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We open in the summer of 2012, as Mom & Dad (Lee Il-hwa and Sung Dong-il) sing an oldie at a noraebang. Suddenly their daughter, our heroine SUNG SHI-WON (Jung Eun-ji) fast-forwards Dad’s tuy vậy and butts in for her turn.

Dad characteristically rants, saying that Shi-won wears her head on her shoulders as decoration. He adds with a fist in the air, “If you pick one of those songs where you jibber-jabber in English, you’re dead!”

He says oldies are the best, và Shi-won lights up. An oldie you say? Cue her anthem, H.O.T.’s “Candy.” He flares up that this isn’t an oldie, but she argues that it is for her—it’s fifteen years old. Well damn, way to lớn keep it real. *stops to bởi vì the math and cringes*

On a different night she takes a cab into Hongdae as she giao dịch with a work emergency over the phone. She’s a TV writer (though clearly a junior one, since she says the writing part of her job mostly consists of labeling props).

She says in voiceover: “At times lượt thích these, something small can be comforting, like a song. Thirty-three. An age where we can’t say that we’re exchanging nostalgia yet—our ’90s were still too bright for that. If our bodies can’t go back, at least our souls can. Right now, I’m going back lớn the ’90s.”

She looks down at her phone to check the time, and still, Tony oppa graces the wallpaper. Ha. New gadgets, same idols. She walks into a restaurant and outside we see a little sign marking the 38th high school friends’ reunion dinner for Busan Gwangan High.

She greets her old friends, introducing one as Dan-ji, known as the Hee-jun oppa fangirl back in the day, while she herself lived as Ahn-seung-bu-in wife>. Pffft. Everyone greets Shi-won with the annoying “Did you gain some weight?” She scowls.

In walks bestie MO YOO-JUNG (Shin So-yool), as Shi-won narrates that she’s had a lot of nicknames, but her oldest one is Ship-sa-ppa, short for “falls in love easily.”

Sure enough, she squeals over Infinite (and L in particular), và last month it was Park Yoochun, & Kim Soo-hyun before that.

And then, the boys enter. Awww yeah. Slo-mo foursome entrance for the win. Shi-won narrates that they’re here, her boys, her youth’s everything.

She introduces them one by one (right lớn left): the refined and delicate KANG JOON-HEE (Hoya), the talkative BANG SUNG-JAE (Lee Shi-un), the charismatic bởi vì HAK-CHAN (Eun Ji-won), và the gruff and prickly YOON YOON-JAE (Seo In-gook).

Turns out there’s a reason they’re dressed lượt thích F33—they’re coming straight from a teacher’s funeral. Sung-jae talks a mile a minute about the ceremony and then asks for a picture of their group.

The six best friends pose for a shot, as Shi-won narrates, “Today, at this table, one couple will announce that they’re getting married.”

That takes us back khổng lồ the spring of 1997, in Busan. They fire up a computer to lớn play Dance Dance Revolution, & I sort of can’t believe how ancient this trò chơi looks now. Sung-jae, Yoon-jae, và Joon-hee play the game, & then Shi-won pulls the plug because it’s time for Star Docu, featuring H.O.T.

Gah, I love that she’s fumbling khổng lồ make sure it’s recording on VHS. There is something so specific about that as a part of my adolescence. The boys grumble and sit back, bored, while the girls squeal.

It’s our first of many cameos by Tony Ahn playing himself, as he shows the fans his bedroom. There’s a big trắng teddy bear sitting on his bed, with “TN ♥ SW” stitched across the chest, và Shi-won freaks out: “That’s the teddy bear I sent!!!”

And then Tony climbs into bed hugging the teddy, and the girls die of happiness. So cute.

But Dad comes trang chủ from work (he’s a baseball coach) và nags Shi-won for the ruckus, so tired of seeing those monkeys on the tv again.

She gasps, but he just keeps going, saying that they should all have their heads shaved & be shipped off khổng lồ army. Dads, they never change. I remember my dad saying almost this very speech verbatim about Seo Taiji.

