Go Back can be written in Hangul as 고백 (gobaek), the Korean word for confession.

Episode 1. Marriage is Not Happy Ending

Romantic dramas end with marriages. It's a happy ending for them. For the main characters who have been through so much, marriage is like the final result and the end of the journey of love. The main characters who are looking forward to bright days ahead have opened the doors of blessing and lived happily ever after.

Would the characters in romantic dramas all have happy endings after the marriage?

Jin Joo: Do you have any idea how lowly my life became after I met you?

Ban Do: And what about me? Do you have any idea what goes on with my work? I get treated as if I'm less than a dog. Do you know how much I suffer? Do you have any idea? My life became a mess after I met you too!

Let's get a divorce. I am unimaginably unhappy. We should've never met. I want to turn back time. I want to get back and change everything. – Ma Jin Joo

It's always like that. Even though they were deep in love like kids, it doesn't last forever. – Go Dok Jae

Is this some kind of gift from above? – Ma Jin Joo

Let's not wake up from this dream, ever. – Choi Ban Do

This is the happiest time of my life. – Ma Jin Joo

Youth is great. – Ma Jin Joo

My life became a mess after I met you. I could sell my soul if that means I don't have to meet you. – Choi Ban Do

He looked petty even when he was young. Why did I even like him? – Ma Jin Joo

A man's first love lasts forever. – Ma Jin Joo

I envy youth. – Ma Jin Joo

The energy is different. Being young again is so great. – Choi Ban Do

I knew you were pretty insensible, but why did you never think about the consequences? – Choi Ban Do

Episode 2. Memories are Remembered at your Convenience

Ban Do: Yes, this is where I met her. Why did it have to be today? No, it's a good thing. All I have to do is avoid her... forever.

Jin Joo: Why am I having a nightmare? I've curse this day and moment for the rest of my life. Let's not get involved with him.

Ban Do: Let's not get involved with her.

You don't know how this could ruin your life. You can't choose her, all right? – Choi Ban Do

How did he live with me when he missed her so much? – Ma Jin Joo

Is this why you showed me a miracle today? – Ma Jin Joo

Episode 3. Springtime Returns

People have rights they can enjoy in a particular season of their lives. When you're in your teens, you have the right to know the beauty of life instead of the evil of it. When you're in your 20s, you have the right to enjoy your brightly shining youth. That passionate and youthful time which everyone enjoyed, to us was like the springtime that passed by without giving us a chance to look at the flowers.

People say youth withers in the blink of an eye, just like cherry blossoms that last only for a season. Before your youth passes away, why don't you just do that thing you want to do? It could be hanging out with friends, going on a trip, or falling madly in love.

I had no choice but to give up on her back then, but things are different now. – Choi Ban Do

What is this odd logic? Why would you tell her you like her if you aren't going to date her? You only tell a woman you like her when you know you have a chance of dating her. – Choi Ban Do

Don't ruin your life by getting involved with me again. – Choi Ban Do

Since I'm here, I'm going to enjoy my life. Let's live our lives separately. – Choi Ban Do

I'll wish for nothing else if I get to be young again. If I were you, I'd go out and let loose. I'd do whatever I want. You can't go back to being young again. Your youth doesn't wait for you.

We have to live today like it's our last. – Yoon Bo Reum

Episode 4. Again, My Heart Beats

In young people's chests lives a huge thing called the heart. It pounds all the time and makes you shy. It makes us losers that can do anything. But when I became an adult, I finally got to control it. This heart of mine seems to have stopped its movement. I'm not even sure if it's still alive. It disappeared without a trace. – Choi Ban Do

She'll come to her senses after she's stabbed in the back. – Choi Ban Do

There's a saying, "Life is bitter." Practice is bitter too. You'll need something sweet from time to time to endure the bitter times, looking forward to the sweets. – Choi Ban Do

If the food is delicious, it's zero calorie. – Choi Ban Do

There's always a way to save yourself. The mess you make can always be cleaned up. – Choi Ban Do

A nation without history has no future.

Ghosts aren't scary. People are scarier. – Ma Jin Joo

After living for some time, I realized it's okay to lose yourself a bit. If you can't party because you're conscious of others, it's only bad for you. There's a season in life when you can lose yourself. If you lose yourself when you're older, that's worse. – Ma Jin Joo

You're too young to live holding yourself back. – Choi Ban Do

Episode 5. The Standard of First Love

To a guy, his first love stays in his memories for a lifetime. It's not like I'm seeing her or having an affair with her. She's just right here *points to chest*. It feels like homework which I never got to finish. That's what fist love is. – Choi Ban Do

Jin Joo: How do you know who's your first love? Is it the first person you dated? Or kissed?

Ban Do: It's the first person that made you tremble just by seeing them and made your heart flutter just by thinking about them.

