The Speed Going to You 493km

Park Ju-hyun plays Park Tae Yang who was a rising star in the Badminton world until she disappeared following a bribery scandal. She returns after a three year absence to a business team and ends up being paired with Park Tae-joon (Chae Jong Hyeop) in a mixed double partnership. Even though events in the past will put pressure on their budding relationship on and off the court their unconditional love and support for each other will hopefully win the day. It is a believable romance between the leads and has an entertaining group of side characters all putting in a good shift. My main issue was with the slow pace and little depth given to the individuals backstories, a little less badminton with more character development would have improved it.

It is a sports genre drama. It is about chasing your dreams, passion, forgiveness and love. I didn't know I will love this drama this much. It has the least toxic male leads which is the best thing.

Plot- A male and female protagonist who are badminton players and they form a mixed doubles team together.

The drama starts with Park Tae Yang(FL) was a badminton prodigy athlete but due to an incident she left the sport and decided to return after the gap of 3 years. Then she met the ML and their story starts from there.

Chae Jong Hyeop caught my attention in Nevertheless and I'm glad to see him in a leading role.

He has played one of the best male leads in the kdrama history. He has set the bar of boyfriends so high. Such boyfriends doesn't exist in real life 😔 He is the standard!!!

Park Ji Hyun is so cute. She played her character so well, we can feel all her emotions. Her is character is a determined badminton player and she knows what she wants.

The main lead couples relationship is top notch. Its fun to watch their chemistry. The teasing and banter was highly enjoyable. They are straight forward, they express themselves to eachother really well.

The second lead couples have heart fluttering moments and I enjoyed their scenes thoroughly with smile on my face.

This drama should've been hyped more, probably 25,21 was so successful and it was released almost at the same time that's why it was overlooked. But in my POV this drama should get more viewers. Its a lighthearted feel-good drama which will not disappoint you. .

The story evolves really well in a very needed manner to me as part of the audience. The relationship between the main leads is to a great extent healthy..it is something that has been lacking a lot in the field of kdrama. Park Tae Yang is a former national badminton player who was forced to leave her career behind, it is reality portrayed in a heartfelt romance. I believe that I can consider this Korean Drama as one of the most well written shows ever because it portrayed the agony, pain for the unclear future in a very healing way. I will say in short, it's a healing drama for those who are seeking comfort but not outside their small screen. A highly recommended drama. I do usually recommend all works by actress Park Ju Hyun for her outstanding acting but this one is the best of all!

I have a love-hate relationship with this series. The acting itself is phenomenal; both Park Ju-Hyun and Chae Jong-Hyeop do an excellent job as the main leads and have surprisingly good chemistry. Park Ji-Hyun also does well in portraying a dislikeable Joon-Young.

The subplots and character development do the series justice. Furthermore, the secondary couple Jung-Hwan/Yoo-Min completely steal the show with all their scenes.

My main issue with the series since the very beginning has been the amount of emotional abuse that Tae-Yang is being put through. This is being further exacerbated as most characters take it as normal and nobody steps in (whether this relates to the fictional or true reason behind Tae-Yang's bedminton break). I found this seriously disturbing to the point of making me question the realism that they're trying to portray.

Overall, it's definitely worth a watch but unfortunately I can at most give it 8/10 at a stretch.

I really love the show and can't wait to see the rest of it because it has three of my favourite elements that I love to see in a show which are love, sport's and change in character development.