Can we talk about all the social commentary Move to Heaven did? Let me break it down by episodes:
Episode 1 (Teenage factory worker who died alone in his cheap apartment):
School abandonment due to lack of funds
Ableism (the boss trying to take advantage of the parents' deafness)
Episode 2 & 3 (Elderly woman dies and a stash of cash is found)
Elderly abuse (negligence and abandonment fall under this category)
I don't remember the exact term, but taking advantage of the benefits of guardianship.
Grief and understanding of death.
Episode 4 (Woman murdered by "boyfriend")
Under the past point, missing the signs of abuse
Episode 5 (Doctor and Cellist)
Homosexuality and homophobia
Learning to accept yourself
Shame and fear of being disowned
Bravery (as in, it comes in different shapes)
Episode 6 (elderly couple commits double suicide)
Once again, elderly abuse.
The importance of small acts of kindness
Fear of walking the last walk alone (the reason why the crew was so desperate to find people to mourn the couple)
Episode 7 (Sang Gu and Kim Su Cheol's story)
The real meaning of living (was Su Cheol still living or just a body connected to a machine)
Gambling and underground fighting, and how difficult it is to break the cycle
Guilt (Sang Gu feels guilty over Su Cheol's death)
Episode 8 (a walk down memory lane)
The mall accident (a very important part of Korea's history)
Once again, regrets and lifetime regrets
Episode 9 (Kang So Min search for his birth mother)
The dangers of international adoptions
Cultural feeling of not belonging anywhere
Unspoken misunderstandings
Episode 10 (Geu Ru's struggle to move on)
Sign language as an alternative to verbal communication (I had never seen this been brought up in media)
Family is something that you form, not something that's already there
I missed some things, and failed to properly explain some others, but this is roughly what I gathered
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