High-school Gong Myung is Kim Min-ha’s first love
by Jenzy
The first teaser for TVING’s Way Back Love (formerly A Week Before I Die) introduces us to our lovebird leads Kim Min-ha (Pachinko) and Gong Myung (Lovers of the Red Sky) before fate tragically tears them apart.
The teaser opens back in high school. Our adorable besties Jung Hee-wan (Kim Min-ha) and Kim Ram-woo (Gong Myung) are starting off their school year, and Hee-wan has unilaterally decided to switch names with Ram-woo for funzies.
While it’s confusing to everyone else when Hee-wan starts answering for Ram-woo’s name and calling him by hers whenever she sees him, it’s clear to us as the audience that this is her way of flirting in that indirect awkward teen style.
And even though it might be clumsy and deeply embarrassing — like when she faceplants while trying to stop another girl from confessing to Ram-woo — her sincerity appears to win him over as he says in the voiceover, “It’s a good thing when you find someone you like.”
However, in a sharp cut to several years later, we meet a reclusive Hee-wan catatonic in her apartment, barely getting up when she hears a knock at her door. We don’t know exactly what happened to our formerly bubbly teenager, but when Hee-wan opens her door to find Ram-woo — greeting her with “did you not miss me?” and “there’s something I’ve been meaning to tell you” — it looks like their reunion starts to spark something in her again.
That is, until a polaroid picture of the two of them reveals the dark truth about Ram-woo that Hee-wan has been holding on to all this time: “You died.”
You heard her right. Turns out Ram-woo actually died four years ago, and this figment in front of Hee-wan is actually him as the grim reaper, here to take her away into the afterlife. But after missing Ram-woo for so many years, is Hee-wan ready to lose him a second time?
Directed by Choi Ha-na (Citizen Pane) with the screenplay written by Song Hyun-ju and Jang In-jung, TVING’s Way Back Love is scheduled to be released sometime in 2025.
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1 panshel
September 29, 2024 at 6:17 PM
I've been looking forward to this drama since it was announced! I love Kim Min-ha and Gong Myung! I'm so glad that grim reaper!Ram-woo has kept all his human memories. Even if they both have to go to the afterlife, can we please get a happy ending where our OTP ends up together?
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HopefulRomantic 🦋 Tigermoth 🦞
September 29, 2024 at 6:23 PM
Seconding everything you said here 👍 I know this will make me cry buckets, but if it has a happy ending, I'll be watching 😅
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2 Reply1988 -❣️Mother Bean❣️ Underpants buddies for life. 😎
September 29, 2024 at 10:03 PM
Looking forward to a short and sweet drama. I like the idea of it so I hope it is not too heavy despite the focus on death.
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3 🌸 Cera (@Seeker) 🌸
September 29, 2024 at 10:41 PM
I think there is something to be said here about Hee-wan answering to Ram-woo’s name ... maybe a supernatural twist or a HE!! 🤞🏻 Looking forward to this one. 😊
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panshel
September 29, 2024 at 11:10 PM
Like she was the one who was supposed to die, but because they switched names, he died instead.
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🌸 Cera (@Seeker) 🌸
September 30, 2024 at 12:12 AM
Indeed. It doesn't seem random. Just hope it ends well. 😂 Beanies are a very hopeful bunch even in the face of irrefutable evidence we keep on looking for a HE.
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4 Kurama
September 30, 2024 at 2:25 AM
The thing with the name reminded the book Royal Assassin. In this story, one of the character, the Fool, call the ML by his own name. In his culture, it means that you love the person. But the ML learned about after the Fool's death 😥
For this drama, I like the casting. Not sure I want a tragic story with these lovely characters.
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5 Isa is always time travelling
September 30, 2024 at 3:25 AM
I really liked this trailer and the leads. Please, be good!
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6 marblebees
September 30, 2024 at 4:31 AM
Why do they always change good sounding names to bad names?? Way back love sounds like some bubbly childhood friends romcom instead of a story with grief, depression and lost chances/love you get from the synopsis... Not to mention, the novel is named "A week before I die" wouldn't you want your readers to know that this is an adapation?
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vienibenmio
September 30, 2024 at 6:20 AM
Do you know if the novel has a happy ending? I want to watch this but I don't want a sad ending
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