'It's Okay to Not be Okay' Episode 15: Kang-tae realizes Mun-yeong's mother is using her for her book’s ending
In the promo of It's Okay to Not be Okay's penultimate episode, the first scene we see is of Mun-yeong telling Kang-tae that he should stop lying about how he really feels. She tells him that he should now begin to tell people around him how he feels, especially her. She even tells him that whatever he had begun doing around Sang-tae is similar to what he is doing around her now and she clearly is not okay with it. She is clearly speaking about Kang-tae's brother getting kidnapped and Kang-tae having to face her mother.
However, Kang-tae tells her that he now plans on considering whatever has happened so far a nightmare. Kang-tae seems deadset on not giving up on Mun-yeong and also, no one else is also ready to give up on her either. This includes Ju-ri's mother. This is also something that surprises Mun-yeong extremely and she ends up voicing her doubts to Ju-ri's mother. What she gets in return is an understanding smile.
We also see an inkling of the confrontation between Kang-tae and Mun-yeong and none of it is good. While Sang-tae lies unconscious on the couch, Kang-tae asks Mun-yeong's mother why she is doing the things that she is at the moment and he also realizes that her mother has been using her as fodder for her art. His dialogue in the promo definitely suggests that. It has to do with how she wants a dream ending for her daughter and more than ever, it sounds like Kang-tae and the author are talking about the ending of a book that she is writing.
Does this really mean that everything that Mun-yeong's mother had done was for the sake of her book? Was killing Sang-tae and Kang-tae's mother also for her book? This is something that Kang-tae will definitely learn soon. There is also the matter of Sang-tae. What is really worrying about the promo is the fact that there is no Sang-tae. What happened to him or how he ended up is something that is being kept under wraps. While it is understandable, we hope that another tragedy doesn't befall Kang-tae or Mun-yeong.
One of the things that we are also most curious about is the reason why Mun-yeong's mother decided to become the head nurse at the OK Psychiatric Hospital. Was it only to see her husband suffer from dementia and his tumor? That seems like too much of a struggle for someone of the author's characteristics. We will get all the answers in the upcoming episodes.
'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.