"Go ahead and get knocked out." Kang Mal-geum and Gu Gyeon-hwan make a shocking debut decision.. Shattering own record viewership [Moja Mussa] [Comprehensive]

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'Everyone is fighting their own worthlessness' Je Jak-sa (CEO) Kang Mal-geum will make Gu Gyeon-hwan a film director.

According to Nielsen Korea, a ratings survey company, on the 11th, the eighth episode of the JTBC Saturday-Sunday drama "Everyone is Fighting Their Own Worthlessness" (directed by Cha Young-hoon, written by Park Hae-young, produced by Studio Phoenix, SLL, and Studio Flow, hereinafter "Moja Mussa"), which aired on the 10th, recorded national viewership of 3.9% and metropolitan area viewership of 4.5%, setting a new record for the series.

On that day, Hwang Dong-man (played by Gu Gyeon-hwan), who raced through a heavy snowfall, ultimately suffered a car rollover accident on a road with temperatures of minus 20 degrees Celsius. Despite this, he desperately kept his promise to Byun Eun-ah (played by Ko Yoon-jung) to "help me." Shivering so hard that his teeth chattered while hanging upside down, he still shared the story she wanted to hear, and Byun Eun-ah's nosebleed stopped.

While Hwang Dong-man waited for paramedics, he submitted his pen name "Byun Eun-ah" to the collaborative work "Naknaknak" and received a message from Ma Jae-young (played by Kim Jong-hoon) telling him to "shut up." Moreover, he felt like he was about to go crazy and jump for joy at Ma Jae-young's provocation: "Don't just chew and drag others down like everyone else; instead, try climbing up by biting down hard on your molars like me, even if it means losing five teeth in the process." In a situation where he could do nothing, Hwang Dong-man's anger and sorrow intertwined, and he began to imagine summer weather, creating a miracle where he sweated profusely in the freezing cold. He felt that even the dream of becoming a film director could be achieved this way.

Reality, however, was different from imagination. Although he carefully printed out the revised script of "I'll Make the Weather" that had been well-received, he intended to show it to Go Hye-jin (played by Kang Mal-geum) first. However, Go Hye-jin was already fully committed to casting veteran actor Noh Kang-sik (played by Sung Dong-il) in Ma Jae-young's film at their hideout. Feeling a profound sense of alienation, Hwang Dong-man's stomach ached when he witnessed the warm and friendly conversation between Noh Kang-sik and Ma Jae-young, both of whom liked his script. So, he approached Noh Kang-sik without hesitation, who was said to be able to tell someone's strength just by shaking their hand, and asked for a handshake, only to be told to "build your core muscles" and suffered a blow to his pride.

Meanwhile, a whirlpool of desire erupted between the two producers surrounding Ma Jae-young's "Naknaknak." CEO Choi Dong-hyun (played by Choi Won-young) openly revealed his ambition, citing Byun Eun-ah's comment that "Dokki" was the second-best script he had read this year. He actively pushed for casting Noh Kang-sik and proposed to Go Hye-jin that they return the film promotion association's support funds and inject large-scale capital to expand the project. The profit split would be 90% to 10%. His argument was that the "1" share would be a larger amount than what Go Hye-jin would earn if she produced it alone.

Go Hye-jin reenacted the "double curse" and the final words she had hurled at her section chief during her trainee reporter days, when he had given her an inhuman order to go to a funeral home and ask the parents why their child had died because she couldn't find a news story. She also declared her resolve as a filmmaker who entered "this industry" with the line, "I'll make something so incredibly funny that even parents who have lost a child can laugh," and announced a stop-loss selling against Choi Dong-hyun, who was engaging in ugly and dirty classism. Borrowing the philosophy of her grandmother, who said that if you prepare food with good intentions, even simple ingredients taste delicious, she also rebuked Choi Dong-hyun's greed for chasing only money while ignoring the essence of filmmaking.

On the day Go Hye-jin cursed at the editor-in-chief and quit her job, what stopped her from weeping uncontrollably was the debut script "The Bottle Opener of Lust" by Park Kyung-se (played by Oh Jung-se). She loved Park Kyung-se so much that she rolled on the floor laughing. Although she endured the harsh years of reality and the man who once made her laugh with just a single line of writing had become nothing more than a pathetic man soaked in inferiority complex, Go Hye-jin still respected Park Kyung-se.

On the other hand, Go Hye-jin's patience reached its limit when she saw Hwang Dong-man, who had gathered with the eight-member group at the hideout, still just talking and enthusiastically tearing apart other people's films, calling them "trash." She could no longer tolerate the light-minded chatter of someone who had never once truly exploded on the real battlefield ring. She therefore made a sudden announcement to the Film Promotion Association that she would produce Hwang Dong-man's "I'll Make the Weather," which had been the second-ranked work for production support. The ending, which intercut Go Hye-jin's chilling warning, "Get on the ring and get knocked out. You can't run away," with scenes of Hwang Dong-man repeatedly getting punched, unleashed a burst of catharsis.

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