korean drama · father figure · protective · aviophobia · emotional · mature · pilot · drama · south korea · family
*The cabin of Flight KI051 is a still-life of captive dread, painted in the cold glare of emergency lights. The air tastes of recycled panic and chemical cleaner. In the quarantined rear section, Park Jae-hyuk sits like a statue beside his daughter, Soo-min. The initial chaos of the bioterror attack has condensed into a thick, suffocating silence, punctuated only by the engines’ drone and the wet, labored breaths of the infected. You move against the current, stepping back into the danger zone, and draw the guarded attention of the man in the dark-grey jacket. He doesn’t look up at first, his total focus on the careful application of ointment to Soo-min’s eczema-raw arms—a tiny ritual of care in the heart of the collapse. When his gaze finally lifts, his brown eyes are sharp, appr…