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Flower Boy Next Door: Episode 3

Now that introductions are out of the way, we get to watch everyone’s peaceful lives get spun around by the Enrique the Energizer Bunny, and we find out that our heroine isn’t the only silent lurker with a crush, and that she’s also not the only one with a broken heart. Turns out it’s an entire neighborhood filled with lonely hearts, behind every door.

Watch online and download Flower Boy Next Door drama in high quality. Various formats from 240p to 720p HD (or even 1080p). HTML5 available for mobile devices. Video game designer Enrique Keum just came to Korea from Spain. He lives with Tae Joon. Oh Jin Rok lives in apartment #401 with his assistant Dong Hoon. Oh Jin Rok is a web comic. سریال کره ای گل پسر همسایه Flower Boy Next Door با زیرنویس فارسی چسبیده. عاشقانه, کمدی and tagged with boy, door, drama korea, flower, kdrama. Flower Boy Next Door: E01. The New Series of Flower Boy is Back! The Story of a Girl Who Locks Her Self in Her ′Tower′ from the World. This is a romantice comedy drama about a girl, Go Dok Mi (Park Shin Hye) who is a shut-in Miss Lonelyhearts type, who spends her days spying on the man living next door, Oh Jin Rok (Kim Ji Hoon). Flower Boy Next Door) is a 2013 South Korean romantic comedy television series based on the webtoon by Yoo Hyun-sook titled I Steal Peeks At Him Every Day (Hangul: 나는 매일 그를 훔쳐본다).

EPISODE 3: “First Love Hurts and Unrequited Love is Sad”

After Dok-mi’s fainting spell, she wakes up to find herself in Tae-joon’s apartment, with Enrique asking for her help because he’s about to do something very difficult. Before she can answer, in walks her dreamboat Tae-joon with a big smile.

Enrique introduces him by name (the first Dok-mi has learned it) and has to nudge her to return the very basic introduction. He tells hyung that, “ajumma and I are friends,” and Tae-joon chides him for calling her an ajumma.

She finally manages to spit out, “I’m Go Dok… Go Dok… Go Dok-mi [lonely… lonely… Go Dok-mi].”

She tries to make excuses but Enrique says she’s staying for dinner, realizing that he’s never told her his name. He finally introduces himself as Enrique Geum, and when she says nothing in response, he gets a little miffed that she doesn’t ask the usual curious questions about his unusual name.

Doctor Tae-joon inspects her at Enrique’s behest. (Also, I just adore that he sits at her feet like a puppy during the exam.) Dok-mi can barely hold it together, from being so close to her crush.

Seo-young arrives and flips her lid to see Tae-joon sitting on the couch facing Dok-mi, coaxing her to stick out her tongue of all things. Seo-young starts by yelling at Tae-joon for not receiving a guest properly, and he corrects her that she’s just his little bro’s friend (ouch).

She turns to poor Dok-mi who desperately does not want to be caught in this conversation, and says defensively that she’s Enrique’s friend… so is Dok-mi Tae-joon’s friend?

Enrique finally intervenes to say that Dok-mi is his friend, and Tae-joon’s meeting her for the first time too, and also inspecting her because she fainted. To her credit, Seo-young immediately feels like a heel and apologizes for her temper.

She begs Dok-mi to stay for dinner so she has a chance to smooth things over, which is sweet. But Dok-mi gets up to go anyway.

Enrique stops her by pulling her close. His voice suddenly loses that chipper sheen as he says to her quietly, “Don’t go, ajumma. Help me. Please.” His lip quivers and everything. Dok-mi looks up, her face changing at his tone.

Meanwhile, Jin-rak paces outside, sighing at what he saw this afternoon: Dok-mi linking arms with Enrique, and falling into his arms. It’s just a bad night for unrequited love everywhere.

Jin-rak doesn’t notice that he has an admirer too, in Dok-mi’s high school friend (though “mean girl classmate” might be a better term), Do-hwi. She watches Jin-rak and purposely breaks her heel to hobble over and ask for help. Her story: she broke her heel while saving a kitty from being run over in the street. Uh-huh.

Dong-hoon and Ryu come down to join him and watch curiously as Do-hwi trips all over herself and lands in Jin-rak’s arms over and over again. He looks like he couldn’t be more annoyed.

Her plan backfires pretty awesomely, as the trio of boys deposit her outside a shoe repair stand and walk away without a moment’s pause.