Yoon-jae wakes up the morning of his eighteenth birthday to find a present và a card waiting for him. He tears into it lớn find a Guess t-shirt. He gapes, can it be?

Cut khổng lồ his fifteenth birthday, where his present was an Adidos t-shirt, & then his sixteenth birthday, when he got a Westpak backpack (instead of an Eastpak, HA). He looks at the Guess shirt skeptically.

But when he wears it lớn Shi-won’s house she takes one look & says it’s not a knockoff this time, & he beams. Mom is busy in the kitchen making birthday soup for both Dad & Yoon-jae, who happen to share a birthday. It seems that whatever Yoon-jae’s family situation is, he eats his breakfasts here normally.

Shi-won refuses to come out and have birthday soup for that ajusshi she doesn’t know, and Yoon-jae has khổng lồ remind Dad about his comments on her precious Tony oppa. Mom: “Oh the one that looks like a monkey?”

She reluctantly joins them and only wishes Yoon-jae a happy birthday, presenting him with her usual gift, a page full of coupons. He sighs that it’s the same gift every year, but she counters that she’s never known anyone who used coupons so well.

Flashback khổng lồ Yoon-jae age 11, at his parents’ funeral. Aw, sad. Little Shi-won does a silly dance và the coupon reads: “Use whole body toàn thân to make me laugh.” That’s so adorable I could cry.

And then Yoon-jae’s middle school graduation, where he proudly takes pictures with Shi-won’s parents. The coupon: “Borrow anything you want for a day.” HA. He borrowed her parents? At the same time, she graduates from her middle school parent-less. Hee.

He looks to lớn see if there are any new ones this year, and sees that all the coupons have a theme: “No matter what,” lượt thích “Piggyback no matter what,” “Stop being mad no matter what,” & the biggie, “Grant a wish, no matter what.”

She promises that as long as it doesn’t cost her money, she’ll make good, no matter what. She scritches his chin lượt thích a little puppy.

As Shi-won floats away on cloud nine telling the girls in her class about Tony and her teddy bear, we see that outside, Yoo-jung và Yoon-jae are sitting on a bench together. Something makes Yoo-jung blush.

At lunch, Shi-won asks Yoon-jae to lớn record the last episode of Star in My Heart tonight, because she has to go lớn Daegu for an H.O.T. Concert. Yoo-jung sighs at the dilemma: Kang-ta oppa or Ahn Jae-wook?

Sung-jae scoffs but Joon-hee joins in, saying that he thinks phụ vương In-pyo is better. Sung-jae teases him for liking the drama like a girl, but he counters that Choi Jin-shil is really cute.

They wonder how Shi-won plans lớn ditch study hall to get to lớn Daegu, and she says she’s already got a plan. Cut lớn an uncomfortable Teach, who gets the I-can’t-choose-not-to-have-my-period & You-don’t-know-what-it’s-like speech with the puppy eyes. He tells her lớn go, just to lớn stop her from saying “period” over & over.

Teacher TAE-WOONG (Song Jong-ho) is on watch that night during late-night study hall, and when he comes by the boys’ class khổng lồ gripe about the noise, the guys complain that he only seems khổng lồ care about the girls’ classes. Rumors abound & Sung-jae decides he doesn’t lượt thích Teach because he clearly knows he’s good looking.

Sung-jae notices Yoon-jae’s new Guess t-shirt, & everyone oohs and aahs. (Oh the nguồn of a brand name—why does that feel so important in high school? But it does.) He’s skeptical that it could be real & Yoon-jae flashes the shirt proudly, saying it is.

Even Joon-hee agrees—it looks real. But Sung-jae dies laughing, “Guess is a question mark, not an exclamation point!” & sure enough, inside the logo sản phẩm is an exclamation point. Hahaha. I totally never would have noticed.

Poor Yoon-jae crumbles in mortification, as the whole class laughs at his expense. But that raises the ire of Teach, who bursts in, furious that they’ve ignored his warnings lớn be quiet. He demands the class leader to lớn come up front. Yoon-jae stands up.

