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However, Se-joo is missing and there, he meets his sister Jung Hee-joo (Park Shin-hye), owner of the hostel he stays in and a former guitarist. Both get entangled in a mysterious incidents, and the border between the real world and the AR world built by Se-joo begins to blur.
''Memories of the Alhambra'' is (as of this writing) one of the highest rated Korean dramas in cable television history, and was praised for its creative plot and its unexpected twists. Its title also alludes to Francisco Tárrega's eponymous classical guitar piece "Recuerdos de la Alhambra", which is also a part of the series' original soundtrack. It was co-produced by [[Netflix]], which broadcasts it in the West.
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* [[Beyond the Impossible]]: The reaction Jin-woo and his team back in Korea have to the detail and environmental effects in the game, particularly the moment in the first episode when a Nasrid warrior lands on top of a (real) car and appears to cave it in and shatter its windows.
** Their reaction is more understandable when you learn in the second episode that the electronic contact lens technology on which the game runs ''is months away from commercial release''. How Jung Se-jo even got his hands on the platform to develop for it is a mystery.
* [[Breakable Weapons]]: Jin-woo's Level 1 weapon, the "rusty iron sword", breaks almost every time the Nasrid Warrior defeats him in the first episode, forcing him to return time and time again to the restaurant men's room where it spawns to get another one.
* [[Disappears Into Light]]: Whenever Jin-woo is killed or logs off, the weapon in his hand turns into transparent polygons that break loose and "evaporate", deconstructing the weapon.
* [[Flashback (trope)|Flashback]]/[[Flashforward]]: A signature device -- although there is a core plotline advancing through the episodes, we are also constantly bouncing around past and future, seeing different events, often repeats of the same event from other points of view.
* [[Goggles Do Something Unusual]]: The groundbreaking electronic contact lenses which are used to project the AR content over the player's visual field.
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* [[Hell Hotel]]: Hostel Bonita ''isn't'' one of these -- it's just a somewhat run-down youth hostel -- but Jin-woo, being a very rich businessman used to only the best and most expensive accommodations, clearly ''thinks'' it is.
* [[Heroes Prefer Swords]]: Even though the in-universe game is set after the invention of gunpowder and cannon, the very first weapon Jin-woo is able to find is a rusty iron sword
* [[Holographic Terminal]]: The user interface projected by the game acts like one of these without actually existing outside the image generated by the contact lenses worn by the player.
* [[Jerkass]]/[[Jerkass With a Heart of Gold]]: Yoo Jin-woo comes across as an arrogant bastard at first. It later turns out that while he has a bad temper (and it certainly flared up in episode 1), it appears that he actually likes people who stand up to him and deliberately provokes others to see if they'll rise to the occasion or submit meekly. It's a telling detail that despite his temper and brusque manner, his underlings can get away with things like calling him mean and blunt to his face, or admitting they like seeing him get repeatedly beaten down by a game boss.
* [[Metaphor Is My Middle Name]]: When Cha Hyeung-suk tells him not to be childish in episode 2, Jin-woo responds "'Childish' is my middle name."
* [[Mind Screw]]: By the end of episode 2, you will already be saying "what the ''hell'' is going on here?" Between the flashbacks, the flash-forwards, and the unexplained weirdnesses, this seems to be the series' stock-in-trade.
* [[Mooks]]: The Guards of Aragon in episode 2, at least to Cha Hyeung-suk.
* [[No Body Left Behind]]: Averted by the game, at least for the encounter from episode 1, the Nasrid Warrior. When Jin-woo finally defeats him, the "body" remains, propped up by the fountain where it "died", until he's logged out.
** Played straight in later episodes, such as with the Guards of Aragon defeated by Cha Hyeung-suk who blink out of existence with Jin-woo approaches him.
* [[Oh Crap]]. When Jin-woo learns that the hostel owner he's just verbally eviscerated is the legal guardian of the underage programmer he wants to make a deal with. He recovers quickly, though, and tries to undo the damage with a charm offensive.
* [["The Reason You Suck" Speech]]: Episode 2 has ''three'' of varying degrees, all aimed at Jin-woo (to no one's surprise).
** First, his Business Strategy Director Park Seon-Ho lets him know just how much of an ass he is after learning how quickly he upset Jung Hee-joo, whose good will is critical to their plans, and disputing the spin Jin-woo tries to put on the event.
{{quote|''Your advice wasn't really advice. You make mean, blunt remarks to people's faces.''}}
** Then, when his secretary Seo Jung-hoon shows up in Grenada with a rental car for him, they have a brief conversation where Jung-hoon comments on how rude and unpleasant he can be.
** Finally, Hee-joo herself returns Jin-woo's episode 1 vitriol point-for-point during a phone conversation in an eloquent tirade that leaves him stunned with admiration at her spirit.
* [[Scenery Porn]]: Just about every exterior shot in Granada. This show takes advantage of its location and makes ''every'' exterior shot count.
* [[Split Screen]]: Episode 2 makes clever use of two-way and three-way splits during Hee-joo's rant at Jin-woo over Jung-hoon's cell phone.
* [[Time Skip]]: Episode 2 ends with a jump one year into the future from the events of the rest of the episode.
* [[Training Boss]]: The Nasrid Warrior at the start of the game. Subverted in that Jin-woo can and does lose to him -- dozens of times, almost always losing his weapon in the process and forcing him to start over.
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