Inside the apartment of broken hearts, Dok-mi and Enrique tend to the pasta-making and watch Seo-young flirt with Tae-joon. She says that she bought the flowers he likes and told the hospital flower shop that she was his girlfriend, almost just to clock his reaction.

He doesn’t say anything, but it’s a blow to Dok-mi and Enrique, who watch with long faces, but catch themselves and try not to show it.

Over dinner, Enrique gets corrected again about calling Dok-mi an ajumma, and Seo-young takes to calling her unni. She asks how they met, and Enrique says they could shoot a three-part movie with the amount of material from their meeting: “Pervy to thriller to medical drama.”

And then he adds, “But I’m thinking of turning it into a melo now.” Rawr? Dok-mi nearly chokes on her pasta the whole time he’s talking, and Tae-joon passes her a glass of water. Enrique catches her smiling very differently at the water glass.

Seo-young asks if she’s uncomfortable or naturally just quiet, calling the latter tiresome. Tae-joon snaps at her, saying that she’s been rude the whole time she’s been here, wondering where she’s been for the last year.

Enrique snipes at Tae-joon that he should’ve gone to see her if he was so curious, since he knew full well that she moved to Seoul because of him. Interesting.

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Ryu takes the boys to the little restaurant where he got a job, and Dong-hoon dwells on the suspicious girl with the broken heel, noting that she was wearing too many designer things and acting so strangely that she must’ve approached Jin-rak to seduce him.

But then the thing he trips up on: “But… why would she do that, when I’m standing right next to you? Handsome me?” He calls her pretty, which Jin-rak scoffs at.

Dong-hoon just jabs right back, wondering where 402 went on Enrique’s arm today. He narrates a scenario involving late-night peeping and secret meetings, and Jin-rak blows up at him.

Back in Tae-joon’s apartment, they start to clean up after dinner and Tae-joon asks Enrique how long he’s staying in Korea. He says maybe two or three months, depending, and Tae-joon turns to Seo-young and tells her to go back when Enrique goes.

She finally bursts, tears welling up in her eyes, “Don’t keep trying to tie me to Enrique. We’re just friends! We’re not anything! Do you really want me to go?!”

Dok-mi registers the pointed words, and Enrique’s expression. It seems like nobody breathes for a full minute before Dok-mi drops a plate, shattering the silence.

She starts to clean it up, and Enrique tells her to leave it, or she’ll get hurt. She doesn’t listen, and he screams, “Leave it!” Aw, he must be hurting so much right now.

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He grabs her coat and makes an excuse to walk Dok-mi home, so Tae-joon and Seo-young can be alone.

Jin-rak and the boys eat, and Ryu tells them that he’s going to travel and learn how to cook food from around the world.

Dong-hoon gets up to leave first, and Jin-rak makes him pay for dinner as his punishment, and gets Ryu to put away his wallet by saying that Dong-hoon is a chaebol who ran away from home. Dong-hoon scowls at the lie that’s costing him dinner, but it’d be funny if it turned out to be true.

Halfway home, Dok-mi finally wrestles her arm free from Enrique’s grasp, and he apologizes, “Ajumma, I’m sorry.” He says he knows now why she stole peeks out her window: “You like my hyung, don’t you?”

She stammers that she doesn’t, so he plays along and muses that Seo-young and Tae-joon look great together. She can’t answer, and he calls her bluff.

He sighs, “I ended your unrequited love.” Dok-mi says she has nothing to end, but he’s the one whose unrequited love has come to an end. He looks over at her in surprise. Enrique: “That’s not it. Mine’s first love. My ten-year-plus first love. Over.”

He only lets himself dwell on it for a second, before putting the chatty façade back on, and leads the way over to Dok-mi’s door.

Jin-rak is on his way back from dinner alone, and hides like a loon at the sight of Enrique and Dok-mi walking home. He peers around the corner and watches them.

Enrique whirls around and suggests a drink, thinking it a perfect occasion. He says it’s not really so bad, and there are always happy memories to hold onto. As he rattles off about how fine he is, Dok-mi thinks to herself, “Lies.”

And a split-second later, Enqrique sighs, “Yeah, that’s a lie.” Her eyes dart open as she thinks at him, “Can you hear this too?”

But he darts over to her with a brilliant new idea—they should go on a trip, to say goodbye to their unrequited/first loves. He digs around for her phone and says he’ll pay for the whole trip because he feels bad about tonight, and tells her to meet here the next morning.

She says no, so he shows her a picture of their destination, The Village at End of the Earth, and asks with his puppy eyes, “What if I go to end of the earth in this state all alone and really end it?”

