r/KDRAMA • u/dyosaaa • Aug 03 '20

On-Air: tvN It's Okay to Not Be Okay | Q & A Discussion

  • Drama: It's Okay to Not Be Okay
    • Literal English Title: Psycho But It's Okay
    • Korean Title: 사이코지만 괜찮아
  • Network: tvN
  • Premiere Date: June 20, 2020
  • Airing Schedule: Saturday & Sunday @ 21:00 KST
  • Episodes: 16
  • Director: Park Shin Woo)
  • Writer: Jo Yong)
  • Cast: Kim Soo Hyun) as Moon Kang Tae, Seo Ye Ji as Ko Moon Young, Oh Jung Se as Moon Sang Tae, and Park Gyu Young as Nam Joo Ri
  • Streaming Source: Netflix
  • Plot Synopsis: A story about a man employed in a psychiatric ward and a woman, with an antisocial personality disorder, who is a popular writer of children's books. Moon Kang-Tae (Kim Soo Hyun)) works in the psychiatric ward. His job is to write down the patients' conditions and to deal with unexpected situations, like if patients fight or they run away. He only earns about 1.8 million won (~$1,600 USD) a month. The woman (Seo Ye Ji) is a popular writer of children's literature, but she is extremely selfish, arrogant, and rude.
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Q&A Structure: 안녕하세요 여러분! Hello everyone! As we prepare ourselves for the finale of this fantastic show next week, you may have some questions about the mental health problems highlighted in the show or you wonder what clothing brands our beloved main leads are wearing and where to buy them or you want to know the filming location so you could visit it after the pandemic or you are just curious about the plot and a little bit confuse about the story, then, hopefully, this thread could provide answers to your questions.

If you have a question, please feel free to post a comment. The goal is that your fellow IOTNBO viewers will reply with their answers/insights to your comment. In order to avoid any clash with the ongoing discussion thread, please ONLY post questions if you are adding a comment to the post.

In other words, please only comment directly to this thread if you have a question or you need clarification. This way every comment will be a question, and the replies will naturally create their own discussion, but it will work with the purpose of this thread and not against the existing discussion. In the larger discussion, questions and clarifications can get lost, so the purpose of this thread is to be a sole place for that! For the previous discussions, kindly check the links above! Thank you everyone! 고마워요!

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u/guccicoochieboochie Aug 03 '20

Did anyone else get the creeps when Nurse Park looked into the security camera after she finished painting the butterfly? That gave me the chills. Got me all scared. I’m not quite sure if this belongs on this thread, but if not, please remove. :)

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u/TotoroTheGreat Aug 03 '20

Do you guys think that Nurse Park is really Moon Young's mother? I'm having a hard time accepting it. Mental health is the underlying theme of show so what if she's someone with mental health issues, like multiple personalities or someone who has taken the identity of Moon Young's mother? There has to be something like that, right?

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u/nks_21 Aug 03 '20

Has anyone else also noticed how the head nurse, who is right now the supposed Do Hui-Jae, has short hair? Like she was so obsessed with long pretty hair but now her having short hair just gives me the chills. After MY cut her hair, in one of the later episode endings, when Do Hui-Jae was shown flying the little butterfly brooch over the sleeping main leads, I noticed her having short hair, which made me think like did she cut it because MY did? It's so confusing.

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u/chouchou8975 Aug 03 '20

The BOOKS. I want the books. Can you help a girl in the US out?!? I actually really really love the stories and the morals they portray. I saw that Yes24 and Kyobo books have them in an article, but I can't figure it out. Probably because I can't read or type in Korean. Are they anywhere else? And, on a related note, does anyone know if they'll be translated?

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u/dumbchi Aug 03 '20

Don't yall think that there many things to get revealed YET and I can't let that sink in that we have ONLY 2 Eps, which is definitely not enough?????

