Lovely Runner

Lovely Runner

2024
★★★★☆ 8.6/10
📺 1 Season
🎬 16 Episodes
📅 Ended
🌐 KO
⏱️ 70 min/episode
DramaSci-Fi & FantasyComedyMystery
Right after Ryu Sun-jae, a top star, ends his life, Im Sol, his top fan, somehow ends up at a time when they were in high school and tries to protect him. A fantasy romance unfolds where people who missed each other in time finally meet.

Where to Watch (US)

Stream

Rakuten Viki

Seasons

Season 1
2024 • 16 Episodes
Im Sol is devastated by the sudden and tragic death of her favorite star, Ryu Sun-jae, a former swimmer turned K-pop idol. But in the midst of her anguish, she magically time slips back to 2008 – when Sun-jae is still only 19 years old! Delighted that she has a chance to help him avert his unhappy future fate, Sol makes it her mission to change the future... and maybe find love along the way.

User Reviews

ABTR
★ 10/10
**I'm sitting here with a smile on my face crying tears of joy. I feel like a crazy person.** The story, the acting, the _chemistry_. Never have I gotten as invested in a k-drama as I did with this one. Byeon Woo Seok and Kim Hye Joon were absolute perfection and a joy to watch together. The story was lighthearted and cute, full of adorable moments and smiles, but when the emotional moments came, they hit hard. I loved every second of it, including all the small side stories of the secondary characters. Every last detail was perfect. I'd thought Park Gyu Young and Cha Eun Woo were super cute in _A good day to be a dog_, but nah. Same with Jun Ho being the most adorable he-falls-first male lead ever. Or CLOY having a top-tier romance story. This show left them in the dust. Sonagi was a lovely song and so personal to Seon Jae and poignant to the story, and I love that there were scenes of live-played music. That may seem like an insignificant detail, but it's so unusual in k-dramas (even in the ones with idols playing the leads) and was so wonderfully unexpected and exciting. This drama will stay with me for years to come and surely bring a smile to my face whenever I think back on it. Someone get me a yellow umbrella so I can daydream about fated love the next time it rains! 💛💛
May 31, 2024
leizyegg
my supposed diary entry for letterboxd, i'm exposing here for the meantime! I love them with all my heart, and I could write essays about their story, their soulmatism and the everything nonstop because suddenly I want my love to look so beautiful like theirs!! their love is so beautiful and poetic to the point that every song I heard I dedicated to them…I even have a playlist! I never loved a drama as deeply as I did with them!!!! literal LIKE UNG KILIG???1?1?1? GRABE I had severe case of kilig every week and tHAT WAS BECAUSE OF THEM. I’D GET GIDDY AS HELL EVERY MONDAYS AND TUESDAYS AND I HATED MONDAY LIKE HOW SUNJAE USED TO HATE THE RAIN BUT THEN SOL CAME!!! it’s the same case with me, but it was lovely runner that came to me 🥹💞 HAY ‘WHAT WILL I DO WHEN THIS ENDS’ IS WHAT I ASKED EVERY WEEK AND ME THINKS IM GONNA REWATCH THIS FOREVER ISTG MAY MAGIC TONG LOVRUN GRABE ADIK NA ADIK AQ DITO LITERAL NA MAHAL NA MAHAL Q NA SILA HUHU HINDI PA AKO READY MAG BYE FR!!!!!!! TAPOS ANO GUSTO K NLNG OMIYAK EVERYWEEK BCS OF KILIG AND KILIGIN AT TUMAWA NONSTOP HUHUHSUAHUSHWUS CLA ANG DAHILAN BKET AKO FUELED EVERYWEEK I SWAER oa na kung oa pero i became a fan of them both after this and even the other casts :((( its that deep for me like super duper love this drama!!! no one will top you now lovely runner, at least for me u will always be my favorite, my no. 1 ever!!! i just finished watching :((( im so sad and super happy at the same time cz wdym a perfect drama came to life and i watched it and i loved it so much it became my actual favorite!! thank you my loves, hyeyoon, wooseok, geonhee, seunghyub, directors and writer lee si eun, and everyone else for accepting and making lovely runner possible!! i love them sm i cant stop saying that lmao it’s the way this review is so scattered!!!! i just love them so much to the point i rambled everything i wanna say my diary entry from may 22-28 !!! wait till i finish my finals i’ll rewatch lovrun after i catch up with hyeyoon-wooseok films i missed :D
May 28, 2024
Bignay
1. * Everyone has its own opinion, 2. the story of keep changing life or future is just too much. Its sucks and getting on ones nerve . the story is not becoming complete even it is fiction. Its so different from other Korean drama. There is no wholeness that even you dont like the story you just keep on continuing watching. this is a story of which the writer is the one who keep on running, get confused, making the reader bored. The music is good, the acting of the actor is very good seems innocent in all the facts but the actress leading role is too much OA or in some part less or boring. I love Korean film, movies music etc.. but this one SUCKS .
May 20, 2024

Crew

Director
Kim Tae-yeob, Yoon Jong-ho
Writer
Lee Si-eun

Network

tvN

Production

Bon Factory, CJ ENM Studios

Keywords

love at first sightbased on novel or bookaffectationtime travelromanceswimmerbutterfly effect2000splayfulinspirational