Suddenly she flashes back to herself in high school, standing on a rooftop. It’s the roof of her school and she looks ready to jump. Eep, the camera pans back and we see that she’s actually standing on the ledge.

Back to the present, where Dok-mi bites back, asking how he could say something like that so easily. But he’s just in his obliviously bouncy puppy mode, and says it’s why she has to come, and doesn’t give her a chance to argue.

Jin-rak ducks for cover among the trash bags to avoid being seen, and then runs in behind Dok-mi just to ride the elevator with her. So cute. I love that he’s just as weird as she is.

She doesn’t even realize he’s in the elevator with her until her phone rings, and she jumps at the sight of him. Even funnier is his apology that he should’ve made his presence more known. In an elevator?

The call is from Do-hwi, and Dok-mi’s voice hardens as she answers. Do-hwi says she’s looking into renting an office in her building, and Dok-mi just cuts her off, saying that she doesn’t live there.

Do-hwi’s trio of mean girl minions (who must also be from high school) laugh that she just got rejected by Go Dok-mi. Do-hwi fumes.

The elevator stops on their floor, but Dok-mi is so lost in her thoughts that she doesn’t get off, and Jin-rak adorably follows her lead, not making a move until she realizes at the last second that the door is closing.

He sticks his hand in the door and lets it get squashed to catch it, and says in his deep manly-man voice that she should go first. It looks he finally decides in that moment to follow up and say something else to her, but by the time he catches up, she’s already in her apartment.

Jin-rak sketches the latest episodes in Dok-mi’s life, muttering to himself that she must’ve been so frightened to be surrounded by all these people, and who is this Enrique anyway, busting his way into this world?

He starts drawing a beard on Enrique’s character, which puts a smile on his face. Hee. Petty ineffectual revenge for the win.

Dok-mi looks out her window and sees Seo-young and Tae-joon talking, and it reminds her of Enrique’s heartbreak. Suddenly she’s looking down into the street instead, wondering where he went off to.

He’s in PC bang, playing his own game Zombie Soccer. Though that makes him look fine from a distance, up close we see that his eyes are red with tears.

Dok-mi watches the scene in Tae-joon’s apartment: Tae-joon comforting Seo-young, and then taking a step away from her.

Seo-young runs up to hug Tae-joon, and Dok-mi sees Enrique entering the building at the same time. She worries, “You can’t go in there now!” and watches in nervous anticipation.

But he doesn’t appear in her view, and she wonders where he went. We see him wait in the hallway until they leave. Dok-mi sees him run in as soon as they’ve gone, shivering from the cold in his panda slippers. Dok-mi sighs, her eyes full of empathy: “You must be cold…”

Later that night, Dok-mi writes:

People who think that they can just grab the hand of happiness when it’s offered to them—how happy must they be? That woman becomes nervous when she is too happy. To that woman, happiness is like a child’s game of blowing bubbles. The moment when she touches the bubbles that float her way carrying the light of the rainbow, they burst. In front of happiness, that woman always gives up, before the hand is even offered.

Early the next morning, the milk is delivered, and two steps after the milkman, comes our mysterious post-it man. He puts a new message on today’s carton: “A happy day!” and this time, there’s a note on Dok-mi’s door for him: “Delivery Person, Thank you, I’m reading them well.”

Dok-mi goes to meet Enrique that morning as promised, but when he gets ready to go, she blurts out that they’re not close enough to go on a trip together, to be called ajumma, or anything else for that matter, “We’re not anything!”

When she opens her eyes, he’s gone, and then she opens her eyes again, snuggled in her sleeping bag at home. Dream. But she’s jolted out her reverie when Enrique texts her to remind her that they’re leaving at 9am.

She panics, starting and stopping excuse after excuse, trying to figure out what sounds the most plausible.

At the same time, Jin-rak’s doorbell rings early, and he wakes up from his chair. Ha, instead of just getting the door, he climbs into bed and knocks Dong-hoon out of it.

Dong-hoon finds a man at the door saying he’s here to clean it out at the owner’s request, and Jin-rak jolts up and screams for him to close the door. He realizes he’s late with rent, and says it was the one condition of renting this place—he’d be kicked out if he were even a day late with payment.

Dong-hoon thinks the story is ridiculous (especially since his landlord is a man whose face he’s never seen) but Jin-rak swears it’s true. He’s a little short in funds and asks Dong-hoon, who swears up and down he is not a chaebol’s son.

