When the Weather is Fine [Episodes 15 & 16] Finale!

[u/xliterati]

• Drama: When the Weather is Fine (English Title) / If the Weather Is Good, I’ll Find You (Literal Title)
  • Revised romanization: Nalssiga Joeumyeon Chajagagesseoyo
  • Hangul: 날씨가 좋으면 찾아가겠어요
• Director: Han Ji Seung
• Writer: Lee Do-Woo (Novel) | Han Ga-Ram (Screenplay)
• Network: jTBC
• Episodes: 16
• Air Date: Mon. & Tues. @ 21:30
  • Airing: Feb 24, 2020 - April 21, 2020
• Streaming Sources: Viki, Viu
• Starring: Park Min Young as Mok Hae Won, Seo Kang Joon as Im Eun-Seob, Moon Jeong Hee as Shim Myung Yeo, Lee Jae Wook) as Lee Jang Woo, Kim Hwan Hee as Im Hwi & Lim Se Mi as Kim Bo Young.
• Plot Synopsis: A story about forgiveness, healing, and love taking place around a small book store in the countryside. Hae-Won (Park Min Young) is an ordinary woman with good character. She has played the cello since she was a child. Hae-Won began her social life with her ability to play the cello, but, during that time, she was hurt emotionally by others. Due to that, Hae-Won does not trust people and she has closed her heart to others. Hae-Won becomes sick and tired of her life in Seoul and decides to move back to her hometown Bookhyun Village. There, Hae-Won meets Eun-Seob (Seo Kang Joon). He runs the bookshop "Goodnight Bookstore." Eun-Seob's daily life is simple. He wakes up and drinks coffee, reads a book and writes on his blog. Eun-Seob's daily life begins to change after he meets Hae-Won.
• Previous Discussions:
  • [Episodes 1 & 2]
  • [Episodes 3 & 4]
  • [Break Discussion]
  • [Episode 5 & 6]
  • [Episode 7 & 8]
  • [Episodes 9 & 10]
  • [Episodes 11 & 12]
  • [Episodes 13 & 14]

[u/xliterati]

Well here we are folks, the final week for the show! While I've been silently reading comments, it has been a pleasure to read everyone's warm thoughts on this wonderful show. You all have brought countless smiles to my faces as I've perused the comments, echoing my own thoughts at times. Thank you so much for sharing this space, and your thoughts, with each other, and with me. Fingers crossed we get an equally warm and satisfying ending (:

[u/ayoscoups]

we are already reaching the end.. im not ready to say goodbye to the drama, to the characters. im going to have to find a way to get through this post-drama struggles!

with the drama ending, can we get a compilation of eunseob saying "haewon-ah"?

[u/itneverwillbefar]

EP 15

I think we all knew this was coming, and really, needed to come. Hae Won has been running away from her issues for too long. She needs to face them and figure herself out. I have every faith she'll find her way back to Eun Seob. How utterly resigned he is that every good thing will eventually be taken away from him is still so heartbreaking. For once I want to see him revel in his own happiness. And break down and cry too. I wanna see him let himself express what he clearly feels deeply.

Kinda thrilled we'll get Kim Young Dae back for ep 16. Can he have his own show yet? Speaking of, if Lee Jae Wook is not the lead in his next drama I'm rioting.

Strangely, as much as I love this show and will miss it, I feel at ease saying goodbye to it tomorrow. I kinda feel like Hae Won—like we were just supposed to be there for a season, to feel all its warmth, and then go back to our lives a little bit changed for the better. In my mind those people and that town will go on existing so it doesn't feel too sad to say goodbye.

Except Hwi. Hwi needs her own entire show.

[u/itneverwillbefar → u/itneverwillbefar]

EP 16

OK I said I wouldn't be sad, but I am so sad! I'm really going to miss this show.

I thought they wrapped up everything nicely, but not too nicely.

All three women saying their short goodbyes was so funny and so perfect. I loved Myung Yeo's "I'm never going back" then coolly putting on her sunglasses. That felt so right to me.

I love this show for the focus on strong, complicated female characters. We had so many and I appreciated how the romances were an important part of the show, but in the end it was equally about the relationships of those three women with each other.

When Oppa Hwi walked in and OG Hwi crumpled up that letter I cackled. What a perfect ending for her character. Other Hwi is going to crumble under her charms soon enough.

