It seems like all 5 were connected. And I think do yoon had something to do with cho won’s death.. as he was in the flash back too

- I think overall the story is just getting too messy, with only two eps left. I'm also tired of cryptic scenes without any explanation, flashbacks to Ji-eum's first life that are cool cinematically but take away precious story time, and pool scenes (what is with the director and pools?)
- So my major issue is that it makes ZERO sense for everyone in Ji-eum's first life to look like themselves now. And I've seen people say that this is an audience device, but it's not: it's part of the story, because that's how Ji-eum is able to recognize Seo-ha, Min-gi, etc. If you go by the logic of the story, none of them should look like their previous selves and she shouldn't be able to recognize them right away, just like Seo-ha and Cho-won couldn't recognize that Jie-um was Ju-won.
- Similarly, I don't think the overall idea of being punished for reconnecting with people from your past life makes any sense. If it's such a problem, why were they all reincarnated in this life? And why is it okay if it's an enemy and not someone you loved? Why does the universe care about that distinction? I dunno, to me it feels like they're just making up all these rules as it suits the story.
- I really hate Min-gi. He's so judgmental and smug without giving Ji-eum ANYTHING to go on.
- I like how Cho-won just attacked Do-jin up in a bar surrounded by people, lol.
- Why didn't Seo-ha's mom give anyone her book when she was alive? She knew she was dying. Also, speaking of Seo-ha's mom, what exactly was the purpose of her being reincarnated? It doesn't feel like it was necessary to me.
- See my fanwall for thoughts about these episodes compared to the source material.

So it looks like almost everyone from her 1st life made a reappearance in her 19th life 😏 I haven’t read the comics and I have seen some beanies frustrations of how they changed the story.

This could have been so good. A modern day reincarnation story of enemies turning lovers.
SHS is marvellous as always but for once I can’t understand her character. I don’t understand why she is so much in love with him after briefly meeting him in her 18th life. Is it because she killed him in her 1st life? I hope so.

The only thing that is making me tune in each weekend is the second couple. I hope they get together in the end or have some sort of closure. They are the only ones I care about. Oh and also Ae Geoung. I hope she gets well soon.

I don’t know what Min-gi’s motivations are (I feel like maybe I should know at this point?) but he was dropping truth bombs all over the place (side note: I love how well Lee Chae-min glowers) in ep 10. Her whole 19th life has really been about reconnecting with people from her other lives, but what a difficult thing to hear. Reincarnation is such a common concept in dramas, and it’s usually depicted as something positive, like Ji-eum would always tell her loved ones. It’s always, “I’ll come back and visit you”, “I’ll come back and take care of you”, “I want to be born as your mom again in my next life” and it’s never “I hope you have a healthy grieving process and are happy again even without me” but maybe it should be? That’s sort of what I’m getting from the show at this point.

I’m the most confused by Do-yoon’s connection to everything. He obviously recognizes the pond with the fireworks on some level, but we haven’t gotten many hints there, unless I missed something big. I guess the whole group was involved in whatever happened in Ji-eum’s first life (that she remembers), but it’s not totally clear to me what that was. Maybe we’ll get a more chronological flashback at the beginning of episode 11 so we can put all the pieces together?

I did love the moment when Ji-eum pretended to be possessed by the spirit of Seo-ha’s mother and really freaked out Yeon-ok. And of course the real highlight was the past lives trailing behing Ji-eum on the bridge - that scene took my breath away even as it annoyed me for being incomplete (where was the little girl who died as a toddler?).

People speak of power dynamics between couples, but this drama has been a good case study of emotional imbalance in a relationship. Always having Ji Eum be the stable pillar in the main OTP relationship had severely destroyed the chemistry that was finally visible in Ep 10 when Seo Ha was allowed to smile and take care Ji Eum. Seo Ha asking her to call him instead of counting leaves when Ae Gyeom was sick showed why Ji Eum needs Seo Ha in her life as much her in his. If only the drama had let these two develop romance more organically by allowing them to interact freely outside of the traumatic set up, it would have been beautiful to watch.

