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2022.04.01 SF9’s Rowoon Goes Undercover To Save The Life Of A School Bullying Victim In New Fantasy Drama “Tomorrow”

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MBC’s upcoming drama “Tomorrow” has shared a sneak peek of SF9’s Rowoon’s first mission on the job!

Warning: mention of individuals contemplating suicide.

 

Based on the hit webtoon of the same name, “Tomorrow” is a new fantasy drama starring SF9’s Rowoon as Choi Joon Woong, who gets into an unfortunate accident while struggling to find a job. As a result, he crosses paths with grim reapers Goo Ryun (Kim Hee Sun) and Lim Ryoong Goo (Yoon Ji On), who work together to save the lives of those who are contemplating suicide, and he winds up joining their team in the underworld as their youngest member.

 

In newly released stills from the upcoming drama, Choi Joon Woong disguises himself as a producing director (PD) at a broadcast station for his very first case on the Crisis Management Team. In order to keep tabs on a TV writer who is at risk of committing suicide, Choi Joon Woong, Goo Ryun, and Ryoong Goo go undercover to watch over her and make sure she stays safe.

 

The visibly tense trio keeps a close eye on the writer as she goes about conducting an interview, making it clear just how determined they are to save her life.

 

The producers of “Tomorrow” revealed, “The Crisis Management Team’s first case will be a victim of school violence. Please keep an eye on the Crisis Management Team as they look back on the pain of those who are thinking of choosing death, as well as their all-encompassing efforts to give them a ‘Tomorrow’ by any means necessary.”

 

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“Tomorrow” will premiere on April 1 at 9:50 p.m. KST. Check out the trailer for the drama here!

 

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2022.04.01 4 Reasons To Tune In To The Premiere Of New Fantasy Drama “Tomorrow”

 

MBC’s upcoming drama “Tomorrow” shared what to anticipate for the drama’s premiere!

 

Based on the hit webtoon of the same name, “Tomorrow” is a new fantasy drama starring SF9’s Rowoon as Choi Joon Woong, who gets into an unfortunate accident while struggling to find a job. As a result, he crosses paths with grim reapers Goo Ryun (Kim Hee Sun) and Lim Ryoong Goo (Yoon Ji On), who work together to save the lives of those who are contemplating suicide, and he winds up joining their team in the underworld as their youngest member.

 

Below are four points to anticipate in the upcoming drama!

 

Warning: Mentions of suicide below.

1. Grim reapers who want to prevent people’s death

“Tomorrow” focuses on the story of special grim reapers who want to rescue people contemplating suicide. Based on a webtoon of the same name, the story focuses on the endeavors of the Crisis Management Team, which was established after more people began to commit suicide, causing an unexpected imbalance in the underworld. Their job is to make the people who are on the verge of death want to live again.

 

The Crisis Management Team will empathize with these people and in the process, deliver a touching story as they passionately work to assist these people find their “tomorrows.”

 

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2. Actors who are perfectly in sync with their original webtoon characters

Another point to anticipate in the upcoming drama is the star-studded cast consisting of Kim Hee Sun, Rowoon, Lee Soo Hyuk, Yoon Ji On, and more. With her short pink hair and red eyeshadow, Kim Hee Sun makes a drastic transformation into Goo Ryun, the fearless and charismatic grim reaper who leads the Crisis Management Team at the spirit management headquarters of the afterlife monopoly called Joomadeung (phantasmagoria). With her talented acting, Kim Hee Sun will give depth to her character who will give her all in order to save people’s lives.

 

Rowoon plays Choi Joon Woong who joins the Crisis Management Team as a contractual employee after his soul splits from his body when he enters a coma. Rowoon will portray the diverse charms of his character, including his youthful and caring side in which he fervently takes actions before thinking to help people.

