K-Drama First Look: “My Perfect Stranger” Pictures Promising Time-Travel Story | KWriter

K-Drama First Look: “My Perfect Stranger” Pictures Promising Time-Travel Story | KWriter

Each element within the launch week of My Good Stranger is seamlessly linked to an engrossing extent.

A information anchor and a publishing firm editor obtained entangled and ended up being trapped in 1987. They should work collectively to stop a serial homicide case that may influence them sooner or later.

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My Good Stranger Opening Week Story

Well-known information anchor Yoon Hae-jun (Kim Dong Wook) stumbles on a automobile that may make anybody journey to the longer term or to the previous. Having envisioned his retirement life, he will get the shock of his life when he found the longer term, he goals of received’t occur.

“Precisely a 12 months from now, I’ll die within the 12 months once I flip 35. That’s as a result of the wrongdoer who kills me is the true wrongdoer of the serial homicide case in Woojung-ri in 1987.”

His discovery leads Hae-jun to time journey to collect data to search out the person who will kill him sooner or later. He additionally learns that his dying is concerned in a serial homicide case that occurred in 1987 at Woojung-ri.

Befriending the village individuals, he suggestions them on how their younger individuals are going to face issues for getting excessive on tremendous glue. Utilizing the data he discovered from his time voyages, he additionally secured a job publish as a trainer on the village college.

“Have I ever imagined a world with out my mother? After I say, Mother! Nobody on this world can reply to it now.”

In the meantime, Baek Yoon-young an editor of a publishing firm, goes to her normal day of tending to the wants of best-selling writer, Go Mi-suk. She disregards her mom’s request to go dwelling and have fun her father’s birthday.

As a substitute, she provides her mom, Solar-ae, cash to spend. Coincidentally, they meet on the mall, however Yoon-young ignores her when Go Mi-suk vocally expressed disdain to individuals yearning for gadgets on sale which incorporates Yoon-young’s mother.

Later, she sees her mother and so they interact in a slight verbal spat. Little did she know that her final dialog together with her mom could be a painful one.

When she determined to go to their home, she finds no signal of her mom. Then, she receives a name that her mom was discovered lifeless in her hometown, Woojung-ri.

Pleading for an opportunity to provide her mom the love and care she deserves, destiny sided with Yoon-young’s earnest want. As she walks aimlessly into the village at current time, Hae-jun can also be heading to the village in 1987.

Mysteriously, he entwines Yoon-young to the previous.


“Have you ever ever realized how somebody felt however it was too late? If solely I noticed it somewhat earlier. If solely I noticed it somewhat sooner, it might’ve been totally different.”

Realizing her want of getting an opportunity to fulfill her mom once more was simply granted, Yoon-young obtained rescued by Hae-jun when she adopted 1987 Solar-ae who was coaxed by her bully classmates to go clubbing.

Sharing a home with Hae-jun, Yoon-young plans to vary her mom’s destiny. Whereas Hae-jun works on fixing the automobile for them to return, he additionally met with the person presupposed to be the serial killer.

Glued to her mother, Yoon-young discovers her mother’s scribbled story is the primary novel of Go Mi-suk. After warning 1987 Baek Hee-sub, her future father, to not contain himself with Solar-ae, she additionally rescues her from being bullied.

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Listening to her mom’s agonizing story of how she’s permitting her buddies to make the most of her as a result of they’re the one buddies she has pains Yoon-young. It dawns on her how lengthy her mom has been struggling feeling uncared for and but she additionally has develop into chilly in the direction of her.

Hae-jun returns dwelling with out Yoon-young. Whereas fixing her bedding, he picks up a match that could be a signature merchandise in all of the murders that occurred within the village.

Eager to guard her mom, Yoon-young pleads with Hae-jun to let her keep within the village somewhat longer.


My Good Stranger Opening Week Musings

Neat and intriguing, My Good Stranger took a non-stingy route in offering linked clues of the previous and current.

Pitching the guessing recreation on who the serial killer primarily drives the compelling narrative.

Yoon-young has her fingers stuffed with duties. She intends to guard her mother who can’t appear to face up for herself. By doing so, hopefully, she will get to chase after her novelist dream.

Furthermore, how Solar-ae’s writing piece turned Mi-suk’s first novel can also be one story to be unraveled and whether or not Mi-suk has one thing to do with Solar-ae’s dying at current time.

Now issues is not going to be simple for Yoon-young and even Hae-jun. As soon as the serial killing commences within the village, as newcomers their identities are sure to be questioned.

This brings us to a different level to look at within the collection which is why Hae-jun was killed by the serial killer of Woojung-ri.

True to time-slip tales, the ripple impact of issues that modified previously can also be anticipated so as to add taste to the narrative.

What’s enthusing up to now is how Kim Dong Wook and Jin Ki Joo established their characters properly individually that you’d gravitate to their separate tales and root for them to work collectively as properly.

Will they stop the serial killer who started wreaking havoc in 1987?

Resolve the puzzle items from the previous with Hae-jun and Yoon-young in My Good Stranger.


Photographs: KBS Drama

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