Recap Korean Drama "Link: Eat, Love, Die" Episode 7

Link: Eat Love Kill (링크: 먹고 사랑하라 죽이게) is a fantasy-drama series directed by Hong Jong-chan and starring Yeo Jin-goo and Mun Ka-young in lead roles. The series consists of 16 episodes and will be taking over tvN’s Monday and Tuesday 10.30 PM KST slot, previously occupied by Military Prosecutor Doberman. The series will air from June 06, 2022, to July 26, 2022. Eat Love Kill episode 7 has a runtime of 63 minutes and is titled Poke.

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Link: Eat Love Kill episode 7 starts on a rather morose note, with Gye-hoon and his mother attending a religious self-help sermon of sorts and his mother crying in the crowd. We see him getting bullied and shunned by everyone around him to the point that he stops getting close to anyone… until he meets Da-hyun.

Back in the last episode, Gye-hoon searches the streets desperately for Da-hyun, who is coming face-to-face with Jin-geun. He continues to talk about how couples sometimes fight and Da-hyun denies ever dating him. An angry Jin-geun starts to grow increasingly unstable and asks her to apologise.

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She refuses and goes on to say that she should’ve just killed him when she had the chance. He asks her to remember when they had first met – when she is unable to, he tells her that they had met right in this alley when they were young.

Anyway, Gye-hoon catches up to them right when things get out of hand and after making sure Da-hyun is ok, he faces off against Jin-geun and asks him why he’s harassing her. Jin-geun is about to smack him with a metal rod but stops himself when he sees a security camera. However, it’s clear that the animosity has sowed its seed and things are going to get heated within the next few episodes!

 

Gye-hoon gives Da-hyun a piece of his mind afterwards for going out alone and disconnecting the call without telling him where she was – he was “wandering from alley to alley like a headless chicken feeling terrified.” After his rant ends, Da-hyun simply asks him why he looked so hard for her – is this also because of humanism?

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After they come back home, her family thanks him for helping Da-hyun and they promise to help each other out until they come up with a good plan again Jin-geun. Things seem rather hopeful, but when they are alone, everyone just thinks whether getting rid of the problem would’ve been easier than this.

Surprisingly, Jin-geun enlists Min-cheol’s help to run Gye-hoon over after blackmailing him for running him over and trying to bury him alive. Without much choice, Min-cheol does try to drive him over but thankfully, Gye-hoon is unharmed and got away just in time. Unfortunately for Da-hyun, Min-cheol ran into their store and smashed the outside in completely.

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Afterwards, Gye-hoon and Da-hyun are shocked when Eun-jung texts them for a few days off thanks to her sibling resurfacing. In fact, they look rather startled. That night, Bok-hee and Chun-ok are left shocked when Jin-geun comes to their restaurant and they invite him over to eat.

 

Bok-hee asks Jin-geun to stop stalking her daughter. However, he’s quite nonchalant about him waking up in a refrigerator and the threats go around the room like they are talking about what to eat at lunch.

After an all-out war almost breaks out, Gye-hoon walks in on them and asks him why he tried to run him over. Jin-geun agrees that they should all go to jail together, in that case, and Gye-hoon asks him to never show his face again, otherwise, he will make sure to get rid of him.

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The two men meet outside afterwards, Jin-geun asks him his name and seems to be a bit taken aback hearing it. Anyway, he asks Gye-hoon to not take himself too seriously and then leaves looking like the stalker that he is. Meanwhile, Da-hyun thinks back to Jin-geun’s comment from the other night.

That night, a perpetually sleepless Da-hyun and Gye-hoon bond over new dishes and vegetable cutting and she learns about his past and why he started cooking. As Da-hyun falls asleep after a night of prepping and conversations, Gye-hoon stares at her as if she’s the most interesting book he has ever read.

Min-cheol and Gye-hoon have a conversation later where he promises to never do what he did but Gye-hoon’s reply angers him. Meanwhile, Jin-geun goes around breaking CCTV cameras throughout Da-hyun’s neighbourhood, which shocks Da-hyun the next morning. She wonders whether she should turn herself in and ask for the police’s help.

 

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She is caught on the road by Min-cheol while returning from the station, who tells her about his conversation with Gye-hoon. Her shocked feelings push Gye-hoon to find her. However, she pays no heed to him, making him worried. She’s worried about him as well and that night, she opts to break things off with him.

 

He tries to tell her that there’s nothing between them but she simply states that the humanism or whatever he calls it must end – that he cannot meddle in her life anymore. That she refuses to live with the lies that he tells her and will stay until he finds her replacement.

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A heartbroken Da-hyun thinks about Gye-hoon’s sweet behaviour towards her and laments that it’s only been a few months – getting over him shouldn’t be an issue. However, that thought is cut short when Jin-geun contacts her.

Things are different this time and she promises to kill him if he threatens her family or friends again and essentially tells him to f- off. However, he sets his sights on Gye-hoon being the real perpetrator of all of his miseries while Da-hyun finally gets a call from Eun-jung.

As Eun-jung reaches Gye-hoon’s restaurant, Da-hyun gets there as well, closely followed by Jin-geun. However, in a surprising turn of events, Eun-jung attacks Jin-geun and it seems like she successfully stabs him or they stab each other.

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What an interestingly crazy episode! Link: Eat Love Kill episode 7 has all the recipes of a thrilling ride and is very much so because of how emotionally invested you are with the characters. I love watching Da-hyun and Gye-hoon’s push-and-pull relationship and thus when he longingly looks at her, it’s the cutest thing ever.

I am also excited about Jin-geun coming out of the darkness and in front of everyone because otherwise, he just seemed like a ghost that Da-hyun is creating to take shape of a traumatic past. Speaking of traumatic pasts, it almost feels like Jin-geun murdered Gye-young all those years ago, considering how weirdly he keeps smiling whenever the conversation goes to the past. I am really interested to know whether that’s true or not.

Anyway, I think it was a gripping episode and Eun-jung’s odd behaviour just seals the deal for me!