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When Life Gives You Tangerines Episode 5 Reaction (Patreon)

Published:
2025-10-04 01:05:00
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2026-06

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So excited (and a little scared 😅) for another weekend of When Life Gives You Tangerines! 🍊

This episode FINALLY gave Ae-sun and Gwan-sik a break 🙌 After so many back-to-back days of struggling, things actually started to look promising ✨

For the first time we hear Ae-sun say “I’m really happy” 🥹 and everything seems to be falling in place for them with new opportunities and blessings…

…which let’s be honest, is the biggest red flag in K-dramas 😂 everything went TOO well this episode…

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katreen

YESSSS let's go

Bulletproof Girl

Love this episode familia! Thank you! Im not ready for the next episode. Just thinking about it is bringing me to tears already! You need to binge watch all the funniest BTS contents after the next episode familia. I am rewatching all the funniest Run BTS episodes tomorrow!

Jazzy

29:12 you’re assumption here is wrong haha I advise you replay back the parts you get confused with specially for the future episodes as the subtitles tend to disappear quickly and u lose the context of the lines.

gwenniejv

(Feel free to correct me if I’m wrong!) From what I understood, the rice at Ae-sun’s uncle’s house was an offering to her father. I think it’s part of their tradition to offer food to the deceased, like an ancestral rite. It reminded me a bit of Día de los Muertos, where families honor their ancestors by preparing food and placing it on altars. That’s probably why Gwan-sik cooked all the jeon, since he’s the eldest child and it’s his responsibility to carry on the tradition and pay respects to their ancestors. Ae-sun’s grandma said she’d report her own grandson, Jong-gu, for robbery because he’s hiding and causing financial trouble for the family. But her son (Ae-sun’s uncle) keeps insisting that Jong-gu is still the eldest grandson and will take care of the ancestral rites when she passes. It seems like grandma actually favors Ae-sun more, which is why she refers to her as “her eldest grandson’s daughter.” I don’t think she left out of anger, she probably just didn’t want to make a big deal out of it and quietly stepped away. As for the social dancing, I read that it was considered immoral in Korea around the 60s and 70s. I guess it’s because Korean society was more conservative back then and dancing often involved physical contact between men and women, which was frowned upon. (Not 100% sure on this part, but that’s what I found when I looked it up!) Hopefully that made sense, just sharing what I picked up from the drama!

tesalonika

just finished watching. thank you familia. super excited for the next episode!!

iTanasia

familia the son is in the future haha

iTanasia

remember he was arguing with gumyeong?

MexineseFamily

yes it made a lot of sense and helped a lot :) thank you for this information familia, we appreciate it!! 💜

MexineseFamily

we def will familia! we don't wanna miss anything, we really enjoy this k-drama hehe

MexineseFamily

it was such a good episode, thank you for watching familia! and ommggg we are so excited and nervous and scared and all types of emotions for episode 6 😂 getting our happy bangtan content ready for afterwards lol! 💜

MexineseFamily

here we go familia, prepare your hearts and tear glands!

Serendipityinthesea

Yeah like yall said this is a good conclusion to the series. No need to watch the rest I promise….. 💀✌🏼 lets all clock out. 🤣😭

simran

As Tanasia already mentioned, we do see their son in one of the earlier episodes when Gwan-sik's sister was at their place and he brought chicken and the son was on the table eating I am so loving your reactions to the series familia... I have not watched the whole series yet so I am gonna continue it watching with you guys.....I really hope that your K-Drama journey continues after this as well...there are so many amazing dramas that you will not regret watching Also...a fun fact (not really)... Bo-Gum in real life does not have a family picture (from what I know his mother passed away when he was young) so him taking the picture in the drama always reminds me of that..he was so emotional when he told that on one of the shows I would love to watch your reactions to some of the videos (after the show ends) where the cast reacted to the show PS.: personal wish lol...maybe a reaction to Bo-Gum on IU's palette..it was the first ep of the show

Auclaire D'Lune

now every time i see bogeum on kdrama, all i can think of is scoups not getting "park bogeum" question right during the character quiz with na pd a few years ago.. 😅😅

bub

i definitely get what uthman's saying about it being everyones first time being an adult. i just turned 20 a month ago and i feel like i have no clue what im doing LOL i'm a full time student with a job and an internship, its hard work but i need to do it to make my parents proud and support them. this show makes me think of the hard work they did to get me in this position, and it gives me a little more strength haha <33

