Reply 1988 was the first and only drama that I waited constantly for the episodes to be released every week and even made me watch the episodes when they hadn’t even been subtitled yet. Yes I did that.

The drama is a very warm drama that displays the daily lives of mainly teenagers in a neighbourhood. It’s main focus is on friendship, but it also includes family, school and other issues in 1980’s Korea.

The drama is hilarious, but also so meaningful at the same time. It teaches life lessons in a natural way, and you almost feel as if you personally know the characters in the show yourself.

The romance in the show was a sad story for me. Because who I thought was the male lead the entire time ended up being the second lead, which is the first time this has happened in my entire life whilst watching dramas. Junghwans’s confession scene was the scene that left me crying for days after the drama had finished.

Although the romance didn’t turn out the way I wanted it to, I still appreciated the love story even if it was one-sided, because it was a beautiful one and also seemed to be a way of teaching the audience to not hesitate in things that mean a lot to you.

The drama made me feel a range of emotions, I was crying one minute the next minute I was laughing out loud. It never failed to keep me entertained.

The drama gives a nostalgic feeling to even those who did not experience the 80s themselves, like me! Reply 1988 successfully reached audiences hearts and pulled eveyone’s Heartstrings. It will forever be an unforgettable journey to me, who watched the episodes twice a week when they came out, once without subtitles and once with it subbed

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There isn’t much of a story for this drama. It’s two childhood friends who have grown up together, but have opposing personalities, and how they grow attracted to each other. The Actors/actresses seem young and fresh and I think that’s what made the show. I think the female lead was very relatable and there was a lot of hilarious scenes due to that. The actress who played the lead role excecuted her role perfectly and I appreciate that, as normally in chinese dramas, I find the leads to have annoying characters or bad excecution. I would watch this drama if you need some cheering up.

Oh and for the romance, don’t expect too much progress. It’s a very very very very very slow-paced romance, that barely exists, but when there is chemistry on screen it sends you screaming. The actors/actresses in this show are quite young which is probably why there was no intimate scenes

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