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Heavy but hopeful!
Before I start going through each detail, I just wanna point out how dramas like this are the reason why I love watching K-Dramas. I think they are the perfect representation of life. The way they mix genres and moods, from dark to cheerful, from thriller to comedy, is just done soooo well! No other type of Drama or movie can do this mix of genres as well as K-Dramas do! Because life is not just constantly sad and tragic or constantly happy and bright. Even for people with mental health issue, there was a time when they were happy, even if for a brief moment. And there will be a time when they heal and become happy again. It’s the same for people who are usually cheerful. They are not cheerful all the time 100%!!! They also feel sadness or even depressed. They can go through grief and even develop mental health issues as well. Life as a human and as an animal as we can see in this drama, is not just always black or white or gray. It is sometimes black, sometimes white, sometimes gray, sometimes yellow or any other color. And I just love how the moods constantly changed in this drama just depending on the characters and the cases.
Let me go through each case individually:
1. School Bully victim:
TV writer who experienced bullying at school meets her bully as an adult who wrote a novel or webtoon about a school bully victim and acts like an angel in front of the person who once was a victim of her bullying.
This chapter was done really well!!! Ro woon’s character was being the goofy idiot but it gave it some comic relief as it will do in future episodes as well. The toilet scene at the end was hilarious 😂😂😂
2. Job market struggles / Being jobless:
This story was about Jun-woong’s friend who kept on failing the police officer exam and struggled finding a job. This actually hit me hard because I also struggled with this issue. I had a few moments in my life when my future was uncertain because I couldn’t find a job for over a year. So I knew exactly how this character felt. It is definitely a feeling of being useless and having no significance in this world by failing to contribute to society. The sad past made it even sadder. I cried a lot in this character’s story. Again, the ending with the chicken was hilarious 😂
3. Loss of a loved one:
In this story arc a runaway soul is trying to save her husband from blaming himself for her death. This was also a very sad story. I think being blamed for someone’s death multiple times can have severe effects on one’s mental health. It was a miracle that he turned out to be a proper and kind person but we can see that music has saved him, or else he would be a goner much sooner. I cried a lot here too especially about the childhood scenes. They ripped my heart apart!!!!
4. War veteran:
This was suchhhh a sad story!!!! Omg I cried soooo sooo much!!!! Lonely, old people who have no one in their lives break my heart. And he was a war veteran on top of that too, living with so much regret!!!! I almost couldn’t bear this episode!!! It destroyeddd meee!!!! And tbh people criticizing the drama because of this scene being patriotic or whatever, my response is that they did not quite understand the identity of Korea and Korean people: As one of the smalles countries in Asia they were always the target of invasion. The fact that Korea still exists today is because of all the humans who defended it during those times of war! Korea never attacked another country like Japan or Germany did. In that case it would be patriotism in a bad way. But the patriotism of Korean people stems from survival, endurance and loyalty to serve for their country as a proud citizen. It is the collective spirit of unification and being there for each other, because they love their country and their people so much and understand each other’s pain because they all shared the same… So the end to this story was nothing but fitting in order to display the loyalty and pride Koreans have for their country.
5. Eating disorder:
This story was one of my favorites. It was also the eeriest because of the way the person saw herself as if she was being possessed. It made me feel very shocked and also sick to my stomach to see how other people idolize looks like this which is based on mental illness and unhealthy eating habits. And the scariest thing is that this is one of the most common mental illnesses in our society nowadays and again it mainly affects women. I also liked how it started out with an error in the system and the reapers didn’t know who the suicidal person was at first. In the end it came down to the two women who had physically very opposite figures. People would initially think that the chubbier woman would wanna kill herself because how can anyone love oneself when they are not skinny. So I really liked how they portrayed this as well: Chubby / non-skinny people can be confident and happy in their body too. It all just came down to what they experienced as kids: The chubby woman used to be skinny in her childhood so she never grew up feeling insecure about her body (which is kinda similar to how I feel in my body nowadays too). Whereas the skinny woman with an eating disorder used to be overweight as a kid and was bullied heavily because of that. Here we have the problem of bullying again which I think together with eating disorders is one main cause for suicide and mental illness. I liked the two different cases and how in the end the chubby woman helped out the skinny woman in developing healthy eating habits.
