Park Jinyoung and Kim Minju’s Still Shining to Debut on March 6

JTBC’s new drama Still Shining depicts a group of young people who once shared a common world, gradually becoming sources of trust and lights that illuminate each other’s lives over time. Actors Park Jinyoung and Kim Minju star as the protagonists in this youth romance, portraying the subtle shifts in their emotions and the excitement of first love.

The story begins when Yeon Tae Seo transfers to a rural school and first meets Mo Eun Ah. Sitting side by side in class studying and riding bicycles home together, the two exhibit pure, youthful enthusiasm. A narration stating, “It was a time when all I could give was my heart,” further emphasizes the intensity of their youthful emotions. At nineteen, filled with their own worries, the two eventually become each other’s greatest source of comfort.

As they share laughter and fill each other’s days, they even make a promise to “stay together forever.” That vow tightly binds their hearts. However, time begins to shake things up. Yeon Tae Seo confesses, “Parting feels terrifying to me,” while Mo Eun Ah implies they can no longer be together by saying, “Let’s not force your time and my time to align.” Her calmer tone compared to before shows that their hearts are heading in different directions.

In the end, having chosen separate paths, the two go through ten years before meeting again. Even at this reunion, their emotions remain vivid. Yeon Tae Seo expresses his feelings by saying, “She’s the person I liked ten years ago, and those feelings are exactly the same.” This simple yet profound confession reveals that love that once stopped has begun moving again. Unchanged emotions despite the passage of time—this is the core of Still Shining.

The future of these two characters, who embody both the light of the past and the tenderness of the present, lies within the question posed in the title: “Can we still shine on each other as we once were, when we were everything to one another?” Still Shining explores this very question.

Still Shining will air episodes one and two back-to-back at 8:50 p.m. on March 6.