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* AMinorKidroduction: The children in the prologue grow up to be [[spoiler: Jamie and Jung-woo]].



* CreepyChild: The child in the prologue claims to be responsible for everyone in the village going mad and attacking each other, and he doesn't bat an eyelid at seeing people killed in front of him.

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* CreepyChild: The child in the prologue claims to be responsible for everyone in the village going mad and attacking each other, and he she doesn't bat an eyelid at seeing people killed in front of him.her.



* DissonantSerenity: The child in the prologue stays perfectly calm even though the village is burning, people are killing each other, and a man drops dead right in front of him.

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* DissonantSerenity: The child in the prologue stays perfectly calm even though the village is burning, people are killing each other, and a man drops dead right in front of him.her.



* JumpScare: In the prologue a child opens a door. A man covered in blood jumps out at him then collapses, apparently dead.

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* JumpScare: In the prologue a child opens a door. A man covered in blood jumps out at him her then collapses, apparently dead.



* TroublingUnchildlikeBehaviour: The prologue shows a child walking through a burning village and watching the survivors murder each other, apparently unconcerned by the devastation all around him. Made even creepier when he claims to have caused it all.

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* TroublingUnchildlikeBehaviour: The prologue shows a child walking through a burning village and watching the survivors murder each other, apparently unconcerned by the devastation all around him. her. Made even creepier when he she claims to have caused it all.



* WouldHurtAChild: In the prologue a man sneaks up behind a child and is about to hit him with a rock before someone else intervenes.

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* WouldHurtAChild: In the prologue a man sneaks up behind a child and is about to hit him her with a rock before someone else intervenes.
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* KarmaHoudiniWarranty: Son Min-ho was involved in the deaths of almost everyone at White Night Village. Not only did he get away with it, he became a billionaire from the profits of selling the drug developed in the village. Then the serial killer comes along.

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* KarmaHoudiniWarranty: KarmaHoudini: Son Min-ho was involved in the deaths of almost everyone at White Night Village. Not only did he get away with it, he became a billionaire from the profits of selling the drug developed in the village. Then the serial killer comes along.along, blows up his house, and he still survives.

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** Son Min-ho experimented on people in White Night Village.



* KarmaHoudini: Son Min-ho was involved in the deaths of almost everyone at White Night Village. Not only did he get away with it, he became a billionaire from the profits of selling the drug developed in the village.

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* KarmaHoudini: KarmaHoudiniWarranty: Son Min-ho was involved in the deaths of almost everyone at White Night Village. Not only did he get away with it, he became a billionaire from the profits of selling the drug developed in the village. Then the serial killer comes along.


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* MissedHimByThatMuch: Hye-won comes on the scene ''seconds'' after Jae-woong kidnaps Jamie. If she'd been just a bit faster she would have seen what was happening, but instead she's just in time to see him drive away.
* NoOneCouldSurviveThat: A burning building collapses with Jung-woo inside. Everyone assumes he's dead. Of course he survived.
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* DramaticDrop [=/=] SlowMotionDrop: Jamie drops her cup and knocks her chair over when she regains some of her memories. Both fall in slow motion.
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* ShipperOnDeck: Seok-pil and Ji-wan ship Jung-woo and Jamie.
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* FailedASpotCheck: Jae-woong is so preoccupied by looking for cards that he doesn't notice the table-cloth being changed or Hye-won and Jung-woo changing their clothes.

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* FailedASpotCheck: Jae-woong Ji-wan is so preoccupied by looking for cards that he doesn't notice the table-cloth being changed or Hye-won and Jung-woo changing their clothes.
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* CatapultNightmare: Jamie flings herself upright after a nightmare about White Night Village.


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* PlayingWithSyringes: The children at White Night Village were experimented on by Son Min-ho and his team.
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* LaserGuidedAmnesia: Jamie lost all her memories of White Night Village after she escaped it.
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* KarmaHoudini: Son Min-ho was involved in the deaths of almost everyone at White Night Village. Not only did he get away with it, he became a billionaire from the profits of selling the drug developed in the village.
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* WhamShot: Lee Ji-wook sees someone in the serial killer's lair. He zooms in and sees [[spoiler: it's Jung-woo]].
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* ArcWords: "I'm standing on an empty road all by myself. The sun is shining brightly. And the clock that's never wrong says it's 12. Then I wonder, is it noon or midnight?"
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* NoSenseOfDirection: Jung-woo. Jamie learns this the hard way when he gets both of them lost.
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* FauxFluency: Jamie's English is much more stilted than you'd expect from someone who grew up in America.
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* BunnyEarsLawyer: Jung-woo is a very eccentric policeman, doing things like sleeping in the holding-cell. He's also a very good policeman, and the one who decodes the killer's messages.
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* ComplainingAboutRescuesTheyDontLike: Hye-won rescues Jung-woo when he falls over the stair-rails. Jung-woo isn't grateful because she pulled his hair in the process.


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* SuperDrowningSkills: Baek Seung-jae drowns in a shallow pool. This is one of the reasons Jung-woo knows his death was murder, not suicide.
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** Choi Yong-suk was a rapist.