Enrique gets ready for his trip and gets a text from Dok-mi saying that her grandma is suddenly ill. He drops everything and asks Tae-joon for his car keys and takes off.

Jin-rak and Dong-hoon stand out in the hallway with the movers and ask for a little more time, drawing the attention of all the neighbors. Soon Dong-hoon is giving up his last 50,000 won, and so is Ryu.

That means they’re only 20,000 won short, which is the exact sum Dok-mi is holding in her hand with her ear pressed to the door.

Enrique arrives to pick up Dok-mi and takes an awkward elevator ride up with the security guard, who flips to hear that he’s friends with 402. By the time they arrive on the fourth floor, it’s a full-blown ruckus in the hallway.

Suddenly Dok-mi’s door cricks open and she sticks her hand out, waving two bills out. The boys take it gratefully, and she sticks her head out just long enough to see Enrique there and shuts her door. Uh-oh, is she caught in her lie?

Jin-rak knocks on her door, reverting to his overly formal speech to say thank you, when Enrique comes pounding on her door too, “Ajumma! Hurry up! Let’s go!” Jin-rak looks at him like he’s crazy, and Enrique grins from ear to ear.

Do-hwi decides to take the officetel after all (in Tae-joon’s building). Drat.

Jin-rak sends the money to his landlord, so the matter is handled and everyone filters back out, leaving Enrique whining at Dok-mi’s door. Jin-rak warns him he’ll call the police if he’s bothering the residents here, but to his utter surprise, Dok-mi comes out to meet him.

Enrique inspects her to make sure she’s dressed warmly enough, and rushes her out like the steamroller crack pup that he is.

Jin-rak’s jaw drops, and he’s literally just frozen there as he watches Enrique usher her away with his hands on her. He even stops to give a little, “Hyung, fighting!” cheer, which just makes the whole thing worse.

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Enrique sticks her in the car and she sighs in her head at her once peaceful life, and then doesn’t realize that the last bit of it is said aloud: “Where did this persistent jerk come from?” HA.

He either didn’t hear her clearly or pretends not to, and tells her to put her grandma’s address into the GPS. She says she can go herself from the terminal, but he’s being super sweet of course, thinking her grandma’s really sick. She relents.

Upstairs, Jin-rak is still standing in the same spot, and something finally stirs him to move. He dashes downstairs and starts running at Enrique’s car at full speed.

The car starts to pull away and Jin-rak runs, screaming, “Stop! I said STOOOOOOOP!”

The tires screech to a halt. Omo, they heard him?

Jin-rak stops to catch his breath, and Dok-mi and Enrique look back in surprise.

COMMENTS

Eee, they heard him! What a great way to turn the scene on its head. We just assume it’ll be like every other time and he’ll be too late, but maybe this time Jin-rak will actually do something about his feelings? I like how Enrique is shaking up their world—it’s not just Dok-mi he’s affecting, but Jin-rak, who thought that he was doing the right thing by waiting forever and being an invisible knight in shining armor, only to see Dok-mi change and come out of her shell more in the few days since Enrique’s arrival than in the three years he’s observed her.

But Dok-mi and Enrique seem evenly matched as perceptive people, because he chatters as his shield, and she sees right through him. She reads very plainly that he’s in love with Seo-young and giving up on his love for his hyung, and that he hides his pain with laughter. It was sweet to see her worry for him, if even for just a moment, because it took her outside of her own bubble and connected her to someone. The flashback to her possible suicide attempt revealed just how dark and lonely her world could be, and I like the idea that what might bring her around from all this is empathizing with someone else’s pain.

What I like about Dok-mi is that she’s not the pure innocent wallflower Jin-rak thinks she is—she has a biting wit, a jaded view of the world, and a rather sharp tongue. She just doesn’t show it to anyone, so while people think she’s the nice quiet girl who wouldn’t hurt a fly, that’s not how the narrative is going inside her head. It’s an interesting duality to have in a heroine, that she can look so unassuming and yet be grumbling and cursing at someone in her thoughts. It’s perhaps an extension of the kind of mental filtering we all do in daily life, just taken to an extreme so that for her, almost everything is internalized.

