Hometown Cha Cha Cha - Blog Posts

Thinking about how this poem referenced in Hometown Cha Cha Cha perfectly suits KimChay.💔 Quite literally 😔 considering their interactions happen near entrances 🥺 not to mention they were each other's muse 😭😭😭😭

"The Gatekeeper" by Kim Haeng Soon (tr. David Bowles)

It’s my job to say, “You can’t do that here.”

It’s my job to deny your objective.

It’s my job to deny you the next day, too.

It’s my job to wait for you the following day to deny you again.

It’s my job to wait for you the day after that and fall in love with you.

So it’s my job to deny my love.

“I won’t cry over my vocation,” I wrote.

But while writing in my diary,

I sometimes wept.

HOMETOWN CHA CHA CHA THEORY

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I've seen the theory that Dushik's secret wife and baby died (although I don't understand why him having a family was a secret I'll let it slide), and although I personally do not want this theory to be real, I can totally see it happening.

Especially since it looks like Hyejin's relationship with her father is strained due to him moving on and marrying someone else . At least I felt that way when she called him on her mom's birthday. I can see her finding out about Dushik's past marriage and then doubting his feelings for her or having some type of guilt because it reminds her of her mother. But then maybe she will talk to her dad and he will explain how you can love someone and respectfully move on for the sake of your own happiness and fall in love again and both loves are equally valid. And that conversation with her dad both strengthens her relationship with him and helps validate her romantic relationship with Dushik.

Idk just a thought

sometimes i'm really baffled at the amount of queer-coding and or explicitly queer representation this year's dramas (and by extension 2020 and 2019) had???

i do think Korea is getting there (albeit slowly) and I'm really stoked for 2022