Korean Time Travel
Includes Time Travel/Parallel Worlds Tv Shows/Films.
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1. God's Gift: 14 Days
Korean Drama - 2014, 16 episodes
Kim Soo Hyun is a mother whose young daughter Han Saet Byul gets kidnapped and murdered. Due to a mysterious event where time was turned back exactly 14 days before the event, Soo Hyun is given a second chance to expose the kidnapping plot and save her daughter before she dies all over again. Helping her is Ki Dong Chan, a former cop turned private investigator who seems to have his own stake in the whole situation. As Soo Hyun and Dong Chan race against the clock, new light is shed on the crimes, and they uncover secrets far more treacherous than Soo Hyun could have ever imagined.
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2. Tunnel
Korean Drama - 2017, 16 episodes
In 1986, Park Gwang Ho works as an excellent and enthusiastic detective. His life changes when he’s pursuing leads in a serial homicide case and then passes through a time portal, which transports him to present day Seoul. He meets a new partner Kim Sun Jae, an elite detective who happens to be a bit eccentric, but is one highly skilled investigator. The detective duo will also find help in psychology professor, Shin Jae Yi.
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3. Kairos
Korean Drama - 2020, 16 episodes
Ae Ri, a struggling part-timer supporting her ailing mother, faces turmoil when her mother foregoes a long-awaited heart transplant and mysteriously disappears. Amid the chaos, Ae Ri receives a call from Seo Jin, a man claiming to be from 31 days in the future, pleading for her help. Seo Jin, once a successful construction company director, is shattered by his daughter's kidnapping and his wife's suicide. Desperate to undo his losses, he strikes a deal to restore everything—with Ae Ri's help—calling her at precisely 10:33.
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4. Tomorrow with You
Korean Drama - 2017, 16 episodes
Dropped, won’t bother rating.
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5. Nine: Nine Times Time Travel
Korean Drama - 2013, 20 episodes
Park Sun Woo works as an anchorman at a TV broadcasting station. He is in love with news reporter Joo Min Young, who is bright and honest. Park Sun Woo then obtains 9 incense items, which allows him to go back 20 years in time. Sun Woo travels to the past in an attempt to keep his family safe in order to change the world he lives in today. However, this is not without consequences for his actions in the past affects the lives of many in the present, including his crush.
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6. Reborn Rich
Korean Drama - 2022, 16 episodes
Yoon Hyun Woo is a devoted, hard-working, and loyal secretary to the Soonyang chaebol family, which runs the lucrative Soonyang Group business empire, founded by Jin Yang Cheol. During a power struggle between Jin Yang Cheol's children for control of the empire, Hyun Woo is ruthlessly betrayed and killed under the orders of an unknown member of the chaebol family. Miraculously he wakes up as a kid inside the body of the youngest member of the family – Jin Do Jun. After he realizes what has happened, Yoon Hyun Wo plots to use his new “identity” to formulate a hostile takeover of the group – and punish the people who killed him. But, will the cold-blooded and money-hungry CEO of Soonyang Group, one who firmly believes in right of primogeniture, be so easy to win over or conquer? Will Hyun Woo be able to wrest the reins from Jin Yang Cheol's children? And what role will be played in all this by a dogged public prosecutor named Seo Min Young, nicknamed “Soonyang Group Grim Reaper”?
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7. Grid
Korean Drama - 2022, 10 episodes
Dropped won’t bother rating
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8. The King: Eternal Monarch
Korean Drama - 2020, 16 episodes
Lee Gon is the third Korean emperor of his generation. His citizens regard him as the perfect leader. But behind this flawless appearance, hides a deep wound. When he was eight years old, his father was murdered before his eyes following a coup. Today, instead of respecting his filial duty, he prefers to escape the palace to attend university conferences. During one of his escapades, he sees himself propelled into a parallel world where he meets Jeong Tae Eul, an inspector with whom he teams up with to defeat the criminals but also close the door between their two worlds.
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9. Twinkling Watermelon
Korean Drama - 2023, 16 episodes
In 2023, high school student Eun Gyeol, a CODA with a passion for music, leads a double life as a model pupil by day and a guitarist by night. When he discovers a mysterious music store, he's unexpectedly transported back to 1995, where he meets his father, Ha I Chan, as a high schooler. I Chan doesn't recognize him and is infatuated with a cellist, Se Gyeong, not Eun Gyeol's mother, Cheong A. To set things right, Eun Gyeol joins a band led by I Chan, hoping to reunite his future parents and return to the present.
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10. 365: Repeat the Year
Korean Drama - 2020, 24 episodes
A story where ten people get the chance to go back in time by one year, but unexpectedly mysterious situations start to arise when their fates are changed and twisted in the process.