Well that is, until Enrique. Her outburst at him—both in her dream and then the bit in the car where she doesn’t even realize she’s talking out loud—is a big change from the Dok-mi we’ve seen up until now, who could barely eke out all the syllables of her name after endless coaxing. Does he bring it out in her because he makes her that angry? Or is he so direct that he manages to cut through those barriers? While Jin-rak is hypersensitive to Dok-mi and so thoughtful that he would choose to be invisible so as to keep from disturbing her life, Enrique is so oblivious that he railroads right past those things with complete disregard… but he gets through to her, for better or worse. And it’s on all levels too, like the fact that he touches her, which always jolts her like it’s foreign or new or charged with electric current. She actually seems so removed from human interaction that physical contact is jarring, while he’s such a hyper puppy that he doesn’t know how not to lead with his hands. It’s either a recipe for disaster, or perfection.

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Flower Boy Next Door: Episode 16 (Final)

It’s the end of the road for our Miss Lonelyhearts and her flower boy neighbors, in a finale about the difference between what each character thought was love, and how that perception changes when they experience it firsthand. Is love watching from afar? Seeing the world through the other person’s eyes? Meeting each other halfway? Is it constant? Is it ordinary? Grand? Or is it simply a work in progress?

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EPISODE 16: “Love thy neighbor.”

A year has passed, and Dok-mi sits among other editors at her publishing house, as they go over last year’s biggest books—among them is Enrique’s, which brings a smile to her face.

She steps out to find Jin-rak waiting for her with a goofy grin. He asks what they should do to “celebrate one year.” Omo, your one year together, as a couple? That’s a fakeout right?

Flashback to the scene that ended the last episode. Enrique tells his Crazy Club that he’s going back to Spain, but not because of the animation project. He tells them that his dream is not their dream, and encourages them to live for their own lives. Yeah, and stop ruining other people’s.

He tells them that he knows now what’s most important to him: “The person standing in front of me. The one who loves me. I don’t want to lose her.” Aw. So… are you staying or going?

Stalker Girl argues back, and Enrique asks why they’re wasting their time on things that have no bearing on their own lives. He asks if they really think he can go to Spain knowing that his fans are hurting the person he loves. I suppose this is the best line of reasoning you can take, yunno, with a bunch of crazy people.

Jin-rak hurries Dong-hoon along to the PD’s office, intent on taking his webtoon down if it’s hurting Dok-mi. I get why, but maybe you boys should just help her cope, instead of shielding her and sacrificing your various artistic life goals? Just sayin’.

Once they leave the fan club meeting, Enrique asks if Dok-mi is okay, worried that the confrontation might’ve been too much for her. He says that it had to be done though, because people instinctively have a harder time attacking people they’ve met in person than some girl who exists out there on the internet.

Dok-mi says she’s okay actually, and that the experience felt like the punctuation on a part of her life. He doesn’t believe that she’s really fine and whines that she should say what she feels.

She brings up the trip they were supposed to take, and suggests that if their first trip was based on a lie, their next could be a runaway trip. He digs his heels in to say that he’s going to confront this problem head-on, not run away from it.

But Dok-mi’s not really running, and bites back that it’s really difficult for a woman to ask a man to go on a trip, so can’t he just play along?! Cute. Suddenly he’s like, “Where do you want to go? Someplace far? An island?”

She shyly pinches his sleeve and says that he’s always dragging her around, so for today, she’s going to take the lead. Good for you.

Jin-rak and Dong-hoon arrive at the PD’s office, and Jin-rak starts in on his prepared speech with his eyes closed, afraid of the PD’s wrath. So he doesn’t see that the whole time, she and Dong-hoon are making eyes at each other. Cute.

When she finally hears what he’s saying (that he wants to change the direction of the webtoon), she comes to her senses and asks what on earth he’s talking about when the webtoon just barely found an audience, and because of Enrique at that.

He suggests maybe something like the episode she put up in a pinch, this time about love. But her reaction cuts deep: “Flower Boy Next Door discusses love? Are you kidding? Do you know love? You said there was no such thing as a timid confession! What does a guy who’s done nothing but stare out his window know about love?!” Oof.

It makes him think about Dok-mi, from their first encounter to their last, and then he finally says, “I didn’t know love. Love is something that people do, so you can be rejected or make mistakes… but I put love in too high a place, and just looked up at it. So I want to tell people not to be like me, to give courage to those who can’t confess, and I want to comfort hurting loves.”

The PD gives a hearty “Okay” at that, and asks if he has any ideas then for new stories. He does, and starts to tell the tale of a woman who only sleeps four hours a night and a man who works all night to scrape together a living. He says that theirs is the stuff of everyday melo, where love isn’t some high unreachable thing, but just right in front of them—the kind of love that co-signs debt.

How adorable. Dong-hoon and the PD slowly turn to each other, and Jin-rak smiles. Aw, look at you, playing cupid.

