Fasten your seatbelt for sure this drama is going to take you to a different time period, yes the one that used to exist without the smart phones.

I must say, A must watch drama for comedy and light theme drama fans.

We have heard about the cozy and close family, here we see cozy and very close neighbourhood.
This much close that they do share their curries and side-dishes for the dinner every night. ( yes, I am talking about the opening scene from the episode 1 of the drama).

I was thinking to write a few lines about this drama with the intention that, after reading this you should feel like watching this drama. ( if you have not yet)

I had thoroughly enjoyed watching this drama and want you too to get that experience.

The reason I said in the beginning about this drama taking you to the different time period is-

Because the way they have shown the period of Seoul Olympic year 1988 , and with only television as the mode of entertainment and maximum hours of your day you spend with your friends, that, one just find it difficult to believe that the drama was picturized and aired in year 2015.

In fact I liked everything that has shown in this drama.

*School life of teenagers,
*small little things that have got priority in their lives,
*no worries about the future,
*busy in dealing with the silly ( well not so silly for them) day to day things,
*and yes first love- that love when you do not even know what love actually is, you think looking handsome and being tall is enough for falling in love with some guy.
*Friendship among kids from the neighbourhood and among their moms and among their dads- simply wow !
*Moms with their morning + afternoon +evening gossiping aka broadcasting network *and dads with their money making skills(?)

Actually I was in awe of all the three - kids and the moms and the dads.

Some episodes are so funny that it makes you experience the meaning of the term ROFL.
I was laughing and laughing and rolling and rollingto the point that my stomach started aching, in the episodes -

* where Deok sun’s mom along with her friends goes to some shaman and changes her name so that she should perform good in studies and all.
*episode where she was practicing the walk with the flag holding,
*and episode where she comes back running home in that “jeans of her elder sister episode”
*so many naive comments by the kid Dong Ryong with the spectacles ( the moment he opens his mouth to speak, you are sure that next thing you are going to do is to laugh.)
*the episode where these our non-adult kids go to some adult movie.
*the episode where one of the mom was out of station for few days and the way dad and kids had gala time during those days OMG ( I am sure this is the situation at every house, so you feel it close to your heart, be you are a dad or a kid)
*that scene where sister Bo-ra conducts maths class for those poor kids!

I can go on and on talking about this.

*Romance part - kudos to the director and script writer- the way they have shown how tenderly the love blossoms through the foolishly seeming things on the surface.
Like the way, how you find a girl so cute who is sleeping with her mouth open ( might be snoring also- I am not sure about this part, have they shown her snoring in that bus ride scene ?) and drooling saliva too?
Just like you, our this SL ( second male lead) also finds her equally cute, cute enough to let the feelings develop for her. ( frankly speaking, however adorable and innocent was our ML Choi Taek, I was secretly supporting this SL Jung Hwan)

*All the actors did their job extremely well that you feel all these characters in your bones.

(The one scene needs a special mention here , where Deok-sun and Jung Hwan had to hide in a very confined space in an alley that, their bodies pressing into each other’s, the way they have performed that scene, without any dialogue just with the expressions on their faces…..mind blowing ! )

*songs are enjoyable too, in fact today also I just leave it in loop to play and dive in pure joy.

*There was this lump in my throat when they visit their neighbourhood after few years, with them you also feel nostalgic and you also miss those days.
This is the beauty of any good drama, you do not even realise when did you become part of their lives and when you started staying with them in that neighbourhood and living their lives.

I have already given 10/10 rating for this drama.

Without any doubt, this drama is one of my favourite ones.

*So, just go ahead and live the day to day life ( even without any significant outcome at the end of the day) of common middle class people from those time period who were happy and lived happily.