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11. Again My Life
Korean Drama - 2022, 16 episodes
Kim Hui U rises from a low-ranking high schooler to a public prosecutor, only to be killed during an investigation into political corruption. Miraculously, he is revived and must relive his university years while uncovering the truth behind his death. Alongside Kim Hui A, a brilliant young woman and daughter of a powerful business family, he delves into a conspiracy involving wealthy power brokers.
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12. Mr. Queen
Korean Drama - 2020, 20 episodes
Jang Bong Hwan, a South Korean chef, ends up in the body of Queen Kim So Yong after a serious accident, transporting him to Korea’s past. Queen So Yong’s husband, King Cheol Jong, is merely a figurehead, with power being wielded by his mother-in-law, Queen Sun Won, and her brother, Kim Jwa Geun. As Queen So Yong, Jang Bong Hwan uncovers dark secrets about her seemingly gentle husband.
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13. A Time Called You
Korean Drama - 2023, 12 episodes
Han Jun Hee's boyfriend Koo Yeon Jun died one year ago. She still hasn't gotten over his death and misses him a lot. One day, she somehow travels back in time to the year 1998 and finds herself as high school student Kwon Min Joo. There, she meets high school student Nam Si Heon. She is surprised to see how much Nam Si Heon resembles her late boyfriend Koo Yeon Jun. Nam Si Heon is outgoing and attractive; girls adore him. His best friend Jung In Kyu develops a crush on Kwon Min Joo.
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14. Splash Splash Love
Korean Drama - 2015, 2 episodes
Dan Bi is a high school senior who has given up on math. On the day she is about to take the KSAT for college, she is transported back into the past during a freak rain shower. She finds herself hundreds of years in the past at the height of the Joseon Kingdom, which is suffering from a severe drought. She encounters King Lee Do who yearns to learn advanced mathematics and falls in love with him. This is a romance that transcends space and time with two lovers who come to know each other on a deeper level.
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15. The Judge Returns
Korean Drama - 2026, 14 episodes
Despite coming from a lower-income family and attending a non-prestigious university, Lee Han Yeong longed to rise in the judicial ranks. When he married the daughter of Haenal Law Firm's CEO, he also began a working relationship with her father, using his position as a judge for the firm's benefit. However, as the years went by, Han Yeong's guilty conscience grew stronger, and he eventually defied his orders, sentencing a corrupt chairman to 10 years in prison, only for Han Yeong himself to end up killed. Miraculously, he wakes up to find himself ten years in the past with all his memories intact, and realizes that he has been given a second chance to make things right. With the help of prosecutor Kim Jin A, Han Yeong strives to deliver justice, even in the toughest of times.
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16. Lovely Runner
Korean Drama - 2024, 16 episodes
In the glitzy realm of stardom, Ryu Seon Jae shines as a top-tier celebrity, captivating the spotlight since his debut. Despite the facade of a perfect life, the demanding nature of the entertainment industry has left him utterly exhausted. Im Sol, an ardent admirer, holds an affectionate love for Ryu Seon Jae. A childhood accident derailed her dreams, yet the solace found in Ryu Seon Jae's music on the radio transformed her into an unwavering fan. The narrative takes a poignant turn when Im Sol, reeling from the breaking news of Ryu Seon Jae's tragic demise, experiences a miraculous twist of fate. Transported back 15 years into the past, she confronts Ryu Seon Jae in his 19-year-old high school self. Im Sol grapples with the formidable challenge of altering the trajectory of his future, driven by an unyielding determination to avert the impending tragedy.
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17. Miraculous Brothers
Korean Drama - 2023, 16 episodes
A mystery drama about warm friendship and humanity unfolds when Dong Joo, a passionate young man who only has debts, meets Kang San. Yook Dong Ju is an aspiring writer with an ambitious dream of becoming a best-selling author someday. A disharmonious brotherhood begins when a mysterious, unidentified boy, Kang San, falls into his life. Kang San has amnesia and can't even remember his own name, but he has the special ability to hear other people's hearts.
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18. Welcome 2 Life
Korean Drama - 2019, 32 episodes
“Welcome 2 Life” is a fantasy drama that will tell the story about a selfish lawyer who helps people who want to take advantage of the law. One day, he gets sucked into a parallel universe due to an unfortunate accident and begins to live a completely new life as an upright prosecutor.
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19. Will You Be There?
Korean Movie - 2016
Su Hyeon comes across magical pills that allow him to go back and forth in time. 30 years earlier, a young Su Hyeon meets his future self and learns that his girlfriend will soon die because of him. In order to save her, the two Su Hyeons try to change the past, but a completely new and unexpected past is formed, which leads to a new future.
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20. Time Renegades
Korean Movie - 2016
1983: Ji Hwan, a high school music teacher, is soon to wed his colleague and girlfriend, Yoon Jeong. Yoon Jeong becomes involved in a case and Ji Hwan attempts to protect her. Moments later, he is fighting for his life after he is stabbed by a mugger. 2015: Police detective Geon Woo is shot by a suspect. The two men who live 30 years apart, fight for their lives on the same day, at the same hospital. As they come back from the brink of death, the two men begin to see through each other’s eyes in their dreams. Gun Woo learns about a case that took place in the past from Ji Hwan. Gun Woo also meets So Eun and, together, they go after the case that took place in the past.
