The Good Bad Mother: Why Does Choi Kang Ho Hate Jin Young Soon?

Lee Do Hyun as Choi Kang Ho in The Good Bad Mother
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Lee Do Hyun as Choi Kang Ho in The Good Bad Mother
Credit: Netflix

After a successful run with The Glory, Lee Do Hyun is back in a new K-drama series. Called The Good Bad Mother, the show just started on Netflix and is currently on its third episode.

This means that there are still 11 episodes to look out for since they are simultaneously getting released on South Korea's JTBC network. Only one episode gets released on Netflix every week.

With the show still on its third episode, we've already got some questions about it. More importantly, we want to know why Choi Kang Ho (played by Lee Do Hyun) hates his mom, Jin Young Soon (played by Ra Mi Ran).

Why Does Choi Kang Ho Hate Jin Young Soon?

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In the second episode of The Good Bad Mother, viewers were left with a cliffhanger ending before Kang Ho met an accident. He actually approached his mom to sign an adoption document.

But why did he want to get adopted by Chairman Song Woo Byeok (played by Choi Moo Sung)? Does he have an ulterior plan all along after learning the Chairman killed his father (played by Cho Jin Woong)?

If he doesn't, where does his hatred towards his mom come from?

In the second episode, we learn that Kang Ho grew up with a strict mom. After the death of her husband, Choi Hae Sik, Young Soon did whatever she could to raise her son on her own.

And through the years, Young Soon has become to a different person. She was no longer the cheerful youngster that she used to be.

Ra Mi Ran as Jin Young Soon in The Good Bad Mother
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This transformation, however, impacted Kang Ho. Even though she changed to make sure her son would grow up to be strong and powerful, it made him hate her all his life.

In episode two, Kang Ho even reveals that he never got the chance to sit down and enjoy a good meal with his mother. He also talked about how she always made her feel suffocated when he was still in school.

There's also that incident when Young Soon kicked him out of their house for missing the entrance exam to attend to Lee Mi Joo (played by Ahn Eun Jin), who met an accident.

Kang Ho shared that Chairman Song has been raising him all along, which explains why Kang Ho gave his mother adoption documents to sign.

Does Kang Ho Know Who Killed His Father?

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There are a lot of things we don't know about the show right now since only three episodes have been released. But we're secretly hoping Kang Ho knows what happened to his father all along.

We're also hoping that there will be a big plot twist in the end, one that will give Young Soon the closure she needs as well as her son's love.


Catch more episodes of The Good Bad Mother on Netflix as they get released every week.


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