Bong Pil
HERO Jaejoong
Bong Pil

This time-slip drama centers around Bong Pil and his five friends who travel between the past and present through a manhole in order to stop a wedding scheduled a week later.
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Bong Pil
HERO Jaejoong
Bong Pil
Kang Soo Jin
Uee
Kang Soo Jin
Jo Seok Tae
Cha Sun-woo
Jo Seok Tae
Oh Jin Suk
Jung Hye-sung
Oh Jin Suk
Bong Pil's father
Ju Jin-mo
Bong Pil's father
Bong Pil's mother
Kim Hye-ok
Bong Pil's mother
Soo Jin's father
Seo Hyun-chul
Soo Jin's father
Soo Jin's mother
Lee Yeon-kyung
Soo Jin's mother
Bong Pil's friend
Kang Hong-suk
Bong Pil's friend
Bong Pil's friend
Seo Min-ji
Bong Pil's friend
Kang Jae Hyun [Soo Jin's fiance]
Jang Mi-kwan
Kang Jae Hyun [Soo Jin's fiance]
Oh Dal-Soo
Lee Sang-yi
Oh Dal-Soo
Not the first drama with time travel to chase a lost love and not the best either. The first few episodes introduced us to the concept and up to episode 3 it seemed promising. The first time travel was to the past and the second one returned to the present to see the consequences of his actions. He did something minute in the past but resulted in him turning into a gangster once returned. The drama hinted into creating these radical scenarios for every round trip which sounded like fun. Unfortunately, this was a one off thing and the subsequent events were utterly disappointing. The entire plot device of this manhole was handled poorly. There were obvious coherency problems and plot holes, pun intended. I think the writer realized this problem which is why he didn't include any traveling between episodes 11-15. Speaking of which, these episodes got significantly dumbed down and became soulless and out of touch. They made the love rival blatantly bad and psycho to open the way for the main lead to have a clear black and white cut, avoiding any moral ambiguity the viewers might run across. That was the only way for the writer to glue them together without performing mental gymnastics. There were other remarks to be said about characters' reasoning, underlying theme, chemistry, side characters, story structure, and romance, but maybe on a later time.
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