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Jaejoong Kim suffered serious side effects after accident
In episode 2 of MBN's new Friday-Saturday mini-series 'Bad Memory Eraser', which aired on the 3rd, Kim Jae-joong repeatedly brought laughter with his excessive self-absorption after the 'Bad Memory Eraser' surgery. Jin Se-yeon, the doctor who erased Kim Jae-joong's memory, continued to block Kim Jae-joong's straightforward confession that he misunderstood her as his first love. However, after learning of Kim Jae-joong's past, which was engulfed in unfortunate memories, she falsely admitted that she was his first love so that he could start a new life. A dramatic development was predicted.
Episode 2 started with clinical experiment subject 'No. 108' Lee (played by Kim Jae-joong), who entered the clinical trial on the same day as the test rat, waking up with a different look in his eyes than before, raising curiosity. The shadow on his face disappeared everywhere, and Lee, who was enjoying his leisure time, burst into tears as if he was overcome with emotion when he encountered Gyeongju-yeon (played by Jin Se-yeon), who had visited the hospital room. Juyeon mistook her for her first love, who saved her from drowning when she was young.
Lee-gun hugged Juyeon, saying, “Hello, my first love,” and was thrilled, saying, “I’ve found so much.” Embarrassed, Juyeon saw that Lee mistook her for his first love and suspected that the 'bad memory eraser' surgery was causing side effects.
Upon hearing the news that Lee had woken up, the family members who came to his hospital room were continually embarrassed by the 180-degree change in his appearance. When his father Lee Seok-du (played by Lee Jun-hyuk) and his mother Eun Ji-seon (played by Yoon Yoo-seon) asked him if they recognized him, Lee said, "Aren't you a sculptor? You gave birth to a handsome sculptor like me, so aren't you a sculptor?" or he urgently looked for a mirror and showed off his gorgeous visuals. His proud face made him laugh as he looked greatly relieved that he wasn't hurt. When his younger brother Lee Shin (played by Lee Jong-won) asked him, "When is your last memory?" Lee replied, "What I remember clearly is the final of the Junior World Championships. I won."
Lee Shin noticed that only the bad memories of Lee's past were erased. Previously, Lee was a promising tennis player as a child, but after being injured by a racket instead of his younger brother at the Junior World Championships, he gave up his dream and went through dark days. Accordingly, when Lee, who was obsessed with bad memories even after becoming an adult, attempted to take his own life, his family requested a clinical trial to erase only bad memories at the risk of side effects.
Mr. Lee, who was reborn as his past self before he had bad memories, continued to make people laugh with his intoxicated self-confidence and self-esteem. Then, he suddenly said something that seemed to recall a bad memory, confusing his family.
After secretly stealing Lee Shin's ID card and house card key, he escapes from the hospital and enjoys the luxurious life of his younger brother, a tennis star player. He then says to his family who rushed to visit him, "I just remember playing tennis, but how have I been doing lately?" He mentioned the time when he got into an accident after hitting a racket and said, “I felt like I was looking at the racket.” His family was in a hurry and told Lee, “I quit tennis and got a job at an agency,” to avoid the situation.
Juyeon guessed that the reason why Lee mistook her for his first love was because his memory was manipulated when he accidentally touched Lee's face during the surgery, and as a result, his memory was reconstructed incorrectly. He confided this to his superior, Professor Han Dong-chil (Kim Gwang-gyu), and said that he would confess the side effects to Lee, saying, "Research is important, but side effects cannot be tolerated." However, Professor Han Dong-chil said, “The ethics committee barely gave permission for the clinical trial,” and added, “This is a patient I have been watching for about 10 years.
In an instant, he went from being a promising tennis player to living like his younger brother's shadow. “I was pessimistic about my situation and tried to take the extreme step, and now I have finally found my life through a clinical experiment,” he said, adding, “It’s not that this experiment was a waste, it’s a waste of the patient’s opportunity.” “Let’s find the cause of the memory error and reverse it,” he said, hiding the side effects and earnestly asking Joo-yeon to be his first love.
On this day, Lee and Joo-yeon's bickering chemistry unfolded and caused laughter. Lee expressed his affection for Joo Yeon-sil (played by Bae Hae-seon), Joo-yeon's mother, by not hesitating to call her "mother-in-law" or by saying, "I heard she stayed with me 24 hours a day, except during treatment hours."
On the other hand, Lee expressed his affection for Joo-yeon, who denied that it was his first love and showed a cold attitude throughout, saying, "You still don't remember me. You don't have to remember. Because I remember." In response to Lee's continuous confession of unrequited love, Joo-yeon expressed his suffering from the guilt of hiding side effects as a doctor, arousing regret.
Lee was briefly overcome by narcissism while erasing bad memories, but after receiving a tennis racket as a gift from Cha Si-on (played by Ruby Lee), a player from the same agency as Lee Shin, who came to see him, he was tormented by past memories that suddenly surfaced. Memories of collapsing at the Junior World Championships with a sharp ringing of the ears, of his parents leaving him alone at his grandmother's house in the countryside, of falling into the water to find a medal were all mixed together, and some of the bad memories came pouring out all at once.
In the end, while Lee was being taken to the hospital and receiving treatment, Joo-yeon heard the news about Lee and heard Lee's best friend, Bang Guk-bong (played by Lee Dal), who came running to him and told him that Lee's first love, whom he had met by chance before he underwent 'memory eraser' surgery, was kissing his younger brother Lee Shin. I realized that I was in shock when I saw it. Accordingly, the main character guessed that Lee's memories of his first love eventually turned into bad memories and he could not remember his first love accurately, and that he was ultimately trying to choose the extreme.
Juyeon felt even more sorry for Lee through Lee's mother, Ji-seon. Ji-seon talked about how she felt in the past when she left Lee behind at her grandmother's house in the countryside, saying, "I haven't cried since that day. The day I left the boy who was sentenced to death in tennis, I promised myself, 'If I break down in front of my kids, they will become like me.' “I was supposed to raise her well, but I became a mother without blood or tears,” she said in pain. She then sobbed, saying, "When I think about it, I've never really been a mother. I'm so glad I even forgot those memories. I have a chance to live as a mother again." Juyeon, who was watching this, was worried about which choice would be best for the patient, Lee.
After regaining consciousness, Lee went out of the ward alone, visited the hospital's tennis court, and fell into a nostalgic feeling about tennis. Lee, who happened to run into Juyeon there, shed tears and said, "I guess I missed tennis for a while," and "I felt empty after waking up, but maybe it's because I haven't been able to play tennis for a while," creating a moving scene. Juyeon, who was looking at this with pity, surprised Lee by replying, "Now you can do it again. Whether it's exercise or love." Juyeon decided to help Lee heal and said, “That’s right. I am your first love.”
Ten Asia Reporter Lee So-jeong forusojung@tenasia.co.kr
