A rom-com almost entirely without tropes and with lots of both comedy and realistic, painful, passionate romance this wipes the floor with all the cold chaebol/screechy candy drivel.

This was a story about mostly ordinary, working-class people and their struggles to make their dreams come true, sometimes in roundabout ways. But it was all the better for that. Even the 'birth secret' (OK, one trope) seemed natural and believable.

The acting, from the whole cast, is top-notch, creating real, believable characters that you root for. I have lots of favourite scenes - Dong-man's conversation with his Dad on the park bench (I ugly cried), Seol-hee calmly throwing a glass of water over Ye-jin and then pointing out, equally calmly, that it was OK for her to do that, the 'bed' scene the night before the big fight, but really the whole thing flowed, the whole thing was engaging, the pacing was near faultless.