Jin Joo: That's a one-sided live, not a first love.

One's first love is more dramatic, pure, and genuine than any kind of love in this world. – Choi Ban Do

But as ardent as it sound, the definition and standard of those words are very ambiguous.

First love is beautiful when you reminisce. – Ma Pan Seok

First love is useless. What counts is your last love. – Go Eun Sook

I raised her so dearly. She can't just date anyone. You know how dangerous it is out there. Also, men are all jerks. – Ma Pan Seok

I didn't ask her out. I'm flirting with her. – Jung Nam Gil

Why does this guy keep repeating his painful history? – Choi Ban Do

Nothing in this world is free. Give and take. If I take something, I need to give something back. Why would I do that with someone I don't even like? – Jung Nam Gil

Do you think parents don't expect something from you? – Jung Nam Gil

It's not easy to find something you find enjoyable in your life. What you want to do doesn't always align with what you need to do. If that doesn't happen, you need to make it happen. If you focus too much on the things you need to do, nothing will be left when you can't do what you need to do anymore. If you did something fun, at least you got that experience. Nothing last forever, so you should do what you want in that moment. – Choi Ban Do

For men, our first love lasts forever, until we die.

That's unrequited love, you idiots. Did you date them? That's not first love; that's unrequited love. You're completely mistaken. First love doesn't mean someone you liked first. It's the first person you dated. Being in a relationship is called love—to love and be loved. It has to be both ways. – Yoon Bo Reum

Jae Woo: I might be nothing to you, but to me you are my first love.

Bo Reum: So what do you want to do with me?

Jae Woo: I want to go out with you. I don't want one-sided love.

Jin Joo: Do you want anything in particular?

Nam Gil: You. I think it's true. I think I like you.

This little kids is being rather smooth like a serpent. He's making this old lady's heart flutter. – Ma Jin Joo

Pan Seok: What will you do after you graduate?

Ban Do: I'll do anything and everything to provide for Jin Joo.

Pan Seok: So, what is it exactly? What do you want to do? Or what do you like?

Ban Do: What do I like? I like Jin Joo. I like everything that Jin Joo likes.

Pan Seok: You're a man. Don't you have any dreams?

Ban Do: My dream is to live happily with Jin Joo and our children.

I'll do my best until the end, without ever giving up. – Choi Ban Do

Stop smiling. I might grow fond of you. You'll make me lose my sense of judgement. – Ma Pan Seok

Episode 6. You Shine the Brightest When You are Yourself

When I was young, I thought age was just a number. I was in this world and age was just merely a number that soaked into me. As I grew older each year, I realized that the age wasn't soaking into me. Rather, I was adjusting myself to my age. That's how I got used to my age. – Ma Jin Joo

Are you shooting a drama with her and a reality show with me? – Ma Jin Joo

You ended up going down that road. The future I saw was accurate. Because the weather was good, because the weather was okay, you ended up making that choice. You foolish human. – Choi Ban Do

You never know if you'll die today or tomorrow in life. Why would I need to think about the future? – Yoon Bo Reum

Jae Woo: We'll end up making a great memory with these.

Ban Do: And this memory will haunt you for the rest of your life.

You shouldn't make a mistake that can't be fixed. – Choi Ban Do

Keeping low profile is the best way to live. – Choi Ban Do

Love starts from worrying about someone. – Go Dok Jae

You're too stupid and ignorant to realize such delicate feelings. – Go Dok Jae

Be careful. There is always more than meets the eye. – Choi Ban Do

Episode 7. Honesty Lies Between the Truth and Lies

When you want to fool someone, once you feel confident they are completely fooled, it is most likely that the person is deeply in love with you. They didn't get fooled because they couldn't see the truth. It might be because they refused to see it because they are in love with you.

Life is hard for both kids and adults, isn't it? – Choi Ban Do

You always teased me about watching makjang dramas, right? I'll show you what it's like in real life. – Ma Jin Joo

Am I a math question for you? Why am I easy for you? – Ahn Jae Woo

A woman has to meet a good man to live well, not a successful man but a good man. – Choi Ban Do

You shouldn't have let him walk all over you. – Ma Jin Joo

What's so important about liking something? It's just hard to make a living everyday. – Ma Jin Joo

I thought you looked nice on the May Queen stage. – Choi Ban Do

A love that hurts too much isn't love. Having an affair is not love; it's just violence. It's the worst and most painful violence. – Ma Jin Joo

Ban Do: If she get used to him cheating, it could get better.

Jin Joo: If a man cheats with a hundred women, a woman would remember all of their names. It won't get blunt as knives do. The trust, affection and the value I had all hit rock bottom.

Maybe it wasn't out love that was over. We couldn't afford to look into our heart that lies somewhere between truths and lies.