승민 정

When Ae-sun sees the rice jar completely empty, she sighs in worry, and the camera focuses on a small bowl on the table. At that moment, the line “Standing before the cruel rice jar, Mom remembered her mother’s smiling face” appears. The bowl is used for ancestral rites. Ae-sun must have felt deeply upset because she didn’t even have rice to offer for her mother (Gwang-rye)’s memorial ritual. Later, when Ae-sun goes to see her grandmother because she feels overwhelmed, we see rice prepared in the grandmother’s kitchen. During ancestral rites, a spoon is often stuck into the rice or chopsticks are placed on the dishes so that the deceased can eat. It appears that the grandmother’s (uncle’s) household held the memorial rites on behalf of Ae-sun’s mother and father. Since rice bowls are usually placed according to the number of people, and there is only one bowl in this scene, it seems to be for her mother’s memorial ritual. However, according to available information, the aunt (the uncle’s wife, who lent a necklace to Gwang-rye) has consistently been taking care of Ae-sun’s father’s memorial rites at the uncle’s house. In Episode 1, when Gwang-rye goes to Ae-sun’s uncle’s house and gets angry, she says, “Is it my fault your brother lived a short life? You ought to be sorry for giving her a father with a short life.” From this line, it can be inferred that Ae-sun’s father likely died from an illness. Jong-gu had fallen into gambling, which is why he ended up stealing money from his grandmother and running away. This is why the grandmother says to her son (Ae-sun’s uncle), “You found Jong-gu, right? Are you in touch with him? Go tell him that I, Kim Chun-ok, will report my own grandson for robbery.” Had the money ended up in Jong-gu’s hands, it would have been wasted and already gone. But since it was given to Ae-sun, the grandmother wanted the large sum to remain a secret from others. Ae-sun, referred to it as the O family’s boat (her own) rather than Yang Gwan-sik’s boat, as a way of expressing pride and gratitude toward her grandmother and acknowledging that the money helped resolve the family’s difficult situation. (She said this partly as a light-hearted joke because Gwan-sik’s mother, Ae-sun’s mother-in-law, had excitedly sung about it being the Yang family’s boat. Lol.) Seeing Ae-sun’s reaction, the grandmother smiled and left. She wasn’t angry; rather, she likely felt it was the right decision to give the money to Ae-sun instead of Jong-gu. Her leaving mid-scene doesn’t carry any particularly meaningful implication. Making jeon (Korean pancakes) was traditionally done by the women in the household, and it was unheard of for men to make them in that era. Because of the gender roles that existed at the time, Ae-sun was normally expected to prepare the family’s ancestral rites at her in-laws’ house, but Gwan-sik stepped in and told her not to. Ae-sun made a light-hearted, teasing remark to her mother-in-law, something like: “I want to go too, but my husband said I can’t~” lol. Up until about ten years ago, this cultural expectation naturally persisted, so even if the household didn’t actively discriminate, women would generally handle holiday preparations among themselves. Nowadays, many households prepare together regardless of gender, though some families still continue the tradition to intentionally make the daughter-in-law’s life harder. In that scene, Ae-sun also brought back the silver spoons she had been scolded for. Gwan-sik’s grandmother (Ae-sun’s mother-in-law’s mother-in-law) acknowledged that Ae-sun had brought silver spoons, purchased a boat, and with Gwan-sik now as captain, had revived a family that was falling apart. She remarked that Ae-sun’s level as a daughter-in-law was higher than her own daughter-in-law (Gwan-sik’s mother, Ae-sun’s mother-in-law). Since Gwan-sik’s mother already didn’t view Ae-sun favorably, hearing her own mother say that likely hurt her pride and intensified her resentment toward Ae-sun. There are two possible reasons why Gwan-sik’s grandmother speaks so bluntly: either she is a good person but old-fashioned and rigid, or she is not really a kind person. Which is true is unclear. Ae-sun’s actions at her in-laws’ house during that era challenged long-standing traditions and fixed gender roles. The reason Ae-sun could act so freely was because of Gwan-sik. (Judging by Gwang-rye’s personality, Ae-sun also seems to have inherited her mother’s unwillingness to simply endure.) Gwan-sik was unusually protective and considerate of his wife, which was rare for men in that time. When Ae-sun is pregnant with her third child, her late mother, Gwang-rye, appears in a dream and says, “The woman next door has a truck.” In Korea, when someone loses a loved one, people often say, “I wish I could see them, even just in a dream.” So the appearance of Ae-sun’s mother in the dream symbolizes Ae-sun’s longing for her mother’s comfort and protection during a time of anxiety as she carries new life. In that scene, Gwan-sik is away at sea for work, leaving only Ae-sun and her two children, Geum-myeong and Eun-myeong, at home. Since there’s no one to help if Ae-sun goes into labor, her mother’s words — “The woman next door has a truck” — can be understood as telling her to ask the neighbor for help and take the truck to the hospital. Emotionally, the scene also conveys that Ae-sun’s late mother is still watching over and protecting her daughter from afar. First child, Geum-myeong : Geum (Gold) Second child, Eun-myeong : Eun (Silver) Third child, Dong-myeong : Dong (bronze) Names written on Gwan-sik’s boat : Geum Eun Dong In Korea, there is a tradition of eating seaweed soup (miyeok-guk) after giving birth. Seaweed is rich in iron and is believed to help replenish the blood and energy lost during childbirth, which is why it became a recovery food for mothers. When Ae-sun gives birth to her third child, the scene where the haenyeo aunt brings her seaweed carries the same meaning. It’s not just about giving food — it’s a gesture of blessing and warm comfort, expressing the Korean sentiment of wishing the mother a good recovery after her hard work.

Eli

a bit late but just a little side note: the name written on the boat was GeumEunDong, it was the name of their children. It means gold, silver, and bronze. The name of their children is: (Geum)myeong (Eun)myeong (Dong)myeong

Cece

i really hate when people give any hints of a spoiler like telling them to get ready for an episode is basically making them stay on alert the whole time now they literally guessed the son’s death 😭