The main stand-out on this series is the acting. The chemistry between all the characters is just purely amazing. The interactions, the play of comedy and seriousness all seem so perfect. Choi Kang Hee is superb as the lead female. She did justice to the role!
The overall story is refreshingly different from other crime dramas. Or is it a crime/ romance drama? It is absolutely different from anything before.
The quirkiness of the characters is breathtaking. Well written for comedy when needed and seriousness gives it an air of a not to serious but serious Sherlock Holmes/ SH parody vibes. The comedy did well to infuse itself into the story, being well executed by the magnificent cast.
The characters are well rounded as they can be in such a short series. None are really square or boxed-in. However a problem arises here.
We have a semi kind of set-up as to the main arc and plot which does not really get developed perfectly as it should. There are more questions than solutions. Who is that? Why is she there? What is that? These are some of the questions the viewer will be asking.
Don't get me wrong, the story line progresses and there are amazingly brilliant parts every episode!
This drama could have done well as a 50 part series.
As is it is well worth the watch if you are into crime dramas with a smattering of conspiracy and some unforeseen romance that seems totally organic, and not just thrown in for good measure. 
My advise, however, is watch it closer to the airing of part two (Feb 2018) to really get the benefit of the whole story.

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Wow! Simply wow! What an epic tale, not just a story! One filled with heroes and villains where you don't expect them!

What was truly amazing is the writers did their homework. The response to the disaster was on-point! The firefighters and the hospital portrays were true to real life as dramatic influence allows. You get the feeling of being there as the action happens; the raw feelings of the responses to situations! Yes, there will be flourishes of heroism, but this is drama! Not discounting the other actors, Kim Sang Ho as the fire-chief was as believable as it could get!

The story line can only get a wopping 10. The writer and conceptualises really, really researched this. The raw politics, the blame game, the cunningness were all there as one would expect from both politics and raw ambition! Even in a disaster these human traits would show!

The effects: Again, wow! There are big budget movies that do not make you feel the destruction and effect on everyday people on this scale! Perfectionists will say that you can tell when it's CGI, but come-on! A small screen production showing this level of damage to a real (yes, real: not made-up) city! in such a realistic manner! The damage to buildings, landmarks, and infrastructure all felt completely present!

We get a clearly defined hero and villain which is basically my only hang-up about this series. Not that it took anything away from the reality or grittiness of the story. There should have been some blurring of that line to make it just a tad more believable, Not everything is good and evil. There will always be shades in between. This, however does not lessen the impact of the story at all!

Also, with this many episodes a little background into the characters and institutions would have been helpful. We start getting snippets of lives lived after the actual disaster, which is very helpful to character development. The thing, however, is this could have started before the real emergency and worked its way from there.

All in all one of the best disaster series out there! Well worth the watch if you like emergency dramas, real feelings and firefighters. Who doesn't like firefighters?

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I kept putting off watching this expecting it to be a pre-school-love--boy-gets-girl-in-high-school kinda movie, but boy was I wrong!

Many different turns, the movie quite succeeds (yes!) at its portrayal of life, friendship and changes.

It was very entertaining, especially in the cutscenes which entered the mind of the person narrating.

Very entertaining was the appearances of the actual performers when a character was listening to a song.

The funny moments did not diminish the story or withdraw anything from the main theme.

All in all well worth the watch! You will definitely enjoy if you want a light hearted, comical view of friendship, love and changes in life.

PS:keep in mind how tech changes throughout the movie. Cassette -> CD -> MP3. It was spot on!

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