A Love So Beautiful

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A Love So Beautiful

아름다웠던 우리에게 (Areumdawotdeon Uriege) · 2020 · South Korea

WriterChoi Yoo-jung, Jang Yoo-yeon

DirectorSeo Min-jung

Episodes24 eps · ~24 min each

Where to Watch✅ Netflix

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Binge Time9h 36m

AiredDec 28, 2020 – Feb 20, 2021

GenreRomance · Youth · Drama

Content RatingTV-14

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The leads and the friend group at the centre of the story.

So Joo-yeon

Shin Sol-i

Lead

Kim Yo-han

Cha Heon

Lead

Yeo Hoi-hyeon

Woo Dae-sung

Supporting

Jo Hye-joo

Kang Ha-young

Supporting

Jung Jae-Oh

Jung Jin-hwan

Supporting

Park Ji-won

Oh Hui-ji

Supporting

Kim Dong-Kyu

Wang Se-Hyeong

Supporting

Choi Bo-min

Na Mi Nyeo

Supporting

Yoo Ji-yeon

Lee Su-Jin

Supporting

Ji Hwa-seop

Lee Joo Hwan

Supporting

Seong Hye-Min

Moon Sook Hee

Supporting

Kim Sung-gon

Teacher Cho

Supporting

A light recap per episode — nothing more than a nudge.

EP 01

Love Letter

Dec 28, 2020

Sol-i has never hidden her crush on Cha Heon, the boy next door, and she decides a perfect love letter is the way to finally get through to him. The series opens on how openly she wears her feelings and how little Heon does with them.

EP 02

At the Karaoke

Dec 31, 2020

Dae-sung skips swim practice before a competition to go to karaoke with the group. When Heon is in a bad mood, Sol-i’s first instinct is to stay near him, which shows where her attention always goes.

EP 03

Pick Me Up!

Jan 2, 2021

Sol-i announces she is running for class representative, and her friends do not see it coming. Dae-sung backs her; Heon lets her down at the moment she most wanted him on her side.

EP 04

Field Day

Jan 4, 2021

Sol-i wants prize money to buy Heon a birthday present, so she throws everything into the school sports day. It is a small plot with a clear picture of how far she will go for him.

EP 05

Drama Festival (feat. Let’s Go, Baby)

Jan 7, 2021

The class auditions for the school play, and Sol-i wants a romantic role opposite Heon, who is hard to talk into it. The rehearsal setting gives the two of them a pretend version of the thing she wants for real.

EP 06

Don’t Go

Jan 9, 2021

After what happens around the play, Sol-i starts avoiding Heon and thinks about a big decision. Dae-sung puts together something to cheer her up, the first time he steps clearly into the story.

EP 07

Game of Truth

Jan 11, 2021

Jin-hwan wants to try out for a TV singing contest and asks the friends to come and cheer. Sol-i is distracted because her parents are fighting at home.

EP 08

Happy Birthday

Jan 14, 2021

Heon agrees to spend a Saturday with Sol-i, who takes him to see his favourite football team. His mood turns sour partway through, and the day does not go the way she planned.

EP 09

We Need to Talk

Jan 16, 2021

A confession note leaves Sol-i awkward around Dae-sung, until he tells her it was only a joke. Elsewhere, Jin-hwan gets help dealing with the classmates who bully him.

EP 10

Don’t Worry.mp3

Jan 18, 2021

The flu is going around school, and Sol-i’s cough lands her in the nurse’s office. Heon looks out for her in his own quiet way, which is about as much as he has offered so far.

EP 11

White Christmas

Jan 21, 2021

Christmas is close and Sol-i cannot decide what to get Heon. Her parents start to wonder whether their daughter has a crush on someone.

EP 12

Declaration of Love

Jan 23, 2021

On a class trip, Sol-i plans a surprise event for Heon. Meanwhile Jin-hwan ruins Ha-young’s night at the cinema.

EP 13

Raindrop

Jan 25, 2021

Heon knows he has hurt Sol-i and tries to apologise. Hui-ji, meanwhile, starts behaving in a way that is not like her.