When Do Yun harshly rejected Cho Won, I felt like punching him with the fists he makes to control his anger, but when he got humiliated at the wedding invite scene where Cho Won just kept saying, "That's enough" made me immediately switch to his side. She told she has been in love with him for years, but when your loved one gets disrespected you do not continue sitting there and watch it unfold horribly. Cho won should have thrown the table napkin at the jerk's face, told them she was the one chasing him and left the place together with Do Yun.

This week's reveal of Ji Eum's 1st life prevented me from repeating last week's eye roll. Ji Eum bawling over a dying Cho Won had me stunned. I must say that sisterhood (not to forget Ae Gyeom) is the real anchor point of the show.

Fellow Beanies have commented before that repeating the accident scene is offputting and traumatizing. And this week I really git sick and tired with the insistence on including that scene. It isn't romantic, adds nothing and gets me nightmares. Also, we don't need a reminder that Seo-ha is suffering mentally. We all know it and wish he could see a psychiatrist. While Ji-eum is really pushy and aggressive in her approach. I tried my best to get behind it. But thinking that telling him the truth would soothe his pain is a wrong idea as it gave the guy more nightmares and diving sessions.

If I agrer wirh Min-ki on a point, it is that Ji-eum isn't leading a new life but going on with her life as Joo-won though I am a not a fan of his patronizing tone and keeping tge truth.

Pushy Ji-eum makes me uninvested in the romance. My favorite part is the first life but I want the story at full. They have veen teading us for a while now.

Personally, I had no issue with the car accident but more with the first life mystery.

The car accident was important for the plot and the development of the characters. Even if the father's passivity didn't make any sense. Like you son was almost killed, the daughter of a friend of the family was killed and your driver, but you are afraid for your compagny?

But the first life made things unnecessary complicated and takes the originality of the fact she was the only one who remembered her past lives, now they're 3 of them and Do-Yoon acted weirdly by watching the bridge on the computer and later on his phone. Why the plant fell next to Cho-Won at this moment... I don't think everything always needs to be connected.

The scene with her last lives on the pedestrian bridge was beautiful.

Seo-Ha's uncle was so upset that the chairman was neglecting his sick wife and company that he arranged the accident to “hurt” him. Seo-Ha was never the target. OK, so the chairman and Yeon-Ok knew about it and covered it up? Talk about sweeping evil relatives under the rug. It was too easy.

Seo-Ha quip about a 1000 year first love can be now connected to a 1000 year of hate. Hanna inferred that people who remember their past lives are in a purgatory . . . they cannot peacefully move on unless they divorce themselves from the past and form new, normal relationships. Ji-Eum has not done so; in fact, she has gone beyond just remembering but actively interacting in the present to re-set the past. It puts everyone in danger, including Cho-Won. Her obsession with Seo-Ha as Ju-Won continues to be a hard plot point to accept.

It is getting weird that Ji-Eum is acting that she is still Ju Won, especially when she starts to date Seo-Ha. She was reborn so she should live as Ji-Eum not Ju Won, right? But it did not phase her that her future father killed her in the past life - - - is she numb to what is right and wrong?

Hanna brings Min-gi a talisman from he first life, and he says there are things still to do but Seo-Ha will be alright if everything goes to plan. He tells her to no longer look to her past lives and go forward and live the life she wants. Sage advice but Min-gi is still suspect.

I thought it was dumb writing to have Jang leave all the ORIGINAL evidence of Yeon-Ok's corruption with her (the gift from Hanna?) Ah, it was to let the kill go to his father and his legal team. Hanna tells Seo-ha farewell. It seems like piling on the past pain on Seo-Ha now that everyone he cared about is “alive.”

The first life mystery is confusing by piece meal approach of story telling. She was a Su as well as Master Su (Seo-ha); was he a brother or cousin? Was she under a shaman’s spell (who lived 4 more years than her) to kill Master Su? With those open questions firmly in Ji-Eum’s mind, the kiss scene was awkward. Then, trying to find his past life seems immaterial (to him at least).

Min-gi confirms the consequences of interacting with people from your past life . . . death. “It would not have been as bad if you were enemies in your past because you would have something to resolve,” he says. Good family relationships have to be let go or your loved ones suffer in the present. He blames her for NOT living a new life but reconnecting with her past life. The only solution to save Cho-Won, Ae-Gyeong and Seo-ha is to remember her first life then everything will resolve but it is hard to believe him. He is saying that she is a haunted ghost until that happens; a reincarnation that can never have Peace (death and the afterlife). It foreshadows at bitter sacrifice at the end.