Episode 8. Your Weapon Against the World

There was a time when I had nothing to lose since I had nothing. Twinkling eyes and earnest dreams were the only powerful weapons we had against the world. There was a time when I couldn't estimate how hard the world was. – Choi Ban Do

You will have to show them that you're not weak so they wouldn't come at you again. – Ma Jin Joo

Instead of liking me, how about achieving your dream? – Ma Jin Joo

If I don't do this, I will have to live like my parent's doll for the rest of my life. – Min Seo Young

Numbers don't start from one; it starts with zero. You're my number zero. I like you so much that you're not even in the rank. – Yoon Bo Reum

I was worried that I came back just to ruin your life. – Choi Ban Do

You don't like me, do you? I always thought you like me, but I felt something weird yesterday. I was sitting across my dad and talking to him for a while, then I saw you in the way he looks at me. Usually when someone likes someone else, their eyes tend to give their hearts away. But you have the same eyes as my dad and you talk like him too. – Min Seo Young

Napoleon once said this, "If I achieve my dream, I become someone else's dream." A dream isn't something to hold onto; it's something for you to achieve. – Ban Do's Sunbae

Thank you for giving birth to me, Mom. – Ma Jin Joo

I shouldn't have had my hopes up. You were never there when I needed you. – Ma Jin Joo

I don't like a guy who makes my daughter cry. – Go Eun Sook

You're not even good enough for her. Why would she like you? – Go Eun Sook

It's always like that. Parents always work hard for their children, and their children study while doing nothing. – Ma Jin Joo

You're still young. Why do you try to act like an adult? – Cheon Seol's Mom

We're back, right? I'm so relieved. – Choi Ban Do

Once I had a kid, there's nothing I can't do in this world. – Ban Do's Sunbae

The youth may have dreams and passion as their weapon, but we have a bigger weapon that helps us fight against anything we face in this world. – Choi Ban Do

Jin Joo: We did something really great. Let's protect him for life.

Ban Do: Seo Jin, I'll protect you for life.

Episode 9. Those Times We Had Been In Love

Back then, we never calculated our moves. We just reacted to whatever our hearts told us. Our entire universe revolved around the two of us. What happened to the time when we were willing to pick the stars and moon for each other? Where have those times and our hearts disappeared to?

Everyone can be in love, but not everyone can succeed in love. Erich Fromm, a psychoanalyst and philosopher, said that love is irrelevant to maturity and that not everyone can achieve it easily. It means that if you want to succeed in love, you need to put a lot of effort into maturing your personality.

Whenever I look into your eyes, everything seems like a dream.

Of all the people in the world, how did the two of us end up together?

Maybe it was a miracle.

Whenever I am in your arms, I find a new side of me.

Before I knew you, I don't remember how I lived.

Maybe I was a living dead.

How did we miss each other like this?

Do you like picking up garbage you threw out? Why am I your son? You threw me out like trash, don't pick it up again. It's dirty. – Jung Nam Gil

I don't pay attention to people who don't deserve it. – Jung Nam Gil

You need to love her a lot while you can still see her and touch her. It's your loss later on. – Ma Jin Joo

There was once a time when my universe revolved around only you. – Choi Ban Do

Episode 10. You Can't Take Anything For Granted

I'm someone who will be with you for life. – Choi Ban Do

At one point in life, we begin to take something for granted because we get comfortable and used to them. We live on considering the kindness of our love and the happiness we have are something we deserve and take them for granted. But we only realize this after we lose everything. Even someone's existence itself was not supposed to be taken for granted.

There is nothing in this world that can't happen to us. I don't want you to regret it later. – Ma Jin Joo

Why do people come to senses only after a disaster happens? – Choi Ban Do

Why am I like this? Why can't I do anything right? I've always been sincere. I always tried my best. But like 10 years ago today, everything is a mess. I tried so hard so that I could lead a happy life. Why do I always have to be sorry? Why am I always apologizing? – Choi Ban Do

I missed my mother-in-law as much as you missed her. – Choi Ban Do

At the day my mom, who was like the universe to me, disappeared, the rest of the world was paying attention to something else. And just like that, my sorrow seemed to be ignored as if it was something petty and normal, even to the closest person. – Ma Jin Joo

Episode 11. Knotted Hearts Grow When We Ignore and Neglect Them

Sometimes your heart may get tangled, not because it's someone's fault but because of a situation. Back then, instead of ignoring and neglecting our worries and relying on the saying that time heals all wounds, we should have untangled our knotted hearts bit by bit before the huge tangled ball of yarn swallows us whole one day.

This is why I work hard. It makes me happy to give you spending money. – Choi Ban Do

Ban Do: You were right. I was never there whenever you needed me. I thought I was always there to protect you. I now understand why you were unhappy.

