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I think this drama is effortlessly funny for all the little things and the consistency is good. Like the photoshop, the banter, the looking at picture and pressed the next button, the ads to know are you in love with someone, it just funny.
I love her "corporate smile" to him and how she can talk back to him. Also he reciprocate, he isn't that close minded when people speak his opinion,

Love episode 3, it's stupidly funny, the banter between the leads, they have chemistry and I love the build up from him realising his feeling and confronted with the fact that he is 1 year late to pursue.
On the flip side, I like the realism about the workplace since this drama can go into the absurd romcom cliche territory, the workplace service job with the girls felt real and this girls is trying their best to stop the bad circle or work it around to make it better for their junior.
The supporting actor in this drama is just great, the comedic timing, the friendship , even to the photographer and the assistant photographer is wonderful.
I also like how the girls are actually good at their job, we see their miniscule mishap but on the big things, they just good and keep their earned.
Anyway, I am impressed and it just very enjoyable.

@OneAjhussi I am copying this user comment and taking the example because it explained better than mine. I even write it above that I am copying the poster before, albeit I edited it after to suit my understading.
This reminds me why I don't log to MDL, this block feature is my least favourite in MDL since people can blocked you so they hide their comment but I actually don't mind seeing different opinion. Perhaps you can just disable the reply since when you don't see all the opinion or the back and forth, it's like seeing a "fake" comment section and makes visiting the site is better as non-user.
sorry @thismonday

"Who said in her previous life she used to dance flamenco or play accordion?"
- There was a flashback, it's one the montage and the 17th life, the uncle plays the accordion

"Who said she did not practice?"
- there is no scene that she practiced, the next scene is her in the tv with the actress for her 9 years old Ji Eum, let's assume that she took 1 year to learn, so 1 year is to learn flamenco dance, speak spanish, read and speak old text from the old kingdom.

What I said is your comment and the drama didn't corroborate. I am on the side that it's better to show the journey of Ji Eum but the drama itself didn't.
She works for her 19th life, we see that but we didn't see how she relearn the muscle memory from the skill she shown,
You are the one that said "it is not like Neo in the Matrix and she suddenly knows Kung Fu, arab language or how to dance Flamenco."
The drama shows that she does

Also regarding age and her understanding of maturity, the poster above shows it well

Comment : She act her age (implying that she is young)
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The drama shows in the playground,
Ji Eum (9th) : "marry me",
Seo Ha (18th) : "How old are you?"
Ji Eum (9th) : "I don't count my age anymore"
Seo Ha (18th): "When were you born"
Ji Eum (9th) : "year 940"

She is aware that she is older than him, she is not 9 years old or consider herself as 9 years old which means this is also how she view her 18th life that interacted with 8 years old Seo Ha.
She knows she isn't 12 and she was born in year 940.
He may makes her felt like 12 but she know she isn't, this all conversation just reminds me of another innuendo right when I typed it. They really should remove this scenes, not even in the webtoon and count for the part that most people find as uncomfortable.

yeah, I also like the 2nd couple and I am not sure about the changes they made for Cho Won character.

the 19th life skill was not learn by her yet she flawlessly executed it

She suddenly can read and speak ancient text, suddenly dance flamenco and appears on tv, suddenly can speak dialect like the uncle, suddenly can speak Arabic and she said in her monologue "I learned it in my previous life". Was there a scene where she practice all of this so far? No, we didn't see her being troubled with logic and algebra

The drama itself has writing hole (so far) that makes the whole things narratively collapse the more you think about it

the poster above is right,
the 19th life skill was not learn by her yet she flawlessly executed it

"If you dreamed that you spoke english with a perfect accent or you built a plane, it does not mean you are able to do it after you wake up. It is the same thing for her"
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She suddenly can read and speak ancient text, suddenly dance flamenco and appears on tv, suddenly can speak dialect like the uncle, suddenly can speak arabic and she said in her monologue "I learned it in my early life". Was there a scene where she practice all of this so far? I mean, your pronunciation is at least need to be learned and not just by memories, same with the dance and the magic trick.

