Time Travel & Loops

Kim Hee Woo (Lee Joon Gi) came from nothing to become a top lawyer, transforming himself from a high schooler with poor grades to an esteemed public prosecutor. But tragedy strikes as he’s investigating a politician suspected of corruption… and a mysterious man kills him. However, instead of dying, he wakes up as his younger self – a college student with all his "future" memories intact. Determined to uncover the truth behind his murder, he restarts his academic journey. Along the way, he meets Kim Hee Ah (Kim Ji Eun), the super-intelligent youngest daughter of a powerful business family, and they begin investigating together. When their journey brings them to a shady cabal of rich power brokers, will they find the answers they’re after – or further mortal danger? Based on a web novel by Lee Hae Nal, this 2022 South Korean drama series was directed by Han Chul Soo and Kim Yong Min.

Again My Life

⚖️Avengers of Time⏱

Tencent

When Li Shi Qing (Zhao Jin Mai) awoke that fateful morning, she had no idea her life was about to change forever. Going about her day as usual, Shi Qing boarded the bus without ever giving her actions a second thought. But when the bus she was on was involved in a horrendous accident, Shi Qing had only seconds to realize that her life was about to end. Or was it?

Waking up that very same morning, going through the exact same motions, boarding the same bus, and dying in the same accident, over and over again, Shi Qing soon realizes that she has become trapped in a never-ending time loop. Desperate to find a way to escape not only the loop but her tragic fate, Shi Qing inadvertently drags fellow bus passenger, Xiao He Yun (Bai Jing Ting), into the loop with her. Together they try to find a way to alter their fate, by ensuring the bus arrives safely at its destination but attempting to do so proves anything but easy.

Just as Shi Qing and He Yun attempt to free themselves from their endless time loop, two other individuals find themselves stuck in a loop of their own. Connected by forces none can understand, the four trapped souls attempt to solve the riddles surrounding their mysterious fates. Will they be able to unravel the clues surrounding their peculiar fates or will they be stuck in these endless loops forever?

Adapted from the novel, “Kai Duan,”&nbsp;by Qi Dao Jun, “Reset” is a 2022 Chinese sci-fi thriller drama directed by Sun Mo Long.

Reset

The Unstoppable Team 🚃

Living a precarious life as a part-timer at a convenience store, Ae Ri works to support her mother, who is on a waiting list for a heart transplant. Unfortunately, her mother's physical condition worsens, leading her to forgo the long-awaited opportunity for the transplant, yet just like that, her mother disappears. Things were already chaotic enough for Ae Ri, and then she receives a phone call from a strange man claiming he's 31 days in the future.

Kairos

⏱ The Chronos Team ⏱

A male chef who works at the South Korean presidential residence is transported from the present day to Korea’s past, where his soul ends up in the body of queen-to-be Kim So Yong (Shin Hae Sun) shortly before her marriage to King Cheol Jong (Kim Jung Hyun)! As Queen So Yong gets acquainted with her new life, she realizes that conspiracy is afoot in the kingdom, as the real Kim So Yong had an mysterious accident before the wedding and a scheming matriarch is trying to take advantage of King Cheol Jong’s kind nature, although he has secrets of his own. Can So Yong help right the wrongs going on in Joseon? This 2020 South Korean period drama series was directed by Yoon Sung Sik and Jang Yang Ho.

Mr. Queen

The Royal Team 👑

After being found in 918, the kingdom of Goryeo faced a critical existential crisis when the powerful Yuan dynasty tried to subjugate them. In the fictional setting of this drama, a warrior living in the timeline of Goryeo meets a plastic surgeon living in the present day. The plastic surgeon gets kidnapped by the warrior who got an order from the king to find a doctor who can cure the fatally injured queen. The two individuals who were not meant to coexist are brought together to fight their way through the ordeals on the land of Goryeo. The warrior makes a promise that he will return her to her world, but a scheming royal advisor persuades the king to force the surgeon to stay as she can be useful to him. There, the surgeon falls in love with the warrior who is the leader of the royal guard. In this era of change and chaos, love that transcends time and space blooms.