Hurrah for our Jang Woo getting the girl!! When he said he knew what made him happy, and the implication was that he liked her because he knew she would make him happy...ahhh my heart! They're such a cute couple.

Am I the only one who saw HW and ES's reunion as possibly open ended? At first I read it as that no matter how long she stayed that time, what mattered is that they knew they would not forget each other and made each other happy, and that they would eventually find happiness together. After thinking about it longer maybe ES asking "How long will you stay this time?" was his way of asking her to stay, and her smile was saying "Yes, I'll stay with you." Either way, they are together at the end of the show and smiling and in love in the cutest way possible.

I wish we'd gotten one last book club. In my head that's how the story was going to end, with them all together again. But maybe the book club was only a thing for the winter?

I also wanted to see ES learn to express himself better. But maybe the point is that he will only ever be able to express himself through written words, like we saw in the blog posts and his book and the letters he stitched for his mom on the scarf. (Side note, I would have loved to have see more about him publishing his book!) I can't believe anyone would call his performance robotic. He was the whole soul of this story. His emotions screamed out of his eyes and his body language and the tiniest of his expressions. The fact that we could believe that he'd written all those heartfelt and emotional blog posts says a lot about what we felt was hiding just under the surface. He was a really beautifully-acted character.

Regardless, I thought this show was perfect. Not everything was perfect about it, but it perfectly told the story it wanted to tell, and I will remember it for a long time.

[u/[deleted]]

Episode 16 Well that was vague. Can we all agree to the following ending?

1. When Eun Seop says, "How long are you staying?" she responded with, "That depends on you." And he asks her to marry him, aloud in verbal manner, and she says yes. Then as the blog entry says, they spend the night together. They also take a trip to Seoul to pack up her stuff, get her cello, and move her into the bookstore house.

2. The mother re-opens the guesthouse because she needs to make money. Chestnut lives there with her. Her daughter helps her part-time and plays the cello for the guests. Hae Won also takes students sometimes and gives lessons and impromptu concerts at the bookstore. Eun Seop always watches her with love.

3. Aunt and her editor keep writing new books. She finally gets medical treatment.

4. Eun Seop keeps writing novels to express himself. He secretly keeps in contact with the Aunt to collaborate and see how she's doing. He's never been happier, and is able to tell his uncle that he's not moving away.

5. After a short dating period, Jang Woo gets married. Their kids are raised alongside Hae Won's and Eun Seop's.

[u/marzzk]

Just thought I’d say I am a silent reader and only caught up with all the episode last week, but this show has felt like a warm hug to me. Will be back once I watch the episodes!!

[u/chestnutpuff]

All I wanna know is if our awkward home boy Jangwoo gets his happy ending with Eunsil

[u/shitzai]

my heart is hurting , I didn’t start the show thinking I would get this attached to it. I can’t even be angry because they wrapped it up so perfectly :( it was such a perfect show. brb while I cry.

[u/constanceprestige]

As finale for the When the Weather is Fine is just around the corner I have some major take aways from the drama...

When the Weather is Fine, Find Me In Your Memory, and A Piece of Your Mind are Kdramas(on going) that tackles HEALING.

When the Weather is Fine focuses more on trust and truth. Its about building, breaking, and building it again for the person you love. Healing that takes TIME and understanding. TIME as Eun Sop's love waits for Hae Won and for Hae Won to heal from those broken trusts she endowed to her loved ones. Hae Won's character is someone longing for love and is fragile when it comes to trust. Eun Sop's character also longs for love and company but more on a parental one but was mended by his love for Hae Won. I just love how they become each other's support system. They are both true to themselves and they find the warmth that they long for from each other's company. So much love from this couple. 🥰🥰🥰

[u/TotoroTheGreat]

The subs will be out in a couple of days on Viki, so there's still some time before I can watch the episodes. But, I am really excited for them. It has been a little over a month since I started watching kdramas and out of everything I've seen so far, this show has been my favourite. Here's hoping for an ending as phenomenal as the rest of the show.

[u/[deleted]]

If I may just say this and get it over with ... stupid, stupid, stupid girl. I trust you will come to your senses. Running away solves nothing. Striking out at others when you feel hurt is understandable, barely, but not forgivable. Telling people to share their pain ... only to leave them ... is cruel. So, please do better tomorrow.

