All That We Loved

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All That We Loved

우리가 사랑했던 모든 것 (Uriga Saranghaessdeon Modeun Geos) · 2023 · South Korea

WriterKang Yoon

DirectorKim Jin-sung

Episodes8 eps · ~35 min each

Where to Watch✅ Viki, Prime Video, Apple TV+

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Binge Time4h 40m

AiredMay 5 – May 26, 2023

GenreRomance · Youth · Teen

Content Rating15+

TVINGVikiViuPrime VideoApple TV+

Cellular MemoryLove TriangleOrgan TransplantHigh SchoolComing-of-Age

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The friendship, the transplant, and the girl neither boy expected to fall for at the same time.

Sehun

Go Yoo

Lead

Cho Jun-young

Go Joon-hee

Lead

Jang Yeo-bin

Han So-yeon

Supporting

Song Jae-rim

Dr. Go (Adult Joon-hee)

Supporting

Jung Yoo-jin

Han So-yeon (Adult)

Supporting

Lee Seung-joon

Go Yoo’s Father

Supporting

Park Eun-hye

Go Yoo’s Mother

Supporting

Jeong Hye-seon

Go Joon-hee’s Grandmother

Supporting

Jeon Young-in

An Sun-tak

Supporting

Lee Ara

Shim Jung-eun

Supporting

Baek Min-hyun

An Sun-tak (Adult)

Supporting

Kwon Hyeok-beom

Jeon Sang-kyu

Supporting

Spoiler-light recaps — enough to remember where you left off, nothing that ruins the ride.

EP 01

First Love

May 5, 2023

The show opens on Go Yoo and Go Joon-hee already on operating tables in 2006, which tells you before anything else that this friendship is the story’s real stakes, not a subplot to the romance. The flashback that follows sets up an easy contrast — Yoo the popular basketball player, Joon-hee the frail top student — and then complicates it immediately with Han So-yeon, a transfer student who catches both boys’ attention before either of them registers what that’s going to cost them.

EP 02

The Nurse’s Office

May 5, 2023

Yoo and Joon-hee both end up drawn to So-yeon despite wanting completely different things from a girl, which the show plays for easy, low-stakes comedy while it still can. Joon-hee’s tinnitus keeps flaring up in the background, an early symptom the episode doesn’t dwell on yet — but it’s already clear his body is working against him faster than anyone around him realizes.

EP 03

Jun Hee’s Illness

May 12, 2023

Joon-hee collapses after a beating, and the ER visit uncovers chronic renal failure, the same condition that already took his older brother. Yoo doesn’t hesitate the way the story might have let him — he offers his own kidney almost before anyone else processes what’s happening, and both families’ objections barely register against his resolve. It’s the episode where the friendship stops being subtext and becomes the entire premise.

EP 04

Love Triangle Has Begun

May 12, 2023

Post-surgery, Joon-hee starts flinching at pigeons — Yoo’s old phobia, never his own — and the show lets that single strange detail carry the weight of an entire diagnosis. Cellular memory syndrome isn’t named outright yet, but it doesn’t need to be; the audience can see it landing before the characters can name it. Both boys keep chasing So-yeon anyway, oblivious to how much more complicated that pursuit is about to get.

EP 05

What’s Actually His

May 19, 2023

Joon-hee’s symptoms keep escalating — sharper eyesight, a newly dominant hand — and he has no framework for reconciling a body that increasingly doesn’t feel like his own. Yoo, meanwhile, gets his own gut-punch: So-yeon has a compulsive stealing habit, and finding out breaks something in a relationship that had barely started.

EP 06

The Necklace

May 19, 2023

Yoo finds Joon-hee’s grandmother’s lost necklace among So-yeon’s stolen items, and the discovery lands harder than any confrontation could. So-yeon can’t explain the compulsion even when asked directly, leaving the romance stalled in a place neither of them can move past. Joon-hee’s borrowed instincts get more aggressive in the meantime, and a confrontation with bullies makes the transferred cellular memory impossible to write off as coincidence anymore.

EP 07

Shared Nightmares

May 26, 2023

The syndrome tightens its grip — shared nightmares, even Yoo’s nut allergy showing up in Joon-hee’s body — until the connection between the two friends stops looking like a metaphor and starts looking like something closer to literal transference. Yoo tries to pull Joon-hee away from So-yeon before her secret does more damage, and the argument that follows is the first real crack in a friendship that’s survived everything else. A present-day thread also surfaces here: adult Han So-yeon, searching for a Dr. Go whose identity the show is clearly saving for later.

EP 08

Friendship Has No Ending

May 26, 2023

The confrontation between Yoo and Joon-hee finally forces both of them to say what they actually feel — about So-yeon, but mostly about each other. The Dr. Go mystery resolves exactly where the show has been quietly pointing: he’s adult Joon-hee, and he’s spent years looking for the friend the story never lets you forget was the point all along. Adult So-yeon engineers their reunion, and the finale closes less on romance than on two men who never stopped being each other’s most important relationship.

Full spoilers ahead — everything that happens in the finale and what it all means.

What actually happened Dr. Go turns out to be adult Go Joon-hee, and the present-day mystery the show seeded from episode seven resolves into something simpler than a twist: he’s spent years since high school searching for Go Yoo, the friend whose kidney — and whose accidental memories — he’s been carrying literally and figuratively ever since. Adult Han So-yeon is the one who finally engineers their reunion, closing a loop that started with a transplant and never really stopped being about the two boys at its center.

The love triangle was always the smaller story So-yeon matters to the plot, but the finale makes clear she was never really the point — she’s the mechanism that reveals how deeply Yoo and Joon-hee’s bond runs, not the prize either of them was actually competing for. Neither boy ends up with her in any conventional sense, and the show doesn’t treat that as a loss.

Cellular memory syndrome gets a quiet, humane answer The show never over-explains the science of cellular memory, and the finale doesn’t start now — Joon-hee’s inherited habits and fears stay exactly as mysterious as they were in episode four. What the ending does resolve is the emotional logic: whatever passed between the two friends through that transplant, it made them more like each other, not less connected. That’s presented as a gift, not a complication to be cured.

An Sun-tak and the supporting cast get closure too The finale spares a little room for the friend group around Yoo and Joon-hee, giving An Sun-tak and Shim Jung-eun’s smaller arcs enough resolution that the ending doesn’t feel like it forgot everyone who isn’t in the central triangle.

The KDW verdict All That We Loved ends by proving its own title literally — friendship, first love, and a body that stopped being fully one person’s own are all things the finale insists on holding onto rather than resolving cleanly. It’s a short show that earns its ending by refusing to let the romance overshadow the two friends who were the actual center of it the whole time.