Cho-won, Do-Yun and Seo-Ha are all principals in her first life? I guess in a thousand years we will all have our own dopplegangers. She took the shaman bells and ran...

I felt a few things a bit anticlimatic. The murder plot fell flat for me. I dont think its fair to blame the woman when the family just watched Seo Ha living in guilt and trauma. They did nothing to ease his pain. And it ended with father smiling creepily at him. It was def a WTF moment for me.

But, I did love the whole first life reveal. I did not expect to see Mr.Ha there! Now I wonder if he actually remembers past lives too? May be there is a reason he is staying with Seo-Ha? As a kind of penance for the past? He didn't seem too bothered that Ji-eum said that.

I liked the moments between the leads in their getaway. Wish we had more scenes of them. But given this is 12 ep drama, we are entering angst rightaway...

The only reason I have not dropped this drama is watching Shin Hye Seon and Ahn No Hyun in Goryeo hanboks.

I'm just gonna say...it was very naive of me to think they'd be able to seamlessly adapt the webtoon and give us a satisfying drama version to watch! My bad :(

P.S. is it just me (a dissatisfied webtoon reader) or is Mingi a very annoying character in a weird way??? Why purposefully withhold info from Jieum and then act all condescending when she doesn't know things?! 🤔

This show is a scam. We were promised healing reincarnation romance, but it's just an endless masochistic savoring of trauma and useless drama. Well, acting is nice, visuals are pretty, some relationships are very cure and heartwarming (when they aren't unnecessarily complicated by MULTIPLE karmic tangles), but both story progression and overall vibe at this point are so wrong it's simply painful. What a wasted potential... If I wanted to torture myself some more with this "accept your cruel fate for the greater good" BS, I'd rather rewatch TTEOTM instead. 19th LIFE shamelessly tricked me into thinking it would soothe my heartbreak... Scam indeed. I'll watch the finale because I'm still slightly curious what the hell was going on in 1st life (doesn't it feel like we're being tricked AGAIN by this whole "past!Seoha killed past!Chowon" thing? so many cuts of that moment, but none showing him doing so DIRECTLY, very sus), but that's it.

P.S. Minki is an annoying creep no mater what his true intentions are. And Chowon is the one who really should move on here - whatever is DY's problem, he'd better to be left alone with it just like he wishes to. Dude has a charm of an icy rock of salt, not just her - ANYONE can do better than him. At least Seoha was a truly sweet boyfriend for the 5 minutes their dating bliss with Jieum lasted...

As a lover of Ancient Greek mythology, I adored the Greek tragedy that was this week’s episodes. Father tried to kill your lover? Check. Your lover is your former enemy, but you didn’t recognize him? Check.

And having a villain with enough guilt to turn himself in was a brief, but noble, attempt at fleshing out a character instead of the usual evil-til-the-end-for-no-reason character. Which I appreciate. I liked this episode, flaws and all.

This week's episodes were definitely heavier in tone and subject matter, and focused on the cost of knowing the truth. For Ji-eum, that means having to pay the price for the "gift" of being aware that she's able to come back and see the people she loves again. For Seo-ha, it's all about realizing that now that he knows one truth, there are a million others he's going to be privy to that maybe he was better off not knowing. For Do-yoon, it's the fact that acknowledging his feelings for Cho-won are sincere, even if he says he won't act on them, makes it impossible for him to function and live his life without spending every moment cutting off his emotions. And, finally, for Cho-won, she's struggling with two revelations: first, that this happy reunion with her sister is based on a premise of continual loss and pain and second, that Do-yoon is right: whatever love they may feel for each other is, perhaps, not enough to change the reality of a class-conscious world. That doesn't mean she needs to give up on her feelings or stop trying to fight for Do-yoon, but it was obvious that the magical sheen has rubbed off of her love for him, and she now has to grapple with the reality of loving a man who is deeply affected by the casual prejudices of others.

I'm not sure how the show is going to resolve all of this in just two episodes.

