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Finally started watching Weak Hero Class 2!!!
My favorite scene!!! 🤍 Look at Sieun’s smile here 🥹
I really can’t help but compare the webtoon. I know they changed a lot of stuff since s1 and that’s what I’m kinda feeling a bit sad about it. Ben Park’s crew is larger than this too (we’re missing Gerard Jin?!) and lots of interesting Union kids (Jake Ji isn’t here!!!). But how they cast the characters were pretty much on point— Donald Na and Wolf Keum!! And Ben Park, Gogo, and Jungtae!! I know they need to stay true to reality butttt I was hoping Donald Na has tattoos tho haha 😭
Anyway I haven’t gotten past episode 5 cuz I need to sleep. I already saw a few spoilers on X so I’m pretty bummed.
I’d also like to note that they used Homesick on episode 4’s ending when Sieun says “Suho, I got into another fight. I’m sorry” LIKE 😭 BROOOO it’s my fave song from WCH1 ost along with Hero. Cuz the song starts with Park Jihoon saying “미안해” in a really somber sad tone 😭 These songs hits different too when you listen to the instrumentals
imo, still one of the best and nothing will ever top this:
but just look at him he’s just a babieee these kids just won’t leave him alone
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10 Worst Kpop Sasaengs Cases of All Times
1. Jungkook: The Food Delivery Incident
However, they didn’t and in one of his next weverse lives Jungkook slams the kpop sasaengs and says that he will not eat whatever is sent and he is not at all comfortable with the “fans” doing this. He further stated that he will get the bills backtracked and find the people.
And very true to his word Hybe filed a lawsuit against most of the kpop sasaengs or fans who violated his privacy, just like they deserved.
2. Straykids Dorms Lurkers
In 2021, Seungmin communicated through the LYSN messenger that the JYP artists use to get in contact and called out the sasaengs. He said that he saw shadows and voices of people lurking outside their dorm rooms waiting for the members. The artist had displayed his discomfort in this matter and explained how inconvenient it was for the members and the staff.
3. TVXQ Yunho Orange Juice Case
So far this is the worst kpop sasaeng case that has occurred in the history of kpop and left a mark on the artist and other idols in parallel. Back in 2006, Yunho was poisoned by a crazy anti-fan. He said that he accepted a glass of orange juice from, whom he thought was a staff. No sooner had he consumed it, he felt like he couldn’t breath and was thankfully rushed to the hospitals. It was found that the kpop sasaeng had mixed the juice with Superglue.
In the years to come, Yunho was so traumatized that he couldn’t eat or drink anything that’s not packed and sealed from anyone apart from his family.
4. Girls Generation Taeyeon on Stage Kidnapping
In 2011, while performing “Run Devil Run” at the Lotte World, a kpop sasaeng had snuck up the stage and literally grabbed Taeyeon of Girls Generation and tried to pull her away.
If it wasn’t for her teammate Sunny and the MC comedian Oh Jungtae who acted immediately to pry her off that creep, the poor idol could have been harmed.
However, no steps were taken against the man’s behaviour and he was simply guided outside by saying that he got “over-excited”. One could only imagine the level of fright and panic this incident must have put the idol and her group mates in after that.
Read the full article at:
10 Worst Kpop Sasaengs Cases of All Times
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This is the kind of thing I would personally wait for more info on before drawing any conclusions if all of the reports were coming from Taekook accounts. Like what if someone stole the autographs and that's why they weren't on the wall anymore? Or took them down to take a picture just to spread this kind of story. Any other possible explanation. So I did...and looked a bit more into the tweets floating around. This tweet is from a Jungkook solo stan. Not a Taekooker.

"Jeonggu came too, so delicious 🐽 Jungkook's autograph was not approved by his agency, so it was not hung in the store and no photos were allowed (you can only see it with your eyes 🥺"
This account, also a Jungkook solo stan. From the bio, they seem to be violently homophobic and opposed to real people shipping? So probably not a Taekooker. 😐

This is another report from a Taekooker, who included pictures of the autographs that the restaurant keeps hidden but allowed them to look at while they were there.

