Halo, welcome to Second Watch, Seoul. I am Raisa Pramudita, I translate Korean dramas into Indonesian for a living, and this is the show where we rewatch one drama slowly, two episodes a week, with someone who has never seen it. That someone is my friend Dimas, who has somehow avoided Reply 1988 for a decade. Today we start in Ssangmundong in the summer of 1988, with five families in one alley and a lot of side dishes travelling between houses. Not much happens and I have cried at least once already. We will talk about why that opening dinner matters, about the birthday cake that breaks your heart, and about what the subtitles cannot tell you when a character switches from polite speech to casual speech. You are listening on Witspeak Podcasts. Let us go back to the alley.