'It's Okay to Not be Okay' Episode 14: Kang-tae lures Mun-yeong away from her mother, faces mother's murderer
'It's Okay to Not be Okay' in episode 14 sees Mun-yeong live through the pain of learning that her mother was not only mentally ill and abusive towards her, but had also killed Sang-tae and Kang-tae's mother as well. She also tells Kang-tae that the butterfly lapel pin that Sang-tae had seen on the killer was not that of a mother and baby butterfly but a mutant butterfly with three wings. She also tells him that she is not going to run away, but she does lock herself up in her home after realizing that the butterfly pin that was left in the basement room has disappeared. Kang-tae manages to send Sang-in to ensure that Mun-yeong is safeguarded while he goes back to Sang-tae and calms him down.
Unlike before, now that Sang-tae has decided that he will fight this fear of butterflies, the news that the pin he saw was of a mutant butterfly helps calm him down a bit. Kang-tae also reminds his brother of the promise he had made, that if the butterfly returns this time around to scare him, he won't run away. Sang-tae too is sure that he wants to find the door and walk out of the fear that he has been locked in with all these years. Kang-tae also convinces Sang-tae to stay at the rooftop apartment of theirs instead of returning to Mun-yeong and his brother agrees. Only on the condition that he will be updated about Mun-yeong as soon as possible.
For a person who had difficulty drawing expressions in his artwork, Sang-tae recognizes the last expression that he had seen on Mun-yeong's face. It was that of fear and sadness and it is this reason why he doesn't push Kang-tae to take him along initially. In what can only be termed as an emotionally draining episode, we see Mun-yeong go through different stages of facing the truth. After Kang-tae returns home, he informs Sang-in about everything that took place at the hospital, and then he goes to meet Mun-yeong. She initially tries to deny everything that she had learned, then she accepts the truth but tries to distance herself away from Kang-tae and Sang-tae to make sure that they will not be touched by the horror that is her mother.
Through all of her worries, the one constant turns out to be Kang-tae, be it when she first confronts him about knowing the truth all along or locking him out to deal with the torrent of feelings that she is experiencing at the moment. After hearing her sobs calm down overnight, Kang-tae manages to reach out but not without Sang-tae's help. When his brother hears that Mun-yeong is unwell, he decides to get Ju-ri's mom to make some porridge and visits her in a wrenching scene, Mun-yeong ends up apologizing to him for a crime that she did not commit.
Despite Kang-tae repeatedly trying to make her understand that she is not her mother and that the crimes that her mother committed cannot be transferred to her, it is only after she apologizes repeatedly to Sang-tae that she begins to feel a tad bit better. Sang-tae doesn't realize why she wants to ask for his forgiveness, but despite that he tells her he will forgive her if she eats and gets better. He helps heal Mun-yeong in a way that Kang-tae couldn't have. When Sang-tae tells his brother that he forgave Mun-yeong, but doesn't know why, he also adds that he is now going to be protecting Kang-tae and Mun-yeong.
He tells his brother that it is better to kiss than to fight and wants Kang-tae to make up with Mun-yeong because he believes that the two have fought. The only obstacle now remaining in this family's life is Mun-yeong's mother who was actually the head nurse at the hospital that Kang-tae worked at all this while. Now that Mun-yeong knows that her mother is alive and targeting her loved ones, she decides to lure her and releases news that her publishing firm will be publishing her mother's last book. As expected, her mother does counterattack, but she uses Sang-tae.
Mun-yeong, who doesn't know about this falls for Sang-in's lies. He tells her that he got a call from Mun-yeong's mother who wants to meet her daughter. He takes her away from her house while Kang-tae meets her mother who had kidnapped and drugged Sang-tae. The confrontation itself is going to take place only in the next episode, but the shocking end of this episode has left us waiting to see what happens next.
'It's Okay to Not Be Okay' originally airs on tvN on Saturdays and Sundays at 9 pm KST in South Korea and can be streamed on Netflix.