[Beanie Recs] Traveling forward
by DB Staff
Ahoy, Beanies! It’s time to gather your collective genius for a recommendation series that features you and your drama knowledge. Each week we’ll drop a drama conundrum and leave it up to you to provide a drama rec, and the appropriate rationale behind it, be it long or short. Respond below!
I’m loving The Story of Park’s Marriage Contract, and I realized that for all the tons of time-traveling that happens in dramas, it’s usually back (like to the 80s lol) instead of forward. Can you recommend any other stories with future time travel?
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1 welh
December 13, 2023 at 10:28 AM
Time travel story telling is hard to begin with but when I saw the prompt I could only recall the forward time travel story in Star Trek TNG "A Matter of Time (1991)."
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2 HopefulRomantic 🦋 Tigermoth 🦞
December 13, 2023 at 10:41 AM
Lol, I wouldn't necessarily recommend this drama, but Melting Me Softly did a travel-forward. Queen In-Hyun's Man is also a travel-forward. The Best Hit I think would also count!!
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Lord Cobol (Kdramas, like water, flow downhill)
December 13, 2023 at 1:52 PM
Queen In-hyun's Man was excellent.
Also, the travel forward in episode one of Faith was a hoot.
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HopefulRomantic 🦋 Tigermoth 🦞
December 13, 2023 at 2:40 PM
Ooh!! I'd forgotten the episode 1 visit in Faith!! Good call - that was a hoot and a half 😂
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3 latebloomer
December 13, 2023 at 10:48 AM
In Live Up to Your Name, the FL traveled back, but the ML traveled forward.
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4 miso
December 13, 2023 at 10:54 AM
Tunnel would be my favourite example of this. Rooftop Prince was also a travel forward in time story.
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5 KDramaTipsy
December 13, 2023 at 11:18 AM
A Time Called You had some back and forth time travelling.
The Devil Judge isn't time travel but it is based a couple of decades in the future.
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6 Kurama
December 13, 2023 at 11:22 AM
Rooftop Prince There was a lot of humor but the story was kinda disapointing.
Queen In-Hyun's Man had a nice romance with a smart ML.
Live Up to Your Name was a great drama.
Tunnel was a good police drama.
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7 jerrykuvira
December 13, 2023 at 11:27 AM
The most recent traveling forward I've seen is Durian's Affair.
And then Live Up To Your Name. A gem I have heard so much about and it was only a matter of time. Funnily, I was confusing this with another drama having almost the same title, the one about star exchange for a successful music career and starring Lee El in it.
Queen In-hyun's man.
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8 jillian
December 13, 2023 at 12:27 PM
Live Up To Your Name, Tunnel and Queen In Hyun's Man are my top faves.
There was another similar to TSPMC, with two Joseon ladies travelling to the present time. Its called Durian's Affair. The younger couple's story is my fave which is similar to YW and TH. But the rest of the drama can be ignored.
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9 Lady Bluestocking
December 13, 2023 at 12:36 PM
Circle: Two Worlds Connected isn't technically time travel but between the way the story is told with its time jumps and the way the characters are utilized, there's something almost time travel-y about it. Plus the world goes from vaguely present day to The Future capital T-F, dystopia-style, lol.
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10 FrenchFan
December 13, 2023 at 12:48 PM
I think "Tomorrow with you", with Shin Mina has 2 time periods and one is in the (near) future. I may be wrong because I watched it 3 years ago.
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Healer’s
December 13, 2023 at 7:08 PM
You are right. In Tomorrow with you, the male lead (Lee Je Hoon) can travel to the future. His wife (Shin Mina) cannot.
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FrenchFan
December 14, 2023 at 6:03 AM
Thank you for confirming! : )
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11 Unaspirated
December 13, 2023 at 1:29 PM
I know it’s already been recommended a bunch of times, but I’m contractually obligated to recommend Live Up to Your Name every single time it’s relevant.
One that hasn’t been mentioned as much might be Signal? There is not actual travel but there is a lot of communication across time, and Cho Jin-woong’s character is communicating with characters in the future who can see the effects of his actions playing out in their own world.
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Lady Bluestocking
December 13, 2023 at 9:10 PM
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Lady Bluestocking
December 13, 2023 at 9:12 PM
Loved Signal. Still waiting in vain for a season 2 lol.
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Isa is always time travelling
December 14, 2023 at 1:16 PM
It's been recently confirmed :)
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Lady Bluestocking
December 14, 2023 at 2:06 PM
Has it really?!
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Isa is always time travelling
December 14, 2023 at 2:36 PM
https://www.sportskeeda.com/pop-culture/news-it-s-years-k-drama-fans-rejoice-writer-kim-eun-hee-reportedly-confirms-signal-season-2-starring-lee-je-hoon-kim-hye-soo
😊
12 tabong is ironing the crosswalk
December 13, 2023 at 3:02 PM
The Best Hit!
A first generation idol travels in time to the future (2017).
The FL is the same actress from Park's Marriage. 👍
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13 gadis
December 13, 2023 at 10:46 PM
Queen In-Hyun's Man would be the perfect example for this. It also has one of the swooniest and smartest male lead in the history of k-drama land.
For a different genre, Tunnel delivered a heart warming and heart wrenching twist on the usual thriller/crime drama.
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14 redfox
December 14, 2023 at 12:31 PM
even though briefly, Choi Young traveled to the future to bring heavely doctor (aka kidnap and cut people)
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redfox
December 14, 2023 at 12:32 PM
in Faith that is
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15 Isa is always time travelling
December 14, 2023 at 1:19 PM
I know these dramas have been mentioned by several beanies, but I come here to show my love for Live up to your name and The Best Hit.
Highly recommended 😊
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🌸 Seeker 🌸
December 15, 2023 at 10:16 AM
+1 ^^
Same. ❤
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16 🌸 Seeker 🌸
December 15, 2023 at 10:33 AM
Reunited Worlds where the ML reappears after 12 years.
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