 

Lee Soo Hyuk takes on the role of Park Joong Gil, Joomadeung‘s elite employee and the leader of the Guiding Management Team who is also Goo Ryun’s rival. Yoon Ji On plays Lim Ryoong Goo, a humorous and energetic grim reaper who keeps his work-life balance perfect.

 

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3. Realistic stories viewers can empathize with

“Tomorrow” deals with realistic stories and highlights the perspectives of those who harbor painful wounds on the inside such as a bullying victim and a student who keeps failing their civil service exams. In order to lend a hand, the Crisis Management Team will intervene to make them hope of a tomorrow.

 

Directors Kim Tae Yoon and Sung Chi Wook commented, “We are hoping that the sincerity conveyed by the webtoon will also be conveyed by the drama, so we are working hard to portray this well. We hope that the drama empathizes with the pain of the people who are currently experiencing difficult times and that it provides the opportunity for them to be a little bit more interested in their tomorrows.”

 

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4. Underworld office drama

The upcoming drama makes a unique take on the underworld by portraying it as the monopoly Joomadeung. Becoming an employee at Joomadeung signals great success in the afterlife because those who work at the company are guaranteed an enormous benefit in the case that they are reborn.

The company is led by the Jade Emperor (Kim Hae Sook), the president of Joomadeung, which consists of the volatile Crisis Management Team, the Guiding Management Team, which only the greatest elites can enter, the Video Team, which boasts a comfortable work environment, and more. Viewers won’t be able to take their eyes off of the action that unfolds in this unique the underworld.

 

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“Tomorrow” will premiere on April 1 at 9:50 p.m. KST. Check out the trailer for the drama here!

 

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Hahaha! I think the color of pink Kim Hee Sun has is actually pretty nice. I think he would match it. You know, the amount of promos for this drama is insane! It's like MBC's next big drama after Red Sleeve or something. 

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Tomorrow kickstarted first episode with a nationwide rating of 7.6%.

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Not bad.

3 hours ago, Tofu said:

Hahaha! I think the color of pink Kim Hee Sun has is actually pretty nice. I think he would match it. You know, the amount of promos for this drama is insane! It's like MBC's next big drama after Red Sleeve or something. 

MBC is quite good with promotion. I remember Extraordinary You had over 100 behind the scenes released in combination from both released by MBC and Wavve.

 

MBC has already released two Making films right after episode 1. It's just unfortunate that we are overseas and this is Netflix copyrighted so everything is blocked to us overseas on MBC YouTube.

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Episode 1

 

The episode began with a really cool black & white opening theme. For Netflix, they added English captions. Before the episode began, there is a warning that this drama focuses strongly on suicide so it may not be suitable to all audiences and direct people to seek help.

 

The cast also recorded a special message for those in suffering (not included in Netflix).

 

Given all the prior warnings and previews, we know that the drama's main focus is social commentary regarding suicide. It looks like it'll to be a meaningful drama, which will help raise awareness and potentially educational or intended to give viewers hope.

 

The first character appear on screen is Gu Ryeon, in a super chic red suit walking into some really wet, dump area. At that moment I was more distracted with wanting to stop her from wetting her potentially expensive branded heels! 😅 The scenes were then followed up by fantastic cinematorgraphy of the night, buildings and traffics where Gu Ryeon races the van through cars, scaring the bejesus out of the people who attempted suicide just a few minutes ago. I don't know how those awesome scenes were filmed, but it had to be either by a camera drone or pure special effects. Whichever it is, I was impressed.

 

Next up we see is Choi Joon Woong at an interview. Working hard with his mouth to impress the interviewers. They seem super impressed too and Joon Woong was so confident he'll get the job until he belated realises the lady she's in the interview with is related to the owner of the company. The moment of realisation in this scene was, too, craftily shot using great angle showing Joon Woong's expression in combination of him dropping the coffee to the ground.

