Beyond the Bar Episode 7 recap: When a case lets Seok-hoon see a new side of love

Lee Jin-wook in Beyond the Bar | Image via Instagram: jtbcdrama
Lee Jin-wook in Beyond the Bar | Image via Instagram: jtbcdrama

Beyond the Bar has become one of the popular legal K-dramas, which introduces new and unique cases in every episode while also developing intriguing character storylines.

Episode 7 of Beyond the Bar, titled, Love in All Its Colors, depicts love in all its different forms. It follows the case of Chung-yeon, who had assisted in his wife’s suicide, and who wanted her to give up on her life after being unable to deal with her Alzheimer’s.

Na-yeon proposes a salary and bonus structure that would take away power from the seniors to freeload on their juniors' work. This annoys Yullim's partners. This also results in Seok-hoon being in the midst of office politics, which might be difficult for him to escape.

Here’s what happened in Episode 7 of Beyond the Bar, in detail.

Disclaimer: The article contains spoilers. Reader discretion is advised.


Beyond the Bar Episode 7 recap: Yeong-sun tries to help despite her illness

At the centre of this Beyond the Bar episode is the complex but enduring love story of Chung-yeon and Yeong-sun, who learned more about their love while facing difficult times in their life.

Episode 7 begins with Yeong-sun witnessing a hit-and-run case of a child from her house. She writes down the number of the car and begins looking for her phone. However, she later gets distracted after she steps on broken glass.

Later, it is revealed that Yeong-sun is suffering from Alzheimer’s, which makes her forgettable. She reports the case and also becomes the witness in the case, for which she prepares hard by taking medicines on time and writing every detail down when she was lucid.

However, Seok-hoon easily proves in the court that Yeong-sun is not a reliable witness by asking her questions that she had not prepared for and had forgotten about due to her illness, and also confuses her about her own ability.

Yeong-sun decides to give up on her life as she considers herself just a shell without a life.


Beyond the Bar Episode 7 recap: Yullim’s office politics toward Seok-hoon

While Seok-hun and his team are preparing and fighting for their cases in Beyond the Bar Episode 7, Yullim’s partners and advisors have become annoyed with his upright opinions and beliefs. This also becomes clearer after Na-yeon proposes a new salary structure that would improve the lives of the junior attorneys but hamper the easy life of the seniors, who have become used to doing the bare minimum.

This prompts the advisors, Tae-sop and his gang, to find out something about Seok-hoon that could hamper his reputation and profession. Later, Tae-sop finds out about Hye-jin visiting Seok-hun at his home at night. They use this to their advantage as they create a story around this by saying that Seok-hoon is breaking office rules by dating a second-year lawyer at the firm and is gaining confidential data about their MGC securities case from her.


Beyond the Bar Episode 7 recap: All the colors of Chung-yeon and Yeong-sun’s love

How Seok-hoon will deal with the allegations against him might be covered in the next episode of Beyond the Bar; this episode becomes a meaningful one in his character development. In episode 7, he takes up Chung-yeon’s case after his brother-in-law files a complaint about him for aiding and abetting Yeong-sun’s suicide.

Yeong-sun is ready to face charges against him, but Seok-hoon still steps up to help him. It is revealed that Yeong-sun decided to give up her life and convinced Chung-yeon to let her do it, as she does not want to live like an empty shell.

When Chung-yeon is asked about the allegations made by Yeong-sun’s brother about his infidelity and wanting to kill her sister to gain access to her property, he reveals the truth about their relationship. Chung-yeon reveals that he was having an affair, but after finding out Yeong-sun is suffering from early onset of Alzheimer’s disease, he ends his affair and tries to be there for his wife.

He reveals how her illness took him to time travel as they get to live their love story again and again, depending on her memory. This made him realise how their love was just like different colors of the rainbow, which might be different at times, but still shone just like the rainbow.

Chung-yeon’s words make Seok-hoon realise that his relationship with Yeon-a was also like this. They were experiencing a phase of love that Yeon-a couldn’t deal with and opted out. She later confesses to him that she now understands that Seok-hoon didn’t do anything wrong, as she experiences something similar in her new relationship.

Later, Hyo-min advises him that time will erase all his difficulties as he confesses to struggling with forgetting Yeon-a.


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