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Reply 1988

★ 9.0 20K votes 2015–2016 1 season · 20 episodes Ended tvN
K-dramaKorean drama storytelling: emotional arcs, romance beats and format traditions.This show: 10/10NostalgicTrades on longing for a past era, in the story or around it.This show: 10/10Family sagaBonds and fractures across generations of one family.This show: 9/10FriendshipA friend group's dynamics carry the show.This show: 9/10Warm glowQuiet happiness, the TV equivalent of a hug.This show: 8/10SentimentalOpenly emotional storytelling that reaches straight for the heartstrings.This show: 8/10Feel-goodReliably uplifting television that leaves you lighter than it found you.This show: 8/10WholesomeKindness and decency at the core, with barely a trace of cynicism.This show: 8/10
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Starring
Lee HyeriPark Bo-gumRyu Jun-yeolGo Kyung-pyoLee Dong-hwiRyu Hye-young
Starring
Lee HyeriPark Bo-gumRyu Jun-yeolGo Kyung-pyoLee Dong-hwiRyu Hye-young
Ratings per Episode
246810
Votes per Episode
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About

"A neighborhood's warmth, remembered in loving detail"

Set in a working-class Seoul neighborhood in 1988, this drama follows five childhood friends and their families as they navigate school, first love, and the daily grind of ordinary life. A gentle framing device teases which of the boys the heroine eventually marries, but that mystery matters far less than the texture around it: sibling squabbles, parents scraping by, neighbors who function like extended family. It's slow, warm, and unabashedly nostalgic, leaning on ensemble chemistry and period detail rather than plot twists, and it earns its emotional payoffs through patient, lived-in accumulation rather than melodrama.

Watch it for

the ensemble's lived-in chemistry and the way ordinary family moments accumulate into real emotional weight.

Maybe skip if

you need fast plotting or twists rather than slow, nostalgic slice-of-life storytelling.

Written by our AI editor to help you decide, spoiler-free by design.

All Seasons

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Season 12015
8.46K2031h 49m
Take a nostalgic trip back to the late 1980s through the lives of five families and their five teenage kids living in a small neighborhood in Seoul.
EpTitleRatingYoursVotesRuntime
▶1Hand in Hand8.1
40987 min
▶2The One Thing You're Mistaken About Me8.2
33689 min
▶3Not Guilty If You're Rich, Guilty If You're Poor8.2
32686 min
▶4Can't Help-Ing8.2
32076 min
▶5Ready for Winter8.4
31890 min
▶6The First Snow Is Coming8.3
30281 min
▶7To You8.3
29094 min
▶8One Warm Word8.5
29591 min
▶9Crossing the Line8.5
29297 min
▶10Memory8.3
28284 min
▶11Three Different Prophecies8.2
277104 min
▶12Loving Someone Means8.3
27595 min
▶13Superman Has Returned8.7
299100 min
▶14Don't Worry, Dear8.3
26898 min
▶15Between Love and Friendship8.0
26599 min
▶16Life Is Ironic - 18.2
264101 min
▶17Life Is Ironic - 28.3
284110 min
▶18Goodbye, My First Love8.6
295102 min
▶19You Did Your Best8.9
325112 min
▶20Goodbye, Youth Goodbye, Ssangmun-dong9.0
393113 min

Full Cast & Crew

Cast

Lee Hyeri Sung Deok-sun
Park Bo-gum Choi Taek
Ryu Jun-yeol Kim Jung-hwan
Go Kyung-pyo Seong Seon-woo
Lee Dong-hwi Ryu Dong-ryong
Ryu Hye-young Seong Bo-ra
Sung Dong-il Seong Dong-il
Lee Il-hwa Lee Il-hwa
Kim Sung Kyun Kim Sung-kyun
Ra Mi-ran Ra Mi Ran

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