This show strikes me as, as much as anything else, an attempt to rehabilitate Korean drinking culture as shown in dramas. That started in the first episode - I was impressed when the team starts chanting for the second round and Yong-joo shuts that right down and says she's going home. Since then, though, we've seen her pounding a dozen or more pints of beer for some obscure plot purpose - but the point is to show that as the reimagined "good drinker" she doesn't end up classically kdrama drunk and talkative. She falls asleep, gets a scooter ride, and is good as new a half hour later. 😏

Beer is presented as an art and a craft, worthy of serious intellectual attention. People who can drink a lot without showing it are strong and admirable. No one has to be carried out of a bar. The only drinking competition is a demonstration of refined taste, and all the ABV levels mentioned are relatively low. There are feats of strength that do not involve pounding shots until someone falls over. There are no drunken confessions, only a gentle relaxation of inhibitions to deepen relationships. Hangovers almost don’t exist.

I'd love to visit that Korea.

Oh, I bet you're right! Although the car-crash/spilled beer scene was so random and wedged so awkwardly into the narrative that I suspect it has more to do with Lee Deok-hwa’s contract terms than with the plot.

It was after the festival when she kindly drags him away from the potentially overwhelming party. He goes to get her another beer and when he comes back she puts her hand over the corner of the table by his knee! Aahh! It was so cute!

While I agree this is likely, I would honestly be disappointed if they went this way.

It would also "explain" the odd accident on the road that she had to stop and help with on the way to the festival. She's always stopping to help people in car accidents??

The Viki teams go back and edit the subs in later weeks, refining them...so they may end up being better. But for now--especially the "camping scene" conversation--Viu's subs matched the tone much better than Viki.

I always had the impression that Viki was the one who took more care with their translations, but I'll try Viu from now on

WAIT I didn't even catch the scene of her holding the corner of the table! that's so sweet!

On the one hand, I've watched all four episodes so far at least twice each (sometimes three time) and also have actively sought out other translations for the subs because it seems clear to me that so much is being lost in the English.

On the other hand, it's not because this show has a very coherent plot.

It feels much more like these characters are all archetypes. They're always standing in for something, or pointing the way towards some other conclusion outside this story.

The cartoonish CGI adds to this feeling--that we're in a fantasyland where our hopes and dreams are front-and-center, not the real-world of Korean beer manufacture. The moving conversations that our lead couple has are somehow more like impassioned pleas to be heard by the audience, as much as they are directed at one another.

I'm here for it all.

PS: The Viu subs seem more sensitive than the Viki ones right now, FWIW.

During the whole scene, I was thinking it looked like her.

When they showed that flashback, didn't the person's voice sound a lot like Yong-joo? even if the uniform and profile seemed similar