High Kick!/ep. 71 - 105 Plot Synopsis
ep. 71
Soon-jae’s house is swamped with New Year’s presents. Soon-jae, Hae-mi, Min- yong, and even Mun-hee receive presents in their name, but nothing is delivered to Joon-ha and he’s embarrassed about it. After giving some thought, Joon-ha calls his friend who runs his own business at the seafood market.
Meanwhile, Hae-mi sees Min-yong laughing on the phone, and asks who he’s talking to. She comments that he looks happy, but as usual, Min-yong reacts almost annoyed.
ep. 72
Soon-jae realizes he’s missing money from his wallet and questions Yoon-ho. Yoon-ho denies he’s the one who took it, but Soon-jae doesn’t believe him and Yoon-ho leaves the house, escaping from Soon-jae. Once out, he realizes he doesn’t have a jacket or his motorcycle key and he doesn’t know what to do.
Meanwhile, Hae-mi meets Byeong-geon, who’s to be her co-presenter of a paper
for an upcoming conference. As Joon-ha wanders around with Min-yong looking for
Yoon-ho, he spots Hae-mi enthusiastically speaking with Byeong-geon at a coffee
shop.
ep. 73
Hae-mi is to be the parent-teacher for the day at the kids’ school. On the same day, Min-yong is to go to Yangpyeong for a day to get a training session, and as Hae-mi comments on how Min-yong is dressed in the morning, they get into a huge fight.
Meanwhile, Min-ho receives a present from a girl from another class. Min-ho can’t
help but feel flattered, but as he’s about to open it, he gets caught by Yoo-mi.
ep. 74
Mun-hee attends a dinner with Soon-jae at a buffet restaurant. She eats off a plate which she thinks someone left, but it actually turns out to be someone else’s and she is humiliated. Mun-hee tries to get some sympathy from Soon-jae, but he’s the one to criticize her even more.
As Hae-mi goes to meet Min-jeong at the apartment, she sees Shin Ji practicing singing. Hae-mi suggests that Shin Ji sing with more emotion and even demonstrates how she herself sings. Shin Ji is annoyed and speaks badly of Hae- mi in Russian to her Russian friend Nastasha, who happens to be there.
ep. 75
Min-jeong marvels at a performer singing and playing the piano at the restaurant she goes to with Min-yong. Min-jeong is taken aback by the performance and asks Min- yong to sing for her on her birthday, but Min-yong refuses saying that he’s not the lovely type.
As Mun-hee watches Min-yong get ready for his business trip, she comments on how all the family members seem to be going on a trip and mentions that two of them will be going to Singapore in a few days. Yoon-ho, who happens to hear this, asks Mun-hee who those two people are.
ep. 76
Soon-jae finds out that Mun-hee has been getting the money for the maid from both himself and Hae-mi. Joon-ha irritates Soon-jae as well, as he sells off some stock without consulting with Soon-jae. Mun-hee and Joon-ha are both ordered by Soon- jae to submit daily reports from now on.
Meanwhile, Min-ho and Yoon-ho fall from the attic while fighting over Min-yong’s watch. Min-ho’s eye is bruised because of this accident.
ep. 77
Hae-mi is enraged as she finds out that Joon-ha has spent $1,000 on drinking, through the credit card statement. Joon-ha gathers Min-ho and Yoon-ho up to find a way to tame Hae-mi down. The three plan a special event for Hae-mi.
Meanwhile, Shin Ji tries to make Min-jeong comfortable as Min-jeong suffers from gastritis. But in attempt to make some porridge for her, things turn into a disaster. She grates rice in a mixer, making it splatter everywhere, and even ends up pouring the porridge all over Min-jeong.
ep. 78
Yoo-mi’s mom tells Hae-mi that Beom secretly kissed Yoo-mi. Mun-hee and Joon- ha happens to hear this conversation and scolds Beom how he could do such a thing to his friend’s girlfriend.
Meanwhile, Yoon-ho goes to school to run an errand for Min-yong and overhears Min-jeong speaking to the assistant principal that she won’t be a homeroom teacher this year.
ep. 79
As a celebrity on TV says that he would marry the same woman in her next life, Hae- mi asks Mun-hee whether she would marry Soon-jae in her next life. But Mun-hee doesn’t answer, and Soon-jae starts following Mun-hee around asking questions.
