Twenty Five Twenty One Episode 1 and 2: Surviving
Twenty Five Twenty One drama, actually, is one of the most awaited K-dramas that follows the path back to the hardest time for South Korean people to survive. The drama becomes the most awaited K-dramas as seen from the very first announcement that Nam Joo Hyuk as Baek Yi Jin and Kim Tae Ri as Na Hee Do will have a project on this drama together as the main leads. The enthusiasm from all fans continues when Netflix officially released the trailer on 8th February 2022. The video became a trending topic on Twitter and TikTok that day. Directed by Jung Ji-Hyun, this drama uses both chronological plot and reverse chronology, set in 2022 when Covid-19 has already spread in South Korea and set in 1998 for the reverse chronology.
In 1998, can be said to be one of the hardest times for Korean people as there was a financial crisis that disrupted all aspects of the lives of many Koreans, based on the drama it is portrayed by teenagers Baek Yi Jin (Nam Joo Hyuk) and Na Hee Do (Kim Tae Ri). As teenagers, they try to come out from a difficult situation and learn to understand the situation at that time. The genre of the drama is romantic comedy with certainly the rich moral value of friendship, family, and future.
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About Na Hee Do, her big dream and her challenges.
Na Hee Do’s big
dream is to become her idol Ko Yu Rim’s rival at fencing. She always shows her
interest, respect, and amazement toward Ko Yu Rim even though they are the same
age as secretly watching her practice every Saturday. However, Hee Doo’s dream
is not in line with the fact that her fencing team has to be banned due to a
lack of funding and the economic crisis in South Korea at that time.
Na Hee Do is
very frustrated with the situation as there is no one who supports her,
including her mom. Her mom tells her to stop fencing and focus on her studies.
Hee Do thinks the only way she can continue fencing is when her mom transfers
her to Taeyang High school where Ko Yu Rim is studied. However, it is not that
easy. Her mom refuses her request. When everyone says no, she never stops
trying. She meets Ko Yu Rim’s coach and begs her to allow her on their team. Coach
Yang allows her, to join but she has to move to Taehyang High school first.
When everything gets
stuck, she thinks about getting herself into problem, so her school will put
out her and transfer her to another school. She starts her plans with
physically assaulting other students, participating into gang war, and going to
a bar to drink an alcohol. In order to pursue her dream to keep fencing she willing
and doing a crazy thing that dangerous for her life until in the bar she meets
Baek Yi Jin. He brings Na Hee Do to think well and get the solution without
take a dangerous risk for herself.
After all hard work she has tried to show her seriousness to her mom, in the end of the first episode her mom allows Hee Do to move from her previous school. She transfers Hee Do to the Taeyang High school, the same school with Ko Yu Rim. Her first dream to keep fencing really come true!
About Baek Yi Jin, his interests and his challenges
Baek Yi Jin is twenty-two years old guy who moved into Na Hee Do’s neighbourhood. Actually, Yi Jin is a chaebol (heir of a conglomerate) in South Korea but because of the financial crisis, his father’s company went bankrupt. Yi Jin’s life was going really well until those crises affected his family. His family all live apart and separately. His father and his mom have to divorce to keep them away from the debts. Yi Jin’s younger brother has to live with his aunty. To earn a lot of money is Yi Jin’s focus and his first priority for now, so he can bring his family to live together again. Yi Jin is doing two part-time jobs delivering newspapers in the morning and working at the rental book store after that, but he is still looking for more jobs. He is a hardworking man. Every single day for Yi Jin is about surviving.
About Ko Yu Rim., her fears and her challenges
Ko Yu Rim's rudely sentence for Na Hee Do to bring her mental down.
The plot come back again in 1998, the first day Na Hee Do at Taeyang High school after her transfer. That day also the first day she on the same team with Ko Yu Rim, her favourite girl player at fencing. Na Hee Do tries to be friends with Ko Yu Rim but Yu Rim refuses her unfriendly. Instead of welcoming Hee Do, Yu Rim tries to bring her down.
The things are always the same, Na Hee Do’s expectations are not in line with the reality. Her biggest idol and the most favourite person at fencing refuses her so roughly. However, as the days went by, the reason why Ko Yu Rim did that because she worried that someday Hee Do will replace her position. She worried that Hee Do realize she had ever defeated her when they were on elementary school.
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Against and Fighting the Difficult Situation in “Twenty Five Twenty One”
Na Hee Do and
Baek Yi Jin are both young people. They are forced by the situation to become
older and adult from what they should be.
I want to focus on
Baek Yi Jin side. Actually, as a chaebol or wealthy family, he was supposed to
enjoy his youth to pursue his dreams in college, graduate and work at NASA, but
all of his dreams disappeared in a single blow. Yi Jin has lived his best life
before and now is living the worst life. He has everything on him, but now
there is nothing on him except his spirit. He has to take all heavy
responsibilities, including his brother’s life and future, make his family
unite again and bring back happiness to all people who are aggrieved by his
father’s company.
The most hurtful
scene is when Yi Jin cannot offer the two men money for consolation about his
father’s debts and he promises them that he will never live happily after his
family has caused sorrow to many people. However, in fact, he is already living
a life of despair.
From the Na Hee
Do’s side, I conclude that her way to against the difficult situation is not
only with hard work but also face those challenges in an easier way. For
example, even though she saw the difficulties of Yi Jin, she tries to comfort
him and wants him to have happiness even a little.
Hee Do tells Yi Jin to never give up on his own happiness even though everyone has stolen it from his life. He must be happy no matter what difficulties he has to face. So sweet, doesn’t it?
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