Dok-mi takes Enrique to a temple, and he notices a little carved figure perched under the roof. She tells him the story of the man who built the temple, who had to be away from his wife as he worked on it. She finally got tired of waiting and left him, and they say that the figure is of her, holding up the heavy roof forever as her punishment.

Enrique wonders if maybe it wasn’t the other way around, that maybe he was carving his own hurting heart a little at a time (much like his pencil sharpening) and then people attached meaning to it later. He says that love and hate seem like very different things, but really they’re separated by so very little. Dok-mi decides she likes his version better, and chooses to believe that from now on.

They look out over the ocean and he starts playing word games with her, the point of which is to ask her pick her favorite phrase: “I’m sorry, thank you, or I love you?”

She’s startled when he says the last one like a declaration, and says that she likes all three. He tells her to incorporate them all then, so she complies: “I’m sorry that I pushed your feelings away until now. It was a long road but you didn’t lose your way and came… thank you.”

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He gets super excited for the last sentence and starts mouthing “I love you” like he’s willing her to say it… and she says, “Because of you, I came to love myself.” Hee. Puppy pout.

She tells him it’s his turn, so when he’s done pouting he says, “I’m sorry I didn’t come find you sooner. Thank you for making me love. Ajumma, I love you.” He takes a step closer to kiss her on the forehead, and pulls her in for a hug.

Dong-hoon tells Jin-rak not to worry too much, because the scandal is starting to die down. He adds that Do-hwi put up a lot of comments online, and Jin-rak whirls around, ready to kick up a fuss.

But he means nice comments, ones defending Dok-mi and saying that those high school stories are all lies. Well, it’s something. Not enough to redeem her, but it’s something.

She walks past them sheepishly, and Jin-rak stops to ask where her friends are tonight. He says they seem like good friends, ones who always take her side and stick around, and advises her not to lose that friendship this time around.

It gives her pause and then they walk in opposite directions down the street.

Enrique and Dok-mi sit by a campfire, and he sings her a love song because he’s adorably earnest that way (Kim Dong-ryul’s “Like a Child,” posted above). She has something for him too, and shows him the pictures she took of him that day when he told her to start capturing a little of the world.

The note on the picture is “That Woman’s World” and she says, “The first thing I saw of the world to capture was you. It’s what I realized as I wrote the title… You are my world.”

She asks for a redo on the game they played earlier, and says, “I’m sorry I’m confessing only now. Thank you for becoming my world. I love you.”

It sends tears streaming down his face, and he finally looks up to call foul—if she says that, it makes his confession seem like nothing. Oh you would pout about that. It’s not a contest!

She counters that his song was really moving, and wishes she had recorded it so she could hear it every day. She asks him to do it again, but he calls her a dummy and says he’ll just sing it to her every day. Yes please.

Dok-mi: “From now on, will you be my world?” He nods and agrees to always be her peaceful, bright world. She says there’s no such thing—sometimes it’ll rain, and sometimes they’ll fight, and other times they’ll hurt.

She says the world doesn’t disappear because of those things, and tells him that she’ll wait for him to realize his dreams and come back. “Like the sun rises and sets, without change, I’ll wait.” His request is that they stop telling each other to go or stay, and act like they’re the only two people in the world from now on.

Inside, Dok-mi starts in on a project to make Enrique Korean through and through… which amounts to a spelling test. Pfft. He complains that her insistence on handwritten letters is archaic, and figures that his copy editor girlfriend can read fix his mistakes while reading anyway, but she won’t have it.

She sneaks his test paper to correct it, inciting a grabby fight, which quickly lands them in awkward proximity. They blink and gulp and pull away. What? Where be my kisses, people?

Late that night, Enrique tucks her in and watches her sleep. He thinks to himself:

Enrique: I thought love was giving half of myself and the other person filling the other half. That woman thought her half was dark and shameful, and so she pushed love away. That love is taking an incomplete half and going towards completion… is something that woman only now realizes.

We see flashes of their relationship, and then in the present, Dok-mi wakes up to find Enrique asleep at her feet. This time as she thinks back we get her voiceover:

Dok-mi: Love is a wind-up clock. When it’s shiny and new, it tells the exact time. But as time passes and you forget to wind it up, the clock breaks and stops. That man began to wind the clock, so that it would run a long time without stopping.

And then back to the scene that opened the episode, one year later.

