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WhenTae Woong tells his little brother that he is going to ask Shi Won out, Yoon Jae is heartbroken, but says nothing. How can he hurt his brother, who sacrificed his own goals to stay behind and take care of him?

For the record, I thought Na Jung picked the wrong man. Rumor has it that the writers had her all set to marry Chil Bong, but viewer response was so strong in favor of Trash that they changed the storyline about halfway through to make Trash more likeable.

Given the enormous pressure that South Korean students are under today to succeed at all costs, it was heartening to see that the academic underachievers in this series all ended up doing well for themselves.

Beneath his gruff exterior, Dong-il has a good heart. Though his own family is struggling to make ends meet, he is incapable of saying no to anyone who needs money. He would come home with useless gadgets that he purchased from the less fortunate. Even though his wife chided him for it, reminding him that the money he spent on others was literally taking things away from their own children, he wanted to help others as much as he could.

I remember that during a recent trip to Korea, one of our very-cultured, very well-educated drivers had once been an executive at an airline. When he was pushed out of the workforce, he reinvented himself as a livery driver. Because he could speak several languages, he drove visiting foreigners around.

Reply 1988 is one of my most favourite series ever. I know a lot of people who found the pace a little slow and the series a little boring, but I think it embodies what a slice-of-life drama should be.

\u201CReply 1997\u201D was the first release of the three. \u201C1994\u201D and \u201C1988\u201D are not continuations or prequels. Rather, each is a stand-alone series with different leads and plots. The only continuity is that the same actors portray the female leads\u2019 parents in each of the three K-dramas. As such, you can watch any of these shows out of sequence \u2014 though, that said \u2014 you\u2019ll enjoy the cameo appearances more if you watch them in the order they were released.

Everything that \u201CHow I Met Your Mother\u201D did wrong (including its series finale), \u201CReply 1997\u201D does right. Funny and poignant with superb acting by the entire cast, the series tells the story of six childhood friends whose lives are intertwined through adulthood.

It starts out with a high school class reunion. We are told that one couple will become engaged that day. But what we don\u2019t find out until later is that another couple had gotten married and were expecting a baby.

At the center is Shi Won \u2014 who is obsessed with a K-pop band called H.O.T. \u2014 and Yoon Jae, the smartest student at their school. Their friendship grew even stronger, when \u2014 at the age of 11 \u2014 his parents died. (Their parents had also been childhood friends.)

Yoon Jae\u2019s older brother, Tae Woong, gives up his dreams and sticks close to home to take care of him. Both brothers are handsome, ridiculously smart and driven. Though they have their own house, they are welcomed at the Sung home for meals, family gatherings and game nights. They are, in essence, a blended family.

As I started to write about the relationships that keep the characters intertwined, I realized that dissecting them didn\u2019t do them justice. Just as in real life, the romances here are messy and maddening, but also filled with love and devotion.

There is also unrequited love that is beautifully poignant. Kudos to K-pop idol Hoya (of the group Infinite) for his thoughtful (and unstereotyped) portrayal of Joon Hee, a gay teenager who is in love with his best friend; and to the writers for not portraying it as \u201Cweird.\u201D

All the over-the-top histrionics aside (especially early on with Shi Won\u2019s tantrums over life in general and H.O.T. in particular), this series at its core is about unconditional love. One of the sweetest moments is watching Yoon Jae drive an old beater that\u2019s doors don\u2019t work properly. (I believe it had belonged to his parents.) We learn that when he had his first job, he bought her parents \u2014 who had become his surrogate parents \u2014 a new car.

I really enjoyed learning more about their past as the series progressed. For instance, about mid-way through the series, we see that Yoon Jae is in the hospital with a broken arm. We don\u2019t learn until the final moments how that happened.

We also learn that Shi Won and Yoon Jae have already been married for a few years. She is pregnant with their second child. Their first child was an unexpected surprise. Yoon Jae\u2019s brother \u2014 who already had his own wedding planned \u2014 gave them his wedding date so that they could be married prior to the child\u2019s birth.

Tae Woong falls in love with the doctor who performed surgery on him. It turns out that like Shi Won, she is a huge idol fangirl. There\u2019s a nice flashback to the first time they met \u2014 though neither remembers it. He was in line getting music for Shi Won. His future bride rudely brushes past him, having picked up her latest CDs.