He gets up but argues that he wasn’t the one talking, which just infuriates Teach even more. He orders Yoon-jae up to lớn the front of the room, lớn be punished for his classmates. He asks how many times he wants lớn be hit, và Yoon-jae growls, “Ten.”

He grits his teeth as Teach spanks him with a giant ruler, ten times.

In Daegu, the girls line up for the stage recording of a music program (like a Music bank or an Inkigayo), và Shi-won prepares with her Tony oppa beach towel, worn lượt thích a cape.

They take to lớn the stage for “Warrior’s Descendant” (posted above), và while Yoo-jung screams along with the other girls, Shi-won just saunters into the aisle like a badass.

The music starts và she performs along with her oppas, dancing and singing along to lớn every move. That wave of emotion passes through the crowd, & the girls start to cry as they scream và chant & sing along.

At the same time, Yoon-jae comes over to lớn record the last episode of Star in My Heart, grumbling that he is NOT Shi-won’s flunky, thank you very much, all the while diligently doing what he was told.

He watches the episode with Mom, who sings along khổng lồ the big final concert scene. (Ahn Jae-wook parting the crowd to declare his love publicly to lớn Choi Jin-shil, the classic kdrama swoonworthy moment.)

After the concert, there’s an H.O.T. Fan quiz for prizes, và Shi-won cleans up, answering everything in hilariously excrutiating detail: Tony oppa declared his feelings khổng lồ his first love on April 15! It was a Wednesday and it was raining a lot! LOL.

But then when it counts, the last question for the t-shirt that Tony wore onstage today, she flubs and answers too quickly, và Yoo-jung swoops in và gets the big prize.

Shi-won stews about it the whole night, but on the bus ride back home, Yoo-jung sweetly gives the shirt to Shi-won, saying that if she ever wins Kang-ta oppa’s shirt, she can return the favor. Aw.

Shi-won pretends to lớn be cool about it for two seconds and then caves, clutching it happily và deciding she’ll never wash the shirt for the rest of her life. But Yoo-jung says she has something she needs lớn tell her…

Yoo-jung: “Earlier today… I confessed to Yoon-jae.” Eep! Shi-won doesn’t betray anything but surprise, & Yoo-jung blushes, saying that he hasn’t given her an answer yet, but wanted to make sure Shi-won would be cool with it if they dated.

Shi-won asks why she should care if they did or not, but then adds that just last month it was another boy, và a few days ago she was hot for Teacher. Yoo-jung says she’s changed her mind—Yoon-jae is good-looking & smart & good at sports, & very mature. Shi-won: “Is he? I wouldn’t know.”

She walks trang chủ just as Yoon-jae is stepping out, & all she does is ask about the recording. He stops khổng lồ tell her about Yoo-jung’s confession, and says he doesn’t know how he feels.

But tellingly, he asks, “Should I not date her?” Shi-won: “Why are you asking me?”

He takes a step closer và entreats her, “Should I not date her?” No answer. He takes another step forward, “Should I not date her?”

Aaaaaack! Say something! Still nothing. He sighs & takes out his birthday coupons. He rips one out & hands it lớn her silently. It’s “Grant a wish no matter what.”

She looks down at it, “What’s the wish?”

Yoon-jae: “Tell me not lớn date her.” Eeee! They stand there like that, the wish hanging in the air.

We don’t know what she said, because we cut lớn her inside, watching the last episode of Star in My Heart.

Yoon-jae goes home, where Teacher Tae-woong greets him? Wha? Tae-woong starts to apologize about earlier, but Yoon-jae cuts him off & slams his door. Tae-woong hangs his head, & we see a birthday cake sitting on the coffee table, waiting.

Yoon-jae bursts out of his room khổng lồ yell, “It’s not an exclamation point! It’s a question mark! Hyung, can’t you even get that right?!” Whoa, they’re brothers? Dude, you publicly humiliated Little Bro twice on his birthday?

How interesting that they turn out to be brothers. That’s a surprising twist. Hyung is left stammering, “Question mark?”

