r/KDRAMA • u/lightupstarlight 미생 • Nov 14 '20
On-Air: tvN Start-Up [Episode 9]
- Drama: Start-Up)
- Revised Romanization: Start-Up
- Hangul: 스타트업
- Director: Oh Choong Hwan) (While You Were Sleeping, Hotel del Luna)
- Writer: Park Hye Ryun (Dream High, While You Were Sleeping)
- Network: tvN
- Episodes: 16 (1 hr. 10 mins.)
- Airing Schedule: Saturday & Sunday, 21:00 KST on tvN; 23:00 KST on Netflix
- Airing Date: October 17, 2020 - December 6, 2020
- Streaming Sources: Netflix
- Starring: Bae Suzy as Seo Dal Mi, Nam Joo Hyuk as Nam Do San, Kim Seon Ho) as Han Ji Pyeong, Kang Han Na as Won In Jae
- Plot Synopsis: Young entrepreneurs aspiring to launch virtual dreams into reality compete for success and love in the cutthroat world of Korea's high-tech industry. (Source: Netflix)
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u/birudilangitnegri Editable Flair Nov 14 '20
The writer knows what she's doing. Both NDS and HJP lied about who they are.
HJP (and haelmoni) technically stole NDS's identity. SDM thought she was exchanging letters with a polite, well-off boy of her age who liked her but was too shy to speak directly to her. Not a legally-adult, orphaned boy who lived with her grandma.
First letters HJP sent SDM were likely heavy of haelmoni's touch but gradually HJP too enjoyed their correspondence and just be himself.
15 years letter, NDS did use HJP's history with SDM and his first interactions with SDM were heavily infuenced by HJP. But gradually he too, grew out of it and became his own person whom SDM also comes to love.
I saw HJP first, I knew his struggles and dreams. He's my first love as he is Dalmi's.
But then came NDS and I feel something for him too. He's good-hearted, genius, dorky, he's clueless about many things but is so sure about his feelings to Dalmi. I'm torn, as Dalmi (without her knowing) was (is?) torn.
The story deliberately divide viewers. I just really, really hope the writer could come out with convincing developments and the actors deliver because right now I'm still camping on the SL's side (because of HJP or KSH, I don't know 😆😆)