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Twenty-five, Twenty-one

     Recently, I fell in love with an amazing Korean television series called Twenty-Five Twenty-One. The five main characters are Na Hee-do, Baek Yi-jin, Ko Yu-rim, Moon Ji-woong, Ji Seung-wan. The series presented the lives of characters in 1998 through Na Hee-do’s daughter’s viewpoint by reading her dairies at the time of 2021. Na Hee-do is a high school student, who is also a fencer. Baek Yi-jin used to be a rich second generation, but he had to do many part-time jobs to live after his family went bankrupt. Ko Yu-rim is a high school fencer who is also the national representative, and she is Na Hee-do’s idol. Moon Ji-woong and Ji Seung-wan are the friends Na Hee-do makes after she transferred to Ko Yu-rim’s high school after her school’s fencing team was scrapped due to the Asian financial crisis in 1998. After some coincidence, Na Hee-do and Baek Yi-jin get close quickly, and they always cheer each other up from disappointment to happiness. 

     The lines in the series are the most eye-catching to me. “I always think only about what I’ve lost, but you think about what you can gain.” Sometimes when people are disheartened by life, work, study, relationship, or even “times”, we should not just be disappointed in everything and keep thinking about what we lost and what we used to have. Instead, we should all look into the future, look for the road that leads to the way we are willing to be on.

    There are a lot of lines in the series worth pondering, and the plots are always unexpected. This series is the one I like the most recently. Even though the series is still updating every week, I think I would be really frustrated when the series ends a few weeks later. However, I am still excited about the new episode, which will be uploaded this weekend!

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