"I went to this wok-fried chicken restaurant in Jeju at the end of August and wanted to take a photo of Jungtae’s autograph after eating it, but I found out that it was taken down 😅 I asked the clerk and the clerk said that the company would not release it 😅 (But the clerk took it out backstage for me to take pictures because I said we drove a long time just to eat here 😁 )"
Not sure what is going on here, but it's interesting that Hybe can call up restaurants they've been to and demand that they remove autographs they left behind. I feel like this probably isn't the only time this has happened.

This is really weird.
Tons of restaurants have various BTS signatures, including a sushi restaurant that has Yoongi and Jimin together on same day, but this one is a problem because "not approved"?
When there were up to 30 Hybe employees with them at the time of signing? Didn't one of them say "oh we don't approve this" at the time?!
Weird.
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Doyoung: I'm way too hot right now. Why is the sun beating down on me like this?
Taeyong: Don't worry Doyoung! My love will protect you!
Doyoung: How the fuck is that going to help? That will make everything worse!
Jungwoo*jokingly*: Don't worry Doyoung! My love will protect you!
Doyoung: Thank you, I love you too!
Taeyong: ACCEPT MY LOVE.
#nct#nct 127#incorrect quotes#doyoung#jungwoo#taeyong#nct dotae#dotae#nctzen#Dowoo#jungtae#nct127#nct ships
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taekook coming out of the car together. 25 august 2018.
#love yourself tour#love yourself#Korea#Seoul#ly Seoul#25 august 2018#taekook#jungtae#taehyung#tae#jk#jungkook#jeon jungkook#Kim taehyung#BTS#bangtan#bangtan boys#bangtan sonyeondan#bring the soul#bring the soul docu series#episode 1#beyond the scenes#taekook car
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Jungwoo: Hyung, I don’t like your surname.
Taeyong: Why?
Jungwoo: I think “Kim” suits you—wait why’re you crying, hyung it’s not a real proposal—
#the adventures of jungwoo flirting#jungtae#nct#nct u#nct 127#nct dream#nct 2018#nct 2019#wayv#lee taeyong#taeyong#jungwoo#kim jungwoo#incorrect quote#incorrect nct#incorrect kpop#kpop
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#kdrama#korean drama#the king eternal monarch#thekingeternalmonarch#the king: eternal monarch#lee min ho#leeminho#kimgoeun#kim go eun#lee gon#leegon#jung tae eul#jungtae-eul#woo do hwan#woodohwan
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We Want You no Matter What (18+)
Nothing is the same after Jungwoo stumbles upon Mark and Yuta having sex in the forest outside the Nakamoto Mansion.
-yumarkwoo, magic AU, 73k words -trans boy Jungwoo -flirty himbo boyfriends yumark
AO3 link ♥
#yumarkwoo#yumark#jungta#markwoo#polyamory#nct fic#ao3 fanfic#magic au#transgender character#trans boy Jungwoo#happy ending#trans fic by trans authors#fics#please see AO3 for complete tags
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yuta: i love you jungwoo
jungwoo: i love you too hyung
yuta: no im reading a comment
[#2]
donghyuck: our team won
jungwoo: really??
yuta: ㅎ you didnt even do anything
BREATHE IF YOU'RE SUPPORTING THIS PAIR
#what even is their ship name??#jungta???#yuwoo???#YUWOOO HAHAHAHAHAHAHAH THIS IS SO FUNNY#bxhdhsheh#yeah ken no one understands you#i live for this interaction#nct#nct u#nct 127#nct jungwoo#nct yuta#nakamoto yuta#kim jungwoo#nct meme#nct text
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Ice Cream Kisses
Pairing: Nakamoto Yuta x Kim Jungwoo
Group: NCT
Rating: T (Teen and Up Audiences)
Word Count: 1.6K
Key Words: Jogging, Ice Cream, Kisses
Date Originally Posted: March 10, 2022
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Yuta woke up to the blaring of his alarm, he groaned and then stretched, feeling his back crack and pop pleasantly. He rolled over and tapped his phone, silencing the alarm. He sat up and rubbed at his eyes. Beside him, Jungwoo was still sound asleep, not fazed in the least by the world’s most obnoxious alarm sound. His face was soft with sleep, hair messy with round cheeks, his lips pursed out as if asking for a kiss. Yuta leaned down and pecked his lips, his boyfriend smiling in his sleep, but not waking up.
The best part about graduating high school and moving on to college, was that he got to finally live with his boyfriend. Yuta had previously lived with his foreign exchange host family, and Jungwoo had lived next door with his family. When they found out they had been accepted into the same university, they decided that they would get an apartment near campus together. Yuta’s host family wasn’t required to host him once he graduated, and he and Jungwoo were going to be together forever, so they were going to start their lives together as soon as they could. So, they got this little apartment near campus and moved in only a week after high school graduation.
They were both lucky enough to get scholarships, Jungwoo for being a mechanical engineering genius, and Yuta because he’d made the university soccer team. And that last reason was why he was even up so early in the morning during the summer. While he had already made the team, the university had sent them their summer conditioning schedules, and along with some other exercises and routines, every other day they had to go and run for miles. They would work up to a ten-mile run, but in the beginning here, they would be running two miles. This was something that Yuta was used to and wouldn’t actually be that hard for him. But Jungwoo had decided that he would do the runs with him.
