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The Review Geek
11-06-2025
- Entertainment
- The Review Geek
Our Unwritten Seoul – K-drama Episode 6 Recap & Review
The Silent, Ever-Present Fool Episode 6 of Our Unwritten Seoul begins with Mi-ji's confession that she likes Ho-su. Of course, he's still under the impression that this is Mi-rae. However, her drunken antics come back to bite her in the morning when she realizes her memory has big gaps and she wakes up at Ho-su's place. Although she tries to explain herself, apparently Ho-su has already sorted things out, which only causes her to spiral even more! Mi-ji shows up at work late, where Tae-i has already got her some hangover cure medicine. It's a nice gesture, especially after their chat at the bar the previous night. When Mi-ji leaves, Ho-su finds himself pursued by Ji-yun, who brings him out to a restaurant. He continues to snap photos of her and tries to make future plans but he's very clearly not interested in her romantically. Still, that doesn't stop Ji-yun, who even tells Mi-ji (as Mi-rae) that she's 'got dibs' on him. Before all of this though, the Director brings Mi-ji along for the landowner meeting with Gyeong-min. The idiot manager fumbles his words and struggles to hold his own. Mi-ji effortlessly steps up and usurps Gyeong-min though, leaving him with egg on his face. Given how hard she worked on the project, and despite Gyeong-min chewing her out, all of this has helped her shine in the meeting. The misunderstanding trope continues here though after work, when Ji-yun stops by with Ho-su to drop off her bag. Mi-ji is still mulling over what happened that night but through flashbacks, we see that it's a simple case of her falling asleep on his shoulder and him taking her back to his place. There is slightly more to it but we'll wait until the end of the episode for that! Meanwhile, Mi-rae decides to hang in bed after quitting her job at the strawberry farm. Everybody is noticing her downcast behaviour, and both her mother and Gyeong-gu struggle to get through to her. Mi-rae is shying away from the rumours about Se-jin and her dating him, which is partly why she's quit. She's also worried and feeling anxious, which is something she relays to Mi-ji later on when they talk on the phone. In fact, Mi-rae wants to switch back the next week, which catches Mi-ji off-guard. Some of this stems from her work project with the returning Park heading back to the office. Now, it would appear something has happened between them but we don't know what just yet. Instead, Mi-ji is thrown into the fire when Lee Chung-gu arrives wanting to discuss Ro-sa and the HQ Project. He hands over a confidential file, explaining how they're building an LRT station at the new HQ site. This is a big project but she's sworn to secrecy, which only makes things more awkward – especially with the switch-back occurring soon and her own moral compass swaying toward telling Ro-sa the truth. Her inner-turmoil is only made worse when she finds out Ho-su and Ji-yun are going to the wedding that weekend together. Seung-hyeon rings and suggests they go too, and she reluctantly agrees. Ho-su rings though and asks to meet, given he's found her watch that she left at his the previous night. As they sit and talk, Mi-ji discusses the dilemma regarding Ro-sa's building and the confidential planning looking to take place. Ho-su encourages her to drop it when she brings it up, reiterating that she could get in massive trouble and he needs to keep her mouth shut. At work, Mi-ji is awkward and even more so when she believes Ro-sa might be keeping secrets too about her university days. For now, she plays dumb with Chung-gu but this is definitely going to come up in the episodes ahead! Speaking of secrets, the wedding goes ahead and all the guests attend… but there's a problem. No only has Mi-ji been invited, but so too has Mi-rae. And it's here where secrets are revealed. When Gyung-gu 'kidnaps' Mi-rae to get her to tag along, he mentions how he's got them a hotel room together. Mi-rae is livid and points out their boundaries and how it's not right. Of course, Mi-rae is unaware that Gyung-gu is gay, which spills out in dramatic fashion. Not only has Mi-ji known about Gyung-gu's sexuality, but so too has Ho-su. Back in school, Seung-hyeon convinced Gyeong-gu to give a public confession about his feelings to Mi-ji but Ho-su told him not to. Gyeong-gu didn't listen and instead, Seung-hyeon recorded the whole thing so he could make fun of him and get a kick out of the snubbed proposal. Ho-su, ever the loyal man, beat Seung-hyeon down in the classroom. Back at the wedding, Seung-hyeon talks smack about Gyeong-gu and Mi-ji at the table, eventually leading to our titular character leaving the wedding and ringing Ho-su. Funnily enough, when Ji-yun tries to stop him, bringing up how the twins have switched, he shrugs it off and tells her he already knows. Turns out, that drunken night at his place, Mi-ji answered Ho-su with her own name, which explains why he 'figured it out'. Mi-ji has always liked him and his foolish side, and its taken until now to figure that out. While they head home together, Mi-rae goes back to the strawberry farm, where