Other Thoughts:

--I was happy to see Evil Stepmom get her comeuppance, but confused by Seo-ha's dad's reaction. Couldn't he have brought about this result earlier if he hated her so much? I don't understand their relationship, and why he continued to give into her. To protect the uncle? I don't know--he seems too selfish for that.

--All the scenes on all the bridges were stunning. It's true that the visual beauty of this show is unparalleled.

But I did not understand Do-yoon's continually scrolling and staring at the photos of the fireworks bridge. And his message to Seo-ha "There's just one more thing (to see)" was weird, too.

His overuse of salt to show us that he is distracted over his love, worry, and guilt regarding hurting Cho-won was cute, though.

--I wish the show had done more with Seo-ha's reincarnated mother. The actress is weak, but beyond that, she didn't serve much of a purpose in the story, and I don't understand how she met up with Min-ki in the first place. The back hug was nice, I guess, but her character has been so much in the background that it didn't really accomplish anything.

--As for Min-ki, the show is determined to keep his motivations ambiguous, which means he vacillates from seeming like a villain to now appearing to be hoping only for Ji-eum's happiness. I like the First Life storyline, but I wish his motivations were clearer.

--I really struggled to accept that Seo-ha now "remembers" what Ju-won said to him before she died in the accident. He didn't repress the memory; he just couldn't hear her! And if we're supposed to think he was...

Ive been watching this drama, but I finally liked these 2 episodes. The rest for me, it was bleh. It was missing something. Please dont hate me, but I dont think the ML and the FL have any chemistry at all. There is like something is missing and I am not convinced that Shin Hye-sun can play a 22 years old.

I am very interested in the story itself, I really liked the connection between being immortal and being reborned 19 times.

I will echo a lot of the complaints for this drama, it is a pity the writing isn't there because the acting is fantastic. I don't understand why Min Gi can't just tell her. Why does she have to see it?

At this point I'm rooting for Minki because he is the Music Bank MC, and Seo-ha because of Her Private Life

Ok, full stop. Episodes 9 and 10 of See you in my 19th Life need to be talked about separately. It’s a tale of 2 episodes.
Episode 9
A beautifully shot masterpiece. Wow, just Wow. It was marvelous, it was gorgeous. I love the multiple connections that led to the infinitely gorgeous Poster Shot of the couple standing in front of the Merry Go Round. Well done. Bravo. The book, to the key, to the box connected to the wonderfully folded note – so well done.
That shot of all of her lives walking down that bridge – Wow!
That fade away image to the number “1” for the first life – Wow!
I love the cute rejection by Ji-Eum.
I love how Spring Sunshine Cho-Won (Ha Yoon-Kyung) continues to impress. I hope to see a lot more of her in the future.
Shin Hye-Sun continues to absolutely crush it and the same could be said for Ahn Dong-Goo
I left episode 9 in awe.
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Episode 10
Umm. What happened?
It’s like Episode 10 started filmed at 5:00 PM on a Friday and everyone wanted to get home early so they wouldn’t miss a soccer match against Japan.
Let’s start with the most glaring miss. The bed scene: Seo-Ha and Ji-Eum are finally together, but it felt like two 12 year olds meeting up for a sleep over. I think it needs to be mandatory viewing for the director on how it was done in Call it Love.
Why the sudden dark twist with only 2 episodes left?
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Ah, I was hoping they'd go for some other explanation for the mystery illness/ bad luck. I don't super love the "you're breaking the world order" thing in this sort of genre (we're already in a state of fantasy, and romance is supposed to be comfort food anyway. why not???) but this is sooooo vague. I'd take any explanation with a bit more cause and effect. Something like "it causes other people to remember past lives, which creates spreading chaos and suffering, so the universe tries to nix it in the bud". I can work with that! Just anything besides a handwavey "it's just like that"

anyways, I'm still digesting how I feel about these episodes. I'm entertained for sure, but everything is happening so quickly I feel a bit muddled

I can see a few folks like myself who're loving the first life reveals. I wish I could scoop out the epic love story through the ages, and rewrite this drama with that focus. Would that mean many more scenes of ABH in a hanbok? Why yes. Only because the plot demands it. 😇

I'm looking forward to seeing how the first life mystery unfolds.

