Start-Up (2020)

Very nice

I think it is a very nice series with a very inspiring story. I loved how it began and how it told the story of the two sisters. I loved how it told the story of many people in the series and so it was not boring at all. I personally enjoyed the ending and I enjoyed the suspense of who she will choose eventually. Maybe because I am not a business oriented person and have nothing to do with the business major in my actual life, some parts were a bit dragging for me and I might have gotten a bit bored. However, I can imagine for other people who are majoring in business, this might have been quite an enjoyable ride. All in all I would recommend people to watch it.

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Not PHR's best work but still worth a watch

Park Hye Ryun dramas Dream High, I Hear Your Voice, and Pinocchio are some of my all time faves. I haven't finished While You Were Sleeping though because I find Suzy and Lee Jong Suk's chemistry more sibling-like than romantic. I was looking forward to Startup but was not really sure about the casting, which was a foreshadowing of things to come lol.

Startup is not at par with PHR's greatest hits, but it's still a solid, positive, engaging drama about the struggles and perseverance of youth in the technological startup business. Yes, maybe it's bogged down by the controversial love triangle, but well...at least everybody's buzzing about it, and catapulted Kim Seon Ho's dimples to popularity.

I'm the last person to be a fan of messy love triangles, but I think the drama from the start has been obvious that Do San is the end game. It's just that PHR put a twist on the beloved romance trope of mistaken identity through love letters. If she followed the usual trope then Jipyeong is the end game.

I have a Nam Joo Hyuk allergy from Bride of the Water God, he did better here as Do San, though it's not enough to overshadow Jipyeong. Do San seems like a beta hero made from the same cutout as Dream High's beloved Sam Dong, but Kim Soo Hyun knocked that role out of the park with an endearing accent and trademark heartbreaking cries. Sam Dong also had a life- altering sickness there which would have put everybody on his ship, while Do San's troubles about confidence feels like just our everyday troubles. It lacked drama oomph.

I do commend PHR for trying something different from her usual drama that tackles some kind of whodunit mystery crime. Her trademark endearing relationships and good drama mixed with good comedy is still evident. Suzy was a good surprise! She's always her charming self but I'm impressed with how more controlled her acting looks in this drama.

It's just Kim Seon Ho's Han Jipyeong has such a good backstory, with that gruff but secretly selfless role we're all weak for, and on key scenes that mattered he brought his acting game. Honestly he didn't get a lot of screentime, also pretty Kang Han Na. I really wished there were more Mom-Dal Mi-In Jae scenes, but their personal differences were just smoothed out off- screen, suddenly all is well and there was no emotional payoff from their initial fallout. Despite all that drama off-screen, and what- could-have-been's, I'll be on the lookout for PHR's next project, who knows maybe it'll be Jipyeong's own happy ending.

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achei ok

não é um dos meus doramas favoritos, mas eu até que gostei desse aqui. no geral, a série em si foi MUITO (tipo literalmente) chata, eu não aguentava mais assistir essa série. DEZESSEIS EPISÓDIOS!!!!! parece que tem anos que tô tentando terminar esse dorama.
gostei muito da atuação dos atores e AMEI demais essa ost (claramente vai para a minha playlist de osts favoritas). AMEI O FINAL (o que me surpreendeu muito). na realidade, eu acho que o episódio final foi o melhor episódio. terminar isso aqui foi um alívio, só não dropei o dorama porque não gosto de deixar os doramas incompletos. e sim, o motivo de eu ter visto esse dorama mesmo com todas as críticas dele foi por conta do ator de vinte e vinte um. peguei ranço dele, mas ainda o amo.

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Start up é um drama para se assistir!

Start up traz em sua temática a realidade de muitos jovens modernos. A dificuldade de crescer em uma sociedade competitiva, associado a relacionamentos amorosos, mas não se reduz a isso. Podemos acompanhar cada passo do crescimento e desenvolvimento das personagens, o final me parece bem satisfatório, não mudaria. Recomendo esse drama, ele prende nossa atenção do começo ao fim. Um adendo: as atuações de Nam Joo Hyuk e Kim Seon Ho estão incríveis! Yoo Su Bin mais uma vez entrega ótimas cenas de humor, ele é fantástico! Não desistam do drama caso esteja shippando errado, no final, vale muito a pena assistir!

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Start Up (2020) - may not be the best out there but I enjoyed it.

I get to see Suzy having a mature role already, I think I got to see her improvement in acting. At first I see a lot of my friends supporting Han Ji Pyeong and also there are people around me who encouraged me to watch this drama. So I did watch the drama and my support goes to Do San more up until the 13th episode. I think the writer wants to give the second male lead vibe to Da San which I felt as a watcher. One reason also why I supported Do San's character more is Nam Joo Hyuk's transformation as an actor. This time around I found that it's not his usual roles in other dramas. Well eventually I stop doting on Do San because I find the 3 years questionable, I asked myself why did the female lead didn't fall in love with Han Ji Pyeong instead? Sure? But then again, it is what it is. I like the introduction of the drama and I enjoyed it up until the end, though a lot were disappointed with how it turned out.

