We Are All Trying Here
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- 2026
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Hwang Dong-man, an aspiring film director who clung to a single debut feature for twenty years until he hit rock bottom. Convinced he has nothing left to lose, he takes another step forward after meeting Byeon Eun-a, a production PD worn ragged by the job. The series follows people loitering at the edges of the film world as they face, head-on, the worthlessness each of them carries — and the time it takes to stand before a camera again anyway. Writer Park Hae-young (My Mister) and director Cha Yeong-hun (When the Camellia Blooms) join forces, with Koo Kyo-hwan and Go Youn-jung lending weight to the grain of people who fall apart and rise again.
True to a Park Hae-young dialogue piece that follows the grain of its characters with no big incidents, ordinary spaces — everyday alleys, a railroad crossing — take the center of the frame instead of glamorous landmarks. So even when you visit the locations, it feels less like sightseeing than walking a neighborhood where someone's day quietly passes, letting the show's aching mood linger all the longer.
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신흥동 행정복지센터 철길 건널목 광주광역시 광산구 신흥동
A small railroad crossing in front of the Sinheung-dong Administrative Welfare Center in Gwangju's Gwangsan-gu. About a five-minute walk from Songjeong Park Station, this ordinary crossing serves as the show's symbolic space where the characters stop and wait for a passing train. The brief moment of the barrier lowering and the train rolling slowly by is captured as a time of pausing and choosing. It became the first pilgrimage spot fans sought out after the broadcast, and has grown popular as a walking course that loops in the nearby Sinheung-dong alleys and the view from Geumjeong-bong peak.
홍지문 버스정류장 서울특별시 서대문구 홍은동 세검정로
The Hongjimun bus stop (stop no. 13183) on Segeomjeong-ro in Seoul's Seodaemun-gu, Hongeun-dong. In the show it's the stop where Byeon Eun-a and Hwang Dong-man get off the bus on their way home, marking the everyday junction where their living radii overlap and then part. An ordinary neighborhood view — the foot of Inwangsan to the left, Hongje Stream to the right — quietly supports the characters' weary days. There's no flashy spectacle, but it's a fitting, quiet course for anyone who wants to walk the characters' exact path through the drama.