no matter how maddening the ending was, I believe that is how reality really is, it happens to a lot of people, that sweet first love all healthy, pure, and true, but for some reason it just doesn't work and will only serve as an experience, a life lesson and a memory we will never forget
This scene is why I started the Kdrama. Despite the ending, I have no regrets. Would recommend, especially if you want to cry for good and sad reasons. Korean drama name: Twenty Five Twenty One
@kura-i4252 It's a pretty sad ending.. but it's obvious it won't be a happy ending basically right from the beginning.. Worth the watch though!! It's now one of my favorite kdramas..
The ending wrecked me. It was too real, and the feelings were so raw. The overall story, from the friendships, sportsmanship, familial hardships, love and so much more, were just so good. There was even some greay comedy moments. I don't have the iteration to properly describe how good, great and touching the series is. Definitely a top series I could go back and rewatch over and over.
Ending makes me ANGRY. Ending makes me SAD. Also, ending makes me HAPPY because it was real. Sometimes your happiest moment becomes your saddest memory. I look at them, I look at myself, I picture what they lost, what I lost.
lol my ex saying I’m wasting time watching kdramas until his uncle who lives in Seoul called and I started talking to him in Korean because he doesn’t know English. 💀😂😂🤣
Je ne sais pas si elle savait déjà parler Français mais en tout cas si elle a apprit juste pour le role, chapeau à elle, sa prononciation était vraiment bien ! 👏
Muchos no les gusta el final se este kdramas pero yo realmente la ame por qué vivi lo de esta pareja y al final aunque no me quede con esa persona se que fuimos un amor único y ahora solo somos alguien especial que tuvimos en nuestra vida de adolescentes.
you can really only understand the ending if yk the song "2521" which came out like a decade before the kdrama was released. The song is about a couple who fell in love at 25 and 21. They thought they would love each other forever, but as time passed, they slowly fell out of love.
A lot is said about the ending - yes it stays with you. No it's not traditional. Yes it is honest. Yes it is powerful. He became a correspondent in America and had to report on the twin towers attack while she wasn't there with him. She was preparing for her competitions - if memory serves right she was in Europe at least part of the time. He went through the secondary trauma (PTSD) from his deeper research and very humane stories about the survivors, the first responders and the victims' families in the aftermath. The more he worked with their trauma, the more he took it on and the more he isolated himself. He didn't know how to ask for help but couldn't stop reporting. That trauma, depression, shame for not coping and silence suffering grew so bad he made the decision to break up with her rather than stay with her in a long distance relationship that he couldn't fully participate in. They loved each other dearly throughout but neither knew how to handle the situation. She remained angry with him as shown by her reaction when her mother said "he's back" - no name but she knew who) until someone returned her missing diary. She found that he had written his feelings of love for her in it and his gratitude for having her in his life. She read it and returned to their old haunt with a smile, then good in the car and left. We never find out who was her daughter's father, who she married and why her daughter's father was absent throughout. We do know her mother thought she should meet with the ML and talk things out with him. His password recovery question was - who was your first love? Without hesitation he typed her name. His return to Korea and resumption of his old career in Korea is about his readiness to return to life. So the open ending leaves that to the audience's imagination. Her best friend and sometimes fencing rival married a mutual friend and had a family. The ending was bitter sweet. The problems they faced were very much a sign of the times when men's mental health and PTSD wasn't really openly discussed. Yet it was all so avoidable if society understand mental health better which adds to the poignancy.