"She was like that before reaching 9 and finding her memories."
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There was no scene before she reach 9 years old, how did you know? you also assumed this to help your narrative to make her look better.

The poster above was saying that we need to count the scenes in the actual drama which coincidentally makes your argument doesn't hold the water.

Isn't that the point? Like you said this is a12 years old who is mentally more mature than her age.
A 12 years old is definitely more mature than 8 but she is more than her age, so isn't that creepier? that you admit that the more mentally matured than a 12 years old is fixated on this 8 years old? The age of HIM when she likes him is the problem, not hers. It's about how come this more mature person interested enough to pursue marriage to the next life because her interaction with an 8 years old.

She then pursue it in the next life, what age is her now? more than 9 years old, is it makes the sense that this 9 years old want to marry an 18 years old based on her memories of him when he was 8 years old?

The moment you taking the 12 years old side, it makes the 9 years old creepier because as a 9 years old, she is fixated on marry the 18 years old all the way till she is 24.
Is that because she is immature or because she is mature? or it just the writer unfunny joke?
The difference and imbalance in the emotional maturity is what people find uncomfortable.

8 years old Seo Ha who proposed to Joo Won don't even understand marriage but 9 years old Ji Eum, who was unbothered by her drunk dad and just sigh when her biological mother in the 19th life left her was never a child or more mature than any child, she has been matured mentally and pretend like she didn't to blend in.

Had there is no scene about her being 9th and want to marry 18 years old Seo Ha, many people wouldn't find it uncomfortable since she then met again after she is above 20 years old.

My point is they weren't growing up together, none of them even changes age from the moment they met till separated. Grow up together means that they spend several years of their childhood together, several months doesn't sound like enough which is why the commenter above said that it's more of "random kids"

Imo not totally random but they also were not growing up together, they spend time together on their respected childhood but she literally spend most of the 18th life without him. Even the time when she already remember her past life is longer than the time she spent with him.

" he’s not a random kid pretty sure they were growing up with each other "

First time they meet is 12 years old and 8 years old and she passed away on his 9 years old birthday, the most time they can spent together is 1 year but it's less than that because they don't meet on his actual 8th birthday , we can conclude that it's around 5-7 months, therefore they don't grow up with each other.

Maybe you also should pay more attention to the drama.

I've read the webtoon so I am well aware of how Seo Ha is special to Ji Eum but I am talking this strictly about drama and I don't think the drama fleshed it out really well. There is hardly any substance because he (before the accident) actually kind of normal kid.

"she has lots of lifetime memories to draw upon, but how many of those are actually useful?"
Many of her memories are useful, in fact that exactly what makes her able to reach the high career on the age of 24 (21 on the webtoon). It's because of her memories, especially if we go by drama, how she can speak dialect without ever learning it, how she can dance flamenco in her new body without ever learning it, how she can speaks multiple language because she had learned it before and she is eloquent in many history, even get popular in tv because of her memories. People who speak multiple language knows that they need to practice it regularly to be able to keep their fluency but she didn't, she automatically master her past life skill.

It looks like you didn't pay attention to the drama but make up your own narrative of how this drama should be despite the drama actual dialogue and scenes. Just because we can always imply something doesn't mean we can just ignore the drama own explanation. With the amount of people start making their own interpretation even when it contradicting the drama own dialogue and scenes, I wonder if it because this drama just have a good premise but badly executed and badly written (so far). A good drama is able to convey their meaning to their audience , even when it's a mystery drama.

She is 24 at this present time, not 25+ years old and he is 33 years old

I agree that the boy in this drama isn't interesting enough to make us believe that he has impact on her more than the 18th life that she remember (before the accident since she thinks he is special before the accident)

You can't know if you've met someone or not in your previous life unless they related with why you remember your past life. She didn't felt that she knows him in the 18th life so it's not that

Still, I like your idea, it reminds of another drama, I forget what it is but basically it's about this couple that always get separated in every lifetime and then finally got together

It's different with childhood connection because both were a child at the time, mentally and biologically. Even when they met again as adult , the feeling they had as a child coming from the understandable attraction/familiarity between 2 children. Even when this 2 children said that they'll marry each other, their understanding of love is not the same with this 18th life person.
There was flashback about 8 years old Seoha interpreting marriage as being with someone forever cause he is 8, he doesn't get it all.