Jungwoo had played baseball growing up and all through high school but hadn’t decided to try out for the university team. Yuta was sure that he would have made it, but he knew that at this point Jungwoo was burned out. He was smart enough to get a full-ride academic scholarship and didn’t need to worry about the added pressure of a full-time collegiate sport while also doing one of the hardest courses there is. But Jungwoo had said that he still wanted to stay in shape, so he would be joining Yuta in at least his runs. At least the two-mile runs, Jungwoo had been very vocal in his desire to never run ten miles in one go ever.
Yuta leaned over and pressed a kiss to Jungwoo’s cheek, “It’s time to wake up, baby.”
Jungwoo scrunched his face up but didn’t move. Yuta chuckled, and kissed Jungwoo all over his face, wherever his lips could reach. He could tell that Jungwoo was close to waking up, starting to shake his head to both lean in to and away from Yuta’s kisses.
Yuta kept going, “Snoopy, wake up. Come on baby boy. It’s morning already.”
Jungwoo groaned and opened one of his eyes, still blurry with sleep.
Yuta faked a gasp, “There you are pretty, wake up for me.”
Jungwoo smiled and leaned towards him, finally kissing Yuta on the lips, “Good morning hyung,” he murmured.
“Good morning baby, it’s time for you to get up. We have to go do our run.”
Jungwoo groaned but reached his arms out to stretch, committing to waking up. He finished the stretch with a sigh and sat up. He pouted as he blinked out the sunlight from the open blinds. Yuta smiled at him and leaned forward, pecking him right on the pout.
“Get up, the longer we wait the hotter it’ll get.”
That got Jungwoo out of bed. Sure, running first thing in the morning wasn’t very fun, but running in the humid heat was worse. He rolled out of bed and went straight to their dresser pulling out his running clothes. Yuta followed behind him and pulled his own clothes out, changing as quickly as he could. Yuta finished before Jungwoo, but that was to be expected, Jungwoo’s limbs were still sluggish with sleep. He left Jungwoo to continue getting ready and made them protein shakes. Running on an empty stomach wasn’t great but running on a full stomach could be just as awful, so a protein shake was the perfect middle. He sipped at his shake as Jungwoo came in, pulling up one of his socks. Yuta handed Jungwoo a shake, and he took it with a smile. Jungwoo leaned into him, and Yuta wrapped an arm around his waist as they sipped on them.
They finished their shakes and set the empty glasses in the sink. They slipped their shoes on and Yuta made sure that Jungwoo’s shoes were tied correctly, not too tightly, where two fingers could fit easily under the tied laces. Any tighter and it would be painful after a while, so it was important to do it right.
Jungwoo smiled at him as he stood up, “Thank you, hyung.”
Yuta smiled back at him and kissed his cheek, “Of course baby, now let’s go.”
They grabbed water bottles from the fridge and left their apartment. Just a short walk from their complex was a park. It was a large park with a running path and trees that bordered the pathway that kept it shaded. It was the perfect place to go for a long run. They set their water bottles under a bench where they would be kept safe and started to stretch. And then, they began their run.
The run was easy enough for Yuta, he was used to running much more than just two miles, so he was feeling good. Jungwoo was a little way behind him, but Yuta knew that he would catch up soon. He may not have been the most used to running this sort of distance, but he didn’t like to be left behind, so no matter how tired he was, Yuta knew he would be able to catch up.
By the time they finished the sun was out at full force and beating down on them. Yuta was dripping sweat and from the look of him, Jungwoo was too. Jungwoo had collapsed onto the bench with a pout as soon as they finished. Yuta chuckled and sat down beside him, handing him his water bottle. Jungwoo took it and drank from it but was still pouting when he pulled away.
Yuta chuckled, wrapping an arm around Jungwoo’s shoulders, “What do you need baby?”
Jungwoo shrugged his arm off, but before Yuta could be offended, he said, “It’s too hot out. I want ice cream, and a shower, and kisses.”
“In that order?”
Jungwoo shrugged, “One kiss now, then ice cream, then a shower, and them more kisses.”
Yuta leaned in to oblige, kissing Jungwoo softly on the lips. It was slightly salty, but Yuta didn’t care, nibbling slightly at Jungwoo’s bottom lip. Jungwoo giggled as he pulled away, wrapping his arms around one of Yuta’s arms.
“Ice cream now,” Jungwoo said, pulling him towards the ice cream shop across the street.
Yuta followed along and opened the door of the ice cream shop, sighing happily as the air conditioning from the store blasted them when they opened the door. Jungwoo let go of him and rushed to the counter, ordering before Yuta could even take a step inside. Yuta chuckled and joined him at the counter, back hugging him as he added his order to Jungwoo’s.
