tvN’s latest teaser for its upcoming fantasy romance See You in My 19th Life may not give us more information than what we already know, but I love Shin Hye-sun (Mr. Queen) so I’m certainly not complaining. Adapted from a webtoon of the same name, the drama follows our reincarnating heroine Ban Ji-eum (Shin Hye-sun), who has a special trait — she remembers all her past lives.
One life stands out in particular, though, and that’s her most recent one. In life #18, she fell in love with Moon Seo-ha, played by Ahn Bo-hyun (Yumi’s Cells 2). Following a traumatic accident, the two were tragically separated — leading the reborn Ji-eum to seek Seo-ha out once again.
Now that she’s free of the shackles of her previous life, Ji-eum lands herself a job interview with Seo-ha. Feeling a sense of déjà vu, Seo-ha asks, “Have we met before?” Ji-eum responds with a confident “Yes,” asking if he believes in the concept of past lives.
A flashback takes them back to their younger selves, and an adolescent Ji-eum answers her own question. “I believe in it,” she says. Then she completes her sentence in tandem with her adult self: “Because I remember my past lives.”
Though she’s lived through many eventful lifetimes, Ji-eum has only one goal in this life. She’s a go-getter who knows what she wants and won’t stop till she gets it — as she so confidently declares, she was born into this 19th life in order to meet Seo-ha.
We still don’t get any glimpse of our supporting cast yet in the teasers, but we have Ha Yoon-kyung (Extraordinary Attorney Woo) as Ji-eum’s younger sister from her most recent life, and Ahn Dong-goo (The Law Cafe) as Seo-ha’s longtime sidekick. Hmm, I wonder if our quartet have been meeting in various iterations each lifetime — I wouldn’t put it past dramaland’s strings of fate to have wound their knots around them already.
Helmed by PD Lee Na-jung (Mine, Fight My Way) and written by Choi Young-rim, See You in My 19th Life is anticipating a June 17 premiere.