About Miss Night and Day
Miss Night and Day is a South Korean fantasy comedy that premiered on JTBC in June 2024 and streamed internationally on Netflix. The series follows Lee Mi-jin, a sharp but perpetually unemployed woman in her late thirties who, after an encounter on the night of a meteor shower, is struck by a bizarre curse. From sunrise to sunset she inhabits the body of a woman in her fifties, while at night she returns to her true age. The premise turns a single supernatural conceit into a workplace comedy about ageism, second chances, and the gap between how the world treats us and who we feel ourselves to be.
Forced to navigate two lives at once, Mi-jin lands a position at a local district prosecutors office, where her older daytime self is hired as a support staffer while her younger nighttime self quietly pursues her own ambitions. Her supervisor is Gye Ji-woong, a meticulous and rule-bound investigator whose buttoned-up exterior gradually softens as he is drawn into the mystery surrounding his new colleague. The show mines steady comedy from Mi-jin scrambling to keep her two identities from colliding, even as the people around her begin to sense that something does not add up.
Anchored by Lee Jung-eun and Jung Eun-ji splitting a single role across two ages, the drama balances broad slapstick with a sincere message about the value placed on women as they grow older. Reviewers highlighted the chemistry between the leads and the way the fantasy framework let the series comment on workplace prejudice without losing its light touch. Across sixteen episodes the curse becomes less a gimmick than a lens, asking whether confidence, competence, and the right to be seen should ever expire with age.
