The Penthouse: War in Life Episode 1

The Penthouse


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Yoon Hee's daughter dreams to be a classical singer. Despite her mom's disapproval, she's a feisty middle school student who pursues singing. One day, she visits the most famous soprano in Korea, Cheon Seo Jin. She wants to take her lessons and pleads her to accept her. Right when Seo Jin was astonished to hear her voice, Yoon Hee barges in, and the two meet unexpectedly. (Source: KOCOWA)
  • Aired: October 26, 2020

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cbbit
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Apr 23, 2024

Si eres altamente sensible no veas este drama

Siempre he escuchado/leído que este drama es muy bueno, que es de los mejores e incluso lo he visto en varias listas de recomendación; así que decidí darle una oportunidad. Este primer capítulo basta para comprender como será en general: actuaciones exageradas, escenas totalmente innecesarias, personajes caricaturescos, efectos visuales malos y el desarrollo de una historia que he visto mejor ejecutada en otros dramas de años anteriores.
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Chinchin Langala
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Aug 23, 2023

Being a classical music opera singer and bullying

Previously: Yoon-Hee gets dressed up while listening to classical music. A man named Sang-Heon is there to buy out a property and questions why she’s wearing a scarf round her neck. Meanwhile, talented schoolgirl Jenny starts practicing her operatic singing but her teacher berates her for going to karaoke the previous night. Fellow student Ro-Na is also there and clearly there’s no love lost between the two. Jenny pokes fun at Ro-Na’s financial situation but the girl more than holds her own. Proving her Mother wrong, Ro-Na recites her operatic singing perfectly but it brings back painful memories of the past for Yoon-Hee. Seo-Jin shows up to teach singing lessons but her student Min-Hyuk’s voice breaks and it causes her to snap. That evening our various different couples join together to eat. Seo-Jin and Yoon-Cheol together take their place while Ma-Ri joins Sang-A and Kyu-Jin at the table. There’s a lot of unspoken issues here, namely between Kyu-Jin and Yoon-Cheol.On the back of this, Ma-Ri speaks to her daughter sternly and implores her to get friendly with Seok-Hoon.Back at Hera Palace, a candidate for the upcoming Math tutor job shows up for her interview. Anna Lee has pretty good credentials and manages to hold her own against Seo-Jin’s challenging questions. She’s then taken up to share her curriculum with the bratty kids, who all try to undermine her authority. Anna Lee is having none of it though but it’s no good, two of the most influential end up leaving.While they do, the girls gather and toast to drinking together in Hera Palace. It’s clear though that tensions between Seo-Jin and Dan-Tae are still high over the previous night.Just before she leaves, Ro-Na recites her operatic singing as a way of changing her mind. Yoon-Hee shows up and there’s obviously bad blood between the pair.Sticking up for her daughter, she berates the others and promises to help her daughter graduate. As Yoon-Hee walks out with her daughter, they head straight back to Seo-Jin’s apartment and, in front of Seo-Jin, tells Ro-Na that she’s going to Cheong Arts School.With the trophy up to Seo-Jin’s throat, Yoon-Hee promises that this isn’t the end of their conflict.Will Yoon-Hee and Seo-Jin's give it back to trophy? Find out on Episode 2 continues, it's a wonderful nice story ??????

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Shaneal211
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Jul 20, 2022

A bit overdramatic at times....

I just started the series, and it seems a bit overdramatic at times, but other elements of the story are addicting as well. Let's see where episode 2 takes us.
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aru
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Jul 21, 2021

what thw hell is going on (spoilers)

this is so so dramatic lmaoo. i heard it's similar to sky castle so decided to give it a try. even though the plot seems to have a lot of loopholes i think it is addictive so i'm going to continue watching this because i love P A I N. (i love the math teacher and hope nothing happens to her). if the mom does not want her daughter to sing, shouldn't she explain WHY and simply not say DON'T SING STOP SINGING. the daughter thinks her mom hates her singing when in fact all of this could be resolved if they sat down and talked through it. the resemblance to sky castle is uncanny. the writers should have at least made some effort to change the characters of the kids. more than anything this episode just felt incredibly frustrating to me since the allegations made by the mari and jeni are so baseless and not backed by evidence. and the school principal just goes yesssss GET HER!! SUSPEND THIS GIRL!! WE HAVE CCTV EVIDENCE OF YOU TWO BEING IN THE SAME ROOM!!! um also what was going on with soo ryun??? if her daughter is in the hospital why was the dad drinking and enjoying and having fun with seo jin???? am i missing something here? what was the recording done for??? proof that her wife is crying in the hospital??? soo ryun and seo jin might have some history idk they seem to hate each other. i mean everyone seems to hate each other lol.

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TaeTae
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Mar 21, 2021

It's crazy!

It is very beautiful and difficult everything is happening but I like it. Especially the woman's because the're crazy! But I really like it
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nahema
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Mar 3, 2021

A pilot filled with excitement!

This type of show is one of my favourites. I tend to find pilot episodes quite boring but I was on the edge of my seat from start to finish wondering what would happen next. The set and production are amazing as is the acting and it's overall very exciting. I look forward to watching more of this and I hope the fast pacing is maintained so that I don't drop it midway through considering that this drama is longer than most with its 21 episodes.
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sunjedi
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Dec 15, 2020

it was a solid introductory episode with all…

it was a solid introductory episode with all the important character together with their past so that we can move on to the present issue more.
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