Heh, I think Mookyul's equally devious, that you're right, he'd have some kind of technicality in there. (He does work in the gangster field, after all!) Plus it's hard with translations to know if what we see is really as accurate as it could be -- well, without a mile-long set of translator's notes, since Korean is anything but a simple language. When I read that, especially while remembering when Mookyul first visits the Chairman's office and the bit about "rolling around in bed with me" etc -- what I interpreted Mookyul's line was more like he meant maybe, "you're completely mine, something all my own."
After all, Mookyul is the chairman's, and bound to remain that way for at least eight more years per their agreement. What he has, he has through the Chairman... but Ewon is something that he's gotten without the Chairman. I'm not sure if that makes sense, but it's my impression of how Mookyul rationalizes and compartmentalizes the contradiction between insisting Ewon not be with anyone else or else!!! versus knowing he must continue to share himself with the Chairman as well.
Or maybe your take is much simpler, that technically, well, right now we're alone, so, uh, yeah, you're the only one! For at least the, uh, next ten minutes!
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Date: 23 Aug 2008 09:50 am (UTC)After all, Mookyul is the chairman's, and bound to remain that way for at least eight more years per their agreement. What he has, he has through the Chairman... but Ewon is something that he's gotten without the Chairman. I'm not sure if that makes sense, but it's my impression of how Mookyul rationalizes and compartmentalizes the contradiction between insisting Ewon not be with anyone else or else!!! versus knowing he must continue to share himself with the Chairman as well.
Or maybe your take is much simpler, that technically, well, right now we're alone, so, uh, yeah, you're the only one! For at least the, uh, next ten minutes!
Riiiiiight. Heh.