I've stopped watching, or maybe have slowed watching to a crawl. The series seems like a random agglomeration of overused K-drama tropes. If I see one more chaebol heir who was was in a traffic accident as a child...

I am dragging to the finish line with this one after starting out with an enthusiastic sprint. I will say that I think Mingi is Jieum’s enemy. In the scene where Chowon is killed, it isn’t Seoha who grabs his sword. Another hand (in clothing similar to what we’ve seen Mingi in) takes the sword from Seoha’s waste. This would make more sense given his current cryptic and completely unhelpful behavior/attitude towards Jieum.

But who am I kidding? Nothing made sense these past 2 episodes. Looking forward to ending this show this weekend and starting to read the webtoon! I’m interested to see how it compares. In my past experience, the book (or in this case, webtoon) is almost always better than the screen adaptation. There are some things a camera just can’t capture.

Wait a moment!

{Spoilers Ahead}

I have yet to see these episodes but Seo-ha and Cho won are shown as a part of her first life? Did they deviate? Or the English translation of the Webtoon was too far from the original story?

I haven’t been commenting on the recaps because while I do find the story entertaining, after watching the week’s episodes I promptly forget about it. @ladynightshade made a brilliant post about this show on her Fanwall which I agree with. Also how other beanies have pointed out, this drama could’ve easily been 16 or even 20 episodes. A lot of plot-lines and romantic entanglements could’ve been more fleshed out. Yeah I didn’t at all care about the murder mystery, tho instead would’ve liked to see more from Ji-eum’s past lives. Honestly whole episodes could’ve been dedicated to it.

Why does Min-ki think Ae-gyeong’s illness is because of Ji-eum? That makes no sense. Let's say she's been hanging out with this nice lady for 10-12 years, right? She basically replaced her crappy family with her previous incarnation's nice adopted niece. They were together all the time for a good decade. Now, that Ae-gyeong is, I don't know, middle aged or older? The actress is only 43 and looks great, but I think we're meant to think she's older than that in this role. Is it really persuasive that being in touch with her reincarnated uncle is the decisive explanatory factor in her illness? I feel like maybe he's lived with a lot of guilt from his previous lives from people dying who would have died anyway?

As far as what happened in their previous lives--isn't the purpose of all this reincarnation to work out these problems? Maybe I don't understand reincarnation.

I'm way less into this show than I was, but I'm also way less into a lot of dramas than I was. I'm happy to see these actors again and together! I had no idea that Ahn Bo-hyun could play such a gentle and thoughtful character after only seeing him in that Doberman series. He shows lots of different emotions here.

The amount of plot holes is so severe I need to read the webtoon in order to actually understand what the heck the main plot is because the drama really lost me.
I had to find out through reddit comments & this weecap that the car accident plot had already been settled?? It was so unsatisfying and confusing. I have to admit though I did shed tears during the merry-go-round scene but Seo-ha still needs intense therapy.

Min-gi was just irritating me by withholding vital information on his own accord for a couple of episodes now & only chose to reveal it when we are left with 2 eps. I heard he's 10 times better in the webtoon though.

I still wish they opted to put in more plot instead of random long shots of the view or the actors smh :')

Something about these recent set of episodes have been woefully anticlimactic for me. They spent so much time repeatedly flashing back to the car accident and building up so many layers to the conspiracy… only for the culprit to be the most obvious candidates who, btw, didn’t even want to harm Seo-ha! And the reason given for committing such a horrific crime that left two innocent people dead is so mind-bogglingly bad that I don’t even want to say it. What a poor conclusion to a subplot that took up so much time that should’ve been spent on organically developing and building meaningful relationships. Not to mention, as @dncingemma so astutely pointed out, making the mistress character the fall-guy for everything bad in Seo-ha’s life and the white collar criminal behind the hotel’s financial troubles and the men in Seo-ha’s life being neglectful, abusive or downright murderous because of her “manipulations” is deeply misogynistic. Seo-ha’s father and extended family have been repeatedly awful to him for years - you cannot blame their bad behaviour simply on the ‘other woman’ and leave it at that. What a waste of time.