Mom rewatches the episode with Shi-won, redoing the whole hands-in-the-air sing-along. They’re so cute. They swoon over Ahn Jae-wook together, và Mom declares that he’s gonna be a big star, and thân phụ In-pyo’s on his way out. Ha.

But they get to the kết thúc of the recording & Shi-won screams. It’s the tape that had her episode of Star Docu on it—the one with Tony và her teddy bear. Oh noes! Gone forever! Sigh, this is a pain the digital age knoweth not.

Yoon-jae cries himself lớn sleep as Hyung apologizes through the door—he didn’t know Yoon-jae was the leader of that class, he swears.

And as he cries, his pager goes off in a round of angry messages from Shi-won: “18 18 18 18 / 4 4 4 4 4.”

Shi-won narrates: “A rear over hit, by Hyung for the first time in his life. A ripped heart, lượt thích a video tape that’s been cut.”

Yoo-jung sits up calling Yoon-jae’s pager too, but just to lớn hear his voice on the recorded greeting. The narration continues:

Shi-won: An age where you feel like you could love anyone, where you put everything on the line for the smallest of things. Eighteen. Adults say that it’s an age where we laugh if a leaf tumbles by. But back then, we were more serious than any adult, more intense, and had our strength tested. 1997. That was how our eighteen was beginning.

Epilogue: Shi-won walks out of her bedroom in the morning wearing her own Guess! sweatshirt, và freaks out khổng lồ see that Mom has washed Tony t-shirt. Not the one with oppa’s sweat on it! She collapses in a tantrum. Turns out the exclamation point is more fitting than they know.

EPISODE 2: “Becoming More & More Different”

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We open at the reunion again, & this time Yoo-jung whispers that she’s “picked a date.” Er? A wedding date perhaps? Shi-won gasps that she’s fearless and tells her not to bởi it, but she swears she’ll be reborn as a Yoo-jung with a bigger chest. Ha, nice misdirect.

The boys ask what surgery & she says they needn’t know; it’s a surgery only women can have. As they laugh over her obvious plan to lớn get breast implants (and Hak-chan gives a slow clap), Yoon-jae narrates, “There’s a surgery only men can have…”

Back lớn 1997, where Yoon-jae limps out of a clinic after getting circumcised. At eighteen? Ouch. Shi-won’s mom helps him out, và he asks her not lớn tell Shi-won about this, because it’s embarrassing. Mom swears her lips are sealed.

But just as she says it, Shi-won comes running up & jumps onto Yoon-jae’s back, “I hear you’re a man now!” He doubles over in pain and she teases him relentlessly, “Does it hurt that badly? I wouldn’t know. If you’re such a wuss about it, it’ll fall right off!”

He scowls at Mom, who insists it wasn’t her who told, only lớn have three random neighborhood shopkeepers stop to lớn ask Yoon-jae how his surgery went. Oh no, that’s terrible.

Later that day, Shi-won practices her “Candy” steps while Yoon-jae looks for something in her room, và swears he can’t find it. She stomps in và digs through her backpack for him, handing him one sản phẩm at a time without looking.

She doesn’t notice until it’s too late that they’re standing there holding onto each side of a maxi pad. They freeze lượt thích that, not knowing how to lớn get out of this awkward moment.

A few days later, Tae-woong plays Go Stop with Shi-won’s parents, và Mom asks if Yoon-jae is healing okay after his surgery. Tae-woong says with a smile that he’s perfectly healthy.

Flashback to earlier that morning, when he found Yoon-jae hiding in the bathroom, washing his underwear. He snickers, “Did you have another dream? Who was it? Kim Hee-sun? Lee Seung-yeon? Uhm Jung-hwa?” Omg, dying of mortification for you.

Back to lớn the game, where Tae-woong asks why Shi-won isn’t coming home. Mom says she ran away again because she fought with Dad, and they say it like it’s an everyday occurrence.

Flashback to lớn two hours earlier. Dad opens the mail lớn find Shi-won’s report card. It’s got 48s all over it, as in 48th place out of 48 students. He flips his lid, while Mom just laughs, acting like getting last place is an achievement in & of itself.

