Numbers (2023) K Drama Episode 6

Episode 6 of Numbers begins with Jang Ji-Soo asking Je-Kyun to sell a cake franchise called Cakebean for her. Jang Ji-Soo even promises to double Je-Kyun’s pay if he sells off the franchise quicker than she expects. Of course, Je-Kyun accepts because where money is involved, she cannot look the other way. 

Meanwhile, Seung-Jo meets with An Seung-Yeon, and they catch up since they haven’t seen each other since An Seung-Yeon returned. 

Amidst their conversation, An Seung-Yeon mentions that she has noticed Ho-Woo. Seung-Jo then asks An Seung-Yeon if she has already talked to Ho-Woo. It turns out, An Seung-Yeon met Ho-Woo earlier and asked him to resign from working at Taeil Accounting Firm.

Seung-Yeon thinks Ho-Woo was the one who told Kang-Hyun to tell the truth about People’s Entertainment’s financial situation in their audit report, leading him to resign. We know too well that this isn’t true because Kang-Hyun acted on his own free will. 

At Taeil Accounting Firm headquarters, Hyeong-Woo discovers that Seung-Jo has been promoted to a Director position, and this infuriates him. Hyeong-Woo has been waiting to become a partner at the firm for what seems like forever. Je-Kyun promoted Seung-Jo to avoid any attention around instances like selling People’s Entertainment’s bad loans and the prevention of the liquidation of Soma Tech, where Seung-Jo outshone Hyeong-Woo. 

Later, Ho-Woo tells Seung-Jo, who wasn’t interested in the Cakebean project, that Jang Ji-Soo is the one who requested Cakebean to be sold. 

Seung-Jo then goes to meet Jang Ji-Soo to ask her to get another accounting firm to sell off Cakebean for her because he’s afraid of what Je-Kyun may do. Jang Ji-Soo doesn’t change her mind about letting Taeil Accounting Firm handle this project so Seung-Jo decides to take over.

The next day, Seung-Jo meets with his team to begin the Cakebean sale project. One of the team members, Yang Jae-Hwan, isn’t happy to see Ho-Woo on the team. Later, Ho-Woo and Yeon-A talk about the identity of the individual or organization (known as the limited partner in this case) that sent PEF HK Private Equity money to purchase Haebit Construction. Ho-Woo still doesn’t know who that limited partner is. 

While the team is working on the Cakebean sale project, Seung-Jo spots a problem with the financial statements. He then spots Cakebean’s CEO at Taeil Accounting Firm headquarters and goes to ask her about it. Seung-Jo doesn’t tell him anything though.

Yeon-A meets with Jisan Bank’s president, Jin Tae-Soo for dinner. It was revealed in the last episode of course, that Jin Tae-Soo is Yeon-A’s father. 

Ho-Woo goes with Yang Jae-Hwan for an inventory check at Cakebean’s factory. It turns out most of the goods they’re recording are in the factory’s freezer, and Yang Jae-Hwan didn’t tell Ho-Woo to dress warmly like he did.

That evening, Yeon-A decides to drop off something to Ho-Woo that he had left at the firm. Ho-Woo is in Kong Hee-Sam’s café with Yeo-Jin, so Yeon-A goes there to give Ho-Woo what he forgot at the firm. 

Kong Hee-Sam and Yeo-Jin didn’t know about Yeon-A, and seeing her makes Yeo-Jin kind of jealous. It seems Yeo-Jin may have feelings for Ho-Woo. The issue of Ho-Woo not dressing warmly when he went for the inventory check at Cakebean’s factory comes up. Yeon-A explains to Ho-Woo that Yang Jae-Hwan doesn’t dislike him as he thinks. It turns out Yang Jae-Hwan and Son Hye-Won, another accountant in the Cakebean sale project team, are married. 

Son Hye-Won being on maternity leave affected her performance evaluation. And when the Cakebean sale project came up, she became so focused on it to get a better performance evaluation. Yang Jae-Hwan noticed Son Hye-Won’s drive and seemed not to be impressed by it, which is why he didn’t seem happy when the team first came together for this project. 

Later, Yeon-A tells Ho-Woo that Chan-Joo, Sang-Ah Group’s chairman is one of PEF HK Private Equity’s limited partners. Yeon-A had earlier asked Jin Tae-Soo about PEF HK Private Equity’s limited partners. 

Elsewhere, Hyeong-Woo is out with Jung Jae-Ki of Jisan Bank. It seems this is one of Hyeong-Woo’s tactics to get the tax department at Taeil Accounting Firm to keep Jisan Bank as a client. Just then, Jang Ji-Soo arrives and takes Hyeong-Woo to where Jang In-Ho took his life. Jang Ji-Soo seemingly tells Hyeong-Woo that she knows he swapped Haebit Construction’s audit report. 