6. Suicide scammers:
This part of the drama was probably my least favorite. But I think this was an important part to show that not everyone who is suicidal is a victim or a good person. Sometimes, a suicidal person can also do bad deeds like killing others. In the end suicidal thoughts mostly come from unresolved or untreated mental health issues, some smaller and some bigger. And some people wanna take as many people into death with them as possible. Whether it is people attacking schools, jumping in front of trains or terrorists / suicide bombers: They all have been victims once and tried to survive through life but because of unresolved trauma and having no one who was ready to help them they became violent and dangerous not only to themselves but also to others. This showed the dilemma that the RM Team had to face of having to save everyone trying to commit suicide, regardless being good or bad.
7. Suicidal dog:
Omg this story was SO SAD!!!!! I just couldnt!!! I cried soooo much 😭😭😭Like come on, how do you expect us to not cry when a tiny little dog, A POMERANIAN is involved???? 😭😭😭😭😭 Again, it ripped my heart out!!!! 🥺🥺🥺 No more words!
8. Rape victim:
This one was a tough one. It was made really well tho. I think both the victim’s life before and after the incident and the toll it took on her were portrayed quite realistically. Her relationship with her brother and how they ended up blaming each other ripped my heart apart. Also the way the perpetrator lived his life as a privileged and successful student was quite realistic too as I think most of the time, sexual perpetrators are the kinds of people you would least expect to do such things…
The end of the episode took me out tho, when Jung-gil sets fire to the police truck he is in I fell in love with his acting skills!!!! Like Ro-woon who??? 😂😂😂
I do have one critique point here tho, just a small one and that is how quickly the female character went back to her cheerful self. I mean they probably did it because there is no time in a drama to fully convey the length of the time period it will take for people to recover fully so I get it. But that was a bit too abrupt.
9. Miscarriage:
This story was about the woman who was the rebirth of Ryung-gu’s mom and she becomes suicidal becomes she blames herself for loosing the baby. I heard a lot of stories about women mentally struggling with this. I also have two cousins who went through this and it took a huge toll on their mental health. It definitely made me really sad but the end of this story was so heartwarming! I think this one had one of the best endings.
Also why did no one sue that cheetah woman who literally killed her baby???!?!!! She lost her baby because of that woman who pushed her!!!! I think that was the only thing missing here.
10. Comfort women:
This story was one of the hardest to watch but also in my opinion the most significant one! I have heard a lot of stories about comfort women but never seen it in such detail like in this one episode in this drama. This episode alone makes Tomorrow deserve a 10/10!!! It destroyed me! Ripped my heart into millions of pieces!!!! As a woman and a kids teacher I cannot stand this!!! I didn’t just cry, I also felt sick to my stomach!!! And it made me dislike Japan! It made me dislike having lived in Japan for so long, for having supported Japanese people and the Japanese government for so long, when they have NEVER even once acknowledged their grueling deeds or apologized for the atrocities they have done! Most Japanese people don’t even know about this!!! They don’t teach them at school what Japan did in Korea and China!!!! And if they know they deny it! They say patriotic, propaganda-inducing Koreans made it up!!! I was shocked when I heard some young Japanese people say that!!! And since recently, the more K-Drama I watch the less I wanna stay in Japan… the war crimes they comitted and never apologized for, the ignorance of what they have done just sickens me…
11. Cyber bullying / hate comments:
The last story was about the rebirth of Ryeon’s best friend in her past life who was reborn as a famous idol / actress, and is struggling with fake news about herself and a lot if hate comments online. Anothet issue and cause for suicide that seems to be a huge problem in South Korea is one that cannot be hidden away from the public since it involves celebrities. It was definitely maddening watching this but I thought Ryeon’s behaviour had a lot of flaws in this part and she acted in a way that I had not expected. But I guess it had to be done so that there would be a reason for Jung-il to find out about their past together. Also, the guy from hell looked like Johnny Depp lol 😂😂😂
I definitely didn’t expect this to end like it did but I am not mad. I just wished at the end of the drama they would have shown how the idol friend will end up dating Rowoon 😂😂😂 They teasered that their fates are connected now but they didn’t show how they would end up together 🥲
12. Workplace pressure / Power harassment:
This was the case without Ro woon’s character since he already woke up from his coma and went back to the real world. And ofc he saves yet another person from comitting suicide and he meets Ryeon and Ryung-gu again and omg I laughed so hard 😂😂😂This was literally the perfect ending!
They definitely showed the workplace bullying issue only shortly but I hope that Ro woon’s character can be the savior of this man in this case.
At the end of the episode I would have liked another epilogue, looking into the future when Ro woon and the idol meet again 😂🥺🥺 Sad that didn’t happen! I swear I could have watched two more episodes just about his life and also the changes of the RM Team or seeing who would join them (I want the blond girl from the comfort women episode to join them)!!!
