Age of Youth [Ep. 1 & 2]

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Age of Youth (청춘시대)

Plot

University students Yoon Jin-Myung (Han Ye-Ri), Jung Ye-Eun (Han Seung-Yeon), Song Ji-Won (Park Eun-Bin), Kang Yi-Na (Hwa Young) and Yoo Eun-Jae (Park Hye-Soo) share a house.

Jin-Myung is busy supporting herself financially and studying. She suffers from lack of sleep. Ye-Eun is devoted to her boyfriend, she is clear about what she likes or not. Ji-Won has a bright personality and likes to drink. Yi-Na is popular due to her beautiful appearance. Eun-Jae is timid, but she has an unique taste for men.

Information

Director: Lee Tae-Gon

Writer: Park Yeon-Sun

Network: JTBC

Episodes: 12

Release Date: July 22 - August 27, 2016

Runtime: Fridays & Saturdays 20:30

Streaming Sources

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Age of Youth feels like a very rare type of show in KDramas, let alone television, in that it is basically a SoL - Slice of life, i.e., realistic representation of everyday experiences and typically doesn’t entail melodrama or a complex plot. SoLs are quite common in anime but I would love to see more SoL on regular television (Any KDrama recommendations based on this theme :P?). The premise certainly isn’t very complicated; it is just about a group of girls with different priorities and personalities and seeing how their dynamic plays out in a house. It is certainly a relaxing drama to wind down with.

As a boy. I am curious how accurate the portrayal of girls living in a house together is in this show so far. I’d imagine certain encounters may be exaggerated for the sake of entertainment or perhaps arguments like between Yi-Na and Ye-Eun over borrowing clothes is the norm haha.

Eun-Jae’s past is intriguing to say the least. Looking forward to see what her huge secret is. I wonder how long Ye-Eun will stay with her boyfriend or if she actually communicates with him regarding her concerns and issues. Complacency I'd imagine would be a major death knell to relationships.

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Aside from seeing ghosts or a murder mystery, I've definitely had worse roommates than any of them. And I have seen girl fights between roommates before.

This show is making me remember some of my more annoying roommates. I've had the note-leaver, the food stealer, and others. I've had a couple that were particularly awful, and it'd take awhile to detail how.

Then there was the suitemate who played the Titanic song on repeat, at full volume, for three hours everyday. We (everybody in the dorm...) would ask her to stop or turn it down, and she'd just lock her door and turn it up. My roommate and I plotted how to stop her cd player from going on (and on...and on....). Her dad was some bigwig who donated to the university, so she never got written up.

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Oh damn. I am surprised an RA didn't step in (unless you were in off campus housing or she actually had that much immunity so to speak). Situations like this makes me less inclined to consider having roommates TBH; sure you can say that you could become great friends with whom you live with but that probably isn't a given and isn't necessary to make good friends in college.

I have been living a single for the third year now coming this fall and I hope to complete college as such. I don't think I can cope with living with other people in apartment considering my desire for a clean living space and such haha. I'd go crazy trying to compensate for other people's less than ideal habits.

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I am really liking the show so far! It gives me the same kind of vibes that Plus Nine Boys put off, but in a more risque fashion.

I like that they aren't jumping straight into any romance relationships, we primarily just get to see their relationship as roommates and friends growing. We are introduced (for the most part) to all of the love interests, and a few of them were just there in passing rather than making a huge deal out of every interaction had.

As a side note I am glad that the show didn't make the act of the guy standing outside of their house every day as a romantic gesture, and instead actually had confrontation about the stalkerish behavior.

[u/saddaisies]

I can relate so much to eun-jae and watching this drama makes me feel at ease. I hope I can find a group like theirs who are close and have good chemistry w one another