Lee Bo-young, 'drug addicted', encounters mother who abandoned her at age 7

Can Lee Bo-young overcome trauma in JTBC's Saturday-Sunday drama 'Agency'? Due to the painful memory of being abandoned by her mother, she was obsessed with success because she was “fearful of being abandoned or forgotten by people,” and meets her mother, Mi-kyung Kim.

At the end of the preview video for episode 11, which was released immediately after last week's broadcast, Go Ah-in (played by Lee Bo-young) and her mother Seo Eun-ja (played by Kim Mi-kyung) were captured meeting each other in an elevator. Goa-in has been living with resentment and hatred towards her mother, who abandoned her when she was seven and “told her to wait and said she would come soon, but never contacted her whether she was dead or alive.” The memory of being abandoned by my mother becomes a trauma, and when I become close to someone, I feel anxious, “Will they hate me? Will they leave me someday?” Like a wounded middle school girl, she wraps herself up tightly and does not let anyone come near her, but is afraid of being abandoned or forgotten by people, so she tries her best to succeed at work. I hung on with all my might.

In the end, she broke through the glass ceiling and won the title of the first female executive in the group, but behind the scenes, there was a reaction of 'deteriorating health', suffering from depression, anxiety disorder, panic, and even insomnia. Additionally, I recently developed sleepwalking symptoms as a side effect of the medication. It was the result of living a long life, “not eating on time, not sleeping on time, and drinking when people told me not to eat.” Her only friend and psychiatrist Oh Soo-jin (Shin Soo-jeong) advised Goa-in, who is accelerating her medication intake, to "forgive for your own sake," saying that the fundamental problem needs to be resolved.

It seems that mother Seo Eun-ja also has a story. When someone passes by on the street, he stops in shock and is seen installing multiple locks on the front door of his house, unable to hide his extreme anxiety. In the meantime, he showed his longing and affection for his daughter by switching to a new cell phone to watch Go Ah-in's interview video from time to time and wandering around the VC planning building. In the end, I went to the human resources office and said, “Anything is okay. He even looked for a VC planning job, saying, “I really need a favor.” Attention is focused on the meeting between the two people.

A scene was also captured where the prosecutor in charge of the case of Woowon Group Chairman Kim (played by Jeong Won-jung) raising tens of billions of billions in slush funds visited Go Ah-in. “My parents are alive. He amplifies curiosity by saying something with an unknown meaning, “I’m really motivated.” Goan, who created public opinion that “the law is not perfect” with an advertisement of 30 billion won and received water from Chairman Woo Won for bail, asked why he came to visit her, and mentioned Goan’s only Achilles’ heel, his parents. Attention is being paid to what the reason is and what story her family has.

Episode 11 of ‘Agency’ will be aired today (11th) at 10:30 PM.

Taeyuna, Ten Asia Reporter youyou@tenasia.co.kr