How to be Thirty (Not Yet Thirty / Ajik Natseoreun / 아직 낫서른)

Status messages evolve.

APRIL 28, 1999. TOMORROW IS THE NEW SEATING DAY.

Ji-won, I wonder if you got to sit with someone you like.

TEACHER SAID WE CAN SIT WITH WHOEVER WE WANT.

As your teacher, I'm getting curious!

I'LL GO TO BED EARLY AND WAKE UP EARLY!

From writing in our diaries for the sake of doing homework...

SEUNG-YOO, JI-WON

To writing tiny scribbles on the corners of our school desks...

Hey, you didn't draw her glasses, and my hair is in two buns!

I'm not doing this.

Raise up your tteokbokki.

-Cheers. -Cheers.

And even all the doodles on the wall of our favorite tteokbokki place.

Why can't I reach you?

Where are you?

As a wise man once said,

it was more of a cry-out than a soliloquy.

LEE HYE-RYEONG

This silent and seemingly meaningless cry

SEUNG-YOO

sometimes has a much bigger influence

than you expect.

Hye-ryeong, aren't you going?

-Hey, Hye-ryeong. -Yes?

You can go first. I have to look something up.

We'll get going, then.

That's the reason why we are still obsessed with status messages.

AN UNDERDOG RELATIONSHIP

Yes, Ms. Seo?

A boyfriend who gets anxious about me and hates it when I see other guys.

MS. SEO JI-WON

I don't have that.

I'm actually on speakerphone.

MS. SEO JI-WON

SEO JI-WON

Welcome!

LSY, LHR

My name is Lee Hye-ryeong.

You must have known about me.

No actually, just speculations.

But what I want to know is

how did Ms. Lee Hye-ryeong find me?

I found out through your social media account

that you're a regular here.

So I decided to wait until you showed up.

-That's reckless. -It's being desperate.

I'll cut to the chase.

What's your relationship with Seung-yoo?

That's

something you should ask Mr. Lee Seung-yoo himself.

You didn't have to come and see me.

I'm not going to break up with Seung-yoo.

So if you're dating him right now,

you need to cut him off first.

I've been with him for about a year.

He was a senior at my school.

I fell for him at first sight, then chased after him.

You don't have to tell me all this.

We then continued to have a good relationship.

That is, until you showed up.

But I

did not know about you.

Seung-yoo never mentioned anything

-about you. -Now you know exactly who I am.

So you need to stop here.

He won't say no if you end the relationship.

He's like that.

To him, you were just a curiosity.

Do you know how unpleasant

this conversation is?

Well, too bad. Your existence itself is unpleasant to me.

I didn't want to make a big deal of this,

so I came to clear things up.

A big deal?

You might get delusional and actually think that Seung-yoo is in love with you.

Putting your life on the line for love,

it will make things hard for everyone.

Unlike you, I'm a bit too old to be giving everything for love.

Age is not important when it comes to love.

Isn't it that you just want to believe you can control yourself that way?

We should

celebrate tonight.

I'm sorry.

I have plans with my friends tonight.

Sorry.

Why is it so hot today?

I hope it rains cats and dogs.

And why is this coffee so bitter?

Gosh, it's hot.

You're such a cutie. Why on earth does Ran-ju not like you?

Not anymore.

What?

Wait, yesterday, did you two...

Seems like you had a wonderful night.

They're over there shooting "Love and War",

but you guys are shooting a romance film.

The world is so unfair.

Why are they talking for so long

over this scumbag who can't even be recycled?

Why did you make this coffee so bitter?

You made that.

Mr. Lee is my editor.

Does that mean you'll keep seeing him?

It means that we're also business partners as well.

Would you please leave now?

You're causing a nuisance in my friend's cafe.

I apologize if I offended you today.

Please tell your friend I said sorry.

One thing, though.

Did you really not know?

LEE HYE-RYEONG

Who's calling at this hour?

LSY, LHR

LEE HYE-RYEONG

I'll call you later.

I'm busy working right now. I'll call you later.

Were you perhaps pretending not to know even when you did?

Or

you might have not bothered to find out.