Sons of Sol Pharmacy, Finale

How sad am I that this funny drama will finally end...but what a hysterical episode! It starts off with a big surprise when Bokshil decides to live with the Song family. Daepoong returns after his cross-country trip to mend his broken heart, all dusty and tired. When Bokshil comes out of the living room, he shouts: "Who are you? Who are you living in my house?" The Song family return from the bathhouse and sheepishly say hello to Daepoong. Daepoong grabs Bokshil's hand and walks with her to a playground. There, he says "How can you do this after all the affection I showed you?"

Here's where it gets hysterical. We are finally shown what happened at the end of that kiss in Episode 52. After Daepoong kissed Bokshil, he grabbed her hand and tried to take her to the bedroom, upon which she flung him against the wall, slamming his face and giving him a bloody nose. Then, she flounced into her room and closed the door. He stayed on his knees half the night, the other half in a traditional punishment stance (sort of like an arched push-up position), apologizing for all the wrongs he has done: calling her Bokshil puppy, making her pretend to be his wife in front of his girlfriend he wanted to get rid of, kissing her when he was drunk....in the meantime, Bokshil fell asleep!

While Daepoong is yelling at Bokshil, Bokshil says: "I thought you had learned to repent, but you haven't learned anything. I will just return home" and she walks away.

The next scene opens with Eunji crying as she enters her home. The doctor has just confirmed that she's pregnant. When Sunpoong says that this is happy news, she cries more and says that she will lose her part in the drama she was just cast. Then Eunji says it's all her mother's fault for starting the war of the sexes in the family, for when Eunji and Sunpoong finally made up after the internal family war, they were so happy that they had sex unprotected. In the study, Euji's father is putting away all of Eunji's mother's paints. When the mother asks what he's doing, the father says that all the paints are toxic and not good for the baby. The father gets his final revenge by telling the mother she's going to be a grandmother. She screams.

Back at the Song household, the father talks on the phone with Sunpoong and Eunji to get the good news. When he gets off the phone, the father and grandfather recount all the good things that have happened: Eunji being pregnant, Jinpoong getting married, and Bokshil coming to live with the family. Then the grandfather says: Daepoong probably taking her to a good restaurant right now to smooth things over.

Well....Daepoong took Bokshil to the Korean Chinese restaurant where their old pediatric clinic used to be. It turns out that Daepoong used to go to eat jajaangmyun (which he doesn't like) whenever he wanted to see Bokshil. Then, with his lips stained with jajaangmyun sauce, he tells Bokshil that he really loves her. He says, "I have something for you, I bought this and meant to follow you to the U.S." It's a diamond ring. Bokshil is so surprised that she takes her hand out of his and runs out the restaurant. Daepoong quickly follows, and Bokshil cries with her head on his shoulder saying: "You are too much, you are too much."

Of course Bokshil agrees to marry him.

Next is a very cute tableaux of Eunji and Sunpoong shopping for baby clothes. While looking at strollers, Sunpoong's cell phone goes off: his mother in law asks why he hasn't shown up at the park as they agreed? When she finds out he's shopping with Eunji for baby clothes, she tells him it's okay, that he should remember to buy delicious food for Eunji too. Then, she gets off the phone, looking all desolate as the wind blows around her. Suddenly, a bluesy song begins (I love the use of genre music in this drama) and her husband appears in a trench coat. He says: "If you are alone, may I join you?" Then, "How can a grandmother have such a good looking backside."

Back at the Song household, the mother has Soojin and Jinpoong come into her room for a talk. She's decided that the only thing to do is have Soojin and Jinpoong live at Brutus' house so that Soojin can help with the children. Soojin says that she can't do that. But the mother says that nowadays, parents live far from their children, so how bad can it be given that it's only next door. She says that as long as Jinpoong and Soojin come every evening to say hello to everyone and eat twice a week at the household, she can let them go. She tells Soojin that as long as Soojin thinks of her mother-in-law sincerely and with warmth and helps her when she needs it, she can let them live outside the family. Soojin starts crying and the mother tells Jinpoong to go out with Soojin so that the whole family doesn't think that she made Soojin cry. When Soojin and Jinpoong leave, the mother cries too.