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Many scenes shown in episode 1 we've seen in the previews. Lee Soo Hyuk makes his grand entrance looking super badass. Kim Hae Sook as the Jade Emperor / King of Heaven, likes dressing up as an Ahjumma going around giving her staff drinks. LOL. Since Joon Woong mistakenly got involved with the Crisis Management Team and is in a coma for 3 years, Gu Ryeon takes him to see Jade Emperor and figure out what to do with him. Joon Woong is like this big kid who keeps annoying his parent by bombarding them with lots of questions. The journey to Jumadeung isn't as grandiose as Harry's first introduction to the Wizarding world but the concept is similar. His encounter with Jade Emperor is quite hilarious too, with Rowoon pulling all the comedic stunt.

 

The Head Departments of Grim Reapers gathered for a meeting and in there it shows none of them approves of the Crisis Management Team. However, Jade Emperor obviously being the "God" of the Heaven knows very well each department's importance. She gave a speech about the suicidal rate in South Korea (here comes the educational bit) hence I see why this would make a good material to tackle since it's been a trend these days to incorporate social commentary topics into dramas. Though I think the suicide rate would have been much lower if Korea would look into relaxing the student's academic pressure.

 

The Crisis Management Team's first case is a writer who has been a victim of bullying at school. Of course. Bullying has been a popular topic these days and seem to be very serious in SK (?). The show ended with Gu Ryeon and Joon Woong inside the writer's memory but this seems to be a dangerous task as they had to run away from crumbling memories. I hope the reason for this crumbling world inside a memory and the machinations will be explained in episode 2. Is it really dangerous for them to look into it even when they're Grim Reapers who can't die? Joon Woong was specifically warned not to react to what he sees and in the next preview we see that he does – would this affect the writer in any way?

 

Final note: I'm loving the characters already. The main 3 casts seem like they have their own backstory to tell (which I hope the show will tell us). I've laughed a fair few times because of Rowoon's comedic acting and is enjoying how annoyed Gu Ryeon is babysitting him. For example of the below, hahahahahaha! I can just feel Gu Ryeon is telling herself to "endure" this crap for a little while longer. :lmao2:

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I think, based on the conversation and information thus far, the Crisis Management Team's way of reducing the suicidal rate may not be the most effective because the team members are jaded in their own ways and their methods don't work on everyone. With the addition of Joon Woong, who seems to be super happy-go-lucky type and possessing abilities that these two lack, it helps balance out the team and help them improve/change.

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I stumbled onto the first episode of this drama and watched because I think of Kim Hee Son as a fantastic actress, and I usually watch the first 4 episodes of her dramas even if I eventually drop them. Anyway, I think I may be hooked on this drama after the first episode.

 

I loved the characters. There seem to be back stories and motivations for not just the leads, but all of the grim reapers. Kim Hee Sun is pretty amazing as the grim reaper who was given the chance to be a grim reaper while being a denizen of hell. It makes me wonder if Gu Ryeon might have committed suicide and gone to hell. Though that makes me wonder how she managed to become a grim reaper. Gu Ryeon is both a tough, cynical, violent person with a short temper and even less patience, but also seems to have a softer side to her. There is something in her eyes that indicate pains that she has suffered. The epilogue is revealing in that she had meant to Joon Woong a Gucci hoodie rather than wanting to prank him in any way, but she was just gullible enough to fall for a scam.

 

I'm not as in love with Joon Woong yet, though I think his character is done well. The confidence he displays even as he gets knocked down by society, as well as his instincts to save people, speak to his basic decency. I also love that he initially refuses to join the grim reapers, making the logical conclusion that the Jade Empress would not have offered him so much if it wasn't dangerous in some way. It was sweet that it was seeing his mother crying over his comatose body that convinces him to take the gig to shorten the pain for himself and his mother. However, JW also is pretty immature, and it's clear that he will continue to interfere without knowing what the situation is, not heeding the warnings or thinking about the consequences until it's too late. As such, I can imagine that JW will continue to exasperate, both the grim reapers as well as the viewers.

