I’m sure I will watch this drama with the same pure emotions every time. Even if I lose my memory and watch it again, every time I watch it, it feels like the first time, and I experience every emotion anew. With those pure, sincere feelings, I rediscover each scene. But even if I forget this drama over time (which is impossible), it will always have a very special place in my heart, and every time I watch it, I return to those emotions. Each time I watch it feels like a discovery, and I feel the same magic again. Every time I watch it, I think, “I’m a person from the wrong era.” The time we’re in now feels so wrong to me.

My friends always say, “You’re rich, but your soul is poor.” I completely agree with them. I have such small, simple dreams filled with pure happiness, and I don’t have my eyes set on big things. The biggest influence on me is this drama. It has made me experience the times I didn’t live through so beautifully. Whether it’s the nostalgic feeling, or the family and friendship bonds, no one can surpass this drama.

Each scene was so heart-wrenching when it needed to be, and so warming when it needed to be. But the scene at Bo-ra’s wedding, where her father wore the shoes Bo-ra bought for him and had to put a napkin behind because they were too big, I was in tears. I remember crying until I couldn’t breathe, and then the letter her father wrote to her in the car. I’m even crying while writing this, haha.

These lives are all real. Believe me, all of us are surrounded by people and bonds like these. Maybe we are one of them too.

Our youth is so beautiful. One day, we will miss these days so much, but just like Ssangmundong, we won’t find it again. We will all go down different paths. Who knows, maybe one day we won’t even remember each other...

“When I went back in search of our neighborhood street, the street had aged so much. You could feel that the time had passed. I can’t go back to my youth, or to this street. They are both the same. Time will always flow. Everything will pass by. That might be why youth is beautiful. It shines, blindingly bright, for just an instant. But you can never go back to it. In that place, where we won’t be able to gather like that again, I regret being unable to say my final farewell. To the things that are already gone, to a time that has already passed, I want to say a belated farewell. Goodbye, my youth. Goodbye, Ssangmundong.”
– Deok-sun