SUMMER STRIKE (2022)

A monthly salary of ₩2,380,000. For the past while, that’s what I've been exchanging my time for. Now, I want to use that time for myself and myself only.

SUMMER STRIKE (2022) | Episodes 1 & 2

Im Si-Wan // SUMMER STRIKE

summer strike (2022)

not everyone has a goal in life

no, not really. I'm just here...

to do nothing

looking back, the one who’s been

mistreating me the most was myself

Summer Strike

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found family

im happy that Yeo-rum finally has someone right now.

Summer Strike 아무것도 하고 싶지 않아 (2022)

Summer Strike. 아무것도 하고 싶지 않아. 7.7/10

I wouldn't recommend this show to my friends. I would rewatch this show.

It's cute that Yeo Reum said the place is a 하늘 맛집. Yeo Reum's first soondaeguk meal looks so bomb. Dae Beom rolling away in the sleeping bag after being tripped on is so cute. Yeo Reum smiling and laughing is so pleasant to me. I love the seasonal names. Dae Beom planning so much to be with Yeo Reum is my ideal man. I love the trip they go on, especially the nature aspects of it and when they hold their breath under water. The giant ramen cauldron also gets me. Young Sook is such a cute grandma. I love the outfits.

That decision not to go to work..reminds me of me in high school. Hospital Playlist's Uju is growing up. But lol what at how Yeo Reum saves the small dog from the rain but not the other dog?? Can you believe Jae Hun just threw the fried chicken off the roof because Bom needs to eat healthy??

The cops poking fun at Dae Beom by saying he's happy his sister is dead..they disgust me.

Seolhyun is very naturally pretty. Yeo Reum is such a pleasant person. I would really want to be her friend. I also love her aesthetic. Dae Beom=예의 있는 남자 같아서 너무 좋아. Jae Hun is also a good guy to date at that age.

It's a bit triggering when everyone is yelling at Bom after she has her surgery. The sister complex that Bom is having is also relatable.

All the moments alone, enjoying the world and nature, I find so pleasant and beautiful. It makes me feel peaceful. This drama is so pretty, I can't handle it. All the nature, all the peace.

Memorable Quotes: "짝사랑 이라는 것도 장점이 있어."

But isn’t that why you’re here — to recharge and plan for your future?

No, not really. I’m just here... to have fun.

Been thinking about Summer Strike and honestly I wish it had been a standard 16 episode drama.

As it stands, its a healing drama that takes an unexpectedly dark turn towards the end. One that suddenly involves plot points we saw bits of, but that weren't at the forefront of the show.

If summer strike had 16 episodes, that aspect of the story could have been established more so that the turn it took at the end could feel more like a culmination? climax? instead of a cheap attempt to increase ratings, which is genuinely what it felt like in the moment.

Like it's possible to have healing dramas with dark subplots. It's Okay to Not Be Okay and When the Camelia Blooms both involve (serial) killer subplots and take place in a small seaside town and are largely about human relationships and healing from trauma. None of it feels out of place. All the wholesome moments feel just as genuine and relevant to the story as the scenes with death or suffering or stress.

Even the most classic romcom dramas can have a little murder, as a treat. Touch Your Heart is a romcom about an actress and a lawyer and it has murder and it doesn't feel cheap. The male lead is a lawyer so he defends someone accused of murder, totally understandable. Hometown Cha Cha Cha is another romcom that also takes place in a small seaside town and that also has heavy scenes involving death/grief but the story gives those deaths the respect they deserve. Unlike in Summer Strike..

In Summer Strike it just felt like a way to add an unnecessarily dark, high stakes conflict to a really peaceful slice of life drama. It was like they realized there wasn't many episodes left so they added one large conflict to quickly wrap up everything together in a way that would increase ratings.

I tried reading the webtoon to compare but 60 chapters are left untranslated and I can't find the original korean version (on any free site) so I can only compare up to chapter 86/140. Compared to the drama, the webtoon is much more stressful and more dramatic, and it stays that way for many chapters of the story, so much so that the wholesome moments are a breath of relief for readers, so if that murder happens later, (again, don't know for sure) it's not so out of place in the comic's version of events. A lot of plot points and characters are different in the webtoon (Jiyoung's character is literally 1000× more insufferable in the comic, if you can believe) so they really didn't have to remain faithful to the comic in the one instance where it didn't fit the drama's version of the story. Lots of webtoon based dramas have different plots, details, and endings compared to the comics, so even though I tried to see if it was an excuse for the sudden tonal shift, I don't think it is. The drama version of the story is really different and I 100% prefer it. (Unrelated but the comic's art style is also kind of plain and hideous. Genuinely not trying to be mean but its hard to feel sympathy for a character drawn like a 2012 rage comic...)

The ending is just disappointing because I really love Summer Strike. I kind of want to just pretend the last few episodes don't exist because for the most part it is such a beautiful drama. I just wish they had chosen one story (peaceful drama) or the other (stressful webcomic) to do since they couldn't properly develop a story with aspects of both. I will give them credit though, for creating a drama so lovely that I thought there must be some horrible mistake when I first found the comic. Like they really didn't have much inspiration to work with aesthetics wise, all the gorgeous shots were created solely through the efforts of the drama staff.

Summer Strike

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When sweeter than sugar introvert starts low-key blackmailing his crush and it actually works

Seol Hyun as Lee Yeo Reum

okay guys i am watching some of kdramas from last year that i really wanted to watch but i didn't have time...

ok, so i'm watching rn Cheer Up! and Summer Strike

and i just want to say that seeing im siwan on summer strike really REALLY makes me want to watch Run On for the fourth time and idk if i can watch that for the fourth time, i don't have the psychology for that

Unnie, thanks to you, I've learned to enjoy the present moment. - Really? Yes.