The Scent Kdrama

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Filomeno Robles

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Aug 5, 2024, 12:47:18 AM8/5/24

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ChoiEun-seol (Shin Se-kyung) arrives home to find her parents murdered. When the murderer is distracted, she escapes but is hit by a car. Eun-seol's parents are later found with a barcode carved into their skin, the work of the "Barcode" serial killer. The lead detective on the case, Oh Jae-pyo (Jung In-gi) realizes that the now-comatose daughter Eun-seol is the sole surviving witness.

On that same night, Choi Moo-gak (Park Yoo-chun) is at the hospital visiting his younger sister (Kim So-hyun), also named Choi Eun-seol, who's being treated for mild injuries after a bus accident. But when he returns to her bed, he finds her dead with her throat slit.

Six months later, Eun-seol comes out of her coma. But she has no memories at all of her life before waking up at the hospital, and her left eye has turned green with no scientific explanation. She has also gained the unique ability to "see" smells as visible colors and shapes, and can even trace where people have been because their lingering scents are like a trail. To protect her, Jae-pyo adopts her and invents a new life for her, telling her that he's her real father and that her name is Oh Cho-rim. Three years and six months pass, and Cho-rim is a cheerful girl who's adjusted to her ability. She dreams of a becoming a comedian, and works as a gofer for a small, struggling theater company called Frog Troupe.

On the other hand, Moo-gak had been so traumatized by his sister's death that after two months of no sleep and constant pain, he'd fainted and was clinically dead for ten days. When he woke up, he'd lost the sense of smell and taste, and is unable to feel pain. And unlike his previous warm personality, Moo-gak is now stoic, emotionless, and speaks in a monotone. He leaves his job at the aquarium to become a police officer, vowing to reopen the case and catch the killer. But to do so, he must first get promoted to detective, and has to prove himself to the head of the homicide unit Detective Kang Hyuk (Lee Won-jong) in ten days or to never ask for a promotion again. Cho-rim also needs a skit partner for her upcoming audition in ten days, and when she offers to help him with his cases in exchange, they decide to team up. After a model (Park Han-byul) turns up dead, seemingly another victim of the Barcode serial killer, Moo-gak joins the investigation headed by Lieutenant Yeom Mi (Yoon Jin-seo), and he zeroes in on two possible suspects: the model's boyfriend, chef Kwon Jae-hee (Namgoong Min) and her doctor (Song Jong-ho).

Cho-rim witnessed the murder of her parents and lived on as the sole witness of the barcode serial murders. She has a strange ability-being able to see smells as patterns in the air. She forms a team with Moo-gak, and together, they work to solve the series of barcode murders.

When a docile office worker in her thirties learns she only has six months to live, she quits her job to spend her final days traveling abroad and living her dreams. On a trip to Japan, she falls in love with a man who joins her in living out her last adventures.

She takes him somewhere else, and Ji-wook finds himself completely out of his element as Yeon-jae volunteers at a day care. He struggles to change a diaper, talking to himself to psych himself into doing it, and awkwardly comforts a crying baby.

Yeon-jae watches him with amusement at first, but seeing him ease into the role of caretaker gets her emotional. When the manager lady compliments them and says they look like a family, he sends her a big grin.

Eun-seok drops in on Yeon-jae and returns her old book to her with a smile, telling her that he should have returned it years ago. Then he delivers Malbok to his friend and gives him instructions on how to take care of him. But a call sends him running back to the hospital, where Hee-joo suffers from hemoperitoneum, an accumulation of blood between the internal organs that requires surgery.

Ah, and Scent of a Woman is back. What I love about this episode is that all the emotional ups and downs resonated with me and made an impact, whereas all the Daddy chaebol and fiancee chaebol nonsense put the characters into all this turmoil but left me feeling nothing. Aside from annoyance, that is.

Perhaps the old Eun-seok would have thrown a few things in private and then repressed his sadness, but this Eun-seok is heartbreakingly vulnerable, and it plays into his fears for Yeon-jae as well. It was painful to watch Yeon-jae beg her doctor to save her life in a previous episode, but watching her doctor beg her to live? That gutted me.

This episode has literally SUCKED every LIFE and TEARS out of me......(I'm still hoping for an happy ENDING) but after this episdoe i've literally lost all HOPE... plz writer let there be some kind of MIRACLE ending... (I still love SOAW!!!!!!!!!!!) thank you for the recap!!! it was a pleasure reading your comments.. ^^

What I would like is a smaller miracle. Not a total remission, but hope a little more time. Something like, her prognosis is a little better and she has a year, or maybe even two. And it ends with them deciding to live life to the fullest.

