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A Hundred Memories has unveiled its first teaser, featuring Kim Da Mi and Shin Ye Eun as bus conductors riding the bus No. 100, carrying their dazzling dreams.
A Hundred Memories is a youth melodrama set in the 1980s, depicting the shining friendship of two friends — Ko Yeong Rye (Kim Da Mi) and Seo Jong Hui (Shin Ye Eun) — who, in a tough era, work as bus attendants to make a living.
The teaser shows that even the bus conductor "unnie" — remembered in berets, uniforms — once had dreams. The protagonists are Ko Yeong Rye and Seo Jong Hui, who shout "Girls, be ambitious!" while cherishing their dreams.
Before the sleeping world awakens, the conductors of Cheong-A Transport are already preparing for work at an early hour — to make sure someone gets to the office and someone else to school. At 4 a.m., lights switch on in the dormitory, followed by group calisthenics, roll call, and the hurried shouts of "Hurry up and get ready!" as the day kicks off in a clatter of activity.
Soon after boarding the No. 100 bus, Yeong Rye is at the front of a jam-packed vehicle, calling out, "Please board slowly," as she takes on passengers. Back in an era when buses were more common than subways, part of her job was to shove, with all her might, the back of a passenger about to bounce out, just to fit one more person inside — and to rap on the bus while sending the departure signal with a loud "All right!". The mise-en-scène takes viewers back into those times, pressing the nostalgia button.
Thus, at an age when she should be wearing a school uniform, Yeong Rye instead dons a bus conductor's uniform, running tirelessly to help support her family's livelihood — all with the dream of going to university in her heart. It is also the reason why, late at night in the dormitory, she studies alone by flashlight.
Into Yeong Yye's life comes a new breeze: Jong Hui, a new conductor whose very gaze carries a different air, joins Cheong-A Transport. For Yeong Rye, who never even had the time to share friendship, Jong Hui becomes, before she knows it, a BFF who laughs and chats with her about their dreams — "I want to go to university," "Maybe I'll become Miss Korea."
For these two, who had spent the entire day calling out "All right!" to signal departures, even a brief moment without worries or cares shines brightly.
The production team stated, "Through the first teaser, viewers can catch a glimpse of the friendship that bus conductors Yeong Rye and Jong Hui will build as they run toward their dreams, and of the exciting youth story that will unfold as they become entangled with Jae Pil. Set against the backdrop of the 1980s, we will board viewers onto a bus down memory lane full of the radiant faces of youth, and send them off with an 'All right' [departure call]. We ask for your interest."
A Hundred Memories will premiere on September 13. News about the K-drama's global OTT is yet to come. Watch the teaser.
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