See You In My 19th Life (2023) [+]
Jul 10 2024
See You in My 19th Life is a Korean romance/drama running 12 episodes.
Yoon Joo-won (Kim Si-a) is a young girl who recently started remembering her seventeen past lives. This has made her a weirdly mature and world-weary 12-year old. But she befriends 6-year old (or so) Moon Seo-ha (Jung Hyeon-jun) and becomes enamored. Unfortunately on his birthday they are involved in a car accident and she dies.
On to her 19th life when a young Ban Ji-eum (Park So-yi) starts remembering. Unfortunately this time her family is one where mom ran away and dad exploits her talents. She runs away and finds Kim Ae-kyung (Cha Chung-hwa), who is the now middle-aged niece of her 17th life when she was Ae-kyung's beloved uncle. Ji-eum convinces Ae-kyung of her reincarnation and ends up living with Ae-kyung.
Fast forward and now recent college grad Ji-eum (Shin Hye-sun) is ready to find Seo-ha (Ahn Bo-hyun, who I've been watching in Military Prosecutor Doberman) and kindle an adult romance...
The first episode is setup which is somewhat interesting. Then once the adult Ji-eum comes on the scene it gets really interesting as she is a driven character who is superbly skilled due to her past lives and supremely confident that she will win Seo-ha's love. It's the female lead that initiates the romance which I guess is not that unusual in K-dramas but still nice nonetheless.
The second half gets a bit more muddled as we find out that there is a reason, which Ji-eum doesn't know, that she keeps remembering her past lives. Also turns out that re-establishing relationships with previous life people ends up doing those people harm due to mystical karma. In order to save her loved ones: Ae-jyunh, Seo-ha, and her Joo-won's younger sister Cho-won (Ha Yoon-kyung, who played the lead's best friend in Extraordinary Attorney Woo).
I like hyper-competent characters who know a lot more than they should. Vaguely reminiscent of Star Trek scenarios where Kirk and Spock go back in time and they become advanced knowledge visitors to distant (i.e. modern-day) Earth. When those secrets are revealed is great tension and more so when the audience knows the secret.
Anyway, I really liked this series and recommend it.
Yoon Joo-won (Kim Si-a) is a young girl who recently started remembering her seventeen past lives. This has made her a weirdly mature and world-weary 12-year old. But she befriends 6-year old (or so) Moon Seo-ha (Jung Hyeon-jun) and becomes enamored. Unfortunately on his birthday they are involved in a car accident and she dies.
On to her 19th life when a young Ban Ji-eum (Park So-yi) starts remembering. Unfortunately this time her family is one where mom ran away and dad exploits her talents. She runs away and finds Kim Ae-kyung (Cha Chung-hwa), who is the now middle-aged niece of her 17th life when she was Ae-kyung's beloved uncle. Ji-eum convinces Ae-kyung of her reincarnation and ends up living with Ae-kyung.
Fast forward and now recent college grad Ji-eum (Shin Hye-sun) is ready to find Seo-ha (Ahn Bo-hyun, who I've been watching in Military Prosecutor Doberman) and kindle an adult romance...
The first episode is setup which is somewhat interesting. Then once the adult Ji-eum comes on the scene it gets really interesting as she is a driven character who is superbly skilled due to her past lives and supremely confident that she will win Seo-ha's love. It's the female lead that initiates the romance which I guess is not that unusual in K-dramas but still nice nonetheless.
The second half gets a bit more muddled as we find out that there is a reason, which Ji-eum doesn't know, that she keeps remembering her past lives. Also turns out that re-establishing relationships with previous life people ends up doing those people harm due to mystical karma. In order to save her loved ones: Ae-jyunh, Seo-ha, and her Joo-won's younger sister Cho-won (Ha Yoon-kyung, who played the lead's best friend in Extraordinary Attorney Woo).
I like hyper-competent characters who know a lot more than they should. Vaguely reminiscent of Star Trek scenarios where Kirk and Spock go back in time and they become advanced knowledge visitors to distant (i.e. modern-day) Earth. When those secrets are revealed is great tension and more so when the audience knows the secret.
Anyway, I really liked this series and recommend it.