About A Time Called You
A Time Called You (Korean title Neoui Sigani Naege Dahatda) is a 2023 Netflix Korean time-slip romance directed by Kim Jin-won. The series is a remake of the acclaimed 2019 Taiwanese drama Someday or One Day, transplanting that story's mournful, puzzle-box structure into a South Korean setting that moves between the year 2023 and the late 1990s. Across twelve episodes the show blends melodrama, coming-of-age nostalgia, and a slow-burning mystery built around grief, identity, and the question of whether love can survive being moved through time.
The story follows Han Jun-hee, a woman in present-day 2023 who is still grieving the death of her boyfriend, Koo Yeon-jun, a year after he died. When she mysteriously slips back to 1998, she awakens inside the body of a high-school student named Kwon Min-ju and soon encounters a boy, Nam Si-heon, who bears a striking resemblance to her late partner. As Jun-hee navigates Min-ju's friendships, family, and first love, she becomes convinced that understanding what happened in 1998 may hold the key to her own loss in the present.
Alongside the central romance, the drama threads a darker mystery involving the people surrounding Min-ju and Si-heon, including their warm-hearted friend Jung In-gyu. The series leans on the bittersweet, fated-love tone common to Korean melodrama while keeping its central time-travel logic deliberately ambiguous, inviting viewers to reassemble the timeline as the episodes unfold. It premiered on Netflix in September 2023 and was promoted as a self-contained limited story rather than an ongoing series.