First teaser for ENA's time-slip Moon in the Day

20 September 25, 2023October 24, 2023

First teaser for ENA’s time-slip Moon in the Day

by missvictrix

Oh boy, this looks fun! ENA’s first teaser for fantasy romance Moon in the Day has all the feels, and the character posters of stars Kim Young-dae (The Forbidden Marriage) and Pyo Ye-jin (Taxi Driver 2) are equally lovely, thematically referencing the past-present pull of our drama’s setup.

Reincarnation, love, and fate are our themes of the day. During the Shilla period, our heroine Han Ri-ta (Pyo Ye-jin) was responsible for killing her lover, aristocrat Do Ha (Kim Young-dae). The taglines on the character posters hint at this, with Pyo Ye-jin’s saying, “I love you, my lord” and Kim Young-dae’s saying, “This time, I’ll surely be the one to kill you first.”

In other words, Do Ha’s spirit is unable to move on after her betrayal and he becomes stuck in the mortal world. We meet both characters again in the present day, and it’s Do Ha’s perspective that we get in the teaser. Images of him gazing moodily are intercut with our heroine in both timelines, and Do Ha narrates: “I’m stuck in place, but you are flowing endlessly.”

Indeed, some 1500 years later, Ri-ta is now firefighter Kang Young-hwa, with no memory of her past life/lives. Do Ha’s modern-day counterpart is Han Jun-oh, and after an accident, he’s overtaken by Do Ha’s vengeful spirit — hence the tagline that he’ll be the one to kill her first this time.

Sounds dramatic for sure, but this is also dramaland, so: hijinks. In the present day, Jun-oh happens to be a needy top star, and Young-hwa becomes his reluctant bodyguard. The entire setup is ripe for mayhem and misunderstandings, as much as it is fated love across lifetimes. Dramaland loves this sort of story lately — and lucky me, so do I.

Directed by PD Pyo Min-soo (The Third Charm, The Producers) and adapted from the webtoon by Kim Hye-won, Moon in the Day premieres on October 25 in the Wednesday-Thursday slot.

Via SportsKhan

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1 Kurama

September 25, 2023 at 1:05 PM

Reincarnation, love, and fate are our themes of the day Aren't they 2023's theme? 😅

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bbstl 🧹

September 25, 2023 at 4:27 PM

Gaaahhh, no kidding 🤦🏼‍♀️

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SooHa

September 26, 2023 at 2:41 AM

I'm not watching much k-dramas this year. Is there other k-dramas other than Destined With You with this same theme?

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Kurama

September 26, 2023 at 4:40 AM

See You in My 19th Life, Heartbeat, Island adn Destined with You from memory.

The Story of Park’s Marriage Contract will air soon too.

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SooHa

September 26, 2023 at 4:54 AM

And Heartbeat is the only one that I didn’t watch, now I realized, there are many kdrama with same theme that I actually watched 😂

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2 kiara

September 25, 2023 at 2:01 PM

That's a very long time to stay angry, dude. You killed her people and forced them to bow to your king. What did you expect? You betrayed her first.

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💜🍍☠ Sicarius The Queen of Melonia ☠🍍💜

September 25, 2023 at 5:37 PM

It was just good expansionist business, Kiara 😂

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kiara

September 26, 2023 at 7:35 AM

Yes, for the backstabbing traitorous king of Shilla. Lol

I like this girl. She got her priority straight, unlike the Princess of Nakrang, who sold her country to her lover and then watched her father crawl on his knees to be beheaded by the king of Goguryeo.

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3 jillian

September 25, 2023 at 2:25 PM

Angsty angsty spurned lover that will be stuck in a man-child top star. I will definitely check this out!

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4 Kafiyah Bello

September 25, 2023 at 2:31 PM

This looks fun, I haven't seen Pyo Ye Jin since Fight my way, so excited to see this.

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5 Unaspirated

September 25, 2023 at 2:58 PM

I was so excited for the last story about reincarnated lovers and ended up bitterly disappointed, so I'm really happy dramaland is taking another swing at it so soon! Hoping this drama works better for me.

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6 💜🍍☠ Sicarius The Queen of Melonia ☠🍍💜

September 25, 2023 at 5:34 PM

It was long and derivative and redundant, but I still like this show's original title of "Moon that Rises in the Day" better.

Great news! KYD's sageuk speak still sucks! And I want the proper sageuk version of this story of Silla annexing Gaya and all the tragedy and betrayal they can spin out of that, come on! Ach well.

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kiara

September 26, 2023 at 9:28 AM

There is so much story to tell about the Gaya confederacy. The birthplace of the traditional musical instrument Gayageum. Haji of Daegaya, who developed it, named it after his homeland.

QSD kind of covered it in the background. The famous Hwarang Kim Yushin was a Gaya royalty, but his mother was a runaway princess from Shilla. Lol
"Dream of the Emperor" covered this timeline, too, but I didn't get to finish it.

It would be interesting if the ML turns out to be a reincarnation of Sadaham. He was Lady Mishil's lover (in Queen Seon Deok) who was supposed to die in battle. That would mean that he was two-timing her with this Gaya girl. Lol
The 3 Kingdoms era has got to be the birthplace of love triangles/squares and tragic love stories.

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💜🍍☠ Sicarius The Queen of Melonia ☠🍍💜

October 2, 2023 at 11:01 PM

Dream of the Emperor has an excellent OST, I know that. hahaha.

You don't and I know you know you don't need to tell me twice that 3K (and Gaya) Era has so many good stories to tell... and yet nobody to tell them.

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kiara

October 3, 2023 at 6:03 AM

The writers of Arth could have done a trilogy on the 3 Gayas instead of that....

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💜🍍☠ Sicarius The Queen of Melonia ☠🍍💜

October 3, 2023 at 1:24 PM

😞😞😞

7 zindigo

September 25, 2023 at 5:46 PM

Ooooh, they have him in a fabulous color and gorgeous costume again, just like The Forbidden Marriage. Love it! He can totally pull it off.

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8 DancingEmma

September 25, 2023 at 8:12 PM

A reluctant bodyguard? So still a firefighter but moonlighting as a bodyguard or just easily transitioning to be a reluctant bodyguard? Just because you fight fires doesn’t automatically equip you with the necessary skills to be a bodyguard. Oh, she will probably just know martial arts and that will do it! LOL

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9 Mani-chan

September 25, 2023 at 11:29 PM

I loved Sh**ting Stars and I adore Pyo Ye Jin so I am definitely going to watch this. Also I was not expecting on our hero being after killing our FL. Bring it on drama