Can This Love Be Translated? Episode 10 Recap: A Winery Wedding Opens Old Rooms

By Mira Vance · Editor & Lead Reviewer

Mu-hee tries to choose happiness without Ho-jin, only for every wrong word to point her back toward the one person who knows what she is afraid to say.

Can This Love Be Translated?, Episode 10 of 12 Netflix

Cha Mu-hee begins Episode 10 in the aftermath of the goodbye Do Ra-mi managed for her. That should feel like relief. Do Ra-mi cried, said she had accomplished what Mu-hee could not, and told her it was time to find joy again. Joo Ho-jin heard enough to know the farewell was not simple.

So the Italy shoot turns into a strange last test. Mu-hee is trying to be brave by stepping away. Ho-jin is trying to be decent by letting her. Hiro is trying, with surprising sweetness, to say a goodbye that actually belongs to someone. And the word “honey,” of all things, becomes the translation error that gives everyone away.

Cha Mu-hee hears about Joo Ho-jin’s Italian honey

Ho-jin’s trouble starts with a woman in Italy who cannot find the man she knows as “honey.”

She remembers taking a picture with him and the beanie Mu-hee bought. She does not have enough shared language to explain herself cleanly, so the whole thing floats through the crew as gossip: Ho-jin must have an Italian girlfriend.

Mu-hee pretends to be above it for about three seconds.

She scolds the crew for intruding into Ho-jin’s private life, then immediately starts asking him how to say “honey” in Italian. She tries to make it casual. It is not casual. She wants to know whether there is someone else, but she would rather dress the question up as vocabulary practice than hand him her fear directly.

He tells her not to use it. When she pushes, he admits he was with a girl and that, yes, she calls him “honey.” But he also warns Mu-hee that if she hears the whole truth, they will both suffer for it. Mu-hee is brave until the answer gets close. Then she backs away, congratulates him, and tries to pretend she was never claiming that place for herself.

He feels wrong and terrible when she uses the word because Mu-hee does not know that the woman she is jealous of is also the part of herself that has been speaking to him. Ho-jin knows what the word means now, and Mu-hee is the only person in the conversation who cannot read it.

Cha Mu-hee pulls Joo Ho-jin into Mi-jeong’s winery

The crew lands at Mi-jeong’s winery because the original festival plan fell apart after the fire. Shin Ji-sun had to call Jin-suk for help with the location, which already makes the day awkward. Then everyone realizes that Mi-jeong is Ho-jin’s mother.

Ho-jin is not in the courtyard making introductions. He is hiding near the work, because avoidance is apparently hereditary in this family until Mu-hee gets involved.

Mu-hee handles the reveal with the exact kind of emotional clumsiness that keeps becoming useful. She points Mi-jeong toward the video feed and tells her to say hi to Ho-jin. It is ridiculous, sweet, and a little invasive. It also works. Mother and son exchange a greeting because Mu-hee built a messy bridge and shoved them both onto it.

Ho-jin tells Mu-hee he has not spoken properly to his mother in almost 13 years. They had a huge fight, never made up, and let time pass until silence became easier than apology. Both Ho-jin and Mi-jeong know languages. They cannot talk because there is too much old hurt in the room.

Mu-hee promises to make things up as she goes. It is a very Mu-hee plan, and exactly what Ho-jin needs.

Mi-jeong’s burned finger sends Joo Ho-jin into a fight

Dinner is supposed to give Mi-jeong time to tell Ho-jin the real news: she is getting married.

Instead, Mi-jeong burns her finger while preparing dinner. Dario fusses over her, taking her hand to check the injury, and Ho-jin walks in at the wrong angle. He sees Dario holding his mother’s arm. He does not pause for context. He attacks.

It is protective, embarrassing, and completely Ho-jin. Give him one situation where anger looks useful, and he moves before thought can catch up.

Mi-jeong stops the fight by shouting to Dario that Ho-jin is her son. Once the fighting stops, she tells Ho-jin the news: Dario is the man she is marrying tomorrow.

Ho-jin is stunned. He thought he was visiting a location for work. Instead, he has accidentally arrived at his mother’s wedding. If the shoot had not forced him there, he might never have known. The hurt comes out sideways. He asks how old Dario is. He calls him too young. Mi-jeong calls him a baby who still cannot stop judging her.

Then Mu-hee throws herself into the chaos.

She cannot talk the fight down, so she falls hard enough to make everyone stop. The back of her head saves the day, as she puts it later. It is funny until Ho-jin notices she might actually be hurt. Then his whole face changes into worry.

Mu-hee says she is Do Ra-mi, so action scenes are fine.

Ho-jin does not laugh it off. He thanks her because she stopped them before either he or Mi-jeong said something they could not take back. Mu-hee gets bruised because she recognizes the exact second a family can turn one bad minute into another decade of silence.

Shin Ji-sun tells the crew her wedding is over

The next day lets the wedding and shoot finish, but nobody leaves with all their secrets intact. The crew starts discussing gifts for Ji-sun’s upcoming wedding: a robot vacuum, an air fryer, a gift card. The practical cheer becomes unbearable, so Ji-sun tells them the truth. Her wedding is off. It was canceled when she joined the shoot, and she kept it private because she did not want everyone to feel awkward.