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21. Il Mare
Korean Movie - 2000
Han Seong Hyeon, who just moved into "Il Mare", receives a strange letter. The letter is from a young woman in the year 1999, two years from the present. Her predictions about the past are amazingly accurate. Her warning about a flurry of snow on a certain day in January of 1998 and the ensuing flu virus turns out to be true. Kim Eun Ju is convinced that her letter has traveled back in time to December of 1997 and starts writing regularly to her newfound pen pal. Professional voice actress Eun Ju asks Seong Hyeon to find her long-lost cassette recorder at a train station. Seong Hyeon goes to the train station and gets a glimpse of Eun Ju, who, of course, has no idea who he is
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22. Queen and I
Korean Drama - 2012, 16 episodes
Kim Bung Do is a scholar who had supported the reinstatement of Queen In Hyeon when Jang Hui Bin's schemes resulted in her being deposed and replaced as King Seok Jong's queen consort. He travels 300 years into the future of modern Seoul and meets Choi Hui Jin, a no-name actress who is expecting a career renaissance through her role as Queen In Hyeon in a TV drama
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23. The Great Doctor
Korean Drama - 2012, 24 episodes
A 21st-century plastic surgeon, Eun Su, gets kidnapped and brought 700 years into the past for her healing powers. Goryeo era bodyguard to the king, General Choi Yeong, is smart but a little naive; he almost never smiles. He faces conflicts with the female doctor, Eun Su, but soon feels attracted to her.
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24. One More Time
Korean Drama - 2016, 8 episodes
Yoo Tan is the leader and vocalist of an indie band called One More Time, a band he started with his childhood friends ten years ago. The indie band flourished for a while even boldly refusing to succumb to the establishment at one point. But Tan is getting older, the popularity of his band is dwindling, and life isn’t getting any easier financially, so he eventually signs with a music label. While enduring the difficult conditions inherent at a major music label, an unforeseeable event takes place sweeping Tan up in it: An unwanted time leap which allows him to journey back in time to regain his girlfriend.
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25. Blue Birthday
Korean Drama - 2021, 16 episodes
A fantasy romance drama in which Oh Ha Rin will revisit the past through mysterious photos left by her first love, Ji Seo Jun, who died on her birthday 10 years ago. He had resolved to confess to his childhood friend since elementary school but he ended up taking his own life, much to her shock and horror. He was about to confess to her when he met his sudden death in the photography room.
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26. Marry Him If You Dare
Korean Drama - 2013, 16 episodes
Set in the world of television broadcasting, Na Mi Rae travels back in time to prevent her 32-year-old self from marrying news anchor, Kim Shin, thus sending her past self down a different path and enabling her to pursue the things she really wanted in life.
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27. My First Love
Korean Drama - 2018, 10 episodes
A man named Sin U regrets letting his first love go ten years ago because he didn’t have the courage to confess. However, he gets the chance to win her again when he travels back in time, and this time he’s armed with the knowledge that she liked him back then, too. He tries to help his younger self win her heart, but unfortunately, he turns out to be a competitor to himself as the girl starts to crush on older Sin U. The plot thickens as the present and past tangle when he starts to find out the reason they got separated.
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28. My Perfect Stranger
Korean Drama - 2023, 16 episodes
Yun Hae Jun, the youngest anchor at his broadcasting station, and Baek Yun Yeong, a publishing company employee who once dreamed of being a writer, travel back in time to 1987. In the past, Yun Hae Jun investigates a serial murder case, while Baek Yun Yeong tries to stop her parents' marriage. They soon discover their goals are linked.
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29. Perfect Marriage Revenge
Korean Drama - 2023, 12 episodes
Han I Ju, a painter adopted by Han Jin Ung and Lee Jeong Hye, has always been neglected by her family, including her younger sister, Han Yu Ra. Married to Yoo Se Hyeok, I Ju discovers he loves her sister instead. After a car accident, she wakes up in the past, before her engagement to Yoo Se Hyeok. Determined to change her fate, she breaks off the engagement and proposes a contract marriage to Seo Do Guk, the handsome grandson of the Taeja Group’s founder. He agrees, but hopes for it to become a real marriage.
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30. Bon Appetit, Your Majesty
Korean Drama - 2025, 12 episodes
Set in a dazzling blend of past and present, the story follows Chef Yeon Ji Yeong, a perfectionist French-trained chef at the peak of her culinary career, who is suddenly transported back in time to the royal palace. There, she’s forced to cook for an infamously temperamental tyrant, King Yi Heon, a ruler with a killer palate and a deadly temper.





























