The story of a community health worker at a psychiatric ward who lives on 1.8 million won (approximately $1,520) a month and a storybook writer suffering from an antisocial personality disorder. A man who denies love and a woman who doesn’t know love defy fate and fall in love, finding their souls and identities in the process.

Moon Kang Tae is a community health worker at a psychiatric ward who was blessed with everything including a great body, smarts, ability to sympathize with others, patience, ability to react quickly, stamina, and more. Meanwhile, Go Moon Young is a popular writer of children’s literature, but she is extremely selfish, arrogant, and rude.


Episode 4 begins with the election event, replaying the events of what we saw in the last chapter with Min-seok taking over the microphone at the event. The incident spreads on the news with suggestions that assemblyman Kwon has to resign.

Keep your brother safe
One of the campaign officials raises a finger to Ko Mun-yeong and Gang-tae defends her. Min-seok’s mother shows up and is disgraced by her son’s actions and shouts at him. Min-seok realizes that because his mother is angry at him, that deep down she loves him. Gang-tae experiences a flashback of his mother hitting him for not looking after his brother properly. Later on that day in the memory, Gang-tae’s mother tells him it is his job to keep his brother safe. It’s Okay to Not Be Okay episode 4, “Zombie Kid”, keeps the tragic childhood theme, which appears to be getting heavier.

The discussion of flowers
Gang-tae decides to get in the car with Ko Mun-yeong which upsets Nam Ju-ri. Ko Mun-yeong tells Gang-tae that if he runs away, she will follow him. She talks about flowers and Gang-tae laughs at her comparison of the different types. Gang-tae admits he doesn’t like Spring when flowers bloom as that is when he has to leave again.

Drama: It's Okay to Not Be Okay
Country: South Korea
Episodes: 16
Aired: Jun 20, 2020 - Aug 9, 2020
Aired On: Saturday, Sunday
Original Network: tvN, Netflix, Netflix, Netflix, Netflix
Duration: 1 hr. 10 min.

Gang-tae reads Ko Mun-yeong’s book Zombie Kid, which is about a boy that had the desire to eat like a zombie and his mother locked him up so the villagers couldn’t see him — she raised him in secret. An epidemic broke out, killing all animals and many people. The mother could not leave her son alone and cut off one of her legs so he can eat. We are then shown scenes of Min-seok getting hit by his mother — the story continues and the mother gave all her body to her son until she was a torso and he gave her a big hug and he realized how warm she was.

Jae-su tells Gang-tae that Ko Mun-yeong’s father choked her at the hospital and that the father must hate her. Gang-tae heads out on Jae-su’s motorbike to find her. He finds her walking home, barefoot, in the rain. With the lighthouse shining on them, they look at each other, getting drenched in rain, and they hug each other. It’s Okay to Not Be Okay episode 4, “Zombie Kid” deepens the issues between both lead characters as their past continues to haunt them.

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