High Kick

As Mun-hee cooks fried shrimp for lunch, Hae-mi comments that it isn’t good to intake a lot of fat in the afternoon. Mun-hee gets mad and tells Soon-jae to have a talk with Hae-mi how inappropriate it is to speak to her mother-in-law like that. Meanwhile, Hye-mi finds out that Yoon-ho doesn’t get very good grades and asks why he’s been acting like he was better than her. Then she suggests a bet that they officially start dating if she gets better grades than him on the next exam.

Mun-hee watches housewives winning prize money with inventions on TV and boasts how she could do much better if she only tried. From then on, Mun-hee starts drawing sketches and making something of her own. Meanwhile, Min-yong spots Min-jeong with another male teacher at a coffee shop and jokingly asks what they are doing together. As the teacher answers they’re on a date, Min-yong gets upset.

Joon-ha feels he’s being respected by Min-yong as Min-yong makes toast for him upon demand. As he brags about it to Hae-mi, he accidentally tells her that he saw Min-yong and Min-jeong out on a date. Meanwhile, Mun-hee runs into her childhood friend Sook-ja on the street. Sook-ja mentions that she saw Dae-geun a while ago and says that he used to have feelings for Mun-hee.

Worried about his poor English skills, Soon-jae tries getting out of the trip to the United States, but the others don’t let him. Soon-jae becomes stressed out as he imagines everyone making fun of him because of his poor English. Meanwhile, Yoo-mi is punished by Min-yong to run the track. Spotting Min-yong’s car, Yoo-mi scribbles ‘mad dog’ on it, but is caught by Min-yong on the spot, who was inside the car.

As Yoo-mi, Beom, and Chan-seong all eat at the family table, Soon-jae sees Min- yong not having a place to sit and has flashes of incidents of the three behaving as if it were their own house. Enraged, Soon-jae declares that he won’t allow the hanger-ons behave like actual family members from now on. Meanwhile, Min-jeong is worried that Seung-hyeon missed school for the past couple days. Then, Min-jeong is delighted to see Seung-hyeon finally come to school, and Yoon-ho becomes upset seeing that.

Min-jeong asks Min-yong to buy a cup of coffee for her on his way to school. But Min-yong gets hit by a motorcycle as he walks while talking on the phone with Min- jeong, and Min-jeong turns pale hearing the news from the assistant principal. Meanwhile, Min-ho tells on a teacher as Seung-hyeon comes to school riding a motorcycle. After getting scolded by a teacher, Seung-hyeon comes to see Min-ho for revenge.

Soon-jae calls on everyone that he has an announcement to make. He declares that he will be presenting the “Lee Soon-jae Award” to the most outstanding person of all family members including hanger-ons for that week. Meanwhile, Joon-ha runs into Min-jeong and Shin Ji at a coffee shop. Shin Ji speaks about how her friend made a lot of money on stock and asks Joon-ha to make a high profit with her new contract money. So Joon-ha ends up managing both Shin Ji and Min-jeong’s money.

Min-ho and Beom decide to raise a new-born puppy together. But Min-ho’s family doesn’t let the puppy live inside the house, so the two make a dog house on the rooftop and name the puppy Beom-min after one syllable from each of their names. Meanwhile, as Yoon-ho has hamburgers with Min-jeong, he is happy to see that Min-jeong is wearing the hairpin he gave her as a gift.

Mun-hee starts taking English classes in preparation for the family’s trip to the United States for a wedding next month. Joon-ha says that he and Soon-jae can’t speak English that well either, but Hae-mi argues that Soon-jae is good at English making Soon-jae feel uneasy. Meanwhile, Min-yong is dumbfounded spotting Yoo-mi shopping for clothes at a store after skipping school. The next day, Min-yong demands for her parent’s phone numbers to Yoo-mi, insisting that he should have a word with one of them about her.

Min-yong and Min-jeong are on a date and as they walk into a coffee shop, they run into Joon-ha, who’s having a meeting with an investor. Min-yong is frustrated that once Joon-ha tells Hae-mi, the whole family will become to know of his relationship with Min-jeong. Meanwhile, Hae-mi is upset seeing Min-ho get pushed around by Yoo-mi. Then, Hye-mi, who tags along Chan-seong to the house, introduces herself to Hae-mi as Yoon-ho’s girlfriend.

As she goes up to Min-yong’s room to get Joon-ee’s stuff, Shin Ji happens to overhear Hae-mi talking about her. Shin Ji becomes upset as Hae-mi says Shin Ji should look into a different career since she doesn’t seem to be getting anywhere. Meanwhile, Min-yong hears Min-jeong telling her parents on the phone that she can’t go see them because she’s busy. Min-yong tells Min-jeong that he’s getting tired of seeing her everyday, and suggests they part early after eating lunch.

