It’s so much fun to intuit where the drama is going, and know they’re planting the seeds for this complicated, interesting, and totally heartfelt story.īut wait, who’s the actual hero of this story? We spend so much of our time with Ji-pyeong during our opening week that it’s hard not to automatically position him as the hero when we meet him in the present. (What’s it going to look like when we’re a few weeks into the story?) Our young cast is fantastic here, and it’s always a treat to watch Nam Da-reum.īut this backstory isn’t just great because it’s poignant and sweet - it’s also carefully lining up all of our plot points for when we reach the present-day timeline. ![]() We’re still fifteen years in the past at this point, and my heart is already in shreds. They like his name, go with it, and before you know it a year-long penpalship is formed. A boy named Nam Do-san just won a big mathematics award and seems like a winning sort of person. ![]() They even give this fake penpal a cool name, which they randomly steal from a newspaper article. Halmoni makes Ji-pyeong write the letters to Dal-mi, which they both come up with. Her father might be loving and wonderful (and huge points to her choosing to stay with him, they’re golden and precious), but her grandmother’s plan is to give her a companion that she can talk to and open up to: a secret penpal. But more importantly, the two cook up a plan to comfort the heartbroken Dal-mi, and together are basically responsible for the entire construct of the drama.Ībandoned by her mother and her big sister, Dal-mi is understandably heartbroken. He strikes up a friendship with Dal-mi’s awesome corndog-making halmoni ( Kim Hae-sook), and while she puts a roof over his head (and gives him the mother figure he so sorely needs), he invests her money and makes a small fortune. He’s already won a huge high school award and proven himself an investing genius - but that’s not doing him much good with no roof over his head and no way to earn money. When we first meet the girls, they’re super close and determined to keep their family together, but later, In-jae leaves with her mother, and their family is left in splinters.Īt the same time we meet a young orphan, HAN JI-PYEONG (later played by Kim Sun-ho, but as a teen played by Nam Da-reum). She does more than break up their marriage, though - their divorce also breaks up Dal-mi and her big sister WON IN-JAE (later played by Kang Hanna). His wife, however, can’t handle their paycheck-to-paycheck life, and decides to leave him. Her father (played by the omnipresent Kim Joo-hun) is a struggling business man with a promising entrepreneurial streak. And so, much of our first episode tells the story of our heroine, SEO DAL-MI (later played by Suzy), fifteen years in the past when she was a young girl. ![]() In order for our present-day story to be as rich and full as it is, we need backstory to set it all up. ![]() TvN’s new drama Start-Up premiered this weekend with a heartfelt introduction to our three main characters, some strong storytelling, and that unquantifiable thing we all know and love so well: K-drama magic.
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