'Moja Mussa' Koo Kyo-hwan Wins Best New Director Award as Ratings Hit 5.3%

'Moja Mussa' Koo Kyo-hwan Wins Best New Director Award as Ratings Hit 5.3%

JTBC's Saturday-Sunday drama 'Everyone Is Fighting Their Own Worthlessness' (directed by Cha Young-hoon, written by Park Hae-young, hereafter 'Moja Mussa') came to a grand finale on May 24 with Hwang Dong-man (Koo Kyo-hwan) winning the Best New Director Award.

The final episode recorded nationwide ratings of 5.3% (provided by Nielsen Korea, based on paid households) and 6% in the metropolitan area, setting a new personal best for the series. After starting at 2.2% nationwide with its first broadcast and steadily rising, 'Moja Mussa' ended 1.2 percentage points higher than episode 11's 4.1%.

Hwang Dong-man grew anxious when No Gang-sik's (Sung Dong-il) schedule became tangled and filming was in danger of being delayed. That anxiety exploded into conflict with Park Gyeong-se (Oh Jung-se), and Hwang Dong-man eventually got down on his knees before Park Gyeong-se. He tearfully apologized, saying, "Back when we were both nobodies, we purely loved movies. I will debut and raise myself to your level, so let's become equals again."

No Gang-sik adjusted his schedule and proposed an early start to filming. At the ritual ceremony, Hwang Dong-man steeled himself to push forward in a mad, funny way despite countless obstacles, and during filming he pushed ahead with his goal of "living funnily," just as he had hoped.

Byeon Eun-a (Go Youn-jung), while facing situations that would not work out, thought about her past tendency to patch things up with excuses and came face to face with the self she had censored. She realized that although she could not turn away from the past, she could control negative emotions if she read them accurately.

At the script revision meeting for 'Nak Nak Nak,' Oh Jung-hui (Bae Jong-ok) pointed out its gaps, and Byeon Eun-a felt fear because it seemed like an attack. But she faced the truth that "I am not someone who can die from your words." Then, as if by magic, her nosebleed stopped.

Go Hye-jin (Kang Mal-geum), knowing the situation of her husband Park Gyeong-se, who was trapped in the frame of being a moral husband and could not bravely move forward as a creator, suggested divorce. But Park Gyeong-se apologized, saying, "I was wrong. Even if I cannot be first, I will be third." In that way, the two became even stronger as a couple.

Hwang Jin-man (Park Hae-joon) thought welding suited him better than poetry. However, after seeing a photo on Jang Mi-ran's (Han Sun-hwa) social media of his lost 15-year-old daughter Hwang Yeong-sil smiling brightly in Finland, he began writing, for the first time since declaring he would stop writing, a poem about spring waiting for another season.

Jang Mi-ran was moved when she saw Oh Jung-hui overcome Han Seung-a's (Moon Ji-won) threats by taking the bold step of saying, "Let's release the entire original CCTV footage." Jang Mi-ran resolved that even if the biological father would not look after her, the stepmother would protect her to the end. She also tearfully embraced Oh Jung-hui's biological daughter Byeon Eun-a, who had been deprived of her mother and abandoned because of her.

Hwang Dong-man eventually wrapped filming on the movie. And with this work, he won the Best New Director Award at the Korean Film Awards.