Meanwhile, Min-jeong keeps running into Min-yong at school, but she tries to act
like she’s fine. She tries her best to act comfortably around him, but becomes upset
when Min-yong moves to a desk further away from her in the school office.
ep. 80
Min-ho wins first place from the French competition. Mun-hee is proud of Min-ho and keeps making him his favorite dish, but Soon-jae scolds her that he would get sick of it. Then, Mun-hee hears that Hae-mi’s mother will be attending Min-ho’s award ceremony as well, which makes her a bit nervous.
Meanwhile, Min-yong becomes Yoo-mi’s homeroom teacher and scolds her for coming late to school. He even points out every dress-code violation on her and tells her to submit a report on why she was late.
ep. 81
Hae-mi shows Mun-hee a picture of Min-yong and Min-jeong together. Seeing this, Mun-hee nags Min-yong whether he’s going out with Min-jeong or not, and Min- yong becomes furious with Hae-mi, warning her that he’s looking for a chance to get back at her.
Watching how Min-ho gets money for books from Hae-mi, Yoon-ho tries the same thing, but it doesn’t work. He complains how she favors Min-ho over him, and he also gets in trouble at school for something he didn’t actually do.
ep. 82
Soon-jae suggests buying more shares of Chang-dong Corporation, but Joon-ha tells him that he already switched over to Byeong-gun Pharmaceuticals since he happened to acquire confidential information. Soon-jae scolds Joon-ha that will he probably screw up again. But the next day! Byeong-gun Pharmaceuticals hits the ceiling. The new track coach, Yoon Gi-won, arrives at Poong-pa High School. He’s so impatient that he starts a day earlier at school, and at first sight, he asks Min-jeong on a date saying that he’s fallen for her.
ep. 83
Several students of the Poong-pa High School are gathered to be filmed in the school promotional video. While the crew gets ready to film, Min-ho, Beom, and the rest of the kids are busy studying, as an exam is coming up. But Yoon-ho and Yoo- mi, who have no intention to study, decide to kill time together. Meanwhile, Shin Ji gets a call from a musical director for an audition. She goes to meet him at a coffee shop, but he turns out to have quite an odd character.
ep. 84
Mun-hee suddenly faints while washing clothes. Even while she loses her conscious, she notices Hae-mi slapping her cheeks to wake her up and isn’t pleased. When she wakes up again, she is moved by the sight of the family members crying over her. Meanwhile, Yoo-mi comes to Min-ho with a bag full of CDs. Yoo-mi explains that it’ s her mom’s music album that completely failed and asks Min-ho to sell some for her to at least make up for the production fee.
ep. 85
Yoo-mi vents out on Min-ho after getting scolded by Min-yong. Min-ho asks Min- yong if he can try being a little nicer to Yoo-mi, but Min-yong refuses to and Min-ho gets mad. In the meantime, Yoon-ho gets mad at Min-yong, too, because Min-yong sells off his motorcycle. Joon-ha makes $10,000 as the stock he bought through his friend hits the roof. With that, he tells Soon-jae and Mun-hee that he’ll buy them presents, but Mun-hee refuses telling him to save the money.
ep. 86
Soon-jae tells Joon-ha that Dae-geun took his pen he got from the Presidential Mansion. Dae-geun ends up giving back the pen because of Joon-ha, but in return, he suggests to Soon-jae that they have their sons compete against each other in Korean wrestling, Ssireum. Meanwhile, Min-jeong and Shin Ji scratch a car in the parking lot while on their way back from the supermarket. Noticing the car is an expensive imported car, Shin Ji suggests they flee from the scene.
ep. 87
Hae-mi is to receive an award from the Oriental Medicine Doctor Association. As Joon-ha is scheduled to go out of town, he tells Yoon-ho to go to the award ceremony with flowers. Yoon-ho complains about having to go, until he sees a model wearing a suit in a magazine and starts nagging Joon-ha for a suit to wear to the ceremony. Meanwhile, Mun-hee is annoyed by Soon-jae as he ignores her when she asks him to give her a massage or scratch her back.
ep. 88
Hae-mi hears from Yoon-ho that Min-jeong and Min-yong has broken up. She realizes they really are over as she checks Min-yong’s cell phone and wonders what could have caused the break-up. Meanwhile, Min-jeong talks to a friend on the phone and acts like she’s over Min- yong saying that she won’t cry over a divorced guy who has nothing special about himself. However, Min-yong happens to hear this conversation, and Min-jeong tells Shin Ji that she should die out of remorse.
