Another forever friends kind of plot and it was my Covid show! I completed it fairly fast because there wasn’t much else to do when one just needed something not too taxing while resting and recovering. TKD and MMA are really not my kind of thing but I got interested when I saw Hwang Bo-ra (playing Chan-sook) in the trailer. Just looking at her makes me smile and she did not fail me here – she’s funny and memorable, although a minor character. Then I realised that Gong Min-jung is here too, playing a ‘friend from the past’. And then, there is Kim Ji-won … The two actors that stood out for me were Park Seo-jun (playing Dong-man) and Kwak Si-yang (playing Nam-il). I found them the most natural actors. The coach and fellow trainees also did well and Kim Tak-su (played by Kim Gun-woo) was a hilarious villain. The parents were occasionally amusing and Ae-ra’s mother Hwang Bok-hee (Jin He-kyung) was particularly inter...