Chicago Typewriter

April 7, 2017

Han Se-joo (Yoo Ah-in), a bestselling novelist with writer's block, acquires a 1930s typewriter from the Insadong antique district. It begins typing by itself. The drama's past-life premise is introduced.

April 7, 2017

Yoo Jin-oh (Go Kyung-pyo), who appears as a ghost claiming to be the typewriter's owner, is introduced. His connection to Se-joo and Jeon Seol (Im Soo-jung) is the drama's central mystery.

April 14, 2017

The first extended flashback to 1930s colonial Korea — the resistance fighter world where Se-joo, Jin-oh, and Seol were different people fighting for independence. The Gunsan colonial streets used for this world.

April 14, 2017

Se-joo's growing awareness that his writer's block is connected to a past he doesn't remember.

April 21, 2017

Jeon Seol's recognition of Se-joo and Jin-oh — her sense that she has known them before, from somewhere she cannot name.

April 21, 2017

The Insadong antique district's role in the drama — the layered history of the neighbourhood reflecting the drama's past-life structure.

April 28, 2017

The 1930s resistance fighters' world in full — the specific danger and moral clarity of fighting colonial occupation.

April 28, 2017

The drama at its midpoint — the past-life narrative and the present-day story equally compelling.

May 12, 2017

The 1930s version of a sacrifice that echoes into the present-day relationships.

May 12, 2017

Se-joo beginning to write again — the typewriter's influence unlocking the story he couldn't access.

May 19, 2017

An extended Gunsan sequence — the colonial streets at their most visually atmospheric.

May 19, 2017

The truth about Jin-oh's ghostly state — why he hasn't passed on.

May 26, 2017

The 1930s story reaching its historical conclusion — the resistance fighters' fate.

May 26, 2017

The present-day relationship freed from its past-life complications.

June 2, 2017

The novel's last chapter — Se-joo writing the ending of the story that has always been his to tell.

June 2, 2017

The finale. Yoo Ah-in's most emotionally complete performance. A drama that argued creative work is a form of historical memory.