Youth of May

Platform

MyDramaList

Episodes

12

Country

South Korea

Language

Korean

Year

2021

Hee Tae, a top student at Seoul National University College of Medicine, becomes a local hero in Gwangju. His best friend Kyung Soo, a pro-democracy activist, persuades him to open an illegal clinic for students in hiding from the government. After a factory worker is injured during a protest, Hee Tae agrees to a meeting with a potential marriage partner arranged by his father, in exchange for help transporting himself and the worker. At the meeting, Hee Tae meets Myung Hee, a nurse struggling to afford her studies abroad. Despite their different backgrounds, they fall in love. In May 1980, amidst the Gwangju Uprising, their fates intertwine. (Source: MyDramaList) ~~ Based on real events of the Gwangju Uprising that happened in the city of Gwangju, South Korea, from May 18 to May 27, 1980.