Yoon Jae is deathly afraid of frogs. While still in high school, the six friends take a photo together at the park. At the last minute, Shi Won opens her hand to reveal a tiny frog and Yoon Jae freaks out, falls backwards and breaks his arm. This is how the series ends, and it\u2019s kind of perfect.

Eun Ji-Won, a member of the group Sechs Kies, plays the porn-obsessed Hak Chan. Sechs Kies is H.O.T.\u2019s rival. There are some clever meta moments: Hak Chan\u2019s girlfriend is obsessed with Sechs Kies. Watching a video of the group, Hak Chan mumbles that he\u2019s more talented than they are. At the reunion, his fiance, Yoo Jung (played with Shin So-Yool) says she\u2019s now obsessed with Infinite. Hoya is a member of that K-Pop band.

Though the series is filled with heartbreaking and romantic moments, my favorite was when the friends all gathered together at the Sung house to watch Korea play against Japan in a pivotal soccer match. Mr. Sung, who is the coach for the Busan Seagulls, tells motormouth Sung Jae (portrayed by Lee Shi-Un) that if he can keep quiet for the entire game, he will give him one of the star player\u2019s bats. You can see the frustration on his face as he listens to everyone getting mixed up about facts and pop culture. Finally, he doesn\u2019t care about the prized bat and he explodes with a barrage of corrections.

He reminded me so much of Lee Jae-Won, who played a similar character in \u201CThe Master\u2019s Sun.\u201D Their mannerisms, laugh and (to a lesser extent) looks were so similar that I had to keep checking IMDB to make sure they indeed were two different actors.

The premise for \u201CReply 1994\u201D is pretty much the same as its superior predecessor, \u201CReply 1997.\u201D Here, a group of college students room together at a boarding house run by the female lead\u2019s parents. She will marry one of the men\u2026but which one?

The writers give it a good shot at trying to disguise who will become Na Jung\u2019s husband, but there really are only two choices. Why? Because in all the wedding flash forwards, we see that her husband is really tall. The only two who physically fit that requirement are med student Trash (on the left) and baseball prodigy Chil Bong (on the right).

Though I was rooting for one over the other, my choice was incorrect. I knew this prior to the reveal in the final episode, because I screenshot one of the wedding photos where the husband\u2019s face was blurred out and I could still tell by the haircut and facial structure who she picked.

I didn\u2019t understand why the male characters were so besotted with Na Jung. Though actress Go Ara gained almost 20 pounds and cut her hair to try to appear less attractive, she was still ridiculously beautiful. Less attractive was her gross eating habits, slovenly manners and freakily immature obsession with a college basketball star.

I was more vested in the relationship between Samcheonpo (Kim Sung-Kyun) and Yoon Jin (Min Dohee). Though he was the youngest character and the most socially awkward, he also was the most honest. He said what was on his mind, even when it would tick off his girlfriend. When Yoon Jin was expecting an engagement ring, she was disappointed (at first) to see that he gave her three bank books instead. One was for savings, the other was for a house and the third was for their wedding. He knew that wasn\u2019t romantic, he said, but it was who he was.

This series \u2014 which aired in Korea in 2013 \u2014 dragged on for me. Truth be told, I was tempted to stop watching after a handful of episodes, but I wanted to get the back story in case any of the players showed up in \u201CReply 1988\u201D (the final series in the trilogy).

There were some wonderful moments in the series though. Early on, Na Jung explains how Trash became her de facto big brother after her actual big brother (who was also Trash\u2019s best friend) died during his childhood from a brain tumor. Na Jung and Trash were both wary of transitioning from a sibling-like relationship to a couple for obvious reasons.

Meta moments: Sung Dong-Il and Lee Il-Hwa return as the female lead\u2019s parents. (Fans will recognize that the characters they play share their real-life names.) This time, they\u2019re Na Jung\u2019s parents. Instead of coaching the Busan Seagulls (as he did in \u201CReply 1997\u201D), Sung is the coach of the Seoul Twins. Lee continues to serve ridiculously large amounts of food at every. single. meal. and it all looks delicious!

The cast members of \u201CReply 1997\u201D make cameo appearances in Episodes 16 and 17. It was refreshing to see them, but I really hated the interaction between Shi Won (who was obsessed with the K-Pop band H.O.T.) and Trash. I actually found it disturbing.

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