What's a hundred grand to a business mogul like Mr. Paik?!
(I'm assuming Mr. Paik is supposed to represent Mr. Hyundai?)
Why is Sun walking all over Korea?
Where the heck is her Beamer or Mercedes, at the very least, a chauffer driven limo.
A hundred grand's like weekend pocket money for the likes of Paris Hilton or Donald Trump's whelp.
Cheap!!! Cheap!!! Cheap!!!!! :biggrin:

I dont know about cheap, but at least frugal. He seems to be the type that wants to know exactly where his money is going, and tries to spend wisely.

a few ideas.

some rich people get that way because they are, well, cheap or to put it more nicely, frugal. maybe he hasn't always been rich?

also, I think since the money was to protect Jin (who daddy had issues about anyway...) it was more of a symbolic thing. If the money was strictly because Sun wanted a pony or something (haha) then it would've been different. Jin had barely proved himself worthy of Sun in the dad's eyes and was still working for his approval in ways.

Or it was a good excuse to get Jin to be his goon. Maybe one of his other goon's had just quit?

a few ideas.

some rich people get that way because they are, well, cheap or to put it more nicely, frugal. maybe he hasn't always been rich?

also, I think since the money was to protect Jin (who daddy had issues about anyway...) it was more of a symbolic thing. If the money was strictly because Sun wanted a pony or something (haha) then it would've been different. Jin had barely proved himself worthy of Sun in the dad's eyes and was still working for his approval in ways.

Or it was a good excuse to get Jin to be his goon. Maybe one of his other goon's had just quit?


Exactly. Mr. Paik is a powerful man who is in control. If Sun wanted the money to buy
a Porsche he may have given it to her. However, he wanted her to be straight with him and
he wanted to give it to her on his terms. It's like when my 8 year old nephew asks for $50.
$50 won't send me to the poor house, but I definitely want to know what it's for. It's not
that Mr. Paik is cheap. He's just not about to give his daughter $100K without some answers.

Mr. Paik could probably tell from the way Sun asked for the money that something was troubling her. Perhaps he asked her, concerned for her wellbeing.

Also, rich people don't stay rich by throwing money from their office safes, out the window.

Or it was a good excuse to get Jin to be his goon. Maybe one of his other goon's had just quit?

Mr. Paik is a control freak. He feels he has to control everyone in his life. Giving the money to Sun on the conditions he imposed was his way to control his son-in-law. He would have sooner or later found some other way to have done it.

Sun's a liar and a cheater but I'd hardly put her in the same catagory as Paris Hilton.
Also I think Koreans, as a race, are not as excessively ostentatious as many Americans are.

I doubt that the money was a concern to Paik at all.. he just used it as an opportunity to get what he wanted, and making it seem like someone else's fault. I have no doubt that Jin would have ended up in the same position with or without Sun borrowing the money.

Sun's a liar and a cheater but I'd hardly put her in the same catagory as Paris Hilton.
Also I think Koreans, as a race, are not as excessively ostentatious as many Americans are.



Boy is that a charged statement to make! Being acquainted with some wealthy
Koreans, I can tell you that your thoughts are not grounded in reality.

any smart business man, especially one who has accumlated considerable success, knows what it means to hand out $100,000. It might not be much to him, but he knows that it is a LOT to everyone else and it is a wise man who asks what it is for.

I don't care if you're Bill Gates or Donald Trump, if you're daughter comes in and asks for a hundred grand, you're are going to want to know WHAT IS UP.

It's not an issue of the money or being cheap, it's the well being of your children. No one asks for that kind of dough unless they have some serious problems.