By the way Jungwoo sagged into his hold, Yuta knew they would be taking their ice cream to go. He could already tell how badly Jungwoo wanted to get back to the comfort of their apartment, where he could get clean and fall back into bed before he had to actually start his day.
He paid and took their ice cream from the worker, thanking the worker. He handed Jungwoo his ice cream who thanked him with a silent kiss to the jaw. Yuta lead Jungwoo out of the shop as they began to eat their ice cream and walk back to their apartment. Jungwoo laced their fingers together and swung their arms as they walked. Jungwoo licked happily at his ice cream cone, and Yuta smiled as he watched him.
They finished by the time they got back to their apartment. They were quiet as they rode the elevator up, Jungwoo wrapped under Yuta’s arms. He hummed as they rode, Yuta occasionally kissing the back of Jungwoo’s hands. Jungwoo swayed in Yuta’s hold to the tune of his own humming. Yuta kissed the back of Jungwoo’s neck, tongue tasting salt once again. Jungwoo giggled and tilted his head back, shivering at the feel of Yuta’s lips on his skin. Yuta continued to kiss up his neck and to his jaw, rubbing his head against Jungwoo’s sweaty hair.
The door opened and Jungwoo pulled him out of the elevator. Yuta unlocked their door and the second they were inside, Jungwoo started stripping himself of his clothes. The clothes ended up all over the floor, Jungwoo not caring where he dropped them in his haste to get in the shower. Jungwoo disappeared around the corner and the sound of the shower turning on soon followed. Yuta shook his head and closed the door behind him. He walked towards their bedroom, picking up Jungwoo’s discarded clothes from the clothes as he went.
Jungwoo stuck his head out the bathroom door with a sly smirk, “Are you going to join me or what?”
Yuta grinned and dropped the clothes to the floor. He had promised his boyfriend kisses after all.
#nct#nct fanfic#jungwoo#kim jungwoo#yuta#nakamoto yuta#fanfic#fanfiction#ao3#ao3 fanfic#thefunk#ao3 thefunk#jungta#jungyu
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the way heetae sincerely doesn’t care about anyone liking him, but really, *really* wants myunghee to like him. and like, even with his friends hyegun and kyungsoo, he’s insouciant and kind of a know it all, but with myunghee he’s serious. he’s still fun loving and jokes around, but he’s not flippant.
and the way he tells her he’s an outcast in his family, that he has no family, but it’s with myunghee’s encouragement that he reaches out to his little brother and it’s that connection later on that allows jungtae to ask his mom to unbind heetae and let him out of their father’s office, and then helps move jungtae to run to myunghee’s rescue when their dad sends someone to assassinate myunghee. she tell heetae “i’ll be your family” and proposes to him, but she helped him find some semblance of family even before that.
another thing i like about the show is heetae’s father--like as in how he’s written, not the character himself. at home he’s a tyrant. he slaps heetae around and eventually straight up tortures him; he belittles and ignores both his wife and jungtae. and so his violence isn’t only confined to his work/position as head of the anti-communist investigation. he’s as violent with citizens as he is with his family. because he’s a violent man ho uses intimidation, pain, fear, and threats as tools of control to access power. he’s Bad, but it’s not an inherent quality. he *chooses* violence because of the position of power it gets him within the military and within the then-current political regime. he’s violent because it benefits him within the system he operates.
the thing i like best about how the show handles him, though, is that by the end he is dwarfed by history, in a way no other character is. in the first 10, maybe even 11, episodes (the drama’s 12 eps long), he looms as the central villain, even when the military comes into gwangu and starts attacking civilians. but about midway through ep11, his power becomes unstable. we see that there are higher ups within the military who are invested in his failure, people he *can’t* intimidate with violence or bribe. within the structure of the military, even as he directs his henchmen to imprison and torture gwangu residents, he’s just some fucking guy. and just like his tyranny was both over citizens and his family, the stripping away of his power happens both in his work/public life and at home--jungtae eavesdrops on him and goes to save myunghee, his wife frees heetae and asks for a divorce. and then parallel becomes a confluence with hyegun. heygun is heetae’s friend, but he’s also one of the student proest leaders. when heetae’s dad captures him and has him tortured for days, and then threatens his family, he remembers something heetae told him--that if he ever gets acpatured all he has to do is mention his name and his dad will probably kill him on the spot. and that’s exactly what hyegun does. when he’s at the end of his rope and refuses to give up any information in the face of his grandmother being threatened, he drops heetae’s name and calls heetae’s dad “abeoji,” making as though since he’s heetae’s friend, he’s close with heetae’s dad. and he laughs in his face while doing this--just like heetae did when his dad tied and beat him up--cause he knows he’s got him. and the minute he acts like he knows him, an operative runs out to let military higher ups know heetae’s dad has been fucking around with a suspected communist spy. and so guilt by association with no evidence, the same things heetae’s dad has been using to torture and violently disrupt other’s lives, comes right back around to him.