Joon-ha is to go on a 5-day business trip to China. On the night before he leaves, Hae-mi speaks of the time when she once went for training to the United States and Joon-ha terribly missed her, but finds Joon-ha falling asleep on her. Meanwhile, Yoo-mi comments how she loathes Hye-mi and that she won’t let it go if Hye-mi ever annoys her. Then, Hye-mi accidentally bumps into Yoo-mi in the hallway.

While playing Korean chess with Mr. Kim of the real estate, Soon-jae finds out that the deposit Joon-ha paid was not $10,000 as he said, but actually $30,000. Joon-ha insists that it was his friend Cheol-ho, who paid the remaining amount, and even says that he’d take a bow every three steps he makes if he’s telling a lie. Meanwhile, Seung-hyeon tries picking a fight with Yoon-ho, but steps on a shovel and hits himself, and gets into a series of following accidents. But Yoon-ho is mistaken for beating up Seung-hyeon and is called to the teachers’ office.

Mun-hee is moved by the scene where Robert Redford washes Meryl Streep’s hair for her in the movie ‘Out of Africa.’ Soon-jae mutters that he doesn’t understand why anyone would wash a healthy person’s hair when they could wash it his or herself, Mun-hee gets irritated saying that he doesn’t have any romance left. Meanwhile, Beom and Yoo-mi get into an argument again and Yoo-mi suggests that they have a real fight.

Hae-mi happens to read Joon-ha’s credit card statement while looking through the mail. She finds out that Joon-ha has gone to a strip club again and tells Soon-jae, and Joon-ha ends up running around in his underwear to get away from them. Meanwhile, just as the bus that they’ve been waiting for together arrives, Min-yong goes to buy some coffee and Min-jeong becomes nervous that the bus might take off without him. Min-yong gets on the bus just as the bus is about to take away, but brags that it was nothing to worry about to begin with.

Hae-mi wakes Min-yong early in the morning that the whole family should go out and eat together. Min-yong unwillingly joins the family, but is dumbfounded as he sees everyone who initially wanted to go out for barbeque get persuaded by Hae-mi and change the menu to sashimi. Meanwhile, as Yoon-ho finds out that a rumor has been going around that Hye-mi is his girlfriend, he confronts her on why she started a false rumor.

A friend of Soon-jae, who comes visit Soon-jae at the clinic, comments that Nurse Park’s physiognomy suggests that he has a good heart and that he’ll be a faithful employee. Then, as Beom comes over to give Soon-jae flowers for Parent’s day, he says that Beom’s physiognomy suggests that he’ll betray easily. Meanwhile, Hae-mi is called on to come to school as Yoon-ho gets in a fight.

Soon-jae’s heart starts pounding when he sees Mun-hee back from the hair salon with a new hairstyle. From then on, his heart keeps pounding whenever he sees Mun-hee and Soon-jae worries there’s something wrong with himself. But Min-yong teases Soon-jae that he must have fallen for Mun-hee. Meanwhile, Yoo-mi’s mom and dad come visit Joon-ha’s new office. Joon-ha gets an eerie feeling about Yoo-mi’s dad looking around the office.

The security alarm goes off by accident in the middle of the night, making all the family members rush outside. But Soon-jae is left inside the house as he was in the bathroom at that time, and upset by the fact that no one came for his rescue. He scolds Joon-ha in particular. Meanwhile, Min-yong is addicted to a computer game and can’t seem to do anything else. Even on his way out to meet Min-jeong, he notices he’s about to loose one of his items and gets absorbed back into the game.

Seeing Yoo-mi’s mom sing her song on cable TV, Soon-jae frowns saying what a terrible song it is. But as all the other family members seem to like it and even sing along, Soon-jae becomes mad and declares that the song is banned from his household. Meanwhile, Min-ho gets bullied by another kid and asks Yoon-ho to teach him self- defense moves, so he won’t get bullied anymore.

Yoo-mi finds Mun-hee playing Korean Poker on the internet and tells her that playing on the net isn’t half as fun as playing with actual cards. So Mun-hee suggests they play together, but Mun-hee keeps losing to Yoo-mi. Meanwhile, Joon-ha thinks of Shin Ji as Cheol-ho asks him to find a commercial song-writer for their advertisement on cable TV. Though busy with her new work, Shin Ji can’t let down Joon-ha and decides to take the job.