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Start Up, anschauen und selber bewerten, es ist es wert.

Ein schöne Geschichte, sehr interessant erzählt und gespielt.
Grob, ohne zu spoilern, geht es um eine gut gemeinte Handlung der Oma, um die sich dann die ganze Geschichte entwickelt.
Mit vielen gleichzeitigen Erzählsträngen, die zum Schluss ein ganzes ergeben, wenn auch manchmal etwas zu vorhersehbar.

Kurzweilig mit der Gefahr, das man zu schnell alles sehen will, aber auch manchmal langweilig, so das man vorspringen möchte.

Eine manchmal traurige, romantische und auch lustige Geschichte. Es macht Spaß mitzufiebern.

Wer IT mag und gerne träumt, der sollte diese Serie nicht verpassen.

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Bom mas poderia ser melhor

Não sei escrever direito mas vou tentar dar a minha visão aqui. Esse foi o primeiro dorama que eu assisti e acabei gostando muito da experiência mas nem tudo na vida são flores, a trama apresenta alguns problemas na minha opinião: alguns personagens não possuem desenvolvimento nenhum, esse é o caso dos irmãos gêmeos, os vilões, eles não possuem motivação nenhuma, parece que só estão ali para serem maus mesmo; outro caso é a irmã da protagonista, na qual é umas das personagens principais e mesmo assim quase não aparece na trama, sendo uma personagem muito pouco explorada na trama; outro problema é que tudo sempre dá certo, eles realmente nunca correm perigo, sempre conseguem resolver os problemas muito fácil, nós telespectadores nunca ficamos preocupados pois sabemos que eles vão conseguir resolver os problemas sem passar por quase nenhuma difilcudade; agora na minha opinião, baseando-se no primeiro episódio, a série tinha potencial pra mais, senti falta de um drama mais pesado no decorrer da série igual como foi no primeiro episódio. Falando agora da parte boa, o dorama apresenta boas atuações e possuí uma ótima trilha sonora, acho que vale a pena sim ser assistido!

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the line between good and mess

this drama start so good that it give me a lot of hope but is totally turn to a mess half way and you can feel how the writer don't know how to make the main couple fit together in a nice acceptable way.

This drama succeeded, despite all the hate and disappointment, but it succeeded in pulling us all to the end. Did it make me angry some times? Yes, but I also had a lot of fun.
The writer got into a big problem. It started with a wonderful beginning, but when events continue to happen, you feel that this beginning is meaningless. Why did they build this strong background for the relationship between the FL and the second lead if it was meaningless at the end? Don't get me wrong. I know who the lead is from the beginning, but I expected that forming relationships would be better than that. Having a great second lead in many dramas is a normal So why did the biggest disappointment happen? It was the building of the lead character.

When the drama began, I expected Dosan and his friends to act as ambitious, inexperienced young men, but what they don't work for money or success. So what? ... What model should we learn from them? Do not listen to the experts and take their speech personally, and even beaten your mentor and hold him responsible for your mistakes?!! how they have small mind all the time.
The development of Dosan's personality was the biggest mistake of the writer, this young man who started with a nice and naive personal (I was very happy with him because I love this kind of leads), but he turned into a person with the character of the victim, jealous and sees only his own problems and a woman. The nice guy who has family support and friends beside him thinks he has nothing and only wants a girl!!! This young man built his lie to get the girl, but he accuses the other person as if he wanted to steal everything from him. How can we sympathize with that !! Here the writer came to save Dosan’s character by telling a background story that kills Dosan more "the cheating" was he always like that? taking chances but crying after taking it? but never gave it back or apology! just cry over himself and think he is victim of using others? Should we sympathize!!! Goes to his father, "I don't want to be your pride and happiness" Was the father sharp with him from the start? He was supportive always he gave him money to make his own dream, but it does not matter, because this young man’s dream was a girl he wanted to be her pride and happiness lol even after years he still had the same personality only they changed his clothes but the character of Dosan can be summarized in one scene when he refused to give messages to jipyeong like it blong to him. The writer didn't know how to work on Dosan, is he the sweet or selfish, rude?
Dal Mi, I loved her very much in the beginning, but at the end there was not a great development in her character. The girl who loved someone for 15 years, and wasn't able to overcome it, of course, she is the same girl who was not able to skip the man she date for months. Her character did not develop much, she retreated a little too she was no longer independent as she was, but she followed Dosan's views when he tells her about something, and she tries to find a way to change her mind to match him.
JiPyeong was the written character so better that I doubt he was the character who wrote first and maybe he was the lead before the writer changed his mind. Now if we look at the end, who is Jipyeong in the story, is he the official sponsor for them who writes messages, hears them, advises them and is attacked, but protects them until the end? Is he the Godfather ?? he were there to receive the emotional and physical violin. This good boy who tells the facts as they are so that they learn doesn't Compliment mistakes because he care really care not want to use them, What did he gain from this relationship? NOTHING... I had great hope that Dosan will be the younger brother who listens and has a relationship with him, but the writer completely broke that. Ji-Byeong used to have the grandmother from the beginning and had no one else in the end. Well he owns Youngsil the best thing haha.
Inji, the wronged character why was she not given enough space? Instead of dragging the story of love and conflict to the end, it was necessary to focus on the two sisters' relationship and form a relationship between Jipyeong and Dosan. I am still frustrated by this. they didn't even show how the sister fix their relationship slowly the 3 years was a useless jump.
In general, the series did not succeed in conveying a good message about the youth, because Samsan's exampal was very annoying, but it succeeded in being entertaining and attractive to talk. It's a kind of drama that you enjoy on airing time better than watching it alone.