In summary, topics/triggers for suicide in this drama were: Bullying, rape, loneliness, Work-related pressure or unfulfillment
I was genuinely sad when this drama ended, I think I had a slight K-Drama hangover! If it wasn’t for currently airing dramas, I wouldn’t be able to start a new one for a few days.
I highly recommend this drama!
Let me go through each case individually:
1. School Bully victim:
TV writer who experienced bullying at school meets her bully as an adult who wrote a novel or webtoon about a school bully victim and acts like an angel in front of the person who once was a victim of her bullying.
This chapter was done really well!!! Ro woon’s character was being the goofy idiot but it gave it some comic relief as it will do in future episodes as well. The toilet scene at the end was hilarious 😂😂😂
2. Job market struggles / Being jobless:
This story was about Jun-woong’s friend who kept on failing the police officer exam and struggled finding a job. This actually hit me hard because I also struggled with this issue. I had a few moments in my life when my future was uncertain because I couldn’t find a job for over a year. So I knew exactly how this character felt. It is definitely a feeling of being useless and having no significance in this world by failing to contribute to society. The sad past made it even sadder. I cried a lot in this character’s story. Again, the ending with the chicken was hilarious 😂
3. Loss of a loved one:
In this story arc a runaway soul is trying to save her husband from blaming himself for her death. This was also a very sad story. I think being blamed for someone’s death multiple times can have severe effects on one’s mental health. It was a miracle that he turned out to be a proper and kind person but we can see that music has saved him, or else he would be a goner much sooner. I cried a lot here too especially about the childhood scenes. They ripped my heart apart!!!!
4. War veteran:
This was suchhhh a sad story!!!! Omg I cried soooo sooo much!!!! Lonely, old people who have no one in their lives break my heart. And he was a war veteran on top of that too, living with so much regret!!!! I almost couldn’t bear this episode!!! It destroyeddd meee!!!! And tbh people criticizing the drama because of this scene being patriotic or whatever, my response is that they did not quite understand the identity of Korea and Korean people: As one of the smalles countries in Asia they were always the target of invasion. The fact that Korea still exists today is because of all the humans who defended it during those times of war! Korea never attacked another country like Japan or Germany did. In that case it would be patriotism in a bad way. But the patriotism of Korean people stems from survival, endurance and loyalty to serve for their country as a proud citizen. It is the collective spirit of unification and being there for each other, because they love their country and their people so much and understand each other’s pain because they all shared the same… So the end to this story was nothing but fitting in order to display the loyalty and pride Koreans have for their country.
5. Eating disorder:
This story was one of my favorites. It was also the eeriest because of the way the person saw herself as if she was being possessed. It made me feel very shocked and also sick to my stomach to see how other people idolize looks like this which is based on mental illness and unhealthy eating habits. And the scariest thing is that this is one of the most common mental illnesses in our society nowadays and again it mainly affects women. I also liked how it started out with an error in the system and the reapers didn’t know who the suicidal person was at first. In the end it came down to the two women who had physically very opposite figures. People would initially think that the chubbier woman would wanna kill herself because how can anyone love oneself when they are not skinny. So I really liked how they portrayed this as well: Chubby / non-skinny people can be confident and happy in their body too. It all just came down to what they experienced as kids: The chubby woman used to be skinny in her childhood so she never grew up feeling insecure about her body (which is kinda similar to how I feel in my body nowadays too). Whereas the skinny woman with an eating disorder used to be overweight as a kid and was bullied heavily because of that. Here we have the problem of bullying again which I think together with eating disorders is one main cause for suicide and mental illness. I liked the two different cases and how in the end the chubby woman helped out the skinny woman in developing healthy eating habits.
6. Suicide scammers:
This part of the drama was probably my least favorite. But I think this was an important part to show that not everyone who is suicidal is a victim or a good person. Sometimes, a suicidal person can also do bad deeds like killing others. In the end suicidal thoughts mostly come from unresolved or untreated mental health issues, some smaller and some bigger. And some people wanna take as many people into death with them as possible. Whether it is people attacking schools, jumping in front of trains or terrorists / suicide bombers: They all have been victims once and tried to survive through life but because of unresolved trauma and having no one who was ready to help them they became violent and dangerous not only to themselves but also to others. This showed the dilemma that the RM Team had to face of having to save everyone trying to commit suicide, regardless being good or bad.