Dok-mi comes out of work, surprised to see Jin-rak there. He’s on his way to meet an editor who wants to turn his webtoon into a book. She congratulates him on his success and his popularity as the love expert. He makes her promise not to tell anyone that he’s so inadequately versed in it in real life, and she laughs.

The anniversary he mentioned isn’t theirs or even hers with Enrique—it’s the security ajusshi and the fourth floor ajumma. Dok-mi asks if he’s seen the security booth lately, and notes that the hat is no longer there. In its place is a picture of the couple, and she says that someday it’ll leave a mark just like the hat did, but of the two of them and their life together.

Jin-rak asks if Enrique really is away in Spain, because he gets bombarded with messages from him every day, wondering if Dok-mi is doing okay. He wonders how little difference there could be with him so far away and yet so ever-present and annoying.

The neighbors gather at Ryu’s for a dinner to celebrate the anniversary, and Dong-hoon asks the security/landlord ajusshi why he doesn’t requite security deposits to live in this building. Ajusshi says he was once young like them and so hungry and so poor, that he said to himself that if only someone would house him, he’d repay that for the rest of his life.

Aw, he’s been like a dad this whole time—not requiring security deposits from the young kiddos, but insisting they make their rent on time so that they learn how to be responsible for their lives.

They gather around the table with a cake, and then suddenly someone crashes the party… PD? Without dark circles?

Jin-rak shrinks back, while Dong-hoon beams. Turns out he’s brought her here to look at Apartment 404 (ajumma’s place, since she’s going to move into ajusshi’s unit), and she asks a litany of questions about the building that scares everyone. None of it matters though, when she hears that there’s no security deposit, and so she welcomes them as her new neighbors.

I love how horrified Jin-rak is, to have his boss move in across the hall. Dong-hoon is over the moon, and they cuddle to celebrate. Jin-rak gapes, “Are you two dating?” They stick out their tongues in unison.

Ryu announces that it’s time for him to move on to the next new country to learn its cuisine, and the group sighs that they’ll miss him. He gives Dok-mi a little owl and tells her it’s a good luck charm.

Dong-hoon gets ready to announce his bank account balance to the group like it’s going to be a fortune… and says it contains about 50 cents. He declares with tears in his eyes, “I’m no longer in debt!” Heh, yay for you!

Dok-mi watches the happy group with a twinge of sadness, missing Enrique and remembering the days when he was here.

She opens a new letter from him in her now brighter, more colorful apartment. It says that he’ll be just a little longer, and boasts the lack of spelling mistakes this time. She agrees, but then trips up on his use of “just a little,” pouting that a year and three months is not little.

She decides to hell with waiting and calls her editor to take the rest of her vacation days. She gets up and looks out her window, and hides immediately at the sight of a man standing there looking right at her. Is that… Enrique?

She shakes the thought out of her head, thinking she’s hallucinating now, but inches back over to the window to peer out again. No one’s there.

She grabs the yellow binoculars and takes another look… and there’s Enrique, with his signature move I’ve got my eye on you! The binoculars fall out of her hand, and she swings her door open to run down.

There he is, standing in the street between their buildings. She doesn’t say a word, but he hears her thoughts, and says this isn’t a dream and that he’s really here.

Smoochies.

Their kiss turns into comic book frame, as Jin-rak flips through a new artist’s portfolio. He decides he likes the work and asks when she can start. Park Se-young? How cute, she’s dressed exactly like the old Dok-mi, and stammers that she’d like to work from home.

That makes him take notice, and he asks if maybe she doesn’t like to go outside, describing the way Dok-mi used to live. She looks up: “How did you know?” Ha, did Jin-rak find his Go Dok-mi 2.0?

Do-hwi goes out for drinks with her friends, and sets her sights on a new runaway chaebol. Some things don’t change.

Ajumma and ajusshi are happy together, and Ryu packs up his stuff with a wistful smile. Dong-hoon and his PD honey wear matching couple shirts and snuggle.

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Dok-mi sits at her desk and opens a new file called “That Woman’s World.”

Knock on a closed door. Wrap your arms around a tired shoulder. Wipe away tears. Listen to the sound of each other’s hearts. Love each other like that.

She looks out of her window with a smile.

As Dok-mi and Enrique run down the street hand-in-hand, their neighbors follow right behind them.

Enrique: One person can’t change the world. But you can become another person’s world. A warm, bright, and peaceful world. If all people could be someone’s bright, peaceful, good world, one becomes ten, and then a hundred, and the good world grows. Ke-geum’s world, Go Dok-mi.
Dok-mi: Go Dok-mi’s world, Ke-geum-ie.

