Ron Does Stuff

It’s the season finale! The current guests of the B&B had a fun party in the previous episode, so I wonder what Kian has in store to make this final episode end with a bang?

The morning after the rambunctious party, all the guests wake up early…while Jin and Joon Bin are still asleep. I guess they must have had a fun time at the party because Jin is usually an early riser as well.

The fact that Jin is sleeping does allow for some comedy — one of the dancer guests climbs up to the second floor using the slide. Or at least attempts to do it without getting caught because shen slips and wakes Jin up. Down the slide she goes! The editing on this is great, by the way. Really emphasized the comedy.

I don’t know if this is the B&B’s last full day since they didn’t specify what time it closes the next day, but I don’t really care because my attention is immediately focused on the Wotteo pillows that Jin gifted to thew jobless guys who are checking out. I wanted to buy one of those but white stuffed toys are so hard to maintain.

Replacing the jobless guys are literal sailors on port leave and I can’t help but be reminded by that scene from Sex and the City.

Anyways, the sailors call Jin and tell him they’re checking in today and Jin tries a dad joke on them and the sailors at least laugh politely. If it were me I would do that too loud laugh that people do when they’re desperately trying to catch the attention of a hot guy.

The sailors arrive and I wonder if they were all internally going “Not another boat” since I’m assuming they’ve been on nothing else but boats. And I couldn’t help but snicker when one of the sailors remarks that their barracks look better than the B&B. Harsh.

During the last staff launch before the B&B closes, they start reminiscing about the annex from episode one, although neither Jin nor Ye-Eun want to stay any longer than they have to. They do visit it after lunch and I guess Joon Bin really is scared of heights because the monorail isn’t even going that fast.

After sending Joom Bin off, Kian, Jin, and Ye-Eun have some squid ink ice cream which…well I don’t like ice cream in the first place so I don’t think I’m going to like this any better. The three of them reflect how they have so much free time now since they’ve finally gotten used to all the chores necessary to keep the B&B running.

Back at the B&B, they start planning for dinner and I have to admit it was really sweet of Kian to ask the former MMA fighter if he had any meals that he missed from North Korea and then decide that everyone else is going to have that tofu rice he’s craving. And while there’s no deep dive on its history, just hearing from Kian that this is what the North Koreans ate during the “march of suffering” is enough to remind me how amazing it is that South Korea has progressed as much as it has.

The guests arrive back at the port by six in the evening and the former MMA fighter has a fun time making the sailors believe that this is just his and the two dancers’ first day at the B&B. He isn’t laughing by the time they get back to the B&B though because he’s so moved by the fact that Kian and Jin are making the tofu rice. He hasn’t had it in 15 years! Damn. He and Ye-Eun start crying and these thirtysomethings explain that it’s because they’re getting older and lemme tell you as someone who is past his thirties the crying just gets worse!

Dinner is understandably an emotional affair for the former MMA fighter and I think that he and the dad with cancer have the best stories in the show. I’d like to know what happened to them after this! I know Min-Seob — 안녕하세요 Min-Seob! — is doing okay.

After that touching dinner, Kian takes them outside and treats them to a fireworks show after they say their wishes out loud. Thank you for wishing for my happiness, Jin! I just want you to be happy too!

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The guests check out and the former MMA fighter also gets a Wotteo from Jin, so it’s not something that he just hands out to everybody. So jealous!

After everyone’s left, all’s that left to do is to say their final goodbyes and it’s so funny that even up until the last moment the three of them are still chaotic.

It took me a little while to get into the show — I’ve never been exposed to Kian84 before and honestly some of the stuff is off-putting to me — but after all of that, I kinda feel like the guests did. I got used to his eccentricities and began to enjoy the show as well. I wouldn’t mind watching a second season of this!