On Netflix, the “Korean romantic series” category continues to expand. K-dramas focused on love are numerous on the streaming platform, with titles each more evocative than the last. Hometown Cha-Cha-Cha, Clean With Passion for Now, I will go see you in my next life, Love to Hate You, Love catching up… Fans of the genre are spoiled for choice on Netflix. Like Crash Landing on You, an ideal series to combat back-to-school blues. Or A Time Called You, the brand new Korean romantic series, released on Netflix on Friday, September 8. A time travel story, which will not leave a dry eye among the spectators. Are you ready to go back in time with Jun-hee and Yeon-jun? You will not be disappointed with the trip!
A Time Called You : an audio cassette to go back to 1998
A brilliant thirty-year-old, Jun-hee cannot recover from the death of her love, Yeon-jun, who disappeared in an accident and whose body was never found. This is undoubtedly what prevents the young woman from accepting her death and “to grieve”. Jun-hee lives with her sadness as a roommate and feels like she sees Yeon-jun everywhere… When she receives a mysterious photo, she starts a quest, convinced that her love is still alive. But another package turns her life upside down: thanks to a walkman and an audio cassette, the young woman finds herself projected into the body of Min-ju, a teenager, in 1998. And her best friend, Si-heon, looks exactly like his late love!
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Even though she knows that Yeon-jun was 11 years old in 1998, Si-heon looks strangely like him. Her physique, her voice, her particular culinary tastes… Jun-hee will learn to live in Min-ju’s shoes. The latter’s entourage, and in particular her two friends Si-heon and In-gyu, are intrigued to discover the young girl’s new personality, who seems more assertive and adventurous. Upon learning that Min-ju died in October 1998, Jun-hee will try to save her. While trying to return in 2023.
dark, Dawson, Vortex…The series we thought of while watching A Time Called You
With an extended number of episodes or chapters sometimes longer than our standards, it is not uncommon for Korean romantic series to take time to start. Yet, A Time Called You will engage you and move you, if you like this type of fiction. If Dark And Dawson have, at first glance, nothing to do with each other, A Time Called You skillfully mixes these two genres. Dark, for the temporal aspect, which tends to confuse our brain. Like Jun-hee/Min-ju, Si-heon and In-gyu, we try to untangle the threads of time. In this register, the series also brings to mind Vortex, the France 2 series, also to be seen on Netflix, in which a police officer played by Tomer Sisley accidentally found a time fault allowing him to communicate with his wife who died years earlier (in 1998, in fact, as here). But the friendship that unites the trio and the romantic feelings that animate the young people are reminiscent of Dawson, Joey and Pacey. A Time Called You offers some magnificent moments, in both eras, and moving dramatic scenes. Like when Jun-hee shows us the immensity of her pain, by declaring in the void, to her deceased companion: “If you were going to abandon me like that, you would have been better off never meeting me.” Fans of fiction about time travel (The Time Traveler’s Wife, It was time…) know, it rarely ends well.
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