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Child actors with a nice portfolio and enough experience most likely had a good family background.
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In general, learning acting and building a career as an actor tend to cost some money.
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It isn't impossible for someone who is barely scraping by to succeed as a child actor, but it is a more difficult journey by a far margin that needs talent, luck, and endless perseverance.
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Sometimes good connections are also necessary for getting roles.
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In fact I also took acting lessons and got my first role at the age of 13 from a friend of my dad who is a producer.
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The point is, I always have assumed that Song Tae-hyeon is a kid from some well off family.
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Or even perhaps someone richer because Tae-hyeon always had that feeling of being above everyone.
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I knew he wasn't poor, but I never imagined that his father is someone so high profile.
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I glanced at Song Tae-hyeon again.
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The more I look at him, the more similarities I found.
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I mean, what are the chances that I am correct?
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Probably not very good...
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But the puzzle pieces fit too well...
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It was 7 p.m.
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The first episode started.
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It was an okay episode.
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I have seen better dramas.
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It wasn't something I would applaud, but it is good enough to watch while having a dinner with your family.
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The good thing of being a kid is that you have a reason to leave early on these gatherings.
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Which is terrific.
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I never really liked anything that doesn't concern acting, it felt like a waste of time, but sometimes you just have to blend in.
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I avoided talking by pretending to be focused on the episode.
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Sometime later, me and my mom went home.
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It feels good to be back in 200X.
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I've been reading 'The Time Machine' these days. I wouldn't say that it's to my liking.
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I am someone who avoided the Sci-Fi genre like a plague.
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I don't even like watching dramas that involve the slightest bit of supernatural events.
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Reading the whole thing kind of gives you a sense of otherworldlyness.
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It's a whole fantasy world in a sense.
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The book was written a long time ago and it was written about a faraway future.
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I didn't think that the book was fun, but I could see why people could like it.
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When you talk about things like the future or the universe, there is this sort of grandiose but detached feeling.
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It has its own charms in that sense. It's charming but it has never been to my taste.
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After all, I would always prefer to go home and eat my mom's warm dishes compared to experimental food from a fancy restaurant.
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I finished 'The Time Machine'.
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I thought reading it would give me some sort of revelation, but I end with more questions instead.
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Does time travel require a machine?
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Why do I end in the past without doing anything time travel related?
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Did someone set me up?
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Why?
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I also read a bunch of time travel theories like the wormhole stuff, paradoxes, time bubble, and so on.
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Ah, it makes my head hurt.
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Why am I even doing all this?
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Could I even be sure that time travel was real?
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Was that gaze I felt that day not just some coincidence?
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This is getting ridiculous.
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Maybe the time I spent in 201X wasn't real in the first place.
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Maybe everything was just my imagination.
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But what if...
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What if it was real?
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Now what?
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If time travel was real, what should I do then?
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Should I try to go back to the future?
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Could simply stay here?
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You know what? I think I'll have to put more thought into this.
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For now, I should learn as much knowledge possible about time travel.
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If I actually time traveled this would prove to be important knowledge, if it isn't the only thing wasted would be my time.
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Now here comes the problem.
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I have never been good in science nor did I have a hobby of reading.
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This makes my progress really slow.
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Maybe I should look for research presented through a different medium, like a video or audio recording.
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Like maybe....Movies?
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There started my hunt for time travel movies.
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I decided to start with the classics.
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I picked up a foreign movie from the 80s, it was called 'Space Man from Pluto'.
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The title nearly caused me to find something else, but after seeing lots of praise for the movie, I decided to rent it.
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I miss renting movies, it's fun to do in it's own way.
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It's been a few weeks since the first episode. Now I would finally see Yeon-gyeong's introduction scene on TV.
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"Hey, Ki-beom-ah..."
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Why does it seem so cringeworthy on the TV?
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Ah, I can't watch this.
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I monitored the reactions for Yeon-gyeong on the internet, there wasn't much reactions, but most responses are positive.
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'Yeon-gyeong-ie is such a fun character.'
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'How did Yeon-woo even have a sister like Yeon-gyeong ㅋㅋㅋ'
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'Ahh I really liked Yeon-gyeong and Ki-beom!'
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Next week they are supposed to air more of my scenes, especially the ones in the class.
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I don't know if everything would get aired though, daily dramas are particularly unpredictable because it's very much audience based.
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I finished watching 'Space Man from Pluto', it was fun. It tells stories about family and the relations between people.
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The acting is a bit more dramatic, but I didn't mind it that much since it's done in a comedic way.
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I also have borrowed more movies about time travel. Like 'Guardian' and 'Woodchuck Day'.
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Some are fun, some are not.
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Although there is barely anything that can help with my predicament.
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I think lots of time travel movies involve the main character actually going to a different time, which is very different with my case.
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I looked for more time travel movies, there are a bunch of local time travel movies released around 5 years ago.
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I think there was a time travel movie trend in those times.
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I passed my days being really busy. Not only do I have to study and shoot, I also have to learn about time travel.
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Even though time travel has been a good experience so far, I keep worrying that something would turn wrong.
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If this is really time travel I would rather find a way to go back to my time.
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I don't really belong here and I am worried about messing up the future too much.
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I've been losing sleep these days.
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If I had even just 5 extra minutes, I would close my eyes and take a brief rest.
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I don't even dream during sleep anymore. I guess I was that tired.
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It feels good to be exhausted and earning money though.