Please read chapter 7 of ‘The Brothers Kim’ before reading this post. You can do so on Wattpad, Asianfanfics, Inkitt, Archive of Our Own (AO3), Quotev, Sweek, Tapas, Webnovel and RoyalRoad.
Potential spoilers will be omitted from this post.
The chapter opens with Gyuri doing the laundry.
Much to her dismay, Gyuri is given the role of a relief maid rather than being assigned to either Namjoon or Taehyung, like what Pho predicted.
A few days had passed since she had wrestled with Taehyung, and as a consequence of her misconduct, the head maid, Madam Zhou, had decided to keep a strict eye on Gyuri.
However, with Pho falling ill, Gyuri is made to serve the Kims at tea- something which Madam Zhou was reluctant to allow. With little choice on the matter, Madam Zhou hesistantly agrees to let Gyuri serve since she deemed poor tea service to the Kims as even worse.
While Gyuri strived to be on her best behaviour, Taehyung, still sore from being wrestled with, had other plans...
EXTRA:
One of the things I find most odd about some historical K-dramas, or any period dramas for that matter, is that whenever someone transmigrates to the past, they are almost always of that ethnic background of the country they are transmigrating to.
As someone who grew up in a muticultural society, this made me wonder, what would happen if someone of a different ethnic background transmigrated?
While writing this chapter I started thinking about how someone, who may be disconnected with their heritage, might act when put in this situation. Knowing very little about their history and being transported to the period in question can be confusing because they are a blend of two identities: their ethnic origin and the nationality they grew up in.
In most cases, schools don’t always teach you of other countries’ histories, so the majority of students have a very ethnocentric view of the world.
In this case, Gyuri doesn’t know much about Saim which led to her comment about how her school did her injustice in that it only provided her information about British history- knowledge which she found useless in Saim.
There are many underlying themes in this story which I will explore as the plot progresses but the theme of identity is definitely a very prominent one.
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