The past lives shenanigans have also been wearing thin on my patience. Now we’re just supposed to except that everyone meaningful in Ju-won’s life were actually people she was destined to meet because of her first life and not connections she naturally made because of her loving family and life choices. That automatically takes away from the choice of her decisions for me - that the relationships she formed were meaningful because it was the first time she found herself in such a kind and loving environment. If they were always ‘meant it be’ then who cares whether it was a safe space for Ju-won/Ji-eum? Drama logic says they’d be important either way. And don’t get me started on the walking plot-device non-character that is Min-gi; his entire role so far has been to stand menacingly in a corner and mysteriously glare at nothing. For someone claiming to ‘look out’ for our heroine, he has been supremely unhelpful. The rules he establishes for reincarnation also make zero sense. Why would contact with enemies be different from friends or family? If the point of the drama is that death is a natural process of life and people should move on from grief, then that distinction should be irrelevant. The writing has been beyond sloppy about the fantastical elements for a so-called fantasy drama.

Anyway, I’m just here for the secondary couple (first couple in my heart) now. They better kiss and get together in the final week or I will riot.

That line of 18 past lives behind her on the bridge 😭

2 more episodes to go. I want to know if they are really going to resolve the truck of doom storyline. I feel that's not all of it, there has to be more because why else would the brakes be cut and wrong kid was killed?

Still not going to read the webtoon :)

I just want cho won and ae gyeong get their happily ever after, with or without any romances.

After this weekend is done, I'm going to start on heart beat. My Jin guk, wait for me!

I need to know what Min-gi's deal is because he's starting to act like a serial killer with his shaman bells. Why is he so angry at Ji-eum when it's looking more and more like he was the one who had killed her because he and his men were standing on the bridge? When he blamed Ji-eum for killing Ae-kyung, it would've helped if you had told her five episodes ago!

It's so cliché that all of them were in Ji-eum's first life, even Do-yoon. Why not Ae-kyung too, pfft? It also undermines the drama's rules that they all have the same faces in their past lives when we were told that you reincarnate as different genders and races. Why is Do-yoon recognizing the bridge now when he's not supposed to remember?

How hypocritical for Han-na to meet Seo-ha knowing full well that he could die. It was never explained if this was the first life where Han-na could remember her past lives, or if she was just like Ji-eum and Min-gi as Seo-ha's mother.

When Do-yoon flashbacked to eating together with cute middle schooler Cho-won and how he'd clenched his fist, I said, "Let yourself be happy!"

I loved the walk across the bridge with all of Ji-eum's past lives but was distracted by the fact that they probably couldn't get Chae Jong-hyeop back for this scene. Many thanks, @DaebakGrits, for recapping!

Me after watching the last two episodes…..
Thunks head on table and heaves a deep sigh.
@%$&@*+$%$&§§§
😔
What are the writers doing to this beautiful show?

I'm a bit bummed at how much better this drama would have been with some better scripting. I've enjoyed the drama for the most part and all there aren't any draggy moments - save for those very few Seo-ha+step-mom scenes. There is momentum. And the drama has some gorgeous moments, especially the bridge scene. And Shin Hye-sun is amazing.

But I was really thrown off by the anticlimatic resolution of the car accident and the step-mom embezzling. After all that buildup, the resolution was handed to Seo-ha on a silver platter. And then near the end now, they come up with this new twist with everyone being in Ji-eum's first life, looking exactly the same. I am very excited to learn about the mystery they're trying to propose here because the drama seems to indicate that people who remember their past lives are being punished. So why is 1st-life-Cho-won's-killer not also suffering? The only two other people remembering their past lives are Hana and Min-Gi. Min-gi has been remembering lives for longer than Ji-eum, so it can't be him. And Hana seems to have walked off into the sunset already.

the nine episode i had to watch it with speed bc it was kinda slow and boring for me lmao, im kinda hating mingi bc he is being soooo mean with jieum for stuff that she doesnt know like, boy isnt her fault.

it kinda doesnt make sense that in jieums first life the five of them (who seems to be connected) look exactly like themselves in jieums 19th life, idk but thats kinda off for me

im not being like a really BIG fan of the drama but ints entertaining so isnt bad, and bc i just finished watching when i fly towards you (cdrama) and my asian drama standar right now is a lil bit high soooo