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• Why does Yeon-du ask Bo-ra to gather information about Baek Hyun-jin?▾

  Yeon-du has a crush on Baek Hyun-jin but has to travel to the United States for heart surgery, so she asks her best friend Bo-ra to befriend him and learn everything about him before she returns. This sets the entire plot in motion, as Bo-ra ends up falling for Poong Woon-ho, Hyun-jin's best friend, while carrying out her mission.

• How does the misunderstanding between Bo-ra and Woon-ho arise?▾

  Bo-ra initially approaches Woon-ho as a means to get closer to Hyun-jin on Yeon-du's behalf, which creates a fundamental deception at the heart of their relationship. When Woon-ho realizes that Bo-ra's initial interest in him was tied to gathering information about his friend, he feels used and betrayed, causing their budding romance to fall apart.

• What happens to Woon-ho after he and Bo-ra separate?▾

  Woon-ho moves abroad — specifically to the United States — and the two lose contact entirely. The film's emotional conclusion reveals that he carried feelings for Bo-ra for years; a letter and video footage left behind show the depth of his unspoken love. He eventually dies abroad, making their reunion impossible and giving the story its bittersweet, tragic ending.

• What is the significance of the camcorder footage throughout the film?▾

  Bo-ra records daily life on a camcorder as a teenager in 1999, and this footage serves as both a personal diary and a time capsule of her youth. In the epilogue set in the present day, the recovered tapes reveal moments Woon-ho secretly filmed, showing his perspective and feelings that Bo-ra never knew about at the time, recontextualizing their entire relationship.

• Does Yeon-du successfully get together with Baek Hyun-jin?▾

  Yes, after Yeon-du returns from her surgery in the United States, she and Hyun-jin do eventually become a couple. However, their relationship is largely a backdrop to the central love story between Bo-ra and Woon-ho, and the film focuses far more on the unintended, deeper romance that grew out of Yeon-du's original request.