, “Of course. She’s my
idol.”
Ji-hoo enjoys her reaction, smiling at Jan-
di’s wide-eyed adulation. But his smile fades
when she says that Seo-hyun, who is bound
for great things, could marry royalty, or a
president, or something of that sort to
become a “world’s princess” like Princess Di.
At that, Ji-hoo says, “She’s just a model.”
Jan-di sticks to her fantasy of a foreign
prince falling for her idol. Mood killed, Ji-hoo
turns to leave with the parting shot, “What
do you know?”
At home, Jan-di’s computer-obsessed
brother finds scandalous news online about
one of the students at Shinhwa High School,
a second-year who’s supposedly pregnant.
Identified merely as Miss “K,” the family
tries to guess who it could be, like a Miss
Kim or Kwon (or Keum — which I wrote as
“geum” since it’s closer to the phonetic
reading).
The next day, Jan-di notices the stares of
the other students, but is busy wondering
which of them is the notorious Miss K.
Jun-pyo is in a good mood, and when Yi-jung
asks what’s up with “2,500 Won” (Jan-di)
today, he says, “Just wait. She’ll come here
soon.” (It’s too cute to see that this — her
coming to see him — is his obvious goal,
although he convinces himself that it’s all
because Jan-di needs to be humbled.) Ji-hoo
wonders, “What prank have you pulled this
time?” Jun-pyo: “Why, so you can save her
again?”
Yi-jung and Woo-bin wonder what that
means, while Ji-hoo says that picking on one
girl like this “is ridiculous and childish.” Jun-
pyo retorts, “Do you see her as a girl?”
because to him, she’s like a horse, or a dog.
After all, she dared defy the Great Jun-pyo-
nim (using the “nim” suffix on himself is, as
one might guess, exceedingly arrogant).
Jan-di’s classmates identify her as the
notorious Miss K, and news spreads fast. In
class, both chalkboards have been covered
in slurs like “filthy,” “get lost,” “who’s the
daddy?” “crazy bitch,” etc.
The Tarty Trio leave a pile of dirty rags on
her desk and taunt her. Pushed too far, Jan-
di fumes, “I can’t take this anymore!” Ginger
mocks, “So what are you going to do about
it?”
Jan-di’s arrival at the F4 lounge brings Jun-
pyo much satisfaction, but he covers it with
disdain: “If you came to apologize, you’re
too late.” She throws the dirty rags in his
face and warns him that she won’t sit back
and take his abuse anymore.
Jun-pyo’s arrogance turns to confusion when
Jan-di clenches her fists and assumes a
fighting stance. Puzzled, he asks what she’s
doing, and she repeats: “I told you, I won’t
sit back and take it anymore.” With a shriek,
Jan-di jumps in the air, and whirls into a
rather impressive spinning back kick —
catching Jun-pyo right in the face