Jin Joo: I didn't ask you to protect me. You didn't need to protect me; you just had to be by my side. You didn't need to try to feed me; you just had to eat with me. You should have cried with me and shared my sorrow. Even though it's been a while, I can't seem to be able to forget it. I know it wasn't your fault, that you couldn't help it, that's why I tried to stop myself whenever I felt like blaming you. But why were you so careless to the extent that my sorrow felt like nothing? That was when it started. That's how we started to grow apart. You should have looked into me. You should have hugged me. You should have cried with me. It's meaningless now.

Ban Do: I wanted to make you laugh. I was really sorry to you and your mother. I couldn't do anything. I thought it was the only thing I could do back then. I didn't want to make you cry; I wanted to make you laugh.

I wouldn't know what she's thinking even if I lived with her for 100 years. If you're angry, you need to tell me that you are in order for me to know. – Choi Ki Il

This is the problem with men. They throw out their friends like a useless can when they date. – Go Dok Jae

Why would I wait for a guy who doesn't even like me? – Min Seo Young

You don't even know where your heart is. Or maybe you're trying to avoid it. – Min Seo Young

You don't know how to express your feelings, do you? You should say you're hurt when you're hurt, that you're sad when you're sad, and that you're angry when you're angry. But you don't seem to talk about how you feel, and nobody can worry about you if you don't. – Ma Jin Joo

Nobody worries about me, so I'm okay. – Jung Nam Gil

If you keep looking at me like that, I'll be attracted to you. – Jung Nam Gil

I like being in your arms the most. – Ma Jin Joo

He's too focused on her that he doesn't see the person who really cares for him. – Go Eun Sook

Nothing in life is easy. You have to go through trials and errors in life. – Go Eun Sook

Jin Joo: Where are you? I'm crying. Should I cry by myself again?

Ban Do: Don't cry. I'll be right there.

Back then, if I knew what I know now, maybe we wouldn't have to be here now. – Ma Jin Joo

A trip can only be a trip if you can go return. If you don't go back, that means you moved there—settling down. – Choi Ban Do

Episode 12. My Dear Companion

I thought you were going to die. My world became blank and I couldn't breathe. In that brief moment, I was scared and afraid. – Ma Jin Joo

When I thought I was going to die, I could see then what I was doing for to others for my own selfish good. – Choi Ban Do

I thought I could make it work if I was sincere to you, but it wasn't like that. I don't have the confidence that I can make you happy. – Choi Ban Do

We need to draw a line between public and private matters. I'm looking like a stumbling block for you. – Ahn Jae Woo

The process is more important than the result. If you can't reach me after trying so hard, I can go. What's important is the heart. – Yoon Bo Reum

When you should to thank me, he thanked me. And when he should thank me, you thanked me. I wonder what's so heartbreaking for you two. I don't even have a chance. – Jung Nam Gil

It was scary how my friends leave one by one and no one would come even if I continued to wait. – Jung Nam Gil

It's not like I asked for too much. I wanted what everyone else had. I just wanted a normal life. A mom—that's the only thing I wished for. – Jung Nam Gil

Living as a mom looks like a simple thing that everyone does, but it's actually something incredible. It's like your past, present, and future are disappearing and your existence in this world seems useless and insignificant. You're pressured to become the strongest person in the world. It's not easy. You're doing something profound. – Ma Jin Joo

I don't know what to make of you, but being with you makes me at ease. You make me feel like a warm person. Now that I really like you, I finally realize where your heart is. – Jung Nam Gil

I really like you a lot. I just want you to know that. You don't even know that you're pretty. – Jung Nam Gil

Thank you for liking me. Thank you for letting me know that I'm still a woman. – Ma Jin Joo

You don't know yourself. You don't know what a warm-hearted person you are. You just don't realize it. A crying kitten, lonely people, you notice people's wounds. You aren't ill-tempered. You aren't twisted. You grew up well. – Ma Jin Joo

It's nice to be someone's first love. It's feels good to have someone who is rooting for you without even knowing it. – Ma Jin Joo

You can live without your parents, but you can't live without your child. – Go Eun Sook

I'm constantly sad. I miss you constantly. – Ma Jin Joo

Let's go home. – Ma Jin Joo

If I'm no longer around in the place where you're going, take good care of your dad. How would he live without me? – Go Eun Sook

We might have taken a short trip, and we go on a trip to return home and cherish and love what we have.

With someone who will be courageous to stand by my side forever without hesitation when I have to face this world, we survive in this tough world with companionship.

When two strangers live together, how can it always be good? It's not like we're divinities who have mastered everything.

"This is a divine ring that makes your wishes come true."

Jin Joo: Please don't ever let us apart.