While Jang Ji-Soo doesn’t blame Hyeong-Woo for what he did since he was following orders, she tells him that she still doesn’t forgive him. Jang Ji-Soo then tells Hyeong-Woo that he has to make it up to her for what happened to Haebit Construction and her father. 

Meanwhile, Ho-Woo is trying to find the connection between “AN,” who facilitated PEF HK Private Equity buying of Haebit Construction, and Chan-Joo. 

The next day at Sang-Ah Group headquarters, Chan-Joo is mad and all over the place. It seems Sang-Ah Group is accumulating more debts by the day. Chan-Joo then asks one of his employees to call Jisan Bank and ask for another loan. Sang-Ah Group has been taking loans from Jisan Bank for a long time. The employee tells Chan-Joo that Jisan Bank seems like it isn’t willing to give him another loan, and this infuriates him even more. 

Ho-Woo happens to enter the same elevator as Je-Kyun. Je-Kyun immediately asks Ho-Woo for his opinion on how to make Cakebean sell better. Je-Kyun even promises Ho-Woo a better performance evaluation if his idea is good, but, Ho-Woo requests a better performance evaluation for his entire team. 

Ho-Woo then tells Je-Kyun that he should convince Cakebean’s buyer to buy the franchise in exchange for selling something else. Ho-Woo even gives him an example of how Sang-Ah Group can buy Cakebean in exchange for setting up Cakebean stores which will now be its own, at its mall, Sang-Ah Village. That way, Sang-Ah Village will sell at a better price. 

Je-Kyun pitches the idea to Chan-Joo, but he doesn’t seem interested. Then Je-Kyun seemingly threatens Chan-Joo to expose Sang-Ah Group’s real financial situation, and Chan-Joo now has no choice but to agree to the plan.

Ho-Woo goes with Yeon-A for a meeting with Cakebean’s CEO at the factory. Just then, they see two men protesting against Cakebean pushing out its franchise stores. Ho-Woo later concludes that PEF HK Private Equity may want to buy off Cakebean before the typical franchise store operation duration is over. 

Seung-Jo later asks Ho-Woo how the meeting with Cakebean’s CEO went. Ho-Woo doesn’t mention anything about the protesters. But, Seung-Jo had eavesdropped on Son Hye-Won and Yeon-A talking about what happened, so he knows everything. 

A while later, Yeon-A discovers that Ho-Woo didn’t tell Seung-Jo about the protesters at Cakebean, and she is pissed off. Seung-Jo, who was eavesdropping on Ho-Woo and Yeon-A’s argument, asks Ho-Woo why he didn’t tell him about the protesters. Ho-Woo tells Seung-Jo that he didn’t say anything, just like Seung-Jo didn’t say anything about Cakebean’s conflicting financial statements.

It turns out, Seung-Jo had realized Cakebean cooked up its sales in its financial statements. And when he confronted Cakebean’s CEO about it, she told him that Jang Ji-Soo was the one who made her do this.

Seung-Jo then discovers that PEF HK Private Equity has been obtaining funds for its operations from Korea. PEF HK Private Equity is a company from abroad, and using money from offshore accounts in Korea may be illegal. Seung-Jo goes to confront Jang Ji-Soo about this and warns her that she may get into trouble, but Jang Ji-Soo isn’t bothered by Seung-Jo’s concerns. 

It’s the day that Taeil Accounting Firm will sell off Cakebean to Sang-Ah Group on behalf of PEF HK Private Equity. But, with Yeon-A and Seung-Jo’s help, Ho-Woo manages to find Chan-Joo and convince him not to buy Cakebean. Of course, many people aren’t happy about Ho-Woo, especially Yang Jae-Hwan, who was counting on this deal to go through so that he would get a better performance evaluation.

Lee Sung-Joo meets with Seung-Jo to tell him that he should do him a favour for using his name during the sale of People’s Entertainment’s bad loans. The favour Lee Sung-Joo is asking for comes from Seung-Jo collecting Sang-Ah Group’s bonds. 

Ho-Woo is at Taeil Accounting Firm’s filing room looking for something when Yeon-A comes in. The episode ends with Yeon-A asking Ho-Woo if she can join him in whatever he’s doing. 

The Episode Review

This episode has shown just how much Jang Ji-Soo is willing to go get what she wants, which is to avenge her father’s death. At this point, Jang Ji-Soo and Je-Kyun are quite similar because they’re willing to do anything to get what they want, even if it means hurting others in the process.

I get that Yeon-A is attracted to Ho-Woo but her asking Ho-Woo to join him in what he’s doing may be too dangerous for her because Ho-Woo is fighting a war that Yeon-A may not be able to handle.

It’s weird that An Seung-Yeon has asked Ho-Woo to leave Taeil Accounting Firm. Her asking him to resign may be beyond just her thinking that Ho-Woo made Kang-Hyun resign, which again isn’t true.