The difference with this is that Ji Eum fixated on marrying Seo Ha based on her interaction with 8 years old Seo Ha. What could make someone who had lived 18th life to be dead set on marrying someone based on their interaction as 8 years old?
What makes her thinking that this child is a husband material that early, 8 is basically 1-2 elementary school grade.
she even said "wait for me to grow up" in her first meeting with Seo Ha. Why do you pretend like she isn't a emotionally mature in her 18th and 19th life?

This isn't the same with most drama with childhood connection since even this childhood connection usually get known later as "twist"

Yeah, I get why people want to criticise the drama because something can feel odd but the things about this drama is that it isn't mean to be serious or have a deeper symbolism. They already told us that this isn't that deep and the plot is basically about falling in love.

I myself find the drama surprisingly relatable beside all the chaebol things, many scenes of the worker and the female lead is not totally far off with real life.

Oh, I see what you mean, I agree about the flashback didn't help this narrative, it's quite noticeable. Like how people who have a point of getting weirded out by the setup. you definitely can still watch without thinking about it too much and take it just as the setup.

Imo it's for a pun, parachute/nakasan is the term for people that get the job by connection. In EP 1, the manager tease him by asking if he arrived by parachute, implying that he gets the job by connection and he answered yes, because it's literally true for both meaning.

Overproduce pun but the point is it's a pun while introducing the ML in a weird way.

The problem is not the age gap, it's not that she is 1000 years old. It's about her feeling when she is fixated on being with him (marry him) based on their interaction in the 18th life, which when he was 8 years old.
You can see her being 9 years old proposed the marriage to an18 years old Seo Ha and at this time, have they met before? No, this is based on their previous life interaction of her (12 years old with 18th life memories) with the 8 years old Seo Ha.

If you assumed that she is 12 when she likes him and continued the path when she is 9, it contradicted her own characterisation of why she felt that he makes her life different. She didn't act like a 12 or 9 years old at that age. You see her mother in ep 1 telling Seo Ha's mother how her daughter grow up suddenly and the very reason she likes him in the 18th life is because he stirred her feeling that's been numb for the countless reincarnation, this means that she isn't 12, she has been matured emotionally and this is where people are questioned it. 8 years old Seo Ha, when he said "marry me". he meant it as stay together forever because he doesn't understand anything but 9 years old Ji Eum is not the same, she had lives countless life and understand more about marriage and companion.

The difference with other fantasy which also questionable to a degree is that the counterpart is not to an 8 years old but mostly teenagers/young adult who biologically can be considered mature and the conflict is mostly about their difference in Emotional maturity.

The reason I reply, I don't think people who find it weird do not understand fantasy or the setup or want realism. It's about the fact that this person with 19th life in this drama have the thought of marrying someone based on their interaction when he was 8 years old. It's his age that make up the problem, not the age gap, how young he was when they interacted that makes her decided that she'll marry him. If she realised her feeling to marry him/be with him after they have interaction as an adult, you'll have less people talk about this.

The webtoon explained the story a little different because her reasoning to meet him is several things, because she promised his mother to take care of him, because she felt regret with the way she passed away in front of him, because she wants to give back to him, because she does meet him once after reincarnated in the 19th life and see him being miserable and also because she likes him. You can't really tell if it's love but she did like him and ask him out (in different sequence, it's like when she gives him report and not in their first meeting) but there was no "marry me" stuff in early meeting and she plan on leaving him after telling him about her identity. They do this in linear story telling so you didn't guess it based on short flashback.

So in a way, you can say that she did like him in webtoon but the idea that she loves him or want to marry him as the one and only didn't come up until they've interacted more.

The stalking also didn't happen in the webtoon, the reason she works so hard in career is because she can't meet him when she just remember her 19th life, she just manage to see him one time and have short conversation then her money is stolen for their next appointment, so she becomes more fixated on meeting him.

It's still questionable in the webtoon but the drama make it weirder and creepier with the added scene like when she just back to the 19th life and proposed to 18 years old Seo Ha