Hometown Cha-Cha-Cha Season 1 Episode 1 recap

Hometown Cha-Cha-Cha

Yoon Hye-jin quits her job at Ppyoyan Dental Clinic

At Ppyoyan Dental Clinic, Hye-jin’s staff tells her the first patient is already here. Hye-jin attends to the patient and is surpise to see the older woman from the elevator this morning. The older woman, who is also surpised, says that she thought she is working at a company, instead of being a dentist. Hye-jin smiles and proceeds with the X-ray treatment to accommodate her.

After the session, the patient thanks Hye-jin that the treatment is not expensive since her daughter will pay for it and will not do it if it was so. Then she bids her good bye. Hye-jin sees one of the dental staffs unpacking magazines, sits down beside her and tells her that the shoe on the cover magazine has been on her online shopping cart waiting for a promo code discount to be checked-out.

The chief dentist calls out Hye-jin. Back in the office, she reviews the chart and tells Hye-jin that she should have given implants instead of cavity treatments, Knowing this is exploitation, Hye-jin defends herself saying that it is her patient and she has the right to plan her treatment the way she deem fit. In the next few days, Hye-jin is informed that she is no longer in charge of the patient. She barges into the chief dentist’s office and tells her everything in her mind when the chief dentist provoked her – ripping off patients. She then walks out from the office leaving for good.

That night, she goes out to drink with a friend and bought herself the expensive pair of shoes which she really like and she writes a post on community about her chief dentist while drunk. In the morning, she sees a text message from her chief dentist saying she will make sure she will never get a job again and gets frustrated when she could not remember her account pasword to delete her post. True enough, every application response she receives are rejections.

Hye-jin drinks wine after buying her favorite expensive shoes

Hye-jin visits Gongji

On her late mother’s birthday, Hye-jin takes her time to visit and walk at a beach mindlessly at Gongji and gives her father a phone call. Coming back to her senses, she rushes back to the place where she left her expensive new shoes. To her dismay, it is already washed away by the beach waters. Chief Hong walks toward her holding out one pair of her shoes. She asks him for help to retrieve the other pair, but Chief Hong declines and told her he did not retrieve the shoes, but rather it floated onto his surfing board. Chief Hong leaves his slippers to her after she dsperately tries to convince him to find the other pair because she has to walk barefoot back to her parked car.

Left with no choice, she walks back to her parked car with the slippers. A girl crying out loud catches her attention and she asks what had happened. The girl showed her a tooth that just fell off and keeps on crying. Hye-jin tries to ask the girl to open her mouth so she can check but the boy says it was his tooth, not the girl’s. Hye-jin buys a gauze and attends to the boy to stop the bleeding.

The boy goes back home to his parents accompanied by Hye-jin. The parents thank her and the mother recognize that she was wearing her restaurant’s bathroom slippers. As a token of gratitude, the mother offers her to have a meal. She tells her that if she plans to open a clinic at Gongji, Hye-jin should just approach her since she know of a place where she can live and open her clinic. She continue to tell her that Gongji needs a dentist because there are a lot of people who needs treatment and the nearest dental clinic available is thirty minutes away from the city.

She convinces herself that she will not open a clinic at a countryside even if it is cheaper than Seoul. Ready to get going to drive back to Seoul, her car would not start. When she tries to call for Insurance company, her phone does not have any signal so she goes to a restaurant to borrow a phone.

Hye-jin orders americano cappucino and uses the bathroom after getting a stomach ache from eating too much earlier. The coffee owner prepares, gives her the americano cappucino she ordered and tries to impress her that he was a singer whose music reached top 10 billboards. She says she does not recognize him or the music he was talking about, she went on to pay for the coffee and asks to borrow the phone or the credit card terminal. Unluckily, everything is not working as well. Neither is the ATM machine to withdraw cash to pay for the coffee is not working.

Chief Hong arrives at the scene and confirms the news that a fire broke out at Hangkuk Telcom and everything is down. She tries to ask for help again this time from Chief Hong by borrowing money to pay the coffee and will wire back when she reaches Seoul. Chief Hong disagrees and offers her to make her own money instead. She follows him around the city as he informs the policemen, the old, the deaf about the fire until they arrives at the port. Hye-jin finds herself working with old women peeling off squid guts to earn the money to pay for her coffee.

Night comes and still her car would not start. He helps her took into her car’s problem and sees that her car ran on tire-pressure. So she stays the night at a sauna. After what contemplating what food to buy for her dinner with her tight budget, she is surprised and unbelieved to see Chief Hong again as the snack bar’s server as if he was following her around. Hye-jin confirms this but Chief Hong says that he works there part time. Hye-jin is annoyed by the fact that Chief Hong talks to her casually which he says that he was about to tell her to talk to him casually too and tells her all the convenience about talking casually.

In the next morning, she sees Chief Hong doing morning auctioneer at the port and made her laugh. She asks for help where to call her insurance company and timely, she receives a phone call from her previous patient at Ppyoyan Dental Clinic. She thanks Hye-jin for referring her to a dentist friend and for not overcharging her treatment. This gave Hye-jin a pat on the back that she made the right decision to fight for her values at work.

On her way back to Seoul, the chief doctor gives her a call and tells her that Hye-jin should kneel down in front of her so she can get back her job. Hye-rin says she does not need to apply for a clinic, instead, she can open one herself and drops the call. Very pissed off, Hye-jin finds herself taking a u-turn back to Gongji and decides to open her own clinic there.

Chief Hong notices Hye-jin from the very start

On the day Hye-jin visits Gongli, Chief Hong sees Hye-jin sitting at the beach from his surfing board. Since then, he has seen her applying gauze and smiling to the boy who just lost his tooth and sees her smiling when she got to remove the squid’s gut at the port – with the later scene, he smiles because of her smile.

Hometown Cha-Cha-Cha Season 1 Episode 1 Ending

She approached the woman from the restaurant and asks for information about the place she could open up her clinic and where to stay. Already halfway through, the woman receives a call telling her to move a scheduled date for a community gathering. She apologizes to Hye-jin and leaves her to attend to her matters making Hye-jin go talk to the real estate agent by herself and is surprised, once again, to see Chief Hong.

There we have Hometown Cha-Cha-Cha season 1 episode 1 recap! Let us know what do you think of this episode down in the comments below!