 

Lee Soo Hyuk does what he does best, though we haven't seen that much of him yet. He's a traditional grim reaper who escorts the actual dead to their afterlife, and he does it with his trademark deadpan panache. It's clear that he doesn't care for Gu Ryeon who he seems to think has been given special treatment, and he doesn't seem to care for the living or the half-living (as JW is). I'm looking forward to hearing his back story as well as seeing his interactions with GR.

 

Deputy Lim is also a bit of a mystery. Why does a grim reaper have to stop working exactly when his work hours are up? Aren't grim reapers working all the time rather than only having certain hours?

 

Finally, I love that Kim Hae Sook is the Jade Empress aka the Chairperson of the Afterlife. She seems to be having fun with the role as the Chairperson. The Chairperson herself seems to have a mischievous streak to her as she rather gleefully runs the operation. Loved the lecture she gave about how SK's population is shrinking with both increasing suicides and lowered birth rates. She reminds the grim reaper department heads that they are all working for the chance at reincarnation with an advantage whether money or fame or whatever. However, if there is no country to be reincarnated in and even the afterlife is gone, then where would they bed.

 

As for the rest of the drama, it's tackling a pretty serious topic, but it doesn't seem to be veering into the weepy emotional, though I expect that may still come given the levels of pain, both shown and hinted at. The people who commit suicide are not really the happy-go-lucky types. And, the grim reapers themselves clearly have stories.

 

Also, it is a beautiful shot drama, the cinematography is pretty amazing, both the close up work as well as the panoramic views and the speed sequences. The world of that reporter's memories crumbling are reminiscent of scenes out of Inception.

 

Anyway, can't wait for episode 2.

 

 

 

 

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I watched the episodes today and I liked it! I don't think I agreed with how Goo Ryun talked to girl, it was a lot of victim blaming. That is not the right approach to talk to someone who is standing on the edge wanting to jump. They are already in an emotional state and something like that would push them over the edge. It's not like we all have a grim reaper to save us if we fall. 

 

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Episode 2

 

Ahahahahahahaha... oh dear, the rating plunged to 3.4% for this episode. :pandascared: Maybe because the broadcast time clashed with all other channels' dramas.

 

Glad that my question had been answered. There was a whole chunk taken out at the end of episode one that's why it caused the confusion why the dream world was crumbling before their eyes. Now my other question is, how can breaking one key meant they can no longer go into another person's memory...? Or I misinterpret it is just this writer's memory they can no longer enter? Surely Heaven has one key for each individual...?

 

I honestly am curious if Gu Ryeon and Park Joong Gil have any past entanglement to tell! Their interaction is always so antagonistic that I want them to have some backstory together. Is he perhaps the person Gu Ryeon was supposed to save?

 

@Tofu Based on last night's episode, I think not only Gu Ryeon and Ryung Gu will learn some empathy from Joon Woong, he too, will learn to think before he acts. LOL! His hot-headed/impulsiveness will need to change, otherwise, he's not going to survive in the harsh real life. He's not going to be so lucky getting a second chance all the time like he does now in Jumadeung. And one can't possibly keep putting his team members in danger because of his impulsiveness too.

 

I'm with you about Gu Ryeon's approach and the consequences. I was emotionally OK until they were safe on the ground and then Joon Woong brought the TV personality guy to her, and he gives her a comforting hug and acknowledgement. That had me in tears all of a sudden. I guess that was what she (or us) really needed when we faced hardships.

The Swoon: A little laughter and a warm embrace can go a long way—Rowoon’s sincere hug and Jeong Jun-ha’s quirky dance showed us just that ❤️

 

Not sure about you all, but I'm not sure I like that Gu Ryeon went to punish the bullies. I mean, didn't she tell Joon Woong they were not there to punish the bully? That said, I didn't mind her dealing with the main bully by letting her experience the same thing she did to the writer but the other sidekicks, just making them plunged their face into some food dishes seem rather a childish move, is it not? That scene just a bit of WTF for me if I'm in the bullies' shoes. They should at least need to understand the core of their behaviours and learnt the reason of why Gu Ryeon was there for.

