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Jun 23, 2025
No Gain No Love EP 1 Full recap No Gain No Love Episode 1 Full recap | No Gain No Love Ep 1 Eng sub Title: 손해 보기 싫어서 / 因为不想吃亏 / No Gain No Love Genre: Comedy, Romance Episodes: 12 Broadcast network: tvN Broadcast period: 2024-Aug-26 to 2024-Oct-01 Air time: Monday & Tuesday 20:50 KST
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episode one of No Gain No Love begins
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with a scene at of school a young son
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heyang asks her PT teacher why the girls
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have to play dodgeball while the boys
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play soccer hence taking up more space
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on the field as she argues with her
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teacher we learned that Hong's mother
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was very generous and kind so she kept
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fostering other kids in their house
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heyong felt like she lost out on the
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time energy and love her mother would
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spend on those kids this is how she came
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to thinks so much about profit and loss
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even in her personal life at present a
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grown-up heyang is at a colleague's
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wedding she and her colleague wonder how
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much money they should give as a wedding
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gift hon laments how much she's spent on
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such weddings in general in fact the
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groom turns out to be none other than
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hyang's ex-boyfriend Wu Jay who she
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broke up with just 6 months ago
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elsewhere a man named Kim Guk attends a
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job interview at leader electr
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instead of his qualifications Guk is
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questioned about being an orphan the
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woman next to him is then grilled about
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a hypothetical scenario of sexual
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harassment Guk steps in and says the
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matter should directly go to the Human
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Rights Commission this doesn't go down
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well with the interviewers and later Guk
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apologizes to his fellow interviewees as
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well while at the wedding heyang gets a
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call from her mother who seems to be in
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a nursing home the nurse tells heyang to
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visit soon as the wedding goes on a
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flashback shows hyang's breakup with Wu
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J she curtly tells him that she doesn't
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love him anymore he's heartbroken and
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falls over prompting heyang to stick a
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bandage on his hand at present the
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wedding shows pictures of Wu Jay and his
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wife elen's engagement the photos show
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the same bandage on Wu Jay's hand when
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her colleague mentions this is the
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couple's one-year anniversary heyang
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realizes he has been cheating on her for
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at least 6 months angrily heyong pulls
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out a tablecloth and turns it into a
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makeshift wedding dress using a napkin
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as a veil she confronts him about the
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cheating in front of everyone the scene
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shifts to an apartment where a young web
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novel writer named Jan is trying to
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write an erotic scene she's then joined
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by another woman named Hong both of them
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seem to be Hong's friends hey young
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herself arrives looking moros she shows
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them a bunch of flowers she caught the
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wedding bouquet turns out none of the
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above happened and heyang was polite
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throughout the whole wedding at present
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she complains about spending all that
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money as a gift for her cheating ex her
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friends list how heyong always broke up
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with her boyfriends because she thought
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she was losing out on the deal whether
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it was to do with food bills or even sex
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meanwhile gukk Returns the suit to a
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policeman who he knows very well
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apparently Guk is a D good who has
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called in several crimes and helped the
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police catch criminals he even helps the
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elderly and is known as an angel back at
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home hyon walks Hong out whong asks
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about visiting hyon's mother but hyon
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lies saying her mother's house is in
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disrepair she then says she's going to
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the nearby grocery store to buy her
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favorite jellies they discuss how the
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store worker none other than Guk seems
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to hate her indeed when hyon goes to the
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store she and Guk get into an argument
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over discontinued jellies it seems
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they've known and disliked each other
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for a while back home Jen finishes her
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chapter and gets several hate comments
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but there is one person who writes a
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positive comment that person turns out
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to be a rich woman named Jong her son is
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guian the CEO of kby Education the
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company where heyong Works guan's father
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complains about kby being second in rank
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he tells guian to get the company to
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first place within a year if he doesn't
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he has to get married as a result guen
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comes to work in a foul mood his
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secretary hajun deals with his Outburst
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while secretly wanting to transfer to a
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different department while passing by
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the store heyong argues with guuk again
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after she leaves guuk gets a text from
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someone which seems to bother him maybe
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an ex-girlfriend at work heyong and her
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colle colleague discussed all the
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benefits that married people get from
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the company later heyong speaks to Wu
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Jay and confronts him about the cheating
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he's utterly remorseless she demands he
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pay her money back but he refuses a
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flashback to six months ago shows heyong
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sitting outside a store with a drunk wuj
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WOAY is Happy due to a promotion in his
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drunk State he says that she's the only
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person on the hook for taking care of
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her mother this made heyong feel like Wu
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was losing out by being with her as the
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sole caretaker of her mother so she
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dumped him now she's determined to make
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him regret it she calls him and makes it
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clear that she's meeting his wife elen
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wuj rushes over to where the women are
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seated but turns out heyong didn't say
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anything the scare is enough to put Wu J
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in his place he then reveals that elen
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controls all their money and his
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allowance isn't enough to pay her back
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he begs her to let him pay when she gets
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married meanwhile hajun and guyan have
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created a challenge for the employees to
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come up with an idea to boost the
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company success guien is happy but still
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refuses to give hajun a transfer heyang
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then sees the poster for the idea
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contest the winners will join the
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president's personal team to execute the
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idea as well as a FastTrack promotion
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but her boss says that single women are
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never hired for the teams directly under
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the CEO apparently due to guan's
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father's reputation with single women
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only married women are now given those
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positions annoyed heyong goes to the
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grocery store and buys alcohol she
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drinks and fumes about how everything
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requires marriage sometime later a drunk
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heyang goes up to Guk and asks him to be
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her groom an epilog of No Gain No Love
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episode one shows guuk sitting nearby
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while Wu is talking to heyang about her
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mother he overhears the conversation and
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later finds heyang he sits by her and
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silently offers a cigarette