7. Suicidal dog:
Omg this story was SO SAD!!!!! I just couldnt!!! I cried soooo much 😭😭😭Like come on, how do you expect us to not cry when a tiny little dog, A POMERANIAN is involved???? 😭😭😭😭😭 Again, it ripped my heart out!!!! 🥺🥺🥺 No more words!
8. Rape victim:
This one was a tough one. It was made really well tho. I think both the victim’s life before and after the incident and the toll it took on her were portrayed quite realistically. Her relationship with her brother and how they ended up blaming each other ripped my heart apart. Also the way the perpetrator lived his life as a privileged and successful student was quite realistic too as I think most of the time, sexual perpetrators are the kinds of people you would least expect to do such things…
The end of the episode took me out tho, when Jung-gil sets fire to the police truck he is in I fell in love with his acting skills!!!! Like Ro-woon who??? 😂😂😂
I do have one critique point here tho, just a small one and that is how quickly the female character went back to her cheerful self. I mean they probably did it because there is no time in a drama to fully convey the length of the time period it will take for people to recover fully so I get it. But that was a bit too abrupt.
9. Miscarriage:
This story was about the woman who was the rebirth of Ryung-gu’s mom and she becomes suicidal becomes she blames herself for loosing the baby. I heard a lot of stories about women mentally struggling with this. I also have two cousins who went through this and it took a huge toll on their mental health. It definitely made me really sad but the end of this story was so heartwarming! I think this one had one of the best endings.
Also why did no one sue that cheetah woman who literally killed her baby???!?!!! She lost her baby because of that woman who pushed her!!!! I think that was the only thing missing here.
10. Comfort women:
This story was one of the hardest to watch but also in my opinion the most significant one! I have heard a lot of stories about comfort women but never seen it in such detail like in this one episode in this drama. This episode alone makes Tomorrow deserve a 10/10!!! It destroyed me! Ripped my heart into millions of pieces!!!! As a woman and a kids teacher I cannot stand this!!! I didn’t just cry, I also felt sick to my stomach!!! And it made me dislike Japan! It made me dislike having lived in Japan for so long, for having supported Japanese people and the Japanese government for so long, when they have NEVER even once acknowledged their grueling deeds or apologized for the atrocities they have done! Most Japanese people don’t even know about this!!! They don’t teach them at school what Japan did in Korea and China!!!! And if they know they deny it! They say patriotic, propaganda-inducing Koreans made it up!!! I was shocked when I heard some young Japanese people say that!!! And since recently, the more K-Drama I watch the less I wanna stay in Japan… the war crimes they comitted and never apologized for, the ignorance of what they have done just sickens me…
11. Cyber bullying / hate comments:
The last story was about the rebirth of Ryeon’s best friend in her past life who was reborn as a famous idol / actress, and is struggling with fake news about herself and a lot if hate comments online. Anothet issue and cause for suicide that seems to be a huge problem in South Korea is one that cannot be hidden away from the public since it involves celebrities. It was definitely maddening watching this but I thought Ryeon’s behaviour had a lot of flaws in this part and she acted in a way that I had not expected. But I guess it had to be done so that there would be a reason for Jung-il to find out about their past together. Also, the guy from hell looked like Johnny Depp lol 😂😂😂
I definitely didn’t expect this to end like it did but I am not mad. I just wished at the end of the drama they would have shown how the idol friend will end up dating Rowoon 😂😂😂 They teasered that their fates are connected now but they didn’t show how they would end up together 🥲
12. Workplace pressure / Power harassment:
This was the case without Ro woon’s character since he already woke up from his coma and went back to the real world. And ofc he saves yet another person from comitting suicide and he meets Ryeon and Ryung-gu again and omg I laughed so hard 😂😂😂This was literally the perfect ending!
They definitely showed the workplace bullying issue only shortly but I hope that Ro woon’s character can be the savior of this man in this case.
At the end of the episode I would have liked another epilogue, looking into the future when Ro woon and the idol meet again 😂🥺🥺 Sad that didn’t happen! I swear I could have watched two more episodes just about his life and also the changes of the RM Team or seeing who would join them (I want the blond girl from the comfort women episode to join them)!!!
In summary, topics/triggers for suicide in this drama were: Bullying, rape, loneliness, Work-related pressure or unfulfillment
I was genuinely sad when this drama ended, I think I had a slight K-Drama hangover! If it wasn’t for currently airing dramas, I wouldn’t be able to start a new one for a few days.
I highly recommend this drama!
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