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Oct 15, 2023Liked by K-Culture with Jae-Ha Kim

안녕하세요! Thank you for your review of "Moving"! I watched that, too, and was blown away by it. Never went a 20-episode-series by so quickly! Have you watched all 20 episodes of it? Spoiler ahead, so keep on reading at your own risk: re the bullied girl: she actually wasn't the daughter of a rich family here but also one of the spies! She seems to have the super power of not ageing and was there at school to catalyze Jang Hee-Soo's superpower. At the end of episode 20 (I think 🤔) she is shown at the NSI's HQ berating leader Min for his poor work. Lee Kang-Hoon sees her in passing when he is walking out of Leader Min's office and looks stymied when he sees her.

I loved the series for its storytelling and acting, and I really hope there will be another season where we can dive even deeper!

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I totally missed that when I watched the series, Sandra. Great catch! (I tagged you in the review. Let me know if you want to be removed.)

I just went and fast forwarded through the finale and ... to be honest ... even though it was my second time watching it, I still didn't recognize Hye-won the operative as Hye-won the high school student. (I do remember her transferring to Jeongwon High School and Hui-soo being so happy to be reunited with her again.)

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Oct 15, 2023Liked by K-Culture with Jae-Ha Kim

To be brutally honest, I didn't either! But I'm in a kdrama discussion group, and it was discussed there so I was prepared for it. I wouldn't have put it together by myself either! 🤣 But that's something I just love about this show: you can get invested into all the feelings here, but there are still so many small things going on that I'm so looking forward to watching it a second time. I'm sure there are many people and things that escaped me in the first round!

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Oct 16, 2023Liked by K-Culture with Jae-Ha Kim

Forgive me for jumping in, but yeah... Shim Hye-won's character is apparently explained further in the sequel webtoon, Bridge. But since not everyone has access to the translated material that's probably the reason why they dropped hints of her in Moving. I even suspect she might be the "big boss" of the South operations that the North Korean general was referring to (something about hiding like a mole and it being impossible to locate "him").

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You're always welcome to join the conversation! Her character's inclusion was the one that threw me off. I didn't recognize her, like I did with the other characters. Even when Gang-hoon was staring at her in the final episode, I didn't recognize her. 😬 And her power is supposed to be not aging, right? But she didn't look youthful enough for it to be obvious. I mean, she looked older than Gang-hoon.

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Oct 17, 2023Liked by K-Culture with Jae-Ha Kim

I really hope they do a second part, that end was too open. Also, which was your favorite character? Mine was Jang Joowon. It could be because Hulk is also one of my fav heroes 😅, but i got really attached to him. And Ryu Seung Ryong's acting was espectacular, those action scenes were incredible (I was shocked to know he is 52), his crying was amazing too 🙌🏻👏🏻, he made me cry a lot! I saw he won an award for Best Lead Actor with Moving. Very well deserved!! ✨ i also liked they gave us a back story of almost all the characters, including the "villians", because we could see why they did what the did, they were forced to do it.

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I loved him and his wife Ji-hee (Kwak Sun-young). I loved their backstory, how they met, and how they became a couple. I was soooooooooo vested in their sweet relationship.

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