The WORST episodes of Into The Ring
Every episode of Into The Ring ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst episodes of Into The Ring!
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#1 - Think and Consider
Season 1 - Episode 19 - Aired 7/30/2020
Se Ra and Gong Myung become an official couple under some ground rules. They are to keep their relationship confidential. One day, Se Ra receives bundles of letters opposing the name change of Sarang-dong. Will Se Ra accept the petition of Sarang-dong’s name-change when the Smart One City project is already planned out?
#2 - Seo Gong Myung Meets Goo Se Ra
Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 7/1/2020
Goo Se Ra is well-known at the service center of Mawon-gu Office for her endless civil complaints. Seo Gong Myung, who has recently been demoted for being on the chief’s bad side, is appointed to take care of the complaints. Although Se Ra does what’s right for people and the neighborhood, people seem to dislike her for her efforts. Eventually, she becomes jobless again.
#3 - Se Ra’s First Day at Work
Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 7/9/2020
Se Ra starts her first day at work as the district representative. The day begins with an unpleasant welcoming tour led by her ex-boyfriend, Min Jae. Things get worse as she steps into her first meeting. All of the assemblymen and women ignore her and completely disregard her as a fellow representative. Mustering up her last courage, she requests a welcoming party and waits patiently at the reserved restaurant.
#4 - Candidate 5, Goo Se Ra
Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 7/2/2020
Se Ra is determined to run the elections and take it as an opportunity. She gathers her friends around and starts campaigning with them. But things are not easy. Her parents are against it, her boyfriend is against it, and even one of her best friends, Woo Young passes her by.
#5 - Se Ra’s Responsibility
Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired 7/9/2020
Mawon-gu goes under a dire financial crisis and the assembly decide to vote for the motion to issue municipal bonds. The conservative and progressive party try to win Se Ra’s heart by changing their initial attitude toward Se Ra. Se Ra soon realizes that she holds the key to the passing of the bill and ponders on her decision.
#6 - Se Ra Loses Her Job Again
Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 7/1/2020
This time, Se Ra loses her job because of the formal employee who has recently decided to return to the company. Devastated to see his daughter in a jobless situation, Se Ra’s father asks a favor from his old friend, Chairman Cho Maeng Duk. On her way back from rejecting the unrighteous employment, Se Ra sees a recruiting poster from Mawon-gu District Assembly.
#7 - Se Ra’s Suspension
Season 1 - Episode 15 - Aired 7/23/2020
It's a total mess at the National Assembly where Se Ra's supporters turn against her and tear up their memo. As a result, Se Ra's promises get broken, and she ends up getting a 30-day suspension. Meanwhile, Gong Myung tracks her down to her secret place to console her but rejects her instead.
#8 - Se Ra Lacks Confidence
Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 7/8/2020
Knowing that Se Ra once tried to get a job in an unlawful way, people started to turn their backs on Se Ra as a district representative. Although she considers it’s time for her to let go of the election, Candidate Son Eun Sil understands that Se Ra has a higher chance of getting elected. Eventually, Se Ra does everything she can to win over people’s votes.
#9 - Se Ra for Chairman?
Season 1 - Episode 16 - Aired 7/23/2020
The chairman position is up for grabs, and Go Dong Chan and Yoon Hee Su want it more than ever. However, Se Ra's name keeps popping up. Although she has no intention of becoming the chairman, a strange string of events leads to a very unexpected result.
#10 - Se Ra Against the Sports Festival
Season 1 - Episode 14 - Aired 7/22/2020
Se Ra must win at the sports festival in order to lead Shim-Jang-Si into voting in her favor. The last event remains with the tying score on the board as Se Ra participates as a player herself. While winning this very last event may seem like the last step in settling the complaint, the fact that Se Ra broke up with Min Jae somehow annoys Gong Myung.
#11 - Se Ra Against the Driving Range
Season 1 - Episode 13 - Aired 7/22/2020
Se Ra manages to successfully settle the complaint regarding a driving range against Chief Won. With this being the case, Se Ra then continues on to take care of another complaint concerning the employment stability support fund for guards at Jayu-dong Apartment. However, it is under the impression that Se Ra must win over Shim-Jang-Si’s hearts to fulfill the good deed.
#12 - Se Ra’s Financial Situation
Season 1 - Episode 9 - Aired 7/15/2020
As Chairman Cho suggests the district representatives to defer their monthly salaries until the issues with Mawon-gu’s budget are recovered, Se Ra finds it difficult to pay for her living expenses. Meanwhile, people’s misunderstanding Se Ra’s vote for the motion to issue municipal bonds allows her for a chance to come up with an ordinance bill along with Yoon Hee Su.
#13 - The Urgent Complaint
Season 1 - Episode 11 - Aired 7/16/2020
Se Ra sees Gong Myung getting off Hee Su’s car and gets jealous. Hee Su also sees Se Ra noticing them and provokes her. One day, Se Ra receives an urgent complaint from a resident. It is about golf balls thrown from a nearby golf driving range. Se Ra finds out something dubious about this complaint not being taken care of for a long time and decides to get to the bottom of it.
