First Love, Replayed

Looking back, it was all glamorized—youth that wasn’t always beautiful, but often painful.
If you could turn back time, would you?

Some grow by standing tall over the past, while others draw strength by reminiscing about it.
They say youth is beautiful, but some say they would never want to go back.
Back then had its own struggles, and it’s those very scars that made us who we are today.

Now in our late twenties, as youth finally seems to be passing,
some of us are jobless in our small rooms, while others are getting jobs, getting married—
our lives taking such vastly different paths.
It's a time when we feel like we’re falling behind, when others seem to be moving ahead.
The late twenties—a time when the end of youth brings a quiet anxiety.

Here are the stories of those whose lives took a turn after youth,
or who are still struggling desperately, each for their own reasons.
Through Yoonjae’s interview and the closure of an old school,
we return to memories from ten years ago.
There, we find both the beautiful and the painful versions of ourselves we once didn’t fully understand.

Lee Young-eun, who has come to a standstill in life, finds new strength through these past memories.
Yoonjae, who once seemed to shine so brightly, carries a past filled with pain.
The ‘first love’ left behind in a forgotten classroom is a beautiful device in the story—
a reminder of things unsaid, and feelings we didn’t know how to express back then.
As these two people revisit those memories, their present reconnects, and a new future begins to unfold.

“First Love, Replayed” is a drama for those of us living in an era where our twenties feel even more chaotic than adolescence.
It reminds us that by looking back, we can move forward—with hearts a little fuller than before.