you watch
you'll love
2020
16 eps
SBS
Sci Fi Thriller Romance
Time Travel Mystery
A detective discovers time travel exists and that his murdered mother traveled from the future to give birth to him.
If you loved Someday or One Day's time travel used to explore what we'd change — and what we can't, Alice delivers exactly that. The emotional territory — time travel and fate — is the same. The pacing is the kind of suspense that makes you forget to breathe.
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you'll love
2023
16 eps
KBS
Romance Thriller Sci Fi
Time Travel Mystery Solving
Two strangers travel back to 1987 and must prevent a serial murder while hiding their identities.
If you loved Someday or One Day's time travel used to explore what we'd change — and what we can't, My Perfect Stranger delivers exactly that. The emotional territory — time travel and fate — is the same. Same mysterious and suspenseful energy throughout.
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you'll love
2021
16 eps
tvN
Romance Mystery Drama
Slow Burn Mystery Romance
A hotel concierge who learned to hide pain behind a perfect smile and a psychiatrist who moved in to help trauma survivors find each other in an apartment building where a murder m…
Both are built around questions of who you really are under the person you've been told to be. Same melancholic and mysterious energy throughout.
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you'll love
2002
20 eps
KBS2
Romance Melodrama Drama
Look Alike Lover First Love Returns
A woman falls in love with a mysterious young man who appears in her life twenty years after her first love died in a tragic accident — identical in face and manner, ignorant of th…
Both are built around fate as both comfort and cruelty — the sense that this was always coming. Same melancholic and romantic energy throughout.
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you'll love
2023
12 eps
Netflix
Romance Fantasy Melodrama
Time Slip Doppelgangers
A grieving young woman is transported back to 1998 and inhabits the body of a girl who looks exactly like her — and meets a boy who looks exactly like her dead boyfriend. A time-sl…
Like Someday or One Day, it leans hard into body swap adjacent. At its core, it's about grief handled honestly enough to make you feel it. Same melancholic and mysterious energy throughout.
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2018
16 eps
OCN
Crime Thriller Sci Fi
Time Travel Fish Out Of Water
A meticulous 2018 detective is hit by a car and wakes up in 1988 as a young cop in a rural city. Trapped between a time he knows nothing about and a case he can't solve, he must fi…
If you loved Someday or One Day's time travel used to explore what we'd change — and what we can't, Life on Mars (Korean) delivers exactly that. The emotional territory — time travel and identity — is the same. Same mysterious and suspenseful energy throughout.
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you'll love
2020
16 eps
SBS
Thriller Mystery Sci Fi
Time Loop Adjacent Ensemble Mystery
Ten strangers receive a mysterious invitation to travel back exactly one year in time — a chance to undo whatever destroyed their lives. What they don't realize until it's too late…
Both navigate the same emotional territory: time travel and identity. Same mysterious and suspenseful energy throughout.
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you'll love
2020
16 eps
MBC
Thriller Mystery Sci Fi
Time Slip Unlikely Partnership
A man in 2020 and a woman in 2019 are mysteriously connected by a one-minute daily window across time, working together across the temporal gap to change both their fates.
Both are built around fate as both comfort and cruelty — the sense that this was always coming. Same mysterious energy throughout.
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you'll love
2020
32 eps
MBC
Romance Mystery Drama
Star Crossed Lovers Memory Loss
A news anchor with hyperthymesia who remembers everything meets a top actress who has lost her memories. As they fall for each other, they discover a tragic connection linking thei…
Both are built around fate as both comfort and cruelty — the sense that this was always coming. Same melancholic and mysterious energy throughout.
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you'll love
2021
6 eps
Apple TV+
Sci Fi Mystery Thriller
Brain Sync Grieving Scientist
Ko Sewon is a neuroscientist who developed the technology to sync his brain with the recently deceased — absorbing their memories and emotions to solve mysteries. When his own fami…
Both are built around grief handled honestly enough to make you feel it.