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* RailroadTracksOfDoom: Choi Yong-suk dies by refusing to get off the train tracks when a train is approaching.
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* FailedASpotCheck: Jae-woong is so preoccupied by looking for cards that he doesn't notice the table-cloth being changed or Hye-won and Jung-woo changing their clothes.

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* AssholeVictim: Kim Young-joon was a rapist and murderer, so no one is too upset when he becomes one of the serial killer's victims.

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* AssholeVictim: The serial killer's victims are thoroughly unpleasant people, so no one is too upset at their deaths.
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Kim Young-joon was a rapist and murderer, so no one is too upset when he becomes one of the serial killer's victims.murderer.
** Park Kyu-tae was a psychopath who enjoyed beating people to death.
** Baek Seung-jae held drug-filled parties where eight people died and many more were injured.


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* DisneyVillainDeath: Kim Young-joon dies by being pushed off a building.


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* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Park Kyu-tae was killed by his own dogs, which he used to torture people.


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* PoeticSerialKiller: The serial killer's victims are all criminals, and his warning messages show he kills people in ironic ways.
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* AssholeVictim: Kim Young-joon was a rapist and murderer, so no one is too upset when he becomes one of the serial killer's victims.
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* TantrumThrowing: Byeong-cheol throws a tennis ball at Jung-woo. He misses and [[EpicFail hits his favourite potted plant instead]].
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* CriminalMindGames: The serial killer sends warning letters before killing his victims.

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* CriminalMindGames: The Before killing his victims the serial killer sends warning letters before killing his victims.to Ji-wook.
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* GenderBlenderName: Jamie is a woman.
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Not to be confused with [[Webcomic/{{Awaken}} the webcomic of the same name]].
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* CriminalMindGames: The serial killer sends warning letters before killing his victims.

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* CreepyChild: The child in the prologue claims to be responsible for everyone in the village going mad and attacking each other, and he doesn't bat an eyelid at seeing people killed in front of him.



* TroublingUnchildlikeBehaviour: The prologue shows a child walking through a burning village and watching the survivors murder each other, apparently unconcerned by the devastation all around him.

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* TroublingUnchildlikeBehaviour: The prologue shows a child walking through a burning village and watching the survivors murder each other, apparently unconcerned by the devastation all around him. Made even creepier when he claims to have caused it all.

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* DissonantSerenity: The child in the prologue stays perfectly calm even though the village is burning, people are killing each other, and a man drops dead right in front of him.



* JumpScare: In the prologue a child opens a door. A man covered in blood jumps out at him then collapses, apparently dead.



* TroublingUnchildlikeBehaviour: The prologue shows a child walking through a burning village and watching the survivors murder each other, apparently unconcerned by the devastation all around them.
* WouldHurtAChild: In the prologue a man sneaks up behind a child and is about to hit them with a rock before someone else intervenes.

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* TroublingUnchildlikeBehaviour: The prologue shows a child walking through a burning village and watching the survivors murder each other, apparently unconcerned by the devastation all around them.
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* WouldHurtAChild: In the prologue a man sneaks up behind a child and is about to hit them him with a rock before someone else intervenes.

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* HarmfulToMinors: In the prologue the people in the village attack and murder each other in front of a child. [[WouldHurtAChild And at least one of them tries to kill the child too.]]



* TroublingUnchildlikeBehaviour: The prologue shows a child walking through a burning village, apparently unconcerned by the devastation all around them.

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* TroublingUnchildlikeBehaviour: The prologue shows a child walking through a burning village, village and watching the survivors murder each other, apparently unconcerned by the devastation all around them.

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Someone is killing people related to a village where a tragic event happened over twenty years ago. Do Jung-Woo and Kong Hye-Won try to uncover the link behind the event and the murders.

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Someone is killing people related to a village where a tragic event happened over twenty years ago. Do Jung-Woo Jung-woo and Kong Hye-Won Hye-won try to uncover the link behind the event and the murders.


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* CreepyCrows: Crows appear in the prologue, watching as the village burns.


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* FreeWheel: A burning wheel is seen rolling along the road in the prologue.


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* TroublingUnchildlikeBehaviour: The prologue shows a child walking through a burning village, apparently unconcerned by the devastation all around them.
* WouldHurtAChild: In the prologue a man sneaks up behind a child and is about to hit them with a rock before someone else intervenes.
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* DistantPrologue: The prologue takes place twenty-eight years before the rest of the series.
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[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/awaken_9.jpg]]

''Awaken'' (낮과 밤, ''Natgwa Bam'', literally "Day and Night") is a 2020-2021 South Korean thriller series starring Namkoong Min, Kim Seol-hyun, Lee Chung-ah and Kim Chang-wan.

Someone is killing people related to a village where a tragic event happened over twenty years ago. Do Jung-Woo and Kong Hye-Won try to uncover the link behind the event and the murders.

The series can be watched [[https://www.viki.com/tv/37479c-awaken on Viki]] with English subtitles.

!!Contains examples of:
* SplitPersonality: Jae-woong has two personalities, one of which is a psychopath.
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