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ep. 89
Soon-jae is glad to read that Mrs. Kaesung-daek has been sentenced for life in prison on a newspaper. The family members tell him that she must have a grudge against him since he reported her breakout to the police twice, and that she probably hates him for it. Then, Soon-jae receives a letter from Mrs. Kaesung-daek.
Yoon-ho is upset as he’s accused for bothering Min-ho studying, and declares that he’ll find his own place. He ends up setting up a tent in the living room.
ep. 90
Soon-jae threatens Joon-ha that if he farts one more time, he’ll punch through his anus. As Joon-ha farts again, Soon-jae pokes Joon-ha’s butt and Joon-ha screams out of pain. Meanwhile, Min-jeong finds out that Min-yong and Shin Ji were actually together the other night out looking for her. Min-jeong remembers Hae-mi telling her how she would never give up on someone she really has feelings for, and contemplates what to do.
ep. 91
As Mun-hee spots flowers on the way back from the market, she screams of joy that spring has arrived. The family members worry that Mun-hee’s spring fever has begun once again. And they are right: she begins going on spring picnics, having Shin Ji baby-sit Jun-ee. Watching Yoo-mi being scolded by Min-yong because of her terrible grades, Min- ho wishes that Yoo-mi were just a little smarter. Then, Min-ho witnesses something very shocking at Yoo-mi’s house as he visits to run an errand for his mom.
ep. 92
Except Hae-mi, who has the flu, the rest of the family members go to Jeju Island to attend a wedding, and they tell Min-yong to take care of her while they are away. But Hae-mi feels uneasy as Min-yong approaches her asking what he can do for her in a sarcastic manner. Meanwhile, Min-ho, Yoon-ho, and Beom go to Min-jeong’s house because Min- jeong forgot to give back their cell phones she took from them at school. They meet Shin Ji on their way and ask her for a ride.
ep. 93
Joon-ha coming home drunk, hugs Mun-hee telling her that he likes her more than Soon-jae. Hearing this, Soon-jae becomes upset and takes it out on Joon-ha for no reason and acts like he favors Min-yong. Meanwhile, Seung-hyeon thinks Min-jeong is cute and he proposes to her in front of the class. Yoon-ho sneers at him as if he thinks that’s nonsense.
ep. 94
Mun-hee and Jun-ha get mad that Soon-jae and Hae-mi break their promise to take them out for dinner to a barbeque restaurant. Mun-hee decides to go to Soon-jae to ask him for money, so at least she and Joon-ha can go out by themselves. When she arrives at the clinic, she finds Hae-mi speaking in Russian so skillfully, and she becomes envious. Meanwhile, Min-yong calls for Yoo-mi to come see him at the school’s office because her grades are again the lowest in class since exams. But as Min-yong begins chasing her with a stick in his hand, Yoo-mi becomes scared and starts to run.
ep. 95
Joon-ha is afraid that Soon-jae will find out that he has lent money to a friend in need after selling his share of Bong-won Electronics. Soon-jae does find out eventually, and scared Joon-ha hides in the attack. Meanwhile, Yoon-ho is awestruck by Air Force Academy students who visit the school, and he announces that he’s decided to attend Air Force Academy as well.
ep. 96
On their way back from eating together, Mun-hee and Shin Ji run into relatives including their granduncle. Granduncle is happy to see Shin Ji, not aware of the fact that Min-yong and Shin Ji has divorced. Unable to turn down his invitation, Shin Ji has no choice but to go home with him. Meanwhile, Yoo-mi gives Min-ho the costume they wore at the broadcasting club event as a gift on their 100th day anniversary. Dressed up as a cute fox, Yoo-mi gives Min-ho a costume for the Little Prince, saying the costume is a couple’s costume.
ep. 97
Singer Ivy makes an appointment to get treated at Soon-jae’s clinic. Seeing Joon-ha get so excited and eager to get her autograph, Soon-jae asks him who Ivy is and Joon-ha shows Soon-jae her picture from the internet. Meanwhile, Min-jeong is worried about Chan-seong as he doesn’t show up at school without any notice. As Yoon-ho gives Min-jeong the phone number of the kid who is close with Chan-seong, he sees a picture of Min-yong and Min-jeong fall out of Min-jeong’s planner, and gets angry at her asking why she still has Min-yong’ s picture with her.