#14 - Relocating Sarang Resort’s Memorial
Season 1 - Episode 27 - Aired 8/13/2020
Se Ra is kicked out of the office as chairman, but still wants to commemorate the victim memorial from the Sarang Resort accident. Cho Maeng Duk is touched and convinced to initiate on the relocation of the memorial and signs the agreement papers himself. Meanwhile, Min Jae decides to refuse Cho’s offer to come back and work for him.
#15 - Chairman Goo Se Ra
Season 1 - Episode 17 - Aired 7/29/2020
Se Ra becomes the chairman purely because of Maeng Duk’s plans, and it is obvious that this plan of Maeng Duk's is to control Se Ra as he wishes. However, Gong Myung and Se Ra team up to keep the upper hand. Meanwhile, Se Ra is wondering why Gong Myung voluntarily decided to become her secretary.
#16 - The Urgent Complaint (2)
Season 1 - Episode 12 - Aired 7/16/2020
Everyone tells Se Ra that the complaint on flying golf balls is next to impossible to solve and Se Ra finds out who is blocking the complaint to be handled. Gong Myung tells Se Ra that he is not in any relationship with Hee Su while Se Ra starts to realize her real feeling towards him. And Se Ra finally comes up with a solution for the complaint.
#17 - Se Ra Waits for the Result
Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 7/8/2020
Now that the campaign is over, Se Ra puts herself into hibernation to recover herself from long hours of a continuous campaign. When she wakes up from the sleep, she realizes that the difference in the number of votes isn’t that great. The result shows that the votes were tied, but the opponent requests a recount.
#18 - The Majority Votes For Se Ra
Season 1 - Episode 30 - Aired 8/19/2020
It was a long shot, but Se Ra wins. While going through Representative Yang’s notes, she discovers a memo regarding a burial. This gives her the upper hand to bring down Cho Maeng Duk, but he strikes back hard, resulting in Mr. Bong’s voluntary resignation. After a series of defeats, Se Ra prepares her very last attempt to do what's right.
#19 - Se Ra’s Forced Resignation
Season 1 - Episode 29 - Aired 8/19/2020
The public calls for a vote to force Se Ra to step down from her representative position. However, Se Ra believes she still has lots to offer both the fellow representatives and the residents of Mawon-gu. On the day of the vote, Se Ra delivers what may be her last speech as a representative.
#20 - Chief Won Strikes Back
Season 1 - Episode 26 - Aired 8/12/2020
When Chief Won sues Se Ra for defamation, Se Ra asks Hee Su for help. Unfortunately, Hee Su turns down Se Ra’s request, and Se Ra looks for leads to completely bring Chief Won down. Meanwhile, Se Ra is questioned for her involvement in a corrupt deal with Mawon Credit Cooperatives. Although she pleads not guilty, the majority votes for her deposition.
#21 - Chief Won Plays Dumb
Season 1 - Episode 25 - Aired 8/12/2020
On a stakeout to reveal the corruption regarding the Smart One City Project, Se Ra and Gong Myung find a memorial of those who were lost in the Sarang Resort fire. Eventually, Se Ra and her gang successfully capture the circumstantial evidence, which verifies the illegal transaction as well as its ties to Chief Won.
#22 - Sarang-dong
Season 1 - Episode 20 - Aired 7/30/2020
Se Ra and Gong Myung work on putting a hold on the Smart One City project to keep the name of Sarang-dong and possibly use the funds to support the district’s welfare. However, the rest of the representatives argue the name change being a minuscule matter. Se Ra stands strong, visits the neighborhood and finds out something fishy about the name-change votes.
#23 - Se Ra Speaks Up
Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 7/2/2020
The construction of a distribution center near an elementary school enrages the citizens of Mawon-gu. Se Ra and her friends seek this as an opportunity to gain votes. She stands in front of the protestors and shares her experience working as a part-timer stenographer, who was against the passing of the construction bill.
#24 - Se Ra’s Boyfriend
Season 1 - Episode 18 - Aired 7/29/2020
After accepting the position as a chairman, Se Ra struggles to adapt to new duties and responsibilities while dealing with her schedules. At the groundbreaking ceremony of the Smart One City, Se Ra gets humiliated in front of the crowd when Chief Won intentionally excludes Se Ra from the introduction speech. Realizing how the incident made him upset, Gong Myung decides to confess to Se Ra.
#25 - Smart One City Area Six
Season 1 - Episode 28 - Aired 8/13/2020
Leaving only one victim family’s agreement to the relocation of the Sarang Resort memorial, Se Ra finds out from Ms. Yoon what Cho Maeng Duk is really trying to do. Se Ra and Gong Myung also find out one particular factor that only Area Six of all Smart One City projects has.