He storms into Shi-won’s room, where she’s too busy listening to H.O.T. Lớn hear anything Dad says. She says nonchalantly that she knows she’s last place. Dad: “What’re you going to lớn be when you grow up?”

Shi-won: “Tony’s wife!” Dad: “Who would lượt thích a chicken brain lượt thích you?” He says that Yoon-jae is always first in his class, & Shi-won counters that the Busan Seagulls (Dad’s baseball team) are always in last place too. Ha, not the best approach, methinks.

Dad loses it & starts tearing up all the posters in her room, calling her certifiably crazy. Dude, did you steal this from my life? Or does every teenage girl’s dad vày this at least once?

She screams bloody murder, while he shouts that if she ends up in last place one more time, he’s going to lớn disown her & adopt Yoon-jae instead. He rips up everything in his path, leaving her clutching her posters in tears.

She sits on her floor sobbing, trying khổng lồ tape all the pieces together. It’s both heartbreaking & hysterical.

Back in the present, Mom and Dad figure there’s only one place she ever ends up—with Yoon-jae, so they don’t even pretend to lớn worry. Shi-won puts a coin in the payphone to make a call, but hesitates.

Yoon-jae sits at home, stewing about something else. Flashback lớn nine hours earlier in his day, when Sung-jae was insisting he had to listen lớn his new Yangpa tape. Yoon-jae calls her name ridiculous (it means onion) & her tuy vậy “Youth’s Love” childish.

He scoffs that if a song lượt thích that becomes a hit, he’ll strip down và tumble ten laps around the field at the all-girls’ high school. Cut lớn a month later, where Joon-hee và Sung-jae watch, as Yoon-jae does cartwheels around the field, in nothing but his tighty whities. LOL.

Back to 9 hours before the thẻ game. Shi-won shows off her latest idol magazine and judiciously gives her friends the pages with their oppas. They swoon over all the members of H.O.T. And then scowl when they turn the page lớn find rival idol group Sechskies (and a tiny baby Eun Ji-won) in the same zine as their oppas. How dare they?

She’s about khổng lồ rip those pages out, when Yoo-jung asks for the page with Woo-hyuk oppa on it, which happens lớn have Eun Ji-won on the backside.

Class starts và the teacher asks why Shi-won didn’t bởi vì her homework. She says she really wanted to, but couldn’t because her friend borrowed her book. The teacher wants a name so she says Yoon-jae’s…

But when interrogated, Yoon-jae denies it. Shi-won sits the rest of the class with her arms in the air, out in the hallway, cursing him.

Seven hours pre-game. Joon-hee comes by during lunch to tend to Shi-won’s sore arms, while she calls Yoon-jae one syllable short of a son of a bitch, incidentally meaning “dog bird.” The air is still icy when he comes by to lớn eat with them.

Shi-won cuts herself opening a can, and Joon-hee immediately takes her hand in concern, while Yoon-jae scoffs, “You won’t die.” She gives him a kick in the shoulder for being an ass.

In the present, Mom wonders where on earth Shi-won went if not khổng lồ Yoon-jae. Shi-won does điện thoại tư vấn Yoon-jae’s pager, but lets out a long sigh, not knowing how to proceed.

Four hours pre-game. Shi-won searches for something in the grass and grins. On their way home from school, Yoon-jae apologizes, và Shi-won asks if he’s really sorry. She tells him khổng lồ put out his hand.

She gives him something & closes his fist around it. In voiceover he says: “There are two things I am afraid of in this word. Sung Shi-won and frogs.” He opens his hand khổng lồ find a little green frog & he flips out.

Shi-won picks it back up và chases him all the way home, cornering him with it and taunting him endlessly, to his utter horror.

Suddenly the ruckus stops. We pan down to see them at the bottom of the steps, frozen. In his haste to get her khổng lồ stop, Yoon-jae has put both his hands straight out in front of him… and right onto her chest. Hahahaha.

They’re both stunned so speechless that they just stand there, as the frog leaps to his escape.

Now we know why they’re both cringing in the present. Shi-won holds the phone up, just listening to lớn the dial tone. She finally puts it down, unable to lớn make the call.

