The first few minutes of the episode was gruesome for me. It showed a young Jae Wan and his brother being beaten to death. A bit later the death of Chairman Ah is shown. Just by looking at the eyebrows of the Vice Chair I am left with no doubt that he is the villain who is manipulating things to gain power over the hotel. I have to say that the first episode laid out mysteries that need to be solve. It actually made everything exciting.
.gif "Hotel King Episode 1")
.gif "watch Hotel King Ep 1")
When Ah Mo Ne arrives to Korea that when things started to lighten up. Ah Mo Ne's character appears to be a spoiled heiress but it's apparent that it's all an act since just before the death of her father she gets a call from him telling her not to trust anyone. I love that this character has a lot of layers. Her character reminded me of Cheon Song Yi (My Love From Another Star). It would be pretty interesting to see how she will unfold the truth. Jae Wan butts head with Mo Ne. By the second episode, Jae Wan feelings start to waver for Ah Mo Ne. Will Jae Wan see his mentor's real motives and switch to Mo Ne's side? Who will be the characters that would help Mo Ne save his father's legacy? A lot of theories that makes me look forward to next week episodes.
The story begins in USA in 1991. Two Korean boys are forced to beg for money on the streets. If they didn’t bring enough money, the gang that has them starts beating them.
The older boy tries to protect his younger brother. But he can’t. One of the gang member beats the younger boy until he’s dies.
The older boy shoots the man that killed his brother. Then a man appears and takes Jayden with him.
The man takes Jayden to his hotel room and tells the boy that his father is the Ciel Hotel’s chairman and he is an evil man.
The man gives Jayden a choice. Jayden has to choose if he wants to go back to the pile trash of he wants to live as a king.
That day Jayden died and Cha Jae Wan was born.
Years later, Cha Jae Wan works at Hotel Ciel as the general manager.
Jae Won and the hotel’s chairman are talking. He tells the chairman who he mother was . Jae Won wants the chairman to accept him as his son. If the chairman will not accept him, Jae Wan will tell everybody that he is the chairman’s son and the chairman will become a murderer.
After leaving the office, Jae Wan went to supervise the party. In the hotel there was a party for young people. DJ DOC was singing…
All of a sudden, Ciel Hotel’s chairman, fell through the roof.
Jae Wan:” Was acknowledging me as your son worse than death?”
The hotel is facing a crisis. After the chairman died, the clients left the hotel. They also asked for a refund.
Being in car with a co worker, Jae Wan, listens to the radio that a lot of Chinese tourists are at the airport. They can’t leave because of heavy snow.
Jae Wan decide that all those Chinese tourists will be staying to Ciel Hotel.
On the other hand, Sunwoo Hyun is blaming himself for the death of the chairman. The chairman was his role model in life. Sunwoo Hyun thinks that he should’ve followed the chairman the day that one died.
When Jae Wan comes with the tourists he tells the hotels staff to not let anyone know that someone died in the hotel. For that Jae Wan force Sunwoo Hyun to remove his ribbon. The black ribbon that Sunwoo Hyun is wearing means that he is grieving after someone that died.
Meantime, Ah Mo Ne is coming to Korea. She is chairman Ah of Hotel Ciel only daughter. Ah Mo Ne enters in Korea with her face covered so that people wouldn’t know that she is back.
Mo Ne came through Incheon Port. There are some gangster’s were waiting for her. They saw Mo Ne and followed her. But Mo Ne escaped them.
Ah Mo Ne came at the hotel. She wants the red carpet so she doesn’t get out from the car. When she enters the hotel, Mo Ne tells everyone there that she is Hotel Ciel heiress. She doesn’t seem affected by her father’s death.
Jae Wan is surprised at how cheerful she is after her father’s death.
Taking Mo Ne to her room, Sunwoo Hyun sees her with her hand at her eye. He thinks that she is crying and tries to comfort her. But Mo Ne was just taking her eyelashes because they had fallen.
Mo Ne takes her lipstick out and starts marking everything that she doesn’t like. She sends Sunwoo Hyun to change everything that she marked.
That night Mo Ne is dreaming about people chasing her. She wakes up. Mo Ne remembers that the night that her father died, he called her and told her to not trust anybody.
Mo Ne search on the internet articles about her father’s death. She doesn’t believe that her father’s death was a simple suicide.
Next morning strange staff start happening in the hotel. In the hotels everyone hears Ah Chairman’s voice. In chairman room everything were put the way he used to put them, the coffee, the pipe, the glasses, everything.
Jae Wan suspects Mo Ne for all the strange things that are happening.
My thoughts
The night Chairman Ah died, someone came into his room. Could it be the man that raised Jae Won, Lee Joong Goo?
Also Jae Wan and Mo Ne are supposed to fall in love with each other, but how can they fall in love if they are both chairman Ah’ children?
Could it be that Lee Joong Goo lied to Jae Wan to use him in his revenge against Chairman Ah? Or is that Mo Ne isn’t Chairman Ah’s real daughter?
Search term: Hotel King, Hotel King Episode 1, Hotel king ep 1, Watch hotel king ep 1, watch hotel king 1, hotel king 1 spoiler, hotel king ep 2 english subbed, Hotel king ep 1 review, hotel king kdrama