Yongcheol and Minpoong have finally found Soohee. Soohee has been managing to get by by popping little eyes onto stuffed animals. Minpoong and Yongcheol sit down to help Soohee put more little eyes onto more stuffed animals. While they are all doing this, Hana starts crying and all of them cry with her (lots of crying in this episode....so far, Bokshil, Eunji, Soojin, the Song mother, Yongcheol, Minpoong, Soohee and Hana have all had a go).

Next scene opens with Miran stepping off a bus. Grandfather is waiting for her as she's broken her curfew. But Miran explains that she was out late drinking with a production crew because she finally got a part in a musical. Then, we are shown Miran holding to Grandfather's back while the grandfather is furiously pedaling a bicycle. Grandfather asks what musical it is. Miran answers Beauty and the Beast and the grandfather answers that she must be the beast because she can't be the beauty. But it turns out that she's the mother teapot. At this point, Grandfather is all tuckered out, so they change positions, with Miran pedaling and grandfather holding to her back. Grandfather apologizes for setting Miran up on a date with Brutus. Miran says it's okay as long as grandfather is aware of what he did wrong. Then she tells grandfather that she's stilling going to have soju with Brutus to be "neighborly."


Daepoong and the Song parents go to meet Bokshil, her father, and her half-sister for the official meeting of the parents. Of course, the Song father is shocked when he sees the Director. During the meal, the Song father makes loud noises with his fork and knife (they are eating steak) and rude in general. Finally, he asks the Director why he came to his oldest son's pharmacy. Did he intend to spy on the Song family? The Director says that he was curious about the neighborhood and family that Bokshil lived with for so long. Then, the Song father asks: "Well, and what did you think?" At this point, the mother and Daepoong are both trying to get him to stop, but the father replies: "Be quiet the both of you. The Director is still talking and what he says next can decide whether there will be a marriage or not" to which Daepoong looks pretty glum. The Director continues: "It wasn't the cleanest or nicest neighborhood, but there was a warmth and a human scent. And I thought that maybe this is what I couldn't provide for my daughter so I want to thank deeply the people who were able to provide that for her."

This answer completely wins over the Song mother who is very taken with the Director. However, the father is still upset with the Director. Daepoong and the father go to the restroom. Daepoong is about to leave the restroom and opens the door to hear his mother tell the Director that his voice is so wonderful he should be a radio announcer, at which point the Song father is so incensed that Daepoong has to forcibly restrain him.

The next scene is so cute. All the brothers come out to the courtyard of the Song household with their wives to watch Daepoong go off for his wedding photos. You have to see the great wedding photo shoot which includes various role playing scenes of Daepoong getting scolded, of having to be nice to Bokshil and serve her. At the end of the shoot, there's a voiceover with Bokshil's voice saying that they were married and lived happily ever after.

"How did they live?" she continues. We are shown Eunji at the hospital giving birth to a child. Soojin and Jinpoong already have a child and are about to have a second child. Mipoong didn't succeed at his college exams that year, but did the next and then went to the army. There, Soohee and Yongcheol visit Mipoong with Mipoong's "girlfriend" Hana. Bokshil's hair is back to being permed badly after she lost a game of GoStop to Daepoong. As for the Director and the Song father, they've made up so much that they go out drinking together and do love shots. Miran and Brutus are just "friends" but there's still the potential for romance with Miran asking Brutus what he would do if he found her irresistibly attractive.

The last scene is of the Neighborhood meeting with Daepoong and Sunpoong arguging while Jinpoong intervenes. The three wives are peeling and cutting fruit with their mother in law, and they ask her what it's like to raise son. She says I will only say one thing: sometimes you really want to meet them up.

It's really sweet at the end because Sunpoong and Jinpoong stay over at the end of the meeting with their wives. The Song mother sits outside by herself telling herself that she did a good job after all.

This last episode really reminded me of all the things I loved about this drama: the little touches, the funny moments, the sweet moments, and the strain of humanity through it all. I am sad the drama is over. If anyone has a good recommendation for a drama just as good, please leave me a comment.