Se-jin is struggling in the rain. We heard about the bad weather earlier in the episode, and she encourages him to head inside with her. He warns that them staying the night together is only going to fuel the rumours between them, but Mi-rae admits this is the only place for her that feels real, at least to her. Se-jin admits he likes the rumours between them, which is as good as a love confession I guess! As they stare at one another, the episode comes to a close. The Episode Review So this week's double bill of Our Unwritten Seoul comes to a close with a movement with both Mi-rae and Mi-ji's romantic endeavours. The swapping lives has been eye-opening for them both, better understanding what the other twin has been through and how difficult their lives are. The toxic work situation that Mi-ji has been thrown into looks like it could get a whole lot worse with this Park character returning, while Mi-rae has felt a bit directionless until she's met Se-jin. The idea of healing, growing and learning by switching lives with someone whom you believe has it better than you (and then eating humble pie when you realize their life is just as hard) is nicely realized and one of the stronger components of this show. The twins have been misunderstood their entire life and the fact their own mother can't tell them apart, but their grandmother can, from one single look at both Mi-ji and Mi-rae speaks volumes. Park Bo-young deserves a lot of credit here too because even without the hairstyles, the way she plays both Mi-ji and Mi-rae is instantly recognizable and distinguishable. This is definitely shaping up to be one of the stronger dramas this year and the chemistry between the two love interests is palpable. Roll on the next episode! Previous Episode Next Episode Expect A Full Season Write-Up When This Season Concludes!
Yahoo
01-06-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
People Are Sharing The 'Dirty' Secrets About Their Jobs, And This Feels Illegal To Read
Be honest, it's fun to gossip and talk shit with your coworkers. Sometimes, a little work drama helps to keep things interesting. Recently, Reddit user gloomy_gumball posed this question to AskReddit: What's a dirty secret about your workplace that people shouldn't be knowing? Hunny, the answers are as juicy as they are shocking. Buckle the hell up. 1."I worked for a medical research company. All those research methods that they're not supposed to do because it's illegal here? Yeah, they just go to other countries to do that. I had to handle all the research and information on the experiments they were doing in South America." —u/wearelegion1134 2."I used to work in the hotel industry, and a lot more people die in hotels than get publicized." —u/TraditionalTackle1 "One of the worst things I came across in the industry was a woman who was basically trying to starve herself to death in the room. The manager of the hotel next door that we sometimes would share business with personally brought her over to us, saying that she was staying with them but they had to ask her to leave (which was a red flag, looking back). She didn't give our staff any problems, but after she overstayed her reservation by a couple of days, she never came to the desk to get her keys reprogrammed, and none of us had had any contact with her. Housekeeping was concerned because she had the 'Do Not Disturb' sign up, and they heard her dog barking. After a wellness check, a friend of hers came to pick her up, and she explained what happened. It turns out she had sold her house, but the one she was trying to buy fell through, and with nowhere else to go, she just planned on lying there until she died." —u/saxy_for_life 3."I work in lab testing high fructose corn syrup. You'll be surprised how much bacteria, yeast, mold, and metal pieces Coca Cola and Pepsi allow in!" —u/ColdWar82 "I worked in food chemical manufacturing, and we have a '20 bug or less' policy in our 55-gallon drums of food chemicals!" —u/-TheFourChinTeller- 4."No longer employed there, but when I worked at a certain big box retailer of home improvement products, we would occasionally see hopeful strangers sitting in our lobby with boxes or other packaging waiting for meetings. These people were small-time inventors of new products and were trying to get them on the shelves of our retail locations. What they didn't know is that, as a condition for consideration of carrying the product, they would be required to turn one or more samples over to the company to be examined by the product teams." "If the product showed promise, one of those samples would be shipped to another country where it would be thoroughly dissected and analyzed so that an equivalent product could be developed under the house label (with enough modifications to not infringe on any patents, of course) and that product was what would end up on the shelf. From what I heard, a lawsuit pretty much ended the practice, and now they don't allow pitches from independent producers anymore. They just wait to see what other retailers are already carrying (and selling well) and copy those." —u/Jackieirish 5."I used to work in radio, and part of my job was editing and producing 'bits' done by morning shows. Those phone