She calls Yoo-jung instead & leaves a voicemail that she’ll wait at her place, và as Yoo-jung listens lớn the message, she takes off running in a panic.

Ooh, suspense. Shi-won gets closer as Yoo-jung runs. Her mom lets her in và Shi-won heads upstairs. She opens the door to Yoo-jung’s room…

Commercial break? Aaaaah!

She opens the door, và sees something. Yoo-jung arrives behind her, with a panicked expression on her face. Oh no, is it going to lớn be what I think it is?

At the same time, the Go Stop trò chơi is building khổng lồ a high point, and Mom thinks it’s in the bag. She plays her hand & starts her victory cheer, when Tae-woong and Dad initiate their reversal. Mom slaps Dad upside the head, and everyone gasps.

Back to the girls. Shi-won sneers and looks back at Yoo-jung, who’s near tears by now. She looks back at Yoo-jung’s walls… covered with posters of Sechkies, and of Eun Ji-won in particular, surrounded by hearts.

HAHAHAHAHAHA. I’m dying. This cracks me UP. It’s the utter seriousness with which they play the moment. For them, it’s et tu Brute?

To địa chỉ cửa hàng insult khổng lồ injury, there’s the page from her magazine that Shi-won gave her earlier, only now it’s clear that she wanted it for Ji-won oppa.

As the parents break out into a fight & Yoo-jung calls Shi-won in tears in the aftermath khổng lồ say that it doesn’t mean she loves H.O.T. Any less, Yoon-jae narrates:

Yoon-jae: Go Stop, a game where you have to match the same shapes lớn get points. There was a time when we struggled khổng lồ be the same. But in one moment, we began khổng lồ be different. That we were becoming different types of people—why was that so hard to lớn acknowledge back then? People are all different; that’s the law of the universe, the law of human growth. Eighteen. We were maturing into different people, & having lớn accept those differences meant we were faced with yet another consequence of growing up.

Sometime later, Shi-won comes out to find Sung-jae washing up after gym class & they tease each other about whose chest is bigger. She comes around the fountain and has a very different reaction lớn Yoon-jae.

He narrates that it was 1997, và already a while since their second stage of maturity had begun, when they had already become different. He says he wanted in that moment to lớn confirm, if what they were feeling was embarrassment over having discovered that they were different…

Or if she had become his first love.

He inches closer khổng lồ her và then stops. He says just one word: “Confirmation,” & kisses her.

She blinks in surprise, & as they kiss, we get flashbacks lớn their childhood together.

As he pulls away slowly, he narrates that by the law of maturity, a boy grows into a man và a girl will grow into a woman. But the problem is when a boy who grows into a man, & the girl is still a girl. When the timing is wrong…

She kicks him in the shins, “You crazy bastard!” Ha. She attacks to cover up her embarrassment, & chases him up and down the schoolyard.

Back to 2012. The boys swear there was a month during their junior year when the girls didn’t speak to lớn each other. They’re like, “Us?”

And as they chitchat, Shi-won’s bra strap falls out of place, & Yoon-jae leans over khổng lồ pull her shirt back in place. They smile. Hm.

COMMENTS

I love a high school drama done right, when it manages to lớn capture that feeling of youth that can’t compare to how you see the world as adults, when everything is fire and ice, life and death, và your oppa is everything. It’s just universal, no matter where you live or what your idol group was (or is)—and I think the show does something great in conveying that feeling, outside of the specific pop culture references of the time. The fact that it’s also my adolescence that coincides with theirs is just icing on the cake for me, because I get to relieve it in a personal way.

It already feels like a full world with a rich set of characters, and I love pretty much every single one of them. I can’t wait khổng lồ see the various friendships develop as Hak-chan joins the group next week. (I hope they make a reference to lớn him looking lượt thích Yoo-jung’s new favorite idol, or is it funnier if they never do?) Yoon-jae’s growing crush already breaks my heart in a great way, & I can’t wait to see Shi-won, if ever, catch up to lớn him.