and back to how he’s dwarfed by history--ultimately he’s just a bit player. he taunts heetae by telling him he’s an oprhan with no family, and heetae tells him *he’s* the one with no family, cause no one would choose to be family with him. this is confirmed when his wife asks for a divorce and jungtae defies him and essentially chooses heetae over him after he’s shot by one of his henchmen, but it resonates even more with the ending. it’s myunghee who’s murdered, but she’s the one who is loved and remembered. heetae remembers her, myungsoo, sooryun, jungtae, and kyungsoo all remember her. heetae reads her words 41 years after her murder and he writes her a responding letter *41 years after her murder*. heetae spends 41 years remembering her, missing her; 41 years being saved by her because the world refuses to give him a death he looks for because her last wish was for him to be able to live even with the pain of her loss. her life is taken within the violence of the history she lived in, but she isn’t dwarfed by that history.
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In all honesty, I didn’t even read the summary of this movie before watching it. I had heard about it a while ago, but never actually watched it. I ended up stumbling on it again and was motivated enough to watch it. After all, it’s Hyuk’s debut as an actor… He even won an award for this role…
Chasing is an action comedy movie. Kim Seung-Joo has his cellphone stolen by a gang of students. As he tries to recover it with the help of his lifelong friend, Do Jung-Taek, he ends up having to chase the small group around Seoul.
For me, the plot was a bit boring. I mean, sure, it's funny, but being funny isn't all and surely doesn't make a movie necessarily good. I strongly believe that, to keep me entertain, a production should have some plot twists as well as an interesting story line. The movie fall short on these two things. The story took quite a lot of time to settle and, because of its slow start, I quickly became uninterested by the movie. I'm well-aware that the start of a movie should be slow and quite calm, but whenever I see such pace, I'm thinking to myself that it could have been handled in another way. The thing is that because of its pace, the plot has quite a few lengths. It's not unbearable, but it can be a little bit tiring. There are no plot twists (and, of there were plot twists, they were so poor that I missed them). The chase can be, from time to time, boring, but it's probably the most entertaining part of this movie. Both the conclusion of the chase and the ending are weird. They seem rushed and didn't make a lot of sense, in my opinion, no matter how hard the scriptwriter tried to justify his choice through the movie.
What was really disappointing about the characters was that the plot was made in such way that there were no place for them. I mean, since the story was mostly focused around the chase and that precise moment of their life (I don’t really want to explain such thing because it’s a type of story frequent in literature, like you see characters at a moment of their life that seems important, but the characters don’t grow or change. If you want an example of such story there’s The Eternal Husband of Dostoïevski) that the characters nor grew nor changed. What was more, the personality of the characters (the mains included) aren’t developed at all. Their character doesn’t seem really important as well as their life before and after the event, which make them kind of easy to forget and hard to connect with. Because they are really superficial, I can’t really take about them in depth. The main characters (the two adults in the movie) are really typical while the kids are just quite weird and annoying most of the time. Most characters, because they aren’t develop, have no reasons to do what they do, which make them, sometimes, hard to understand and annoying. Lastly, because of the weird ending, I’ll have to say that this movie has no true antagonist that’s actually worth mentioning.
I’ll conclude there. The plot would be worth a 4/10. The characters would be a 1/5. And the tearjerker factor a 0.5/5.
#chasing#catch him to survive#vixx hyuk#kim seung-woo#kim seung woo#kim seungwoo#han sang-hyuk#hang sang hyuk#hang sanghyuk#kim jung-tae#kim jungtae#kim jung tae#shin kang-woo#shin kangwoo#shin kang woo#kim min-gyoo#kim min gyoo#kim mingyoo#moon yong-suk#moon yong suk#moon yongsuk#k-movie#k movie#korean movie
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I NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THAT TAEYEON FUCKED IN THE BATHROOM WIP OMG WHATS THE PAIRING??
lmao that one is