calls where the hosts 'trap' a cheater and confront them? All fake. There are services that provide voice actors to play the parts, and people like me would edit the calls to fit within a specified amount of time to keep people listening." —u/gogojack 6."A lot of awards you see large corporations tooting their own horn over are just bullshit that they just essentially pay for. A common one I've seen is something along the lines of 'Location X's 100 Best Managed Companies'. I've worked for one of these 'best managed companies,' and it was actually the worst-managed place I'd ever worked for." "It was an utterly dysfunctional business that had horrible retention problems both for employees and management. Higher-ups would get fired for theft or embezzlement, alcohol or drug abuse, sexual harassment or assault, etc. They were constantly losing contracts for failing to fulfill them, but then bribing individuals to get the contract back. They just paid for the sizable application fee to get the award because it looked good on their advertising and attracted both clients and entry-level employees to be part of the meat grinder. Well worth it for them. Personally, whenever I see any sort of company with that particular kind of award, I avoid them like the plague." —u/MZM204 7."I work in a plastic bag plant. Everything in here runs on electricity. The owners tapped into a power line that runs through the property, and for more than 10 years, they didn't pay a dime. They made tens of millions. When the fraud was found out, they blamed an employee (who was from Latin America) and were given a $200K fine. You can't find the story online anymore, they used their community connections to have it erased. And flat out deny it ever happened. Who says 'crime doesn't pay'?" —u/dirtybird971 8."I work in a grocery store. Bulk produce items do fall on the floor regularly. We just pick them up and put them back on the shelf if it isn't damaged. If a container of berries or tomatoes pops open, we'll just put them all back in and put it back on the shelf. Nothing is rinsed off first." "We also don't clean the lids of the yogurt or sour cream tubs if the lid falls off. We just put it back on the product. It can fall on the floor, in a puddle of milk, doesn't matter. At most, we might wipe it off on our apron or with a paper towel if available. Almost nothing is actually made in the bakery. Everything either comes in already-made or in portioned pieces of dough that they throw into the oven. The only thing they really do is decorate cakes, donuts, bread, and bagels. Even most of the cakes come in with icing already on them. They just add some extra decorations. All of the seafood comes in frozen and is kept frozen, even though the sign says never frozen. In fact, the seafood people will grab bags of frozen shrimp off the shelf and put it in the display case. You are literally paying more for some thawed-out shrimp." —u/trickster9000 Related: 15 Times Someone Bravely Took A Photo Of The Very Worst Design This World Has Ever Seen 9."I worked for a nonprofit that focused on a specific medical condition. They did good work and the local chapters were great, but the staff at the national level was... unhinged." "One year at the national conference, top-level staff had bloody letters shoved under their hotel doors. They had forced out the national director because it came out that she'd left the country permanently with her assistant whom she was having an affair with and hadn't actually done any work in more than two years. The letters threatened to trash the org's reputation and ruin the work they were doing if any of it came out. They'd just received a massive donation and couldn't risk it. So the whole thing was hushed up." —u/i_am_the_archivist 10."If you buy DVDs from places like Amazon, and they were produced before 2020, they are not new. They are purchased by the sellers at thrift stores or other places, disc cleaned of scratches, new plastic wrapped around the case, and sold 'new' for the full price." —u/sovietarmyfan 11."I'm a handyman. Contractors' favorite saying is 'Can't see it from my house.' You ever see those videos from home inspectors pointing out all the crooked or broken shit in brand new construction? It's because the builders don't fucking care. And then once all the cracks start forming in your walls, they go, 'Oh, that's just the house settling.' Nope, they built it shitty in the first place and now their shoddy work is shining through." —u/the_xxvii 12."Someone died in my Amazon warehouse during peak season. He was covered with delivery boxes until the coroner could make it. They still required everyone to work that day." —u/RevolutionaryBoss648 13."I work in tax collection for the DMV. The majority of employees here are highly incompetent and are consistently collecting taxes and fees improperly, sometimes charging too much or too little based on the situation. The supervisors are usually too busy to be able to always correct mistakes and double-check the fees." "Since the taxpayers usually don't know all of the laws in regards to vehicle tax collection, the mistakes just go on and on with no one knowing about the errors. In the collector's defense, there are so