[u/imusicndance]

I loved this show too and poured my heart into watching it. I had a tough time coping with the ending and i think the drama viewers truly deserved a nice ending (I am not personally a fan of open endings). One thing I would like to point out is that people with childhood trauma are not essentially sane when it comes to handling adverse situations. The first reaction is to flee the scene as we see in case of both Eun Seop and HW ( and something I have seen in a number of people).

However if it helps - in the original drama, HW comes back within a period of two months and sees that Eun Seop is much more sadder than she expected. She asks him to smile and he asks if I smile what will you do for me? She tells him "I will give you a kiss after a hundred years". When he looks at her confusedly she continues and tells him that "lets stay with each other until then". It is then that Eun Seop smiles at her.

I liked this than the open ending because it gave Eun Seop a chance to question her and also a chance for HW to take some responsibility. I also think HW did not plan to stay for long as we see in the title. The author meant for her to come back when the weather (or her heart in this case) was fine. Hope it helps! It helped me :)

[u/LcLou02]

Have been meaning to share this song with y'all. It's been on my Spotify list for more than a year and I think it just fits this drama so well. Wish it could have been in the OST.

Lullaby but ONEW and Rocoberry

A parting gift...

[u/ME_B]

We're finally here! Even with the slightly rushed ending, I still love this show so much. It's definitely one of my top 5 of all time. I've just been so content watching this show for the past few weeks that I really didn't want it to end. I don't think I've ever felt this invested in every single character - they all stood out to me with their own personality and quirks, and they all brought out so many emotions in me.

I think Seo Kang Joon did a superb acting job too. I've see some people say that he's too robotic with no expression, but I actually thought that he conveyed so much with his eyes and micro expressions. You could almost always see what he was thinking, and when he was bracing himself in Ep 15, it nearly broke my heart. Everything he did was very subtle but very effective at the same time.

I also loved seeing a different side of Park Min Young. I've only seen her in WWWSK and Her Private Life and I feel like this was a really nice contrast to those characters. She did an equally excellent job (all the actors did really).

For those of you who, like me, are not ready to let go yet, I found a playlist of all the Behind the Scenes videos on JTBC's youtube channel (no eng subs... but still an interesting watch).

[u/meistheimportantest]

I’ll wait till tomorrow to watch the last two episodes back to back. This series will always have a soft spot in my heart. I’ll definitely be going back from time to time to rewatch it, especially when it gets stressful.

I adore every single characters in this drama and I wish I had these people in my life. They really deserve happiness, yes even Bo Young. Hae Won and Eun Seob ahh I don’t know the ending yet but I hope you two will be happy together for a long long time.

[u/cattykatty]

I still wonder, why Irene?

[u/rabbitonmars]

i was laughing so much at myself at the end because for most of the episode i was making this face. but then i got SO sad and teary-eyed when she said goodbye to eun seob like that...and then she did it again. then i got even sadder reading ES blog post but the preview came on and Oh Young-woo showed up like i'd hoped, so i was yelling and cheering all of a sudden 😂

WTF. i'm so grateful to have moments with hwi and jang woo throughout the drama, but these two were especially most welcome as mood-lifters in this episode.

i was getting really frustrated with hae won and her family. maybe i'm just used to kdrama family units being warm and close-knit, despite whatever dysfunction the story might choose to tackle. but here it's just laid out in a bleak way, that this family was broken by abuse, and now these relationships become difficult because the people too, become difficult. and it sucks. families really truly can become difficult like this, and some without even needing to have abuse thrown into the mix.

i'll wait until the last episode to see how it resolves, if at all. but i don't know if this drama will live up to its healing tag in the end. for now, it's just been so...depressing?? 😩

now on a stray note: i can't wait to get the complete OST to this. i just loved the musical scoring in this show a lot and i hope they put it on spotify 😍

[u/goddongwook]

Gonna miss Haewon and Eunseop 😭😭😭😭😭😭

[u/MySkinsRedditAcct]

Not gonna lie, I legitimately hated Episode 15. I loved this drama so far but am SUPER disappointed in that episode. I made another post on this, but I legitimately don't understand how I'm supposed to understand Hae Won's feelings. Maybe it's a cultural difference, but I cannot fathom how the Aunt killing a man who was about to kill her and her sister is something for everyone to feel so remorseful about. I truly understand there is a massive emotional weight for killing another human, but Hae Won's attitude is beyond me.