 

By the way, what do you think of Gu Ryeon's backstory thus far? She took her own life as well, right? That's why the other Grim Reapers disapprove of her since she's sinned. But while going down the tunnel of regrets, she felt none and somehow Jade Emperor gave her another chance...(or more like planned a lesson for her). Meanwhile Im Ryung Gu is looking for someone.

 

LOL, the GIF you made! So funny. The typical act first and regret later Joon Woong. :laugh: Next episode he's going to suit up. The visual is gonna be a treat!

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Episode 2 got dark really fast. School bullying is hard to watch in any case, but this one felt rather graphic. I wonder at how nasty children can get that they all circle the victim then kick her. I guess it's good that they didn't actually break anything? It's also true that the attacker doesn't see it the same way as the victim. To the attacker, it may have been a lark or petty meanness, but it can be torture for the victims.

 

Anyway, I found the resolution satisfactory, both in terms of the bullied reporter's ultimate actions as well as Gu Ryeon's way of taking care of things including punishments for the tormentors, but am less sure of how many more suicidal lives I'll be able to watch after this.

 

We also got some insight into Gu Ryeon. I feel as if she did go to hell for taking her own life, but wasn't "suffering" in hell since she was so empty. So the Jade Empress brought her back to work for the grim reapers with some conditions attached.

 

Deputy Lim is also searching for someone in his "off" hours, though we don't know what.

 

All in all, I still enjoyed it, despite having to fast forward through some of the school violence.

 

3 hours ago, Tofu said:

I don't think I agreed with how Goo Ryun talked to girl, it was a lot of victim blaming. That is not the right approach to talk to someone who is standing on the edge wanting to jump. They are already in an emotional state and something like that would push them over the edge. It's not like we all have a grim reaper to save us if we fall. 

 

I probably agree with you that GR's way of talking to the bullied woman wasn't the best, however, GR was pointing out that she was repeating what the woman had been saying to herself all these years. If anything, the victim was victim blaming herself, and GR used her own words against her to see how ineffective and debilitating they had been. Also, the victim in this case is no longer a school girl who feels helpless to help herself and can't find anyone to help her either. Rather, she's an adult who has more control over her life under the circumstances of facing her bully now that it's been years later than she seems able to take.

 

The victim had to decide for herself that she wanted to live and that she had agency in how things happened now rather than being trapped in the memories of her childhood. I do think that ep 2 was slightly confusing in how it intercut the victim as herself and as her schoolgirl persona within the scenes.

 

Having said that, JW is supposed to represent the more humanistic approach to these victims. While GR uses a more terse approach, JW is learning to handle things in a humanistic way, even as he fumbles to learn the rules of what he can and can't do. The epilogue was cute in that it showed how JW was able to convince the principal to go up to that roof since JW was prevented by Deputy Lim from getting directly involved during the rooftop incident. Again, it was confusing since the scene is supposed to come out of the victim's memories, so that I would have thought that JW"s actions caused changes in the memory rather than in their active history, but now I'm probably quibbling.

 

I would like to see more interactions between GR and Joon Gil (Lee Soo Hyeok). We got to see a brief interaction between them with GR trying to save a suicide while JG was there to collect him for his journey to the afterlife. Interesting conflict in that GR was trying to save the man who realized that he really wanted to live after he jumped and JG who didn't want interference with his work of collecting the man's soul.

 

Anyway, still interesting and engaging. Also, funny and kind of sweet how JW ends up becoming part of the Crisis Management Team after all. JW is definitely a good guy, even if he fumbles badly from time to time, and probably will continue to do so.

 

 

 

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12 hours ago, Tofu said:

I watched the episodes today and I liked it! I don't think I agreed with how Goo Ryun talked to girl, it was a lot of victim blaming. That is not the right approach to talk to someone who is standing on the edge wanting to jump. They are already in an emotional state and something like that would push them over the edge. It's not like we all have a grim reaper to save us if we fall.