Lesbian at the club that ignores you when you try to flirt with her but then later you walk in on her getting her dick sucked in the bathroom and she invites you to join
Originally it was just the one scene with jungtae in the bathroom but then because I'm me I added a bunch more and now it's taking me forever to finish it but one day. One day
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i have the personality of a 2 year old learning how to play match the shape which is why i'm reading up on the og material that inspired youth of may's storyline (aside from the real-life events) and i'm surprised to find out that 80% of the show characters are born out of writers' creative freedom! in the grand scheme of things, the four main characters actually represent the youth as a whole at that time (duh, the drama title says it all but let me dig more into the book, there might be spoilers)

the book that the drama writers based the story on is titled 오월의 달리기 / running in may / may's race (?) - it's a fairy tale by writer kim hae-won that won the changwon children's literature award, and was first published on may 18 2013.
the difference is that the book deals with the story of 13-year-old myungsoo (myunghee's brother in the drama) who was selected as a rep runner of the south jeolla province at the national youth sports festival and lived in gwangju in 1980 when protests demanding democratization continued every day.

while researching gwangju's history during that time, writer kim hae-won contacted a track and field athlete after seeing an article that the national youth festival was postponed due to the 5.18 pro-democracy movement back then (it will most likely be cancelled in the drama too, poor kiddos omg). the athlete turned out to be a national student at the time and lived in a dormitory in gwangju so the book is the product of her research and meticulous coverage.
and rather than emphasizing the painful wounds of the may 18 pro-democracy movement, the book focuses on showing the life of children who lived during that period. it depicts the life of myungsoo, an ordinary child who dreamed of becoming a national representative athlete, who wanted to be recognized by his father, and tried hard to beat his rival friend jungtae (heetae's brother). the book delves into painful history and the despair suffered during that time through children's lens and is even used as learning curriculum in schools to make children wonder why the may 18 pro-democracy movement that destroyed this child's life took place at all

writer's notes: "it’s good to be careful when talking about the may 18 pro-democracy movement in class. it is not possible to mention only objective dates and numbers with no context, so various materials and media need to be used, because students' reactions vary widely depending on which part is emphasized.
even now, the may 18 pro-democracy movement is at the center of controversy. although it was listed in elementary school textbooks as an important example of a pro-democracy movement and even listed as a UNESCO world record heritage, the claims that it was a riot are quite noticeable if you type 5/18 in the portal site search box. how should we explain the may 18 pro-democracy movement to children who are easily exposed to such confusing information?
this book depicts the scene of the may 18 pro-democracy movement from the perspective of a child who lived at the time, and shows realistically how many people were lost due to national violence.
children who boldly attempt to escape from the training camp to avoid their coach, witness the sight of an airborne unit brutally hitting people in downtown gwangju. at the time, the soldiers only looked good in the eyes of the children so most of them said, “these soldiers are not the soldiers of our country. they must be the people's army sent by kim il-sung of north korea.”
however, the children end up learning that our country's soldiers can trample and kill their people. in 1980, gwangju had to make a huge sacrifice under the control of a real villain. most of them were hard-working people. why these people were killed for no reason, this book tells the truth and tragedy of the may 18 pro-democracy movement.
오월의 달리기 depicts ordinary people's desire for democracy, their tearful efforts to protect each other, and their heartbreaking sacrifices. in particular, through the images of myungsoo who lost his family and those who support him, the story shows hopeful gestures to heal the painful history and wounds of his heart, leaving a long lasting impression."