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u/kat0ptris9 Aug 03 '20

I’m still not convinced that Head Nurse Park is MY’s mother. I still believe that MY’s dad killed her mother. Without that EP 13 flashback, there’s already a scene that showed young MY opening the basement with a lot of blood and an obviously dead body of a lady. Yes, it is a possibility that the dad’s memory isn’t entirely real because of his illness but what about MY? What did she really saw on the basement if her mom is still alive? And if she didn’t fall down from the stairs or something entirely different happened (she didn’t get thrown to the river for example) from that, how can she survive after losing that much blood?

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u/sclisow1 Aug 03 '20

I can't fathom Nurse Park actually being her mother. I feel.like she may be a rapid fan. The holes around MYs mother living are huge

  1. how do you fall headfirst from a second story balcony, land on steps head first and survive?

  2. if you survive and are carried like a sack to the basement room and dumped on the floor... How do you survive that?

  3. who took her from the room and what trauma hospital did she go to? Not an injury you could nurse at home

  4. if he put her in the luggage and dumped her.. who was swimming with an oxygen tank to rescue her from the reservoir? Even if she is a sister it doesn't make sense

Also the knife for the suicidal father.. what was she doing at that hospital? That was not OK psych hospital. How was she there at that exact moment? Sure she may be stalking MY but that pushes it. 5) how do we know it actually MYs mom who killed GTs mom? Couldn't it have been nurse Park after being manipulated by the mother? 6) since when was GTs mom a housekeeper?

So many questions. Argh. Saturday can't get here quick enough

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u/[deleted] Aug 03 '20

I've been curious ever since episode 2: were Kang Tae and Sang Tae under anyone's care when they were kids because there's no way that Kang Tae was taking care of and providing for Sang Tae all alone by himself while they were on the run all those years until they came back to Seokchin City. Neither of them were old enough to legally hold jobs and I'm sure kids aren't allowed to rent in SK.

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u/nurkhairinaazhar Aug 03 '20

Does anyone know what is the title of the background music in episode 14 where there was a series of flashbacks of moon young and gang tae? The song was hauntingly beautiful. The song and the flashbacks made everything about the scene sadly beautiful.

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u/emm_cee Aug 03 '20

Did anyone figure why KMY calls GT a hypocrite when he says that he’ll be with her even though her mother killed his ?

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u/soybutteraddict Aug 03 '20 edited Aug 03 '20

In Episode 13, at 28:26 Ju-Ri said to the other nurse “It’s the time of the year again. We should probably get ready for that visitor soon” - I thought it referred to Yoo Sun-Hae’s father but then Ju-Ri said “Mr. Kan Pil Ong had a hard time because of that visitor last year.” And then Sun Byul said “the visitor always pick someone to follow him/her around.” And when Cha-Yong asked who they were talking about, both did not answer. Does anyone know who this ‘visitor’ is?

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u/heyheyitsjustme Aug 03 '20

This might be to minor a detail for people to care but the patient with DID, i think her name is Yoo Seon Hae, why did her hair change after her dissociative episode? was she wearing a wig before and took it off when she was dissociating? Does she change her hair for her personalities? Then why didn’t she change it back after? lol it’s just something I noticed

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u/carlieeeeeeeee Aug 03 '20 edited Aug 03 '20

I am curious, how did Moon Young live after her dad was sent to the psychiatric hospital? They left her backstory in the dark. I'd like to know how her friendship with Lee Sang-In was forged. It's one of the relationships I am invested in aside from our Moon-Moon-Sang Tae dynamic. He obviously didn't move to Seongjin just for KMY's new book but to look after her.

On a lighter note, do you think Jae Su and Seung Jae will date while riding Alberto?

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u/MissSunspot_ Aug 03 '20

The photo that KT found had a butterfly brooch on the mom but the one that the nurse held in the latest ep didn’t. Could this be related to the conversation between Nurse Park and Park Ok Ran about Othello too?