The actors were very good, Seonho was the surprise par excellence, he made the character of jipyeong seize the attention to such a degree that it covered all the love scenes of the main leads, even his scenes with YoungSil made them a nice couple lol, he was so cool yet cute what we need else, sure seonho future.will be bright from now on... Although I disliked Dosan, I liked how Nam JooHyuk acted the character maybe the best acting i saw from him. dalmi fit suzy well she was so good on it.

The cinematography and the music was very good and I liked many osts on it.
lastly would you like to watch this again? no, but won't regret watching it.

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Started really strong up to episode 8 or 9

I watched it on Netflix and thought it had a very interesting start although it was a bit hard to believe. Why would someone get that attached to someone that's writing letters to them and putting it in a birdbox. Makes no sense whatsoever. But whatever, I went with it and it was an interesting start.

But what made no sense was how the girl could develop such strong feelings just based off a few letters and she lived her adult life avoiding relationships based on letters from 15 years ago. That made no sense whatsoever. It's like she is a monk or saint or something in between.

I thought the female lead was really good. I watched her in another Netflix show (I think it was Doona) and she was really good there too. She glows on the screen and great acting and expressions. Can hardly tell she was the actress for the other show. She just changed so completely.

Also the male lead, I watched him in Hometown Cha Cha Cha and thought that was a good show as well.

But there is something missing in this show towards the end. I am not even sure what that is. But it just felt it was not leading to anything after episode 10 or so. I just skipped and fast forwarded a lot after that. I lost interest in many parts of it and felt it was not really moving forward much or there was anything left to explore.

Music was good and acting was good. Story was good up to a certain point but then I just lost interest towards the end.

It was OK.

If you work in tech, I think some of it might produce a bit of anxiety. The constant work, competition, struggle, layoffs.

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Not as bad as they say

I think Start-Up doesn't deserve all the hate it gets.

The setting was really nice — I'm not familiar with the startup world at all, so it was interesting, especially given that a vocabulary is provided each episode.

The setup was amazing. Seeing how it evolved and what consequences it brought was amusing and engaging, honestly. I proceeded to the next episode right after, it got me so caught up in the story.

It is actually the first drama where I would be fine with the main character choosing either love interest. They both seem to fit her in the different ways. Seeing them actually compete was hilarious at times.

Family is an important aspect of Start-Up. It is also the part where I teared up the most. Some lessons were made, albeit clichey and obvious. Actually, every time grandma appeared on the screen made me cry.

The drama has its issues, too. Some moments were unnecessary dramatic. Some moments made me think "wtf am i watching right now". Some parts could've been a lot better.

But still, Start-Up made me laugh, and cry, and motivated, and confused between which LI to root for. It made me emotional. I don't expect a cinematic masterpiece out of the dramas. So I enjoyed it very much.

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Muy bueno

Me gustó demasiado. Inicia muy emotivo, me hizo llorar desde el capítulo 1 y justo ese capítulo nos introduce muy bien a la mayoría de los personajes para entender todo su contexto.

Es un drama de superación personal, que te enseña a luchar por lo que quieres a pesar de todos los obstáculos que puede ponerte la vida. Si quieres algo, trabaja y esfuérzate para obtenerlo.

La relación entre Do San y Dal Mi me gustó mucho. Creo que desde el inicio se observa que son ellos dos quienes terminarán juntos y quienes se entienden perfectamente. Pues tienen la oportunidad de realmente conocerse y construir un futuro juntos que ambos quieren.

Es un drama muy bueno, aunque me pareció muy largo y en ocasiones me aburría poquito, pero aún así casi todo el tiempo me entretuvo y me hizo amarlo.

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A unique idea and a nearly perfect execution

Start Up started very well, with unique idea of innovation world with competition among the best. But the way it ended, especially the last 3 episodes, I would say it was nothing like expected.

The emotional connection between Mr Han and the grandma was beautifully portrayed, so was the friendship between the developers/friends of Samsan Tech. The only unexpected thing was the relationship between Jung Sa-Ha and Chul-San although I can understand why they ended up together in the show.

The episodes towards the end felt a bit fast paced, loosing the grip of the story, not much but to certain extent. Although I can't argue who should have ended with whom, and what ending could have been more satisfactory, but I still liked the show very much due to it's unique concept.

MY RATING : 8/10

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