The Great Doctor

The Faith Team

Oh Ha Rin (Yeri) is a 28-year-old woman whose heart still yearns for her first love and closest friend Ji Seo Jun (Hongseok). They were once as close as could be, and both had strong romantic feelings for one another. And exactly a decade ago, on the fateful day when she turned 18, she had resolved to finally come clean about her the way she felt about him...only to discover that he had taken his own life. She later discovered a note where he too confessed his romantic feelings for her.

Now, 10 years on, she looks back at the tragic day. And while looking through his belongings, she happens upon a pile of eight imperviously unseen photos Ji Seo Jun had kept hidden away. Distraught by the painful memories, Oh Ha Rin burns one of the photos – only to find herself back in high school at the exact moment at which the photo was taken. Realizing that she has been gifted the power to travel back in time, she resolves to find a way to save Ji Seo Jun. But she must be prudent: With every photo she burns, she loses another chance to save his life!

“Blue Birthday” is a 2021 South Korean Viki Original drama series that was directed by Park Dan Hee.

Blue Birthday

💙 Blue Birthday 🎂

Fifteen years ago, fate brought Mu Xiao Ru (Wen Mo Yan) and Yan Sui (Sky Li) together. Though their meeting was brief, both were left with memories that would stay with them the rest of their lives, and Xiao Ru was left with a little something more. Picking up a strange bracelet, Xiao Ru had no idea that in doing so, she would ultimately alter not only her fate, but the fate of countless universes as well.&nbsp;

Still fascinated by the bracelet she found more than a decade ago, Xiao Ru keeps it with her always. Completely unaware of the unique power it possesses, Xiao Ru might have been ignorant of that power forever, had she not wandered into a bookstore one fateful day. Activated by a mysterious flame, the bracelet pulls Xiao Ru into not just one parallel universe, but many. Traveling between these strange new worlds, Xiao Ru soon meets the very same Yan Sui, who she met all those years ago. Shocked by this unexpected meeting, Yan Sui initially tries to brush off this chance encounter. But it doesn’t take long for him to realize that the fate of these worlds is directly connected to Xiao Ru’s sudden appearance.

Determined to save the worlds from the clutches of a growing evil and help Xiao Ru get back home, Yan Sui and Xiao Ru embark on a journey that will literally change all of their lives forever. But the evil that hunts them is relentless and it soon becomes apparent that they are quickly running out of time. Will good ultimately triumph over evil?

An epic adventure through multiple worlds, “Serendipity” is a 2021 fantasy adventure romance drama directed by Liu Ding Ye.

Serendipity

✧ Gᴜᴀʀᴅɪᴀɴs ᴏғ ᴛʜᴇ Jᴀᴅᴇ Tᴇᴀᴍ ✧

Dan Bi, a senior in high school who gave up on mathematics, runs away to the Joseon era on the day of SAT. And the very day that determines her whole life, when her life is at stake, someone enters her life with love. In Joseon, she witnesses and experiences that the agony she feels has been continued throughout history, and it isn\u2019t just hers but that of everyone. In that process, she feels comforted and consoled. This story is here to cheer up and comfort those who are striving hard to survive in the hectic and competitive modern day.

Splash Splash Love

The Splashers

It's the year 2050, and time travel exists thanks to Alice, the mechanism through which the intriguing practice is made possible. But a rumor based on a prophecy being spread about time travel coming to an end. When You Min Hyuk and Yoon Tae Yi are sent to the year 1992 to find out about the prophecy, Tae Yi realizes she's pregnant and decides to stay in the past by herself. She changes her name to Park Sun Young and eventually gives birth to a beautiful son named Park Jin Gyeom, whose mental health suffers due to radiation exposure. Fast forward to the year 2010, and Sun Young is murdered by someone. Ten years after her death, her son Jin Gyeom is on a mission to find who is responsible for his mother's death. But while searching, he runs into Yoon Tae Yi, a physics professor who looks exactly like this mother.

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