GIRLFRIDAY’S COMMENTS

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The finale was exactly what I expected—a neatly-tied conclusion for every single character, with no loose ends. It wasn’t a particularly moving final episode for me, in that I stopped caring whether or not Enrique would go to Spain about half a century ago, so the show was sapped of all conflict by the time that we got here. I did like the episode itself, which makes me think that if the last quarter of this drama hadn’t wound itself in such a circular rut and we had skipped all that to come straight to this finale, we would’ve saved me a lot of grief and lost nothing from the story. Because when your entire final arc is based on a decision that could be made with or without anything that happens in the episodes, we get bored. Make up your goddamn mind is basically what I’m thinking, no matter how much cute you throw at me.

It’s too bad because the show started out so wonderfully rich and interesting, full of quirky characters that weren’t cookie cutouts from every other drama, and layered with such fascinating depth. But it felt like the writer never thought past the moment when our couple gets together. Up until then it was gold, and then suddenly it was And Now What…?

Everything from the beginning through to when Go Dok-mi comes out into the world is A+ material, but after that we’re pretty much done with the story, only the show keeps going. And going. And I want to tell it that we’ve already told the best stuff and we should probably pack up and go before the tomatoes start flying, but by then it’s too late. I think the central conflict got away from the writer, because when I’ve spent all those episodes invested in whether or not our heroine steps foot outside her door, once she does I can’t be made to care about stalker fans and internet rumors and a boyfriend who’s meandering about studying abroad for a year. It’s all small beans at that point, and none of it holds a candle to her shutting herself away in her own world. It’s like having your heroine climb Everest, and then watch her struggle with a molehill for four frickin’ episodes.

It doesn’t make me love Dok-mi or Enrique any less, but it does reduce my love of the show, because it took a steep dive from awesome to snoresville and I struggled to care about the final conflict. (I couldn’t muster it, I’m afraid—being apart for a year to vaguely pursue a dream isn’t really earth-shattering stuff. Now if it had been a one-episode conflict without all the back-and-forth noble idiocy fakeouts and crazy fanclub whims, then sure. You can only be a barista in Italy and an animator in Spain. Whatever. The point is, it would’ve been quick.)

That plot dive aside, I did love the characters in this world, and the simplicity of a story about drawing the heroine out of her sheltered cave, and getting her to love and accept herself. I like that love isn’t painted as grand or all-powerful, but something to work at, day by day. Enrique and Dok-mi’s story wasn’t that they found love, but that love motivated them to change each other bit by bit, and at the climax of that (Episode 12, when she decides to come out into the world), the show really had me by the heart. The rest took most of that luster off, but at least they all got their happy endings. And we got our smoochies.

JAVABEANS’ COMMENTS

Despite the criticisms I wrote in the last recap, I do want to give the show its due for being a heartwarming and sometimes thought-stirring romantic comedy, with plenty of endearing relationships and more depth than your run-of-the-mill, forgettable trendy drama. When taken in the context of dramaland as a whole, it’s still better than many, many shows out there. It was beautiful to look at and had a lovely low-key atmosphere and sweetly melodic soundtrack.

Still, it’s too bad that most of the drama’s best parts were in its first half, and the last four episodes took a significant nosedive from its earlier highs. Sadly, order matters: When you end on a lower note than you started on, the overall trajectory is still pointed downward. I’ve watched subpar dramas—dramas much worse than this one—that pulled out a satisfying finale, and ending on an upswing has a palette-cleansing effect. You forgive a lot when that happens.

When the opposite happens, however, no matter how much your brain tells you that the overall quality remains fairly high, your heart can’t get over that taste of disappointment. Pacing matters. Trajectory matters. Because once you start falling out of love, momentum slows and you start checking out, and then it’s all over. It’s similar to what happened to me with Queen In-hyun’s Man and Answer Me, 1997, both of which were among the best-written and best-produced dramas of last year but which lost my heart in the last stretch.

Flower Boy Next Door was a welcome breath of fresh air that was buoyed by adorable chemistry and had great characters, whether the motor-mouthed Enrique or the decent and steadfast Jin-rak. And the heroine’s emotional journey was gratifying to watch, not just in the realization of love but more importantly in her ability to conquer demons and grow into a happy, healed woman who learned how to value herself. I do wish the magic lasted a little longer and carried me through the entire series, but here’s where I employ my selective memory, to try to ignore the less than satisfying moments, because I’ll always have fond feelings for what it did well—the laughs and character growth and sweet romance.

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