8 hours ago, stroppyse said:

I probably agree with you that GR's way of talking to the bullied woman wasn't the best, however, GR was pointing out that she was repeating what the woman had been saying to herself all these years. If anything, the victim was victim blaming herself, and GR used her own words against her to see how ineffective and debilitating they had been. Also, the victim in this case is no longer a school girl who feels helpless to help herself and can't find anyone to help her either. Rather, she's an adult who has more control over her life under the circumstances of facing her bully now that it's been years later than she seems able to take.

Wait, I'm wondering if I've misinterpreted something here. I thought what Tofu meant was Gu Ryeon was blaming the victim for bully, not the victim blaming herself because the words used against her was the victim trying to hypnotise (so-to-speak) herself to endure the bullying and try harder to get over the suffering. The words weren't of her victim blaming herself. Although victim blaming is actually a normal/common behaviour victim experience, wondering what they could have done otherwise to prevent it and whether they were at fault that these horrible things happened to them.

8 hours ago, stroppyse said:

The epilogue was cute in that it showed how JW was able to convince the principal to go up to that roof since JW was prevented by Deputy Lim from getting directly involved during the rooftop incident. Again, it was confusing since the scene is supposed to come out of the victim's memories, so that I would have thought that JW"s actions caused changes in the memory rather than in their active history, but now I'm probably quibbling.

jung-joon-ha-sf9-rowoon.jpeg Principal? Do you mean this guy cameo by Jung Joon Ha? He isn't in the victim's memories. Ji Woong learnt from her memories that she likes him since her high school years as Mr. Jung from “Muhan Company,” the fictional movie from the variety show  "Infinite Challenge". Ji Woong saw his show makes her laughs so he ran to find him (he was in E1 too after Ji Woong and Ryung Gu staring at the idol girls signifying his upcoming involvement later).

 

Also, just throwing my thoughts out there...

 

Maybe the person Gu Ryeon is supposed to save is Park Joong Gil. They are both of the same age so this means they are from the same timeline.

 

In addition to this, Gu Ryeon as a red thread around her wrist (when Joon Woong grabbed her in E1 and E2 when Jade Emperor held her hand up). What does that mean during Joseon period? Is it "red string of fate" (marriage) or...?

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11 hours ago, mademoiselle said:

Wait, I'm wondering if I've misinterpreted something here. I thought what Tofu meant was Gu Ryeon was blaming the victim for bully, not the victim blaming herself because the words used against her was the victim trying to hypnotise (so-to-speak) herself to endure the bullying and try harder to get over the suffering. The words weren't of her victim blaming herself. Although victim blaming is actually a normal/common behaviour victim experience, wondering what they could have done otherwise to prevent it and whether they were at fault that these horrible things happened to them.

 

Yes, that is what @Tofumeant. And, what I said was that GR had "quoted" the victim's words that she would say to herself back to her during their confrontation. The victim felt herself to be weak and unable to defend herself, so she kept telling herself to try harder and harder to just get over it and to forget about it.

 

11 hours ago, mademoiselle said:

Principal? Do you mean this guy cameo by Jung Joon Ha? He isn't in the victim's memories. Ji Woong learnt from her memories that she likes him since her high school years as Mr. Jung

 

Oh, good point. I thought he was the principal or something, but it makes a lot more sense that he was someone that the girl had actually liked. So, even more of an interruption than to the "memories". Anyway, that makes it an even cuter scene.

 

11 hours ago, mademoiselle said:

In addition to this, Gu Ryeon as a red thread around her wrist (when Joon Woong grabbed her in E1 and E2 when Jade Emperor held her hand up). What does that mean during Joseon period? Is it "red string of fate" (marriage) or...?

 

I also think that thread represents the red string of fate. Adds to the mystery of who GR is supposed to find.

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