ep. 98
Min-yong hears about Hae-mi’s legendary drinking habits from Joon-ha. Although Hae-mi never really got drunk bad, Joon-ha tells him that once in college, she got so drunk and made a scene that the whole school became to know about it. After hearing this story, Min-yong’s curiosity kicks in. Meanwhile, Min-jeong goes to see Soon-jae as she feels pain in her lower abdomen. Soon-jae recommends chi exercises to her and gives her the exercise videotape.
ep. 99
Yoon-ho sighs as he looks around the motorcycles displayed at the shop, since he lost his chance of riding one as Min-yong took away the motorcycle he had borrowed from a friend. Then, Yoon-ho hears about how Chan-seong made some money by filming a commercial through a model agency, and asks him to introduce him to the agency. Meanwhile, Beom is startled when Yoo-mi wakes up while he watches her sleep. As Yoo-mi makes fun of him asking if he was trying to kiss her again, Beom feels bad.
ep. 100
Beom gives Min-yong a memory card saying it’s from their next-door neighbor. Min- yong can’t help but feel amused as he checks what the contents of the memory card is. What’s in there is pictures of Hae-mi’s feces. Hae-mi asks for the memory card when she finds out, but Min-yong refuses, saying it’ll serve as leverage to protect himself. Meanwhile, Yoon-ho saves Chan-seong from bad kids who try to bully him. Ever since, Chan-seong follows around Yoon-ho saying he is his best friend.
ep. 101
Soon-jae feels the need to take special measures, as Min-yong refuses to play Korean chess with him, Joon-ha just keeps watching television when he comes home, and Min-ho and Yoon-ho continue to quarrel with each other. The special measure is to have everyone wear uniforms with back numbers referring to each person’s rank in the house. Meanwhile, Yoo-mi and Beom meet the new practice teacher Kwon Oh-joong as they stop by the broadcasting room. Yoo-mi is confident that Oh-joong is a ghost as she finds his picture in the notebook she found cleaning the broadcasting room the day before.
ep. 102
Poong-pa High School’s students go on a school trip to Sorak Mountain. Mun-hee feels bad for Min-yong as he goes on the trip without getting a chance to celebrate his birthday. As Min-yong departs in the later group since he had to visit a house in mourning the night before, he meets Shin Ji who happens to be on her way to a place nearby, and gets to rides with her. Meanwhile, Beom is to join the school trip a day later as he attends his great grand mother’s 100th birthday party. He says he’ll spend the night over at Min-ho’s house since his house is filled with visiting relatives. But as he wakes up thirsty in the middle of the night, he happens to drink wine, mistaking if for water.
ep. 103
Shin Ji draws up courage and tells Min-yong that she wants to get back with him, but is startled to find out that someone’s been hiding in the curtain and closet. So she pretends to laugh it off saying that it was a joke and escapes from the room.
Meanwhile, Mun-hee’s homework from her cooking class is to bake a cake with her husband and bring a picture of it to class. Mun-hee tries to lure Soon-jae into helping her with the homework, but Soon-jae brushes her off saying he’s tired.
ep. 104
Soon-jae is captured by some gangsters out of the blue in front of his clinic. He finds out that they want him to cure their boss who’s having a back problem. It turns out that they’ve watched the documentary program about Soon-jae on TV and have mistaken him to be a very famous oriental medicine doctor. Meanwhile, Yoon-ho spots Min-jeong and Min-yong walking together in a lovey- dovey mood. Then, Poong-pa High School students are to participate in a survival game, separated in teams.
ep. 105
Soon-jae receives a suspicious letter with his clinic’s 40th anniversary ceremony just around the corner. The letter turns out to be from an angry patient who claims that his or her mouth has been disfigured because of Soon-jae, and threatens that he or she will throw eggs at the ceremony. Min-ho and his friends who are in need of money volunteer to be Soon-jae’s bodyguards for that day. Meanwhile, Min-jeong cancels her date with Min-yong because of a friend’s wedding she needs to attend, but a few moments later, she calls him out again as she decides not to go to the wedding. But then, she plays a joke on Min-yong saying she will need to go to the wedding.