Privacy can protect people, but it can also leave everybody guessing around the wound. Mu-hee has been living inside that problem all season. Ho-jin has too. Ji-sun says that when she expressed her feelings over the phone, she realized she did not miss Jin-suk anymore.

Ho-jin’s own mother gives him a quieter version of the same lesson.

Mi-jeong sees that he likes Mu-hee. Ho-jin says they are not meant to be happy. Mi-jeong, who has just survived a wedding-eve fistfight and still chosen a second chance, refuses to accept his blindness. She remembers the boy who came home from tae kwon do with a broken arm and insisted banana milk would be enough.

That detail lands because it explains him without excusing him. Ho-jin has always minimized his pain. He has always tried to be fine before anyone could worry too much. With Mu-hee, that habit becomes a kind of cruelty. He thinks letting go is mercy. She hears it as rejection.

Kurosawa Hiro asks Joo Ho-jin to translate a confession

Hiro spends the final shoot trying to turn goodbye into something ordinary.

He practices English. He prepares a polite message about their journey together and rooting for Mu-hee as a friend. It is sweet, but it is too clean for what has happened. Mu-hee has never been good at unremarkable goodbyes. She says she would rather have something shocking, because at least that would be memorable.

Ho-jin comes to say farewell before their different flights. Mu-hee apologizes for threatening him and says hearing him along the trip almost made it feel like they were traveling together.

Ho-jin hears the danger in that softness.

He asks whether this chapter is an ending or a fresh start. Mu-hee says she will not try anything if he is already with someone else. He tells her the woman demanded that he never see Mu-hee again. She even knows Mu-hee quite well.

Mu-hee, still not understanding, feels sorry for that woman’s pain. Ho-jin tells her not to feel guilty. He tells her to be happy. If she ever feels as if nobody cares for her, she should remember it is not true. He believes in Cha Mu-hee.

Mu-hee needs a reason to stay. Ho-jin gives her instructions on how to leave.

Then Hiro asks Ho-jin to translate his farewell. He says every place on the journey was beautiful because Mu-hee was part of the scenery. He wants Ho-jin to tell her, “I really like you, Cha Mu-hee.”

Ho-jin does translate it. Mu-hee answers in her own words: thank you, me too, appreciate it.

The crew applauds the end of Romantic Trip. Everyone sees a neat romantic beat between the actor and his co-star. Hiro sees something sadder. When Ho-jin says it was not like that, Hiro tells him Mu-hee already rejected him a while ago. Today, she was rejected.

For once, the man who needed an interpreter understands the room better than the interpreter does.

Cha Mu-hee meets Joo Ho-jin where Do Ra-mi waits

Mu-hee tries to obey the goodbye.

She goes to the opera with Hiro. She tells herself Ho-jin believes she can do it, so she will be happy like he says. Then small clues undo the lie. The shoes on Ho-jin’s mysterious woman match hers. Producer Park In-su sends a video that lets Mu-hee see Ho-jin the way he once saw her.

Do Ra-mi leads Mu-hee back to the place where all her fear began. She says this is where the child who believed she could never be loved learned the safest way to be happy: abandon anything she might love, close the door, and walk away.

Mu-hee almost does it.

Then Ho-jin changes flights and finds her. He remembers the Italian from the opera. He rambles about gelato because he is embarrassed. He admits he could not let Do Ra-mi vanish with all those memories, because he realized Mu-hee was in there too.

So Mu-hee finally says the thing she has been circling: she is in love with him.

She hates that he knows so much about her. She hates how frightening it became as her feelings grew. Stopping herself felt like the only way out, but the feelings kept growing anyway. Ho-jin does not promise her an easy happy ending. He says he will stop pushing her to be happy. He knows she would not believe him if he swore they would be happy forever.

Instead, he names her pattern. She gets scared ahead of time and leaves before the sad ending can arrive. So he will anticipate too. He will not let himself be rejected the moment her fear comes back.

Then he gives her the confession only these two could survive: because of her, he is crazy too. He sees the aurora now.

Mu-hee asks if that makes sense.

It does. It is not exactly sensible. That is why it sounds like love.

Verdict

This late-season turn is lovely because the romance grows through missed translations instead of clean declarations. The “honey” misunderstanding is funny, but it also ties together Mu-hee’s jealousy, Do Ra-mi’s goodbye, Ho-jin’s guilt, and the Italian memories he refuses to lose. The family material at the winery could have felt like a detour, yet Mi-jeong gives Ho-jin a needed mirror: he has always pretended pain was small enough to swallow.

The Hiro material is handled with real gentleness too. He is not treated as a joke for caring. He becomes the person who can see Mu-hee’s rejection while everyone else mistakes it for romance. Ho-jin does not rescue Mu-hee from fear with a fantasy. He meets her inside it, admits he has lost his own grip, and chooses the aurora anyway.

Rating: 8.8/10

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