What in the world was up with the designer? Was she really a designer or some secret ops chick? I do not know a single designer who is all sneaky and can help me escape my marriage. Well first I do not know any designers and second I am not married so this is no good. But maybe some other members here are married and have designers who can help them escape their husband or wife. Please chime in with any clues to who this black ops designer is please.

I'm sure she is really a designer who helps women escape terrible situations. There's this whole underground network that help move and hide battered women and their kids for the right price I'm sure...

The underground network is a great idea. I think I will start a maid service for the same purpose. But this network of maids will help battered women escape and just to make sure the men suffer as the wife did, one male will be murdered for his abuse toward his wife and a different abusing male will be set up as the murderer of the first abusing man. this is great! :lol2:

It is a well known fact that most interior designers are spies. They have covert ops training, including document forgery in design school. They also have to take "Intro to Wallpaper" which everyone knows is really weapons training...

I'm with Sherry on this... there is an "underground railroad" of people who help battered women and children and usually for no $$$- they just want to help. And most of the time the contact is in an occupation where the wife has a legitimate reason for calling and the like. Interior decorator, nanny, maid, nurses, PTA presidents etc. That way if the abuser checks phone records or appt books, it looks kosher. Make sense ?

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The assumption that many people are making is that the designer was trying to get Sun away from an abusive husband.* I think it was more to get from a father who is a mob boss (or the Korean equivalent).* She still loves Jin but doesn't think she can trust him anymore because he's too much under her father's thumb.* That's why she was so reluctant to leave him - wishing she could tell him goodbye but knowing she shouldn't.* The designer warns Sun that "they will both hunt you down" or something like that - the father because Sun belongs to him and Jin because the father will convince him it's the right thing for Sun.* The only reason that Sun's father let her marry him is because he believed that he could control her husband and therefore keep control of her.* The crash and getting away from everything might have been the best for their marriage if they survive it.

Joan you have wrote exactly what I wish I could have thought of. Brilliant post and thanks for writting what I was unable to. Or I should say what I wanted to write, or. Nevermind, great post Joan.

I don't think Suns father is a MOB boss based on what little we have seen of them. He's probably the CEO of a powerful Chaebol or at the very least a senior player in it.
I do agree with you on Sun not just wanting to escape the 'new' Jin but also the life that she didn't expect to have and the controlling and domineering men in it.
It's very easy to believe that the so called designer would have connections like she does, notice how tight knit the Korean communities are in the US where everyone knows everyone and shop or do business in each others stores to support each other.
On a side note: Kim Yun Jin is scheduled to star opposite Billy Bob Thornton in "Georgia Heat" .. count me in to watch it! ;D

There's a web site with a synopsis for Georgia Heat. From what I understand one of the screenwriters is Korean-American. I can see why she'd rather do this than Geisha because it deals with the Korean experience in America.

Billy Bob Thornton seems appropriate instead of someone Yun Jin Kim's age and Hollywood handsome. When I was growing up, I hung out with two half-Korean brothers. Their father was a retired GI that was about 15 to 20 years older than his ex-wife(?) and had custody.

Those were fun times. We used to see kung fu movies in Downtown Honolulu (theater is long gone) and with the money we had left over we'd feast at a Korean restaurant near King Street and Kalakaua (probably gone too). The owner was surprised when they asked for more rice, water, etc. in Korean. Their dad used to like to butcher my Japanese last name on purpose because of all the vowels. I thought it was hilarious. Hell, the nurse at Tripler was going to inspect my Johnson until she found out I was not one of his kids.

that's interesting, but in fact, i don't believe she was a designer at all. ANyone can say that those drapes should be black, or that couch really belongs over there and your funriture needs to be changed. I think she wasn't a designer at all but she was just trying to help Sun escape from her husband who she thougth killed another man

but i must say that the costume designer for the show is doing a gr8 job!! Sun looks smoking in that blue bikini!! :o