Sunja and Koh Hansu - Pachinko
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Sunja and her mother prep the kimshi for the men staying in their boarding house, and they all compliument how good the Kimchi is.

Teen Sunja seems to be feeling sick.

Grandma Sunja continues to take care of her sister-in-law Kyunghee, but finds that Kyunghee passed away during the night.

Teen Sunja's stomach hurts.

Grandma Sunja attends Kyunghee's funeral, devastaed.

Teen Sunja considers her situation and her forbidden love with Koh Hansu.

They've continued their love affair in secret, befoer Koh Hansu left.

He's gone, and some of the people in the market think he may not return at all.

As she makes her way through the market, she starts to feel more sick.

Grandma Sunja puts her sister-in-law's urn in an importrant place.

A pastor visits their home to pay his respects.

The pastor moves the urn and puts it on the piano (which Solomon suggested two minutes earlier).

They pray over the urn.

Teenage Sunja is ruched by a storm coming, when Koh Hansu appears, returning at last.

They meet at the cove and pick up where they left off.

He gifts her a beautiful pocket watch to make up for his absence.

She tells him that she is with child.

It's Kon Hansu's, as she has not had any other relations.

He's happy for the her and the child, and is excited to be a father.

However, he does not want to get married as he has a family in Osaka (a wife and three daughters).

He promises to pay everything for her and the child, and promises that she will learn and the child will go to school.

He claims that he doesn't love his wife, but needs to stay with her for business purposes to survive.

She's devastated, and he insults her father.

He gets angry at her and tells her that she's cursed him.

A very sick man gets off the boat to head to the boarding house.

The storm starts and people run everywhere to bring things inside.

Sunja comes to her mother devastated, but is interrupted by the sick man passing out in front of their house.

Grandma Sunja doesn't understand why the woman won't sell.

Solomon claims the deal is lost, and Grandma questions why some people cling to the past.

Solomon wants her to come to Tokyo and help convince the lady to sell the house.

Back in the boarding house, a doctor claims that the man has already been this sick once before.

They go through his things to try and figure out his identity.

The man's name is Isak, and they figure out that he is a Christian.

Isak has tuberculosis.

The doctor wants to report him to the authorities, but Sunja's mother doesnt wan't to just yet.

Grandma Sunja arrives with Solomon at the house of the woman.

They enter the woman's home and eat with her.

They learn that she is going to school to get her education, and that she just graduated the sixth grade.

Grandma tastes something different in the rice: it's grown in Korea.

She talks about her love for her past and her own food she used to make.

She starts crying, and Solomon is ashamed of the tears.

The woman berates Solomon for looking down on her tears.

Sunja's mother continues to take care of the sick man.

Grandma discusses love and loss with the woman.

The woman thinks that Solomon is a horrible person for trying to get her to sell her land.

Sunja reveals to her mother that she is pregnant, which shocks the mother.

Her mother wants to try and convince the man to marry her, to try and not disgrace their family.

The sick man wakes up and hears everything.

Grandma tells Solomon that the woman wants to die in that house, and that she won't sell.

They have a disagreement on what to do with the lady.

Solomon returns to the office, where he learns from Tom that the woman has agreed to sell her property.

He's stunned.

He recieves another call from Hana.

She compliments him for a job well done, but also confuses him by not congradulating him.

Hana seems sick.

The sick man seems to be feeling a lot better, to the surprise of Sunja's mother.

Sunja accompanies the man to the docks.

They go to a noodleshop to eat together.

They run into Kog Hansu, and she is scared to see him again.

The tension runs through Sunja and Koh Hansu, and she avoids walking past him.

Tom interrupts Solomon's phone call and forces him to celebrate.

Grandma heads into the Pachinko parlor.

She tells her son that she wants to spread her aunt's ashes on their homeland, and that she also wants to return. \

Sunja reveals to Isak that she has never eaten in a restaurant before.

They pray over the food.

He reveals that he knows she is with child, and that he has no intention of hurting her.

He tells her that she has options when it comes to the child, to try and save her fate.

She knows the consequences, but wants to raise the child herself. She loves the child.

He asks her if she'll ever be able to forgive the father of the child.

He asks her if she'd ever be able to care for another man, and she says yes.

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Pachinko
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Pachinko Season 1 Episode 3 Quotes

Sunja: I'm with child. You must say something.
Koh Hansu: Are you sure? Sunja! You bring me my son!
Sunja: You have no way to know it's a boy.
Koh Hansu: But I know it. I'm certain of it.

Koh Hansu: An Atonement for my absence
Sunja: It's too pretty to rip open!
Koh Hansu: You must learn to be less sentimental about things.