many tax codes and they are difficult to understand. That and they are constantly changing when lawmakers rewrite the rules." –u/Late_Rate_3959 Related: Tattoo Artists Are Sharing The Tattoos They Felt REALLY Uncomfortable Doing, And I Have No Words 14."Universities get most of their money from the tuition fees of overseas students. They will accept weak applicants and overlook poor performance if it means the overseas tuition money keeps rolling in." —u/LittleBitOdd 15."I worked at a clothes donation sorter/exporter for cash under the table. Many of those donation bins you see in parking lots with different charities written on them are all owned by one company that donates a tiny percentage to charity to be able to use the charity name. All clothes and shoes are exported to Africa for profit, everything else is trash and goes in the garbage (toys, books, art, digital media, electronics)." —u/DonConZie 16."My company ships dangerously corrosive chemicals across the country in tanks that have repeatedly failed safety inspections. Very few get pulled over, so it's cheaper for the company to pay the fines instead of repairing the tanks or buying brand new ones. And with all the slashes to funding, firings, and relaxation of environmental regulations, it's getting even easier to do so." —u/80s_dystopia_is_now 17."Early in my career, I worked at a place that wrote and sold curriculum. We needed to show that our stuff was effective, so we hired a research firm. During the process of interviewing and selecting a firm, each one basically said, 'We'll make sure to give you whatever results you need.' That's when I stopped believing any 'third-party research' funded by the company being researched." —u/riverdoggg 18."Don't ever buy anything marinated from a butcher/meat case. It is how the older meats are sold, the marinade covers the smell." —u/Big-Melvin 19."'No kill shelters' just transfer animals to county animal shelters to take care of the tough part. 'Rescues' come through the county shelters and take all the "cute" animals and then turn around and charge hundreds for them." —u/WhereAmIHowDoILeave 20."I work in the defense industry, specifically in the US. Part of the reason the military is so expensive to update and maintain is the fact that the government basically just pays whatever the companies tell them things cost without looking into it. A valve costing $3 is sold to the Navy for $30, a computer costing $900 is sold to the Army for $2400, etc. Don't get me wrong, a lot of stuff is genuinely expensive, but I guarantee that the military is paying way too much for it." —u/JackCooper_7274 21."Recycling and garbage have different bins, but at the end of the night, they go in the same dumpster." —u/BallinBrown23 22."My company will openly hire you based solely on physical appearance. My boss has told me that he feels that if there are young, attractive females in the office, more employees will want to come in because they'll want to flirt/talk with these girls." —u/Tall-Performer2500 23."I'm a teacher. Students' rapidly dropping attention spans and critical thinking are something you see or hear about, but it is very much real. Over the past three years, I've noticed kids are less able to focus for more than five minutes without starting to draw or talking to the person next to them." "Further, with the addition of strong AI like ChatGPT, they are not being 'punished' (academically) as they should be. They can get entire course notes in 10 seconds and just cram a few days before tests. This will certainly be an issue in about 20 years when kids raised on generative AI and low attention spans become our central workforce, but I'll be long retired by then." —u/hdueeyd 24."It's wild how much access developers and engineers have to PII (Personally Identifiable Information) of users, even though that data is supposed to be encrypted/protected." —u/Just-Control-9815 25."As someone who works in corporate finance, let's just say those offshore accounts get away with a lot of things. But because it's outside of US jurisdiction, there is nothing my company will do to report because the company gets paid regardless." —u/Cheetodude625 26."I can't go into too much detail, but I once worked in a lab at a very prestigious university that was committing copyright infringement by paying several people to manually copy data out of textbooks eight hours a day. They were also not paying the data entry people the full hours that they worked (and paying them close to minimum wage on top of that). They were also underpaying me, so I quit and moved to a job that gave me a 100% raise LOL." —u/skettyvan finally, "I used to work in a drug/alcohol probation office. Everyone working there was doing drugs or was a drunk driver. One probation officer was trading pills with her neighbor just to find out the neighbor was on probation in our office with a different officer. Some employees stole pills from probationers when they photocopy the pill bottles for the client file." —u/DarkDaysDoll Does your workplace have any secrets you want to share? Let me know in the comments! Note: some answers have been edited for length and/or clarity. 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