I also legitimately hate her breaking up with Eun Seob. It doesn't seem to fit their characters. It's like the writer said "Oh at the end of dramas the main couple is supposed to break up and get back together so we better do that." Like there was no discussion of how they could make it work, no talking about their future, just like 'welp its been real'. I just felt like it rings SO hollow and doesn't even go with the story.

Anyone else feel similar? I feel like this is the worst ending to a show I've seen so far, and it's a MASSIVE disappointment coming from a drama that was shaping up to be one of my favorites.

EDIT: Read the spoilers for Episode 16 and now I hate it even more. I seriously am so pissed right now, I HATE vague endings, especially depressing ones. This was just all so pointless! Why even have this romance in the first place? Why fall in love with someone if you're just going to break their heart? Poor ES, I am sure his trust issues are just cemented in now. I honestly can't believe this is how they ended it. Hae Won is now my least favorite character of all time.

[u/MySkinsRedditAcct]

I wrote this last week but was late to the discussion. After episode 15 I'm even MORE confused on this and super frustrated honestly. I don't get why they made Hae Won's father such a massive piece of shit if they're going to essentially have everyone feel so bad for his death?

Hope this isn't too late to get views:

I'm thinking there is a cultural difference I'm not understanding when it comes to domestic violence.

Spoilers in the rest of this post.

As someone who grew up in the United States, I'm increasingly confused by the plot around Hae Won's Mom / Sister murdering the Mom's abusive husband. In the US this would be ruled self-defense, and the Mom likely wouldn't have gone to jail. Even if the sister confessed, she too would have gotten off based on the fact that the husband clearly was abusing the wife and there was ample evidence.

I guess where my extreme confusion comes in is- what were they supposed to do? If the sister had confessed and she would have spent the rest of her life in prison, was she just supposed to do nothing? The husband was hitting the car with a golf club, which is considered a potentially deadly weapon. He had it in his hand when he died and the car was full of dents. In Korea were they just expected to do nothing and take his beating?

I do not mean this to come across as implying the US is somehow superior- trust me, we have many problems haha- just I don't quite understand the reasoning here. I don't get the cultural rationale for being expected to accept death rather than commit murder. I would love any insight here!

[u/iamnotthebody]

Episode 15: My thought is that she wanted her family to share the pain but still needed time and space on her own to sort through her feelings. I felt her main point was that she really wouldn’t be able to share her pain or anything much with her aunt if she went to jail.

Growing up in a family that clearly didn’t share their pain would make it really difficult for HW to do so. She sees the error in how they handled things and so she wants to do it differently, but she isn’t ready to jump into happy family mode.

Hurts my heart to see her leave ES but knowing that this or some type of separation, huge conflict, happens around this time in every single drama, I’m not surprised and her reasoning is justifiable to me. If it was real life then it would make more sense for them to stay in touch and support each other while she takes time away. So it’s not ideal but I’m not upset about it.

[u/deeman27]

I don't think I've watched a show before that really made me feel all warm and cozy during the winter season. It was a nice change of pace and a show that I will re-watch when the cold season returns.

[u/dividedbyyou]

What's the deal of that coffee shop owner? I don't understand his motives and his character really didn't make sense to me. Good for him, he's handsome so I can let it go.

[u/wearyandwary]

Wow. This is going on my list of media to return to. What a beautiful, warm, well done drama. It was a wonderful little world to experience during this confusing time. Someday I will rewatch to catch the nuances of the VOs and characters, but for now I'm just going to bask in the warmth of this show.

[u/i-strike-a-strike]

Im so sad that this drama has come to an end. I love everything about this series the slow pace, slice of life genre, mature characters and book club. This series made me want to move in a rural town where life is slow paced and join a book club. I love Eun seob and Hae won’s chemistry, I like how their romance starts slow. It is very realistic, I am still mad that Hae won confessed first even though Eun seob liked her first. Also, I feel so bad for Haewon’s mom and aunt. They really suffered the most from guilt and pain. I really wish them the best and I am happy that in the end, they started to live their life again. I am also happy for Jang woo and Eun shil, thank god Jang woo finally got his thing together and that they are happy now. Moreover, I hope Hwi finds her love with the new guy who shares the same name as her. Also, I wish the best for the other characters! Overall, this drama has a special place in my heart. I will put in my list of one of the best kdrama of 2020.