Do we know how long ago the sekwang city disaster happened?
In 268 we find out Ms. Goral is from the city and the disaster happened while she was in college/med school, this is the reason she lost contact with her family and her reason for joining daydream
But sekwang city is for some reason connected to jihan village via an old well?
And it’s also connected to cheerful research institute but wasn’t the institute gone ?
Maybe I’m misremembering but I thought the institute closed down and daydream rose from the ashes
Do we know how old daydream is? How long has it been operating?
This whole time I thought the sekwang disaster happened ages ago but at most it’s been like 5 years apparently
Yay backstory but that info is messing with me
(I’m going to give so many inaccurate information right now, just from the top of my head what I can remember (I am too lazy to go back and check everything out). Please correct me if I’m wrong)
I don’t think we were given a concrete time of when exactly the Sekwang Annihilation-sanctioned disaster happened, but as you’ve pointed out it must have happened while Go Yeongeun was at university. There’s also the fact that director Ho is referred to as a young one by director Cheo, that can mean Ho is much younger than her, but could also mean he joined the company very recently, much later than her. So I can’t imagine it having happened more than five years ago. The only real indicator of the time is Go Yeongeun, and everything else is really hard to infer since it was erased from all their memories, and we don’t know how old she is, but she doesn’t even seem to be in her late twenties yet, so…
It is really suspicious how Sekwang city was accessed through an old well in Jisan village, but we were given the explanation it was only even triggered because of the Cheerful Research Institute ID card Kim Soleum had on himself. So far it’s being explained away with that, but there could be more connections between Sekwang Special Metropolitan City and Jisan village we aren’t made aware of.
I think the Cheerful Research Institute is not entirely gone, think it’s mostly been assimilated into DayDream Inc? As a form of Darkness???
I think Cheerful Research Institute and DayDream Inc existed at the same time. Since in the torn off page there was a, “They found us (I assumed it was DayDream Inc, but now that I think about it, don’t think so, at least not only…), and before they could get ahold of Kim Soleum they sent him away to a crowded place right? And while Cheerful Research Institute probably existed before Daydream Inc, I don’t think DayDream rose from its ashes. It seemed more like they picked up what they left and polished it in their own way? Then what exactly was after the Cheerful Research Institute, and how and why did director Cheong know of Kim Soleum’s existence (she’s the only one who knows something about that so far right? So many questions) The overlap between the two is very much existent, but it’s hard to make sense of it’s head or tail, it’s like they’re one thing, at least Daydream side tells you that, but Cheerful Research Institute seemed entirely removed from it.
In the first few chapters (if I’m remembering it right), they mentioned how it was the 17th field operation orientation happening. So I’m assuming it must’ve been around for at least twenty or more years?
Yeah, it’s messing with me too.
I swear there is this time finicky thing going on. Like I swear there is some form of time travel going on, I just can’t prove it.
Okay, so, the Cheerful Research institute scrap of paper Kim Soleum traded at the arm market, only accepted DayDream Inc items (that is so suspicious, why is that), so before Kim Soleum made the trade, according to agent Choi, it had been around for 5 years (and I can’t see any reason why he would lie about that), so if the time travel thing is nonexistent, yet Cheerful Research Institute and Sekwang City are related, and the disaster should of happened at most five years ago, then what are the chances it’s related to Cheerful Research Institutes complete annihilation? Or what if, Cheerful Research Institute manufactured the Sekwang City disaster, only to get caught up in it themselves?
(I know that’s a stretch, not enough proof, but unless there is some form of time travel going on, I can’t think of any other link between all these. Aughhhh. My brain hurts, but in a good way, since it’s really nice how well built the world is, and thus theorizing on it not only feasible, it’s also fun, and how I’m certain there is no plot hole, I’m just not seeing the full picture yet. So thank you again for the ask 😆 I always appreciate it)