possible similarities with the drama
in the book, myungsoo's dad runs a repair shop in the market and has a weak leg just like in the drama. he also disapproves of myungsoo's dream to become a running athlete and myungsoo shows embarrassment towards his father. one day, an unexpected event occurs in the training camp, in which one of the kids came up with a plan to escape from the dormitory. however, downtown gwangju, which was thought to be full of interesting sights for the kids, turned out to be full of college student protesters, soldiers, and the nasty smell of tear gas

the children follow the protesters with curiosity and witness unbelievable scenes. soldiers beat college students with clubs (곤봉) and even kick the elderly who were watching. the children who see this are terrified and run away. they enter a billiard room in a building to escape and face an even more terrible scene. seeing the soldiers smashing the head of a student protester who had sneaked in there, and seeing the blood dripping out, even kicking the old uncles who told them to stop, and hitting them with a club...
soon, news comes out that the national youth sports festival has been postponed and the coach comes to the dormitory with tears in his eyes to deliver shocking news.
“myungsoo... your father is dead.”

in parallel with the book, the drama places a focus on radio and broadcast as these mediums suffered from censorship during that time... it's not a coincidence that jinah's character dreams to become a radio pd and that heetae who happens to be her tutor knows his way around radio and supports her dream the way he does. although the preview for ep 9 shows jinah being unconscious and heetae struggling to save her (a reenactment of his traumatic past in a sense), it is most likely that she will live, and through the support system heetae has around him (myunghee) this time, he will be able to save her and free himelf of his trauma. i think jinah will grow to become a radio pd, perhaps on the same frenquency bette midler was playing and to which heetae shared that intimate moment with myunghee at the end of ep 8... this is just my personal wish tbh but i find these details interesting to dig into

another item that figures in the story is the watch belonging to myungsoo and myunghee's dad... one of the questions asked in the school textbook based on the story is that the watch contains memories (as in pictures) of myungsoo... in the drama, the watch is the first thing we see in the first episode as recovered belonging to someone during the uprising. going by the book, it was the dad who ended up dying in the book... i don't know if the drama will follow the same narrative but if it does, the man seen in the beginning is most likely myungsoo

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NEW LEASE SIGNED...
(min yoongi) // welcome to gongyu station, heo jungtae! you'll be in unit #06 on the 2nd floor, and your keys are under the mat! we're happy to say your key money deposit has been waived, but don't forget your rent is due to mr. jung on the first of every month! if you haven’t sent an account yet, please do so. please remember to pen an intro within the next 48 hours & you can find your new neighbors here →
⌎ ✳ ∘ min yoongi (suga), cis male, he & him / welcome to gongyu station, heo jungtae! i understand that you’re a 28 year old line cook, correct? interesting… it also says here that you enjoy playing guitar, so hopefully you’ll run into some likeminded people! i noticed that you’re winsome & intuitive, which is great, but i also catch a secretive & detached vibe? as long as the neighbors don’t complain, it’s fine. your references made allusions to sweat dripping down a clenched jaw, a playlist you haven’t changed in six months & clothes imbued with the smell of food while talking about you, so you must have made quite an impression! in conclusion, we hope you feel at home here! / fi, 21, she/her, est (gmt-4)
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TOGETHER UNTIL DAWN
CHAPTER 12: DARKNESS REVEALED






My personal favourite here are the lines of the Oracle. This one in particular:
“Just when the Light Goddess found it’s Moon God... What tragic fate. Even in this lifetime the darkness followed her and her Moon.”
Details, details. I dropped some easter eggs here and there.
Also, our OK Psychiatric Hospital characters appeared in this one too, Joo Jungtae, Areum, and Sunhae!
Like the Gods in the legends, will tragic fate befall our Sun and Moon lovers? I am also worried.
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