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That and him always putting his job first and stooding her up every date they had. Literal copy of her mom, it's a good parallel that he ended up taking her job.

I feel like their break up was foreshadowed the whole time. At the end they broke up because he could not make time for her, a reporter and an athlete can't have that kind or relationship and they've been trying to tell us that literally the whole show.
It's not much about communication (except on BYJ's end who clearly didn't know how to share his sorrow) but more about BYJ not making time for her, no matter how much he loved her. He kept putting his job before her (missing dates, dinners, going to NY without knowing when he would come back etc..). She made a lot of effort in their relationship but it never was reciprocated, no matter how much he said he loved her.

Thank youu!!! I was not sure I made my opinion very clear since english is not my first language but I'm glad some people agreed. I see a lot of disappointed people, it saddens me. I wish everyone enjoyed the ending like we did

I see your point, you wanted them to try again. Only then could their break up would have been justified, you feel like they gave up on each other too easily is that right ? I feel like as long as he was not comited to put her first, there was no way this could have worked again

Him always chosing his job over her (all the dates he missed, going to NY in the first place etc..) the way her mom did her whole life (which scarred her for life) is not a bad reason to break up imo

The whole show was so very well written, I wouldn't change a thing.
We knew since episode 1 that they didn't end up together, like no surprise here. I'm actually really glad they kept that direction and didn't try to have them reunite at the last moment. It would have ruined all their break up.
It's not like they didn't love each other, they were just not right for one another. She resented her mother for her job her whole life, it's good thing they didn't try to change her character and make her suddenly be okay with it just because she's in love (like yeah she did at first but then she understood the implication of being in that life again). She tried to give it a try though but you can't blame her for changing her mind. Yijin not communicating with her on his sorrow during the 9/11 episode made it even worse. That whole thing happend to early in their relationship, he didn't learn how to share his unhappiness yet. She was making effort, tried to be comprehensive, sucked it up, and he didn't reciprocate the way she wanted him to, the way she asked him to (even if it was because he didn't want to overwhelm her, he still failed her).

I also don't see BYJ's decision to go to NY as a weird one. He was in a weird place and he knew his relationship was ending. It started to end the moment he normalised not showing up to dates. He made her live what her mom made her live her whole life. Him going after her on that tunnel scene was a selfish move and he knew it, otherwise he would have let the NY job go. He could have stayed but that job was a big opportunity for him and he never once showed that his job was not important enough. Quite the contrary. His job always came before her. Him changing to local news to "not hurt her" doesn't change that. Had he stayed, he still would have stood her up during their dates. Their relationship was just NOT working.

It's a great drama about how two people who love each other very very dearly might not have the happy ending they expect. Because : life happens.
The writters could have gone with the whole "they meet again now that they are old and more mature" and blablabla but the implication would have been that your first love is your only love and though it's very romantic... well that's not necessarily the case. It would have made the drama a little bit less realistic for me.
Kdrama tend to do that sometimes. They give a sad ending and try to sugar coat it by some open ending and I thing it ruins the bitter sweet ending side of it.

What a ride though! I loved watching them fall in love!
This show and reply1998 did a really good job at making us feel nostalgia for a thing we never lived lol

Especially when it's been used 100+ times before in other dramas, it's like reading the same sentence in different font

Honestly the whole "hiding the boyfriend" part really annoyed me. When I saw the 2nd leads no fish-eyes kissed and how they just got together simply because they liked each other, I had some hopes, I thought "oh we'll have actual adult content" as in "they'll act like adults".
Not with the first leads though...
Them ducking behind cars and jumping whenever someone arrives as if they're 15 secretly dating is embarassing, they're grow adult. I really didn't expect that from a 2022 drama :(

The leads have great chemistry !

Same, they have great chemistry and honestly, 2nd lead carried the first part of the show anyway.
But yeah the plot is really just a very simple one.
I got excited because I though "oh it's a 2016-ish drama but in 2022 so now that time has passed, they'll give us good content" you know because why would you recycle plots from 5+ years ago.
But like you said, rinse repeat is where the chose to go apparently.

Exactly! Either youd add more important things to the plot and then it's not JUST romance, or you give them a slow burn (without making it borring, 2521 does that well imo).
But when they're together after 8 episodes and then the plot is : quiproquo, break up, apologies, happy ending (add some drama with a car accident), or any other plot direction that is just boring af and drags the show, I just drop it.

Agreed, the writting is always the same, it's sad. It started fine, I hoped it would be more original than the usual drama with the same trop we know (since it's 2022 you know), but meh

Arf, I really liked the first episodes' dynamics, but now that everyone is together I can't be bothered to watch it lol
The problem I have with romance drama is that in most of them, they are not good at keeping things interesting once the leads are together and every episodes after follow the same direction. They feel like fillers, only there to just justify a certain number of episodes.
The whole "hide the boyfriend" + "accident" trop had me rolling my eyes.
It's good that it's not 16 episodes

lmaooooo the "he's the father by some twist of faith" team is looking like real clowns right now
it's fine, we're used to it.
I honestly didn't really think he was the father/husband, the first episodes are quite clear about that, there's no way the daughter did not recognize her own father (right?).
Not every love story has a happy ending no matter how beautiful it starts, it's life, it happens.

All I want to know now is the why (if he is indeed not the father). Did he sell his soul to be a news anchor like hee-do's mom? was is foreshadowing all along?

I feel like the whole athlete-reporter dichotomy is a foreshadowing that it eventually won't work out?
Aren't the parent divorced in present time?

it's only 4 episodes of less than an hour, I don't think it will drag anyway

"Two people first meet when they are 22 and 18 years old and fall in love years later when they turn 25 and 21."
lmao they really had us thinking there was going to be a time skip!

I keep saying it but they built their relationship so perfectly well, they took their time and the fact that they actually aged make their love more believable than slow romance stories where only a few months passed between ep 1 and kiss-ep.
Next week we say goodbye, life is a cruel.

It's more about the attitude than the age gap. Goblin was for exemple way more unsettling for the same reason

how so?

That's because he's so "adult" and she's so "a kid" in their attitude that people are a bit unsettled