'Mystic Pop-up Bar' Episode 6: Weol-ju, Gwi, Kang-bae steal a conception dream so bar's suspended, now what?
'Mystic Pop-up Bar' Episode 6 continues to throw hints at us which connect Kang-bae (Yook Sung-jae) to Weol-ju's (Hwang Jung-eum) lover from the past -- the Crown Prince. The episode begins with Kang-bae having a conception dream in which he gives Yeo-rin (Jung Da-eun) a beautiful jade ring, but in the last moment, the ring ends up on his manager Ma's fingers and Kang-bae wakes up with a fright. When he confesses about this dream to Weol-ju and Gwi (Choi Won-young), he reveals that the jade ring was strangely familiar to him. He is informed that what he had was a conception dream regarding his manager's baby.
This alludes to what the team is going to be helping their next target with. A baby. Kang-bae is taking dance classes with Yeo-rin for his company's competition and his salsa instructor ends up touching him by mistake and this leads to her confessing her worries to him, and coincidentally, Weol-ju and Gwi as well. That's when they learn that she had been trying to get pregnant in the last years but hasn't succeeded. The one time she did get pregnant, it resulted in a miscarriage.
After hearing about this, Weol-ju is moved and she ends up going to Samsin for help. Samsin is the person who hands conception dreams to humans based on data she receives from heaven. She tells Weol-ju that the couple that Weol-ju wants to help cannot be given a conception dream because it is not their time yet. This frustrates Weol-ju who continues to see the dance instructor have a tough time dealing with giving up on having a child of her own.
So Weol-ju decides to help the instructor by stealing a conception dream for her. Initially, Gwi is against the idea as this would lead to huge punishment from the people above, but she explains to him that there was a time when she was in love and wanted the same things as this woman that they are helping. This is the first time Weol-ju is also opening up to Gwi so he ends up helping her. Kang-bae also joins them and they end up stealing three conception dreams.
When they visit the woman's dream to hand her the conception dream, the first two attempts fail and in the last attempt, they are supposed to hand a peach to her. However, Samsin ends up following them into the dream and even tries to stop the three from handing the peach over. However, she fails and the conception dream succeeds.
The woman that Weol-ju wanted to help successfully gets pregnant but Weol-ju's bar gets suspended indefinitely due to her stealing the dream. She will also receive punishment for the same along with Gwi but Kang-bae as a human will not be persecuted. However, the problem now is, if the bar is closed, how will Weol-ju help the remaining targets within the time period that is left? If she fails, the punishment definitely seems harsh considering she accepted to help humans to get out of the punishment.
Then, there is also the matter of her connection to Kang-bae. Will something romantic evolve from this or is this just a tale of getting the closure to move on in life? Then, there is also the strange man who has popped up around Weol-ju who used to be the crown prince's best friend in the path. It seems as if he harbors ill will towards the crown prince and Weol-ju but going by the past, he was introduced to Weol-ju as her lover's best friend. So what changed between the three of them?
This is something that we have to watch out for. 'Mystic Pop-up Bar' new episodes can be streamed on Netflix on Wednesday and Thursday. The show is originally aired on JTBC.