Line #51 Series/Awaken


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3	''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.
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5	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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7	The series can be watched [[https://www.viki.com/tv/37479c-awaken on Viki]] with English subtitles.
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9	Not to be confused with [[Webcomic/{{Awaken}} the webcomic of the same name]].
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11	!!Contains examples of:
12	* AMinorKidroduction: The children in the prologue grow up to be [[spoiler: Jamie and Jung-woo]]. Another child shown in flashbacks grows up to be [[spoiler: Jae-woong]].
13	* 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?"
14	* AssholeVictim: The serial killer's victims are thoroughly unpleasant people, so no one is too upset at their deaths.
15	** Kim Young-joon was a rapist and murderer.
16	** Park Kyu-tae was a psychopath who enjoyed beating people to death.
17	** Baek Seung-jae held drug-filled parties where eight people died and many more were injured.
18	** Choi Yong-suk was a rapist.
19	** Son Min-ho experimented on people in White Night Village.
20	* 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.
21	* CatapultNightmare: Jamie flings herself upright after a nightmare about White Night Village.
22	* 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.
23	* CreepyChild: The child in the prologue (later known as [[spoiler: Jung-woo]]) 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.
24	* CreepyCrows: Crows appear in the prologue, watching as the village burns.
25	* CriminalMindGames: Before killing his victims the serial killer sends warning letters to Ji-wook.
26	* DeadlyNosebleed: A child develops a nosebleed after being injected with experimental drugs. They die shortly afterwards.
27	* DeathOfAChild: In a flashback Jung-woo sees a child's body being carried away.
28	* DisneyVillainDeath: Kim Young-joon dies by being pushed off a building.
29	* 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.
30	* DistantPrologue: The prologue takes place twenty-eight years before the rest of the series.
31	* DramaticDrop [=/=] SlowMotionDrop: Jamie drops her cup and knocks her chair over when she regains some of her memories. Both fall in slow motion.
32	* FailedASpotCheck: 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.
33	* FakingTheDead: [[spoiler: Jung-woo]] fakes his death in the final episode.
34	* FauxFluency: Jamie's English is much more stilted than you'd expect from someone who grew up in America.
35	* FreeWheel: A burning wheel is seen rolling along the road in the prologue.
36	* GenderBlenderName: Jamie is a woman.
37	* 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.]]
38	* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Park Kyu-tae was killed by his own dogs, which he used to torture people.
39	* ImprovisedWeapon: Jung-woo stabs Gong Il-do with a fountain pen.
40	* JumpScare: In the prologue a child opens a door. A man covered in blood jumps out at him then collapses, apparently dead.
41	* 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, blows up his house, and he still survives.
42	* LaserGuidedAmnesia: Jamie lost all her memories of White Night Village after she escaped it.
43	* MissedHimByThatMuch: Hye-won comes on the scene ''seconds'' after Jamie gets kidnapped. If she'd been just a bit faster she would have seen what was happening, but instead she's just in time to see the kidnapper drive away.
44	* NoOneCouldSurviveThat: A burning building collapses with Jung-woo inside. Everyone assumes he's dead. Of course he survived.
45	* NoSenseOfDirection: Jung-woo. Jamie learns this the hard way when he gets both of them lost.
46	* [[OminousLatinChanting Ominous Korean Chanting]]: Shows up on the soundtrack occasionally.
47	* PlayingWithSyringes: The children at White Night Village were experimented on by Son Min-ho and his team.
48	* PoeticSerialKiller: The serial killer's victims are all criminals, and his warning messages show he kills people in ironic ways.
49	* RailroadTracksOfDoom: Choi Yong-suk dies by refusing to get off the train tracks when a train is approaching.
50	* RedHerring: The evidence points to [[spoiler: Jung-woo]] being the serial killer. He's arrested, and then Lee Ji-wook is told about another murder that [[spoiler: Jung-woo]] couldn't be involved in.
51	* SecretlyDying: [[spoiler: Jung-woo]] is terminally ill. The sweets he's constantly eating are actually medicine to hide his illness.
52	* ShipperOnDeck: Seok-pil and Ji-wan ship Jung-woo and Jamie.
53	* SplitPersonality: Jae-woong has two personalities, one of which is a psychopath [[spoiler: who's the serial killer]].
54	* SuperDrowningSkills: Baek Seung-jae drowns in a shallow pool. This is one of the reasons Jung-woo knows his death was murder, not suicide.
55	* SurprisinglyHappyEnding: [[spoiler: The people responsible for White Night Village get their LaserGuidedKarma. Jung-woo fakes his death but still checks up on his former teammates.]]
56	* TantrumThrowing: Byeong-cheol throws a tennis ball at Jung-woo. He misses and [[EpicFail hits his favourite potted plant instead]].
57	* 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.
58	* WhamShot: Lee Ji-wook sees someone in the serial killer's lair. He zooms in and sees [[spoiler: it's Jung-woo]].
59	* WouldHurtAChild:
60	** In the prologue a man sneaks up behind a child and is about to hit him with a rock before someone else intervenes.
61	** Son Min-ho and his team experimented on the children in White Night Village and killed many of them.
62	** As a child Jae-woong poisoned a group of men.

Context Series / Awaken