One other thing: if Ji-wook returns to the way he is after Yeon-jae dies (as Daddy Dearest demanded), then Yeon-jae failed. Gawd, it's galling for Kang Bad Dad to act like he doesn't like this relationship because he loves his son and how dare she bring him future suffering, when his son was like deadened to everything before partially because of his actions.

I'm glad I'm not the only one who was in denial of Hee-joo's death. even 30 mins after finishing episode 14 i was still crying. i gotta say I took her death "HARD' . I'm just wondering how i'm going to handle Yoon jae's.

I think the ending has been decided, that is Yeon Jae will die in the arms of the one who really she loves, that is Ji wook...

if miracle happened it will just ruined the hole story become nonsense, from less than 6 month life remain to cure. I know that all of us want them to be happy, but before we watch this drama off course we already know for the possibility of unhappy ending drama.

I know, I totally loved Flowers For My Life. Death is the only certainty in life and that drama portrayed it w/ due respect and poignancy. I hope the same for this drama, too. I don't know what will happen to Ji Wook but I know he'll be better off b/c of YJ. Sigh.

I think the ending has been decided, that is Yeon Jae will die in the arms of the one who really she loves, that is Ji wook. just like Yeon jae list...

I'm wondering if we are going to see her die or not? There are only 2 episodes left and for us to see her die, either her condition has to deteriorate really quickly (T.T) or they are going to have to fast forward in time...

i'm crying right now. thank goodness scent of a woman that i loved is back. the previous episodes were kinda, "ah.. okay". but now i'm loving it again.

in real life i'm in love with lee dong wook but in here, EUN SEOK-AH... BE MY MAN. seriously.

I haven't really cried in this series (I'm not heartless, I promise LOL). But the scene where Eun-seok pleads Yeon-jae not to die in the dark corridor... Wow. It moved me to tears. I really applaud Uhm Ki-joon in this scene. His sorrow, fear, and desperation was so believable.

It was the way he said her name that made me bawl... I have never heard him call Yeonjae that way... It was full of love and desperation and pleading... Like he was literally begging her not to die...

This scene really had me bawling, tears flowing, crying my eyes out - especially when he said that he just wants her to live.. -well, I interpreted it more as "I'm not even gonna ask you to love me in return, I just want you to live.. even if it's in another man's arms" It hit me like a bullet straight to the heart.

damn... so sad TT____TT I'm crying endless tears... It was really really sad to see Eunseok Crying. It was worse than seeing Yeon Jae cry... actually thinking about it, maybe being an oncologist is out for me too... I'd thought about it in thinking what I want to specialize in and maybe it's not for me, if I cry with a drama, how much more would I cry for the patients? ...

Please don't let this show discourage you ... they're specifically showing patients with the types of cancer that don't lead to long survival. I think they specifically chose gallblader cancer for YJ because it has such a small survival rate.

I've had cancer twice with the odds in my favor to having (other) cancers in the future and believe me, I have no intention of dying from any of them. And I would definitely (I'm full of superlatives...) appreciate more oncologists around with compassion cause the ones I've seen and see are how Poopyseuk was in the beginning. But now Poopyseuk rocks!

Thank you for sharing with us your personal experience.You are a positive person and a brave fighter and you'll overcome your illness. As for our Yeonjae, I hope some miracle for her even if it's only a year's remission. All our tears can't be for nothing..

And for you Gaviota, I keep my fingers crossed! Fighting!

2. Give Ji Wook hope for tomorrow. An initial trajectory like 'Heartbreak Library' or 'PS I Love You' would do it. Let YJ prepare him with love.

I watched Lee Dong Wook's Heartbreak Library over the weekend. It's bizarre, but the first 75% of the show might as well be the epilogue for SOAW.

I just looked up her name for you-- it's Kim Hye Ok. I've seen her in tons of dramas, but never knew her name. According to the d-addicts wiki, she's been in 45(!) dramas-- including Bad Guy-- and eleven movies. Kudos to her!

sigh ... why did hee joo got to die ? i really like her character. she's bubbly, and optimistic, and simply so adorable. to me, she was like that breath of fresh air in the hospital. watching her tango with eun seok is sad. that dance ... really saved a thousand lines of scripts. the emotions that they went through, it's heart breaking !