There’s something so awesome about telling an enclosed story about one year in people’s lives. The writing feels very assured—after the first two episodes I trust that they know completely the story they want lớn tell, & how every little sự kiện that seems insignificant will kết thúc up shaping the adults they become. The tone of this sits so well with me—not hammy but just broad enough lớn be silly at times, totally willing khổng lồ play a scene straight for the characters khổng lồ get a laugh out of us, and completely earnest và heartfelt.

It’s not a story that could be told in 1997, but only now, looking back on then. But that’s what I adore about gems lượt thích Freaks & Geeks, though it was phối in an era before my pop references (think: Grateful Dead). It conveyed a view on adolescence that only someone who’s suffered through it và survived could do. Gotta bởi the time to lớn tell the tale. Making that point of view transparent by using narrative voiceovers và the class reunion as a framing device helps to root it as that kind of story, plus I love the mystery of which couple makes it to lớn marriage fifteen years later. Consider me hooked.

Episode 1 starts off in a Karaoke Club setting with a husband and Wife singing with their daughter watching. The daughter Sung Shi-won then turns off their tuy vậy irritating her father, và decides khổng lồ sing her favorite classic tuy vậy by H.O.T. “Candy.” Next scene she is shown present day as a TV writer, and is featured in a cab having a phone conversation about a work situation. She then enters a restaurant where a high school reunion takes place and she is reunited with old friends. After this we are sent back in time to her childhood house in Busan 1997, where Sung Shi-won’s favorite band H.O.T. Is on screen. It is revealed that the member she has a crush on “Tony” keeps a teddy bear that she sent him as a fan and kisses the bear. She is ecstatic with her best friend Mo Yoon-jung She gets into a shouting match with her dad who calls the band “Monkeys” and says they should be sent lớn the military infuriating Sung Shi-won. The rest of the episode focuses on the girls obsession with H.O.T., and they go lớn a concert where they win prizes in a competition for knowing details about the band members. The main men featured in this episode besides Sung Shi-won’s dad, are Sung Jae và Soon Jae whose birthday it is, & is shown going khổng lồ school & getting into a fight with his friend Sung Jae. The episode ends with Soon Jae confessing lớn Sung Shi-won that Mo Yoon-jung has asked him on a date. The Final scene features Sung Shi-won waking up infuriated at her mother, for washing her H.O.T. T-shirt that had “tony’s sweat” all over it. Over all the girls obsession for the band makes you wonder how accurate the portrayal really is of modern day Korean girls life and their favorite bands?

Edited By Alex

Watched on: https://www.netflix.com/watch/70296452?track
Id=200257859

Sean

Hi Alex, thank you very much for your synopsis. I definitely think that that the fan hâm mộ culture in Korea depicted within the first episode is accurate and is a very good representation of early fandoms. Moreover, I believe that through these scenes we can compare such phenomena with our present and see how much it has grown and developed from the past. It is amazing khổng lồ consider (like Ashley and Kelly has mentioned) that despite the “lack” of technology, countless number of fans were able to lớn coordinate their actions as well as khổng lồ dedicate their precious time và money in order to tư vấn their favourite idol stars/groups. I’d like to particularly expand on this topic & try lớn shed light on their behaviour. There is an interesting clip on Youtube (which I have linked below) which talks a lot about how K-pop fans are similar to lớn sports fans in which their emotional connections towards a particular idol have created a shared interest between many individuals. This subsequently creates a community not any different from a passionate sports fan. In fact, I believe that if Shi-won’s father had discovered this parallel & thought about H.O.T & his daughter’s fanatic behaviour in this way, there wouldn’t have been as much of a fuss as is seen in this episode! In short, while her behaviour may look strange to the modern audience that is looking in from the outside at first, we should then consider why then, we’re not quite as flabbergasted when we see a Canucks fan hâm mộ or a Dodgers fan hâm mộ representing their teams in various ways.

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Link to lớn said video: (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMPC31RZzc
A)

예찬, were you in that Gummy Ducks group? I can’t remember. Anyway, kkkkkkkkk seeing that as the liên kết made me laugh.

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