S1 Episode 01 – A Customer After Closing
A late visitor turns an ordinary closing time into a question of ownership.
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The Last Repair Before Dawn
An original modern Korean folklore story about repairs, responsibility and a promise left waiting.
Content notes: Themes of regret, broken trust and financial pressure.
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A quiet mystery in a Seoul repair shop, where an impossible customer turns a borrowed tool into a question of trust.
A Seoul repair technician takes in a stranger’s wooden plane and discovers a thirty-year promise he has avoided returning. Some things can be mended. Others must finally be given back.
Season One is complete, with all twelve episodes available. An original modern Korean folklore story about practical work, responsibility and the freedom to let something go.
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Season 1
- Episode 01 A Customer After Closing 2:13
- Episode 02 The Name on the Docket 2:02
- Episode 03 The Rice Cooker That Waits 1:52
- Episode 04 One More Place 1:46
- Episode 05 Return to Sender 1:52
- Episode 06 A Voice Without a Recording 1:40
- Episode 07 Terms of Help 1:53
- Episode 08 A Room for Everything 1:47
- Episode 09 The Stranger's Receipt 1:59
- Episode 10 The Right to Let Go 1:40
- Episode 11 Nothing in Return 1:41
- Episode 12 Before Dawn 1:57
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Season 1
S1 Episode 02 – The Name on the Docket
The person who owns the plane refuses to let its return become another favour.
S1 Episode 03 – The Rice Cooker That Waits
A fault can be repaired without repairing the life someone has left behind.
S1 Episode 04 – One More Place
A kind invitation still needs a real answer and a limit.
S1 Episode 05 – Return to Sender
Yu-na makes her own version of the stranger's mistake: treating an assumption as permission.
S1 Episode 06 – A Voice Without a Recording
A silent radio exposes a conversation Yu-na can actually choose to have.
S1 Episode 07 – Terms of Help
Accepting help means negotiating work that both people can afford.
S1 Episode 08 – A Room for Everything
The stranger mistakes an empty work area for an invitation to save everything.
S1 Episode 09 – The Stranger’s Receipt
The stranger admits he preferred being needed to keeping his word.
S1 Episode 10 – The Right to Let Go
The workshop honours an owner's choice to end an object's useful life.
S1 Episode 11 – Nothing in Return
The stranger makes one useful repair to his conduct without asking it to buy forgiveness.
S1 Episode 12 – Before Dawn
An object is returned, an apology is offered, and nobody is forced to make the ending easy.
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