Netflix K-drama See You in My 19th Life: Shin Hye-sun, Ahn Bo-hyun lead fantastical romcom about a reincarnated woman chasing past love

It’s been a while since we’ve seen Mr. Queen star Shin Hye-sun. Now she returns in another show about body changing, as a woman who has lived 18 lives

She pursues Ahn Bo-hyun’s demure hotelier in a fun but chaotic reworking of tired K-drama tropes that, so far, appears far from director Lee Na-yeong’s best work

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Shin Hye-sun in a still from “See You in My 19th Life”. Netflix’s fantastical K-drama about a reincarnated woman pursuing an old flame is full of verve, but also chaos and tired clichés.

Published: 5:15pm, 21 Jun 2023Updated: 5:48pm, 21 Jun 2023

Lead cast: Shin Hye-sun, Ahn Bo-hyun, Ha Yoon-kyung, Ahn Dong-goo

Latest Nielsen rating: 5.49 per cent

Almost two-and-a-half years after the finale of Mr. Queen, Shin Hye-sun returns to screens, alongside Ahn Bo-hyun (Military Prosecutor Doberman), in the new TvN drama See You in My 19th Life, streaming globally on Netflix.

Shin’s previous show was a period drama and this one is set in the present day, yet there are clear parallels between the two: in both series, she plays a self-possessed character who benefits from having all the hindsight (or foresight) from having lived as a different person at a different time.

In Mr. Queen Shin played a male chef from the present who took all his know-how with him back in time to the era of Joseon dynastic rule in Korea. See You in My 19th Life, which is based on a popular webtoon of the same name, takes this concept but ups the ante considerably.