Their life used to be full of sparks and possibilities, their worlds were at their feet. As a K-drama blogger commented about this show, there are neither wealthy handsome, perfect princes nor feisty poor girl-next-door girls who have a million part-time job, this drama seemed goes completely opposite direction with only one remained theme: love. In general, it is a fascinating drama at first sight. But their love seemed lovely and both caring for each other for now. Their dream seemed not fulfilled as well, Kim Joo-man was very keen to taekwondo too but worked as, Baek Seol-hee dreamed of being a kind housewife, but her boyfriend Joo-man was hesitating whenever she asked about their marriage. The other two leading characters, Kim Joo-man, the best friend of Ko Dong-man, and Baek Seol-hee, the best friend of Choi Ae-ra, were revealed that they were in the underground relationship for six years (so far it did not show that whether Dong-man and Ae-ra know about their relationship, at least their relationship is a secret in their company).
The director uses comparisons to emphasize the unsuccessful beginning after graduation to lead the following story. It seemed that her real life is such a big mess, with no romantic relationship and lack of money. There is a huge difference between her dream and the reality. The situation leads these two girls into different levels of social hierarchy. It is so ironic that she shopped in the store that Choi Ae Ra worked for. She would marry to a wealthy man, she was able to buy expensive staffs and wear fashion cloths because of his credit card. Though these two girls had similar background, her friend won a better life. To emphasis her miserable situation, there is also a comparison between her and her university friend. In comparison, the middle-aged woman was capable of afford luxurious life that Kim Moo-ji was seeking for. The differences are the gap of wealth between Ae-ra and this middle-aged woman. However, Ae-ra and this middle-aged woman shared a common features that they both spend plenty of money on Kim Moo-ji. She had to break up with her boyfriend, Kim Moo-ji, who cheated on her by having a sexual relationship with a wealthy, middle-aged woman. In ep1, it seems that she was not satisfied with her life. Later, she became a department store of employee, and continued striving for her dream to come true. In school, she dreamed of being an anchor, and loved taking her fake microphone to Dong-man’s matches. They both lived in the same hometown in Choongnam before Ko Dong-man moved to Seoul studying high school, about 1 hr driving from Seoul. On the other hand, Dong-man’s longtime friend, Choi Ae Ra is a vigorous and sassy girl, and also his biggest fan of taekwondo. There are two things consistently exist from the past to the future though: the features of his incompatibility with Seoul (e.g., fashion, speak annoyingly loud, etc), and the warm-hearted long-term friendship with Choi Ae-ra, which will develop into romantic relationship in the rest of the episodes. a famous taekwondo prodigy in the past, his unsuccessful experience with the date vs. The scriptwriter and director emphasis two major points of change: his current marginal occupation (tick doctor) vs. However, contrary to the glory of old days, his adult life seemed dull and pitiful. Although he came from Choongnam with no intention to change his act or dress to fit into the atmosphere of Seoul, he still became a rebellious hero in the school and won hearts of girls and the ire of teachers and other male “rivals”, regularly caused trouble along with Kim Joo-man in the class. Ko Dong-man, who watched Tony Jaa’s fight scene in Ong Bak 1 with his best friend Kim Joo-man in Seoul at the beginning of the Ep1, was very concentrated on taekwondo which is something he excelled at. The Ep1 especially portrayed Ko Dong-man and Choi Ae-ra’s pathetic and miserable adult life, a life of “loser.” But at the current time in the drama, four of them are failed to pursue their goals. The first episode of “Fight for My Way” gave a brief introduction for the four main casts in the drama, with the flashback of their school-age when they still dreamed of a big dream and expected bright future, it was the time they never need to worry about tomorrow. The “Loser” Image of Leading Casts – Lisa Wu/Jenny Zhang