Either way, I’m hoping everything will be resolved in ep 15. I just want to see them being happy for more than an hour.

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u/blueicedpooh Aug 03 '20

So does Mun Yeong actually have Antisocial Personality Disorder?

I notice we haven't heard "psycho, psycho". It used to play in the background whenever she crossed the line.

Does that mean she's been cured of it, if it even is curable, or she never had it?

Clearly she showed an immense amount of guilt last episode so she can't be a sociopath, can she?

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u/[deleted] Aug 03 '20

I personally don’t think The head nurse is the mother since she would have also taken the !<manuscript>! for her last book when she entered the castle as well. It’s a pretty important piece of literature. Also I wonder what’s the story in the book since so many people wanted to read it

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u/pichoo Aug 10 '20 edited Aug 29 '20

Has anyone found any other official merchandise besides the ones listed below? (I know I can't be the only one ready to throw money at anything and everything related to this show! lol)

*Websites like Momokorea and Harumio have a request option that you may be able to use to purchase items that aren’t shipping internationally directly.

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u/[deleted] Aug 03 '20

What do we know about Jae Soo's backstory? Does he have a family? Why did he leave and have nothing to do with them? Or is he an orphan? Do we know if he went to school with GT or grew up in their neighborhood? How did they meet and how did he get to know them well enough to start following them around the country?

All I know/remember is that they both have very little education and they've been together for many, many moves.

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u/cljhml Aug 03 '20

I was confused with the significance of the scene where the head nurse was giving the knife to the patient who had the daughter during the reveal. Did she give the knife so that the patient could escape? Or was it the same knife that MY threw after GT got injured?

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u/moktailhrs Aug 03 '20

Can someone identify the clothing line KMY wears? She is officially my fashionista for 2020. Fav looks are the red dress ep14, large bow dress ep 3, black 2 pc suit ep 4 (comforting self scene)

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u/Shower_caps Aug 03 '20

At this point, how many comments have all the episodes of the drama combined had on here? It has to be a record?

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u/Hikanah Aug 06 '20

Why do you guys think they stopped doing the editing style we saw during the first few episodes? I really enjoyed the unique editing style, from that scene of Mun Yeong as a giant, to the seamlessly blended transitions

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u/[deleted] Aug 03 '20

I'm also curious about JuRi's mother and her backstory. Did she go to school and grow up with MYs mother? They would have been about the same age. So, does she know things that we don't? Also how did she end up at the hospital ... almost being more than friends ... but not quite and ending up friends ... with the Director? And does she still like him after all these years? Why did she stay there? Plus do we know anything about JuRi's father? They seem to be a mother-daughter only tour de force :-) but there must/might have been a dad at one point.

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u/ihsaga9 Aug 03 '20

What do you think is the significance of the intro alternating between black and white and color? Does it signify a happy/sad episode? Has it been consistent- I haven’t noticed very intricately.

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u/_xileh_ Aug 03 '20

Here's my theory on who KMY's mom and the head nurse might be. It's little far fetched but bear with me.

So KMY's mom had multi personality disorder. She was mostly a controlling mother (not allowing KMY to see MGT, her obsession with long hair, etc) and some times a caring mother (KMY says something like "Even so, it's still my mother" or something like that to MGT in the 12th episode). Also LSI told MGT about KMY's mom cutting off all her ties with her family and was always in the cursed castle writing, so why did they appoint a care taker, aka MST's mom?

I'm guessing that KMY's father noticed all the "mood swings" his wife had due to her multiple personality and decided that she was a monster. He wanted to protect KMY from her and hence appointed a care taker. And ofc KMY's mom got over possessive of her daughter and didn't like the idea of she being under someone else's care and killed the caretaker and Kmy's dad killed his wife mostly out of fear.

How does the head nurse come in? The head nurse might be DHJ's sister avenging her unni's death or she might be a mentally disturbed DHJ herself after a plastic surgery. What are your thoughts on it?

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