EP 14

Four-Leaf Clover

Jan 28, 2021

Hui-ji steals from the school nurse’s office. Jin-hwan stops coming to school after learning that Ha-young likes someone else.

EP 15

University, University, University!

Jan 30, 2021

Sol-i hears that Heon wants a place at a top university, and Dae-sung’s arm injury gets worse, putting his swimming career at risk. The episode is about the first real choices of the future.

EP 16

Collect Our Dreams

Feb 1, 2021

Heon’s plans for the future do not match what his mother wants. When Dae-sung’s grandmother goes missing, Heon and Sol-i join the search together.

EP 17

First Kiss

Feb 4, 2021

Everyone else has a university place and Sol-i feels like the one left behind. Heon tells her to keep trying and promises to help; this is the episode with the first kiss, which pulled 3.6 million views on Kakao TV alone.

EP 18

Love Generation

Feb 6, 2021

Heon makes things official and Sol-i is thrilled. Jin-hwan keeps a secret from Ha-young so as not to worry her.

EP 19

Farewell Formula

Feb 8, 2021

Sol-i is struggling to find work and to cope with Heon’s punishing schedule, and she snaps when she learns he might go to America. Becoming a couple turns out to be the easy part.

EP 20

It’s Been A While

Feb 11, 2021

Sol-i rushes to the hospital when her father is admitted and runs into Heon, who is back in Korea. The old friends gather for drinks.

EP 21

Your Wedding

Feb 13, 2021

Sol-i calls Heon about what he did the night before. The whole group comes together for the wedding of Ha-young and Jin-hwan.

EP 22

Begin Again

Feb 15, 2021

Heon arrives at a gathering in his old school uniform and speaks honestly about how he feels. Dae-sung decides it is time to tell Sol-i what is on his mind.

EP 23

Dear My Honey

Feb 18, 2021

Something is waiting for Sol-i outside Heon’s hospital. The next day her parents turn up at her place without warning.

EP 24

From, Honey

Feb 20, 2021

The finale looks back over everything the pair have been through, with Heon telling Sol-i how he came to fall in love with her. For more on how it closes, see the Ending Explained section below.

The finale, unpacked in full. Consider yourself warned.

Heon and Sol-i promise to marry Sports Khan’s finale report says Cha Heon and Shin Sol-i, who have loved each other since their school days, promise to marry, and that the series closes on a happy ending. The Review Geek’s episode 24 recap fills in the scene: Heon records a video message for Sol-i and says he will not let her go, and Sol-i shares her dream of marrying the man she likes. The episode is built as a look back, and the TMDB synopsis describes Heon telling Sol-i how he came to fall in love with her.

The last line Per Sports Khan, Heon’s closing words are, in the paper’s Korean, a thank-you for staying beside him from those beautiful days until now. It is a plain ending line for a drama that never stopped being about that: two people who knew each other since childhood and one of them taking years to say it.

A wedding, or a promise? The two sources do not describe the same step. Sports Khan says the pair promise to marry. The Review Geek’s recap has Sol-i talking about her dream of marrying someone she likes, and readers in the comments point out that the finale shows no wedding between Heon and Sol-i. We have followed that: the ending is a commitment and a shared future, not a ceremony on screen. The only wedding in the closing stretch is the one in episode 21, for Ha-young and Jin-hwan.

Dae-sung and the rest of the group Neither article we read says how Woo Dae-sung’s storyline ends. We know from the episode 22 synopsis that he decides to tell Sol-i his feelings, and from episode 15 that his arm injury threatened his swimming career. What happens after that, and the final position of Hui-ji, is not covered by the finale reports, so we are not going to guess. Ha-young and Jin-hwan are the one confirmed pair, married in episode 21.

Bloopers and the feel of the finale The Review Geek notes that the episode ends with bloopers, which fits the tone of a drama that stayed light and warm to the last frame. In Korea the series finished on February 20, 2021 after 24 short episodes, and Sports Khan reports more than 37 million total views.